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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.3.2019

OPENINGS: The entertainment business revolves these days around IP, but not all franchises are created equal, and there turned out to be a thunderous lack of interest in TERMINATOR: DARK FATE (Skydance/Tencent/20th/Dis...

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THURSDAY NIGHT BOX OFFICE: “The Conjuring” Scares the Competition; “R.I.P.D.” Rots and Updated Thursday Box Office Chart

The weekend looks highly promising for THE CONJURING (Warners), which haunted up $3.3M in screenings that began 7PM on Thursday night. Although other summer openings have had similar mid-$3M starts (including The Great...

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THE BIJOU REVIEW “The Descendants”

> THE DESCENDANTS: Worth A Ticket – Flawed But Heartfelt It’s taken an unaccountable 7 years for Alexander Payne to follow up Sideways, the biggest hit of his career, with THE DESCENDANTS, which w...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Final Destination 5”

FINAL DESTINATION 5 – Watch It At Home: Death Takes No Holiday There’s only one thing worth mentioning in FINAL DESTINATION 5… and it’s the one thing I can’t talk about. Let’...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Tyrant”

TYRANT went all the way back to the source for its main plotline this season, giving Bassam Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner) a saga so Moses-like that he might as well have witnessed a burning bush along the way. Bassam was sen...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 1/17/16

OPENINGS: RIDE ALONG 2 (Universal) is projecting a $39.5M 4-day weekend, 19% below the $48.6M opening of the first Ride Along exactly 2 years ago. That would put its US trajectory at $100-110M, enough to make it a fi...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”

BIRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): Worth A Ticket – A Stunt, But An Amazing One Alejandro G. Inarritu’s BIRDMAN is, like this year’s Boyhood, a film defined by its form. In the case of...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “Room”

Despite its compact scale, Emma Donoghue’s bestselling novel ROOM was a daunting candidate for film adaptation, because so much of its impact depends on its very specific narrator’s voice, a 5-year old named ...

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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Tyrant”

TYRANT: Tuesday 10PM on FX Previously… on TYRANT: Barry Al-Fayeed (Adam Rayner) is a contented Pasadena-area pediatrician–and he’s also Bassam, the younger son of the longtime ruler of a Middle East...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Raising Hope”

> Greg Garcia’s RAISING HOPE, like his My Name Is Earl, has a very particular chaotically surreal good-naturedness. (The 2 shows exist in the same meta-universe, and Hope often nods to Earl–in tonight’s ...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Whit Stillman’s “Damsels In Distress”

> Whit Stillman has one of the most distinctive voices in American film, and his 13-year absence from the screen barely shows in his new comedy DAMSELS IN DISTRESS; it feels as though, had it been made immediately after The Las...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Revolution”

The second half of REVOLUTION‘s season tried to be interesting, God knows. The initial run of episodes after the pilot mostly seemed to consist of our heroes trudging through forests, on the trail of militia-capt...

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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “The Butler” Stays In Charge

Preliminary figures at Deadline give THE BUTLER (Weinstein) a commanding victory over its competition. Very impressively, on Saturday Butler reportedly increased its take by about 10% over Friday, putting it on target ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.21.2017

There were a multitude of disruptions to preliminary ratings last night, including NFL preemptions on ABC in NY and NBC in Cleveland, as well as a Presidential address. Given all the expected adjustments, we’ll h...

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The Sked: Sunday Network Scorecard 5.19.2019

No GAME OF THRONES numbers yet. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), au...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.3.2019

THURSDAY NIGHT BOX OFFICE: “The Conjuring” Scares the Competition; “R.I.P.D.” Rots and Updated Thursday Box Office Chart

THE BIJOU REVIEW “The Descendants”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Final Destination 5”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Tyrant”

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 1/17/16

SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “Room”

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Tyrant”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Raising Hope”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Whit Stillman’s “Damsels In Distress”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Revolution”

EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “The Butler” Stays In Charge

SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.21.2017

The Sked: Sunday Network Scorecard 5.19.2019

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