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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Hugo”

  HUGO:  Worth A Ticket – If Only For the Visual Splendors   Paramount doesn’t have much choice but to market Martin Scorsese’s HUGO as a family movie:  it’s got a PG rating, a young boy and ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARDj j- 11/21/11

> Don’t get too attached to those CG dinosaurs. FOX:  TERRA NOVA barely bothers with those creatures these days anyway, being more concerned with dull conspiracies among humans (points to anyone who can figure out wh...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: “Grimm’s” Fairy Tale

> Earlier this afternoon, final national ratings for last Friday were released, and once they confirmed that GRIMM had pulled a 1.6 rating, even with the previous week (and just 0.1 out of first place for its hour), NBC reacted...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

The Sked: MONDAY Ratings Advisory

>Fast national ratings for ABC Monday (Dancing with the Stars, You Deserve It and Castle) will be very inflated Tuesday morning.  Two ABC stations (WCVB-Boston and KMBC-Kansas City) will carry the ESPN Monday Night Footbal...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: NBC All-In On “Up All Night”

> What’s better than a back order?  An extra back order.  NBC has increased its order for UP ALL NIGHT by 2 additional episodes, making for a total of 24 in the season.  Probably this indicates little more ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

BIJOU BOXOFFICE: “Breaking Dawn” Breaks A Little Less – 11/21/11

> Per a Box Office Mojo tweet, the final actual number for BREAKING DAWN PART 1‘s opening weekend fell a bit to $138.1M.  This isn’t a major surprise, as the first 2 days of the weekend had indicated numbers mo...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

BIJOU REVIEW: “Happy Feet Two”





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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/20/11

> The last Sunday of November sweeps wasn’t music to the ears of anyone. ABC:  The AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS matched its 2010 number–which would be better news if the 2010 rating hadn’t been its lowest ever, ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Happy Feet Too”

  HAPPY FEET TWO:  Watch It At Home – Not So Happy This Time   Most sequels, by and large, exist only because an earlier movie made lots of money–that’s just a fact.  But sequels often at least try...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

BIJOU BOXOFFICE: WEEKEND STUDIO SCORECARD – 11/20/11

> BREAKING DAWN PART 1:  Although BD1 had greater declines on Friday (as opposed to Thursday midnight) and Saturday than New Moon did in 2009, Summit’s weekend estimate assumes exactly the same 34% drop for Sunday.&n...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

BIJOU BOXOFFICE: FRIDAY STUDIO SCORECARD – 11/18/11

> BREAKING DAWN PART 1:  Christmas comes but once a year, and for Summit that day is the 24 hours after a Twilight movie opens.  (A little credit to the studio, too, for not fudging the numbers, which would have been ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/18/11

> Something unusual for NBC these days:  good news. NBC:  A 1.6 rating may not sound like anything to celebrate, but it’s a pretty good number for Friday night (only one show all evening did better last night).&...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE BIJOU: Early Friday Boxoffice – 11/18/11

> Deadline has preliminary numbers for Friday, and they suggest BREAKING DAWN PART 1 will continue to narrowly edge out the opening weekend of New Moon in 2009, with a $73.5M Friday (compared to $72.7M for New Moon).  If t...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

BIJOU BOXOFFICE: “Breaking Dawn” Breaks From the Gate – 11/18/11

> The Hollywood Reporter has preliminary Friday numbers suggesting that BREAKING DAWN PART 1 will gross $65-75M for the day, including $30.3M in Thursday midnight showings.  Even at the high-end, that would make Breaking D...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED: CS-Impressive

> Just in case NBC’s creative failure to effectively repopulate SVU this season weren’t already glaringly obvious, CBS continues to show how it’s supposed to be done with their recasting on CSI, where theyR...
by Mitch Salem