Posts Tagged ‘forecast’
 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/15/12

  Everyone enjoys a quiet weekend before the Bat-attack begins at 12:01AM Thursday night. OPENINGS:  The important number for ICE AGE:  CONTINENTAL DRIFT (20th) isn’t the $46M US opening (the lowest of the franchis...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE REPORT – 7/14/12

  ICE AGE:  CONTINENTAL DRIFT (20th) continued with its underwhelming opening on Saturday, according to preliminary numbers at Deadline.   The 4th in the animated series had no Saturday matinee bump, holding at $16.5M f...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/13/12

  The continents drift, and so does the boxoffice. OPENINGS:  ICE AGE:  CONTINENTAL DRIFT (20th), at $16.5M, was 25% below the opening for Ice Age 2, and lower than the first Friday of Ice Age 3 (which opened on a Wedne...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: “Dark Knight” Begins To Rise

  We’re now just over 10 days from the 12:01AM July 20 launch of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, the summer’s last mammoth movie event, and The Hollywood Reporter has provided the first hard information about the epic&#...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/8/12

  Spidey is in the books… so we’re officially on the clock for The Dark Knight Rises. OPENINGS:  In addition to its $140M 6-day US opening, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) is reporting $129M for the weekend from...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY WEEKEND BOXOFFICE REPORT – 7/7/12

  No major surprises in the Saturday boxoffice numbers, according to preliminary figures at Deadline.  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) is reporting a solid 18% Friday-to-Saturday bump, better than the 13% that Transformers ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE SCORECARD – 7/6/12

  A great start for the weekend, if you overlook the fact that 2 of the 3 new arrivals flopped. OPENINGS:  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) has successfully rebooted the franchise, no question about it.  (Unless it tanks ov...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY EARLY FRIDAY BOXOFFICE REPORT – 7/6/12

  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) is headed for a strong post-4th of July weekend, according to preliminary Friday numbers at Deadline.  Spidey reportedly made $21M on Friday, which if that number holds would be a 33% incre...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Early Thursday Numbers for Spidey and More

  Deadline has preliminary boxoffice figures for Thursday, and reports that THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) was at $16.3M for the day, down 30% from July 4th.  If that number holds, it would be slightly better than the 34%...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY BOXOFFICE: Spidey Flies Fairly High On the 4th

  THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony) earned $23.4M at the boxoffice on July 4th, which is clearly a very good number.  The question is, how good? It was the 2d highest Independence Day gross ever, below only the original Trans...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS June 1-3

Weekend #22 of 2012 looks like it will total about $122 million for the top 12 films, down 21% from last year’s comparable weekend and down 20% from the four-year average for the weekend.  That would make it three down w...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: FALL RATINGS PREDICTIONS — SUNDAY Night

Thanks to football, Sunday nights in the fall can be very misleading.  NBC will walk away with the night between September and December with an astounding 6.5 rating each Sunday in prime time during the NFL season.  For 18 we...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: FALL RATINGS PREDICTIONS — FRIDAY & SATURDAY Nights

We are combining Friday and Saturday fall ratings projections into one post.  The two least-watched nights of television have relatively little value to advertisers (there are fewer people watching TV on these nights and the s...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: FALL RATINGS PREDICTIONS — THURSDAY Night

There’s a new sheriff in town on Thursday nights this fall: CBS is poised to take command of the night.  CBS has been building toward this achievement for years, and this season all the pieces are in place: two solid com...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: FALL RATINGS PREDICTIONS — WEDNESDAY Night

Wednesday nights this fall will look a lot like last year, with most of the returning programs performing at similar levels and no network making a big move (up or down) on the night.  FOX should win Wednesday again with The ...
by Mitch Metcalf