THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Point Blank”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Point Blank”
POINT BLANK – Worth a Ticket: A Thrill-Ride with Subtitles The most gripping Hollywood thriller of the summer is… in French. (But not for long.) This isn’t a complete surprise: POINT BLAN...
THE BIJOU: Boxofffice Smurfnotes – 7/29/11
> There’s no way to slice or dice the numbers for COWBOYS AND ALIENS and make them any less sad. The picture cost at least $165M (that’s the amount Universal will admit to), plus another $150M or so for worldw...
THE BIJOU: UPDATE – Cowboys & Incredibly Early Boxoffice Results
> UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter has refreshed its numbers, and a surprise appears to be coming from the most unlikely direction. Cowboys and Aliens seems to be down a tad, to a $13-13.5M Friday and an underperformi...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Crazy Stupid Love”
CRAZY STUPID LOVE – Worth A Ticket: It All Works Without further ado: CRAZY STUPID LOVE is the comedy of the summer. Also the drama. There are certainly spectacles out there now prov...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cowboys & Aliens”
COWBOYS & ALIENS – Watch It At Home: Genre Mash-Up Zaps Itself In the Foot It’s admirable, in a way, that for much of its length, COWBOYS AND ALIENS is willing to be more of a western than a scif...
THE SKED: “Hell On Wheels” Premiere Date
> When AMC was done confirming (but not explaining) Frank Darabont’s ex-showrunner status at The Walking Dead and swearing they’ll never, ever do anything like the season finale of The Killing again, they found time...
THE SKED: Limping “Dead”? UPDATED
> UPDATE: Glen Mazzara, who’d been Frank Darabont’s #2 on the WALKING DEAD writing staff, has indeed been appointed to take over showrunning duties. (Darabont’s continued presence, if any, is...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Melancholia”
MELANCHOLIA – Watch It At Home – The Title Tells the Tale Here’s a quick primer in Oscar rules and how studios can get around them. In order for a film to be Oscar-eligible (other than i...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: First Titles Announced
>SHOWBUZZDAILY will be at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and today TIFF announced the first group of movies being screened (there are plenty more to come over the next few weeks). Here’s the f...
THE SKED: New Fall Show On-Air Promotion — July 26 Update
>With about one week of network on-air promotion activity tracked in hit summer shows (those at or above a 2.0 Adult 18-49 rating), each network’s marketing strategies are starting to emerge. FOX is putting its chips on X...
THE SKED: Summer Broadcast Ratings Update
>The broadcast week just concluded (July 18-24) had virtual parity between the four major broadcast network. A mere two-tenths of a rating point separated first from fourth place, continuing a trend we have seen all summe...