THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Paranormal Activity 3”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The InBetween”
THE INBETWEEN: Wednesday 10PM on NBC The flow of broadcast summer product continues with NBC’s workmanlike paranormal procedural THE INBETWEEN. The show was created by Moira Kirland, previously a writer/produce...
THE BIJOU: Weekend Boxoffice Footnotes – 10/23/11
> The Saturday drop for PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 turned out to be very much in line with Paranormal 2‘s. Paramount is estimating a better Sunday hold than the second installment had; if the result is instead the same a...
THE BIJOU: Friday Boxoffice Footnotes – 10/28/11
> PUSS IN BOOTS will have 3 weeks in theatres without serious competition for its target audience (until Happy Feet 2 opens on November 18), which is why DreamWorks moved the opening back a week. The picture can use the h...
THE BIJOU: Early Weekend Boxoffice – 10/22/11
> Deadline has early numbers for Saturday and the weekend, and there aren’t any major surprises. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 is overwhelming everything else in the market even after its expected big drop from Friday (which incl...
THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 10/21/11
> PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 continues Paramount’s license to print money–it’ll soon be in profit even with worldwide marketing costs calculated in. Yesterday will probably prove to be by far the biggest day ...
THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “The Tomorrow People”
THE TOMORROW PEOPLE: Wednesday 9PM on CW Previously… on THE TOMORROW PEOPLE: Stephen Jameson (Robbie Amell) is a teenager who also happens to be “homo superior,” aka one of The Tomorrow People. Th...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Paranormal Activity 3”
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3: Worth A Ticket – More Minimalist Bumps In the Dark The PARANORMAL ACTIVITY franchise is a movie studio’s dream come true. The concept itself demands a no-star cast, a very li...
THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 10/16/11
> It’s always to the advantage of the new opening to own first place at the boxoffice, so if Paramount thought FOOTLOOSE could pull it out over REAL STEEL, they would have staked their claim today. (Both pictures ar...
THE BIJOU: Weekend Boxoffice Footnotes & Early International Numbers – 10/31/11
> DreamWorks Animation can blame the weather for diminishing its PUSS IN BOOTS number–although there seemed to be little effect on the weekend’s other openings–but $34M is awfully low for a major animated rele...
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...
THE BIJOU: Early Friday Boxoffice – 10.28/11
> The Hollywood Reporter has preliminary boxoffice numbers for Friday, and as expected, PUSS IN BOOTS will be the easy weekend winner. Its $9-9.5M on Friday, if it holds, would probably mean $36-38M for the weekend, which...
THE BIJOU: Midnight “Paranormal”
> The new PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 is off to a good start: its $8M boxoffice from midnight shows last night was 30% higher than Paranormal 2‘s midnight performance, and in a league with Hangover 2‘s $10.4M, which...
THE BIJOU: Friday Boxoffice Footnotes – 10/14/11
> FOOTLOOSE has the advantage of facing no new direct competition on Friday. That, along with what should be fairly good word of mouth, could give it some legs in the marketplace. THE THING, on the other hand, had a...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Alphas”
ALPHAS: Monday 10PM on Syfy WHERE WE WERE: Think X-Men without the big special effects, the cool gadgets and the costumes. Dr. Lee Rosen (David Stathairn) is the shepherd to a group of Alphas, individuals wi...