THE BIJOU REVIEW: “War Horse”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Box Office Results WEDNESDAY December 28
>Box office volume drifted down a preliminary 9% Wednesday from Tuesday, with the top 10 films grossing a collective $41.5 million (almost exactly matching last year’s December 28 total, when the date fell on a Tuesday, a...
HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: Early Friday Numbers – 12/30/11
> Deadline has initial boxoffice figures for Friday, and if the numbers hold, the results seem to be a healthy amount higher than last year’s Friday before New Year’s, allowing the holiday period–and the year&...
BROADWAY JOURNAL: “War Horse” and “Jerusalem”
> For a new play, WAR HORSE has strong movie connections. The play is adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford from the 1982 novel by Michael Morpurgo, and that novel is also the basis of Steven Spielberg’s upcoming f...
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...
THE STATUETTE STAKES: The Contenders (Part I)
> While you weren’t looking, the Oscar race began. One could make the argument, of course, that it’s been on for months–since, at least, Woody Allen’s MIDNIGHT IN PARIS energized the indie/art-film audie...
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 ...
STATUETTE STAKES: The Ides of Golden Globes
> The Golden Globes are given out by 80 international journalists whose opinions, when they’re not voting on these awards, are of no importance whatsoever to anyone on the planet other than their particular loved ones.&nb...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES December 30-January 1
>Based on Friday and Saturday box office (and estimated Sunday numbers), the total box office for this weekend is now looking like $151 million, up 2% from last year. Saturday business (impacted by New Year’s Eve) w...
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS December 23-25
>With Christmas coming this Sunday a host of films arrive this important weekend, with three films opening wide Wednesday (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Adventures of Tintin, and the wide expansion of Mission: Impossible...
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 WEEKEND BOXOFFICE December 23-26
>Based on actual results for Friday, December 23-Sunday, December 25 and studio projections for Monday, December 26, the four-day holiday weekend continues to look dominated by Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible — Ghost Pr...
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: Tuesday Numbers – 12/28/11
> The holiday celebrations at the studios may have been a bit premature. Traditionally, the Tuesday after Christmas sees a 10-20% drop from Monday, and that number becomes the template for the rest of the holiday pe...
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 ...