MOONFALL stumbles, JACKASS keeps 2000s nostalgia atop the 2022 Box Office

CHINA's #1 movie made $400 Million in 6 days / DIS+ orders Anne Frank limited series / OLYMPICS slow ratings start

Feb 7, 2022

Mornin! This is Sean McNulty and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on MONDAY February 7, 2022.

Where it was Bill Murray FTW at the Pebble Beach ProAm this weekend with the no look backwards putt ⛳️👏 #ItsInTheHole.

PGA TOUR @PGATOUR

Ladies and gentlemen, Bill Murray. 🙈

📽 THE SILVER SCREEN

good to see they still make em like they used to in Hollywood… Via Giphy

BOX OFFICE

“Jackass Forever” : $23.5 Million
- 67% of audience was 18-34. ah the kids and their streaming…
- Now the 2nd early 2000s franchise to open in the lead position at the 2022 box office. #20yearNostalgiaRule
“Moonfall” : $10 Million
- Budget was $140 Million… although LIONSGATE is just doing the US release, chipping in $15 Million to the budget. Considering the additional tens of Millions in marketing spend, this will still be a loss.
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” : $9.6 Million ($749 Million US, $1.77 Billion global)
- A very low 13% drop means it will indeed surpass “Avatar” on the all-time US Box Office list within 7 to 10 days.
“Scream” : $5 Million ($69 Million US, $120 Million global)
“Sing 2”: $4 Million ($140 Million US, $291 Million global)
- Another very low 11% drop weekend-to-weekend… still also on PVOD

“Licorice Pizza” down to $600k, now at $12.7 Million US total. $21 Million global. /Deadline

OVER IN CHINA

CHINA’s New Years week Box Office total was $934 Million, on par with 2019, but down 23% from 2021. 20% of theaters are closed in CHINA.

“The Battle At Lake Changjin II” took the crown with $400 Million for the week. The original was CHINA’s highest grossing film last year at $911 Million.
“Too Cool to Kill” was in 2nd at $219 Million, but number 1 for best title.

And in FUTURE BOX OFFICE

UNIVERSAL moved the Jo Koi movie “Easter Sunday” from its pre-EASTER April 1 release date to a… nowhere near EASTER August 5 date. /Deadline

ALSO IN MOVIES

Antony Starr (“The Boys”, “Banshee”) joins MGM Guy Ritchie - Jake Gyllenhaal military action pic based on a true story of a Sgt in Afghanistan working to get his interpreter out after he saves the Sgt’s life. /Deadline

IN THE HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE SUITE

DISNEY Branded Television sets Charlie Andrews as EVP of Live-action and Alternative series, coming over from FOX. /Disney

📺 THE TV SET

OLYMPICS Opening Ceremony gets just 8.7 Million viewers in primetime on NBC

That’s down 16% from the SUMMER Games opener from Japan. Although it was also broadcast live in the morning and on PEACOCK all day. /Deadline

NBC SPORTS PR was touting a “total audience” of 14 Million across all those platforms, but even that was down 35–40% from the audience tally for the 2018 Winter Games.

And.. JUST A LIST OF TV ITEMS

Kim Masters has a good THR column about the bad look some CNN journalists are giving with their outrage over what’s essentially the firing/resignation of a top media executive who lied about a years-long affair with a direct report. #TheZuckerEffect
DISNEY+ orders limited series “A Small Light” about a Dutch woman who’s family sheltered Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis for over 2 years and also kept Anne’s diary, which Anne’s father Otto later released to the world. /Deadline
Another SOUTH KOREAN series “All of Us Are Dead” hit the top of the NETFLIX US chart this week (it’s a YA Zombie series). /Deadline
HBOMAX “Boondocks” reboot not going forward, after getting a 2 season order back in 2019. /Deadline
STARZ “Run the World” co-star Andrea Bordeaux chooses to leave the show rather than abide by the show’s Covid Vaxx policies, although she later clarified her POV is that she was fired for choosing “to stand in (her) convictions and to honor (her) deepest core beliefs.” /Deadline
HBO renews “Euphoria” for a Season 3. /THR
SHOWTIME renews “The L Word: Generation Q” for a Season 3. /THR
NBC adds Denis Leary in a recurring role on “Law & Order: Organized Crime”. /Deadline

💻 THE MEDIA BIZ

JUST 2 ITEMS

PENSKE MEDIA buys majority stake in Las Vegas music festival LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, along with their ROLLING STONE brand. The annual 3 day fest was founded in 2013. PENSKE also now runs SXSW and the American Pavillion at CANNES. /THR
CHINA has been hacking the WSJ for 2 years. /CNN

🏦 STOCK NOTES:

The AMAZON & SNAP booms lifted a lot of NASDAQ stocks overall on Friday.

AMAZON +13% ($3,152.79)

PINTEREST +11% ( $27.25)

ROKU +9% ($158.73)

SPOTIFY +9% ($174.43)

WWE +8% ($51.71) - also a strong earnings report

TWITTER +7% ($36.94)

BUZZFEED +5% ($4.47)

and…

LIONSGATE -8% ($13.54) as increased STARZ costs clouded the outlook there.

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👩‍💻 NEW TO WATCH:

Looks like it’s book night! Or - this was a pretty 🤯 read: Only 6 of the 109 homes that the Brad Pitt-affiliated non-profit MAKE IT RIGHT built in NEW ORLEANS post-Katrina are “in reasonably good shape” today, just 10-ish years later.

Most have issues ranging from severe mold to poor electrical work and some were simply unsalvageable and have been torn down. #GoodRead

🕵️‍♀️ THE WEEK AHEAD

TUE - OSCAR Noms in the AM

WARNER MUSIC earnings in AM

WED - “Fairview” hits COMEDY CENTRAL - New animated show from Stephen Colbert

FOX CORP earnings in AM, DISNEY in late afternoon

THU - Soderbergh’s “Kimi” hits HBOMAX

TWITTER earnings in late afternoon

FRI - “Marry Me” hits Theaters and PEACOCK PREMIUM

🎥 TRAILER HOUSE

APPLE TV+ “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey” limited series trailer - Starring Sam Jackson as a man suffering from memory loss who gets a chance to temporarily regain all his memory, and right some things from the past. Looks intriguing! Premieres Fri Mar 11

NETFLIX “Making Fun” series trailer - A bunch of handy construction pros take ideas from kids on building things from their imagination - this looks fun! 👍 Premieres Fri Mar 4

APPLE TV+ “Dear….” Season 2 trailer - Well this is a nice shot of inspiration to start off your week… Uh the trailer, obviously not this newsletter 👍. Premieres Fri Mar 4

APPLE TV+ “Shining Girls” teaser trailer - Elizabeth Moss thriller series about… I think a killer who time travels? Not exactly sure what’s goin on here but we’ll find out Fri Apr 29. Or I’m guessing in the full trailer before that.

NETFLIX “jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy” trailer - Premieres Wed Feb 16

🎧 PLAYING ME OFF

Gonna leave with a pretty killer playlist of tunes from 1982 put together on SPOTIFY by Whitney Matheson in her weekly email.

Thanks for some great deep cuts Whitney!

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