Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Weekend Box-Office: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Sneaks Its Way to the Top
This Christmas weekend almost had an unhappy ending, but an extra fourth day spelled good news for this year compared to last; an estimated $184.7 million was made this weekend, almost $70 million of it from this Monday alone (as compared to 2010, which made $20 million more in the three day weekend than this year did). Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows fell to second with an estimated $31.8 mill...[Read More]
Weekend Box-Office: Numbers Up from Before, But the Game Isn’t Quite Afoot for Sherlock Holmes
Things are picking up steam at the box office after a two-week decline, but the big end of the year blockbusters still are not performing up to expectations. Sherlock Holmes: A Games of Shadows debuted in first place, but only managed to bring in an estimated $40 million…much better than New Year’s Eve’s debut (which landed in fourth this week with an unimpressive $7.4 million estimate), but appar...[Read More]
Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Like most people, I was dubious at first about Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes back in 2009. The idea of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s master sleuth being turned into an action hero seemed like some kind of cultural sacrilege. But when the film came out and received surprisingly positive reviews, I went to see it, and I am glad that I did. Although the filmmakers had pumped up Doyle’s brief mentions of H...[Read More]
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