> Full weekend drops can be expected to hit a little harder than usual this week, because last week’s holiday weekend boosted Sunday receipts. TRANSFORMERS 3 had a second Friday about midway between those of its two prede...
> TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON is reporting (pending actual numbers tomorrow) a 4-day weekend gross of $116.7M, giving it a total of $181.1M since opening Tuesday evening. That puts it around 10% ahead of the orig...
> TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON becomes the latest franchise movie to fall short in the US compared to prior chapters of the series, despite an increased 3D ticket price. (Like others, most notably Pirates 4, it ma...
> CARS 2 overperformed a bit, although $75M isn’t much higher than the original Cars opening ($60M) plus 3D ticket prices. It should hold well over the holiday weekend (the talking vehicles in Transformers skew a li...
> After a nice Friday bump, TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON took a small step backwards yesterday, with a lower % of increase than either of its predecessors had on their first Saturdays. As Mitch Metcalf noted in hi...
MONTE CARLO: Watch It At Home – The Usual Tourist Stops Beware the credit “Screen Story by.” It means that whatever the original source material for a movie may have been, it’s essentia...
> With a summer movie season bracketed by the first weekend in May on one end, and Labor Day on the other, we’ve reached the midpoint of 2011’s array of blockbusters, and for the next week, here at SHOWBUZZDAILY, we...