> So what just happened, and what’s likely to happen next? Here’s a quick look at what’s new in Panem: FINAL NUMBERS: It turns out THE HUNGER GAMES wasn’t such a hit after all, earning a measly $152.5M in its first 3 days of release, instead of the estimated $155M. Actually the discrepancy was pretty […]
Watch it at home. The genial PAUL really only has one joke–luckily it’s a pretty good one: what if ET had the persona of Seth Rogen? While Paul isn’t the first alien to crack jokes (remember Alf?), Rogen’s voice gives the guy a little slacker/stoner kick. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are […]
30 MINUTES OR LESS – Watch It At Home: Doesn’t Deliver The frustration of 30 MINUTES OR LESS is that of all the R-rated comedies this summer, it was the one with the most original premise and promising credentials: direction by Ruben Fleischer, the man behind the surprisingly smart and funny hit Zombieland, […]
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 […]