What I’m Hearing: Avatar Hopes and Fears, CAA vs. WME, & Zaz Blowback

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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, and thanks to all that entered the Avatar box office contest, especially the guy who predicted a $1 billion opening. Aggressive!

Hollywood may shut down tomorrow, but I’ll be sending my normal emails over the break, I’ll just try to keep them shorter. Beginning today…

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Thursday Thoughts…

Ari and Bryan’s year-end wisdom: Today at the Endeavor year-end town hall, C.E.O. Ari Emanuel teased a few deals he’s got cooking, which...

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Never Over-Estimate James Cameron

Even if ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ performs as Hollywood hopes, Cameron alone can’t save cinema. This year will end with theatrical revenue down about a third versus 2019. There simply aren’t enough big movies these days to sustain theaters—and far too many duds.

MATTHEW BELLONI

It’s become the cringiest of clichés: “Never underestimate James Cameron.” I actually remember back in 2009, when Cameron was promoting the first Avatar at a filmmaker roundtable I co-moderated, asking him off-camera how often people were saying that to him. A lot, I remember him telling me, and it never gets old...

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