NETWORK UPDATE:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted up to 7.4 in final numbers–which still wasn’t enough to make it the top show of the night.  In addition, AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS, ONCE UPON A TIME and RESURRECTION (but not REVENGE) each grew by 0.1. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus […]

  TNT’s season finale of DALLAS, perhaps aided by USA’s decision to air a rerun Royal Pains in the timeslot, sprang to a 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demo last night, its best rating since its 2d week on the air back in June.  That was up a remarkable half a ratings point from last […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday December 13 and Sunday December 14, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 15 Sunday 12.3 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (mostly DEN-SD MIA-NE HOU-IND […]

Saturday was generally stronger than anticipated yesterday — the weekend now looks like $83 million instead of $77 million for the top 12 films.   But the rank order is basically same, The Expendables 2 remains the only film above $10 million for the weekend.     The ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Final estimates for films opening […]

The 36th weekend of 2012 is looking like $50 million for the Top 12 films Friday-Sunday, near recent record lows for box office volume.  Equally weak weekends were last seen in 2003 and 2008.  The Possession is holding on to the top spot this weekend (with less than $10 million for the #1 film, yikes), […]

The 2014 holiday box office continues to be better than average but now falling behind last year’s pace. The top 10 films on Monday December 29, 2014 totaled $34.9 million, somewhat below the average $39.8 million for the days since 2002 when December 29 landed on a weekday.  The last time December 29 fell on […]

Weekend #2 of 2015 is looking like $118 million for the top 12 films this weekend, very close to the norm for this weekend and down slightly from the same weekend last year. Opening at 3,500 theaters Friday (above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Taken 3 from Fox should average a decent $8,700 per […]

  The boxoffice news stayed bright on Saturday, according to early numbers at Deadline.  HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (Sony), with its expected Saturday matinee bump, reached $30M in just its first 2 days of release, and will become the biggest September opening ever (easily beating Sweet Home Alabama‘s $35.6M) on Sunday, as well as being one of […]