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THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 8/6/11

> RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES has a slew of positives going for it commercially:  the reportedly fairly low $93M production cost, the month of August ahead with its limited competition, strong support from an older audi...
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THE BIJOU: UPDATED–Rise of the Planet of the Very Early Boxoffice Results

> UPDATE:  The Reporter now has fuller numbers, and even better news for Fox.  RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES looks to be headed for an $18M Friday, which should mean a $45M+ weekend, meeting and even exceeding expect...
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THE BIJOU: Midnight “Apes”

> RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES pulled in around $1.25M in its Thursday midnight screenings.  This is better than the $800K that Cowboys & Aliens managed last week, but dwarfed by the $4M Captain America earned and Th...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”

    RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES – Worth A Ticket:  Simian Power   Although it’s positioned as the last big adventure epic of the summer, for most of its length Rupert Wyatt’s RISE OF THE PLA...
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THE BIJOU AWARDS BAIT REPORT: Ugh-scar

> It may not literally be true that if you look up “hack” in the dictionary, you’ll find a picture of Brett Ratner.  In fact, not all his movies are terrible:  there’s Family Man, and… we...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Change-Up”

> THE CHANGE UP – Watch It At Home:  Cliches with Dirty Words Are Still Cliches There have been plenty of R-rated comedies this summer–a bumper crop, really–but none more fully committed to raunch than TH...
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THE SKED: Jerry Lewis and the End of a Labor Day Era

> Before reality television, there was the Jerry Lewis Telethon.   Back in the 1970s, if you lived on the East Coast and turned on your TV early in the morning of Labor Day, it was still dead of night in Las Vegas, wh...
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THE BIJOU’S AWARD BAIT REPORT: Warners’ Contenders

> Deadline reports that Warners has set the release schedule for its 2 Oscar contenders.  Clint Eastwood’s biography of FBI patriarch (and cross-dresser) J. EDGAR, starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, is ope...
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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Festival Titles, Round 2

> The Toronto Film Festival has announced its second helping of titles for next month’s worldwide gathering of film professionals and fanatics.  These may be less star-studded than the last group of films announced, ...
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WEEKDAY BOX OFFICE UPDATE August 1-2

>THE SMURFS has outgrossed COWBOYS & ALIENS both Monday and Tuesday and now leads total box office to date, a lead it will not give up when both films leave theaters in several weeks.  Through Tuesday, The Smurfs cumul...
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THE SKED: New ABC Reality Show Premieres Decently

>ABC debuted TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN last night at 9:00 pm after an original WIPEOUT.  The show, which had been promoted relentlessly on the network the last few days, opened decently though not spectacularly with a 1.9 dem...
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THE BIJOU: Honorary Oscars Announced

> The Motion Picture Academy came up with 2 great choices and a puzzler in their selections for this year’s honorary Academy Awards.  (Remember–as of last year, the honorary Oscars are no longer part of the tel...
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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Weekends At Bellevue”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots It was widely rumored in the weeks before the networks announced their new schedules at the Upfronts that WEEKENDS AT BELLEVUE was destined to hit the air on FOX.  In fact, even its timeslo...
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THE SKED: “Up All Night” 2.0

> UP ALL NIGHT is a crucially important piece of new programming for NBC this fall, as you can tell from Mitch Metcalf’s Fall Promo Analysis, where it’s the network’s most-promoted new show.  Not only doe...
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