Posts Tagged ‘Before Midnight’
 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 10 Films of 2013 and More

  As a movie year, 2013 was awfully slow in getting started.  Hardly anything worth remembering opened all winter and spring–only 1 movie in the Top 10 below opened in theatres before late May.  Summer brought some...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS June 14-16

The 24th weekend of the year is looking like a very good $201 million for the top 12 films, well above the same weekend the last few years.   Opening at over 4,200 theaters Friday (well into the top 10% of theater counts), Man...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: 6/7/13

  OPENINGS:  THE PURGE (Universal) will be instantly profitable by the end of its high $30Ms weekend, and while a great deal of that is due to the $3M production budget, a US marketing spend of only $20M (less than half t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 5/17/13

  OPENINGS:  STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS (Paramount) is the first underperformer of the summer, and there will be plenty of harrumphing and speculation about why that is.  With Sunday likely to be much weaker than last week...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: Capsule Reviews

  The old truism that Park City empties out during the second half of the Sundance Film Festival, making it possible to see all the hot titles that premiered at the festival’s start, is far less true than it used to ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Before Midnight”

  The “spoiler” situation with respect to Richard Linklater’s BEFORE MIDNIGHT is a particularly tricky one, because for those passionately invested in the saga that began with 1995’s Before Sunr...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SUNDANCE 2013: The Premieres

  The Sundance Film Festival saved its most high-profile announcements for today, releasing the titles of its Narrative and Documentary Premieres.  The lion’s share of the festival movies that reach theatres/VOD wil...
by Mitch Salem