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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Spectacular Now”

The screenplay for THE SPECTACULAR NOW, a Dramatic Competition entry at Sundance, was written by the team of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, who also wrote (500) Days of Summer, but the new film has none of the b...

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The Sked: Monday Ratings — Solid Debut for The Following

CBS won Monday with a 3.1 adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm, down from last week’s season high for Monday (3.3) and tied with the second-highest CBS Monday rating (also 3.1 on 11.26, 12.10 and 12.17). How I Met Your Mothe...

by Mitch Metcalf

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The East”

A couple of Sundances ago, the actress/writer/producer Brit Marling was a festival darling, with two acclaimed pictures unveiled the same week. In the end, while both Another Earth and Sound of My Voice received di...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Stoker”

STOKER is the kind of swank, elegant horror movie we don’t see very often in these days of unkillable chainsaw-wielding serial killers who make awful use of human remains. It’s chilling, more than a little...

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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through January 20

Big movers overseas this week include Django Unchained (now with $48 million overseas to date), Life of Pi (another $36 million overseas this past week to an astounding $393 million overseas and projected worldwide just und...

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings Bowl — NHL Debuts with NFL-like Ratings (in Buffalo and Pittsburgh)

SUNDAY SPORTS. Sunday was the extremely powerful doubleheader of the NFC and AFC Championship Games (26.1 and 27.9 Household ratings, respectively, in the 70% of the country covered by the 56 markets with local Nielsen meters...

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Broadcast Network Rankings through January 20

THE WEEK. For the recently completed week ending Sunday (January 14-20, 2013), CBS remained in first place with a preliminary 4.45 adult 18-49 rating, building even more from last week’s impressive 3.19 rating. The ...

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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/20/13

Tangle with football at your peril. ABC: For reasons best known to itself, ABC decided to do battle with the AFC Championship Game on CBS. The results were, not surprisingly, bad: ONCE UPON A TIME and REVENGE both hit sea...

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PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED PILOT REPORT – FOX’s “The Following”

THE FOLLOWING: Monday 9PM on FOX – DVR Alert We’ve been here before, perhaps most memorably in Red Dragon aka Manhunter: the burned-out, injured, brilliantly intuitive FBI agent, called back to the field ...

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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 1/20/13

OPENINGS: MAMA (Universal) had a 9% bump on Saturday, not bad for a horror movie, and should have a very healthy $33M by the end of the 4-day weekend. BROKEN CITY (20th) and THE LAST STAND (Lionsgate), with their ol...

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WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES January 18-20

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #3 of 2013 is now on pace for $122 million, up from the $113 million estimate yesterday and now running ahead of the pace for the comparable weekend the past several...

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THE SKED REVIEW: “Saturday Night Live” with Jennifer Lawrence

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE had a generally dispiriting start to the second half of its season, with an episode proving once again that just giving the writers some time off in no way guarantees that they’ll come back with...

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Banshee”

BANSHEE: Friday 10PM on Cinemax Previously… on BANSHEE: Through a series of coincidences not worth recounting, an ex-con (Antony Starr) has taken on the identity of Lucas Hood, who was killed on his way to beco...

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THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Legit”

LEGIT: Thursday 10:30PM on FX Not everyone can be Louis C.K. That’s the lesson of LEGIT, FX’s latest excursion to its comedy sweet spot of the low-budget, stand-up grunge aesthetic that’s given us I...

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BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 1/18/13

The Martin Luther King Day holiday tends to be a day off more for schoolchildren than for adult employees, meaning that at the boxoffice, it benefits family movies–of which there’s a distinct shortage right n...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The Spectacular Now”

The Sked: Monday Ratings — Solid Debut for The Following

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “The East”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Stoker”

INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through January 20

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings Bowl — NHL Debuts with NFL-like Ratings (in Buffalo and Pittsburgh)

Broadcast Network Rankings through January 20

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/20/13

PREMIERING TONIGHT: THE SKED PILOT REPORT – FOX’s “The Following”

BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 1/20/13

WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES January 18-20

THE SKED REVIEW: “Saturday Night Live” with Jennifer Lawrence

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Banshee”

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Legit”

BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 1/18/13

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