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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 ...

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THE STATUETTE STAKES: AFI Fest Announces Titles

> Los Angelenos will have a chance to get advance looks at some of this year’s Oscar candidates at the AFI Film Festival, which begins in just about 2 weeks. Today the Festival announced the Gala and Special Screeni...

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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...

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THE BIJOU: Friday Boxoffice Footnotes – 11/4/11

> TOWER HEIST hurts Universal on several levels. It’s a big-budget movie (with marketing costs included, the total is likely $200M) in a genre that doesn’t necessarily travel well, and it was the studio’...

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BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Weekend Studio Scorecard – 11/4/11

> BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Running $8M below New Moon at the parallel place in their runs, but with a slower rate of decline (at least until New Year’s Eve opens next week). New Moon earned another $41M after the...

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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS November 11-13

>Adam Sandler opens Jack and Jill this weekend, and it will be an uphill battle for it to displace Puss in Boots from the top of the box office. Immortals will be challenging Jack and Jill for the second spot on the chart...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “J. Edgar”

J. EDGAR: Watch It At Home – Brokeback Hoover It’s a little unexpected that of all the films Clint Eastwood has directed, his new biography J. EDGAR most resembles The Bridges of Madison Count...

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THE BIJOU: Early Friday Boxoffice – 11/11/11

> The Hollywood Reporter has preliminary boxoffice numbers for Friday, and early indications are good for IMMORTALS, which appears to have already earned $13.5-14M (including $1.4M from Thursday midnight screenings). That...

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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11 BOX OFFICE RESULTS

>THERE IS A GOD! Adam Sandler’s latest movie in which he plays a brother and a sister will not be the #1 movie of the weekend. While not a flop, it failed to open to the $30-35 million his fans usually pony up...

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THE BIJOU: Friday Boxoffice Footnotes – 11/11/11

> Whether or not IMMORTALS holds together at the boxoffice after its opening few days, the impressive launch is good news for Relativity, which is trying to prove it can survive as a standalone distributor of Hollywood-level mo...

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THE BIJOU: Early Weekend Boxoffice – 11/12/11

> Deadline has preliminary Saturday boxoffice numbers, and IMMORTALS seems to have followed the fanboy-genre pattern of extreme front-loading, with a 2d day reported as $10.6M, down 25% from Friday. It should still win th...

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WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES November 11-13

>Based on Friday and Saturday box office (and estimated Sunday numbers), Immortals ($32 million) will beat Jack and Jill ($26 million). Keep in mind Immortals is playing on many fewer theaters than the Adam Sandler comedy...

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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “J. Edgar”

Our Review / 5 - Terrible

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THE BIJOU WEEKEND BOXOFFICE FOOTNOTES – 11/13/11

> IMMORTALS is claiming the same drop for Sunday as it had on Saturday, so that total may come down in actuals. Even so, as long as the final amount is over $30M (which it certainly should be), that’s a win for Rela...

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THE BIJOU’S AWARD BAIT REPORT: Warners’ Contenders

> Deadline reports that Warners has set the release schedule for its 2 Oscar contenders. Clint Eastwood’s biography of FBI patriarch (and cross-dresser) J. EDGAR, starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, is ope...

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BIJOU BOXOFFICE: FRIDAY STUDIO SCORECARD – 11/18/11

THE STATUETTE STAKES: AFI Fest Announces Titles

BIJOU BOXOFFICE: WEEKEND STUDIO SCORECARD – 11/20/11

THE BIJOU: Friday Boxoffice Footnotes – 11/4/11

BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Weekend Studio Scorecard – 11/4/11

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS November 11-13

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “J. Edgar”

THE BIJOU: Early Friday Boxoffice – 11/11/11

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11 BOX OFFICE RESULTS

THE BIJOU: Friday Boxoffice Footnotes – 11/11/11

THE BIJOU: Early Weekend Boxoffice – 11/12/11

WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES November 11-13

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “J. Edgar”

THE BIJOU WEEKEND BOXOFFICE FOOTNOTES – 11/13/11

THE BIJOU’S AWARD BAIT REPORT: Warners’ Contenders

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