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ShowbuzzDaily Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “American Animals” & “The Kindergarten Teacher”

  AMERICAN ANIMALS (no distrib):  It’s not easy to come up with a new spin on the venerable heist movie genre, but writer/director Bart Layton has managed just that with American Animals.  Layton had been until now...
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THE SKED: Judgment Day For Fall Series

  If you’re a fall series that hasn’t heard any news of your fate by Thanksgiving, the omens aren’t good–at that point, production of the initial 13 episodes is all but done, and for reasons of cost...
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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Fright Night”





Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 2/1/13

  An ugly day, even by Super Bowl Weekend standards. OPENINGS:  WARM BODIES (Summit/Lionsgate) proved to be decent counterprogramming by aiming at a young woman audience, and with a $7.6M Friday, should be on its way to a...
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THE BIJOU BOX OFFICE: Footnotes – 8/14/11

> Now that THE HELP has opened about as well as Dreamworks/Disney could have hoped, the next goal is a 2d weekend decline of around 40%.  That would match the hold of Julie & Julia, and would make a $100M gross for Hel...
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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Sitter”

  THE SITTER:  Not At Any Price – Adventures In Bad Moviemaking   Jonah Hill is awfully lucky to have made Moneyball this year.  In that film, fueled by a brilliant Aaron Sorkin/Steven Zaillain script, he gave...
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Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Suits”

  SUITS:  Wednesday 9PM on USA 7 seasons ago, Aaron Korsh’s SUITS was introduced by USA Network as the story of a young con man with a photographic memory named Mike Ross, hired by flashy New York lawyer Harvey Spec...
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THE SKED: FOX SUMMER PREMIERES

> The close of the 2011/12 broadcast season is starting to approach, and networks are beginning to specify their plans for summer (which in TV terms begins in late May).  FOX, unlike some of the other networks, is not plan...
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Pilot Reports

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “Dominion”

  DOMINION:  Thursday 9PM on Syfy – Change the Channel Was there really a pressing need to make a TV series out of the schlock horror movie Legion?  It’s not as though the film was much of a hit ($40M total b...
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Film Festival

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Rustin,” “Memory” & “Fingernails”

  RUSTIN (Netflix – Nov. 17):  The director and producer George C. Wolfe is a towering figure in American theater, but his films to date have been wobbly at worst (A Night in Rodanthe, You’re Not You) and stur...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 9.21.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season premieres continued:  THE CONNORS down 0.12 from last season’s premiere to 0.53, THE GOLDBERGS down 0.26 to 0.44, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY down 0.07 to 0.57 from its January series prem...
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Behind the Friday Box Office – 3/21/14

  What was supposed to be an exciting pre-summer weekend at the box office is instead looking rather blah. OPENINGS:  Compared to recent YA disasters like The Mortal Instruments and Beautiful Creatures, DIVERGENT (Summit/...
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The Sked: Sunday Network Scorecard 1.6.2019

  We won’t really know where the GOLDEN GLOBES stand until final numbers come in. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser d...
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Reviews

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...
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Pilot + 1

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Power”

  POWER:  Saturday 9PM on Starz Previously… on POWER:  James “Ghost” St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick) is secretly one of New York’s most successful narcotics distributors, as well as the owner of the ...
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