OPENINGS: ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL (20th) squeezed everything it could out of its opening 2-holiday week, with paid preview screenings on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights (totaling $2.4M) preceding its official Thursday opening. All-in, that put it at $36.5M through Sunday, which will probably become $41M with Monday. It has two more or less open […]
The night’s new shows still aren’t catching on. ABC: BACK TO THE GAME was given a particularly strong lead-in with a TOY STORY OF TERROR special that had a 3.0, up 0.8 from last week’s The Middle. Still, it could only hold even at 1.8. A very good episode of MODERN FAMILY was up […]
Only one show on network TV last night topped a 2 rating. NBC: AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was the dominant winner of the night with a 2.6, although that was down from its previous airings when it shared the night with The Voice. Last night it was preceded by OFF THEIR ROCKERS, which had the […]
OPENINGS: THE GRUDGE (Columbia/Sony) tried to take advantage of Hollywood’s early January fallow period, but at $11.3M, the reboot of a remake found few takers, far below the $29.6M for 2018’s Insidious: The Last Key, and also less than the $13.7M for 2017’s Underworld: Blood Wars and the $15M for 2015’s The Woman In […]
> Last night, of course, was not intended to be the end of LUCK. The enormously high-profile show, created by David Milch and with production supervised by pilot director Michael Mann, and fearuring a cast headed by Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte, had already been renewed for a second season, with one of those instant […]
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: CMA COUNTRY CHRISTMAS was at 0.41, down from 0.7 in 2020. THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT was at 0.37, down 0.03 from Sunday’s premiere. CBS: Back from a 2-week break, THE NEIGHBORHOOD dipped 0.04 to 0.57, BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA ticked down to 0.49, NCIS was down 0.05 to 0.59, and NCIS: […]
> Fox is adopted a very interesting strategy on its upcoming Cameron Crowe/Matt Damon/Scarlett Johansson drama WE BOUGHT A ZOO. The movie doesn’t open until December 23, but the studio will hold national “sneak” previews on November 26, in the teeth of Thanksgiving weekend. (Reportedly screenings will also include a Q&A with Crowe and as […]
> Or if the title were a Jeopardy answer, the question would be: what should writer/director Rodrigo Cortes have paid attention to, before he typed “The End” on his script Red Lights wouldn’t have been a festival movie even if it had been good. It’s no more than high-grade hokum (and not that high), and […]