NETWORK FINALS:  The rerun LAST MAN STANDING lost 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun LEGACIES managed to round up to 0.1 (we don’t have the number to the next decimal place).         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The day’s news was led […]

  THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS (Universal) will win its third consecutive box office weekend, but in the US it continues to run with considerably less than vroom-vroom momentum.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, it fell 54% from last Friday to $5.1M, and is heading for a $18M weekend.  It’s now clear that Fate […]

  No major surprises in the Saturday boxoffice numbers, according to preliminary figures at Deadline.  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) is reporting a solid 18% Friday-to-Saturday bump, better than the 13% that Transformers had in its first Saturday.  That should get it to $140M by Sunday, the #26 6-day opening of all time. SAVAGES (Universal) is claiming […]

Team Weil, with Ice Age 4, had the biggest gain this week, up $97 million to $325 million to date.  The coming week will be huge for this slate as Dark Knight Rises opens Friday. Team Salem had a decent week with an $88 million gain (thanks to continued strong business from Amazing Spider-Man).  The slate now totals $644 million […]

  Despite the expected Saturday surge from Big Hero 6, DUMB & DUMBER TO (Red Granite/Universal) looks like it should hold on for the weekend win.  Dumb pulled in $14.4M on Saturday, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, which was up 2% from Friday, and should give the comedy $37M for the weekend. BIG HERO […]

HBO’s True Blood remains the highest-rated cable program with Adults 18-49 on our weekly ranking.  But watch out HBO, the most down-market, lowest common denominator, tawdry program on television (USA’s WWE Monday Night Raw wrestling) is nipping at your heels.  Fans of wrestling really turned out for the 1,000th episode of this landmark television program, hitting a 2.4 rating […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  CELEBRITY WATCH PARTY gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  MTV’s JERSEY SHORE topped Thursday cable, steady at 0.47, and RIDICULOUSNESS was at 0.15.  Bravo’s REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NYC jumped 0.09 to 0.45, and TOP CHEF was […]

  Let’s start with something simple:  anyone who claims to have reliable knowledge about the profitability of a specific film, without having detailed access to its production budgets, financing documents and key talent agreements (virtually all confidential), misleads themselves and their readers. The financing and accounting of films is probably more complicated now than it’s […]