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FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE April 2-8

Posted April 10, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

>Now 14 full weeks into 2012, year-to-date domestic box office is still running 27% ahead of last year’s dreadful pace, and the year-to-date total is still fully 15% ahead of the comparable period’s average for the last several years.   Updated final domestic gross estimates are available below for recent releases, with The Hunger Games now […]

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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through March 3

Posted March 3, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

The Hobbit moved up with another $21 million overseas since last week, bringing the foreign total to $700 million and the worldwide total to just over $1 billion. The biggest mover this past week overseas was A Good Day to Die Hard, up $29 million to $162 million overseas to date and $229 million worldwide. Debuting this […]

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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through March 11

Posted March 12, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

>John Carter joins the worldwide box office chart, ranked at #13 out of 44 wide-release films over the past three months.  We are currently estimating John Carter could total $75 million in North America, but the overseas total to date is already $70 million.  If the overseas total ends up around $125 million, the film […]

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THE BIJOU’S NEWS & NOTES: New Oscar Rules

Posted June 15, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> The Academy, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to fiddle once again with the Best Picture category.  Instead of 5 nominees, as was the case pre-2009, or 10, as we’ve had the past 2 years, now no one will know just how large the category will be until the nominations are announced (January 24 […]

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FRIDAY 10.10.2014 Box Office Report

Posted October 11, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #41 of 2014 looks like a very strong $138 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 31% above the norm for this weekend ($106 million).   Opening at 2,885 theaters, Dracula Untold from Universal grossed $8.9 million Friday and is on track for a $24.8 million opening three-day weekend (well […]

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

Posted July 11, 2011 by Mitch Salem

  Pending the arrival of this week’s finale, Mike Newell’s 2005 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE may be, on balance, the most satisfying of the series.  It combines first-rate moviemaking with one of J.K. Rowling’s most ingeniously constructed, emotionally rich stories–capped, of course, by the unveiling of Ralph Fiennes as the finally fully […]

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Weekend Studio Estimates MARCH 7-9

Posted March 9, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #10 of 2014 now looks like $131 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, slightly ahead of the the average for this weekend the past few years. Opening at 3,470 theaters Friday, 300: Rise of an Empire from Warner Brothers grossed $17.6 million Friday and $16.2 million Saturday, putting the film […]

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WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES December 21-23

Posted December 23, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

The weekend looks a little stronger than it did yesterday ($102 million for the top 12 films rather than $98 million) but still well below the normal pace for weekend #51 .  The Hobbit is looking a little stronger than it did yesterday, and This Is 40 is a tiny bit stronger.  But everything else continues to […]

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