WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Updated look at 2016 by studio. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is still -2% below last year and now +2% above the average for this point the past four years ($4.838 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $12.9 billion worldwide when we […]
2014 has its first smash hit, as preliminary numbers at Deadline give THE LEGO MOVIE (Warners) a huge $18M Friday. Since Saturday matinees should only boost the family-oriented animated comedy-adventure, that should bring it over $60M for the weekend, and with the Presidents Day holiday dead ahead and no other family movie on the […]
OPENINGS: The surprise isn’t so much that COCAINE BEAR (Universal) “overdelivered,” but that expectations were so low for a picture that had been the subject of pop culture fascination for months. The $23.1M weekend seems like a realistic reflection of that fact, and although business is likely to drop quickly now that audiences have […]
> As Hollywood prepares to honor its best (well, this year… maybe not so much), an undistinguished group of arrivals dominate the boxoffice. OPENINGS: ACT OF VALOR (Relativity) is claiming the lowest Sunday decline for any adult-skewing picture in the Top 10, ignoring the usual Oscar Day decline (even though the film had the lowest […]
NETWORK FINALS: There were no changes from the preliminary morning ratings. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS games topped Tuesday cable at 1.41/1.40, and the network’s afternoon UEFA match was at 0.32. NBC Sports Net’s NHL PLAYOFFS game was at […]
Valentine’s Day is an enormous moviegoing event each year, so it remains to be seen whether Friday’s brisk business will translate to the rest of the holiday weekend. OPENINGS: ABOUT LAST NIGHT (Screen Gems/Sony) barely missed 1st place with $13M on Friday, beaten by $30K, but it’s off to an impressive start, especially when […]
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: Reruns at 0.28/0.27. CBS: The broadcast NCAA TOURNAMENT games were at 1.09/1.23. NBC: LOPEZ VS LOPEZ dipped 0.03 to 0.20, GRAND CREW ticked down to 0.13, and DATELINE was down 0.07 to 0.21. FOX: WWE SMACKDOWN lost a tick to 0.58. CW: The new WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY ticked down […]
> FOX’s decision to move TOUCH to Thursdays and BONES to Mondays left THE FINDER as the odd show out, and today that other shoe fell: Finder will run its remaining episodes (essentially burning them off) on Fridays at 8PM, starting April 6. This pushes the unscripted HOTEL HELL to summer. This may not be […]