Posts Tagged ‘The Bijou’
 

 

HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: Early Friday Numbers – 12/23/11

> Well, now it’s all up to WAR HORSE. Cameron Crowe’s WE BOUGHT A ZOO (20th) joined the market on Friday, and it appears to be back to movie jail for Crowe, because according to the Hollywood Reporter, it only made ...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Captain America: The First Avenger”

    CAPTAIN AMERICA:  THE FIRST AVENGER – Worth A Ticket:  Marvel Goes Back To the Future   There’s a certain irony in the fact that, in this summer of Super 8 and its Spielberg rapture, the most succes...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Thing”

    THE THING:  Watch It At Home – Not Interesting Enough To Be Scary   The third movie iteration of THE THING is as impersonal as the creature it’s about.  This version, the first feature directed ...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”

  Whatever one can say about Chris Columbus–and there’ll be plenty of less than glowing words about him below–he’s the man who cast Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as the leads in 200...
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THE BIJOU: Harry Potter Reviews





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THE BIJOU: Weekend Boxoffice Footnotes – 10/9/11

> REAL STEEL had a nice Saturday bump of 27%, but that’s far lower than the 40% it was initially claiming (and only 4% higher than the one for Ides of March, which is decidedly not a family matinee movie).  The pictu...
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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 ...
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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Salmon Fishing In the Yemen”

> The first substantial buy of the Toronto Film Festival (Shame had sold first, but for art film prices) turned out to be Salmon Fishing In the Yemen, a modestly engaging romantic comedy from Lasse Hallstrom.  Hallstrom ha...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Bad Teacher” – Passable

>    Worth A Ticket:  Grade It On A Curve In 1999, Jake Kasdan directed a project set in high school that starred Jason Segel and featured Dave (Gruber) Allen in its ensemble; it was called Freaks and Geeks, and ...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Tower Heist”





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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 ...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Melancholia”

    MELANCHOLIA – Watch It At Home – The Title Tells the Tale   Here’s a quick primer in Oscar rules and how studios can get around them.  In order for a film to be Oscar-eligible (other than i...
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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 ...
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