What kind of summer movie season has it been, really? For the past several weeks, business has been consistently up, erasing the losses from a soft spring, and even with 3D, Imax and inflation taken into account, more tickets are being sold. But this marks the fourth consecutive weekend that an expensive, high-profile summer […]
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #28 of 2013 looks like a decent $192 million for the top 12 films, up 5% from the comparable weekend the last few years. It was a pretty good weekend for the ShowbuzzDaily Weekend Forecast, with most movies coming in within one or two million dollars of forecast. Opening at […]
If the preliminary numbers at Deadline hold, there was good news on Friday for Adam Sandler and his studio, as GROWN UPS 2 (Sony) won the day with a strong $16.5M (including $2.3M from Thursday night). That’s better than the $14.4M that the original Grown Ups had on its opening day in 2010, and might […]
THURSDAY USA: The night started out weakly with the premiere of reality show SUMMER CAMP, which only had a 0.5 rating among 18-49s year olds, and 1.1M total viewers. That seemed to set the tone for the evening, since airing for the first time in 2 weeks (due to July 4th preemptions), BURN NOTICE […]
Given the overwhelming fanboy appeal of PACIFIC RIM (Warners/Legendary), it’s not exactly a shock that the movie started strong with shows that started at 7PM Thursday night, earning $3.6M. It’s probably in line for a solid Friday as well–the question will be what happens when the usually frontloaded genre crowd is done and the […]
ABC was the odd network out last night, despite an all-new line-up. NBC: THE WINNER IS was far from the winner in its Thursday premiere with a 1.0. (It followed a repeat of itself, which didn’t do much worse with 0.8.) The premiere of HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT fared better. Per Mitch Metcalf: Game Night […]
Some viewers spent the night at Camp… but see below. NBC: Per Mitch Metcalf: on the surface, a fairly good debut for Camp at 10PM last night (a time period-winning 1.5 rating with adults 18-49). However, please note that NBC peaked with a 2.9 rating at 9:30 for the second half of the AMERICA’S GOT […]
The 28th weekend of the year is looking like a very good $209 million for the top 12 films, up 15% from the comparable weekend the last few years. Opening at around 3,000 theaters Friday (somewhat above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends), Grown Ups 2 from Sony should average $15,300 per theater for the three-day weekend (for a $45.5 […]