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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY “HUNGER GAMES” WATCH

> THE HUNGER GAMES ended its first week of release with a $189.9M total that was the 7th highest in history. That result was exceeded only by the blockbuster summer sequels The Dark Knight, Transformers: Revenge of ...

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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...

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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...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “Avengers” Even More Super

Mitch Metcalf will have a full report on boxoffice actuals later today, but the morning’s news is that THE AVENGERS continues to fly high over all expectations. On the Monday after weekend boxoffice...

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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...

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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...

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THE BIJOU: Captain America: The First Boxoffice

> The Hollywood Reporter has some rough early numbers for Friday’s boxoffice, and the news looks good for CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER. Including Thursday midnight grosses of $4M, it seems to be around $...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

Pending the arrival of this week’s finale, Mike Newell’s 2005 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE may be, on balance, the most satisfying of the series. It combines first-rate moviemaking with one of J.K. R...

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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...

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Harry Potter and the All-Time Weekend Boxoffice Record

> Deadline has the early Saturday and weekend boxoffice estimates, and this is what “frontloaded” looks like: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (PART 2) plummeted by 52% from Friday (including midnights) to...

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HARRY POTTER: The Boxoffice Begins

> The Hollywood Reporter has the early numbers on Wednesday’s international opening days for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (PART 2), and they’re even more sensational than expected. In only 26 markets (...

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“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...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY “HUNGER GAMES” MIDWEEK WATCH

> Monday boxoffice is tricky to analyze, because as you’d expect, the all-time list of Monday grosses is largely a history of long holiday weekends, namely Memorial Day, July 4th, Martin Luther King Day, and Christmas/New...

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Box Office Footnotes – 7/22/11

> 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...

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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,...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY “HUNGER GAMES” WATCH

THE BIJOU: Boxofffice Smurfnotes – 7/29/11

THE BIJOU: Crazy Stupid Early Weekend Boxoffice

SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “Avengers” Even More Super

THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 7/31/11

THE BIJOU: International Footnote

THE BIJOU: Captain America: The First Boxoffice

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Big, Not Colossal, “Avengers” Midnight – 5/3/12

Harry Potter and the All-Time Weekend Boxoffice Record

HARRY POTTER: The Boxoffice Begins

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY “HUNGER GAMES” MIDWEEK WATCH

Box Office Footnotes – 7/22/11

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE NUMBERS July 31

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