via press release:
ROGER CORMAN’S DINOSHARK DEVOURS MORE THAN TWO MILLION TOTAL VIEWERS AND ONE MILLION ADULTS 25-54 DURING SYFY PREMIERE SATURDAY, MARCH 13, AT 9PM
New York, NY – March 17, 2010 – Roger Corman’s Dinoshark devoured more than two million (2.047) total viewers during its premiere on Syfy Saturday, March 13, at 9PM (ET/PT). The movie also gobbled up one million Adults 25-54, while averaging a 1.5 household rating.
Dinoshark powered Syfy to #4 among Adults 25-54 in prime versus all cable entertainment networks.
In Dinoshark, a lush Mexico vacation spot is terrorized by a mysterious prehistoric creature no one believes exists, except a young fishing boat captain (Eric Balfour, 24, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). To prevent a bloodbath, the captain must stop “Dinoshark” before it invades an inland waterway full of pleasure boats and swimmers. Dinoshark was produced by Roger Corman and Julie Corman.
Sharktopus, starring Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts, which is also produced by Roger Corman and Julie Corman, is scheduled to premiere on Syfy later in 2010.
Roger Corman, who received an Honorary 2010 Oscar, is the legendary director and producer of numerous low-budget cult classics, among them It Conquered the World, Teenage Doll, The Little Shop of Horrors, House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, Premature Burial, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Wild Angels and The Trip.
Corman is also credited with opening the door to a number of young filmmakers including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme and Ron Howard.
The next Syfy Saturday Original Movie is Dark Relic. Airing Saturday, March 27, at 9PM (ET/PT), Dark Relic stars James Frain (The Tudors) as a battle-weary warrior leading his men home after years of fighting. But the Holy Relic he’s carrying contains a terrible curse, which frees a bloodthirsty demon. Sir Gregory (Frain) and some unlikely allies confront this scourge from Hell to stop the spread of an unspeakable evil. Dark Relic is a production of Battle Productions, LLC.
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in more than 96 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)
Well, if you ever ask yourself the question “How many idiots live in America?” you know now that the smallest answer is….2 million.
Dinoshark. Blech.
That's actually not very good for a Syfy Saturday Night Special. I kind of thought it would do better but we have had a glut of killer shark movies from Syfy lately. They seem to go in cycles: first it was meteorological phenomenon then ancient civilizations then snakes then sharks and now the next wave is fairy tales?
Indeed, it was no “Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus” (2.7 million) last August.
It's really disturbing the direction this network is following. I just read an article that SyFy is going to have a cooking show! Really, if it wasn't for Eureka I'd probably dump SyFy, but then again, I'm not too encouraged about the direction of that show either.
You may all groan, but there's more of a market for these than 'Battlestar Galactica' or 'Caprica'.
I sense an inevitable Dinoshark vs. Sharktopus matchup in the near future. Unless they team up and humanity can only be saved by Mansquito.
Bring on Sharktopus!
I failed to watch Dinoshark on Syfy last week. Though I have heard of mixed reactions,I 'm still curious to see it since it is from Roger Corman.
I always thought syfy orginal movies were complete jokes. I can't believe this more than doubled Caprica's ratings.
Sci-Fi channel movies have such potential but the execs just do it wrong.
Give a team a blank canvas to work from, a tiny fixed budget, and let them go wild. It’s too bad that they usually end up being craptastic (why do they all have the worst names imaginable?) because they definitely have the potential to produce some top-quality B movies.
Agreed, and NBC-U is in the business to make money, but how far can you stretch “Imagine Greater” before people begin to wonder why they're paying for a channel that more and more has less to do with SyFy than with the decendants of “Survivor”. IMHO, professional wrestling does belong on SyFy because it has nothing to do with reality and it's certainly a work of fiction.
I used to find these movies annoying, but getting Roger Corman to actually produce one of them kind of explains it all. I am still not happy that Syfy, in its other incarnation, chose to start producing these and actuallly shafted its other shows-one which was their first production-instead of letting them finish their run. However, I realize that these shows are the equivalent of the Saturday afternoon weekend drive-in B movie schlock that many baby boomers spent their allowance on for entertainment. So now, instead of having to leave your home, you can microwave a bag of popcorn, get a glass of soda, and tune in for a good laugh, all in the comfort of you own home. If you have a dvr with a pause, you can actually take a bathroom break are any time. Also, it seems to be working for Syfy, so it seems it has been a good decision for them in the long run.
I used to find these movies annoying, but getting Roger Corman to actually produce one of them kind of explains it all. I am still not happy that Syfy, in its other incarnation, chose to start producing these and actuallly shafted its other shows-one which was their first production-instead of letting them finish their run. However, I realize that these shows are the equivalent of the Saturday afternoon weekend drive-in B movie schlock that many baby boomers spent their allowance on for entertainment. So now, instead of having to leave your home, you can microwave a bag of popcorn, get a glass of soda, and tune in for a good laugh, all in the comfort of you own home. If you have a dvr with a pause, you can actually take a bathroom break are any time. Also, it seems to be working for Syfy, so it seems it has been a good decision for them in the long run.