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NOW PLAYING: SHOWBUZZDAILY

> Today is the first day of operations for ShowbuzzDaily, and we are its humble proprietors, Mitch Metcalf and Mitch Salem.  We’ve been in the entertainment business for a long time (you can find out more by clicking...
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Weekend Review Roundup

> Reviews of some of the more prominent movies in theatres right now: X-MEN:  FIRST CLASS MIDNIGHT IN PARIS THE HANGOVER PART II KUNG FU PANDA 2 THE TREE OF LIFE
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SHOWBUZZDAILY OSCARS LIVE-BLOG

> This year SHOWBUZZDAILY live-blogged the ceremony.  We’ll have round-up pieces later tonight and tomorrow, but read below for the minute-by-minute feel of the experience as it happened– 8:35PM: But the fun co...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’S FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD

> Just try to imagine the number of terrible pitches being made to Channing Tatum’s and Rachel McAdams’ agents right now. (And not being made to Reese Witherspoon’s, Chris Pine’s and Tom Hardy’s.) ...
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THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/23/11

> Merry Christmas, CHUCK. NBC:  With the only original scripted hour of television on the networks last night, and facing nothing but repeats in its timeslot, Chuck‘s present was a 0.1 rise from last week, and the ne...
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THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 2/27/12

> SMASH-watch continues, on a very atypical night. NBC:  With NASCAR unexpectedly occupying FOX’s primetime, CBS down and ABC up, the great news for NBC was that SMASH stabilized and even creeped up 0.1 from last wee...
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Box Office Footnotes – 4/1/11

> Hop will be–by far–Russell Brand’s biggest opening as a featured performer:  both Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Me To the Greek opened to around $17M.  All of which makes this week’s open...
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HOLIDAY BOXOFFICE: EARLY MONDAY NUMBERS – 12/26/11

>Preliminary numbers from Dec. 26 suggest that while business, as expected, was higher than Christmas Day, momentum may have slowed a bit. Some highlights: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (Paramount): The Monday bump...
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ShowBuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT: May 31 Update

> Through Memorial Day, the Summer Movie Draft is starting to tighten up.  Team Metcalf leads $318 million to $298 million for Team Salem.  But keep in mind that Salem has two movies opening (the well-reviewed X-Men: ...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY TRAILER WATCH: An “Avengers” Focus Group

> One of the good things about going to midnight premieres of blockbusters (there aren’t all that many) is that the audience is exactly the group (young, first adopters, eagerly moviegoing) Hollywood is targeting.  A...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY NY THEATRE JOURNAL: “Carrie”

> CARRIE the musical is no longer a joke, and since it’s been a reliable punchline for almost a quarter of a century (a book about Broadway disasters was titled “Not Since Carrie“), that’s quite an accom...
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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: “The Client List”

>THE CLIENT LIST: Sundays 10PM on Lifetime – If Nothing Else Is On… It’s the very prosaic, unsexy ordinariness of THE CLIENT LIST that makes it somewhat revolutionary. For HBO or Showtime to air salacious show...
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WEEKDAY BOX OFFICE UPDATE MAY 2-3: Fast Five on Same Track as Fast and Furious

>The magic number for early weekday box office (Monday-Tuesday combined) is 20% of the opening weekend (and 10% of the opening weekend on Monday), indicators of better than average long-term playability.  Based on Monday&#...
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WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES Coming

> Complete Weekend Studio Estimates and tables are coming shortly.  In the meantime, a brief update.  Real Steel had a good Saturday and the weekend is now looking like $27.3 million (up almost $2 million from yesterd...
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