With his second movie opening this past weekend, Team Salem has crossed the $100 million mark in the second annual ShowbuzzDaily Summer Movie Fantasy Draft.  Salem’s slate totals $107 million through Sunday, still trailing Team Metcalf’s $765 million tally (with half of his films already released). Team Weil has one film open (Battleship) and stands […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BLACK-ISH lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  History’s VIKINGS gained 0.09 from last week to 0.74, and that gave the new SIX a solid lead-in for a 0.48 premiere, which was also simulcast on A&E (0.16) […]

The 44th weekend of the year is looking like $114 million for the top 12 films, better than last weekend but 4-8% below comparable weekends the past few years.   Opening at over 3,350 theaters Friday (slightly above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Ender’s Game from Lionsgate/Summit should average $8,600 per […]

> Pawel Pawlikowski is a filmmaker whose name deserves to be better known: his films Last Resort and My Summer of Love are small but beautifully realized stories of intricate human emotion. His new picture The Woman In the Fifth, is in a somewhat different mode, edging toward genre, but it continues to display his […]

DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night […]

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>Grimm is now up to 240 promo seconds over the last week, and the return of Chuck has worked its way up to 75 seconds.  Now, NBC has to hold its breath that Texas wins tonight and ends the World Series.  Otherwise, these two shows will face an additional headwind on Friday, a Game 7.  […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for WWE SMACKDOWN, THE BLACKLIST and 20/20.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL was at 0.39/0.29/0.27/0.15, and Big Ten Network had a Top 10 game at 0.23.  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH […]