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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Five-Year Engagement”

Posted April 26, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT:  Watch It At Home – If Only The Engagement Were A Little Shorter…   Judd Apatow, as both director (The 40=Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) and producer (Bridesmaids, Superbad, Pineapple Express, TV’s new Girls) has brought a tremendous amount of first-class comedy to large and small screens in recent years.  But […]

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ShowbuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT July 8 Update: Now It’s Interesting

Posted July 10, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

Team Salem’s slate in the second annual ShowbuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft now stands at $556 million, with a lot of upside left in Amazing Spider-Man, significant business left for Brave, and three movies left to open. Team Weil is now at $228 million, with two very big movies opening the next two weeks (Ice Age: Continental Drift this Friday […]

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FRIDAY AUGUST 10 BOX OFFICE RESULTS

Posted August 11, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

The 32nd weekend of 2012 is looking like a halfway decent $138 million for the Top 12 films Friday-Sunday — despite being down a moderate 4% from the same weekend last year, this weekend is actually up 8% from this comparable weekend over several years.             The Bourne Legacy from Universal […]

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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS September 21-23

Posted September 19, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

This weekend will be respectable — the top 12 films should total around $93 million, very typical for this weekend most years, although down 13% from last year when Moneyball and Dolphin Tale both opened.  Four films from very different genres open this weekend, none of which should break out significantly.  Also, The Master expands […]

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WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES November 2-4

Posted November 4, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

The weekend looks like a decent $125 million for the top 12 films, a little better than it looked yesterday (now slightly beating the multi-year average for this weekend).  Each of the three openers had good Saturday grosses and are exceeding the predictions in Wednesday’s  ShowbuzzDaily Weekend Forecast. The ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Final estimates for films opening wide this […]

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WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES December 14-16

Posted December 16, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

The weekend looks a little softer than it did yesterday ($131 million for the top 12 films rather than $142 million).  The Hobbit is looking like an $85 million opening weekend instead of almost $99 million.   Still a record December opening weekend (beating I Am Legend’s $77.2 million opening weekend December 14-16, 2007) but not at […]

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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS January 11-13

Posted January 9, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

The second weekend of 2013 should total about $122 million for the top 12 films, a little better than the same weekend the last few years but below the comparable weekend in 2009 and 2010.  Zero Dark Thirty moves from the art houses to a fairly wide release and should play more commercially than The […]

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FRIDAY MARCH 1 BOX OFFICE REPORT — A Terrible 2013 Continues

Posted March 2, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #9 of 2013 is another clunker: only $87 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday (down around 40% from the same weekend the last few years).  Jack the Giant Slayer opened reasonably well, but there are no others films doing significant business (weekends over $10 million).  What a mess.   […]

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