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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “In Time”

Posted October 28, 2011 by Mitch Salem

  IN TIME:  Watch It At Home – The Clock Never Really Starts Ticking   Andrew Niccol wants to be a populist moviemaker of ideas, but he just doesn’t have the knack.  Niccol’s ideas are genuinely impressive:  he’s the man who wrote The Truman Show and Gattaca, and less successfully, S1mOne and Lord of War.  […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Filly Brown”

Posted January 28, 2012 by Mitch Salem

    FILLY BROWN, directed by Youssef Delara (who also wrote the script) and Michael D. Olmos, falls into a recognizable Sundance genre:  sagas of poor young women (usually ethnic) struggling to escape their poverty and make a better life.  Celebrated examples in festival history include Girlfight and Real Women Have Curves; Filly Brown, while […]

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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through June 10

Posted June 10, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

Men in Black 3 increased again this week, to $352 million overseas to date (up solidly from $275 million last week).  Snow White and the Huntsman also grew, up to $84 million overseas (from $39 million last week).  Madagascar 3 enters the chart with $76 million overseas, while the other North American opener this weekend, Prometheus, now stands […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/15/12

Posted July 15, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  Everyone enjoys a quiet weekend before the Bat-attack begins at 12:01AM Thursday night. OPENINGS:  The important number for ICE AGE:  CONTINENTAL DRIFT (20th) isn’t the $46M US opening (the lowest of the franchise), but the $95.2M earned overseas, giving it a total of $339.2M internationally since the movie started opening in foreign territories more […]

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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through August 19

Posted August 19, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

The four new films in North America this weekend have had very little presence overseas so far — only ParaNorman has overseas receipts to date (and only $5 million at that).  The one film from this weekend that should eventually gross some international dollars is Expendables 2, which should head for about $150 million overseas (somewhat below the […]

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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS September 28-30

Posted September 27, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

Last weekend we said domestic box office would get back on track, and it turned out to be another very weak weekend (the third weekend in a row down around 20%).  We are going out on a limb again this week, forecasting an okay box office performance, with the top 12 films generating about $88 […]

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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through November 11

Posted November 11, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

Updated International chart — now tracking the past six months on a rolling basis.  At any given time, that will translate to about 75 films on the chart at a time. New this week is Skyfall, which will probably top out at around $650 million worldwide (between Madagascar 3 and Men in Black 3).

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FRIDAY DECEMBER 21 BOX OFFICE REPORT

Posted December 22, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #51 is on pace for a horrifying $98 million.  This weekend of the year is tricky because sometimes it contains Christmas Day itself (such as 2009 when this weekend was December 25-27 and totaled a massive $260 million) and other times it is just a slow warm up to the […]

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