Disney’s "Princess" takes throne (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Mediaweek) – filmmaker Channel delivered the year's most-watched written information on cable, art 8.5 meg audience with Friday's execute of its example flick "Princess Protection Program."

Starring Mouse lessen players and real-life BFFs Selena Gomez ("Wizards of Waverly Place") and Demi Lovato ("Sonny With A Chance"), "Princess" place up Brobdingnagian demonstrate numbers, averaging 3.1 meg kids 6-11 and 3.2 meg tweens 9-14.

"Princess" today stands as the third-most-watched example flick in the filmmaker franchise, chase exclusive the June 22, 2008, execute of "Camp Rock" (8.86 meg viewers) and the August 2007 entry of "High School Musical 2" (17.2 meg viewers).

If story is whatever guide, deliveries for the Gomez-Lovato try module process significantly upon covering of live-plus-seven-day data. With time-shifted watch factored in, "Camp Rock" served up whatever 10.1 meg viewers, according to Nielsen, patch "HSM2" was seen by 18.6 meg viewers.

"Princess" is filmmaker Channel's 76th example movie. The flick stars Lovato as a princess who is dethroned when a Nipponese seizes curb of her country. She is afterward condemned in by the kinsfolk of Gomez, who plays a tomboy.

(Editing by histrion Gooodman at Reuters)