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Worst Weekend For Hollywood In 7 Years?: 'Bangkok Dangerous' with just $2.3M Friday & only $6.85M for the 3-day, but it will still likely limp to the weekend win
5 September 2008 11:33 PM, PDT
Friday 9:30 p.m. (Pacific): The first weekend after Labor Day is traditionally one of, if not the, slowest movie weekend of the year. But this year, business is even worse than expected. With school starting, high school, college and NFL football getting cranked up, and only one new wide release, Hollywood seems headed for its worst weekend since September 2001, and its third-worst since 2000. The top 12 movies, led by new release Bangkok Dangerous (Lionsgate) with a meager $6.85M, will gross an estimated $44.43M or so this weekend. You have to go back to September 21-23, 2001 to find a 3-day that slow ($43.53M led by the Keanu Reeves baseball pic Hard Ball). The only other weekend in this decade to perform that badly was September 15-17, 2000 ($37.85M led by another Keanu Reeves movie, The Watcher).
Steve Mason
Dances With The Arthouse: 'Prayers' of Gratitude for an 'Elite' Selection of Independent Films
5 September 2008 7:08 AM, PDT
Ladies and gentlemen, you have all been waiting for it. The month of September is here, and with it the promise of a season constituted of high quality films, films calibrated to challenge an audience looking for something more than just entertaining summer films (though The Dark Knight proved that "wildly fun" and "vividly reflective" can coexist in a summer Hollywood blockbuster). If you are a regular player of Fantasy Moguls, then you will have noticed that this past summer, the slate of films available was rather thin, especially in the arthouse department. Take a look at the newly launched September-November season, however, and you will notice that an evolution is underway
Indie Jones
Tip Of The Week: If a Movie Opens in September and Everyone Goes to See It, Is It Still a Stud?
4 September 2008 7:31 AM, PDT
Greetings, Moguls! Some of the slowest box office weekends of the year are in the near future — but such is life once the dumping ground of September rolls around. It's too late for summer blockbusters, yet a little too early, it seems, for quality filmmaking and Oscar baiters (although Burn After Reading should at least mark a tally in the quality column). Instead, we're left to deal mostly with movies that belong on the garbage heap — but as the saying goes, one man's trash is another's treasure, and you Can find treasure with certain September flicks. As I like to do every month, I've perused the next four weeks worth of films to find you a stud, dud and wild card for each weekend. Onward!
Mister Informative
Bard's Eye View: Samuel L. Jackson Does his Bamf Thing (Again) but Dane Cook or a Cartoon Hunchback Could Produce Better Moguls Results
2 September 2008 9:08 AM, PDT
Hello once again, and welcome back to Bard's Eye View. I hope you all had a pleasant Labor Day weekend, as we closed out summer 2008 once and for all. We scarcely have time to catch our collective breaths, however, as the fall season is now underway, and you know what that means: football! And believe it or not, picking the right movies can be a lot like football. You are looking for films with consistency, with the potential to give you good stats over the long haul. Some films, like the upcoming Righteous Kill, feature wily veterans who may give you great production despite being a little long in the tooth; and some are just "Hail Mary" passes that you pray find a receiver in the end zone. (And to those of you abroad who don't give a flying toss about American football, I'm sorry. Any attempt I might...
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