INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through December 16
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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Homeland”
What kind of show, in the end, is HOMELAND? Focus groups are often asked simply to describe whatever it is they’ve just seen, and Homeland has tried to be a romance, a thriller, an action adventure, a story about...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Dexter”
Although there was plenty more going on–too much, in fact–it was fitting that Season 7 of DEXTER came down, in the end, to the women in Dexter Morgan’s life. One could even say that this season might ...
BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 12/16/12
OPENINGS: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Warners/MGM), with its currently estimated $84.8M opening, has broken the previous December record (2007’s I Am Legend) by about 10%. However, it’s also on tra...
WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES December 14-16
The weekend looks a little softer than it did yesterday ($131 million for the top 12 films rather than $142 million). The Hobbit is looking like an $85 million opening weekend instead of almost $99 million. Still a recor...
EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE – 12/15/12
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Warners/MGM) will shatter all the December records it was expected to shatter, but based on preliminary numbers at Deadline, its projected $85M weekend is somewhat soft, considering tha...
THE SKED REVIEW: SNL with Martin Short
How do you launch 90 minute of live television comedy less than 36 hours after one of the most awful crimes in American history? SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE tried to finesse the moment by starting its telecast tonight with a c...
BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOXOFFICE – 12/14/12
OPENINGS: This weekend consists of THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Warners/MGM) and then everything else. Hobbit set a December opening day record with $37.5M, and it will set the opening weekend record for the mo...
THE SKED FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD: 12/14/12
The 10PM hour was taken up by news shows concerning some of the saddest of recent events. FOX: Lacking a news division of its own (let’s pretend its affiliated cable network doesn’t exist), FOX aired its regular l...
FRIDAY DECEMBER 14 BOX OFFICE REPORT
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #50 is on pace to exceed the multi-year average for this weekend by a very solid 27%, and the $142 million total for the top 12 films is the best since December 14-16, 2007 ($152 milli...
THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Vampire Diaries”
Among other things, the midseason finale of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES gets credit for the season’s most subversive use of Christmas carols, playing cheerily under ancient vampire Klaus (Joseph Morgan) as he first slaught...
THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Grey’s Anatomy”
In its ninth season, GREY’S ANATOMY remains a model of smoothly operating network soap. This week’s midseason finale, written by Consulting Producer Debora Cahn and directed by Rob Corn, had the bonus of be...
THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Beauty & the Beast”
The midseason finale of the purported romantic thriller BEAUTY & THE BEAST delivered almost all romance, no thrills, as it continues to have only a glancing relationship with its title. Plotting has been this show...
EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE: “The Hobbit” Could Hit December Record
It’s impossible to know at this point how the unspeakable events in Newtown on Friday will affect family behavior over the weekend, and even though this tragedy, unlike the Aurora massacre in July, has no direct co...
THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”
SCANDAL has been having a barn-burner of a Season 2, emerging as a pulpier, crazier Homeland (not that Homeland hasn’t been pretty crazy the last couple of weeks), a DC-set melodrama where everybody is lying to som...