HUGO: Worth A Ticket – If Only For the Visual Splendors Paramount doesn’t have much choice but to market Martin Scorsese’s HUGO as a family movie: it’s got a PG rating, a young boy and ...
> Don’t get too attached to those CG dinosaurs. FOX: TERRA NOVA barely bothers with those creatures these days anyway, being more concerned with dull conspiracies among humans (points to anyone who can figure out wh...
> Earlier this afternoon, final national ratings for last Friday were released, and once they confirmed that GRIMM had pulled a 1.6 rating, even with the previous week (and just 0.1 out of first place for its hour), NBC reacted...
>Fast national ratings for ABC Monday (Dancing with the Stars, You Deserve It and Castle) will be very inflated Tuesday morning. Two ABC stations (WCVB-Boston and KMBC-Kansas City) will carry the ESPN Monday Night Footbal...
> What’s better than a back order? An extra back order. NBC has increased its order for UP ALL NIGHT by 2 additional episodes, making for a total of 24 in the season. Probably this indicates little more ...
> Per a Box Office Mojo tweet, the final actual number for BREAKING DAWN PART 1‘s opening weekend fell a bit to $138.1M. This isn’t a major surprise, as the first 2 days of the weekend had indicated numbers mo...
> The last Sunday of November sweeps wasn’t music to the ears of anyone. ABC: The AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS matched its 2010 number–which would be better news if the 2010 rating hadn’t been its lowest ever, ...
HAPPY FEET TWO: Watch It At Home – Not So Happy This Time Most sequels, by and large, exist only because an earlier movie made lots of money–that’s just a fact. But sequels often at least try...
> BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Although BD1 had greater declines on Friday (as opposed to Thursday midnight) and Saturday than New Moon did in 2009, Summit’s weekend estimate assumes exactly the same 34% drop for Sunday.&n...
> BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Christmas comes but once a year, and for Summit that day is the 24 hours after a Twilight movie opens. (A little credit to the studio, too, for not fudging the numbers, which would have been ...
> Something unusual for NBC these days: good news. NBC: A 1.6 rating may not sound like anything to celebrate, but it’s a pretty good number for Friday night (only one show all evening did better last night).&...
> Deadline has preliminary numbers for Friday, and they suggest BREAKING DAWN PART 1 will continue to narrowly edge out the opening weekend of New Moon in 2009, with a $73.5M Friday (compared to $72.7M for New Moon). If t...
> The Hollywood Reporter has preliminary Friday numbers suggesting that BREAKING DAWN PART 1 will gross $65-75M for the day, including $30.3M in Thursday midnight showings. Even at the high-end, that would make Breaking D...