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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Zone Of Interest,” “Expats” & “Finestkind”

  THE ZONE OF INTEREST (A24 – TBD):  Jonathan Glazer has only directed 4 feature films in his 23-year career (the most recent was Under the Skin a decade ago).  His latest, The Zone of Interest, is a work of for...
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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Holdovers,” “Pain Hustlers” & “Woman Of the Hour”

  These haven’t been glory days for the Toronto Film Festival.  The WGA/SAG strikes dampened the vibe, of course–of the 27 films I saw at TIFF, only 4 screenings featured appearances from the cast.  Beyond th...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 9.3.2023

  OPENINGS:  THE EQUALIZER 3 (Escape Artists/Columbia/Sony) performed both within expectations and at around the same level as its predecessors, with $34.5M for the 3-day weekend compared to $36M for Equalizer 2 and $34M ...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8.20.2023

  OPENINGS:  Although BLUE BEETLE (DC/Warners) won the weekend over a tiring Barbie, it landed at the low end of expectations with $25.4M–and given the heavy 15% Friday-to-Saturday drop (much steeper than the 4%/6% ...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8.13.2023

  OPENINGS:  THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER (Universal) stirred little interest from critics or audiences, and set sail with a flat $6.5M.  It hasn’t yet opened overseas, but will have a difficult time trying to re...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8.6.2023

  OPENINGS:  The 3-day weekend in the US went narrowly to MEG 2: THE TRENCH (CMC/Warners) with $30M.  That was down more than 1/3 from the $45.4M start for The Meg in 2018, which would ordinarily be concerning for a film...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 7.30.2023

  OPENINGS:  After last week’s Barbenheimer fireworks, the box office for new movies returned to earth–with a thud in the case of HAUNTED MANSION (Disney), which was at the bottom of projections at $24.2M.  W...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 7.23.2023

  OPENINGS:  The most hyped box office weekend of the year delivered and then some.  BARBIE (Mattel/Warners) burst into theaters with $155M, technically the best of the year (although the $146.4M for Super Mario Bros cam...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 7.16.2023

  OPENINGS:  There had been an expectation, or at least a hope, that MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART I (Skydance/Paramount) would get a boost from the spectacular performance of Top Gun: Maverick, but that...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 7.9.2023

  OPENINGS:  INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR (Screen Gems/Sony) reaffirmed the strength of the low-budget horror genre with a $32.7M start, better than the $29.6M launch of 2018’s The Last Key (which didn’t feature th...
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Behind the US/Wordwide Weekend Box Office 7.2.2023

  OPENINGS:  INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY (Paramount/Lucasfilm/Disney) barely scraped the bottom of weekend expectations with $60M, and that studio estimate assumes an very strong Sunday.  The extremely expensiv...
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Some Unfortunate News

  Sadly, we have to announce that after this week, we will no longer be able to provide TV ratings to readers, and thus that ShowbuzzDaily will be effectively ending its operations.  To be clear, unlike other interruption...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 6.29.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season premiere of GENERATION GAP was at 0.35, and the season premiere of THE CHASE was at 0.30.  A rerun followed at 0.25. CBS:  Reruns at 0.32/0.21/0.16/0.14. NBC:  THE BLACKLIST gained 0...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Wednesday 6.28.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY dropped 0.05 to 0.27, and THE WONDER YEARS was down 0.04 to 0.21.  Reruns followed at 0.17/0.18. CBS:  eruns at 0.44/0.48/0.23. NBC:  LA FIRE & RESCUE lost 0.04 to 0.25, ...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 6.27.2023 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.38/0.30/0.15. CBS:  Reruns at 0.22/0.25/0.28. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT ticked down to 0.65, and HOT WHEELS was down 0.06 to 0.25. FOX:  A movie was at 0.12. CW:  The season...
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