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THE SKED: Liberace Draws A Crowd

  The same number of people–2.4 million–watched Sunday’s HBO premiere of BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, its Liberace biography directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, as watched...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 3.12.2023

  OPENINGS:  Franchises continued to be the lifeblood (so to speak) of Hollywood, and this week it was SCREAM VI (Paramount) breaking its saga’s previous record with $44.5M, almost 50% higher than the $30M for last ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 4/21/12

> It was a solid Saturday for most films in the market, according to the preliminary numbers at Deadline, which are subject to revision on both Sunday and Monday.  THINK LIKE A MAN (Screen Gems/Sony) is reporting a 10% upt...
by Mitch Salem
 
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WEEKDAY BOX OFFICE UPDATE August 1-2

>THE SMURFS has outgrossed COWBOYS & ALIENS both Monday and Tuesday and now leads total box office to date, a lead it will not give up when both films leave theaters in several weeks.  Through Tuesday, The Smurfs cumul...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY THURSDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.9.2018

  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 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adult...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Rebel”

  REBEL:  Thursday 10PM on ABC Krista Vernoff is one of network TV’s most prized showrunners.  She’s successfully guided Shonda Rhimes’s Grey’s Anatomy into a remarkable 17th season of success (wh...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE STATUETTE STAKES: The Contenders (Part I)

> While you weren’t looking, the Oscar race began. One could make the argument, of course, that it’s been on for months–since, at least, Woody Allen’s MIDNIGHT IN PARIS energized the indie/art-film audie...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 8/12/12

  OPENINGS:  THE BOURNE LEGACY (Universal) is holding on to its $40M opening by its fingernails, with just $265K to spare.  (We’ll find out tomorrow if that holds up.)   Bourne is an unusual action franchise that...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Midseason Premiere

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Mad Men”

  MAD MEN:  Sunday 10PM on AMC The final season of MAD MEN was conceived by Matthew Weiner to run, as the previous seasons had, across 14 consecutive weeks, and it was AMC’s decision (for scheduling and budgetary re...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Turtles” Keep the Lead

  TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (Paramount) held very well on its second day of release, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline and elsewhere.  Its Day 2 drop was in the neighborhood of 15%, which is about as well as...
by Mitch Salem
 
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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: 5/31/13

  There’s so much product in the marketplace right now that overall numbers for the summer movie season seem fairly robust–but looked at title by title, we see two blockbusters (Iron Man 3 and Fast & Furiou...
by Mitch Salem
 
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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 ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Pilot + 1

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Finding Carter”

  FINDING CARTER:  Tuesday 10PM on MTV Previously… on FINDING CARTER:  At 16, Carter Stevens (Kathryn Prescott) believed herself to be having a better-than-average adolescence, mostly due to a close bond with her e...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Kung Fu Panda 3″” Easily Tops “Finest Hours,” “50 Shades of Black”

  As will be noted endlessly by the studio and its mouthpieces all weekend, KUNG FU PANDA 3 (DreamWorks Animation/20th) is the first in the series to open in January, after June and May openings for the previous chapters.�...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 2.9.2020

  OPENINGS:  BIRDS OF PREY (DC/Warners) was supposed to be the year’s first tentpole smash, but at $33.3M in the US, it was a dismal disappointment, by far the lowest start for this generation of DC movie properties...
by Mitch Salem
 
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