Solomon’s Crunch, Zaz’s Four Horsemen, Iger’s Deal Book

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon roundup of Puck’s best new reporting.

Today, we lead with Dylan Byers’ inside look at CNN’s post-Licht landscape: the four-pronged “interim” leadership coalition, the Kaitlan Collins dilemma, spin-off murmurs, and more.

Plus, below the fold: Bill Cohan considers David Solomon’s pivotal Q3. Matt Belloni offers brilliant snap reflections on ‘Barbenheimer’ weekend. Jonathan Handel dissects why the actors pooh-poohed the studios’ nearly $1B package. And on The Powers That Be, Jon Kelly joins Peter Hamby for a spirited chat surrounding Bob Iger’s potential haul for Disney’s various non-essential assets, before digging into how the Republican primary circus will affect incumbent medicos and startups, alike.

DYLAN BYERS

Yes, yes: CNN’s troublesome leader is gone, but a low-lying anxiety about the future nevertheless remains quite intact.

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WILLIAM D. COHAN

Fresh insights and analysis on what the elite Wall Street crowd is ruminating about at Sebonack these days.

MATTHEW BELLONI

The lesson learned from Hollywood’s biggest weekend of the Covid era is that there’s really no lesson to be learned.

JONATHAN HANDEL

The studios say that they offered the actors a billion-dollar package. The actors say it was less than $800 million, and not good enough anyway. But the truth is that the AMPTP may have as many deal insecurities as SAG-AFTRA, itself.