THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Vow”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Vow”
THE VOW: Not Even For Free – Forget About It This year has brought us a far-fetched, but ultimately moving and deeply romantic story about a couple who have finally gotten together and married after...
On VOD and Beyond the Infinite
> The homevideo divisions of movie studios are notoriously reticent about giving out specific sales information regarding their titles beyond Week 1 boasts, but today Universal made a point of disclosing to Deadline that BRIDES...
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...
WEEKEND BOXOFFICE: STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/15/12
> Due to the Martin Luther King holiday on Monday, all studios are estimating low Sunday drops, although some are projecting more aggressively than others. UNIVERSAL: CONTRABAND held almost even on Saturday, which is good...
FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/14/12
> The Martin Luther King holiday weekend, a relatively small one for Hollywood because many people work on Monday, begins. UNIVERSAL: The studio made the fairly extraordinary decision to sit out the holiday movie season entirel...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: EARLY FRIDAY REPORT
> According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, the weekend is looking auspicious for Mark Wahlberg’s CONTRABAND. The modestly budgeted thriller (which, however, Universal has been expensively marketing for a solid ...
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...
WEEKEND BOXOFFICE: STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/9/12
> Live by Cinemascore, die by Cinemascore. THE DEVIL INSIDE: The most hilarious studio event of the last 24 hours has been Paramount‘s frantic attempt to argue that an “F” Cinemascore for THE DEVIL INSID...
WEEKEND BOXOFFICE: EARLY NUMBERS – 1/7/12
> Dateline has preliminary figures for Saturday and the weekend, and as expected, Paramount’s THE DEVIL INSIDE took a significant 25+% hit in its second day, a trend that will no doubt continue as stories of audiences in ...
FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/6/12
> Everyone wanted to go to the movies on the first full weekend of 2012. PARAMOUNT: The studio went straight to its Paranormal Activity playbook to launch THE DEVIL INSIDE (pre-release screenings, months of buzz), and it ...
HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: NEW YEAR’S WEEKEND STUDIO SCORECARD – 1/2/12
> As detailed in Mitch Metcalf’s Weekend Boxoffice Report, New Year’s Day wasn’t the bonanza the studios were expecting it to be. PARAMOUNT: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL‘s Sunday incr...
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 ...
HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: EARLY SATURDAY NUMBERS – 12/31/11
> According to Deadline, most films were down 20-30% from Friday, which is par for the course on New Year’s Eve, due to early theater closings and non-movie plans for the night. But there are a few oddities: Most no...