SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Justified”
JUSTIFIED: Tuesday 10PM on FX Final seasons, as we all know, can be tricky, but JUSTIFIED seems to be in strong shape as it enters its last lap. Justified lost a bit of its mojo last year, the victim of some inadeq...
THE BIJOU EARLY WEEKEND: FRIGHT BOXOFFICE
> According to Deadline, nothing much changed for the new boxoffice arrivals on Saturday. THE HELP is still far in front for the weekend, with a beautiful $19-20M second weekend, and it’s followed by RISE OF THE PLA...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The Neighbors”
A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have ha...
Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.13.2022
OPENINGS: As expected, BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (Marvel/Disney) swamped the box office worldwide. Its $180M US weekend was below Doctor Strange 2 ($187.4M) and the original Black Panther ($202M, on a Presidents...
US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office Report – 1.10.2021
HOLDOVERS: Once again, there were no significant openings this week. And once again, the lack of competition didn’t help WW84 (DC/Warners, also on HBO Max), which had the worst hold of the top titles, down 46% ...
THE SKED REVIEW: The 2013 Tony Awards
Every year the Oscars flail around searching for a host, a theme, a tone–anything to make its annual 4 hours of primetime cohere instead of congeal–and every year THE TONY AWARDS make it look relatively easy....
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> Complete coverage of television’s biggest event: the new season’s Upfront presentations for advertisers! We’ll have complete night-by-night analysis of the fall schedules for each network, starting the week ...
EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Get Out” Slams Door on “LEGO Batman,” “Rock Dog” & “Collide”
GET OUT (Blumhouse/Universal) is the latest hit from the prolific low-budget horror production company that still has Split in the market, off to a fast start according to preliminary numbers at Deadline with $10.5M on F...
SBD AWARDWATCH: Drama Emmys
We’ve taken a look at the major Comedy and Movie/Miniseries categories at Sunday’s Emmys, and now it’s time for the big guns: the Dramas. Incredibly, the state of TV drama is so strong these days that one c...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Ford vs. Ferrari” & “The Laundromat”
FORD VS. FERRARI (20th Century Fox/Disney – November 15): If the Academy decides to award James Mangold’s Ford vs. Ferrari, which is certainly a possibility, it will be able to have some metaphorical cake a...
THE SKED: ABC Midseason Schedule
ABC announced its midseason premieres and timeslots today, and while most of them were predictable (a pair of shortform reality series to fill in for the Dancing With the Stars results show between cycles on Tuesdays, re...
ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Palm Trees and Power Lines,” “Am I OK?” and “Lucy and Desi”
PALM TREES AND POWER LINES (no distrib): Jamie Dack’s first feature film (from a script written with Audrey Findlay) means to unsettle, and it does. 17-year old Lea (Lily McInerny) is stuck in a dead-end Southe...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Review: “Saturday Night Live” with Jim Carrey
The material didn’t always keep up with the cast, but tonight’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE was one of the more enjoyable recent episodes. Host Jim Carrey obviously knows his way around uninhibited sketch comedy, a...
WEEKDAY BOX OFFICE UPDATE MAY 16-17
> Bridesmaids exceeded the magic number for early weekday box office (Monday-Tuesday combined), indicating better than average long-term playability. Read on after the jump. During its first Monday-Tuesday in release (May 16-17...