WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Updated look at 2016 by studio. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2016 to date is now +3% above last year and now +8% above the average for this point the past four years ($2.455 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films have grossed $6.8 billion […]
NETWORK FINALS: THE MASKED SINGER, THE GOLDBERGS, BLACK-ISH, and the CBS and NBC news specials all gained 0.1 in final numbers. As we mentioned this morning, the 9PM hour on CBS wasn’t filled with a new episode of THE AMAZING RACE but rather by a SWAT rerun. […]
DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary 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). ###
NOTE TO READERS: Charts will continue to be posted as usual, but due to our coverage of the Toronto Film Festival, for the next week all text and responses to comments/requests will be delayed, potentially for a day or more. Things will be back to normal on Monday, September 18. […]
ANNABELLE: CREATION (New Line/Warners) will easily take the weekend. According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, opening day was $15.1M, slightly below the $15.5M for 2014’s original Annabelle, but Creation is much more frontloaded, with $4M from Thursday night, almost double the $2.1M for Annabelle. That suggests a lower weekend multiple than Annabelle‘s 2.4, and […]
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: PRESS YOUR LUCK dropped 0.09 to 0.44, GENERATION GAP was steady at 0.41, and THE CON ticked up to 0.27. CBS: BIG BROTHER gained 0.03 to 0.76. The rest of the night had reruns at 0.31/0.32/0.22. NBC: Reruns at 0.18/0.22/0.21. FOX: An MLB game at 0.64. CW: BUMP premiered at 0.06/0.04, […]
>Well, preseason NFL football was fun while it lasted. The broadcast week just concluded (August 29-September 4) saw network weekly ratings come crashing down to earth. FOX wilted to a summer low 1.1 weekly average, with only one hour of Hell’s Kitchen above a 2.0 young adult rating. CBS and NBC saw similar declines without […]
International box office for 2013 releases through February 2, 2014. Frozen has pushed past Hunger Games: Catching Fire, after passing The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in the yearly worldwide rankings last week. The Wolf of Wall Street (now #33 for the year) is putting some distance between it and American Hustle (still #41 worldwide). While American Hustle is winning domestically, Wolf is dominating […]