> Like any showbiz stripper, the Sundance Film Festival has left its most notable revelations for last:  after releasing its Competition Entries and its Midnight and Other Fringe Titles, today the Festival announced its highest-profile Premiere films, both scripted and documentary.  They seem a bit lower-key than usual this year, with stars and filmmakers notable […]

The 41st weekend of the year is looking like a fairly soft $106 million for the top 12 films, down 13% from this weekend last year but down a more moderate 5% from the multi-year average for this weekend. Opening at over 3,000 theaters Friday (slightly above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Game 3 of the STANLEY CUP FINALS dominated the night at 1.20. CBS:  Reruns at 0.37/0.33/0.28/0.24. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR gained 0.04 to 0.38, and WEAKEST LINK was up 0.08 to 0.38. FOX:  DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS ticked down to 0.31, and BEAT SHAZAM was up 0.02 to 0.33. CW:  ROSWELL, […]

>After three very rough weekends, this weekend should be very solid at the box office.  We expect the top 12 films to gross around $145 million, up sharply from the $128 million the same weekend last year.  The second Sherlock Holmes film should lead the way with over $60 million this weekend, followed by around […]

  After two weeks of sloth, Hollywood started rolling out its pre-holiday product.  The weekend’s easy winner will be SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (Sony Animation/Columbia/Sony), which had a $12.6M Friday according to preliminary numbers at Deadline, including $3.5M from Thursday night.  That should give it a $35M+ weekend.  Projections after that are tough, because there […]

STUDIO SCORECARD. In the worldwide studio rankings for 2013 to date, very little change from last week. TOTAL NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE. Looking at wide-release films in North America (those that play on at least 400 screens at some point), 2013 now totals just under $8.0 billion, just barely ahead of 2012’s pace and 3% above the prior four-year […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE BACHELORETTE premiered at 0.72, down 0.26 from the June 2021 premiere.  CLAIM TO FAME launched at 0.36. CBS:  Reruns at 0.31/0.25/0.20/0.23. NBC:  Returning from a week off, AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR dipped 0.03 to 0.36, and WEAKEST LINK was down 0.07 to 0.28. FOX:  DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS lost 0.02 to […]

> Ah, if only NBC didn’t have to program against those darn competitors all the time… NBC:  With repeats on every other network, the Peacock was able to garner a narrow win under its tree, even though its own ratings weren’t exactly tinsel and glitter:  1.8 for the continuing run of WHO’S STILL STANDING? (which […]