About Paul Dergarabedian

Paul Dergarabedian, president of the Box-office Division of Hollywood.com (which acquired Paul's company Media by Numbers in late 2008) is the entertainment industry's foremost expert in box-office tracking and movie industry trend analysis. With over seventeen years of experience in this field, he is one of the most widely quoted and respected movie industry analysts.

Mr. Dergarabedian has appeared on hundreds of television and radio news and entertainment programs including CNN's Showbiz Tonight, CNBC's The Wall Street Journal Report With Maria Bartiromo & On the Money, Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, Reelz Channel, D.L. Hughley Breaks the News, TV Guide Network, NPR's Morning Edition, The Howard Stern Show, KFWB News 980, KNX News Radio, KABC Radio, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC's Today Show and Access Hollywood. He was the host and moderator for the Independent Studio day at ShowEast 2010, one of the most important movie industry trade shows. Recent appearances on Extra!, Fox News Channel, CNN International and Bloomberg News have focused on the 2010 Oscar race and current holiday movie season trends.

Dergarabedian also appears in print and on the web every week as the exclusive box-office analyst for The Associated Press, he appeared on Access Hollywood's Box-Office Showdown webisode every week from 2007 to 2009 and currently has a weekly box-office report on KFWB News 980 in Los Angeles. In addition, Paul has appeared in movie related documentaries including "This Film Is Not Yet Rated," "The Blockbuster Imperative"and "The Award Show Awards Show." Paul was featured in the book "Open Wide" released in late 2004, which focused on the national fixation with movie box-office revenues and data and in 2007 his life and career was profiled on the nationally broadcast CBS Evening News. Other professional profiles have appeared in MovieMaker Magazine, Film Journal International, The Los Angeles Business Journal, The Los Angeles Times and most recently in a podcast for The Independent Entrepreneur.

Hollywood.com Box-Office generates more Google "hits" than any other box-office tracking firm and has firmly established itself as the recognized authority for box-office data and analysis.