THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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 SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Muppets”
THE MUPPETS: Watch It At Home – Nonstop Cuteness When it was announced that Disney’s new movie of THE MUPPETS (the Mouse House bought the entire franchise from Jim Henson’s company some year...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Final Destination 5”
FINAL DESTINATION 5 – Watch It At Home: Death Takes No Holiday There’s only one thing worth mentioning in FINAL DESTINATION 5… and it’s the one thing I can’t talk about. Let’...
THE BIJOU RETROSPECTIVE: “Harry Potter and the Order Of the Phoenix”
> The magically moving portraits are pulled off the walls of Hogwarts in 2007’s HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, and the colors have started draining from the Potter universe. Gone are the lush visuals of ...
THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 10/21/11
> PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 continues Paramount’s license to print money–it’ll soon be in profit even with worldwide marketing costs calculated in. Yesterday will probably prove to be by far the biggest day ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
It was all so cute when it started… David Yates’ 2009 HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE is surprisingly funny at times–surprising, because in all other ways the film was, up to that point, by far t...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: FRIDAY STUDIO SCORECARD – 11/18/11
> BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Christmas comes but once a year, and for Summit that day is the 24 hours after a Twilight movie opens. (A little credit to the studio, too, for not fudging the numbers, which would have been ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Contraband”
CONTRABAND: Worth A Ticket – Working-Class Thriller CONTRABAND is a B movie, but oddly enough, that’s one thing in short supply these days. Action movies in modern Hollywood usually c...
Box Office Footnotes – 7/15/11 – Harry Potter Edition
> Now that HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (PART 2) has obliterated the single-day US boxoffice record, and is poised to have the all-time US weekend, what other records lie ahead? The all-time Saturday is held by Sp...
THE BIJOU: EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE
> Deadline has early figures for Friday, and they indicate that Open Road’s THE GREY will, as expected, win the day and weekend. If the early estimate of $6.2M for Friday holds, it could gross around $15M for the we...
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
> EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE: Worth A Ticket – Earns Its Tears If EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE accomplishes nothing else–and it actually accomplishes quite a bit–it’s served t...
THE BIJOU: Boxoffice Footnotes – 9/2/11
> Apart from the usual hosannas to THE HELP’s remarkable staying power, there’s not much to be said about this weekend’s wide releases. APOLLO 18 and SHARK NIGHT are both flops that will be hard-pressed ...
THE BIJOU: Fractured Boxoffice
> Two of the season’s major films are launching unconventionally this evening, and it’s worth taking note. Both Sony’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and Paramount’s MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GH...