International Box Office through November 10
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BEHIND THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE – 11/10/13
OPENINGS: THOR: THE DARK WORLD (Disney) held essentially even on Saturday, an excellent result for a franchise movie, especially where a chunk of its “Friday” number had come from Thursday night screenings....
Weekend Studio Estimates NOVEMBER 8-10
Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #45 of 2013 looks like $161 million for the top 12 films, not the record we had forecast but still 21% above the recent average for this weekend. Opening at 3,841 th...
BEHIND THE FRIDAY BOX OFFICE – 11/8/13
OPENINGS: The $31.6M first day for THOR: THE DARK WORLD (Disney) was about 24% higher than the $25.5M opening for the first Thor, an increment likely to reduce as the movie’s run continues, since sequels tend to ...
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8 Box Office Report
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #45 of 2013 looks like $160 million for the top 12 films, not the record we had forecast but still 21% above the recent average for this weekend. Opening at 3,841 theaters Friday, Thor:...
THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/8/13
NBC’s undead are starting to look like corpses. NBC: Just 3 weeks into its season, GRIMM is down to 1.3, already as low as the show scored all last spring. That’s down half a point from its season debut 2...
EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: Thor’s Mighty Hammer
It was foretold by the gods of Marvel that THOR: THE DARK WORLD (Disney) would rule this weekend, and preliminary numbers at Deadline confirm that it will, with a $31M Friday (including $7.1M from Thursday night). That...
THE SKED: Good News for “Sean Saves the World” and Seth MacFarlane
It’s entirely possible that SEAN SAVES THE WORLD will never again hit the 1.4 rating it had last night (at least not unless NBC gives it The Voice as a lead-in again), so the network seized the opportunity of a les...
AFI FEST REVIEW: “Saving Mr. Banks”
SAVING MR. BANKS: Buy A Ticket – Positively Supercalifragelisticexpialidocious SAVING MR. BANKS , which screened at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles last night before opening in theaters next month, is a movi...
UPDATED: THE SKED NETWORK/CABLE SCORECARD – 11/7/13
AFTERNOON UPDATE: With the NFL game factored out, the entire NBC line-up fell. THE VOICE dropped 0.2 to 2.5, SEAN SAVES THE WORLD by 0.3 to 1.4, and THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW by 0.3 to a dire 1.0. PARENTHOOD fell 0....
SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Thor: The Dark World”
THOR: THE DARK WORLD: Watch It At Home – The Universe Is In Danger! (Yawn) Massive superhero adventures are now so plentiful that they’re a genre unto themselves. Within Marvel’s Avengers universe, ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Film Review: “The Book Thief”
THE BOOK THIEF: Watch It At Home – A Nazi Germany Fairy Tale THE BOOK THIEF is about as heartwarming and easygoing as any story could be that’s narrated by Death and touched by the Holocaust. That’s...
OSCARLAND: The Too Many Best Actors Problem
It’s been a relatively quiet week in Oscarland: 12 YEARS A SLAVE expanded well if not phenomenally, ALL IS LOST continued to struggle at the box office despite superb reviews, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB had a moderately...
THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/6/13
Last night’s CMA Awards were a huge hit for ABC, but because the last two Wednesdays featured World Series games, the other networks (except for FOX, of course) were already down–the better comparison is to three we...
Weekend Box Office Predictions NOVEMBER 8-10
The 45th weekend of the year is looking like $174 million for the top 12 films, which would be a record for the second weekend of November. Opening at over 3,800 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for o...