Proving, once again, that opening night exit polls are all but meaningless, preliminary numbers at Deadline have NOAH (Paramount/Regency) rising as much as 20% from Friday to Saturday despite a “C” grade that supposedly predicted poisonous word of mouth.  In fact, for a non-family release, a 20% Saturday bump is excellent–by way of comparison, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a rerun at 0.18, 20/20 fell 0.18 to 0.17. CBS:  Reruns at 0.22/0.17/0.19. NBC:  After a rerun at 0.19, DATELINE was at 0.25. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN lost 0.06 to 0.61. CW:  Following reruns at 0.06/0.08, GREAT AMERICAN JOKE OFF ticked up to 0.06. TELEMUNDO:  TOP CHEF VIP slipped 0.02 to […]

>Earlier this month, we looked at the sorry state of broadcast ratings since January.  Since the start of Daylight Saving Time, the outlook hasn’t gotten any better.  Dividing the season to date into thirds, the latest third is still running 7% behind the same period last year for the four broadcast networks collectively.  The 9.6 […]

  Jon Stewart is becoming positively Lorne Michaels-ian in his influence over comedy culture far beyond his own show.  It was announced today, to no one’s great surprise, that his colleague and protege Stephen Colbert will take over the helm of CBS’s late-night talk show when David Letterman retires next year.  (Once it was revealed […]

  OPENINGS:  The musical remake of MEAN GIRLS (Paramount) was within expectations at $28M for the 3-day weekend ($32M is anticipated with the inclusion of Monday’s MLK Day holiday).  The film, which was originally developed for streaming, had a moderate budget, so it should be on its way to a fair amount of profit.  The […]

> On its first Wednesday in release, THE HUNGER GAMES fell 22% to $8.1M, but just as Tuesday’s hold wasn’t quite as good as it looked, Wednesday’s wasn’t as bad.  For whatever reason, Wednesdays tend to be a down day in the dynamic of a typical week, particularly for the previous weekend’s new opening.  Last […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  THE VOICE gained a bit of ground with an extra 0.1 in adjusted numbers, although it was still slightly behind THE BLACKLIST in total viewers (11.24M vs 11.19M).  Also up 0.1:  DANCING WITH THE STARS and BONES.  The CBS reruns shifted as well, up 0.1 for THE BIG BANG THEORY and down […]

OPENINGS:  TERRIFIER 3 (Cineverse) broke through to a mainstream audience with an $18.3M weekend, which is more than the entire $10.6M run of 2022’s Terrifier 2 (that one’s highest weekend was $1.9M).  The new entry in the unrated, ultra-violent slasher series accomplished this with not just a low production budget, but reportedly a miniscule amount […]