An interesting trend has developed over the last few months where EVERY #1 film not named Avatar has been a so-called chick-flick. This is unheard of in the history of Hollywood Box-Office. You can find the full details and a very interesting read in the original article at The Wrap. I ...
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Big Box Office Eqauls Oscar for Best Picture?
January 26th, 2010 by NoName
I was disturbed to see the follwoing headline from /Film: The Hurt Locker Wins Best Picture from PGA; Is Avatar No Longer An Oscar Sure Thing? Avatar has made lots of money is breaking Box Office records left and right. But I have not read one glowing review of it anywhere. ...
Fuzzy math behind ‘Precious’ Box Office numbers
November 14th, 2009 by NoName
Last week, Precious played in 18 theaters and got lots of press for taking $1.8 million, an unbelievable $100,000 per screen. Did I say unbelievable? I should say absolutely impossible, never gonna happen in a million years. Let's do the math... Thanks to this post we dont have to, so here are ...
The Slow Death of the Studios – MGM
October 8th, 2009 by NoName
According to Nikki Finke and her article at Deadline.com - historic film studio MGM is on the verge of collapse. At a recent, apparently day long, series of conference call(s) with stockholders, they were basically begging for money to help avoid bankruptcy. With two 'Hobbit' films and the James Bond series ...
Miramax on the way out? – Another knock to specialty films
October 8th, 2009 by NoName
As if my last post about the sad state of specialty films wasn't bad enough, yesterday word came down that Miramax is essentially being absorbed into Disney, with a 75% reduction in staff. See the Variety Article. This is not exactly surprising, given their recent performance, with 'Adventureland', 'Doubt' and 'Extract'. These ...
The Lack of Specialty Films in Theaters
October 6th, 2009 by NoName
The trend towards bigger films in the theaters is obvious as budgets rise and sequels, remakes and comic book inspired films fill the screens. What is not as obvious outside the industry is the sudden lack of 'specialty' films. These are the films that used to win awards. Dramas, foreign films, ...
The Slow Death of the Studios – Universal
October 6th, 2009 by NoName
Universal is in serious trouble. They have halted spending for the rest of 2009 for any projects not yet green-lit. SOURCE - Variety. Apparently at a recent Universal Town Meeting, no one was asking the tough questions and the response to a question about production slow-down went like this: Meyer also was asked, ...
Waste of Space Sequels – ‘Showgirls’. Yes, THAT ‘Showgirls’
October 6th, 2009 by NoName
According to /Film (Slash Film) and their article here, there IS a sequel in the works for a film universally considered a terrible, terrible movie: 'Showgirls'. It will be called, 'Showgirls: Story of Hope'. JoBlo.com has some more info here, saying it has received a $25 million dollar budget. That's right - ...
