Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.
Business
Box Office: “You Can See Everything” Starts Weekend with $25.6 Mil After 8 Days, Adds 1800 Theaters, Plus “Wicker” Slow Start, “Musk” MIA
Nathan Fielder's having a field day with "You Can See Everything."
The semi-documentary starts the weekend with $25.6 million after 8 days of release. It's...
Business
Controversial “Musk” Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films
Alex Gibney's "Musk" movie is pretty much gone.
Released October 9th to four theaters, it expanded to 472 last Friday.
And now, one week later it's...
Business
Movie Surrender: “Digger,” “Prime Time” Down to Few Theaters, “Social Reckoning” So Unpopular It Loses 2,000 Screens — “Ali G” Just 23
The party is over for three films no wanted to see.
The biggest take down is for Sony's "The Social Reckoning." It loses 2,000 screens...
Celebrity
Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Ali G” Movie Skewered by Critics at 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, Dropped by Amazon Into an Abyss of 23 Theaters
Critics who did see "Ali G: Who Iz I?" this week didn't like it.
Even the ones who gave it a "fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes...
Books
UPDATED Jared Kushner Furiously Denying Claims Published in Vanity Fair Book Excerpt, Jerusalem Post Sides with Him, Removes Story
FRIDAY UPDATE
See below. The Jerusalem Post has removed the story from their site.
THURSDAY: Jared Kushner is denying everything in a book excerpt just published...
Celebrity
Is “Saturday Night Live” Going in Circles? Next Hosts and Musical Guests Were All On the Show Not Long Ago in Different Combinations
Is "Saturday Night Live" just repeating itself?
The new crop of hosts and musical guests, announced today, sound very familiar.
They include Gracie Abrams and John...
Theater
Tom Hanks Coming to Broadway Next Fall with Same Play That Was Priced Out of Reach Off Broadway: Will He Top Clooney, Denzel, Julia...
Tom Hanks is coming back to Broadway.
Next fall, Tom will revive his off Broadway play, "The World of Tomorrow," at a Shubert Theater to...
Television
“60 Minutes” Saw 18% Drop from Same Week Last Year: Rise from Previous Week Much Lower Than 2025 As “Boycott” Has an Impact
On Sunday, "60 Minutes" scored 9.2 million viewers for its fifth episode of this season.
But last year, the fifth episode had 11 million viewers.
This...
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