>Here are the latest Summer Movie Draft results (through Thursday). Not much change from the last update on Monday — Salem is pounding Metcalf with a $247 million lead. This weekend two new movies join the rankings: Cars 2 (Metcalf) and Bad Teacher (Salem).
>Well, it’s officially a rout. Team Salem has built a whopping $225 million lead, even with the under-performance of Green Lantern. If Team Metcalf is going to get back into this contest, Cars 2 better behave like a high-end Pixar film and Transformers: Dark of the Moon needs to be a mega-hit. Next update on […]
>Through Sunday, Team Metcalf is holding on to a $39 million lead over Team Salem in the ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft. The terrific opening of Harry Potter was balanced somewhat by decent holds for Transformers 3, Horrible Bosses and to some extent Zookeeper. We expected Salem to pull ahead by Sunday, but that should happen sometime […]
The arrival of THE AVENGERS means that, whatever the calendar may say, as far as Hollywood is concerned, summer has begun. Which in turn means that for the next several months, would-be blockbusters will be launched into multiplexes on a weekly basis. And that signals the start of SHOWBUZZDAILY‘S 2d Annual Fantasy Summer Movie League. […]
>Just a quick update to say that going into the weekend Team Metcalf’s lead is now down to $45 million in the first annual ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft. Next update after the weekend numbers are in. (A Request From Team Salem to All Readers: Please ignore my review of 30 Minutes Or Less and go […]
With the only two movies that have opened so far in the ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft, Team Metcalf has expanded the early lead to $402.8 million. Dark Shadows (the #17 pick overall) opened this past weekend with an okay $29.7 million, but no one expects the Tim Burton film to have much impact long term. However, Marvel’s The […]
With Labor Day in the rear view mirror, it is time to proclaim the final standings in the second annual ShowbuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft: #1 Team Metcalf ($1.357 billion currently, probably ending at $1.360 billion) #2 Team Weil ($1.036 billion currently, probably ending at $1.062 billion) #3 Team Salem ($971 million, probably ending at $1.007 […]
> A gigantic apology…the total for Team Salem is now correct. Salem leads by about $75 million going into this weekend. Thanks to the comment by “Anonymous” for spotting the error by Metcalf (unintentional, I swear!). Updated totals for the first annual ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft show Team Salem $800,000 ahead of Team Metcalf through […]