THE BIJOU RETROSPECTIVE: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Footnotes 8/27/11 – Be Afraid of the Boxoffice
> The full extent of theatre closings and other Hurricane Irene-related events isn’t yet known, so projections may be high at this point. That being said, this was never going to be a good weekend at the boxoffice: ...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: “Breaking Dawn” Breaks From the Gate – 11/18/11
> The Hollywood Reporter has preliminary Friday numbers suggesting that BREAKING DAWN PART 1 will gross $65-75M for the day, including $30.3M in Thursday midnight showings. Even at the high-end, that would make Breaking D...
Box Office Footnotes – 7/22/11
> Unlike nearly all the other action epics this summer, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER is rolling out slowly overseas, with only a couple of dozen territories getting the picture this weekend. That will postpone...
THE BIJOU: Early Weekend Boxoffice – 11/5/11
> Deadline has preliminary weekend boxoffice numbers, and if they hold, PUSS IN BOOTS will have had a remarkable second weekend. DreamWorks Animation is reportedly claiming a Saturday number doubling its Friday, which wou...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “War Horse”
WAR HORSE: Watch It At Home – Spielberg’s Beautiful Muzak Earlier this year, audiences were presented with Super 8, J. J. Abrams’s pastiche of Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi adventures f...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “What’s Your Number?”
WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? – Worth a Ticket: The Number’s Higher Than You’d Think Romantic comedies that are actually romantic and comic are so rare these days, it doesn’t matter ...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: EARLY FRIDAY REPORT
> According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, the weekend is looking auspicious for Mark Wahlberg’s CONTRABAND. The modestly budgeted thriller (which, however, Universal has been expensively marketing for a solid ...
THE BIJOU: “Immortals” Stay Up Late
> The new 3D action-fest IMMORTALS got off to a reasonably good start with $1.4M in Thursday midnight screenings. This isn’t anything spectacular, but it’s slightly higher than the $1.3M RISE OF THE PLANET OF ...
WEEKEND BOXOFFICE: STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/15/12
> Due to the Martin Luther King holiday on Monday, all studios are estimating low Sunday drops, although some are projecting more aggressively than others. UNIVERSAL: CONTRABAND held almost even on Saturday, which is good...
THE BIJOU EARLY BOXOFFICE: Hurricane Watch 8/28/11
> Early numbers for Friday and Saturday suggest that the first day, at least, of Hurricane Irene didn’t do enormous damage to the boxoffice. Deadline reports that THE HELP had a healthy Friday-to-Saturday bump of 38...
THE BIJOU BULLETIN: “Spy Kids 4” Stinks (Intentionally)
> Get all the stench jokes out of your system: come August 19, the new SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD won’t just be in tired old 3D, but in what they’re calling the 4D of Aromascope. In other ...