SHOWBUZZDAILY MOVIE REVIEW: “The Great Gatsby”
THE GREAT GATSBY: Watch It At Home – Moulin Gatsby Just for fun, let’s try to think of a worse match of filmmaker and material than Baz Luhrmann and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s THE GREAT GATSBY. Judd Apat...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Wrath of the Titans”
WRATH OF THE TITANS: Watch It At Home – Put Back the Kraken The producers of WRATH OF THE TITANS swore that this time the 3D would be better than it was in 2010’s Clash of the Titans, and you know wh...
SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Dredd”
DREDD, which kicked off the merrily disreputable Midnight Madness program at the Toronto Film Festival last night, isn’t much, but no one can say the director Pete Travis wasted his 3D budget. Things are constantly hoveri...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES April 13-15
>The weekend studio estimates (based on Friday and Saturday actuals and projections for Sunday) are coming in about the same as the weekend numbers posted yesterday (based on Friday actuals only). The box office volume fo...
INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through April 8
>The Hunger Games continues its rise up the worldwide box office chart with overseas revenue to date now $157 million to go along with an estimated final domestic haul of $380 million. There is probably another $150-200 m...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Titanic 3D”
> It stood to reason that if anyone was going to figure out how to effectively convert standard 35mm to 3D, it would be James Cameron. Cameron, whose Avatar is singlehandedly responsible for creating the current 3D frenzy, has ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Ice Age: Continental Drift”
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT – Watch It At Home – The CSI of Family Franchises Does Its Thing You know what the fabulous Peter Dinklage never gets to do on Game of Thrones? Sing! That’s remed...
INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through February 12
>Four new movies join the worldwide box office chart this weekend, with Journey 2: The Mysterious Island being the early standout. Released overseas a week before this weekend’s North American opening, Journey 2 alr...
FRIDAY APRIL 5 BOX OFFICE REPORT
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #14 of 2013 is looking pretty good: $135 million for the top 12 films in North America, up 16% from the comparable weekend the past few years. The two new openers this weekend are on t...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES September 16-18
>Based on Friday and Saturday box office (and estimated Sunday numbers), The Lion King returned to theaters 17 years later — in 3D no less — and scored a solid #1 for the weekend. Drive opened okay, while Stra...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES September 21-23
The weekend now looks like $77 million for the top 12 films, up a bit from the estimate yesterday. End of Watch, House at the End of the Street and Trouble with the Curve are all within a few thousand dollars, according to th...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Immortals”
IMMORTALS: Watch It At Home – Brainless, Violent and Weirdly Spectacular There’s no question that the director Tarsem Singh has an eye. Singh started as a director of commercials and music videos&#...