THE BIJOU REVIEW: “What’s Your Number?”
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Captain America: The First Avenger” – Red, White & Retro
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THE BIJOU @ SUNDANCE: Big-Time
> Like any showbiz stripper, the Sundance Film Festival has left its most notable revelations for last: after releasing its Competition Entries and its Midnight and Other Fringe Titles, today the Festival announced its hi...
THE BIJOU: Friday Boxoffice Footnotes – 10/28/11
> PUSS IN BOOTS will have 3 weeks in theatres without serious competition for its target audience (until Happy Feet 2 opens on November 18), which is why DreamWorks moved the opening back a week. The picture can use the h...
THE BIJOU @ SUNDANCE: Let The (Show)Buzz Commence
> The Sundance Film Festival, like Toronto, issues its announcements about the films that will be screening in several stages. (Sundance’s sadism about actually obtaining tickets, however, is all its own.) Tod...
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...
THE BIJOU: Early Wednesday Boxoffice – 11/23/11
> Deadline has preliminary boxoffice figures for Wednesday, and there doesn’t seem to be great news for anyone. BREAKING DAWN PART 1 appears to be the easy winner for the day and probably for Thanksgiving weekend, b...
HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: Tuesday Numbers – 12/28/11
> The holiday celebrations at the studios may have been a bit premature. Traditionally, the Tuesday after Christmas sees a 10-20% drop from Monday, and that number becomes the template for the rest of the holiday pe...
THE STATUETTE STAKES: The Contenders (Part 3)
> Today we wind up SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s introduction of this year’s most promising Oscar contenders (see Part 1 here and Part 2 here, looking at those that could be called Also Eligible–they’re hoping just to...
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 BIJOU BOX OFFICE: Opening Day For “The Help”
> DreamWorks/Disney’s decision to open the lengthy, serious THE HELP on a Wednesday in mid-August looked like a questionable strategy, but so far it’s paying off: Deadline reports that its opening day gross is...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Real Steel”
REAL STEEL: Watch It At Home – The Word is “Clunky” REAL STEEL wants to be loved so much, it practically walks the audience members to their cars and offers to give them all a lift home. And yet, th...