THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Cabin In the Woods”
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS: Watch it At Home – Clever and Culty Seeing THE CABIN IN THE WOODS is sort of like being in Fight Club: the first rule is not to talk about it. Or, at least, not to reveal any of...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Friends With Kids”
FRIENDS WITH KIDS: Worth A Ticket – Sitcom, In A Good Way We live in a pop culture where the recent Emmy Award nominees are so clearly superior to the films up for this past year’s Oscar that ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 3/30/12
> Frontloading strikes again. THE HUNGER GAMES (Lionsgate/Summit), with $18.9M on its 2nd Friday, is behaving like a sequel, even though it isn’t one. It’s down 72% from opening day, which is consistent with t...
THE BOXOFFICE GAMES BEGIN: “Hunger Games” At Midnight
> THE HUNGER GAMES has an excuse. Last night at midnight, The Hunger Games began its long-awaited run in theatres by grossing $19.7M. Which is, by any estimation, a lot of money–the most ever earned by a non-sequel,...
SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 4/14/12
> THE HUNGER GAMES (Lionsgate/Summit) continues to overperform. Based on preliminary Saturday numbers at Deadline, it’s headed for a $21.7M weekend and a total so far of $335.7M, a spectacular 35% decline for a bloc...
UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 3/30/12
> UPDATE: The Deadline numbers have shifted quite a bit from their earlier incarnation: HUNGER GAMES is now estimated at $19.5M for Friday (a 71% drop from opening day) and a $55M weekend (down 64%). If that n...
“The Hunger Games” and Front-Loaded Boxoffice (Pop Culture Apocalypse Minus 2)
> The most successful movie of all time, Avatar, had an opening weekend ($77M) that only ranks 38th on the list of the biggest openings. Conversely, the #1 opening weekend of all time belongs to Harry Potter and the Death...
THE HUNGER GAMES, MAD MEN and Marketing Restraint (Pop Culture Apocalypse Minus 7)
> The eagerly-awaited Season 5 of the most honored series on television, an interminable 17 months in the making, contents itself with a single enigmatic image: Don Draper staring into a department store window, his refle...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Moonrise Kingdom”
MOONRISE KINGDOM: Worth A Ticket – The Kingdom is Wes Anderson’s Wes Anderson seemed to find the perfect vehicle for his particular form of brilliance with 2009’s stop-motion animated Fa...
SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 4/21/12
> It was a solid Saturday for most films in the market, according to the preliminary numbers at Deadline, which are subject to revision on both Sunday and Monday. THINK LIKE A MAN (Screen Gems/Sony) is reporting a 10% upt...
SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 2/3/12
> According to Deadline‘s preliminary numbers, it’s going to be a stronger than expected weekend for both CHRONICLE (20th) and THE WOMAN IN BLACK (CBS). Keeping in mind that Sunday will be a very slow day at t...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Here Come “The Avengers”
> Now that we’ve all taken a breath after the extraordinary success of The Hunger Games (and Lionsgate has had a chance to count its money), Hollywood’s real blockbuster season is about to begin, and indications are...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Avengers”
THE AVENGERS: Worth A Ticket – A Fun Summer Movie, No More Or Less It’s easy to forget that THE AVENGERS is, you know, a movie. It’s perhaps the ultimate example of corporate intellectual pro...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Battleship”
BATTLESHIP: Not Even For Free – Watch a Transformers DVD Instead For about half an hour, BATTLESHIP could fool you into thinking it’s not the movie you were expecting it to be. It beg...