> 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...
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 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...
> The probable effect of Irene is most evident in the weekend’s limited releases, where loss of NY business would have been most damaging. HIGHER GROUND, seemingly headed for a per-theatre average of $12K, could onl...
> As Hurricane Irene marches up the East Coast from North Carolina to Boston this weekend, the full impact on the weekend box office remains unclear, but there will be a significant impact. News reports say that 65 millio...
> Early numbers for Friday and Saturday suggest that the first day, at least, of Hurricane Irene didn’t do enormous damage to the boxoffice. Deadline reports that THE HELP had a healthy Friday-to-Saturday bump of 38...
> 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: ...
>Keep your helmets on: the studios are about to drop three more bombs in movie theaters this weekend. A horror movie, an action flick and an adult comedy are being released, and we expect each to gross not much more than ...