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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Alcatraz”
> Previously… On ALCATRAZ: San Francisco cop Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones), whose partner was recently killed, finds herself embroiled in a mysterious case in which an Alcatraz inmate from 40 years ago, apparently lo...
Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5.27.2018
OPENINGS: With the addition of Saturday and overseas numbers, SOLO (Lucasfilm/Disney) is starting to shift from a disappointment to a potential disaster. In the US, Solo fell 30% on Saturday (by comparison, last year...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Survivor,” “Charlotte” & “I’m Your Man”
THE SURVIVOR (no distrib): So many films and television productions have tackled the subject of the Holocaust over the decades that it takes real effort to break through with a story that feels fresh. Barry Levinson&...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Paul”
Watch it at home. The genial PAUL really only has one joke–luckily it’s a pretty good one: what if ET had the persona of Seth Rogen? While Paul isn’t the first alien to crack jokes (rememb...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “A Million Ways To Die In the West”
A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST: Not Even For Free – They Don’t Include “Die Laughing” Seth MacFarlane, out from behind his high-concept animated and fantasy premises, has a surprisingly retr...
THE SKED: Misfit Toys Scorecard – “Smash” vs. “Vegas”
This is what it came to for SMASH and VEGAS, both starry, expensive shows that once had Emmy lights glittering in their eyes: fighting it out for 3rd place at 8PM on a Saturday night. Behind the 1.5 for a UFC match ...
EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 10/5/13
If preliminary numbers at Deadline hold, GRAVITY (Warners) will own the new record for all-time best October opening. It had a superb $23.5M Saturday, up 35% from its $17.5M opening day, for what should be a $55M+ week...
EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Grown Ups 2” Has A (Temporary) Win; “Pacific Rim” Falls Back
If the preliminary numbers at Deadline hold, there was good news on Friday for Adam Sandler and his studio, as GROWN UPS 2 (Sony) won the day with a strong $16.5M (including $2.3M from Thursday night). That’s be...
Announcing Metcalf Entertainment Intelligence
Anyone who’s been following the tumult in television, typified by the recently-concluded WGA strike and the ongoing-as-of-this-post SAG-AFTRA strike, knows that a key issue for the industry is that the streamers, w...
THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Hannibal”
Considering how defiantly unlike the rest of broadcast television HANNIBAL is, not to mention its love of metaphor, it made sense for the show’s Season 2 finale to air entirely on its own, separate from the last ep...
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Tracks”
There’s no cutesiness to be found in John Curran’s film TRACKS, a bracingly non-Disneyfied true-life nature tale. In the mid-1970s, a young Australian woman named Robyn Davidson decided to walk across almo...
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...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Stitchers”
STITCHERS: Tuesday 9PM on ABCFamily Previously… on STITCHERS: Graduate student and science whiz Kirsten (Emma Ishta) has “temporal dysplasia,” a (fictional) condition in which she doesn’t expe...
THE SKED: HBO Re-Elects “Veep” and “Girls”
> HBO, to no one’s surprise, has renewed both its new half-hours, VEEP and GIRLS, for 2d seasons (10 episodes each). Neither show is a ratings blockbuster (numbers aren’t available yet for last night, but the ...