THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Our Idiot Brother”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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...
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 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: “Fright Night”
FRIGHT NIGHT – Watch It At Home: At Least Farrell Had Fun The new remake of Tom Holland’s 1985 FRIGHT NIGHT has a great set of credentials. Craig Gillespie, the director, was behind the well-reg...
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 SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Our Idiot Brother”
OUR IDIOT BROTHER – Watch It At Home: Sitcom On A Big Screen Although it premiered at Sundance, OUR IDIOT BROTHER was an “independent film” only in a technical sense: it was produced on a ...
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 SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Colombiana”
COLOMBIANA – Not Even For Free: Even the Body Count Is Dull For a movie from the Luc Besson House of Action, COLOMBIANA is surprisingly listless and dispirited. Besson first came to prominence as a direc...
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 SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark”
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK – Not Even For Free: No, Really–Don’t Be Afraid FilmDistrict has gone out of its way to identify co-writer/co-producer Guillermo del Toro with DON’...
THE BIJOU EARLY RETURNS – UPDATED: BOXOFFICE THE BARBARIAN
> UPDATE: Deadline has a clearer picture of the day’s boxoffice, and THE HELP is already having a superb weekend, leading the day with $5.7M, down a tiny 25% from last week. If this number holds, its full weekend co...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Campaign”
THE CAMPAIGN: Not At Any Price – Abstain THE CAMPAIGN, like many a politician before it, tries to be all things to all people, and winds up delivering almost nothing. There was reason to be hopeful about The Camp...