NOTE: Season To Date and Weekly Network Ratings Charts Are Below Tonight is the last Monday of November sweeps, and with some variation (most notably because of baseball on FOX), most network series have been airing new episodes every week since the season began in late September–as many as 10 of the 22 episodes covered […]
Yesterday’s studio estimate for THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Lionsgate) seemed high, with a Sunday drop predicted to be by far the lowest in the Top 10, so it’s not much of a surprise to see the weekend number reduced now that final figures are out, down $3M from $161.1M to $158.1M. Even with […]
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 23 and Sunday November 24, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.) College Football Week 13: Top National Games on Saturday 4.8 rating CBS 3:30 #12-Texas A&M at […]
Live events remain one of the last bastions of network TV. ABC: Despite facing a monster football game, the AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS were up a full 1.1 over last year’s edition to 4.5, towering over the numbers ABC has gotten with regular programming this fall. NBC: There was never any doubt that the Tom […]
Warner Brothers moved back into first place, pushing Disney back into second place in their recent tug of war. Gravity enjoyed a nice week of overseas grosses, the bulk of the Warner Brothers gain this week. Thor: The Dark World also generated some more overseas dollars, but not enough to allow Disney to keep pace. Of course, […]
Updated worldwide box office chart for 2013 North American films. Also, click here for a summary of worldwide performance by studio.
OPENINGS: We noted here yesterday that if THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Lionsgate) could just hold on as well on its first Saturday as The Hunger Games had, a $160M weekend was within its grasp. That’s exactly what happened, with the same 25% Saturday drop for Catching Fire that Hunger Games had and a $161.1M weekend […]
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #47 of 2013 now looks like $222 million for the top 12 films — up from yesterday’s estimate thanks to a stronger than expected Saturday for Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Now the overall weekend volume virtually matches the average for recent weekends before Thanksgiving. Opening at 4,163 theaters […]