The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between August 20 and August 26 grossed a fairly typical $146 million, down 1% from the four-year average for the comparable week and up 6% from the same week in 2011. Year to date (now over $7 billion for wide-release films) continues […]
According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, 2 GUNS (Universal/Emmett-Furla) claimed Friday with $9.8M (including $1.3M from Thursday night). If that number holds, it’ll be considerably below Denzel Washington’s last action opening for Safe House, which started with $13.6M, despite the presence this time of Mark Wahlberg, although it would be higher than Unstoppable ($8M) and […]
NETWORK FINALS: There were no changes from this morning’s preliminary ratings. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.84/0.67. VH1’s BLACK INK CREW gained 0.08 to 0.56. The season finale of Comedy Central’s SOUTH PARK rose 0.03 to 0.46, […]
STUDIO SCORECARD. Warner Brothers has moved past Universal to take the #2 spot on the worldwide box office chart for 2013. The opening of We’re the Millers and continued overseas strength from Pacific Rim and to a lesser extent The Conjuring powered Warner Brothers to the best week of the studios. Reminder: the chart below has been reformatted and expanded […]
OPENINGS: THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (Illumination/Universal) quintupled the next-highest grosser of the weekend, with the biggest opening in US history for an animated non-sequel at $103.2M, easily passing last year’s $90.4M for Inside Out. It remains to be seen if Pets can match Inside Out‘s nearly 4x multiple, but whatever happens from here, […]
STUDIO SCORECARD. Disney remains in the #1 spot in the worldwide box office chart for 2013, but Universal has moved into second place with strong domestic and international performance from Fast & Furious 6. Imagine if the studio could produce and distribute more films that overseas audiences wanted to see. Some studios have slates that significantly […]
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Here is a first look at the studio scorecard for the 2016 slates. We have updated the summary categories somewhat this year with the top category now reserved for films over $500 million worldwide and the lower category for films under $150 million worldwide. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. […]
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 1 and Sunday March 2, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NASCAR 4.8 rating FOX 3:15 pm Sunday Phoenix 500 (-9% from 5.3 last year) 1.5 […]