With March in the books, the North American box office is showing some signs of life.  Through 12 weeks (84 days), 2013 totals $1.898 billion (looking at wide-release films playing on at least 400 screens).  2013-to-date is making a slight move away from the same period in the truly dreadful years of 2008 ($1.803 billion) […]

  More numbers have been released for Sunday night’s event cable airings, and it was a big night for everyone.  The most voracious bite came from the Season 3 finale of THE WALKING DEAD, setting a new record with 12.4M total viewers for the 9PM initial airing alone.  It also had 8.1M 18-49 viewers, making […]

The NCAA men’s basketball championship tournament rolled on Sunday with two games to select the last Final Four spots.  The two games averaged 19% higher household ratings than last year in the 56 local markets measured by Nielsen (covering 70% of the country).  The second game at 5:00 Sunday almost hit the magic 10.0 rating […]

CBS won another week with NCAA basketball tournament games throughout the week and a lot of repeats on the other networks.  NBC’s The Voice returned to the schedule this week, putting NBC in a virtual three-way tie with ABC and FOX (with only four-hundreths of a rating point separating second from fourth place). Weekly Rating Mar […]

  Considering all that was happening on cable last night, it’s not much of a surprise that hardly anyone showed up at the networks. ABC:  The network started the night with a ONCE UPON A TIME rerun, and its dismal 0.6 set the stage for ugly numbers for REVENGE (1.5, barely above the series low) and […]

  OPENINGS:  As usual with new arrivals, the eager studios behind GI JOE: RETALIATION (Paramount/MGM) have claimed a low Sunday decline (2d lowest in the Top 10), so the $41.2M weekend and $51.7M opening 4 days could slip a bit when final numbers are released tomorrow–and even if they don’t, that 4 day figure is […]

The latest International box office summary:

Based on Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #13 of 2013 is looking like $140 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, up a hair from yesterday’s estimate of $139 million but still a touch below the $143 million average for this weekend the past few years.   Opening at 3,719 theaters Thursday with $10.5 million, G.I. Joe: Retaliation from Paramount grossed […]