Posts Tagged ‘spotlight’
 

 

Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8/21/16

  OPENINGS:  The weekend’s tallest dwarf was WAR DOGS (RatPac/Warners) with a soft $14.3M start.  The 12% Saturday drop indicates that word of mouth isn’t great, and early international numbers are weak as we...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4.1.2019

  A down night for ABC. 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 ske...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.13.2017

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE BACHELOR gained 0.1 in final numbers, and QUANTICO lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: �...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 5.28.2019

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were 0.1 declines for THE LION KING, 1969, both reruns of NCIS, SONGLAND, MASTERCHEF JR and the rerun of THE FLASH in final numbers.         Broadcast Official...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

FRIDAY 9.26.2014 Box Office Report

Based on Friday’s grosses, weekend #39 of 2014 looks like $100 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, 5% above the norm for this weekend ($95 million). Opening at 3,236 theaters, The Equalizer from Sony grossed $12.6...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

CRITICS AWARDS: The National Board of Review’s Day

  The National Board of Review is an organization whose members are largely unknown (and the opinions of whom are of zero interest), with an existence that gets noticed on exactly one day of the year, like that one groundh...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

OSCARLAND: Directors Guild Nominations Boost Scorsese and “Wolf”

  With a little over 24 hours before polls close for Oscar nomination voting (ballots must be submitted by 5PM tomorrow LA time), the big winners from today’s announcement of the Directors Guild nominees were Martin ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

CHRISTMAS EVE BOX OFFICE UPDATE

: Because Christmas Day falls on a Sunday, box office figures are incomplete this morning.  As is usually the case with Christmas Eve, business was down across the board yesterday, and if we look to 2011 as a guide, the Sunday...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 1/3/14

  NBC:  GRIMM gained 0.2 from its last extremely low airing to reach 1.4, but the number isn’t as good as it looks, since it’s down 0.2 from its 1.6 in the previous week.  DRACULA fell 0.2 from its last airin...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Solo” Lonesome, “Deadpool 2″” Down Heavily To Kick Off Memorial Day Weekend

  This may be a good time to pause the stories about Disney’s infalliability, and the unstoppable dominance of the Star Wars franchise.  SOLO (Lucasfilm/Disney) is underperforming in a big way, with preliminary numb...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “Low Winter Sun”

  LOW WINTER SUN:  Sunday 10PM on AMC – Potential DVR Alert It’s been more than a decade since The Shield introduced US television to not just corrupt, but murderous cops as protagonists, and–well, it...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “How I Met Your Mother”

  So the rumors were true, and the title of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER‘s Season 8 finale, “Something New,” meant what it sounded like it might mean, and the CBS promos weren’t lying or misleading:  in ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 9.29.2016

      NETWORK FINALS:  SUPERSTORE and THE GOOD PLACE both gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun of THE FLASH lost the same.  On CBS, where local NFL preemptions figured in, everything was down:  both BIG ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cloud Atlas”

  It isn’t often that one needs to invoke Intolerance to describe a current film, but CLOUD ATLAS demands it.  Like D.W. Griffith’s epic, it intercuts between stories taking place across hundreds of years o...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 10.28.2018

        NETWORK FINALS:  SHARK TANK gained 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, the final game of the WORLD SERIES adjusted to 4.6, and SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 4.5, down 0.6 from last week’s...
by Mitch Metcalf