THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Real Steel”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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...
SUMMER BOXOFFICE BEGINS: “Iron Man 3” Starts Its Foreign Campaign
You might think we’re still a week away from the beginning of the summer movie season, but if you were overseas, you’d be wrong. IRON MAN 3 (Disney) has already started its run in a dozen foreign territorie...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES June 22-24 — Animation Rules
The weekend continues to look very similar to the way it did yesterday morning. Brave now looks like a $66.7 million opening weekend, according to the studio estimate this morning (exceeding our forecast in Wednesday’s ...
PROM: Bland-Land
> Not Even For Free; No Pig’s Blood At This Shindig. The relationships we have with the stars we watch are no less real for being imaginary, and that’s particularly true for television stars, whom we often watch inh...
SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE REPORT
THE AVENGERS, having trampled over the opening weekend record, will easily take its second weekend in a row. According to Deadline, it’s heading for a $29M Friday, the highest 2d Friday ever, and it should easily...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Agents of SHIELD”
AGENTS OF SHIELD – Friday 9PM on ABC It’s hard to believe that only 5 seasons ago, when ABC’s AGENTS OF SHIELD arrived on the air, the idea of a superhero TV series still seemed somewhat new and cool. ...
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS May 4-6
Weekend #18 of 2012 (the first weekend of May and the unofficial start of the summer movie season) looks like it will be about $214 million for the top 12 films, up 38% from last year’s comparable weekend and up 46% from ...
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 BIJOU BOX OFFICE: Opening Day For “The Help”
> DreamWorks/Disney’s decision to open the lengthy, serious THE HELP on a Wednesday in mid-August looked like a questionable strategy, but so far it’s paying off: Deadline reports that its opening day gross is...
“John Carter” and The Art of Bus-Under Pushing: SHOWBUZZDAILY CLOSE-UP
> A movie called JOHN CARTER opened a few days ago. It cost a few bucks, and as you may have heard, didn’t make as much money as its studio, Disney, would have liked. Notwithstanding the supposed mandate from ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “John Carter”
JOHN CARTER: Watch It At Home – Never Goes Into Orbit All signs suggest that JOHN CARTER will be a financial failure of historic proportions, mostly because of its colossal cost (Disney admit...
Welcome To Lucasland
Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm (for a reported $4.05B), along with its ownership of Marvel and of course its homegrown brands, brings family entertainment one step closer to near-hegemonic rule. Although there ar...
FRIDAY MAY 3 BOX OFFICE REPORT
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #18 of 2013 kicks of the summer with a very solid $203 million for the top 12 films, below the Avengers-fueled same weekend last year but above the four-year average for this weekend. ...