> DreamWorks Animation can blame the weather for diminishing its PUSS IN BOOTS number–although there seemed to be little effect on the weekend’s other openings–but $34M is awfully low for a major animated release. (And no one will be surprised to see the actual figure fall tomorrow by $400K or more, which is the margin […]
We don’t have data yet for the season premiere of Breaking Bad, which frankly is of more interest than any of the blah network numbers last night. CBS: The 0.3 boost for 60 MINUTES (to 1.2) is probably mostly due to a 9-minute overrun for the end of the PGA CHAMPIONSHIP, and will be […]
The Presidents Day holiday will cause delays for national U.S. television ratings (live+same day cable and broadcast) for several days. This is how the cable and broadcast nationals should roll out the next week or so. We will update this schedule if anything changes. (All times Pacific.) Friday 2/18 nationals available Tuesday 2/22 by 2 […]
> So you love me, after all Based on Friday and Saturday box office (and estimated Sunday numbers), Puss in Boots almost matched its three-day opening in weekend two, bringing its 10-day total to $76 million and increasing the final domestic estimated total to a very good $170 million. Tower Heist and A Very Harold […]
The storyline on Under the Dome may be getting increasingly wacky, but viewers are hanging in. CBS: UNDER THE DOME held even at 2.4, tying its series low, but still towering over everything else that aired last night. The reruns that preceded it were all 0.9-1.0. NBC: A bad night. AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR slipped […]
OPENINGS: Despite being limited to 2 Saturday shows at 803 theaters, the (tape-delayed) live concert movie BTS: PERMISSION TO DANCE (Trafalgar) earned $6.8M at the US box office. Even with an average $35 ticket price, that’s an impressive achievement, and the international result was even more remarkable at $25.8M. This was the highest-grossing movie […]
> IMMORTALS is claiming the same drop for Sunday as it had on Saturday, so that total may come down in actuals. Even so, as long as the final amount is over $30M (which it certainly should be), that’s a win for Relativity, no matter what the movie’s budget actually was. Immortals also launched widely […]
SATURDAY AMC: HELL ON WHEELS held well in total viewers at 2M, but they got a lot older, as the show’s 18-49 rating fell from 0.5 to 0.3. That makes almost 80% of its viewers over 50, not exactly the most advertiser friendly audience. Still, if these numbers can hold, the show is still […]