THE BIJOU REVIEW: “What’s Your Number?”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Tower Heist”
TOWER HEIST: Watch It At Home – Hardly Luxury-Class There may never have been a director more proud of being a hack than Brett Ratner. In a recent NY Times profile, Ratner boasts (when he’s ...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Rampart”
> Oren Moverman’s first film as a director, The Messenger, was a beautifully contained, emotionally detailed story about soldiers assigned to deliver tragic news to the families of the deceased. In his new film RAMP...
HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: Early Thursday Numbers – 12/22/11
> Deadline has preliminary figures for Thursday’s boxoffice, and they appear to be fairly steady with Wednesday, consistent with last year’s pattern but below 2010’s totals. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – G...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: The Road Begins
> In September, SHOWBUZZDAILY will be attending the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, for short). This is the first in an intermittent series of pieces about the experience of TIFF-ing. Every film festival has it...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Immortals”
IMMORTALS: Watch It At Home – Brainless, Violent and Weirdly Spectacular There’s no question that the director Tarsem Singh has an eye. Singh started as a director of commercials and music videos&#...
THE BIJOU: Friday Boxoffice Footnotes – 11/4/11
> TOWER HEIST hurts Universal on several levels. It’s a big-budget movie (with marketing costs included, the total is likely $200M) in a genre that doesn’t necessarily travel well, and it was the studio’...
HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: WEEKEND STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/1/12
> With one startling exception and a couple of smaller ones, the holiday crop of movies declined on Saturday and are expected to recover on New Year’s Day. PARAMOUNT: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL went ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Our Idiot Brother”
OUR IDIOT BROTHER – Watch It At Home: Sitcom On A Big Screen Although it premiered at Sundance, OUR IDIOT BROTHER was an “independent film” only in a technical sense: it was produced on a ...
THE BIJOU: Friday Boxoffice Footnotes – 11/11/11
> Whether or not IMMORTALS holds together at the boxoffice after its opening few days, the impressive launch is good news for Relativity, which is trying to prove it can survive as a standalone distributor of Hollywood-level mo...
“Transformers” Early Boxoffice
>The monolith that is TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON has started its weekend. With a combination of 9PM shows (that were supposedly all in 3D) and midnights, reports are that the picture made $13.5M last night. ...
THE BIJOU: Early Boxoffice Report – 9/10/11
> Deadline has some early Friday boxoffice numbers, and the news was good for CONTAGION and its maybe-I’m-retiring-and-maybe-I’m-not director Steven Soderbergh: an $8M opening day that should lead to a weekend...