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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “The Last Word” & “Thoroughbred”

THE LAST WORD (Bleecker Street): Shirley MacLaine does the irascible codger thing. She’s smart enough not to overplay the very familiar hand she’s been dealt by screenwriter Stuart Ross Fink and director ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Rebel In the Rye,” “Newness,” “Landline,” “I Don’t Feel At Home,” “Ingrid Goes West” & “Walking Out”

REBEL IN THE RYE (no distrib): Danny Strong’s first film as a director is a biography of J. D. Salinger (Nicholas Hoult), and it hits all the Salinger bullet points: his early struggles to get published, his sp...

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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Sidney Hall,” “To the Bone,” “The Little Hours” & “Beach Rats”

SIDNEY HALL (no distrib): Shawn Christensen’s literary drama (written with Jason Dolan) is initially engaging as a modern-day sort of J.D. Salinger story, told simultaneously across three time periods, with Sidne...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Band Aid,” “The Discovery” & “Golden Exits”

THE DISCOVERY (Netflix): Charlie McDowell’s first film was the ingenious metaphysical farce The One I Love, so there was plenty of reason to eagerly anticipate his follow-up. He (and, once again, co-writer Just...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Call Me By Your Name,” “Fun Mom Dinner,” “Before I Fall” & “Wind River”

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Sony Classics): Luca Guadagnino’s sumptuous gay romance has been anointed as the Sundance entry most likely to figure into next year’s Oscar race, and it’s easy to see why. It ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Novitiate,” “The Incredible Jessica James” & “Marjorie Prime”

NOVITIATE (Sony Classics): It’s not clear how much of an audience there can be for a dark drama set amid the physical and psychological hardships of a pre-Vatican II midwestern abbey, but Margaret Betts’s N...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1.31.2017

Last night’s live Supreme Court announcement may lead to some adjustments this afternoon. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demog...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Powerless”

POWERLESS: Thursday 8:30PM on NBC – If Nothing Else is On… So far, NBC’s POWERLESS is merely a clever idea for a sitcom. It’s set on the fringes of the DC superhero universe, in Charm City, wh...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Rings,” “Space Between Us” Punt Super Bowl Weekend, “Split” Scores Again

Hollywood generally has little interest in opening films against the Super Bowl, and to the extent it participates, it tries to counterprogram the game by aiming at the young female demographic. Thus we have a PG-13 ho...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”

The first season of CW’s musical-comedy CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND was by far the most daring and distinctive show on broadcast television, but a nagging question remained: what could it do for an encore? It wasn̵...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2.5.17

OPENINGS: It’s still too soon to gauge whether RINGS (Paramount) can creep its way to breakeven with international help (total production/marketing costs are $75M+), but it’s certainly not performing well e...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Legion”

LEGION: Wednesday 10PM on FX – DVR Alert The answer to what Noah Hawley could do for an encore after Fargo is: continue to spectacularly overperform. Fargo was and is a totally unexpected piece of great telev...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “LEGO Batman,” “50 Shades Darker,” “John Wick 2″” All Solid

This is a well-designed weekend for Hollywood, with a trio of sensibly-budgeted franchise titles all drawing audiences from their mostly separate target demos. The Friday winner, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, ...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2.13.17

OPENINGS: The split between US and international box office was unusually evident this weekend. In the US, THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (Warner Animation) was on top with $55.6M, although that number may be a bit shaky sinc...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere: “Girls”

GIRLS: Sunday 10PM on HBO As HBO’s GIRLS begins its 6th and final season, it somehow feels older than it actually is. That’s the way it is with television now: the revolutionary can become the familiar ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “The Last Word” & “Thoroughbred”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Rebel In the Rye,” “Newness,” “Landline,” “I Don’t Feel At Home,” “Ingrid Goes West” & “Walking Out”

ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Sidney Hall,” “To the Bone,” “The Little Hours” & “Beach Rats”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Band Aid,” “The Discovery” & “Golden Exits”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Call Me By Your Name,” “Fun Mom Dinner,” “Before I Fall” & “Wind River”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Novitiate,” “The Incredible Jessica James” & “Marjorie Prime”

SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1.31.2017

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Powerless”

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Rings,” “Space Between Us” Punt Super Bowl Weekend, “Split” Scores Again

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2.5.17

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Legion”

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “LEGO Batman,” “50 Shades Darker,” “John Wick 2″” All Solid

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2.13.17

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere: “Girls”

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