THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Woman In Black”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Force Awakens” Shreds the Record Books
There was never any doubt that STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (Lucasfilm/Disney) was going to be huge. The issue was almost existential: how big was it possible for a December opening to be, when the month–which ...
THURSDAY Ratings — Early Results
>Two shows premiered last night, both on The CW. Vampire Diaries returned to a 1.4 Adult 18-49 rating, while Secret Circle debuted at almost the same level (1.3 rating). Last year Vampire Diaries debuted with a 1.6 ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE REPORT 5/26/12
The “kids” didn’t show up for MEN IN BLACK 3 (Sony) on Saturday–it was wishful thinking to believe they would, considering the franchise’s decade-long absence–and the result, according to pre...
THE HUNGER GAMES, MAD MEN and Marketing Restraint (Pop Culture Apocalypse Minus 7)
> The eagerly-awaited Season 5 of the most honored series on television, an interminable 17 months in the making, contents itself with a single enigmatic image: Don Draper staring into a department store window, his refle...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Last Man on Earth”
THE LAST MAN ON EARTH: Sunday 9:30PM on FOX – Potential DVR Alert THE LAST MAN ON EARTH is both excitingly original and disappointingly cliched, an odd mix that leaves its future prospects somewhat unsettled. H...
THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “The Following”
THE FOLLOWING: Monday 9PM on FOX (starting Jan 27) The blood-drenched, increasingly grandiose literary pretensions of THE FOLLOWING grew tiresome by the end of last season’s run. It seemed like very good news t...
Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Greatest Beer Run Ever”
THE GREATEST BEER RUN EVER (Apple – September 30): Peter Farrelly’s Green Book was one of the clearest beneficiaries of winning Toronto’s People Choice Award, vaulting from being entirely under the aw...
BIJOU BOXOFFICE: Weekend Studio Scorecard – 12/11/11
> NEW YEAR’S EVE (Warners): Hardly any bump from Saturday night couples meant about as low an opening as anyone could have reasonably imagined. Even with some play during Christmas week, the picture may strugg...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Strain”
FX’s THE STRAIN is doing something that The Walking Dead and its cohorts in the undead genre won’t: telling a (more or less) coherent story from beginning to end, and exiting when it’s over. During ...
THE SKED Fall Finale Review: “The Vampire Diaries”
It’s been an odd, spotty half-season for THE VAMPIRE DIARIES. For one thing, it’s been more like two mini-seasons: the story of all-powerful, unkillable vampire-witch-whatever Silas, which would have been...
THE SKED MINISERIES REVIEW: “Coma”
Not every novel needs to be a 4-hour miniseries, and a good example is A&E’s new version of COMA. Robin Cook’s novel was capably filmed in 1978 by Michael Crichton in a brisk 113 minutes, and extending ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Monday 10.17.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: BACHELOR IN PARADISE rose 0.08 to 0.52, and THE GOOD DOCTOR was up 0.09 to 0.34. CBS: THE NEIGHBORHOOD jumped a tenth to 0.59, BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA gained 0.03 to 0.44, NCIS rose 0.07 to 0.46, an...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “A Million Ways To Die In the West”
A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST: Not Even For Free – They Don’t Include “Die Laughing” Seth MacFarlane, out from behind his high-concept animated and fantasy premises, has a surprisingly retr...
PREMIERING TONIGHT – THE SKED PILOT REPORT: CW’s “Arrow”
ARROW: Wednesday 8PM on CW – If Nothing Else Is On It’s Comic-Con week in San Diego, and while we here don’t participate in that particular hullabaloo (waiting for hours just to see a trailer that’...