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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Friends With Benefits”

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS – Worth A Ticket: Almost Great For about an hour, as you watch his new FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS, you could be forgiven for thinking that writer-director Will Gluck is the future o...

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Salem”

Sometimes one piece of casting is what it takes to turn a TV series around, and for SALEM, that was the arrival, about midway through the season’s 13 episodes, of Stephen Lang as the Reverend Increase Mather, fathe...

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THE SKED: “Nashville” Keeps Twanging

Yesterday ABC announced a full-season order for NASHVILLE, adding the usual back 9 to its initial 13 episodes. The show’s ratings haven’t been great, hovering in the 1.8-2.0 neighborhood in recent weeks, bu...

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THE SKED: Are You Ready For Some (Thursday) Football?

> At this point, it would be fairly shocking if the NFL and its players didn’t settle their labor dispute in time to have a full pro football season. (That sound is NBC falling to its knees in relief.) ...

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THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/26/12

Olympics minus 1. ABC: Possibly in the belief that its activities qualified for Olympic medals, viewers thronged to WIPEOUT, giving it a 2.2 that was up 0.5 from last week. ROOKIE BLUE was also up a bit to 1.5, winning its ...

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THE BIJOU BOX OFFICE: Early Weekend Numbers – 8/14/11

> Deadline has preliminary numbers for Saturday and the weekend, and any worries that THE HELP would suffer from front-loading are out the window. Rather amazingly, the picture seems to have climbed more than 25% from Fri...

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THE SKED SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/28/12

The World Series survives another year… but only with the help of football. FOX: There’s a certain irony in the fact that WORLD SERIES GAME 4 avoided record lows (as detailed in Mitch Metcalf’s Daily Ratings...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Pixels” A Moderate Gamer, “Paper Towns” and “Southpaw” Soft

PIXELS (Columbia/Sony) was marketed on its high concept rather than as an Adam Sandler star vehicle, perhaps reflecting not just Sandler’s dwindling value, but the shuttering of his long-term acting relationship wi...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5/3/15

OPENINGS: Can the 2d-biggest US opening of all time fairly be considered a mild disappointment? Certainly AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Marvel/Disney), for all its giant $187.7M start, underperformed compared to widesprea...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “2 Guns”

2 GUNS: Watch It At Home – Mindless Movie Action, The Old-Fashioned Way In this endless CG demo reel of a summer, the old-time, human-scaled mayhem of 2 GUNS is downright charming. The idea of an action movie s...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Psych”

PSYCH: Wednesday 10PM on USA PSYCH felt every one of its 7 seasons in its premiere tonight. The show’s premise has always been thin–goofy detective Shawn Spencer (James Roday) pretends to be a psychic and...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Forever”

FOREVER: Tuesday 10PM on ABC Previously… on FOREVER: Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd) is a New York medical examiner with a secret: he’s been alive for 200 years. It’s not that he can’t be kil...

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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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THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Camp”

CAMP: Wednesday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… If drive-in theaters hadn’t been superseded by multiplexes, NBC’s new CAMP would be the TV equivalent of a drive-in movie, a throwback to B-m...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Avengers”

THE AVENGERS: Worth A Ticket – A Fun Summer Movie, No More Or Less It’s easy to forget that THE AVENGERS is, you know, a movie. It’s perhaps the ultimate example of corporate intellectual pro...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Friends With Benefits”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Salem”

THE SKED: “Nashville” Keeps Twanging

THE SKED: Are You Ready For Some (Thursday) Football?

THE SKED’S THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7/26/12

THE BIJOU BOX OFFICE: Early Weekend Numbers – 8/14/11

THE SKED SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10/28/12

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Pixels” A Moderate Gamer, “Paper Towns” and “Southpaw” Soft

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5/3/15

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “2 Guns”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Psych”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Forever”

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

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Camp”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Avengers”

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