Hotel Transylvania joins the worldwide chart at #14 (among films released the past four months), and it will probably move up to 8th place as the overseas receipts come in. Compared to last week, Resident Evil: Retribution and Ted were the big gainers overseas (up $34 million and $26 million since last week, respectively).

The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between September 24 and September 30 grossed a decent $136 million, up 7% from the four-year average for the week and up a similar 8% from the same week last year.     The past six weeks are now down 5% from the […]

NBC’s red-hot Sunday Night Football continues to run ahead of last year’s pace and ahead of our forecast issued last spring.  However, the other networks are performing almost exactly as forecast on a night when FOX had the late afternoon national NFL game.  (Remember, next week the CBS and FOX numbers will flip because CBS […]

  The Sunday cable numbers will mostly be released tomorrow, but Showtime was in an understandable hurry to get out the fast news about last night’s numbers. In total audience (the 18-49 demo numbers are still in process), Showtime had its biggest Sunday ever.  HOMELAND, understandably sparked by last week’s Emmy triumph, had its highest-rated […]

  The success of TED having made Seth MacFarlane a legitimate name in the movie universe, the Academy and ABC have decided to make him an unexpected choice to host nest year’s Academy Awards telecast.  This isn’t a crazy idea, although MacFarlane has never done anything like it.  He’s obviously funny, he reaches that elusive […]

People aren’t all that interested in renting an apartment from the devil. ABC:  666 PARK AVENUE won the battle of scripted hours at 10PM (both way behind NFL Football, of course), but it lost a third of its lead-in and had the barest of victories, 2.2 vs 2.1–natural post-premiere attrition suggest it’ll fall behind quickly.  […]

  Apologies for the last 24 hours of silence here at SHOWBUZZDAILY–that old stand-by “technical difficulties” applies.  We weren’t able to get on the site to file anything, but things seem to be back to normal, and we’ll try to make up for it today with ratings reports, reviews of last night’s season premieres and […]

Audiences decide they want to see movies again. OPENINGS:  With the market starved for family entertainment (the last major animated opening was Ice Age 4 back in July), HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (Sony) and its $43M smashed the September opening record and the Sony Animations record, and comes in just behind Shark Tale as the biggest animated […]