Foxcatcher, the creepy true tale about a wrestling-obsessed millionaire played by Steve Carell, put a hold on the weekend’s best box office bow among specialty pics, easily beating out Jon Stewart‘s directorial debut (and another true tale), Rosewater and Tommy Lee Jones‘ The Homesman. Meanwhile, Oscar contender Birdman continues to fly high after a month in theaters, expanding its reach and landing in the overall weekend top 10.
Sony Classics opened Bennett Miller’s…

You can’t work in TV (or our business of covering the business of TV) without feeling a cringe of recognition in this terrific bit from Saturday Night Live about the faux show The Dudleys, and the contortions a network goes through to deal with audience input on how a show should be “fixed.”
Guest host Woody Harrelson and an “evolving” cast of The Dudleys slyly demonstrate what it’s really like to make a show in an era when social-media commentators and that wacky…