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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...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Cowboys & Aliens” – Circle the Spaceships!





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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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...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Crazy Stupid Love”





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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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...
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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...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Melancholia” and Oscar Games





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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: Showtime’s “Homeland”

> Disclaimer:  Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall.  Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot.  So these critiques sh...
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THE SKED: The (Last) Return of “Entourage” and Cable Sundays

> On summer Sunday nights, the 4 broadcast networks air a grand total of zero hours of original scripted programming; instead, viewers get a strict diet of animated repeats (FOX) and unscripted series like Big Brother (CBS), Am...
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THE SKED’S BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Bad Mom”

> See A Word About Busted Pilots It’s entirely possible that BAD MOM wouldn’t have worked as a network TV series.  It represented an unusual attempt for a broadcast network (ABC) to step into the “edgy...
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Box Office Results Footnotes – 7/24/11

> With the superpowers wielded only by Hollywood studio estimators, CAPTAIN AMERICA:  THE FIRST AVENGER has leaped ahead of Thor to claim the biggest superhero opening of the year.  But Captain America and HARRY POTTE...
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