THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Crazy Stupid Love”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Another Earth”
ANOTHER EARTH – Worth A Ticket: Tiny Story With Big Ambitions For ANOTHER EARTH, the Sundance Film Festival went exactly the way it’s supposed to. The low-key picture was made on a miniscule bud...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Machine Gun Preacher”
MACHINE GUN PREACHER: Watch It At Home – A True Story Rings False MACHINE GUN PREACHER simply isn’t good enough for the story it wants to tell. And the story, a true one, is remarkable: Sam Child...
THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Captain America: The First Avenger” – Red, White & Retro
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Harry Potter and the All-Time Weekend Boxoffice Record
> Deadline has the early Saturday and weekend boxoffice estimates, and this is what “frontloaded” looks like: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (PART 2) plummeted by 52% from Friday (including midnights) to...
THE BIJOU’S NEWS & NOTES: New Oscar Rules
> The Academy, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to fiddle once again with the Best Picture category. Instead of 5 nominees, as was the case pre-2009, or 10, as we’ve had the past 2 years, now no one will know jus...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Three Musketeers”
THE THREE MUSKETEERS: Not At Any Price – All For None and None For All If the last couple of Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the current Sherlock Holmes franchise had a really nasty, dirty weeke...
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...
THE BIJOU: International Footnote
> There’s been quite a bit written in the last few years about the phenomenon of US films doing much better business overseas than domestically, sometimes more than making up for American disappointment or failure–a...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “One Day”
ONE DAY – Watch It At Home: An Off-Day What went wrong with ONE DAY? It’s been clear for a while that its studio, Focus Features, didn’t have great confidence in the film: first they post...
THE STATUETTE STAKES: The Contenders (Part 3)
> Today we wind up SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s introduction of this year’s most promising Oscar contenders (see Part 1 here and Part 2 here, looking at those that could be called Also Eligible–they’re hoping just to...
THE BIJOU’S FRIDAY STUDIO SCORECARD – 12/16/11
> The last 2 weeks of the year will almost certainly bring better news for Hollywood, for reasons of tonnage alone: there are 6 wide openings to come next week, compared to only 3 in the final weeks of 2010. But for...
THE BIJOU: Honorary Oscars Announced
> The Motion Picture Academy came up with 2 great choices and a puzzler in their selections for this year’s honorary Academy Awards. (Remember–as of last year, the honorary Oscars are no longer part of the tel...