In The Spotlight
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8.20.2017
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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 8.20.2017
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The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 8.19.2017
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Halt and Catch Fire”
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.18.2017
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Hitman’s Bodyguard” Shoots Down “Logan Lucky”
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Behind the US/Worldwide Weekend Box Office – 8.20.2017
OPENINGS: The $21.6M start for THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD (Summit/Lionsgate) was on target for the B-movie, which had a modest 2% Saturday dip. It also earned $6.6M in early international release. While it does nothing much to burnish Ryan Reynolds post-Deadpool, Hitman is on track for a modest profit on $90M or so in production/worldwide […]
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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 8.20.2017
WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD. Here is an updated look at the 2017 film slates by studio. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2017 to date is now down -2% from last year and now +2% above the average for this point the past four years ($6.820 billion). Over the same period, Hollywood films […]
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The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 8.19.2017
NOTE: Ratings below for all networks inflated by local pre-emptions for eight NFL Preseason games in 16 television markets. 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 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands […]
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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Halt and Catch Fire”
HALT AND CATCH FIRE: Saturday 9PM on AMC The links between AMC’s HALT AND CATCH FIRE as a television series, the stories it tells, and its characters have gone unusually deep. The positive part has been that as series creators Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers have grown steadily more assured and ambitious in each […]
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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8.18.2017
NOTE: FOX numbers below inflated by NFL Preseason pre-emptions in Seattle and part of prime time in Minneapolis. 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 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands […]
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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Hitman’s Bodyguard” Shoots Down “Logan Lucky”
THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD (Summit/Lionsgate) is off to a mild late-August start, but it will be enough to win the quiet weekend. Preliminary numbers at Deadline have opening day at $8.1M (including $1.7M from Thursday night), which should mean a $20M weekend. While that might not even land it in the top 50 August openings, […]
