Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon gallery of Puck’s best new reporting.
Today, Dylan Byers sticks a flashlight into the Iger bunker, where Disney’s embattled C.E.O. is juggling a cratering stock price, opportunistic frenemies, and the specter of Fran Drescher. (S.O.S., Kevin Mayer!)
Plus, below the fold: Matt Belloni reveals Ken Griffin’s bizarre legal war over his villainous depiction in the new GameStop movie. Tara Palmeri wonders if Hakeem Jeffries might actually lose the gavel over New York’s migrant crisis. Jonathan Handel charts the pressure cracks splintering the Hollywood studios’ bargaining unit. And on The Powers That Be, Jon Kelly and Peter Hamby dig into the Disney-Charter dispute domino effects, before turning to CAA’s monster new deal.
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