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Behind the Weekend Box Office – 2/23/14

  OPENINGS:  For both 3 DAYS TO KILL (Relativity) and POMPEII (TriStar/Sony/FilmDistrict), the only hope of salvation lies overseas.  3 Days, at least, has a relatively low production cost, but even if the reported $28M ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Three Stooges”

  THE THREE STOOGES:  Watch It At Home – More Nyuks Than You’d Expect   The Farrelly Brothers’ THE THREE STOOGES is better than its marketing campaign let on, and while that would be more impressive...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: The Return of COMMUNITY! (And Other NBC Stuff)

> If you hear bells pealing and catch sight of Human Beings dancing (well, not so much dancing as meta-dancing that references obscure pop culture artifacts from 20 years ago), it’s because NBC has finally freed COMMUNITY...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Midnight Madness – “The Incident”

> As has been reported, there really was an ambulance outside the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto after the midnight premiere of Alexandre Courtes’ THE INCIDENT, there to rescue at least one person who had fainted during the m...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “The Equalizer” Takes Care of Business

  This weekend, Denzel Washington is proving himself yet again one of the last truly reliable movie stars.  Just a week after Liam Neeson flopped with A Walk Among the Tombstones, preliminary numbers at Deadline have THE ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Person of Interest”

  If the word “edgy” can be applied to a CBS procedural, for a while that described PERSON OF INTEREST, which added a high-tech, slightly sci-fi touch to its crime-of-the-week storylines.  The episodic plots w...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Famous In Love”

  FAMOUS IN LOVE:  Tuesday 9PM on Freeform (full season also available via online/VOD) – Change the Channel On the basis of its opening hour, Freeform’s new FAMOUS IN LOVE is pretty woeful stuff.  It’s ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11.22.2016

  With viewers possibly already in Thanksgiving week prep, the night’s ratings trended downward. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser ...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Behind the Friday Box Office – 6/13/14

  OPENINGS:  22 JUMP STREET (Sony/Columbia) went even higher on Friday than early estimates had it, reaching $25M.  Even if it’s front-loaded as a young-skewing sequel, a $60M weekend is all but guaranteed, which w...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “End of Watch”

  David Ayer’s END OF WATCH brings a new wrinkle to the “found-footage” genre by using it in a cop movie.  LAPD Officer Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) wires a camera to his uniform, and constantly photog...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight”

  If THE DARK KNIGHT had no superhero or comic book trappings–if The Joker were scarred but not hideously made up, and Batman were a bit lower-tech and merely disguised rather than wearing a cowl and cape–Chris...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Boardwalk Empire”

  BOARDWALK EMPIRE was, from its start, HBO at its best and most frustrating.  The show was sumptuously produced, on a scale that no other small-screen purveyor of content could match, famously including the recreation of...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED: New “Office” Boss?

> One of the big questions marks over the Fall Thursday schedule has been NBC’s need to replace Steve Carell as the lead in THE OFFICE.  Reports are that James Spader, who brought his funny/creepy vibe to the show...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 11.19.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Primetime COLLEGE FOOTBALL had FOX’s game at 1.23 and ABC’s at 0.69.  On CW, MAGIC WITH THE STARS dropped 0.03 to 0.04, and WORLD’S FUNNIEST ANIMALS held at 0.04.   Broadcast O...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 3.31.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A low night, as STATION 19 dropped 0.05 to 0.56, GREY’S ANATOMY fell 0.09 to 0.55, and BIG SKY was down 0.07 to 0.26. CBS:  The line-up returned from a 2-week NCAA break, with YOUNG SHELDON...
by Mitch Salem
 
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