Tonight, I have a lot of things dealing with looking back at the year.
Movie box office numbers for last weekend. 1. Night At The Museum – $42.2 million. 2. Pursuit Of Happiness – $23.1 million. 3. Rocky Balboa – $17.0 million. 4. Good Shepherd – $14.1 million. 5. Charlotte’s Web – $9.6 million. 6. Eragon – $9.3 million. 7. Dreamgirls – $9.0 million. 8. We Are Marshall – $8.6 million. 9. The Holiday – $7.05 million. 10. The Nativity Story – $6.7 million.
Here is a lineup of talent scheduled for New Year’s Eve on the major network shows.
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve on ABC – Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest are hosting. Performers include Christina Aguilera, Broadway’s Jersey Boys, Rascal Flatts, Natasha Bedingfield, Fergie, Meatloaf, RBD, and more.
NBC’s New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly – NBC – Carson Daly hosting. On the show: Hayden Panettiere, Tommy Lee, Dave Navarro, OK Go, Panic! At The Disco.
MTV’s New Year’s Special – On the show: Gwen Stefani, Ciara, Three 6 Mafia, AFI, Nas, Pussycat Dolls, Lady Sovereign, Chamillionaire.
Fox’s New Year’s Special – Cat Deely of “So You Think You Can Dance” hosting – On The Show: Chris Daughtry, Toni Braxton.
CNN: Anderson Cooper Live In Times Square.
Movie review for this week, John Tucker Must Die. John Tucker is the most popular guy in school and the basketball team superstar. He is seemingly able to get people to follow him on anything he desires whether it is style or attitude. The movie starts introducing us to Kate played by Brittany Snow from American Dreams (Yay) who is the new girl in school. She’s never been really popular and just does her own thing. She works as a waitress and notices John Tucker bringing in a new girl every night to the restaurant. Three different ones actually. How do the girls not know that he is seeing other girls? Well, he tells them that their relationship has to be kept secret cause he isn’t supposed to date during basketball season. Each girl is from a different high school clique so the girls don’t socialize with each other. All this finally gets revealed with help from Kate. The girls decide to get even with John Tucker and teach him that he can’t treat girls like he does. The decision is made to make Kate the girl that will win John over but then they will destroy him when he least expects it. The questions are what do the girls have planned and will Kate be able to hold up to his charm as well? I liked this movie. Just a fun movie to watch with a fun storyline of watching the girls trying to get even. This movie had a lot of things in it that reminded me of 10 Things I Hate About You. The movie runs just barely under an hour and a half.
I talked last week about watching the first episode of My Boys on TBS. I’ve watched more episodes and I officially really like this show. The show is narrated by PJ who is the lead female in the show. She is a sportswriter who has a group of male best friends that she has known for several years. I love the comparison of sports to dating with her narration. She looks at all of her friends as a team and they are her teammates. She points out in one episode that it’s not near as enjoyable when things happen to you when your overall team morale is down. One comparison was when she was dating this guy that she thought was great. Most of her friends however were having horrible luck at dating (a couple of them although are in relationships). She was suddenly not hanging around the group as much and they were hurt by it. She compared it to a baseball player being called up to the major leagues but you can’t enjoy it cause you see your teammates still stuck in the same place and want them to have the same thing. Only problem with the guy she was dating was that he didn’t really want to hang around with her friends so much. He and the friends got along but just never really hit it off. This is really a clever young dating show!! TBS is getting good ratings from the show and has ordered nine more episodes that are going to air in the summer.
Good sign for Apple’s success with iTunes as the site was slowed down big time on Christmas day and on Tuesday due to too much traffic on the site. Customers with gift cards and new iPods were looking at downloading some music and overwhelmed the site. Sounds like iTunes is doing just fine.
The name for the final Harry Potter book has been revealed. It is Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows. Author J.K. Rowling had this to say about the progress of the book as it is still being worked on: “I’m now writing scenes that have been planned, in some cases, for a dozen years or even more. I don’t think anyone who has not been in a similar situation can possibly know how this feels: I am alternately elated and overwrought. I both want, and don’t want, to finish this book (don’t worry, I will.)”
A signed “Meet The Beatles” album signed by all four Beatles was sold for around $115,000. The album was sold in an auction by George Harrison’s sister. This is reportedly the highest selling price ever for an auctioned signed Beatles album.
A report has come out about the comparison of VCR’s and DVD players. A new study has 81.2% of homes having a DVD player compared to 79.2% of homes having VCR’s. In 1999, 6.7% of homes had a DVD player while 88.6% of homes had a VCR.
TV On DVD releases for Tuesday, January 2nd. Wow, there is only ONE this week. Martin (Season 1).
The following are media sales charts that were released by Nielsen Media Research for the best of 2006. The music stuff is combined with Nielsen and Musicscan. Most of these numbers stop being calculated by the middle of December. Good stuff here.
Top 10 TV Programs – Regularly Scheduled – 2006
Rank Programs Network % of Homes in U.S. (Rating)
1 AMERICAN IDOL-TUESDAY FOX 17.7
2 AMERICAN IDOL-WEDNESDAY FOX 17.2
3 DANCING WITH THE STARS ABC 12.7
4 CSI CBS 12.0
5 DANCING W/STARS RESULTS ABC 11.4
6 NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL NBC 11.1
7 CSI: MIAMI CBS 10.3
8 DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES ABC 10.2
9 HOUSE FOX 10.0
10 DEAL OR NO DEAL-MON NBC 9.8
10 WITHOUT A TRACE CBS 9.8
Top 10 TV Programs – Single Telecasts – 2006
Rank Telecast Network Date Aired % of Homes in U.S. (Rating)
1 SUPER BOWL XL ABC 2/5/2006 41.6
2 SUPER BOWL POST GAME ABC 2/5/2006 29.0
3 ACADEMY AWARDS ABC 3/5/2006 23.1
4 ROSE BOWL ABC 1/4/2006 21.7
5 GREY’S ANATOMY ABC 2/5/2006 21.0
6 FOX NFC CHAMPIONSHIP FOX 1/22/2006 20.8
7 AMERICAN IDOL-WED FOX 5/24/2006 20.5
8 AMERICAN IDOL-TUES FOX 1/24/2006 19.6
9 AMERICAN IDOL-TUES FOX 1/17/2006 19.3
10 AMERICAN IDOL-TUES FOX 3/21/2006 19.2
Top 10 “Time shifted” Primetime TV Programs – 2006
% Increase
Rank Programs Network in Viewership
1 STUDIO 60 NBC 10.9
2 HEROES NBC 9.1
3 GILMORE GIRLS CW 7.9
4 AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL CW 7.7
5 30 ROCK NBC 7.5
5 FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS NBC 7.5
7 NINE, THE ABC 6.7
7 SUPERNATURAL CW 6.7
9 KIDNAPPED NBC 6.6
9 ONE TREE HILL CW 6.6
9 SMALLVILLE CW 6.6
Top 10 Box Office – All Theatrical
Rank Title Cumulative Total US $ Open Date
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead $423,315,812 7/7/2006
2 Cars $244,082,982 6/9/2006
3 X-Men: The Last Stand $234,362,462 5/26/2006
4 The Da Vinci Code $217,536,138 5/19/2006
5 Superman Returns $200,081,192 6/28/2006
6 Ice Age: The Meltdown $195,330,621 3/31/2006
7 Over the Hedge $155,019,340 5/19/2006
8 Happy Feet $149,244,791 11/17/2006
9 Talladega Nights: The Ballad $148,213,377 8/4/2006
10 Casino Royale $137,501,384 11/17/2006
Top 10 Box Office – Animated Movies
Rank Title Cumulative Total US $ Open Date
1 Cars $244,082,982 6/9/2006
2 Ice Age: The Meltdown $195,330,621 3/31/2006
3 Over the Hedge $155,019,340 5/19/2006
4 Happy Feet $149,244,791 11/17/2006
5 Open Season $84,303,558 9/29/2006
6 Monster House $73,661,010 7/21/2006
7 Barnyard $72,637,803 8/4/2006
8 Flushed Away $61,607,497 11/3/2006
9 Curious George $58,360,760 2/10/2006
10 Hoodwinked $51,224,985 1/13/2006
Top 10 Box Office ̱ Documentaries Р2006
Rank Title Cumulative Total US $ Open Date
1 An Inconvenient Truth $23,814,997 5/24/2006
2 Deep Sea 3-D $21,586,668 3/3/2006
3 Dave Chappelle’s Block Party $11,718,595 3/3/2006
4 Roving Mars $5,342,643 1/27/2006
5 Wordplay $3,119,555 6/16/2006
6 Neil Young: Heart of Gold $1,828,069 2/10/2006
7 Who Killed The Electric Car $1,678,874 6/28/2006
8 Why We Fight $1,439,972 1/20/2006
9 The U.S. vs John Lennon $1,109,146 9/15/2006
10 Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Ma.. $1,044,254 6/21/2006
Top 10 DVD Sales – 2006
Rank Title Distributor Retail Release Date
1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Warner Home Video 03-07-06
2 Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe Disney/Buena Vista Home Vid 04-04-06
3 Cars Disney/Buena Vista Home Vid 11-07-06
4 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Disney/Buena Vista Home Vid 12-05-06
5 Wedding Crashers Warner Home Video 01-03-06
6 King Kong Universal Home Ent 03-28-06
7 Walk the Line 20th Century Fox Home Ent 02-28-06
8 Over the Hedge Paramount Home Video 10-17-06
9 Little Mermaid Disney/Buena Vista Home Vid 10-03-06
10 Chicken Little Disney/Buena Vista Home Vid 03-21-06
Top 10 Albums – 2006
Rank Artist Album Units Sold
1 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK 3,480,000
2 RASCAL FLATTS ME AND MY GANG 3,060,000
3 CARRIE UNDERWOOD SOME HEARTS 2,460,000
4 NICKELBACK ALL THE RIGHT REASONS 2,310,000
5 JAMES BLUNT BACK TO BEDLAM 2,060,000
6 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE FUTURESEX/LOVE SOUNDS 1,950,000
7 DIXIE CHICKS TAKING THE LONG WAY 1,770,000
8 MARY J. BLIGE BREAKTHROUGH 1,750,000
9 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 21 1,640,000
10 BEYONCE B’DAY 1,600,000
Top 10 Most Digitally Downloaded Tracks – 2006
Rank Track Artist Units Sold
1 BAD DAY (ALBUM VERSION) DANIEL POWTER 1,880,000
2 CRAZY (ALBUM VERSION) GNARLS BARKLEY 1,525,000
3 TEMPERATURE (ALBUM VERSION) SEAN PAUL 1,460,000
4 OVER MY HEAD (CABLE CAR) FRAY 1,410,000
5 UNWRITTEN NATASHA BEDINGFIELD 1,320,000
6 HIPS DON’T LIE SHAKIRA (Featuring Wyclef) 1,290,000
7 DANI CALIFORNIA (ALBUM VERSION) RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 1,200,000
8 SEXYBACK MAIN VERSION JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE FEATURING TI 1,190,000
9 MOVE ALONG ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS 1,180,000
10 LIPS OF AN ANGEL HINDER 1,120,000
Top 10 Most Played Songs on the Radio – 2006
Number of Times Played
Rank Songs Artist on Radio
1 Be Without You Mary J. Blige 395,995
2 Unwritten Natasha Bedingfield 336,276
3 Temperature Sean Paul 324,555
4 Me & U Cassie 312,073
5 Hips Don’t Lie Shakira Feat. Wyclef Jean 308,903
6 Promiscuous Nelly Furtado Featuring Timbaland 292,264
7 Bad Day Daniel Powter 291,256
8 Check On It Beyonce Featuring Slim Thug 290,231
9 So Sick Ne-Yo 277,958
10 Over My Head (Cable Car) Fray 276,601
You Tube Video Of The Week: The Newest Member Of Dancing With The Stars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw-8wxuQaaU
Have a great and safe New Year’s!! Talk to you in 2007!!
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