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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 9/2/12

OPENINGS: THE POSSESSION (Lionsgate) is doing quite well for a low-budget horror quickie, with $17.7M for the 1st 3 days of the holiday weekend, and is on track to be the #2 Labor Day opening ever, behind only the 2007...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 9/1/12

According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, THE POSSESSION (Lionsgate) is still on top with Saturday’s boxoffice counted, perhaps finding an extra $1M or so at the end of the 4-day weekend for $22-23M, which woul...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 8/31/12

OPENINGS: THE POSSESSION (Lionsgate) will be a convincing winner over the holiday weekend, based on a Friday that more than doubled the gross of the #2 movie. Its $6.1M was also 2/3 better than last year’s Labo...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 8/31/12

The traditionally dreary Labor Day Weekend boxoffice is underway, and preliminary numbers at Deadline have THE POSSESSION (Lionsgate) in the lead, with a $5.5M Friday and probably around $18M for the 4-day holiday weeken...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 8/26/12

The yummiest weekend of the year for right-wing propagandists. OPENINGS: 2016: OBAMA’S AMERICA (Rocky Mountain) drew its core audience to the tune of $6.2M, which gave it a return in the same neighborhood as re...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 8/19/12

A lot of product made for a decent weekend total, but none of the new films fared particularly well. OPENINGS: THE EXPENDABLES 2 (Lionsgate) opened 20% behind its predecessor, when sequels usually open bigger (and the...

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A SHOWBUZZDAILY Guide To Movie Profitability (Or Not) – Part II: Distribution Fees and Back-End

Yesterday we looked at some of the ways that the costs of producing a feature film are higher and more complicated than they might seem. Today, some additional obstacles that lie between any movie and profitability. &n...

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A SHOWBUZZDAILY Guide to Movie Profitability (Or Not) – Part I: Budget

Let’s start with something simple: anyone who claims to have reliable knowledge about the profitability of a specific film, without having detailed access to its production budgets, financing documents and key ta...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/27/12

How much of Friday’s mediocre boxoffice is attributable to a post-Aurora uneasiness about going to multiplexes, how much to competition from the most watched Olympics Opening Ceremonies in history, and how much to ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Tuesday “Dark Knight” Update

On Tuesday, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES added $17.8M to its Wayne Manor-sized vault, giving it a total of $198M in 5 days of release. It was the only movie in the Top 10 to decline yesterday, but that’s typical for the p...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “Dark Knight Rises” Actual Weekend Numbers

After a moratorium on official boxoffice pronouncements due to the tragic events in Colorado, Warners has officially released the weekend boxoffice figure for THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: $160.9M. This is where the unoffic...

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/22/12

All boxoffice figures are unofficial until tomorrow, when the studios will once again admit that they’re in a business designed to make money. However, numbers have made their way to the outside world, and it see...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/20/12

No authoritative boxoffice figures will be available until Sunday or Monday, as the studios would prefer that they not be associated with financial issues this weekend. Although–properly–the focus of the ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: The Dark Knight Rises Amidst Tragedy

It may be unseemly even to discuss the dollars and cents of movie boxoffice as we all recoil and try to get a grasp on the terrible events that took place in Colorado last night. Such dreadful aspects of real life shou...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: The Dark Knight’s Nemeses

Unless the world comes to an abrupt end in the next few hours, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is going to start earning more money than The Joker set on fire in the last Batman film. But how much? Can Rises set records this w...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 9/2/12

SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 9/1/12

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 8/31/12

SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 8/31/12

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 8/26/12

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 8/19/12

A SHOWBUZZDAILY Guide To Movie Profitability (Or Not) – Part II: Distribution Fees and Back-End

A SHOWBUZZDAILY Guide to Movie Profitability (Or Not) – Part I: Budget

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/27/12

SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Tuesday “Dark Knight” Update

SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “Dark Knight Rises” Actual Weekend Numbers

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/22/12

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/20/12

SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: The Dark Knight Rises Amidst Tragedy

SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: The Dark Knight’s Nemeses

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