

Klady By Leonard KladyKlady@moviecitynews.com
No Room At The Marquee
National Association of Theater Owner’s president John Fithian went on a tear a couple of months back, criticizing the media for taking a myopic view of film going. There’s no question that coverage of dips and bumps in the box office is evanescent, or as folks in film exhibition like to say, “cyclic.” Fithian quite…
Read the full article »The X-Files … to be continued
Though publicized as the conclusion of a franchise, X-Men: The Last Stand isn’t likely to be the last word on the cinematic mutant super heroes. It led the 4-day Memorial holiday frame with an estimated $120.8 million with second place falling to The Da Vinci Code with $43.3 million. X-Men added an additional $76 million…
Read the full article »The Indolent and the Indulgent…
Summer 2006 is already shaping up as the season of the train wreck. The May release schedule that was supposed to dispel all talk of a movie going crisis has instead renewed considerable debate about audience apathy, blunted expectations, marketing acumen or its absence, fading stardom, cultural and demographic shifts and myriad other speculations. In…
Read the full article »Box Office Comes in for the Code
The Da Vinci Code rang up an estimated $77.2 million to lead domestic film viewing for the weekend and added close to $150 million in its international debut. The current weekend also had a strong opening of $37.3 million for the animated Over the Hedge and the combined juggernaut pretty much had a vacuum cleaner…
Read the full article »That Sinking Feeling
Mission: Impossible III took close to a 50% hit but that was still enough to keep it ahead of the debut of Poseidon. The Mission statement was estimated at $24.6 million while the upside-down remake soaked up $20.5 million. The marketplace had other soggy starts including a fourth place opening of $5.6 million for the…
Read the full article »Beat of the Tom-Tom
I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news. The good news is that Mission: Impossible III debuted with an estimated $46.8 million to lead the domestic box office and added an additional $70 million from 57 international territories. The bad news amounts to the same thing. Additionally, there was an impressive $5.4 million bow…
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