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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “If Beale Street Could Talk” & “Ben Is Back”

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Annapurna – November 30): Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to Moonlight received a rapturous standing ovation at its Toronto premiere, and it’s unquestionably a beautiful piece of ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “A Star Is Born” & “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

A STAR IS BORN (Warners – October 5): Bradley Cooper, making his directing debut, decided to do the equivalent of a first-time weightlifter starting out with a 400-pound barbell. It isn’t just that A Star...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Roma” & “Green Book”

ROMA (Netflix – Dec. 14): Alfonso Cuaron is one of the master filmmakers of this era, and Roma confirms that all over again. It’s a deceptively simple memory piece, a semi-autobiographical story set in th...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “22 July” & “American Woman”

22 JULY (Netflix – October 10): So many terrible things have happened in the world since July 22, 2011 that at least in the US, few even remember the horrific events that occurred in Oslo, Norway that day, when a...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Destroyer” & “Climax”

DESTROYER (Annapurna – Dec. 25): Another fractured-time thriller, this one trickier than most, because the script by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi features a sort of time-loop within a loop. All that structural fa...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Peterloo” & “Viper Club”

PETERLOO (Amazon – November 9): Not so much a movie as an illustrated historical recitation. Mike Leigh’s film concerns the brutal 1819 government militia attack on civilians listening to a public address...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Fesrival Reviews: “Her Smell” & “Non-Fiction”

HER SMELL (no distrib – TBD): Writer-director Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip) is a fan of invective, and the punk rocker Becky Something (Elizabeth Moss), when she’s in the full flower o...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Boy Erased” & “Vita & Virginia”

BOY ERASED (Focus/Universal – November 2): Joel Edgerton’s film is the second of the year concerning gay conversion therapy, and its tone is far more conventional than The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Lu...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.14.2018

CBS had a very CBS audience for its tribute to itself. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 rat...

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The Sked: Thursday Network Scorecard 9.20.2018

Note: CBS and NBC fast affiliate-based nationals below are inflated by NFL THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL local pre-emptions in New York (NBC) and Cleveland (CBS). DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “House With A Clock” Dominates Sleepy Weekend; “Fahrenheit 11/9,” “Life Itself,” “Assassination Nation” Crash

It’s been 7 weeks since Christopher Robin arrived for the family audience, and THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS (Universal) took advantage of that drought with a $7.7M opening day according to early numbers at D...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Night School” Soft, “Smallfoot” Mild, “Hell Fest” Low & More

The weekend box office race may end up being quite close once matinees come into play, but NIGHT SCHOOL (Perfect World/Universal) took Friday, with preliminary numbers at Deadline putting it at $9.3M for the day (includi...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Cool Kids”

THE COOL KIDS: Friday 8:30PM on FOX One takeaway from FOX’s terrible new sitcom THE COOL KIDS is that Martin Mull is in a particularly ruinous rut. Four years ago, he co-starred in FOX’s awful Dads, a qui...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 9.30.2018

OPENINGS: NIGHT SCHOOL (Perfect World/Universal) had a surprising 18% Saturday bump (by comparison, both Central Intelligence and Girls Trip dropped 4% on their first Saturdays), suggesting that it’s appealing to...

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Venom” & “A Star Is Born” Big, “The Hate U Give” Starts OK

VENOM (Tencent/Columbia/Sony) is the first big-budget action movie to open since The Meg in mid-August, and that (plus a huge marketing campaign) seems to have gotten it past murderous reviews for an enormous start, the ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “If Beale Street Could Talk” & “Ben Is Back”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “A Star Is Born” & “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Roma” & “Green Book”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “22 July” & “American Woman”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Destroyer” & “Climax”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Peterloo” & “Viper Club”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Fesrival Reviews: “Her Smell” & “Non-Fiction”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Boy Erased” & “Vita & Virginia”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.14.2018

The Sked: Thursday Network Scorecard 9.20.2018

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “House With A Clock” Dominates Sleepy Weekend; “Fahrenheit 11/9,” “Life Itself,” “Assassination Nation” Crash

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Night School” Soft, “Smallfoot” Mild, “Hell Fest” Low & More

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Cool Kids”

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 9.30.2018

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Venom” & “A Star Is Born” Big, “The Hate U Give” Starts OK

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