WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Here is an updated look at the 2019 film slates by studio. BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2019 is now -7% below last year’s comparable span (2 points worse than last week) and now basically even with the average at this point the past four years ($4.565 billion).  Over […]

Weekend #12 of 2014 is looking like $149 million for the top 12 films, slightly better than this same weekend on average in previous years. Opening at around 3,800 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two years), Divergent from Lionsgate/Summit should average $16,800 per theater for the weekend (for a $63.5 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.48/0.39/0.34. CBS:  A run of the movie MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION at 0.25. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR rose 0.13 to 0.43, and WEAKEST LINK was at 0.24. FOX:  STARS ON MARS premiered at 0.24, and the season premiere of CRIME SCENE KITCHEN was at 0.24, down four-tenths from its […]

>Now 11 full weeks into 2012, year-to-date domestic box office is running 23% ahead of last year’s horrible pace (down from +26% last week), and the year-to-date total is now pacing 11% ahead of the comparable period’s average for the last several years (down from +12% last week).  Despite a very good opening for 21 […]

  Thanks to the NCAA Tournament, CBS had a strong week, while the continuing decline of the new dramas on ABC and NBC dragged them down.  CBS had the weekly win (Live + Same Day, 5 days actual + 2 days overnights) with 2.09, up 0.30 from last week.  ABC followed at 1.50 (down 0.02), […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The season premiere of GENERATION GAP was at 0.35, and the season premiere of THE CHASE was at 0.30.  A rerun followed at 0.25. CBS:  Reruns at 0.32/0.21/0.16/0.14. NBC:  THE BLACKLIST gained 0.04 to 0.25, followed by reruns at 0.18/0.13. FOX:  Reruns at 0.15/0.10. CW:  Reruns at 0.04/0.03. TELEMUNDO:  TOP CHEF […]

> Deadline is reporting that Saturday’s boxoffice for THE HUNGER GAMES is heading for $50M.  This is obviously a very preliminary figure–some late night west coast shows haven’t even started yet, much less been reported back to the studio.  But if the number holds, it would mean that Hunger Games is an even more phenomenal […]

  RIO 2 (20th/Blue Sky) appears to be losing altitude, according to preliminary box office numbers at Deadline.  The sequel reportedly climbed 30-34% on its second day of release, from $11.9M on Friday to $16M or less.  That would be a big drop from the 69% bump the first Rio had on its initial Saturday […]