BIJOU REVIEW: “Happy Feet Two”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Early International Report – 11/4/11
> The Hollywood Reporter has some early numbers for the weekend’s overseas boxoffice. (Remember: comparisons of international boxoffice receipts aren’t necessarily apples-to-apples, as films follow diffe...
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS November 18-20
>This weekend is all about Twilight Breaking Dawn, which will be huge. But Happy Feet Two should manage an opening that would look stellar on any other recent weekend. Overall box office this weekend should be up 33...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Happy Feet Too”
HAPPY FEET TWO: Watch It At Home – Not So Happy This Time Most sequels, by and large, exist only because an earlier movie made lots of money–that’s just a fact. But sequels often at least try...
THE BIJOU: Early Friday Boxoffice – 11/18/11
> Deadline has preliminary numbers for Friday, and they suggest BREAKING DAWN PART 1 will continue to narrowly edge out the opening weekend of New Moon in 2009, with a $73.5M Friday (compared to $72.7M for New Moon). If t...
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18 BOX OFFICE RESULTS
>Twilight’s latest, Breaking Dawn Part 1, is opening close to what we expected, but Happy Feet Two was not as able to weather the storm as strongly as we projected. Overall, the weekend is running 20% ahead of the s...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: FRIDAY STUDIO SCORECARD – 11/18/11
> BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Christmas comes but once a year, and for Summit that day is the 24 hours after a Twilight movie opens. (A little credit to the studio, too, for not fudging the numbers, which would have been ...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES November 18-20
>Based on Friday and Saturday box office (and estimated Sunday numbers), Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1 is opening just short of $140 million in its first weekend, while Happy Feet Two looks like a $22 million opening. ...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: WEEKEND STUDIO SCORECARD – 11/20/11
> BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Although BD1 had greater declines on Friday (as opposed to Thursday midnight) and Saturday than New Moon did in 2009, Summit’s weekend estimate assumes exactly the same 34% drop for Sunday.&n...
FULL WEEK BOX OFFICE ACTUALS and YEAR TO DATE November 14-20
>The year to-date box office tally picked up some ground versus last year with the past week running 12% ahead of the same week last year. The actual weekend openings for Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Happy Feet...
THE BIJOU: Early Wednesday Boxoffice – 11/23/11
> Deadline has preliminary boxoffice figures for Wednesday, and there doesn’t seem to be great news for anyone. BREAKING DAWN PART 1 appears to be the easy winner for the day and probably for Thanksgiving weekend, b...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Wednesday Studio Scorecard – 11/23/11
> The holiday movie season is not off to a roaring start. BREAKING DAWN PART 1: The giant franchise will of course win Thanksgiving weekend. But its $12.5M Wednesday gross was down 12% from what New Moon did on the ...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Thanksgiving Studio Scorecard – 11/24/11
> HUGO: The boxoffice story of the holiday was undoubtedly Martin Scorsese’s quasi-family film. While almost every other film of the day fell steeply or at best held around even, Hugo zoomed an astonishing 40% ...