Box Office Predictions – Weekend of Feb 3
February 3, 2012 by Danny Baldwin
Filed under Box Office Commentary, Columns / Blogs
Most Americans associate this weekend with the Super Bowl, not the movie theater, but this has historically been a decent frame to release two types of films: teen horror (The Roommate, The Messengers, When a Stranger Calls) and women’s counterprogramming (Dear John, Because I Said So). CBS Films hopes they’ve combined both into one with The Woman in Black, a ghost story that happens to star a female favorite, Harry Potter‘s Daniel Radcliffe… [Read more]
Box Office Predictions – Weekend of Jan 27
January 27, 2012 by Danny Baldwin
Filed under Box Office Commentary, Columns / Blogs
It’s that time of the week again, and I have box office predictions at the ready for the three films opening in wide release today. This weekend brings Liam Neeson battling wolves, Katherine Heigl bounty hunting, and Sam Worthington threatening to jump off a ledge – yep, it’s still January, all right. Additionally, because the Oscar nominations were released on Tuesday, you can expect some healthy jumps from those films that made the cut. Without further ado… [Read more]
Box Office Predictions – Weekend of Jan 20
January 19, 2012 by Danny Baldwin
Filed under Box Office Commentary, Columns / Blogs
Hello, readers – it’s once again time to play the weekly box office predictions game. Apologies for my unannounced absence last Thursday – a run-in with what I can only presume to be some of the worst food-poisoning man has ever experienced left me bedridden for nearly five days. But I’m back, baby, and ready to haphazardly throw around numbers as usual… [Read more]
‘Devil Inside’ Scares Up Unexpectedly Huge B.O.
January 9, 2012 by Danny Baldwin
Filed under Columns / Blogs
In a feat for Paramount’s new distribution arm, Insurge, the found-footage horror film The Devil Inside outplayed all industry expectations and opened to a whopping $33.7 million. That’s more than they expected to make off the whole run. That being said, the movie is terrible and it earned a rare “F” CinemaScore in theater exit [...]
Box Office Predictions – Weekend of Jan 6
January 5, 2012 by Danny Baldwin
Filed under Box Office Commentary, Columns / Blogs
After a four month hiatus, during which time I completed college, I am back at the box office predictions game. Miss me? Like it or not, here is my take on the coming weekend… The big movie opening this weekend is Paramount’s camcorder exorcism horror film, The Devil Inside. The obvious comparison would be Lionsgate’s very similar The Last Exorcism, which did resoundingly well back in August 2010, with $20.4 million opening weekend… [Read more]
‘Mission: Impossible’ Tops New Year’s Box Office
January 4, 2012 by Danny Baldwin
Filed under Columns / Blogs
Tom Cruise has another bonafide hit in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which sits atop the box office for the second weekend in a row, bolstered by the New Year’s holiday. The action pic, directed by former Pixar helmer Brad Bird, has amassed $141 million domestically and another $245 million internationally, and shows no signs of slowing down. Can it beat retain its crown next week by beating out the low-budget horror film The Devil Inside? Odds are Ethan Hunt’s favor, but you’ll have to wait ’til Thursday for my official Box Office Predictions column. Here is the full Top 10 for the four-day weekend… [Read more]
A Short Hiatus from Box Office Predictions
September 8, 2011 by Danny Baldwin
Filed under Box Office Commentary, Columns / Blogs
Folks — I just wanted to let you know that my weekly box office predictions column has not disappeared forever. It’s just a real time-sucker and, as I plow through the first month of my last semester of college, I have decided to temporarily drop it to make sure that when I do write for Bucket Reviews, I’m writing an actual review. Expect the column to return on a regular basis in mid-October. Until then, please enjoy the reviews.
Box Office Predictions – Weekend of Aug 19
August 19, 2011 by Danny Baldwin
Filed under Box Office Commentary
Welcome back to my weekly box office predictions column, Dog Days of August edition. This weekend we have four wide releases, which all could have been June or July movies had things gone better for them at some stage of their respective productions. With Conan the Barbarian, Spy Kids 4, and One Day, one presumes the studios’ August dump-jobs are a result of poor quality (in fact, I know this is true in the case of the latter–review coming later today). Fright Night is… [Read more]
Box Office Predictions – Weekend of Aug 12
August 12, 2011 by Danny Baldwin
Filed under Box Office Commentary, Columns / Blogs
Welcome back to my weekly box office predictions column, where is the wake of getting Rise of the Planet of the Apes dead-on and The Change-Up way off last week, I’m hoping to score better than a marginal 50-50 this weekend. I have to run to a screening in 45 minutes, so let’s get right into the action… [Read more]
Box Office Predictions – Weekend of Aug 5
August 4, 2011 by Danny Baldwin
Filed under Box Office Commentary, Columns / Blogs
After two weeks of publishing an abridged version of this column due to the craze of Comic-Con, I’m back with the full spiel. Good thing, too, because the predictions on this weekend’s big opener and unexpected critical darling, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, are all over the map, so making a substantiated guess is a must. The hard-R rated The Change-Up also comes out and, despite some low industry tracking estimates, I think there is still hope yet for the Jason Bateman… [Read more]