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I have never been a birthday person. I’m really not an event person. I try to live in the moment and have never been a fan of the singular focus of…
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Today is a free offering. Box office matters. So does your subscription, free or paid. Reporting Instructions If you have received a job analyzing box…
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I think it was/is a brilliant work of cinematic art obviously not for everyone. surprising that in a post#MeToo era the stark exposure of sexual…
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One title I was considering for this piece was, “How To Save Cable… For Now,” because that is really why I am writing it. We all know that cable and…
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Bros is absolutely, definitively, super-duper okay. What it doesn’t do is solve the problem it tells us it wants to solve. The genius of The 40-Year-Old…
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Oh my, how media loves the idea of mergers and acquisitions. And 2 out of 25 floated ideas may actually happen… with 1 of those occasionally being…
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The Academy’s new CEO, Bill Kramer, was the top banana at The Academy Museum before he took the new CEO gig. The Academy Museum is celebrating being…
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I was going to do a Happy 5783 (aka Jewish New Year) themed column today. It seems to be the Year of the Spielberg. But The Hot Button’s 1st anniversary…
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The Don’t Worry Darling opening is not a disaster, by any measure. But the trade analysis of this film’s apparent $20 million - $22 million opening is…
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What is everyone excited about right now? It seems to me that the answer is scary… scarier than Barbarian. Nothing. The NFL is back. People love their…
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Too much on awards this week… I decided yesterday not to write about the moral grotesquerie of the return of The Golden Globes after they have spent the…
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This is 100% Sundance’s Press Release… for your informational use. 2023 Sundance Film Festival Reveals Ticketing Details, On-Sale Dates, Venues, and the…
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