Posts Tagged ‘The Bijou’
 

 

THE BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Footnotes 8/27/11 – Be Afraid of the Boxoffice

> The full extent of theatre closings and other Hurricane Irene-related events isn’t yet known, so projections may be high at this point. That being said, this was never going to be a good weekend at the boxoffice:  ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

BIJOU BOXOFFICE: EARLY WEEKEND REPORT – 12/17/11

> The news didn’t get any better for Hollywood on Saturday.  In fact, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, the downhill ride got steeper for SHERLOCK HOLMES:  GAME OF SHADOWS.  The film had virtual...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Hurricane Edition – UPDATED

> UPDATE:  The Reporter has some early Friday numbers, and the storm’s effect can already be seen at the boxoffice.  THE HELP seems likely to win the weekend as expected, but with a lower-than anticipated $12-13...
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THE BIJOU: Lights Out For “The Dark Tower”

> Once upon a time, there was a series of fantasy adventures by a hugely bestselling author, and a grand, ambitious plan to film them all.  In the end, they were adapted into gigantically successful movies, and the last on...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: First Titles Announced

>SHOWBUZZDAILY will be at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and today TIFF announced the first group of movies being screened (there are plenty more to come over the next few weeks).  Here’s the f...
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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’...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE BIJOU: Early Weekend Boxoffice – 11/5/11

> Deadline has preliminary weekend boxoffice numbers, and if they hold, PUSS IN BOOTS will have had a remarkable second weekend.  DreamWorks Animation is reportedly claiming a Saturday number doubling its Friday, which wou...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

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...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Breaking Dawn Part I”

    THE TWILIGHT SAGA – BREAKING DAWN PART 1:  Watch It At Home – The Saga Sags In Slow Prelude To The End   The worldwide phenomenon that is Twilight often finds itself compared to Harry Potter, and...
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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Hick”

> Derick Martini’s HICK is like a Sundance movie that took the wrong indie-film exit and wound up in Toronto.  For whatever reason, Toronto’s film festival tends to find itself with fewer stories of young peopl...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Footnotes – 8/19/11

> THE HELP will be the year’s first “serious” movie to gross over $100M.  September is traditionally one of the softest months on the movie release calendar, and 2011 is no exception:  although there...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “In Time”





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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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 ...
by Mitch Salem