Wednesday preliminary broadcast ratings:
>Big time professional sports dominate the top of this week’s cable ratings chart. The NFL Draft turned in an excellent 3.3 rating with Adults 18-49 and nearly 7 million viewers 2+. The Draft finished in third place in the 8:00 half hour on Thursday (behind only Big Bang Theory on CBS with a 4.1 rating […]
OPENINGS: ABOMINABLE (Pearl/DreamWorks/Universal) seized a weekend on the calendar that had a dearth of new children’s movies (and with 2 weeks until The Addams Family opens), and pushed it to a fair $20.9M opening. However, with roughly $150M in costs, it will need international help to reach profit, and since weekend results were at […]
Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday November 12-13, 2016. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K P2+). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, November […]
OPENINGS: MALEFICENT (Disney) is claiming a $70M weekend, and like all round-number estimates, that should be viewed with some skepticism. But even if it dips slightly in final numbers tomorrow, it’s a fine start. It’s not, however, the equal of Disney’s other revisionist fairy tales Alice In Wonderland ($116.1M) or Oz: The Great and […]
Weekend #21 of 2012 (the traditional Friday-Sunday portion of this Memorial Day weekend) looks like it will total about $153 million for the top 12 films, down 29% from last year’s comparable weekend and down 11% from the four-year average for the weekend. Two movies open Friday, Men in Black 3 and Chernobyl Diaries. Although […]
OPENINGS: 22 JUMP STREET (Sony/Columbia) went even higher on Friday than early estimates had it, reaching $25M. Even if it’s front-loaded as a young-skewing sequel, a $60M weekend is all but guaranteed, which would be 65% higher than the $36.3M opening weekend for 21 Jump Street, and if strong word of mouth kicks in, […]
The Alphabet has begun its process of setting things up for next week’s Upfronts by renewing all the shows everyone knew would be renewed: MODERN FAMILY, GREY’S ANATOMY, THE MIDDLE, CASTLE, DANCING WITH THE STARS, SHARK TANK and THE BACHELOR, as well as this season’s new hits ONCE UPON A TIME, SUBURGATORY and REVENGE.