> UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter has refreshed its numbers, and a surprise appears to be coming from the most unlikely direction. Cowboys and Aliens seems to be down a tad, to a $13-13.5M Friday and an underperformi...
>Holy Smurfs! The Smurfs will exceed their estimate and Cowboys & Aliens is falling short of its prediction enough to put the two films on a course for a photo-finish at the end of the weekend. Both films l...
> Deadline has early Saturday and weekend estimates, but they don’t clarify much. As of right now, the claim is that COWBOYS AND ALIENS is at $26.2M for Friday/Saturday, with THE SMURFS at $25.9M. If those num...
> See Also: 2011 HONORABLE MENTIONS 2011 WORST 10 As a movie year, 2011 felt, more than anything else, like a reflection of an art and a business in disarray. Economically, it was a down year and for the major stud...
CRAZY STUPID LOVE – Worth A Ticket: It All Works Without further ado: CRAZY STUPID LOVE is the comedy of the summer. Also the drama. There are certainly spectacles out there now prov...
> The Hollywood Reporter has some quick overseas numbers, and THE SMURFS continues to feed the seemingly endless international appetite for 3D family movies. Smurfs has reached an unbelievable $364M overseas, for a worldw...
> There’s no way to slice or dice the numbers for COWBOYS AND ALIENS and make them any less sad. The picture cost at least $165M (that’s the amount Universal will admit to), plus another $150M or so for worldw...
> With a summer movie season bracketed by the first weekend in May on one end, and Labor Day on the other, we’ve reached the midpoint of 2011’s array of blockbusters, and for the next week, here at SHOWBUZZDAILY, we...
> With the superpowers wielded only by Hollywood studio estimators, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER has leaped ahead of Thor to claim the biggest superhero opening of the year. But Captain America and HARRY POTTE...
> RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES has a slew of positives going for it commercially: the reportedly fairly low $93M production cost, the month of August ahead with its limited competition, strong support from an older audi...
> RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES is off to a great start internationally as well, with $23M for the weekend in just 25 territories (only 4 of which–Australia, Spain, Russia and Taiwan–are major boxoffice centers).&n...
> An eclectic trio of films open wide this weekend. Cowboys & Aliens (the ultimate genre mash-up) should win the weekend with $41.5 million. Captain America should drop to second place, while The Smurfs should b...
> Unlike nearly all the other action epics this summer, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER is rolling out slowly overseas, with only a couple of dozen territories getting the picture this weekend. That will postpone...
> The Golden Globes are given out by 80 international journalists whose opinions, when they’re not voting on these awards, are of no importance whatsoever to anyone on the planet other than their particular loved ones.&nb...