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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Melancholia”

    MELANCHOLIA – Watch It At Home – The Title Tells the Tale   Here’s a quick primer in Oscar rules and how studios can get around them.  In order for a film to be Oscar-eligible (other than i...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Tower Heist”

    TOWER HEIST:  Watch It At Home – Hardly Luxury-Class   There may never have been a director more proud of being a hack than Brett Ratner.  In a recent NY Times profile, Ratner boasts (when he’s ...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Colombiana”





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Young Adult”





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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THE BIJOU: Early Weekend Boxoffice With Benefits – 7/23/11

> Deadline has rough estimates for the weekend boxoffice, and they’re pretty much in keeping with Friday’s numbers.  The biggest surprise, if the number holds, would be that Paramount is estimating CAPTAIN AMER...
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THE BIJOU EARLY WEEKEND: FRIGHT BOXOFFICE

> According to Deadline, nothing much changed for the new boxoffice arrivals on Saturday.  THE HELP is still far in front for the weekend, with a beautiful $19-20M second weekend, and it’s followed by RISE OF THE PLA...
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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Midnight Madness – “Sleepless Night”

> When the inevitable US remake of the French thriller SLEEPLESS NIGHT arrives, it’ll benefit from some sharper dialogue (assuming the subtitles in Toronto were fully translating the original), a bit more characterization...
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THE BIJOU: UPDATE – Early Friday Boxoffice – 10/21/11

> 1:45AM UPDATE:  Deadline has updated its numbers, and the news keeps getting worse for THE THREE MUSKETEERS:  it now appears that the film won’t even get to $3M for Friday, meaning a dreadful $8M or so for thi...
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BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Weekend Studio Scorecard – 11/4/11

> BREAKING DAWN PART 1:  Running $8M below New Moon at the parallel place in their runs, but with a slower rate of decline (at least until New Year’s Eve opens next week).  New Moon earned another $41M after the...
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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...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Fright Night”

    FRIGHT NIGHT – Watch It At Home:  At Least Farrell Had Fun   The new remake of Tom Holland’s 1985 FRIGHT NIGHT has a great set of credentials.  Craig Gillespie, the director, was behind the well-reg...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “New Year’s Eve”

  NEW YEAR’S EVE:  Not At Any Price – Calling it a “Sit-Com” Insults TV   NEW YEAR’S EVE is such a calculated piece of commercial manufacture that it deserves a Powerpoint presentation m...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Thing”





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