Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #20 of 2014 looks like $177 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, up a very good 21% from the norm for this weekend.   Opening at 3,952 theaters, Godzilla from Warner Brothers grossed $38.5 million Friday and late Thursday, putting the film on track for a great $98 million opening weekend (well […]

Thursday preliminary broadcast ratings:

        NETWORK FINALS:  GREY’S ANATOMY, CHICAGO MED and THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.1 in final numbers, while SCANDAL and THE AMAZING RACE lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TruTV was at the top of a low Thursday for cable with IMPRACTICAL […]

  The DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS didn’t liven things up. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  As anticipated, ABC’s NBA FINALS rose to 6.4 after adjustment (0.1 below Monday’s Game 5), and FOX’s US OPEN coverage rose to 0.7.  In addition, the 8:30PM episode of AP BIO lost 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun THE BIG BANG THEORY gained the same.           […]

Thanks to the State of the Union Address, there was virtually no original programming on the broadcast networks last night. ABC:  You’d think things were set up perfectly for THE TASTE to overperform, with nothing but reruns against it in the pre-speech 8PM slot, but it only managed to tie CBS for the hour, falling […]

  OPENINGS:  VIOLENT NIGHT (Universal) slightly overperformed with $13.3M in the US, and with its $20M production budget, it may be headed for breakeven or perhaps moderate profit.  However, worldwide marketing costs are likely to add another $40M+ to that tally, and the thriller had much less appeal overseas, with $7.1M in 72 territories. The […]

  WONDER WOMAN (RatPac/Wanda/Ten Cent/DC/Warners) is proving to be exactly what its studio–and the summer box office in general–needed.  For Warners, it’s giving the embattled DC mega-franchise its first taste of critical praise since the days of The Dark Knight, which is important in itself, and that’s paying off in ticket sales.  Preliminary numbers at […]