> When you watched the tableau of the all-dead Harmon family in the season finale of AMERICAN HORROR STORY merrily trimming the tree while a Christmas carol played in the background, did you think “Oh boy, I can’t w...
> X marked the spot for network television last night. FOX: With very little in the way of competition, X FACTOR easily won the night for FOX. But the rating for the first part of its season finale was one of its lo...
WE BOUGHT A ZOO: Worth A Ticket – Cameron Crowe Pays His Dues and Keeps His Dignity There’s a classic line in Albert Brooks’s incredibly prescient 1979 Real Life where Brooks, as the pro...
> WARNING: Scaaaarrrry Spoilers Within You have to give AMERICAN HORROR STORY the credit of its crazy, crazy convictions. Ryan Murphy and his gang of producers followed through on where the last few episodes appeare...
> UPDATE: More detailed numbers are proving even better for MI4, which reportedly made $6.6M on Wednesday. The action sequel is close to a $2K average at 3400 theatres, and looks like the hit of the season with $25M...
> Ah, if only NBC didn’t have to program against those darn competitors all the time… NBC: With repeats on every other network, the Peacock was able to garner a narrow win under its tree, even though its own r...
> Sony jump-started the release of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO last night with early runs starting at 7PM at its slightly less than 3000 theatres. Early reports are that it pulled in $1.6M for those showings. Th...
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: Worth A Ticket – David Fincher Meets Lisbeth Salander The most remarkable thing about David Fincher’s version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (written for the Engl...
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: Worth A Ticket – The Return of Steven Spielberg Remember how lousy the last Indiana Jones movie was? Remember watching it and wondering sadly what had become of Steven Spielberg...
> All the buzz and acclaim for Showtime’s HOMELAND started to pay off in the ratings for its season finale, which climbed from the show’s usual 0.4-0.5 level to a 0.7. That’s still no blockbuster, but in...
> You couldn’t ask for a better example of the way in which HBO is different from all other networks–even other pay-cable networks–than its decision today to cancel BORED TO DEATH, HUNG and HOW TO MAKE IT IN A...
> Two of the season’s major films are launching unconventionally this evening, and it’s worth taking note. Both Sony’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and Paramount’s MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GH...