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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Final Destination 5”

Posted August 13, 2011 by Mitch Salem

  FINAL DESTINATION 5 – Watch It At Home:  Death Takes No Holiday   There’s only one thing worth mentioning in FINAL DESTINATION 5… and it’s the one thing I can’t talk about.  Let’s just say that if you’ve been a follower of the series all along, the filmmakers (whether it was screenwriter Eric Heisserer […]

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WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES JUNE 10-12: Super 8 Above Forecast But Not As High As Reported Yesterday

Posted June 12, 2011 by Mitch Metcalf

>Super 8 now looks like a $37 million opening weekend based on Friday and Saturday results.  The weekend top 12 should be down 6% from 2010.    The ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Final estimates now show that Super 8 should finish its domestic run with $109 million.  X-Men: First Class has been downgraded a touch to $163 […]

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Machine Gun Preacher”

Posted September 25, 2011 by Mitch Salem

  MACHINE GUN PREACHER:  Watch It At Home –  A True Story Rings False   MACHINE GUN PREACHER simply isn’t good enough for the story it wants to tell. And the story, a true one, is remarkable:  Sam Childers (played by Gerard Butler in the film) was a drug addict and violent criminal who found […]

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Year to Date Box Office & Studio Scorecard

Posted June 23, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

STUDIO SCORECARD. Disney solidified its grip on first place in worldwide box office (thanks to Monsters University), while Paramount jumped ahead of 20th Century Fox courtesy of World War Z. TOTAL NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE. Looking at wide-release films in North America (those that play on at least 400 screens at some point), 2013 now […]

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FRIDAY AUGUST 12 BOX OFFICE RESULTS

Posted August 13, 2011 by Mitch Metcalf

>Rise of the Planet of the Apes will remain #1, followed closely by The Help, which is running well above its ShowBuzzDaily weekend forecast.  Final Destination 5 should be in third place with a decent number but still below its forecast.  30 Seconds or Less and Glee: The 3D Concert Movie are lagging, both under forecast.  […]

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Woman In the Fifth”

Posted September 14, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> Pawel Pawlikowski is a filmmaker whose name deserves to be better known: his films Last Resort and My Summer of Love are small but beautifully realized stories of intricate human emotion. His new picture The Woman In the Fifth, is in a somewhat different mode, edging toward genre, but it continues to display his […]

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FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE January 16-22

Posted January 23, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

>Three full weeks into 2012, domestic box office is running well ahead of last year’s anemic pace but about the same as the comparable period’s average for the last several years.        The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between January 16 and January 22 grossed $180 million, […]

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THE BIJOU @ SUNDANCE: Behold the Edgy

Posted December 1, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> Sundance announced the second group of its 2012 titles today (Competition entries were announced yesterday; Premieres will be unveiled on Monday), mostly in what are traditionally the most untraditional categories of the Festival:  Park City At Midnight, Next, and New Frontier. Also announced were the Spotlight films, which is where Sundance puts films that […]

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