THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Friends With Benefits” – Strings Attached
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE BIJOU: Friday Boxoffice Footnotes – 9/30/11
> THE SOCIAL NETWORK fell only 31% in its second weekend, so MONEYBALL, which is headed for a fall closer to 40% (after a lower opening), continues not to be in Network‘s league financially. The timing of a movie li...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Thanksgiving Studio Scorecard – 11/24/11
> HUGO: The boxoffice story of the holiday was undoubtedly Martin Scorsese’s quasi-family film. While almost every other film of the day fell steeply or at best held around even, Hugo zoomed an astonishing 40% ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Margin Call”
MARGIN CALL: Worth A Ticket – The Real Sequel to”Wall Street” MARGIN CALL is smarter and more gripping than Moneyball and The Ides of March combined–and those are two smart, grippi...
THE BIJOU: Early Weekend Boxoffice – 9/24/11
>Not a lot of change in the numbers as early Saturday results are factored in. Deadline reports THE LION KING at #1 with $22M, MONEYBALL 2d with $21M, and DOLPHIN TALE 3rd with $20M, so any or all of those could shift as ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “30 Minutes Or Less”
30 MINUTES OR LESS – Watch It At Home: Doesn’t Deliver The frustration of 30 MINUTES OR LESS is that of all the R-rated comedies this summer, it was the one with the most original premise and promisi...
WEEKEND BOXOFFICE: EARLY NUMBERS – 1/7/12
> Dateline has preliminary figures for Saturday and the weekend, and as expected, Paramount’s THE DEVIL INSIDE took a significant 25+% hit in its second day, a trend that will no doubt continue as stories of audiences in ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Killer Elite”
KILLER ELITE: Watch It At Home – Neither Killer Nor Elite The new KILLER ELITE takes little from Sam Peckinpah’s 1975 action movie apart from its title (Peckinpah used “The” in his) and the gene...
THE BIJOU: International Footnote
> There’s been quite a bit written in the last few years about the phenomenon of US films doing much better business overseas than domestically, sometimes more than making up for American disappointment or failure–a...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES – Worth A Ticket: Simian Power Although it’s positioned as the last big adventure epic of the summer, for most of its length Rupert Wyatt’s RISE OF THE PLA...
THE BIJOU: UPDATED–Rise of the Planet of the Very Early Boxoffice Results
> UPDATE: The Reporter now has fuller numbers, and even better news for Fox. RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES looks to be headed for an $18M Friday, which should mean a $45M+ weekend, meeting and even exceeding expect...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Artist”
> The Artist is a beautiful film hot-house flower, designed to flourish in the rarefied atmosphere of festivals and gatherings of cineastes. It’s a curio that will be cherished by some, and probably ignored by most of the...
THE BIJOU BOX OFFICE: International Bullet Points
> Click below for a quick summary of some notable numbers from this past weekend overseas: THE SMURFS reached $141M overseas with the help of a tremendous $60M weekend. Like other recent 3D animated films, it has a good c...