Welcome back to What I’m Hearing during what I’m guessing is your annual quest to find MTV (if you haven’t already cut the cord). Next weekend, for your Labor Day holiday cookout, my Puck colleague Bill Cohan and I will debate the narratives of the fall in media and finance. If you’ve got thoughts or questions, just reply to this email.

Discussed in this issue: David Zaslav, Olivia Wilde, Toby Emmerich, Stacy Spikes, Jay Leno, Zack Stentz, Dan Loeb, Florence Pugh, Jeffrey Azoff, Maria Herrera, Britney Spears, and a $28,000 private jet bill.

But first…

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Google “Don’t Worry Darling” right now. Actually, don’t. It’s depressing. Tons of media attention, sure, and who knows, maybe the noise will generate a huge lookie-loo turnout on Sept. 23. Nonstop headlines—good, bad, whatever—might actually be what it takes to break through these days. But the frenzy has almost nothing to do with the actual movie, or even the very famous pop star Harry Styles’s performance in it, and certainly nothing to do with Wilde as a talented director. And that’s thanks in major part to Wilde’s own comments...