Box Office Numbers, DVD Sales, and Television Viewership for the week of May 24 to May 30, 2013.
Box Office: Started tracking The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, an indie scifi musical. It seems that horror and scifi films are falling off the chart rather quickly.
11 12 Oz The Great and Powerful $1,050,000 (Total: $232,613,000)
28 21 Jack The Giant Slayer $177,000 (Total: $65,039,000)
36 36 Scary Movie 5 $90,000 (Total: $31,393,000)
83 94 Kiss of The Damned $790 (Total: $13,310)
84 95 The Ghastly Love of Johnny X $250 (Total: $2,440)
DVD Top 30: The season seven Dexter compilation and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D both debut in the top 10. MaMa stays in the top 10 for a second week.
3 Dexter Season 7 $2,731,000
5 Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D $1,579,000
6 4 MaMa $1,518,000 (Total: $4,444,000)
15 17 The Avengers $437,000 (Total: $94,194,000)
22 13 Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 $331,000 (Total: $66,266,000)
Television Viewership: We’ve entered the realm of summer hiatus and reruns. We know this by the lack of new shows and lots of reruns and the fact that the most scifi watched program on television was a fake documentary about mermaids.
Mermaids: The New Evidence – 3,640,000
Hannibal – 2,386,000
Arrow (rerun) – 1,476,000
Merlin – 1,363,000
Beauty And The Beast (rerun) – 1,306,000
The Vampire Diaries (rerun) – 1,238,000
Supernatural (rerun) – 1,015,000
Weird or What? – 671,000