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 Shelly’s “hit” Movie

Shelly Hennig’s new movie came in 3rd at the box office this weekend but may well be the biggest hit of the week.

Unfriended picked up just $16 million in ticket sales. Audiences were more interested in street race sequel Furious 7 and fat mall cop Paul Blart in his Las Vegas comedy. Those movies, first and second respectively, racked up a combined $53 million.

Despite the low turnout, the makers of Unfriended are laughing all the way to their accountant’s office. They made the whole movie for just $1 million meaning they got a 16% return on investment in a single weekend.

In Hollywood hits are measured not by how much people liked your movie or gross revenues. The only number that matters is in the profit column and by that measure, Unfriended scored huge.

For comparison, Furious 7 cost about $190 to make and grossed more than $147 million in its first weekend. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 cost right at $30 million and picked up $23 million for it’s open.  Teen Wolf Season 5 Synopsis

MTV has redesigned the Official Teen Wolf website and released a brief synopsis for Season 5. The new website features the “drippy” Teen Wolf logo seen in the first teaser and the primary accent color switched from bright yellow to what my computer identifies as “outer space” sort of a slate-bluish-grayish sort of thing.

The new Season 5 synopsis reads -
 * “On the eve of Senior Year, Scott and his friends find themselves facing the possibility of a future without each other, a next phase of their lives that might take them in different directions despite their best intentions. Little do they know that outside forces are already plotting to break the pack apart long before they ever see graduation. New villains that use a combination of science and the supernatural for a malevolent and mysterious purpose that will eventually pit Scott and his friends against their greatest enemy yet.”

The “new villains,” we know from the first teaser trailer, are The Doctors. The fact that they “use a combination of science and the supernatural” conjures up all sorts of ideas about just what we’ll see coming in Season 5.

Also generating some buzz is the line “facing the possibility of a future without each other.” There’s been a great deal of idle chatter about Season 5 being the show’s last. There is little in the way of facts to back up those rumors but this synopsis will likely add fuel to that speculative fire.

Teen Wolf Season 5 began filming on February 9 in Los Angeles, California. They are currently working on Episodes 7 and 8. The season is expected to air beginning on June 29, 2015.

 Eye Candy Dead

The Flirtual Killer tried and failed but MTV managed to kill off Victoria Justice’s cybercrime-fighting heroine Lindy Sampson. Eye Candy is officially canceled.

Justice announced the show’s demise via social media this week.


 * “I wanted you guys to hear it from me first, that the cast and I received news that Eye Candy will not be returning for season 2. Even though a lot of you are going to feel sad/angry, please know that playing Lindy Sampson, is something that I loved and I will hold dear to my heart.”

The show was created by Teen Wolf Writer/Director Christian Taylor and Teen Wolf Director Russell Mulcahy directed the first two episodes.

The show never managed to generate much buzz either on TV via ratings or online where the MTV audience does most of its content consumption. The television audience peaked at about 700,000 but averaged closer to half a million viewers per week. Even with delayed viewing the numbers couldn’t sustain a second season.  Scream Summer Debut

MTV’s next great dramatic hope is SCREAM. The television show based on the tongue-in-cheek slasher movies will debut the day after Teen Wolf does this summer.

The show saw its share of development problems and delays but all the work paid off according to a source that saw the pilot. He says the first episode was the best thing the network’s done since the Teen Wolf pilot in 2010.

Check out the teaser trailer at the official MTV SCREAM site.