> 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 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...
> THE HELP will be the year’s first “serious” movie to gross over $100M. September is traditionally one of the softest months on the movie release calendar, and 2011 is no exception: although there...
> There’s not much to add about the weekend grosses that hasn’t been said (see Mitch Metcalf’s round-up report here), so let’s take a look at who, apart from the studios themselves, did and didn’t ...
> UPDATE: The Reporter has some early Friday numbers, and the storm’s effect can already be seen at the boxoffice. THE HELP seems likely to win the weekend as expected, but with a lower-than anticipated $12-13...
> The full extent of theatre closings and other Hurricane Irene-related events isn’t yet known, so projections may be high at this point. That being said, this was never going to be a good weekend at the boxoffice: ...
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’...
> 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...
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...
> 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...