THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Avengers”
THE AVENGERS: Worth A Ticket – A Fun Summer Movie, No More Or Less It’s easy to forget that THE AVENGERS is, you know, a movie. It’s perhaps the ultimate example of corporate intellectual pro...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “The Avengers” Awaits the Witching Hour – 5/3/12
> It seems like only yesterday that we were reviewing the records for midnight openings (actually, it was March 23, when The Hunger Games opened with a 7th-highest $19.7M Thursday midnight–the highest ever for a non-seque...
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS May 4-6
Weekend #18 of 2012 (the first weekend of May and the unofficial start of the summer movie season) looks like it will be about $214 million for the top 12 films, up 38% from last year’s comparable weekend and up 46% from ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “The Avengers” Conquers the World
> Marvel spent a great deal of time and effort setting the stage for its full-house-of-heroes extravaganza THE AVENGERS, and it’s all paying off. The movie opened in 39 international territories this past week (some...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Here Come “The Avengers”
> Now that we’ve all taken a breath after the extraordinary success of The Hunger Games (and Lionsgate has had a chance to count its money), Hollywood’s real blockbuster season is about to begin, and indications are...
SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “John Carter” Is Not A Success – 3/18/12
> For anyone who thought the angst over JOHN CARTER‘s boxoffice returns was overstated: Disney has issued a public statement advising that it expects the film to result in a $200M loss, which will singlehandedly pul...
“John Carter” and The Art of Bus-Under Pushing: SHOWBUZZDAILY CLOSE-UP
> A movie called JOHN CARTER opened a few days ago. It cost a few bucks, and as you may have heard, didn’t make as much money as its studio, Disney, would have liked. Notwithstanding the supposed mandate from ...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES March 9-11
>The weekend studio estimates (based on Friday and Saturday actuals and projections for Sunday) are coming in slightly stronger than the weekend numbers posted yesterday (based on Friday actuals only). The box office volu...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “John Carter”
JOHN CARTER: Watch It At Home – Never Goes Into Orbit All signs suggest that JOHN CARTER will be a financial failure of historic proportions, mostly because of its colossal cost (Disney admit...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Muppets”
THE MUPPETS: Watch It At Home – Nonstop Cuteness When it was announced that Disney’s new movie of THE MUPPETS (the Mouse House bought the entire franchise from Jim Henson’s company some year...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Real Steel”
REAL STEEL: Watch It At Home – The Word is “Clunky” REAL STEEL wants to be loved so much, it practically walks the audience members to their cars and offers to give them all a lift home. And yet, th...