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Raunch Rules! R-Rated ‘Ted’ $52.5M And ‘Magic Mike’ $38M Weekends; ‘Tyler Perry’s Madea’ So-So; ‘People Like Us’ Stillborn

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday June 30, 2012 @ 11:58pm PDTTags: 'People Like Us', Channing Tatum, Hollywood box office, Magic Mike, Seth MacFarlane, Ted, Tyler Perry

 

June 29-July 1 Weekend Actuals

1. Ted (Universal) NEW [3,239 Theaters] R
Friday $20.6M, Saturday $17.9M, Sunday $16.0M, Weekend $54.4M

2. Magic Mike (Warner Bros) NEW [2,930 Theaters] R
Friday $19.4M, Saturday $11.4M, Sunday $8.4M, Weekend $39.1M

3. Brave 3D (Pixar/Disney) Week 2 [4,164 Theaters] PG
Friday $10.4M, Saturday $13.3M, Sunday $10.4M, Weekend $34.1M (-49%), Cume $131.8M

4. Madea’s Witness Protection (Tyler Perry/Lionsgate) NEW [2,161 Theaters] PG13
Friday $10.1M, Saturday $9.4M, Sunday $5.9M, Weekend $25.4M

5. Madagascar 3 3D (DWA/Par) Week 4 [3,715 Theaters] PG
Friday $3.6M, Saturday $4.7M, Sunday $3.6M, Weekend $11.8M (-40%), Cume $180.0M

6. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D (Fox) Week 2 [3,109 Theaters] R
Friday $1.9M, Saturday $2.3M, Sunday $1.8M, Weekend $6.0M (-63%), Cume $29.0M

7. Moonrise Kingdom (Focus) Week 6 [854 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.4M, Saturday $2.0M, Sunday $1.5M, Weekend $4.9M (+45%), Cume $18.5M

8. Prometheus 3D (Fox) Week 4 [1,951 Theater] R
Friday $1.4M, Saturday $2.0M, Sunday $1.6M, Weekend $4.9M (-50%), Cume $118.3M

9. Snow White & The Huntsman (Universal) Week 5 [2,337 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.3M, Saturday $1.8M, Sunday $1.4M, Weekend $4.5M (-44%), Cume $145.7M

10. Marvel’s The Avengers (Marvel/Disney) Week 9 [1,757 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.3M, Saturday $1.8M, Sunday $1.3M, Weekend $4.4M (-38%), Cume $606.5M

11. People Like Us (DreamWorks/Disney) NEW [2,055 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.5M, Saturday $1.7M, Sunday $1.1M, Weekend $4.2M

‘Spider-Man’ Opens Foreign: Bigger Than ‘Avengers’ In Some Markets
‘Ice Age 4′ Box Office Already Breaking Records Overseas
‘Ted’ Opens ‘Off The Charts’ In Australia

SATURDAY PM, 7TH UPDATE: Rentrak tonight was having trouble obtaining AMC’s grosses so numbers were delayed. But my sources say the top new movies took a nosedive Saturday compared to Friday’s fireworks at the domestic box office. As for the new films, Universal’s Ted dropped -15% from Friday to Saturday but will still clear $52M, Warner Bros’ Magic Mike was down -45% and won’t climb to $40M, and Lionsgate’s Madea’s Witness Protection fell -7% and can’t get to $30M. Only DreamWorks’ People Like Us went up +18% – but it was still stillborn. Overall moviegoing this weekend was strong enough to score a big $205M which managed to stay +5% ahead of last year. Here are updated numbers for the Top Ten based on weekend estimates. More analysis coming:

1. Ted (Universal) NEW [3,239 Theaters] R
Friday $20.5M, Saturday $18.0M, Weekend $52.5M

2. Magic Mike (Warner Bros) NEW [2,930 Theaters] R
Friday $18.0M, Saturday $10.7M, Weekend $38.0M

3. Brave 3D (Pixar/Disney) Week 2 [4,164 Theaters] PG
Friday $10.5M, Saturday $13.4M, Weekend $35.5M (-47%), Cume $132.2M

4. Madea’s Witness Prot (Tyler Perry/Lionsgate) NEW [2,161 Theaters] PG13
Friday $10.2M, Saturday $9.6M, Weekend $27.0M

5. Madagascar 3 3D (DWA/Par) Week 4 [3,715 Theaters] PG
Friday $4.2M, Saturday $5.1M, Weekend $12.5M, Cume $180.7M

6. Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D (Fox) Week 2 [3,109 Theaters] R
Friday $1.9M, Saturday $2.5M, Weekend $6.2M (-62%), Cume $29.2M

7. Prometheus 3D (Fox) Week 4 [1,951 Theater] R
Friday $1.4M, Saturday $2.1M, Weekend $5.1M, Cume $118.4M

8. Moonrise Kingdom (Focus) Week 6 [854 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.7M, Saturday $2.0M, Weekend $5.0M, Cume $18.5M

9. Snow White & The Huntsman (Universal) Week 5 [2,337 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.2M, Saturday $1.9M, Weekend $4.5M, Cume $145.7M

10. People Like Us (DreamWorks/Disney) NEW [2,055 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.5M, Saturday $1.7M, Weekend $4.2M

FRIDAY PM, 6TH UPDATE: The domestic box office is exploding with early Fourth Of July fireworks with total moviegoing a blazing $205M which is +15% from last year. And R-rated raunch ruled today. Universal’s Ted is wildly overperforming: $20.5M today for a $51M first weekend. The reprobate teddy bear is #1 and outgrossed Hangover today. Playing in 3,239 theaters, it could open the weekend as the biggest original R-rated comedy on record! (Remember, this is the movie that Twentieth Century Fox passed on – even though Seth MacFarlane is BMOC at 20th TV and FBC and Mark Wahlberg has a growing list of hit movies.) Audiences gave Ted an ‘A-’ CinemaScore which ensures great word of mouth. The pic debuted with a stunningly strong $2.625M from midnight showings at 1,090 theaters. Seth MacFarlane has now made the successful transition to the big screen, while Mark Wahlberg cements his status as a major star. Ted was acquired by Universal from MRC for $69M and was made for $50M.

Also overperforming is Warner Bros‘ Magic Mike (2,930 theaters) which is looking at a great $18M opening today and $43M weekend. Domestic matinees for Magic Mike were especially “crazy”, rival studios told me. This is really reminding me and Hollywood of opening day for the first Sex And The City – though hopefully not as frontloaded. (I loved Warner Bros’ marketing line to women for Channing Tatum et al that “on June 29th tell your boyfriend you’re going to the book club”). Audiences gave Magic Mike a ‘B’ CinemaScore which won’t hurt word of mouth. The male beefcake strippers movie directed by Steven Soderbergh took in a huge $2.050M from just one show at midnight in 1,100 locations. Chalk up another hit for new star Tatum but with a twist because he and Soderbergh funded the film themselves – since Magic Mike is partly based on the actor’s experiences as a Tampa stripper at age 19. And this was a low-cost acquisition of domestic rights for the studio for only a $7M investment. On Fandango and MovieTickets, the big online movie tickets sellers, Magic Mike was #1 going into today, representing 60+% of sales and outpacing Bridesmaids and Mamma Mia! at the same point in the sales cycle.

Hollywood thought Ted and Pixar/Disney’s holdover Brave (4,164 theaters) would be fighting for #1 and between $30M-$35M this weekend. But, as one rival studio exec told me, the toon took a -57% Friday-to-Friday drop “mainly because Mom said, ‘Screw you. This is my night!” Look for Brave to recover because of the Saturday kiddie matinee bump. Magic Mike and Lionsgate’s Tyler Perry film Madea’s Witness Protection (2,161 theaters) were expected to battle for 3rd and low- to mid-$20sM. But that began changing hour by hour. Lionsgate’s PG-13 Madea’s Witness Protection from Tyler Perry as his stereotypical cross-dressing alter ego also is doing better than expected by aiming at $30M on this crowded weekend. Major help will be the ‘A-’ CinemaScore from audiences. (Why oh why haven’t they had enough of Medea, pray tell?) Producer/director/star Perry plays 3 parts in this pic, which is 3 too many. Overlooked today is the debut of DreamWorks’ PG-13 dramedy People Like Us  (2,055 theaters) which distributor Disney always knew was a small movie unlikely to gross beyond single digits. Then why in heck release it in summer when this isn’t another Hail Mary like The Help for struggling DreamWorks? But the ‘B+’ CinemaScore could generate modest word of mouth.

As for last week’s major studio releases, Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is down -69% Friday-to-Friday and is over and out. And New Line/Warner Bros’ Rock Of Ages dropped -67% Friday to Friday and fell out of the Top Ten. Big flop, pending divorce: Tom Cruise is having a really bad week.

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NBC’s ‘Ready For Love’ Signs IATSE Pact

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday June 30, 2012 @ 9:52pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, IATSE, NBC, Ready For Love

NBC’s Ready For Love matchmaking show is now under IATSE contract after coming to terms to avoid a threatened work stoppage, according to the union’s Facebook page. The union said producer Ticking Time Productions has signed an agreement … Read More »

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Quentin Tarantino, ‘Iron Man 3′, ‘The Hobbit’, ‘Pacific Rim’, Juice Comic-Con Saturday

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday June 30, 2012 @ 2:47pm PDTTags: After Earth, Big Deals Film, Comic-Con, Quentin Tarantino, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s Comic-Con coverage. This year’s event runs July 12-15.

Ever since 20th Century Fox showed the naked wrestling scene from Borat a few years ago at Comic-Con, the convention has been a lot stricter about R-rated clips, and companies like The Weinstein Co. and Lionsgate have scheduled off-site events for edgier genre fare such as Machete and the later Saw sequels. But when an icon of pop culture asks for a panel at the biggest pop-cultureDjango Unchained convention, well, you give Quentin Tarantino a Saturday slot in Hall H to show Django Unchained clips. Cast members who’ll attend were not announced in the Saturday lineup posted today. That may mean they probably don’t know if Jamie Foxx’s schedule will allow it for sure (last time I remember him coming down was for Stealth. Remember that one?). Similarly, the special guests for Marvel’s Iron Man 3 panel also remain anonymous so far, though I’ll be amazed if Robert Downey Jr. doesn’t show up, as he tends to make appearances every year. Expect that Marvel panel to also show something for Thor 2, and maybe make a more formal announcement about Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man and the Russo brothers’ Captain America sequel.

Related: ‘Elysium’ Brings Jodie Foster To Comic-Con As Movies Rub Elbows With TV Series

The Warner Bros-Legendary panel is shaping up as the must-see of the show, with footage from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Zack Snyder’s Superman movie Man Of Steel the obvious draws, and Pacific Rim (aka Guillermo del Toro’s “giant fucking monsters against giant fucking robots”) likely to please. Rumors have been circulating that there may be another giant monster in the house, as Legendary has a Godzilla remake in the pipeline. Read More »

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Elizabeth Mitchell Joins J.J. Abrams-Eric Kripke NBC Series ‘Revolution’ As Regular

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday June 30, 2012 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: JJ Abrams, Revolution
Nellie Andreeva

Lost alumna Elizabeth Mitchell is reuniting with the ABC drama’s co-creator/executive producer JJ Abrams. Mitchell is joining Abrams/Eric Kripke’s upcoming NBC series Revolution as a regular. The action drama, which landed NBC’s marquee post-The Voice time slot, follows … Read More »

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Olympics Trials Easily Win Night For NBC

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday June 30, 2012 @ 11:39am PDTTags: NBC, Olympics, TV Ratings, U.S. Olympic Trials

NBC SportsNBC dominated Friday evening with NBC Sports’ coverage of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials, which swept the night’s six half-hours in 18-49 demos and total viewers and represented the No. 1 and No. 2 shows of the night in both categories. From 8-9 p.m. ET, the U.S. Olympic Team Trials: Swimming Finals (1.5/6 in adults 18-49, 6.0 million viewers overall) delivered NBC’s highest 18-49 rating in the time period since October 8, 2010 (Dateline NBC, 1.6) and biggest overall viewer total in the hour since March 2, 2012 (Who Do You Think You Are?, 7.369 million). U.S. Olympic Team Trials led the hour among repeats on ABC (Shark Tank 1.1/5 in 18-49, 4.23 million total viewers) CBS (Undercover Boss, 1.0/4, 4.74 million) and Fox (House, 0.5/2, 1.84 million) in all key ratings categories – adults, men and women 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54, as well as total viewers.

From 9-11 p.m. ET the Gymnastics Women’s Qualifying trials (2.3/8 in 18-49, 7.6 million viewers overall) generated the highest 18-49 rating for NBC in the time period since February 26, 2010 (Vancouver Winter Olympics, 6.9) and biggest overall viewership in the slot since March 25, 2011 (Dateline, 8.150 million). The U.S. Olympic Team Trials led the time period beating ABC (20/20, 1.0/4, 4.26 million) CBS (CSI:NY, 0.8/3, 4.66 million) and Fox (Bones, 0.5/2, 2.14 million) in all key ratings categories – adults, men and women 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54, plus total viewers. In the 10-11PM hour NBC also surpassed ABC (20/20, 1.1/4, 4.5 million) and a CBS repeat (Blue Bloods, 0.7/2, 5.2 million). Read More »

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Netflix, Other Web-Based Services Interrupted By Storms In East

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday June 30, 2012 @ 10:41am PDTTags: Facebook, Instagram, Netflix

Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest services in the Northeast were interrupted last night when Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in Northern Virginia went offline because of severe thunderstorms, Forbes reports. Amazon EC2 servers handle web traffic for … Read More »

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Deadline Advisory: Nellie Leaving Town

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 8:38pm PDT

Deadline’s indefatigable TV Editor Nellie Andreeva will be on vacation out of the country with her family from Monday, July 2nd, until Monday, July 23th. (She will cover the Emmy nominations inbetween.) If humanly possible, please refrain from phoning, emailing, or texting her during this period. She deserves some … Read More »

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‘Elysium’ Brings Jodie Foster To Comic-Con As Movies Rub Elbows With TV Series

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 8:05pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Big Deals TV, Elysium, Game of Thrones, ParaNorman, The Walking Dead

Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s Comic-Con coverage. This year’s event runs July 12-15.

Comic-ConJodie Foster at Comic-Con? Absolutely believe it. She and Matt Damon will be part of a panel that day for Elysium, Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up to District 9, which launched its initial ad campaign at Comic-Con (“this restroom is for humans only”) a year before actually showing footage there that really hyped things up. This is the biggest unknown quantity announced so far, the “we didn’t even know to be excited about it yet” item that could end up being the big-buzz item a la 300 (or, ahem, Sucker Punch). This news emerged today as Comic-Con continued its day-by-day rollout of what’s in store this year, releasing its schedule for Friday July 13. Elysium is surrounded on the Sony panel by Total Recall (they gave that a big push last year, and movies about to open seem less interesting to Con-goers) and Looper, which got a great reaction at Wondercon. Screen Gems’ latest Resident Evil sequel, which shared space with Looper and The Amazing Spider-Man at Wondercon, gets a panel all to itself, featuring all the usual regulars from the movies plus Michelle Rodriguez, somehow returning despite being killed in the first film. Read More »

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Fox Pilot ‘Guilty’ Extends Options On Actors As The Network Mulls Pickup For Fall 2013

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 7:55pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Cuba Gooding Jr., Fox, Guilty
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EXCLUSIVE: Legal drama pilot Guilty is staying in contention at Fox as the studio behind it, Warner Bros. TV, has moved on to extend the options on four actors, including star Cuba Gooding Jr. Pilots that are kept alive post-upfronts … Read More »

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Lifetime Relegates Bristol Palin’s Reality Series To 11 PM

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 7:27pm PDTTags: Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp, Lifetime
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It was two and out of primetime for Lifetime‘s new reality series Bristol Palin: Life’s A Tripp. After two dismal airings, the cable network has pulled the show from its Tuesday 10 PM slot, relegating it to 11 … Read More »

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Disney Developing Marvel Animated Movie

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 6:17pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios

Walt Disney Animation Studios is in early development with Marvel on an animated feature film based on the comic book series Big Hero 6. This one hit the rumor mill and the studio acknowledged … Read More »

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Jason Katims Inks New Deal With Universal TV, Hires Michelle Lee As Development Exec

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 5:31pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Jason Katims, Universal Television
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EXCLUSIVE: Jason Katims, the Emmy-winning writer-executive producer behind Friday Night Lights and Parenthood, has extended his relationship with the studio behind both series, Universal Television, in a new overall deal. Under the two-year pact, Katims will continue as … Read More »

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AMPTP, Basic Crafts Unions Announce Tentative Three-Year Contract

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 5:20pm PDTTags: AMPTP, Big Deals Film, Big Deals TV

June 29, 2012 – The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and Basic Crafts Unions announced today that they have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract. The Basic Crafts Unions are Teamsters, Local No. 399, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local No. 40, Plumbers, Local No. 78, Studio Utility Employees, Local No. 724, and Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons, Local No. 755. The terms of the settlement will be subject to ratification by members at a later date.

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‘Unforgettable’ Will Return To CBS With 13-Episode Order For Summer 2013

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: CBS, Unforgettable
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Unforgettable Renewed CBSEXCLUSIVE: Unforgettable lives! CBS has picked up the procedural starring Poppy Montgomery and Dylan Walsh, which was cancelled in May after one season, with a 13-episode order targeted for next summer.

Related: … Read More »

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ESPN’s UEFA Euro Semifinals Up 46%

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 3:57pm PDTTags: ESPN

ESPN presentation of the UEFA EURO 2012 semifinal matches on Wednesday and Thursday was seen by an average of 1.907 million viewers, an increase of 46 percent compared to the two semifinals watched by 1.307 million viewers

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Co-Host Erin Andrews Leaving ESPN

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 3:49pm PDTTags: Dancing With The Stars, Erin Andrews, ESPN, Fox Sports

After being with the sports network for eight years, Erin Andrews is leaving ESPN. The sports network’s VP of Communications Josh Krulewitz tweet this afternoon that “Erin Andrews leaving ESPN. She did great work for … Read More »

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A&E’s ‘Longmire’ Renewed For Season 2

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 3:22pm PDTTags: A&E Networks, Longmire
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EXCLUSIVE: Four weeks into its freshman run, I’ve learned that A&E’s new drama series Longmire has been renewed for a second season. The Western-flavored series starring Robert Taylor and Katee Sackhoff premiered with 4.1 million total viewers … Read More »

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Max Winkler & Matt Spicer Adapting ‘The Coward’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 3:20pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, CAA, Max Winkler, Steve Carell

EXCLUSIVE: Max Winkler and Matt Spicer are on board for The Coward. The duo will co-write the adaptation of Nick Jones’ comic play about … Read More »

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Lionsgate’s Rob McEntegart Leaving To Start Own Company

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday June 29, 2012 @ 2:45pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Lionsgate

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve just learned that Lionsgate’s well liked and highly respected Senior Executive Vice President of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, Rob McEntegart, will be leaving that studio in the next few weeks. ”His departure follows a planned transition period and … Read More »

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