Mitch Metcalf’s Friday Box Office Report will return later today after some computer issues are resolved. Meanwhile, it looks like this weekend’s box office predictions were very accurate: the lone opener, PLAYING FOR KEEPS, is headed for $6.2M this weekend, just a shade below the $6.5M Showbuzzdaily Forecast.
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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