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ShowBuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT Update — Pick Replacement

Posted May 25, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

As we head into Memorial Day weekend, we have a change to report in the Team Weil slate for the ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft.  Paramount has decided to push G.I. Joe: Retaliation out of the summer to March 29, 2013 to allow for a 3D conversion.  Absolutely, nothing wrong the film — nothing to see here, they […]

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Men In Black 3”

Posted May 25, 2012 by Mitch Salem

MEN IN BLACK 3:  Watch It At Home – $250M Worth of “OK”   After years of development, a famously troubled production, untold rewrites and a budget that even Sony admits is around $250M (meaning $400M+ with marketing), MEN IN BLACK 3 is… fine.  Proficient and professional, neither inspired nor demanding, containing a few chuckles, […]

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Moonrise Kingdom”

Posted May 24, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  MOONRISE KINGDOM:  Worth A Ticket – The Kingdom is Wes Anderson’s     Wes Anderson seemed to find the perfect vehicle for his particular form of brilliance with 2009’s stop-motion animated Fantastic Mr. Fox, a spectacularly designed, witty and surprisingly moving piece of jewel-like aritificiality.  Unfortunately, Mr. Fox wasn’t a success at the boxoffice […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUMMER MOVIE SCHEDULE MUSICAL CHAIRS

Posted May 23, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  Today Paramount announced that its upcoming sequel GI JOE:  RETALIATION won’t be opening on June 29 after all, but will instead be pushed to March 2013.  The studio would like you to know that this in no way, absolutely, positively, definitely has nothing whatsoever to do with the quality of said film, no sir […]

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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS May 25-27

Posted May 23, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

Weekend #21 of 2012 (the traditional Friday-Sunday portion of this Memorial Day weekend) looks like it will total about $153 million for the top 12 films, down 29% from last year’s comparable weekend and down 11% from the four-year average for the weekend.  Two movies open Friday, Men in Black 3 and Chernobyl Diaries.  Although […]

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FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE May 14-20

Posted May 21, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

Now 20 full weeks into 2012, year-to-date domestic box office is running 19% ahead of last year’s pace and 15% ahead of the comparable period’s average for the last several years.   Marvel’s The Avengers turned in another terrific weekend, officially $55.644 million for its third weekend (down a decent 46% from last weekend and the second-biggest third weekend of all time).  […]

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ShowBuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT Update

Posted May 21, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

The second annual ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft still looks like a runaway for Team Metcalf ($518.9 million total through Sunday versus about $25 million each for Teams Salem and Weil), but the early lead is really a function of Metcalf’s slate being heavily weighted toward May and June releases.  The lead will only get bigger […]

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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS May 18-20

Posted May 20, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

Marvel’s The Avengers (distributed by Disney) increased again to $723 million to date overseas (up from $629 million last week), although the growth rate is starting to slow.  United Kingdom continues to lead the way overseas ($64.7 million so far now — up from $48.2 million this time last week).  Mexico remains the second-biggest territory ($50.3 million […]

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