Weekend #18 of 2012 (the first weekend of May and the unofficial start of the summer movie season) looks like it will be about $214 million for the top 12 films, up 38% from last year’s comparable weekend and up 46% from the four-year average for this weekend.  It’s all about Marvel’s The Avengers.   […]

  The traditionally dreary Labor Day Weekend boxoffice is underway, and preliminary numbers at Deadline have THE POSSESSION (Lionsgate) in the lead, with a $5.5M Friday and probably around $18M for the 4-day holiday weekend.  Possession, which is sort of The Exorcist plus Hasidim, has the advantage over last year’s holiday, when Apollo 18 and Shark […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  EMPIRE narrowly avoided a new series low by rising 0.1 in final numbers, while SURVIVOR lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Freeform’s PRETTY LITTLE LIARS spin-off THE PERFECTIONISTS premiered at a lackluster 0.18. Tru had its final night […]

  The weekend looks bright for a couple of the new openings.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, WRECK-IT RALPH (Disney) had a $13.5M opening day, on its way to a $50M weekend.  If those numbers hold, the weekend will top the (non-Pixar) Walt Disney Animation record $48.8M opening for Tangled 2 years ago, which […]

The 13th weekend of 2013 looks like it will be even with the pace for the comparable weekend the past few years.  The top 12 films Friday-Sunday should total about $144 million. Opening at a very high 3,719 theaters Thursday, G.I. Joe: Retaliation from Paramount should average a solid $10,300 per theater for the weekend (for a […]

Wednesday fast national ratings: FOX: American Idol still gives its network an easy win on Wednesday night (the 4.0 adult 18-49 rating doubles second-place ABC’s primetime average).  But the singing competition show just keeps dropping, down 15% from last week’s premiere episode and 28% below the comparable episode last year. ABC and NBC rebounded a […]

  IN TIME:  Watch It At Home – The Clock Never Really Starts Ticking   Andrew Niccol wants to be a populist moviemaker of ideas, but he just doesn’t have the knack.  Niccol’s ideas are genuinely impressive:  he’s the man who wrote The Truman Show and Gattaca, and less successfully, S1mOne and Lord of War.  […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl game was at 0.34.  CW’s I HEARTRADIO JINGLE BALL was at 0.05.  In late night, NBC’s SNL fell 0.17 to 0.68.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  NFL Network’s tripleheader was at 3.35/2.60/2.04.  ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl games were at 0.53/0.50/0.23/0.21.  On ESPN2, WOMEN’S […]