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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Middle of Nowhere”

  MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, which won the Sundance US Dramatic Directing award for Ava DuVernay last night, is in no rush.  The films moves with deliberation as it establishes its leading character and her difficult situation: ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: Early Friday Numbers – 12/23/11

> Well, now it’s all up to WAR HORSE. Cameron Crowe’s WE BOUGHT A ZOO (20th) joined the market on Friday, and it appears to be back to movie jail for Crowe, because according to the Hollywood Reporter, it only made ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Resurrection”

  Rarely has a TV series crashed as quickly and completely as ABC’s RESURRECTION.  It premiered just 10 months ago with a 3.8 rating in the 18-49 demo, yet last week it managed only an 0.8 (actually up a tenth from ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Room 237”

> I write this as a fairly obsessive fan of Stanley Kubrick, back since I desperately wanted to see A Clockwork Orange in its original X-rated release but was too young to get in. So the very idea of ROOM 237, a feature-length ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED Weekend Box Office: “The Wolverine” Falls Some More

  On Sunday mornings, the devout go to church, and movie studios lie.  (There’s not much overlap between the two groups.)  The studios lie (or fudge, if you’re sensitive about the L Word), fundamentally, beca...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED 4TH OF JULY BOX OFFICE: “Despicable Me 2” Drops, “Lone Ranger” Holds Steady (and Low)

  NOTE:  This Post Has Been Updated With Actual Studio Estimates Typically Independence Day itself is a relatively quiet day for moviegoing, because audiences have other things to do, and DESPICABLE ME 2 (Universal) fell ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Looking”

  Is the dullness of HBO’s LOOKING a breakthrough or a flaw?  That’s the question that’s been following the series since its premiere two months ago, and it’s been argued both ways. From the start,...
by Mitch Salem
 
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PREMIERING TONIGHT–THE SKED’S FALL PILOT REPORT: ABC’s “Last Resort”

  LAST RESORT: Thursday 8PM on ABC – Potential DVR Alert The strangest new show on any network this season may be LAST RESORT, created and written by the man behind The Shield, Shawn Ryan, with Karl Gajdusek. The pro...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/11/12

> AKA the season’s final pre-American Idol Wednesday. NBC:   In the absence of the 600-pound gorilla that’s arriving in a week, the new 8-9PM hour did respectably.  WHITNEY‘s 2.1 was slightly hi...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: “Walking Dead” Devours More Ratings Records

> This morning we anticipated that the season finale of THE WALKING DEAD on AMC would outrate anything on network television last night, but that didn’t do justice to Dead‘s accomplishment.  In the finale’...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 3/13/16

  OPENINGS:  The Saturday bump for 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE (Bad Robot/Paramount) was 8%, a solid number for its genre that indicates good word of mouth.  That gave it a $25.3M weekend, a bit higher than Friday indicated, alt...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Box Office – 4.2.2023

  OPENINGS:  While DUNGEONS & DRAGONS:  HONOR AMONG THIEVES (eOne/Paramount) launched at the upper end of expectations, $38.5M (which included an unusually intense program of preview screenings) was a shaky start ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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The Sked: PROMO WATCH — Update through Sunday October 16

>CBS promoted an incredible 18 different programs inside 60 Minutes Sunday night, with an average 15 seconds per promo.  With Andy Rooney out of the program, the network has more promo time in the hour until they reformat ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: CBS Fall Premiere Dates

  As befits the most traditional of the broadcast networks, CBS will launch almost all of its Fall 2012 premieres during Fall Premiere week, Sept. 24-30: Wed Sept 19 8PM:          SURVIVOR Mon Sept 24 8PM:    ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/17/12

> The FOX Tuesday line-up returned to moderate results. FOX:  The network won the night, but unimpressively:  GLEE tied the season low it hit during the holiday season, and NEW GIRL was only 0.1 above its own. CBS:&nb...
by Mitch Salem
 
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