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Weekend, domestic
3-day - Box Office Mojo 1. "Magnificent Seven" - $35 million 2. "Storks" - $21.8 million 3. "Sully" - $13 million 4. "Bridget Jones's Baby" - $4.5 million 5. "Snowden" - $4.1 million |
Coming - Sept. 30
- "Deepwater Horizon" - "Miss Perignine's" - "Masterminds" |
@THR Hollywood Reporter....
BO takeaway - 'Magnificent Seven' shoots to the top
- The western, a remake, did strong for that genre. And they note how they can use it as a success for certain actors in it. For example, Denzel Washington gets picked out and used as a success for opening starring him. But there are six other stars in this one. |
comScore’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian commented, “Sony’s remake of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ rustled up some big numbers this weekend from 63 total markets grossing $19.2 million from 8,300 plus screens. With an international total of $24.8 million the global combined cumulative is now $59.8 million. On the family-friendly side of the ledger, ‘Storks’ from Warner Bros. opened in 33 international markets this weekend, generating an estimated $18.3 million from approximately 14,500 screens and $40.1 million in worldwide box office this weekend.” WORLDWIDE DOMESTIC
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Box office matters right here
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NEWS AND NOTES
- A family film and an animated one to boot did not win. I call that a little victory. "Storks" did not deliver will be the easy headline and angle to use. Hey, I just used it, so there. - "The Queen of Katwe" opens so-so but some may tout it as being real solid. - "Sully" actually added 430 theaters over the weekend. That shows that the film is consistent and built an audience. |
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SUMMER MOVIE WRAP UP - - THEWRAP LOOKS BACK AT THE SCARY STANDOUTS, BIG BOMBS AND SURPRISE STARS OF THE SEASON...From me (Timobns) ...perhaps my idea that there is too much product and too many movies being made..yes, more can be bad...movies have one huge weekend and then drop; too many superheroes; too many sequels; plus, crappy movies. Playing into the overseas and China markets will not help really good movies be seen. That plays more into sequels and superheros and big, splashy, effect-driven spectacles...NY Times has more on this, click here. Make no mistake about it, there were big bombs at the BO...
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night (August 30) to present Honorary Awards to actor Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. The four Oscar® statuettes will be presented at the Academy’s 8th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 12, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center®. “The Honorary Award was created for artists like Jackie Chan, Anne Coates, Lynn Stalmaster and Frederick Wiseman – true pioneers and legends in their crafts,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “The Board is proud to honor their extraordinary achievements, and we look forward to celebrating with them at the Governors Awards in November.” ABC will keep broadcast rights through 2028.
How much money is at stake in the Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt divorce? http://yhoo.it/2deK4Gl
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GOLDEN GLOBE CHANGES - Golden Globes: HFPA Unveils 2017 Dates & Rule Changes.... FROM OBNS - it looks like they want to influence the Oscar nominations, which they have not for some years. Why? Because the Oscar nomination deadline was before these awards...so early for this show.
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I contend that there is too much product on TV now - and too many movies being released. We have no time to digest and enjoy. I like to schedule and watch TV when it is on - not at all hours and anytime. I like watching something that is on and millions are watching it at the same time, yet, they are not in my living room. An event, and something to discuss later. Not on You Tube, Netflix and the like. Too much product has hurt the overall quality and made stars out of people who have no business being in the business.
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New season on broadcast nets - - so far, "Kevin Can Wait" is top in viewership for new shows while "Designated Survivor" is close. "Speechless" was solid. They seem safe so far. Oh, it looks like Disney put a bid on Twitter. Hmmm...First two shows to get ABC full season pickups are "Designated Survivor" and "Speechless." NBC ordered up "This is Us," too.
"Game of Thrones" beats "Frasier" for overall wins for scripted series (38 total); Kimmel pokes fun at many things...
Note what I write above about too much product....then note that this Emmy show was the low-rated in history of the show on TV. Ratings here. The show, in early returns did not even break 11 million (last year was only 11.9 million. Let's face it, we do not watch these shows, on a whole. Shows with 3-4 million get the headlines while the shows we watch are not around when this show airs. Nobody watches John Oliver and he wins. "Veep" and "Game of Thrones" are on HBO and that is pay-to-view. So, it limits the reach ...
They cannot suggest people were doing something else and September is a losing month either. That is the month when the new season begins and NFL starts, so all eyes are on TV now. "Sunday Night Football" saw 20 million and even a special about Jon Benet Ramsey grabbed close to 11 million. The NFL overrun after 6 p.m. CT had close to 20 million. The product is not being consumed as they think. Binge-watching and fragmentation of audience is killing TV. And they are letting it happen. UPDATE: 11 million.
UPDATE: Colbert cannot use his character since that is owned by Viacom/Comedy Central..so, he uses twin brother..that is what he knows as audiences are flocking from him when he tries to be himself...There are some rumblings that James Corden will replace Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show." If that happens, I will have to say, "I told you so." Colbert was and is a bad choice as he cannot take his politics away. His other character is how many see him still.
Advertising, Marketing, PRBuyers Upset With Inflated Facebook Data
Major agency ad buyers and their marketer clients are angry at Facebook after learning that the social media giant overestimated average viewing time for video ads on its platform for two years, The Wall Street Journalfirst reported. Publicis Media was told by Facebook that it overestimated time spent by viewers watching videos by between 60% and 80%. GroupM was also notified. The overestimation occurred because Facebook counted only video views of more than three seconds, inflating the average. Why This Matters: This situation is a prime reason for social media companies to allow advertisers to employ third party tracking firms to come up with non-partisan data to see if it coincides with a platform's own data. Overinflating viewer data clearly could have resulted in marketers purchasing more video advertising from Facebook at the expense of other social media platforms or even linear TV networks. Three Takes: WSJ | Business Insider | MediaPost ANA Calls for Facebook Metrics Audit
Association of National Advertisers president and CEO Bob Liodice wants Facebook's metrics to be audited and accredited by the Media Rating Council in light of the social network's recent admission that it had over-inflated the average time users spent viewing online video. "While the ANA recognizes mistakes do happen, we also recognize that Facebook has not yet achieved the level of measurement transparency that marketers need and require." WHY THIS MATTERS: Marketers are spending more than $6 billion a year on Facebook advertising and Liodice believes they need more assurance that the viewing data Facebook provides is accurate. He says Media Rating Council accreditation "is the standard of accepted practice that marketers and agencies have relied on for decades." Three Takes: MediaPost | Ad Age | Adweek Study: Digital Video Ads Generate Sales
YuMe finds viewers take action and have stronger emotional responses than to text READ MORE » Light Beer War Brewing...The beer war between MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch is heating up
Why This Matters: Beer sales have been on the decline and MillerCoors chief marketing officer David Kroll blames Bud Light, which he contends through its commercials has "made light beer seem more immature"... Two Takes: Ad Age | WSJ Hulu Aims for TV Ad Dollars
Peter Naylor, senior VP of ad sales at Hulu, says his online, ad-supported streaming service is aggressively going after linear TV ad dollars being spent by marketers on his company's owners' TV platforms. He says despite trying to steal ad dollars away from NBCUniversal, Fox, Disney and TimeWarner TV networks, that his owners would still rather own Hulu than not. Why This Matters: Linear TV is facing competition from various OTT platforms but the Hulu situation presents an interesting dilemma. With 12 million subscribers and growing, Hulu's potential competition with its owners is only going to increase as it contracts to do more original programming of its own. Right now, Naylor's logic seems correct. Hulu's owners are ignoring the loss of TV network ad dollars to the OTT company. A Take: WSJ Upfronts More Vital as Video Gets Complex...A survey by Advertiser Perceptions of media buyers and marketers finds a growing sentiment that large audience upfront presentations are the most effective method for delivering programming information. Some 37% of those polled prefer live upfront presentations to interactive online presentations or individual visits.
Why This Matters: Randy Cohen, president of Advertiser Perceptions, believes the networks have been doing a better job of refocusing sales strategies by unifying ad sales teams across platforms for marketers who want to make video buys in a more holistic way. And the upfronts continue to bring the marketers and TV sales people together at one location. Cohen says he believes upfront presentations are “almost back” to where they were in terms of importance. “I wouldn’t have said that two or three years ago.” A Take: B&C Nielsen Says Bye-Bye Diaries, Hello PPM
Devices record in-home and out-of-home viewing to measure local TV ratings READ MORE » |
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Inside the issue - how the media covers news - exposing biasCruz makes Never Trumpers look lame..."I promised to support the Republican nominee. And I intend to keep my word."
This election is unlike any other in our nation’s history. Like many other voters, I have struggled to determine the right course of action in this general election. In Cleveland, I urged voters, “please, don’t stay home in November. Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket whom you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.” MORE Obstruction of Journalism ...As they cover a surge in police shootings, reporters are struggling more with—and getting less from—local law enforcement READ MORE WHY THIS MATTERS: Technology, social media and protests have combined to increase strain in reporter-police relations.
How they cover the news means who is watching what network...among the pundits and talkers, one would think Fox News is the one that is not seen, or should not be - - but it clobbers the others...do not believe me, check out the Q3 report..HERE
Top ten cable news shows are FOX News ..top three. O'Reilly, Kelly and Hannity...Maddow gets the No. 11 spot... Obama Directs Federal Agencies to Consider Climate Change As a National Security IssueIn a Sept. 21 memo, President Obama instructed all federal departments and agencies to consider the impact of climate change on national security.
Donald Trump Rails on Media Coverage, Don Lemon
In an early-morning tweet storm, Donald Trump told his 11.9 million followers not to trust reporting on his campaign by “the VERY dishonest media.” The flurry of tweets......Read more » The real question after debate is not who won, but why did it NOT hit 100 million with viewers...media ignore that after the results came in yet...Trump lost????? Hmmmmm...
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As Cubs head to the playoffs...Reversing course, Ricketts family is now backing TrumpThe billionaire clan plans to spend about $1 million to support Donald Trump's bid for the presidency—after trying to deny him the Republican nomination earlier this year. Read More
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100 million - NOPE
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Turns out my no way is coming true for the ratings: 100 million NOPE...sorry slobbering media types who said it would. Arrogance and that means Hillary, who they said won did not have as many eyes as she and others had hoped. Reagan/Carter had a few channels, not 14 to get the 80.6 million ...You cannot count online viewers when it comes to these debates. Media will but that will not officially count in total. The total is for TV. Cable here.
TV NEWSER update...That’s 56,565,000 on 7 broadcast networks, 26,059,000 on the big three news channels and 1,193,102 on two business channels, for a total of 83,817,102. We’ll get final broadcast numbers from Nielsen on Monday evening which could send the average higher. The debate aired on at least 14 TV networks, both broadcast and cable, some of which are not publicly rated by Nielsen, as well as several streaming services. |
BEFORE: 100 million is the number of viewers media is putting out..and they describe it as Super Bowl numbers...@THRMattBelloni @THR - media types put out this word a few weeks ago and set the number at 100 million. @THRMattBelloni @THR - you will add all the TV nets airing it to get that number. To be fair, Super Bowl is on ONE channel.
My contention is NO WAY it hits that number. Media over-hyped...they should look at their daily ratings...or even other debate numbers and project...it does not show that it will approach those huge numbers.
My contention is NO WAY it hits that number. Media over-hyped...they should look at their daily ratings...or even other debate numbers and project...it does not show that it will approach those huge numbers.
How Many People Will Watch the First Debate?
In that Morning Consult tracking poll we showed you Tuesday—the one that asked which moderators will be "toughest" and "least biased" (Anderson Cooper)—there's also a question about whether registered voters will watch Monday' ... Read more »
In that Morning Consult tracking poll we showed you Tuesday—the one that asked which moderators will be "toughest" and "least biased" (Anderson Cooper)—there's also a question about whether registered voters will watch Monday' ... Read more »
#HillaryHealth...#HillaryHealth -shameful that her inner circle is pushing her so hard to be president. Who is to blame when she falls?...media malpractice for not being concerned about her health. They have to cover it now.
Debate Commission: ‘There Were Issues Regarding Donald Trump’s Audio’
One of the more memorable moments from Monday’s first presidential debate was Donald Trump‘s deep nose breathing. When Trump went on Fox & Friends for a 15-minute interview Tuesday morning, Steve Doocy asked, “What’s the ...Read more »
One of the more memorable moments from Monday’s first presidential debate was Donald Trump‘s deep nose breathing. When Trump went on Fox & Friends for a 15-minute interview Tuesday morning, Steve Doocy asked, “What’s the ...Read more »
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We are here to expose it and to even up the playing field - - bias is all around, so now we can be biased, too...I have CNN headlines up to the left and Fox below. Note the tone and the differences in style and how and what they cover. Stark differences there for sure...
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