THE BIJOU REVIEW: “One Day”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “One Day”
ONE DAY – Watch It At Home: An Off-Day What went wrong with ONE DAY? It’s been clear for a while that its studio, Focus Features, didn’t have great confidence in the film: first they post...
THE SKED REVIEW: BBCA’s “The Hour”
> THE HOUR: Wednesday 10PM on BBCAmerica: Potential DVR Alert Here’s what’s wrong with BBCAmerica. Don’t get me wrong: it’s marvelous that BBCA exists to bring us shows like Luther, the...
THE BIJOU BOX OFFICE: Mid-Week Update
> With Monday and Tuesday numbers in, here are some notes about how the new arrivals are holding up: THE HELP continues its impressive run: its $8.3M on Monday-Tuesday represents a very robust 32% of its weekend total.&nb...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Yet More Titles
> See also: THE BIJOU @ TIFF: FIRST TITLES ANNOUNCEDTHE BIJOU @ TIFF: FESTIVAL TITLES, ROUND TWOTHE BIJOU @ TIFF: O CANADIAN TITLES! The Toronto International Film Festival prides itself on being one of the mo...
THE BIJOU BOX OFFICE: International Bullet Points
> Click below for a quick summary of some notable numbers from this past weekend overseas: THE SMURFS reached $141M overseas with the help of a tremendous $60M weekend. Like other recent 3D animated films, it has a good c...
THE SKED: Summer Broadcast Ratings Update August 8-14
>The broadcast week just concluded (August 8-14) was won by FOX, thanks to the finale of So You Think You Can Dance and NFL Preseason football on Friday (Tampa Bay at Kansas City). The 1.6 rating for football does not sou...
THE SKED: New Fall Show On-Air Promotion — Update through August 11
>With network on-air promotion activity tracked in hit summer shows (those near or above a 2.0 Adult 18-49 rating) for about four weeks since mid-July, the networks’ promotional priorities are summarized below. ...
THE SKED: ” Breaking” Better
> After last night’s admirably tense episode of BREAKING BAD, we can now say with certainty that the show has 25 left to go: 9 for this season, and then 16 more. AMC and Sony have closed a deal for what is exp...
THE BIJOU BOX OFFICE: Footnotes – 8/14/11
> Now that THE HELP has opened about as well as Dreamworks/Disney could have hoped, the next goal is a 2d weekend decline of around 40%. That would match the hold of Julie & Julia, and would make a $100M gross for Hel...
THE BIJOU BOX OFFICE: Early Weekend Numbers – 8/14/11
> Deadline has preliminary numbers for Saturday and the weekend, and any worries that THE HELP would suffer from front-loading are out the window. Rather amazingly, the picture seems to have climbed more than 25% from Fri...
THE BIJOU BOX OFFICE: Footnotes – 8/13/11
> Let’s take a look at just how remarkably THE HELP is performing so far. The most obvious points of comparison are the literary-sourced, female-skewing hits of the last 2 Augusts: Julie & Julia in 2...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Final Destination 5”
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’...
THE BIJOU BOXOFFICE: UPDATED: Not-Yet-Final Friday Numbers
> Fuller numbers are in, and they show a surprising near-tie on Friday between RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, THE HELP and FINAL DESTINATION 5, all at $7.3-7.8M for the day. The Apes have the presumptive advantage over t...