FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS – Worth A Ticket: Almost Great For about an hour, as you watch his new FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS, you could be forgiven for thinking that writer-director Will Gluck is the future of Hollywood romantic comedy. Gluck came out of TV with the very underrated Fired Up, about a pair […]
THE THREE MUSKETEERS: Not At Any Price – All For None and None For All If the last couple of Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the current Sherlock Holmes franchise had a really nasty, dirty weekend together in Atlantic City, and 9 months later one of them (I’m not saying which) […]
In 2007, Julie Delpy wrote, directed and co-starred in 2 Days In Paris, a romantic comedy-drama featuring Adam Goldberg and herself as a couple who lived in NY and visited the title city for a tumultuous visit with her character Marie’s family. Paris was only a moderate art-house success in the US ($4.4M), but […]
Weekend #23 of 2012 looks like it will total about $174 million for the top 12 films, up 32% from last year’s comparable weekend and up 19% from the four-year average for the weekend. A pair of decently-reviewed openers aimed at very different audiences should both put some life back in the box office after […]
The 28th weekend of 2012 is looking like a very weak $149 million for the Top 12 films Friday-Sunday, down 29% from this weekend last year and down 42% from the multi-year average for this weekend. Ice Age: Continental Drift from 20th Century Fox (the fourth Ice Age film) opened with […]
The big gainer overseas this week was The Dark Knight Rises again, up $67 million to an overseas total of $445 million. A billion dollars worldwide is still possible, but $950 million could be more realistic. Ice Age 4 continues to pound away, up another $37 million overseas this week to $621 million to date. Brave, […]
The weekend now looks like $77 million for the top 12 films, up a bit from the estimate yesterday. End of Watch, House at the End of the Street and Trouble with the Curve are all within a few thousand dollars, according to the studio estimates for the weekend. The rank order could easily change […]
The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between October 29 and November 4 grossed a solid $163 million, up 6% from the four-year average for the week and up 18% from the same week last year. The past six weeks are now 9% above the four-year average box […]