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THB #289: Years End 3 - What We Don't Know 2

THB #289: Years End 3 - What We Don't Know 2

THB #288: Years End 2 - What We Don't Know 1

THB: A Correction, Etc.

THB #287: Years End 1 - The 10 Revenue Streams

THB #286: Matilda - The Musical Movie

THB Sidebar: Go To The Movies!!!!

THB #285: Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

See Danielle Deadwyler in TILL | The Story of Mamie Till-Mobley’s Courageous Pursuit of Justice

THB Headline: "YouTube Paying Roughly $2 Billion a Year for NFL Sunday Ticket"

THB #284: Is There An Answer To This Mess, Pt 2

FYC: Sarah Polley’s Sweeping Epic WOMEN TALKING | Find Screenings Near You

THB #283: Is There An Answer To This Mess? (Pt 1)

DP/30: Retrograde, Matthew Heineman

EMPIRE OF LIGHT a film by Sam Mendes | Golden Globe Award Nominee for Best Actress Olivia Colman | Screenings NOW Available

THB #282: 13 Weeks To Oscar - The New Default?

See Danielle Deadwyler in TILL | The Story of Mamie Till-Mobley’s Courageous Pursuit of Justice

THB #281: Revenge Of The IMAX Trailers

THB #279: It Was A Very Good Year

THB #280: Babylon (spoiler-lite)

DP/30: Sam & Kate, Darren Le Gallo

For Your Feckin’ Consideration | THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN | Nominated for 8 Golden Globes and 9 Critics Choice Awards

THB #277: Streaming, Legacy & MONEY

THB #276: Avatar: The Way of Water Review(?)

THB #275: 14 Weeks To Oscar - To Do List

THB #274: How NYT's Brooks Barnes Spins Opinion Instead Of Doing Journalism

THB #273: Oy.

THB #272: 15 Weeks To Oscar

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio | A Stop Motion Masterpiece | For Your Consideration in All Categories

THB #271: A Man Called Otto

THB #270: A Weekend of Movies

THB #269: Box Office... and the rant it inspires

THB #268a: NY Film Critics Circle

FYC | THIRTEEN LIVES | Best Picture

THB #268: 16 Weeks to Oscar - Charts B4 The NY Storm

THB# 267: Emancipation

FYC | Ron Howard’s THIRTEEN LIVES | Best Picture

THB #266: Glass Onion Review & Analysis

FYC | Ron Howard’s THIRTEEN LIVES | Best Picture

THB #265: Strange World Review & Analysis

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | For Your Consideration in All Categories Including Best Picture

THB #264: Holiday Mythmaking @ The Box Office

THB #263: Glass Onion @ The Box Office

THB #262: Thankful 2022

THB #261: I Love Musicals That Don't Suck

THB Sidebar: Covid Comes Home

THB #260: Welcome Back Iger

THB #259: Sick

THB #258: Things I Am Loving (11/16/22)

THB Awards Blast - Thirteen Lives

THB #257: 18 Weeks To Oscar - New Lists

THB #256: What About Bob II?

THB #255: Chappelle. Again.

DP/30: Causeway, Lila Neugebauer

THB #254: Consuming

THB #253: Disney Q4 Results

THB #252: The Fablemans

THB #251: Wakanda Forever: Black Panther (spoiler-free)

THB #250: The Creeping Terror

THB #249: Things I'm Loving

THB #248: 19 Weeks To Oscar - Reopening Best Picture

THB #247: Will Hollywood Ever Just Get Along?

THB #246 : The Return of Sue Kroll Is AMAZON-ING!

A THB Halloween Message

THB Headlines: Only 1 Film Should Really Have A Big October Smile... No Matter How The Trades Spin It

THB #245 : Ted Hope & The Evocation Of Art

THB Sidebar to #242/243

THB #244: Another Way To Look At Streaming

THB #244: 20 (Long) Weeks To Oscar

Podcast for THB #243: What Happens Next? - State of Cinema, Pt 2

THB #243: What Happens Next? - State of Cinema, Pt 2

THB #242: It's All Over - State of Cinema, Pt 1

The Hot Button Week That Was (October 17-23)

THB #241a: Two Review Friday - 2. Ticket To Paradise

THB #241: Two Review Friday - 1. Black Adam

THB #240: 21 Weeks To Oscar - New Charts

THB #239: Good Morning, NETFLIXXXXXX!

THB #238: Netflix Q3 Analysis (pre-call)

THB Headline: One Idea For A Clickbait Story That Is Utterly Nonsensical.

THB #237: Netflix in Realityland™

THB #236: How Should You Feel About Halloween Ends' Opening?

Marty, Money, Movies & The NYFF

THB Headlines: October 13, 2022

THB #235: 22 Weeks To Oscar - 10 Challenges in '22

THB #234: Wall St x Hollywood = Madness

THB 1st Anniversary: A Selection Of Newsletters

THB #233: Nikki Finke is Dead

THB #232: Tár

THB HEADLINES: CEO of #4 Theater Domestic Chain Speaks Out

THB Headline: There Netflix Goes Again...

THB #231: Forward Facing

THB #230: We Can Atonement... Just For One Day

THB #229: 23 Weeks - A Really Bad Idea

THB #228: Date of Birth

THB #227: Box Office Waaaaa

THB Headline: Joyce Carol Oates Tweet Reviews Blonde

THB # 226: Twilight of the Cable Gods

Review: Bros

THB #225: Hulu, Simply

THB Headlines: Counting The Academy Museum Loot

THB #224: 24 Weeks To Oscar

THB #223: Don't Overstate It, Darling

THB #222: In Search Of Passion

THB #221: The Non-Moral Problem With The Globes Return

PR: Sundance Sets Dates, Locations, Tickets

THB Headline: Academy Membership Event Pt 3 - 5 slides and Little Commentary

Streamers & Money: The Current Options

THB Headline: Academy Membership Event 2 - Unanswered Questions

THB Headline: Academy Membership Event

THB #220: Can The Dinosauring of Awards Shows Be Reversed? (Pt 1 of 2)

THB #219: Blonde. A Review.

THB #218: HFPA Will Kill Oscar

THB #217: The Five Stages of Oscar (Phase I)

THB Headline: Biennale'd It!

THB #216: Disney's World of Content Release

DP/30 Interviews Relevant To THB #215

THB #215: A Queen Dies, A Queen Lives - A Tale of 2 Pughs

THB #214: The Danger Of Not Caring

THB @Telluride 6: Empire of Light

THB @Telluride 5, Bones & All

THB @ Telluride 4: Women Talking (written)

THB @ Telluride 3, Russia (Pt 1), US and The Holocaust (Pt 1)

THB @Telluride 2

THB @Telluride, 1

Telluride Line-Up

THB Headline, August 31

THB Headlines, August 30, 2022

THB #213: The Rest Of The 2022 Box Office Year

THB #212: Olivia Gone Wild/Variety Gone To Click Bait

THB Headline: A Shia LaBeouf Interview

THB #211: The Festivals Are Coming!

THB # 202b: THE SNUBBIES FINALS (Emmy 2022)

THB Headlines, August 24, 2022

THB #210: How To Make A Hit/Barbarian

THB #209: Unanswered Streaming Questions, Pt 2 of 2

DP/30 Audiopod: Andrew Rossi, The Andy Warhol Diaries

THB #208: Unanswered Streaming Questions, Pt 1 of 2

THB #207: Better Things - In Memoriam

THB #207: Swimming The Streams/She-Hulk

THB #206: Calm The F*** Down, Please

THB #205: The 10 Week Box Office Drought Begins

THB #204: 32 Weeks To Oscar

THB 203a: Disney Day Q3 - The Hard Sell

THE SNUBBIES - Wednesday Update

THB #203: Disney Day Q3, Preview

THB # 202: THE SNUBBIES (Emmy 2022)

THB #202: The Sky Must Always Be Falling

THB# 201: Bullet Train & How We Rotten

THB #200: Money Changes Everything

DP/30 Audiopod: The Return To Theaters 2022

THB #199: Warner Bros Discovery Q2 2022

THB #198: Paramount Q2

THB #197: Batgirl… Whose Baby Are You?

THB #196: Bullet Train (spoiler-free)

DP/30 Audiopod: Reservation Dogs, Devery Jacobs

THB Headlines, August 1

THB #195 Redux: Part 1 - The Journey To An HFPA With ZERO Oversight

THB #195: Part 2 - Where The For-Profit Globes Could Take Us

THB #195: Part 1 - The Journey To An HFPA With ZERO Oversight

THR Doesn't Need Your Approval: The Press Release

THB #194: 2 Reviews (1 More To Come)

THB Headlines, July 28

THB Headlines, July 27

THB #192: Remember The Dependents

THB SuperTweet: No Crushing, Please

THB Headline (1)

THB Headlines, July 22

THB #191: Dawn Hudson's Ivory Tower

THB Headlines: July 20

THB #190: Nope

THB in Review: Netflix Columns

THB #189: Netflix Q2 2022 (Pt 2)

THB #189: Netflix Q2 2022 (Pt 1)

THB #188: The Day Before Netflix Q2

THB Headlines: July 17

THB # 187: The Gray Man

THB Headlines: July 14

THB #186: Where the Crawdads Sing

THB #185: Why Emmys Repeat... Emmys Repeat... Repeat...

THB #184: Emmy, Emmy, Emmy!!!

THB Headlines, July 11

THB #182a: HFPA Won't Stop Thinkin' About Tomorrow

THB #183: Revisiting The 2020 COVID Movies

THB Headlines, July 8

THB #182: Should The Globes Exist?

THB Headlines, July 7

THB #181: Hu Do You Lu?

THB Headlines, July 6

THB Headlines, July 5

THB #180: Thor: Love & Thunder (spoiler-free)

THB Headlines, July 4

THB Headlines, July 3

THB # 179: Do Count Your Minions Before They Hatch

A final note from Dawn Hudson…

THB #178: U.S. v Hollywood

THB #177: The Lies We Choose

DP/30 Emmy Audiopod: Cathy Schulman, The First Lady

THB #176: Mid-Summer Check-Up

DP/30 Emmy Audiopod: Sasha Lane, Conversations with Friends

Shame

THB #175: Stuck In A Loop

DP/30 Emmy Audiopod: Josh Charles, We Own This City

THB #174: The Black Phone

DP/30 Emmy Audiopod: Jon Bernthal, We Own This City

THB #173: Elvis

THB #172: The Lightyear Conundrum

THB #170b: Oops... Atlanta...

THB #170a: The Big Emmy Wave, Pt 2 of 2

THB #171: The Trouble With Emmys

THB #171: Lightyear, briefly

THB #170: The Big Emmy Wave, Pt 1 of 2

THB #169: Deflated

THB #168: Jurassic World: Dominion

THB #167: The Sagansky Thing...

DP/30 Emmy Audiopod: Ben Schwartz, The Afterparty

THB #166: Tommy's Guns

DP/30 Emmy Audiopod: Imogen Poots, Outer Range (audio file corrected)

DP/30 Emmy Audiopod: Imogen Poots, Outer Range

THB #165: Toby and Johnny and Amber... OH MY!

THB #164: The Boys - Penis & Cameo Season 3

THB #163: Danger Zone

THB #163: Long Weekend Ahoy!

THB #162: The Horror of the Mundane

THB #161: Around The May Pall

THB #160: "Leave Netflix ALONE!!!!"

THB #159: Fisking Industry Analysis (Oy!)

THB #158: Johnny & Amber, Fighting In A Tree...

RIP Monday

THB #157: Sunday Box Office Quickie

THB #156: There Are No Streaming Wars (again)

THB #155: Review - Top Gun Maverick

THB #154: Disney Day

THB #153: The Day Before Disney Day

THB #132 : Emmy Nom Ad-Bait, Pt 1

THB #131: Summer Begins... What's Next?

THB #130: Off-Line

THB #129: Review - Dr Strange(r)

THB #128: How We Stream

THB #127: After The CinemaCon, Into The $2.9B Summer (I Hope)

THB # 126: Resetting AN (After Netflix)

THB #125: CinemaCon's #1 Issue

THB #124: Northman & Nic Cage & The Box Office Ecosystem (Oh, My)

THB #123: Netflix Day, 4 of 4 - The Aftermath

THB #123: Netflix Day, 3 of 4: Earnings Call

THB #123: Netflix Day, 2 of 4: Charts

THB #123: Netflix Day, 1 of 4

THB #122: The Next Big Streaming Question

THB #121: Happy PassEaster

THB #120: The Future of The Future

THB #119: Toby or Not Toby, These Are The Numbers

THB #113: Au Revoir, Mon Kilar

THB #112: Review: Ambulance

THB #111: The Forest & The Trees

THB #110: Overstuffed Streamers/Starving Theaters

THB #109: Game of Platforms

THB #108: Oscars in Pieces: Piece 3

THB #108: Oscars in Pieces: Piece 2

THB #108: Oscars in Pieces: Piece 1

THB #107: 25 Hours To Oscar

THB #106: 3 Days To Oscar (7 to Oscar Issac)

Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Oscar Speech

THB #105: 5 Days To Oscar

THB #104: 6 Truths About Streaming

THB #107: You Do The Box Office Analysis!

DP/30 Audiopod: Dune, Jon Spaihts

THB #102: MGM/UAmazon

THB #101: Time To Vote!

THB #100: Happy Birthday To THB

THB #99: Keepers of History

THB #98: Weekend of Sound & Fury

THB #97: Starving The Box Office, The Next 6 Months

THB #96: Fear & Loathing in Hollywood

THB #95: Oscar Shrinkage

THB #94: Turning Red

THB #93: The Batman (no spoilers)

THB #92: The Trouble With Variable Ticket Pricing

THB #91: Oscar Ass Covering w/ Dawn & David

THB #90: Man Chaps Dog

THB #89: Blonde History Month

THB #88: Studios Wouldn't Make THAT

THB #87: Deconstructing Oscar

THB Special: Academy Memo Leak!

Apologies for THB #86 Typos (corrected on the web page)

THB #86: Smiling Faces

THB #00: Taking The Rest Of The Week Off

THB #85: Death

THB ICYMI: The 10 Myths of Streaming

THB #84: The 10 Myths Of Streaming (Pt 2)

DP/30 AudioPod: Sundown, Tim Roth

DP/30 AudioPod: Sundown, Michel Franco

THB #83: The 10 Myths Of Streaming (Pt 1)

THB #82: Disney Q1, 2022 & The End of Theatrical

THB #81: Oscar Nominations 2022

THB #81: Fixing The Oscars in 5 Steps

THB #80: Jason Kilar: Malice in WarnerLand

THB #79: TV Subscription Madness

Nightmare Alley Featurette: Is He Man or Beast?

THB #78: Make Your Own Kind of Streamer

DP/30 Audiopod: Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World

DP/30: Rebecca Hall, Passing

DP/30: Rebecca Hall, Passing

THB #77: Review - Pam & Tommy

Nightmare Alley Featurette: Homme Fatale

THB #76: 9 Weeks To Oscar

THB #75: Sundance 2022 Reviews 1

DP/30: Mike Mills, C'mon C'mon

THB #73: Netflix Is Chilled

THB #71: Assumptions - Episode Two: Linear Television, Decision-Free Strikes Back

THB #74: Sundance - A Story of Love & Hate

THB #70: Assumptions - Episode One: Theatrical, An Old Hope

Nightmare Alley Featurette: A Troupe Beyond Compare

Nightmare Alley Featurette: Is He Man or Beast?

THB #69: Hollywood's New Blindspot

THB #68: Pick a Lane - Whose Analytics Are They Anyway?

Nightmare Alley Featurette: Homme Fatale

THB #67: Review - Scream

THB #66: New Year's Resolutions 4 (Fin)

Golden Globes: Gathering Its Meaning

THB #67: Where Should Jason Kilar Land?

Michael Wilmington, 1946-2022

DP/30 Audio Podcast: Steven Knight, Spencer

THB #65: New Year's Resolutions 3

THB #67: 13 Weeks To Oscar (!)

THB #66: Unpublished.