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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 7.22.2018

  OPENINGS:  THE EQUALIZER 2 (Escape Artists/Columbia Sony) rode a relatively stable Saturday (down 5% from Friday) to a $35.8M weekend win, up about 5% from the opening for the first Equalizer in 2014.  That film had an...
by Mitch Salem
 
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Steve Jobs” Crashes, “Suffragette” Starts Slow On Dismal Weekend

  The tricks arrived early and the treats were nonexistent on a bleak pre-Halloween weekend. Let the second-guessing begin on STEVE JOBS (Legendary/Universal).  Last week’s limited expansion suggested softness as th...
by Mitch Salem
 
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Holiday Box Office Volume: through December 28

For the 13 days December 16-28, the top 10 films each day in North America have totaled $698 million, now -2% behind last year’s pace and -16% behind the record pace of 2015, when Star Wars: The Force Awakens dominated...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.12.2020

        NETWORK FINALS:  STATION 19 gained 0.1 in final numbers, and DEPUTY lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Anothe...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1.3.2016

  Viewers didn’t wish the networks a Happy New Year. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 r...
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THE SKED: NBC Takes Care of the Easy Part

  Today NBC announced renewals of the dramas that everyone knew would be renewed:  REVOLUTION, GRIMM, CHICAGO FIRE, PARENTHOOD (thank god!) and LAW & ORDER: SVU.  It’s worth noting that while all the renewals a...
by Mitch Salem
 
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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Monday Cable Originals & Network Update: 10.5.2015

  NETWORK UPDATE:  In final numbers, THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.2, and THE VOICE gained 0.1, while BLINDSPOT and CASTLE each lost 0.1.  Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  MONDA...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Thursday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 7.9.2015

  NOTE:  Charts will be posted today in preliminary form, then updated later in the day. UPDATE: Charts now posted in the normal format. NETWORK UPDATE:  UNDER THE DOME picked up 0.1 in final numbers, as did FOOD FIGHTER...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Outcast”

  OUTCAST:  Friday 10PM on Cinemax – If Nothing Else Is On… The surprise is that it took Cinemax so long to enter the world of TV horror.  With the notable exception of The Knick (and somewhat less notably, t...
by Mitch Salem
 
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THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”

  SCANDAL has been having a barn-burner of a Season 2, emerging as a pulpier, crazier Homeland (not that Homeland hasn’t been pretty crazy the last couple of weeks), a DC-set melodrama where everybody is lying to som...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Affair”

  It’s difficult, even after a full and absorbing season, to know exactly what to make of THE AFFAIR.  The series hasn’t fit neatly into either of the genres it seemed to be invoking:  despite the title and o...
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 5.15.2022

  OPENINGS:  No one, including its studio, expected much from the remake of FIRESTARTER (Blumhouse/Universal, also on Peacock), and it delivered a weak $3.8M that suggests an eventual $10M US total.  Economics become mur...
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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 4.16.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA PLAYOFFS game dominated at 1.33.  The USFL was on both NBC and FOX at 0.23/0.33.  CW’s originals were at 0.05/0.03.  In late night, NBC’s SNL ticked down to 0.84.  &nbs...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SHOWBUZZDAILY WEDNESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1.20.2021

  NOTE:  The CELEBRATING AMERICA special was also featured on multiple cable networks, and we’ll have those numbers tomorrow. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displa...
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EARLY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: “Captain America” Still On Top

  Despite the arrivals of a quartet of newcomers, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (Disney/Marvel) appears in the preliminary numbers at Deadline to be having no trouble keeping its lead for a third consecutive weekend....
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