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The Weekend Movie Takeaway: TIFF Leads the Way For Film Receptions

September 16, 2019

The weekend’s box office take was very encouraging for the state of cinematic storytelling, especially stories aimed at grown-ups—a demographic it's sometimes easy to imagine the major studios forget even exist.

The Fast Five: 'Joker' Tracking for Another Mega October Opening Weekend

September 16, 2019

While the streaming wars may continue to heat up, some of the most interesting news this week was over on the film side of the industry, with one new release tracking to a potentially record breaking opening and one industry changing app calling it a...

The Fast Five: The Industry Gears Up For Awards Season

September 9, 2019

The Fast Five:

Sublime Primetime 2019: Celebrating Emmy®-Nominated Writers

September 5, 2019

Photo credit: Michael Lynn Jones The Writers Guild of America, West along with Writers Guild Foundation, Variety and Final Draft brought together many of this year’s Emmy® Award writing nominees for an evening to honor their hard work.

The Fast Five: Networks Are Risking Less During Pilot Season as Cost of Television Skyrockets

September 3, 2019

Here’s hoping everyone enjoyed their Labor Day weekend, and watched Jason Reitman’s Labor Day, which is—in my humble opinion—a legally mandated long weekend tradition. Now that we’re back to the grind, here’s the TV news everyone will be buzzing abou...

Weekend Movie Takeaway: Summer Recap

September 3, 2019

The final weekend of summer didn't offer a lot of surprises at the box office, but it does give us a chance to look back at the macro takeaways from what has long stood as the most intensely scrutinised movie-going period of the year.

Angel Has Fallen' Proves Franchise Installments Can Feel Fresh

August 26, 2019

In a year where the prevailing box office takeaways have indicated a worrying degree of consolidation in which stories are being told—and who gets to tell them—the past weekend’s box office offered some glimmers of hope. Or at the very least, nostalg...

The Fast Five: Professional Wrestling is Here to Stay

August 26, 2019

It was another full week of TV news with both streaming services and professional wrestling companies gearing up to go to war with one another. This kind of intense competition for viewers usually brings out the very best from writers and results in ...

Good Boys' Opening Weekend Subverts Expectations

August 20, 2019

It doesn't seem natural to view a medium-budget studio comedy as an underdog, but that's exactly the category Good Boys was in as it headed into the weekend. In fact, many thought it might get out-grossed by the action flick Fast & Furious Presen...