THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Safe House”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE REPORT – 5/19/12
The news didn’t get any better for BATTLESHIP (Universal) on Saturday. According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, the aquatic disaster couldn’t even manage a 10% increase on its 2d day of release (in com...
SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY “HUNGER GAMES” WATCH
> THE HUNGER GAMES held fairly well on its first Tuesday, dropping around 4% to $10.3M. This isn’t quite as good as it sounds, because Tuesday is generally an up day (except where Monday is part of a holiday weekend...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD j- 5/11/12
The movie that set the all-time highest opening weekend record last week? It’s gonna win this weekend, too. THE AVENGERS: Disney‘s estimate of a $100M weekend may be aggressive (although with Mother’...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Big, Not Colossal, “Avengers” Midnight – 5/3/12
> The Marvel superhero audience likes to get its sleep. Despite the fact that THE AVENGERS is expected to do record-challenging business this weekend, last night’s midnight screenings totaled $18.7M–a tremendo...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 5/25/12
J and K aren’t the only ones wearing black today. OPENINGS: In what’s starting to look like a bad summer for any movie not called The Avengers, MEN IN BLACK 3 (Sony) opened with a subpar $18M on Frid...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Chronicle”
CHRONICLE – Worth A Ticket – “Found Footage” That Deserves to Be Found Over the past decade, audience hunger for “reality”–the word very much in quotation marks–ha...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 3/23/12
> Yep, that happened. OPENINGS: THE HUNGER GAMES (Lionsgate/Summit) was as massive as predicted, with a $68.3M opening day that was the 5th largest in movie history, behind only the final Harry Potter and the last 3 Twili...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Mirror Mirror”
MIRROR MIRROR: Not Even For Free – 7 Years Bad Luck When it was announced that 2012 would bring two big-budget movie versions of the Snow White story, not to mention TV’s Once Upon A Ti...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “John Carter” Is Not A Success – 3/18/12
> For anyone who thought the angst over JOHN CARTER‘s boxoffice returns was overstated: Disney has issued a public statement advising that it expects the film to result in a $200M loss, which will singlehandedly pul...
SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 4/28/12
> According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (Sony) will pull ahead of THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (Universal) for the weekend thanks to Saturday and Sunday matinee business, although Engageme...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Safe House”
SAFE HOUSE: Watch It At Home – You’ve Seen It SAFE HOUSE feels like a remake, even though technically it’s not. It’s a little bit Training Day, a little Bourne, a little Man On Fire (and ev...