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AUDIENCE MAP: CW Primetime

Posted February 19, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at the detailed demographics for The CW’s primetime schedule for this season to date.  As a reminder, the audience shares for 30 distinct gender-age groups are displayed for each program below.  Programs in the chart are grouped by night so you can see the audience flow from […]

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INTERNATIONAL BOX OFFICE through November 4

Posted November 4, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

Wreck-It-Ralph enters the worldwide chart with a modest $12 million overseas to date, but that will grow to match and probably exceed the $171 million we expect for the film domestically.  The film could end up with $350-375 million worldwide ultimately. Skyfall, which opens Friday in North America, is already up to $287 million overseas in […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.30.2020

Posted October 1, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

NOTE: The ABC numbers below do not include live viewing of the NBA FINALS Game 1 on the West Coast from 6-8PM PT. Come back this afternoon for precise program ratings for Wednesday broadcast and cable.  DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult […]

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Weekend Studio Estimates 2.27-3.1.2015

Posted March 1, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #9 of 2015 now looks like $95 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, better than the weekend looked yesterday but still down from the norms for this weekend and the first down weekend since January 9-11.   Opening at 3,323 theaters Friday, Focus from Warner Brothers is on track […]

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THE SKED: “Nashville” Keeps Twanging

Posted November 13, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  Yesterday ABC announced a full-season order for NASHVILLE, adding the usual back 9 to its initial 13 episodes.  The show’s ratings haven’t been great, hovering in the 1.8-2.0 neighborhood in recent weeks, but that’s been enough for 2d place in the hour (except last week, when Chicago Fire received a boost from a massive […]

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UPDATED: PRE-THANKSGIVING BOXOFFICE REPORT – 11/21/12

Posted November 22, 2012 by Mitch Salem

  UPDATE:  More refined Wednesday numbers are in via The Hollywood Reporter, and the major difference from the numbers below was for SILVER LININGS NOTEBOOK, which made $656K rather than $550K. still off the pace of last year’s The Descendants, which had a very similar release pattern.  Also, RED DAWN made $4.2M rather than $4.5M, […]

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INSIDIOUS: What’s That Noise?

Posted March 31, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> Worth a ticket. The director and writer of Saw, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, combine again to bring us–hey, where are you going?  No, seriously:  don’t run away.  Leaving aside that Saw is rather unfairly maligned (before it became the poster child for “torture porn” and a dumb sequel machine for Lionsgate, the original […]

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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/2/12

Posted December 3, 2012 by Mitch Salem

ABC’s Fall Finale Sunday was a moderate success. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME could only hold even at 3.1 for its last episode of 2012.  REVENGE climbed 0.2 to 2.4, but that didn’t put it far above last week’s season low.  For what it matters, 666 PARK AVENUE was also up 0.2 to a still-tepid […]

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