THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”
THE HUNGER GAMES: Worth A Ticket – The Odds Are Mostly In Its Favor Now that virtually every blockbuster movie opens in IMAX, going to an IMAX theatre at this time of year provides a de facto trailer festi...
“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...
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS March 23-25
>The 12th weekend of the year should be a whopper: about $176 million for the top 12 films. How big is that for the fourth weekend in March? Enormous, unprecedented: up 62% from last year’s comparable weekend ...
“The Hunger Games” and Theatre Counts (Pop Culture Apocalypose Minus 2)
> With the exception of some whose hearts are set on 12:01AM screenings tomorrow night, no one should have to complain that they weren’t able to see THE HUNGER GAMES because there weren’t any seats to be had. ...
“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...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 3/16/12
> Maybe JOHN CARTER should have starred Jonah Hill. OPENINGS: 21 JUMP STREET (Sony) got off to a great start, with a $13.1M Friday that should get it to around $35M for the weekend. Expect a quick announcement that ...
THE HUNGER GAMES, MAD MEN and Marketing Restraint (Pop Culture Apocalypse Minus 7)
> The eagerly-awaited Season 5 of the most honored series on television, an interminable 17 months in the making, contents itself with a single enigmatic image: Don Draper staring into a department store window, his refle...
POP CULTURE APOCALYPSE MINUS 9: “Hunger Games” and the IMAX Crush
> If you want to see THE HUNGER GAMES in IMAX, the best visual format available, you’re going to have to hurry: it’s currently scheduled to screen in IMAX theatres for only a single week. Even though Hun...
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS March 16-18
>The 11th weekend of the year should generate about $101 million for the top 12 films, a somewhat soft weekend for the third weekend in March — down 3% from last year’s comparable weekend and down a similar percenta...
HUNGER GAMES/MAD MEN POP CULTURE APOCALYPSE MINUS 12 – “Hunger Games” Tracking
> Normally the universe of pop culture only allows for one giant event at a time, and not accidentally–they stay out of each other’s way. You won’t find any major movies opening the same day as The Aveng...
THE SKED MOVIE PROMO WATCH: OSCAR NIGHT EDITION
> The Academy limits the number of movie ads that can be aired on the Oscar telecast (until recent years, they didn’t allow any), so as not to make the night look like the awards are shilling for the studios. (God f...
THE SKED’S MOVIE PROMO WATCH: Grammys Edition
> Tonight’s Grammy Awards were inevitably somewhat haunted by the awful loss of Whitney Houston barely 24 hours earlier, a tragedy that seemed to have been going on for a decade yet was still shocking when it came to its ...