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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 9.7.2014

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  The studio rankings remain unchanged, and the most noteworthy change is that Universal now boasts a film in the $300+ million worldwide box (Lucy with $126 million domestic and $192 million overse...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “Black and White”

  BLACK AND WHITE – no current US distributor or release date – Not Even For Free BLACK AND WHITE was reportedly drawn from events in its writer/director Mike Bender’s own life, which makes it remarkable,...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: SUNDAY Ratings 9.7.2014

Sunday preliminary broadcast ratings (adult 18-49 ratings for last night, the same night last year and same night last week).  The NFL Sunday Night Football game on NBC is a preliminary 8.0 adult 18-49 rating but that should r...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Behind the Friday Box Office: 9/12/14

  OPENINGS:  NO GOOD DEED (Screen Gems/Sony) surged ahead of expectations with a $8.8M Friday.  The level of its frontloadedness, however, isn’t yet clear.  2009’s Obsessed, an April 2009 Screen Gems thrille...
by Mitch Salem
 
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #37 of 2014 looks like $78 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 6% below the norm for this weekend ($83 million) and better than we forecast. Opening at 2,175 theaters, No Good ...
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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.12.14

  FOX:  UTOPIA fell again, down 0.2 from its Tuesday rating to 0.7, and only managing to tie a rerun on NBC for 2d place in its hour.  Once regular season competition arrives in 10 days, it seems unlikely that FOX will b...
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “No Good Deed” Far From Punished; “Dolphin Tale 2″” Flounders

  It was a surprisingly lopsided win on Friday for NO GOOD DEED (Screen Gems/Sony), although things may tighten up a bit over the course of the weekend.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, No Good Deed earned $...
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The Sked: THURSDAY Ratings 9.11.2014

Thursday preliminary broadcast ratings (adult 18-49 ratings for last night, the same night last year and same night last week).  The first Thursday Night Football game on CBS averaged a preliminary 5.5 adult 18-49 rating, an...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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The Sked: WEDNESDAY Ratings 9.10.2014

Wednesday preliminary broadcast ratings (adult 18-49 ratings for last night, the same night last year and same night last week).  NOTE: The Presidential Address from 9:00-9:15 pm ET (which won’t be rated in the official ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Weekend Box Office Predictions SEP 12-14

Weekend #37 of 2014 is looking like $65 million for the top 12 films this weekend, down 21% from the norm for this weekend. Opening at around 3,500 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Tuesday Cable Originals: 9.9.2014

  NETWORK UPDATE:  EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS gained 0.1 in final Tuesday ratings. TUESDAY CABLE:  Sons of Anarchy premiered with 6,199,000 persons 2+ live+same day, a record season premiere for the show on that metric: up from 5,8...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday Network Ratings Scorecard: 9.9.2014

  Time for the Utopia?  More like Dystopia! gag. FOX:  UTOPIA crashed by more than half from its preview airing on Sunday night, down to 0.9 against mostly weak summer competition.  To say this bodes badly for the new s...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Last 5 Years”

  THE LAST 5 YEARS (Radius/Weinstein) – release date currently unscheduled – Worth A Ticket Richard LaGravenese’s  film version of Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST 5 YEARS, which premiered at the Tor...
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Current Release

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “This Is Where I Leave You”

  THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (Warners) – Opens September 19 – Worth A Ticket Jonathan Tropper’s very successful day job is writing seriocomic novels about families and romance that are distinguished by the...
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Current Release

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto 2014 Review: “The Theory of Everything”

  THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (Focus/Universal) – Opens November 7  – Worth A Ticket There’s a benefit but also a burden to being clear-cut “Oscar bait.”  At this point we all know the kinds of...
by Mitch Salem
 
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