THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Friends With Benefits” – Strings Attached
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED: Broadcast Network On-Air Promotion July 20
>Last night we had our first look at CBS’s current promotional priorities in the one-hour Big Brother at 8:00 pm. With a fairly light on-air promo load, dramas got the lion’s share of time: Unforgettable (one ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Friends With Benefits”
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS – Worth A Ticket: Almost Great For about an hour, as you watch his new FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS, you could be forgiven for thinking that writer-director Will Gluck is the future o...
THE SKED: FX Update
> The days when cable networks cowered from the might of the broadcast networks’ promotional machines and stayed away from Fall premiere season are over, and FX today announced start dates for its own Fall shows, in the w...
THE BIJOU: Daily Tracks of Top Opening Weekend Films – Updated
>UPDATE from Mitch Salem: Harry Potter’s Tuesday continued strong, with $15.4M in the US (total of $202.6M). This 15% drop from Monday is just about the same as The Dark Knight had on its first Tuesday, althou...
THE SKED: Broadcast Network On-Air Promotion
>Last night in the hit summer shows (NBC’s America’s Got Talent and FOX’s Hell’s Kitchen), we took a look at the priorities for new fall series promotion. The big winners on NBC were the comedies W...
THE SKED: Are You Ready For Some (Thursday) Football?
> At this point, it would be fairly shocking if the NFL and its players didn’t settle their labor dispute in time to have a full pro football season. (That sound is NBC falling to its knees in relief.) ...
THE BIJOU: Lights Out For “The Dark Tower”
> Once upon a time, there was a series of fantasy adventures by a hugely bestselling author, and a grand, ambitious plan to film them all. In the end, they were adapted into gigantically successful movies, and the last on...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Project Nim”
PROJECT NIM: Worth A Ticket – If You Can Stand It At first I wondered why on earth Fox Searchlight hadn’t grabbed James Marsh’s documentary PROJECT NIM at Sundance, to serve as an unofficial pr...
Harry Potter and the Box Office Footnotes – 7/17/11
> Despite the enormous 53% drop on Saturday, Warners is projecting only a 21% fall for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (PART 2) on Sunday, which would be 2nd lowest in the week’s Top 10, behind only DisneyR...
Harry Potter and the All-Time Weekend Boxoffice Record
> Deadline has the early Saturday and weekend boxoffice estimates, and this is what “frontloaded” looks like: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (PART 2) plummeted by 52% from Friday (including midnights) to...
Box Office Footnotes – 7/15/11 – Harry Potter Edition
> Now that HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (PART 2) has obliterated the single-day US boxoffice record, and is poised to have the all-time US weekend, what other records lie ahead? The all-time Saturday is held by Sp...
EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE RESULTS: Accio Single Day Record!
>Deadline is reporting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is opening to an eye-popping $90-100 million Friday. This estimate from Warner Brothers includes the incredible $43.5 from midnight showings. This d...