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Announcing Metcalf Entertainment Intelligence

Anyone who’s been following the tumult in television, typified by the recently-concluded WGA strike and the ongoing-as-of-this-post SAG-AFTRA strike, knows that a key issue for the industry is that the streamers, w...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 11.5.2023

OPENINGS: This was supposed to be the kick-off weekend for the holiday movie season, but Dune 2 decamped for 2024 and the studios didn’t step in to replace it, so the biggest arrival of the week was the expansion...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.22.2023

OPENINGS: What are we to make of the $23M start for KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Paramount/Apple)? As serious 3+hour historical epics go, while it’s a small fraction of Oppenheimer‘s $82.5M launch, it̵...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.15.2023

OPENINGS: Just about everything about the release of TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOUR (Variance/AMC Theaters) has been unique, and that includes the fact that the theater chain, a first-time distributor, has announced the w...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.8.2023

OPENINGS: THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER (Blumhouse/Morgan Creek/Universal) was at the low end of expectations with $27.2M, and it was also below projections internationally with $17.9M in 52 markets. It’s hard to tell...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.1.2023

OPENINGS: PAW PATROL: THE MIGHTY MOVIE (Nickelodeon/Paramount) launched with $23M, above expectations and an impressive rise over the $13.1M start for the 2021 installment of the franchise. It also has $23.1M overs...

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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 9.24.2023

OPENINGS: THE EXPEND4BLES (Lionsgate) had a disastrous start with $8.3M, about half of both expectations and the $15.9M opening of Expendables 3 in 2014. Expend4bles may only total $20M in the US, and while the franc...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Burial,” “Wildcat” & “Poolman”

THE BURIAL (MGM/Amazon – Oct. 13): A yarn that’s also a true story. Jeremiah O’Keefe (Tommy Lee Jones) was the owner of a family-run, regional Mississippi business that for decades had offered funer...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “American Fiction,” “The Critic” & “Mother, Couch”

AMERICAN FICTION (Orion/MGM/Amazon – Nov. 17): The Toronto People’s Choice Award has been something of a golden ticket to a Best Picture nomination over the years, and this year the prize went to Cord Jeff...

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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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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Boy and the Heron,” “Dumb Money” & “North Star”

THE BOY AND THE HERON (GKids – Dec. 8): Hiyao Miyazaki, a legend of animation (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke), had announced his retirement as a feature film director a decade ago, upon the...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Hit Man,” “Daddio” & “Next Goal Wins”

HIT MAN (no distrib): A clever, funny, sexy entertainment from Richard Linklater and emerging star Glen Powell, who co-wrote the script with the director (both also produced), inspired by an already-wild true story. ...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “His Three Daughters,” “Backspot” & “Lee”

HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (no distrib): The premise of Azazel Jacobs’ film is simple enough to be staged as a play: as their father Vincent (Jay O. Sanders) lies dying in an unseen room of his Bronx apartment, Katie...

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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Wicked Little Letters,” “Anatomy Of A Fall,” & “All The Light We Cannot See”

WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (no distrib): In The Lost Daughter, Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley played the same character at different ages, which prevented them from sharing the screen. That’s remedied in the fair...

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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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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.8.2023

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 10.1.2023

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 9.24.2023

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Burial,” “Wildcat” & “Poolman”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “American Fiction,” “The Critic” & “Mother, Couch”

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

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Boy and the Heron,” “Dumb Money” & “North Star”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Hit Man,” “Daddio” & “Next Goal Wins”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “His Three Daughters,” “Backspot” & “Lee”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Wicked Little Letters,” “Anatomy Of A Fall,” & “All The Light We Cannot See”

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

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