Posts Tagged ‘harry potter’
 

 

THE BOXOFFICE GAMES: “Hunger Games” Day 1 – Early Numbers – 3/23/12

> Boxoffice numbers have been bouncing around all day (Per-theatre averages as of 3PM Pacific time!  Number of left-handed, red-haired patrons sitting through the entire end credits!), and they’re still not final or ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE BOXOFFICE GAMES BEGIN: “Hunger Games” At Midnight

> THE HUNGER GAMES has an excuse. Last night at midnight, The Hunger Games began its long-awaited run in theatres by grossing $19.7M.  Which is, by any estimation, a lot of money–the most ever earned by a non-sequel,...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

“The Hunger Games” – Key Boxoffice Targets (Pop Culture Apocalypose Minus 1)

> In less than 24 hours, boxoffice figures for tonight’s midnight opening of THE HUNGER GAMES will start to arrive, and after that, the data, analysis and comparisons will be flooding in all weekend.  You can play al...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

“The Hunger Games” and Front-Loaded Boxoffice (Pop Culture Apocalypse Minus 2)

> The most successful movie of all time, Avatar, had an opening weekend ($77M) that only ranks 38th on the list of the biggest openings.  Conversely, the #1 opening weekend of all time belongs to Harry Potter and the Death...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY 2011 IN REVIEW: THE HONORABLE MENTIONS

> It’s actually harder to come up with a manageable list of Honorable Mention movies than a Top 10, because there are so many films that are eminently worth seeking out and seeing, but perhaps a little bit flawed–so...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

BIJOU BOXOFFICE: “Breaking Dawn” At Midnight – 11/17/11

> … and here we go.  BREAKING DAWN PART 1 narrowly set a Twilight franchise record last night with the 2d highest midnight screening grosses on record, $30.25M.  This was (very slightly) ahead of Eclipse‘s...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE STATUETTE STAKES: The Contenders (Part 3)

> Today we wind up SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s introduction of this year’s most promising Oscar contenders (see Part 1 here and Part 2 here, looking at those that could be called Also Eligible–they’re hoping just to...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE BIJOU BOX OFFICE: International Bullet Points

> Click below for a quick summary of some notable numbers from this past weekend overseas: THE SMURFS reached $141M overseas with the help of a tremendous $60M weekend.  Like other recent 3D animated films, it has a good c...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE BIJOU: Harry Potter – House Cup to Gryffindor

> Box Office Mojo reports that with Monday’s receipts counted, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (PART 2) has moved ahead of TRANSFORMERS:  DARK OF THE MOON, $344.9M to $344.7M, to become the top-grossing film in ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 8/6/11

> 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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE BIJOU: International Footnote

> There’s been quite a bit written in the last few years about the phenomenon of US films doing much better business overseas than domestically, sometimes more than making up for American disappointment or failure–a...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS July 31

>Three films are now in or projected to be in the $1 billion worldwide box office club: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.  Clearly,...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 7/31/11

> Well, there’s something you don’t see every day:  2 studios both content to forego bragging rights for the Sunday weekend estimates and wait for actual numbers on Monday, when public attention is lower. (Note...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE BIJOU: Crazy Stupid Early Weekend Boxoffice

> 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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE BIJOU: Boxofffice Smurfnotes – 7/29/11

> 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...
by Mitch Salem