THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Real Steel”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS through June 24
Pixar’s Brave has a modest $13.5 million overseas to date, obviously with a big international potential as it rolls out around the world. Pixar films generally have a healthy multiple over the domestic gross, which we a...
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...
INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through May 5
Updated international box office. The $505 million overseas to date for Iron Man 3 (after only two weeks) puts it on a pace to challenge the $888 million overseas total for The Avengers last year, as well as the $947 mill...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Fright Night”
FRIGHT NIGHT – Watch It At Home: At Least Farrell Had Fun The new remake of Tom Holland’s 1985 FRIGHT NIGHT has a great set of credentials. Craig Gillespie, the director, was behind the well-reg...
FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE June 18-24 — What a Shaky First Half of Summer
The domestic box office was down again this week, making five out of the past six weeks down significantly from prior years. We took a look at how the past six weeks collectively stack up to prior years — mid-May throug...
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...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Monsters University”
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY: Watch It At Home – No Dean’s List For Pixar’s Latest There’s a wonderfully charming, imaginative Pixar movie opening on Friday, one that will restore your faith in the studi...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Real Steel”
REAL STEEL: Watch It At Home – The Word is “Clunky” REAL STEEL wants to be loved so much, it practically walks the audience members to their cars and offers to give them all a lift home. And yet, th...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Odd Life of Timothy Green”
THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN: Not At Any Price – Should Have Been Pruned When Disney decided to make THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN, it probably shouldn’t have put the word “odd” in the t...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “The Avengers” Conquers the World
> Marvel spent a great deal of time and effort setting the stage for its full-house-of-heroes extravaganza THE AVENGERS, and it’s all paying off. The movie opened in 39 international territories this past week (some...
Weekend Box Office PREDICTIONS June 21-23
The 25th weekend of the year is looking like a very good $217 million for the top 12 films, well above the same weekend the last few years. Opening at over 3,800 4,004 theaters Friday (just above the top 10% of theater coun...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Muppets”
THE MUPPETS: Watch It At Home – Nonstop Cuteness When it was announced that Disney’s new movie of THE MUPPETS (the Mouse House bought the entire franchise from Jim Henson’s company some year...