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A MIDSUMMER STUDIO’S REPORT CARD: Paramount

> 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 SHOW...

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Box Office Footnotes – 6/17/11

> GREEN LANTERN cost at least as much as Thor ($350-400M with worldwide marketing), and will probably open around 15% lower–and Thor is no blockbuster hit. Which means that although intensive promos got bodies into ...

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Box Office Footnotes – 6/10/11

> We’ll see if SUPER 8 gets to $40M, but in any case Paramount has done the season’s best job of managing expectations. Considering that they’ve been throwing millions into promoting the movie since the ...

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COUNTING TO 10: Best Spielbergs

> On the occasion of Super 8‘s release, the Top 10 movies directed by Steven Spielberg: 10. THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (1974): His first feature film, it suggests that had he never touched a special effect in his life, S...

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THE BIJOU: “SUPER 8” – Spielberg Much?

> Watch It At Home: That’s MR. Spielberg To You JJ Abrams’ SUPER 8 is the Beatlemania of Steven Spielberg movies. Abrams is no doubt absolutely genuine in his reverence for classics from the 1970...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY FIRST ANNUAL SUMMER MOVIE BLOCKBUSTER DRAFT!

> Here at ShowbuzzDaily, we like to think that we’re smarter than anyone else. But more importantly, we like to think we’re smarter than each other. So the two of us here (Mitch Metcalf and your humble n...

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A MIDSUMMER STUDIO’S REPORT CARD: Paramount

Box Office Footnotes – 6/17/11

Box Office Footnotes – 6/10/11

COUNTING TO 10: Best Spielbergs

THE BIJOU: “SUPER 8” – Spielberg Much?

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY FIRST ANNUAL SUMMER MOVIE BLOCKBUSTER DRAFT!

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