WILL MOVIEGOERS GO APE OVER LATEST PLANET?
August 6, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
How much of a rise will 20th Century Fox’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes give the box office? Not an especially big one, according to box-office forecasters, who were notably way off in their calculations last week, when they predicted that Universal’s Cowboys & Aliens would do much more business than it did [...]
THE SMURFS TAKES THE LEAD
August 4, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
After a rare weekend photo-finish race at the box office between Universal’s Cowboys & Aliens and Sony/Columbia’s The Smurfs, which saw Cowboys come out ahead by about $800,000 when the final results were announced, The Smurfs has staged a comeback. In midweek business on Monday and Tuesday, the live/animated feature earned $10,669,520 while Cowboys lassoed [...]
MOVIEGOERS ON OTHER SIDE OF TRACKS
August 2, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Forget all those expensive tracking studies and the forecasts of those know-it-all box-office gurus. Moviegoers simply didn’t behave the way they were supposed to over the weekend. Cowboys & Aliens, which was expected to be an easy winner with around $45 million, wound up instead with $36.4 million. On the other hand, The Smurfs, which [...]
COWBOYS, ALIENS AND CAPTAIN AMERICA SMURFED ON FRIDAY
Who wudda smurfed it? The Smurfs was the top movie at the box office on Friday, smurfing in an estimated $13.3 million and smurfing out Cowboys and Aliens, which had been favored to win but ended up in second place with around $12.99 million. Captain America, which many predicted would wind up in second place, [...]
NEW ADVERSARY LANDS IN MOVIES’ COMIC-BOOK WAR
July 29, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
In another battle of comic-book characters, Cowboys and Aliens will do battle with Captain America at the box office this weekend, and most forecasters are saying that the battle is likely to be close. They’re giving the edge to the newcomer, saying that it should bring in around $40-45 million, while Captain America: The First [...]
MOVIE REVIEWS: THE SMURFS
July 29, 2011 by admin · 3 Comments
The Smurfs is receiving little of the admiration that critics bestowed on that other movie with characters who were blue and in 3D. But here and there it is picking up some mostly favorable reviews. Neil Genzlinger in the New York Times observes that the funniest moments in the movie “are either raunchy or scandalous,” [...]