OPENINGS: Let’s be clear: the decision to greenlight a $100M production budget for IN THE HEART OF THE SEA (Village Roadshow/Warners)–a period whaling adventure that features about 10 minutes of a CG whale and is otherwise mostly (spoiler alert) about the cast starving and suffering–was fundamentally insane. Even if the film had been good, […]
Updated international box office chart:
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: SHARK TANK dropped a tenth to 0.46, and 20/20 was up 0.03 to 0.43. CBS: BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDITION fell 0.11 from Thursday to 0.38. A BLUE BLOODS rerun followed at 0.29. NBC: The WINTER OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY was at 1.97, a dismal 70% plunge from the 2018 Ceremony. (Note that […]
Last night the numbers continued to slide for Under the Dome, and viewers watched country singers rock out. ABC: CMA MUSIC FESTIVAL: COUNTRY’S NIGHT TO ROCK was up an impressive half ratings point from last year’s installment to 2.0, although that one aired in mid-September, against some early regular season competition. CBS: UNDER THE […]
BROADCAST FINALS: ABC’s NBA game was at 0.61. FOX’s MLS match was at 0.13. CW’s originals were at 0.05/0.04. NBC’s SNL returned from its Olympics break at 0.86. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL was at 0.45/0.41/0.35/0.33/0.29/0.21. As the war in Ukraine continued to dominate, cable news […]
> Another Sunday, or as NBC likes to think of it, The Only Night That Should Count. ABC: ONCE UPON A TIME barely slipped from last week, proving its full season pick-up was well deserved. DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES continues its limp to the finish line, while the only good news for PAN AM is that CBS’s […]
STAR WARS: Whether one considers Avatar‘s proper US all-time box office record to be $749.8M (initial release) or $760.5M (includes “director’s cut” re-release), the crown will be changing hands in the next few days. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (Lucasfilm/Disney), which declined 41% on its 3rd weekend to $88.3M (setting yet another record by […]
The 34th weekend of the year is looking like $99 million for the top 12 films, up a decent 10% from the average for this weekend. Opening at 3,046 theaters Wednesday (a bit above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones from Sony should average $4,100 per theater for the […]