IMMORTALS: Watch It At Home – Brainless, Violent and Weirdly Spectacular There’s no question that the director Tarsem Singh has an eye. Singh started as a director of commercials and music videos–his most famous is probably REM’s “Losing My Religion”–and his features The Cell and The Fall both had striking, memorable visuals. Both […]
SAFE HOUSE: Watch It At Home – You’ve Seen It SAFE HOUSE feels like a remake, even though technically it’s not. It’s a little bit Training Day, a little Bourne, a little Man On Fire (and everything else Tony Scott has ever done), with almost nothing added of its own, an exercise in […]
Weekend #25 of 2012 looks like another disappointment: a soft $150 million for the top 12 films, down 12% from last year’s comparable weekend and down 14% from the four-year average for the weekend. Pixar’s Brave should open well, but the other two openers will struggle to find any audience and there certainly won’t be […]
The Dark Knight Rises grossed a preliminary $19.4 million Monday, bringing its four-day domestic total to $180.3 million. Similar to Saturday and Sunday’s results, Monday lagged behind The Dark Knight‘s pace four years ago. The Dark Knight grossed $24.5 million on Monday, July 21, 2008 (its fourth day of release and its first Monday). Through […]
In the battle for second place in the ShowbuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft, very little changed the past week. Team Weil’s slate tacked on $41.6 million the past seven days, while Team Salem added $40.9 million. Weil remains $69 million ahead of Salem ($1.004 billion to $935 million for the entire summer). In the next week […]
This weekend is poised to be the third solidly up weekend in a row. Five films open this weekend, with four boasting positive critical acclaim and two in rave territory. None looks to be a big commercial hit, but the total business for the openers combined with very good returning box office for Taken 2 […]
Based on grosses from Wednesday and Thanksgiving, Weekend #47 is on pace to exceed the multi-year average for this weekend by 10% — exactly on the pace we forecast earlier in the week. Breaking Dawn Part 2 is running slightly behind our forecast pace in this second weekend, but still clearly #1 for the weekend. […]
Twelve days into the three-week holiday movie season, 2012 is now 9.0% behind the average for the same period over the last several years ($362 million this year versus $398 million on average 2004-2011). Further, 2012 is 12.1% behind the last time Christmas fell on a Tuesday (2007’s $412 million over this period). After […]