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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, ramping up from a semi-relaxing holiday weekend of nonstop kid baseball and, like the rest of America, not seeing movies in theaters. Yikes. Today we’ve got a breakdown on just how bad these May box office numbers are. Plus, a Mail Room column where I answer some burning reader questions.
Programming note: I’m back on CNBC’s Squawk Box tomorrow at 6:20 a.m. ET talking box office. On The Town, litigator Aaron Moss pregamed Scarlett Johansson’s legal case against OpenAI, and Puck’s Eriq Gardner predicted whether the government would actually break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster. Subscribe here and here.
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Discussed in this issue: David Zaslav, Julia Roberts, Tom Quinn, Wes Ball, Kelly Bush Novak, Les Moonves, Trent Reznor, Luis Silberwasser, Kevin Costner, Tony Khan, Luca Guadagnino, Glen Powell, Jon Feltheimer, Margot Robbie, Eli Bush, Steph Jones, and… the dumbest LLC name.
But first…
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| Back in the day, most information at a talent agency ultimately flowed through the mail room, so I stole the name for my periodic reader question column. If you’d like something answered, just respond to this email and I’ll put it in the Google doc for a future issue. Today, questions about a quiet rights negotiation at Warner Bros. Discovery, what top film composers make, the future of Starz, and one of the most enduring... |
