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Sundance 2024 Film Reviews: “Love Lies Bleeding” & “A Different Man”

  LOVE LIES BLEEDING (A24 – March 8):  Rose Glass has followed her brilliant horror movie Saint Maud by exchanging austerity for pulp.  Love Lies Bleeding (co-written with Weronika Tofilska) is engulfed by the spir...
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Film Festival

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Sessions”

Oscar buzz has been trailing THE SESSIONS (which was then called The Surrogate) since it was unveiled at Sundance in January, and with good reason.  For Academy members, it doesn’t get much better than a warm “base...
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THE SKED CABLE REVIEW: USA’s “Necessary Roughness”

> Premieres Wednesday 10PM on USA:  Change the Channel NECESSARY ROUGHNESS departs from the USA Network formula in several ways:  our heroine Dani Santino (Callie Thorne) is the mother of teenagers, she doesn’t ...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2.26.2019

  Veterans returned to NBC. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience...
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BIJOU REVIEW: “Happy Feet Two”





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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The Sked

The Sked: PROMO WATCH — through Sunday October 23

>NBC has given Grimm 205 promo seconds over the last week, a level that will be maintained or even increased throughout this week, leading up to the Friday launch.  NBC has to be encouraged by the 3.9 rating for the premie...
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Pilot + 1

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Animal Practice”

A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have ha...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Monday 3.27.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season finale of THE BACHELOR was at 0.63, steady with last week but down an ugly 0.46 from the 2022 finale (which was down 0.40 from 2021). CBS:  A YOUNG & THE RESTLESS 50TH ANNIVERSARY ...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE REPORT – 5/12/12

  THE AVENGERS (Disney) just won’t slow down.  If preliminary numbers at Deadline hold, Avengers made $44.5M on Saturday, up 50% from the prior day and down only 36% from the Saturday of its opening weekend, an extr...
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Jurassic World: Fallen KIngdom” Drops But Holds Lead, “Sicario 2″” & “Uncle Drew” Start OK

  After a significantly lower start, JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM (Legendary/Perfect World/Universal) is having a sharper drop in its 2nd weekend than its predecessor.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, Frid...
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Pilots

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Crossbones”

  CROSSBONES:  Friday 10PM on NBC – Potential DVR Alert Viewers of Starz’s Black Sails will find much that’s familiar in NBC’s summer pirate adventure CROSSBONES.  We’re back in the Caribbea...
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Box Office Footnotes – 5/13/11

> BRIDESMAIDS is having a very solid opening weekend, particularly given its relatively low budget.  We’ll see how word of mouth holds up the rest of the weekend, but for now Universal has to be very happy–as d...
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THE SKED: FOX Backs Up the Pick-Up Truck

  FOX opted for stability today and renewed NEW GIRL, THE FOLLOWING, THE MINDY PROJECT and RAISING HOPE for next season.  The first two were no-brainers.  Even though New Girl isn’t the breakout smash the network h...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Fury” Wins Meekly, “Gone Girl” Still Strong

  FURY (QED/Columbia/Sony) continued to win but underwhelm on Saturday.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, Brad Pitt’s somber action vehicle was up 3-4% at most from Friday, and possibly not up at all wi...
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Behind the Friday Box Office – 5/2/14

  OPENINGS:  The opening day of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (Sony) was actually a touch behind the opening day of the first Amazing ($35.2M to $35.9M).  However the earlier movie had a different trajectory, opening on the T...
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