THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Jack and Jill”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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...
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...
SHOWBUZZDAILY 2011 IN REVIEW: The Year’s Worst Movies
> The problem with 2011 on screen was more the pervasive mediocrity than an overload of terrible movies, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t some awful films to be found–and, if possible, avoided. Here a...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Jack & Jill”
JACK AND JILL: Not At Any Price – 2 Adam Sandlers is 2 Too Many Does anyone really expect an Adam Sandler movie to be good anymore? Seriously, if you put aside his occasional relatively serious effort...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...