Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, coming at you from my secret summer retreat. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, including my own, and happy Juneteenth Eve. Hopefully your office is closed tomorrow.

Shameless plug: Thanks to Time, which just named The Town one of the best podcasts of 2023 so far, and this very newsletter “essential for anyone even vaguely interested in the business of Hollywood.”

On that note: This week on The Town, Lucas Shaw and I debated Netflix’s “transparency,” Terry Press evaluated Warner Bros.’ touchy marketing of The Flash, and Rebecca Keegan analyzed the Pixar box office problem. Don’t miss an episode by subscribing here or here.

Discussed in this issue: David Zaslav, James Gunn, Pat Sajak, Sherri Shepherd, Zoe Saldaña, Chris Hemsworth, Brian Robbins, Ezra Miller, Pete Docter, Tony Vinciquerra, and Judge Judy’s “Nepo-Verse”…

But first…

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