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Welcome back to a jam-packed issue of What I’m Hearing+, Tuesday’s extra scoop of creamy entertainment industry intelligence. Today we’ve got a tag-team: Eriq Gardner has a few newsy updates, including a pretty shocking new front in CAA’s war against its hated defectors at Range Media. Then our box office expert Scott Mendelson is here with his 7 important takeaways from the surprisingly not-terrible summer at the movies.
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Welcome back to a jam-packed issue of What I’m Hearing+, Tuesday’s extra scoop of creamy entertainment industry intelligence. Today we’ve got a tag-team: Eriq Gardner has a few newsy updates, including a pretty shocking new front in CAA’s war against its hated defectors at Range Media. Then our box office expert Scott Mendelson is here with his 7 important takeaways from the surprisingly not-terrible summer at the movies.

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