The Sked: THURSDAY Ratings
Thursday preliminary broadcast ratings:
Weekend Box Office Predictions MARCH 14-16
Weekend #11 of 2014 is looking like $115 million for the top 12 films, down from last weekend but actually 10% above the average for the comparable weekend the past several years. Opening at around 3,000 theaters Friday (slight...
SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 8 and Sunday March 9, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. ...
Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Year to date, Warner Brothers has pulled ahead thanks to the opening of 300: Rise of an Empire and recent overseas grosses from The LEGO Movie, as it really kicks into gear outside North America....
Weekend Studio Estimates MARCH 7-9
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #10 of 2014 now looks like $131 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, slightly ahead of the the average for this weekend the past few years. Opening at 3,470 t...
FRIDAY MARCH 7 Box Office Report
Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #10 of 2014 looks like $133 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, slightly ahead of the the average for this weekend the past few years. Opening at 3,470 theaters Friday, 300: Ris...
Weekend Box Office Predictions MARCH 7-9
Weekend #10 of 2014 is looking like $127 million for the top 12 films, right in line with the same weekend the last few years. Opening at around 3,400 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for opening we...
SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 1 and Sunday March 2, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. ...
Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Year to date, Sony and Universal (on the basis of sheer volume of films) is slightly ahead of Warner Brothers (the studio with the year’s only big hit so far), although three studios are very...
Weekend Studio Estimates FEB 28-MAR 2
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #9 of 2014 looks like $110 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, somewhat better than we forecast Wednesday ($100 million) but 18% below the average for this w...
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28 Box Office Report
Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #9 of 2014 looks like $109 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, somewhat better than we forecast Wednesday ($100 million) but still 17% below the average for this weekend. Opening...
Weekend Box Office Predictions FEB 28-MAR 2
Weekend #9 of 2014 is looking like an lame $102 million for the top 12 films, 33% behind the average for this weekend the past several years. With The Lego Movie returning to Earth and neither of the new movies this weekend lo...
SKEDBALL: Winter Olympic Ratings Update
Last night’s final night of coverage from Sochi on NBC was in three parts. Sochi Gold from 7:00-8:30 pm (mostly an excellent documentary on the still fascinating Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding controversy in 1994) averag...
Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Despite having the only movie to cross the $300 million worldwide line (The Lego Movie), Warner Brothers lags behind Sony which has no mega-hit but three of its four films in 2014 are at $100 milli...
Weekend Studio Estimates FEBRUARY 21-23
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #8 of 2014 looks now like $98 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, slightly below this weekend’s average the past several years but well above last year...