THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Guard”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE BIJOU: Cowboys and Smurfs
> We’re still a few hours away from the release of actual boxoffice numbers for last weekend (check back for Mitch Metcalf’s full analysis when the figures are official), but The Hollywood Reporter is claiming that ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Guard”
THE GUARD – Worth A Ticket: The Art of Performance, Crispy and Well-Done I don’t know that there’s an actor in movies today more fun to watch than Brendan Gleeson. Gleeson is probably best kn...
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 BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 7/31/11
> Well, there’s something you don’t see every day: 2 studios both content to forego bragging rights for the Sunday weekend estimates and wait for actual numbers on Monday, when public attention is lower. (Note...
THE BIJOU: Crazy Stupid Early Weekend Boxoffice
> Deadline has early Saturday and weekend estimates, but they don’t clarify much. As of right now, the claim is that COWBOYS AND ALIENS is at $26.2M for Friday/Saturday, with THE SMURFS at $25.9M. If those num...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Point Blank”
POINT BLANK – Worth a Ticket: A Thrill-Ride with Subtitles The most gripping Hollywood thriller of the summer is… in French. (But not for long.) This isn’t a complete surprise: POINT BLAN...
THE BIJOU: Boxofffice Smurfnotes – 7/29/11
> There’s no way to slice or dice the numbers for COWBOYS AND ALIENS and make them any less sad. The picture cost at least $165M (that’s the amount Universal will admit to), plus another $150M or so for worldw...
THE BIJOU: UPDATE – Cowboys & Incredibly Early Boxoffice Results
> UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter has refreshed its numbers, and a surprise appears to be coming from the most unlikely direction. Cowboys and Aliens seems to be down a tad, to a $13-13.5M Friday and an underperformi...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Crazy Stupid Love”
CRAZY STUPID LOVE – Worth A Ticket: It All Works Without further ado: CRAZY STUPID LOVE is the comedy of the summer. Also the drama. There are certainly spectacles out there now prov...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cowboys & Aliens”
COWBOYS & ALIENS – Watch It At Home: Genre Mash-Up Zaps Itself In the Foot It’s admirable, in a way, that for much of its length, COWBOYS AND ALIENS is willing to be more of a western than a scif...