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Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect here on LINKED-IN if ya like) and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on FRIDAY, May 31, 2024. Where you were all worried about the movie business . . . 🙄
NO: You really are worried. I’m with the 27% here — and some people tell me my industry takes are sometimes too negative! Jeez . . .
THEN: Leave it to, uh, a FAST service to be the one to bring some fresh thinking to encourage people to go to the movies this summer — PLUTO is once again doing its “Summer of Cinema” promotion to give free tickets to moviegoers at various independent movie theaters on given weekends throughout the summer.
BUT: If you really love spending 6 to 10 minutes just to find something to watch on SVOD streaming — there’s now a streaming platform called SHOWRUNNER that lets you do . . . more work! You can create your own AI-generated series and watch ones that others have created. Then you can continue to complain that there’s not anything new to watch. ALSO: Comedian Matt Rife is taking 2 weeks off from his tour due to “extreme exhaustion.” The dates will be rescheduled. CONGRATS: To the DALLAS MAVERICKS, who advanced to the NBA Finals last night. They’ll take on the BOSTON CELTICS in the series, which starts Thursday on ABC.
OH: The Bear season 1 will get a linear TV run on FX for 4 consecutive nights at 10 p.m. starting this Sunday. You’ll then have 3 weeks to find a HULU account to watch season 2 before the premiere of season 3 . . . at which point you’ll, uh, still need that HULU account. MO’ MONEY: Illinois just voted to raise the tax rate for online gambling revenues, and Ohio recently doubled theirs as well — NJ also has legislation pending to do the same. But hey, that’s really PENN GAMBLING’s problem, not ESPN’s — its annual branding check for ESPN BET is unaffected. AND: The SKYDANCE-KKR-REDBIRD contingent ‘sweetened’ their offer for PARAMOUNT, but no real details here . . . other than the thinking is it gives more cash / value to current PAR common stockholders. The PAR annual meeting is on Tuesday. PLUS: Cricket is coming to the U.S.! The Cricket T20 World Cup is being hosted by the U.S. and the West Indies this year — and the U.S. vs. Canada match starts things off tonight at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Texas.
IN THIS EDITION
NEW ANKLER PODCAST EPISODE!Wherein Richard, Elaine and I dive into the PAR news still in the June ether, Richard and I debate the state of the movies, and we discuss some TV volume numbers that likely indicate the American public has no idea that there’s any kind of a “content pullback” going on.
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