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Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on THURSDAY, June 13, 2024. Where who had NATHAN’S Hot Dogs on the list of companies that NETFLIX would come for in the 2020s? Unlike the notoriously overpriced hot dog giant, NETFLIX has no problem with Joey Chestnut’s endorsement of a plant-based food company and is bringing the Chestnut Vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef hot dog eating contest to you on Labor Day, Sept. 2. So, cross off “eating contests” on the NETFLIX Live Events white board (hope they got global rights🤞). No word if the guys will do so 🌭 while being driven around by F1 drivers competing against each other . . . but we still have some time to workshop this.
AND: It’s gettin’ real in late-night TV . . . as Late Night with Seth Meyers is losing its 8G Band when the new season starts this fall due to budget cuts. PLUS: DISNEY’s plans for $17B worth of expansion around WALT DISNEY WORLD got a major Florida board approval yesterday, giving the company permission to build a 5th theme park, 3 additional small parks, expanded retail & office space and 14,000 new hotel rooms. Oh hi, UNIVERSAL. 👋 THEN: APPLE is not paying OPENAI for the (optional) use of ChatGPT in iOS18 — apparently the deal is largely “promotional” — i.e. do you know how many people we’ll organically be introducing your product to?
ALSO: While the MAVERICKS didn’t show up to play 🏀 last night — Hollywood certainly did (and as no NBA team has won a Finals after going down 3-0, well, it’s been real) . I didn’t do a full count of ads, but:
GOTTA SAY: This Daily Show montage swapping in Trump visuals to the FOX NEWS reaction to the Hunter Biden verdict this week was rather 🤌.
A REST IN PEACE: Goes out to “The Logo,” NBA and LAKER legend Jerry West, who died at the age of 86 yesterday (Note for Janice: He is the player whose image was literally used to create the NBA logo). While I’d love to go with a gif of Jason Clarke’s memorable portrayal of West in HBO’s Winning Time, ya gotta go with the genuine article himself . . . while not a movie/TV biz presence obviously, he meant so much to L.A. and the sport over many decades.
WAKEUP BOX OFFICE POLLThe savior has arrived! Or at least as good as we’re gonna get . . . Inside Out 2 is tracking at an $85M-ish U.S. opening, and let’s hope the tracking is better here than it was for Lightyear in 2022 (tracking: $70M+, actual: $50M). But uh, who had . . . Deadline being the downer review of the 3 PENSKE trades? 🤯 (THR and Variety were both high on it.) Anyway, the movie to beat in 2024 is Dune Part 2 at $82M, but frankly anything over $80M is probably a win here given the tops so far this summer is $58M. Your Inside Out comp from the first movie was $90M in 2015 on the same June weekend.
TONYS WEEK CONTINUES 🎵Gonna go with a song from something that may not be on a lot of radars out there, a show called Lempicka . . . whose two leads (Amber Iman and Eden Espinosa) are both nominated for awards this Sunday, despite the show not having the prominence of others out there.  IN TODAY’S EDITION
📽 THE SILVER SCREEN
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