![]() ![]() However, in terms of pop culture impact, Myers hasn’t been a draw outside of his marquee franchises ( Austin Powers from 1997 to 2002) and Shrek (from 2001 to 2010) since, well, even Wayne’s World 2 bombed ($47 million) in December 1993. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic) FilmMagic ![]() Mike Myers during World Premiere of "The Cat In The Hat" at Universal Studios Cinemas in Hollywood, California, United States. Myers, talent aside, has not been popular for at least twenty years. While The Pentaverate isn’t aggressively worse than any number “should have been a movie” comedies like The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (a Zucker Abrams Zucker-style spoof of Lifetime melodramas that took an 88-minute movie and stretched it out to eight half-hour episodes), it does represent Netflix mistaking awareness for interest. Moreover, their strategy of throwing money at once-popular comic celebrities and hoping for an Adam Sandler-sized return hasn’t quite worked out. While Netflix has gotten its money’s worth, relatively speaking, with the mega-bucks deals handed out to Shonda Rhimes ( Inventing Anna, Bridgerton), they’ve found less rate-of-return value in terms of viewership and buzz for the other dump-trucks of cash offered up to Ryan Murphy and Kenya Barris. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) FilmMagic ![]() WESTWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 10: Adam Sandler attends the LA Premiere of Netflix's "Murder Mystery" at Regency Village Theatre on Jin Westwood, California. Intriguingly enough, nowhere to be found on the English-language television list was Mike Myers’ The Pentaverate. Marshalls) that again reminds us how much Netflix relies on third-party content to which may eventually not have access as their streaming competition takes back their homegrown content. Oh well, likewise, the movie section was mostly made up of 365 Days: This Day (27.5 million hours), the first blockbuster 365 from back in summer 2020 (6.3 million hours) and a slew of Hollywood theatricals (Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog, Sony’s Men in Black International, STX’s The Gentlemen, Warner Bros. It was not a good week for Netflix’s English-language television, as season four of Ozark (102 million hours) and season one of Ozark (13.4 million hours) made up almost as much as the rest of the top ten (125 million hours) combined. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images) Getty Images LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 04: Mike Myers attends Netflix's "The Pentaverate" after party at Liaison on in Los Angeles, California. ![]()
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