Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

Weekend Box Office Predictions 7.17-19.2015

Weekend #29 of 2015 is looking like $195 million for the top 12 films this weekend, somewhat above the norm for this weekend and way above last year’s very soft weekend (see comparisons below).   Ant-Man from Disney ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 4.5.2015

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.   YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2015 to date is now +5% above last year and +8% above the average for this point the past four years ($2.174 billion).  Over th...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: World Series Ratings through Game 5

World Series Ratings Game by Game World Series Ratings Games 1-5 Averaged Together ###
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED Series Premiere Review: “The Last Ship”

  THE LAST SHIP:  Sunday 9PM on TNT – If Nothing Else Is On… Post-apocalypses are a dime a dozen on television these days, so a new one had better be something special.  The one in TNT’s new THE LAST ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 3/20/16

  OPENINGS:  Things didn’t get better for ALLEGIANT (Summit/Lionsgate) as the weekend went on.  Its $29.1M opening was down an awful 44% from the $52.3M for Insurgent, and with massive competition arriving next wee...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Elementary”

  Luckily for ELEMENTARY, appearances by the BBC’s celebrated Sherlock are so sporadic and brief (this season’s 3 episodes were the first in 2 years), that the two series only infrequently need to be judged aga...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “Knives Out” & “A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood”

  KNIVES OUT (Lionsgate – November 27):  Rian Johnson’s delectable reinvention of the old-fashioned puzzle whodunnit wears its convoluted plotting on its sleeve, weaving and circling about so that when you thi...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Saturday 12.3.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

  BROADCAST FINALS:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL was the prime attraction, with FOX’s BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP at 2.72 ahead of CBS’s afternoon SEC CHAMPIONSHIP at 2.57 and ABC’s BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP at 2.10.  On CW, W...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

Ratings Delays Due to MLK Day

The MLK holiday weekend will cause delays for daily national ratings (live+same day cable and broadcast) for several days.  This is how the ratings should roll out the next several days. We will update this schedule if anyth...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “The Vampire Diaries”

  THE VAMPIRE DIARIES:  Thursday 8PM on CW Walter White, that student of change, would enjoy this fifth season of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES.  Behind the camera, showrunner Julie Plec is now splitting her time with the Diaries ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 10.10.2015

  Unlike last Saturday, when the Notre Dame game was dominant, last night’s ABC and FOX games were close in appeal, with ABC at a preliminary 1.0 and FOX at 0.8.  NBC had NASCAR at 0.4, and CBS followed 0.4/0.6 reru...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS May 4-6

Weekend #18 of 2012 (the first weekend of May and the unofficial start of the summer movie season) looks like it will be about $214 million for the top 12 films, up 38% from last year’s comparable weekend and up 46% from ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WEEKEND STUDIO ESTIMATES October 5-7

The weekend still looks like a very good $132 million for the top 12 films, similar to the estimate yesterday.  Taken 2 opened well (ahead of the ShowbuzzDaily Weekend Prediction earlier this week) but probably will degrade q...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 6.22.2020

  Increases at NBC. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED Fall Pilot Report: NBC’s “Constantine”

  CONSTANTINE:  Friday 10PM on NBC starting October 24 – If Nothing Else is On… (but also Incomplete) PLAYERS:  DC Comics.  Series creators Daniel Cerrone (a showrunner, although not creator, of Dexter) and ...
by Mitch Salem