☀️ A24 in Springsteen Pic talks, as New Project News Surges
PEACOCK gets new exclusive NFL game / MAX joins procedural parade / Lohan tops NETFLIX Films viewership
Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on WEDNESDAY, March 27, 2024.
Where I’m wondering if any other GenX and “elder Millennials” out there kinda miss MTV Spring Break this time of year? 😎
Come on PAR+ . . . how is this sacred library from our youth not on the app?! 👆 It makes for the perfect marketing pitch of “Stream March Madness, and watch your parents hook up on MTV in the late 90s — all in one app!”
Okay fine, we’ll work on the pitch 🙄 . . . but you can use the VHS tapes I probably still have of some 1990s editions in my mom’s basement (right next to the Premiere magazines) if you lost your copies.
AND: Add Local 695 (production sound, video assist, video engineering and studio projection) to the list of guilds which have set tentative agreements with the AMPTP as part of the IATSE negotiations this month.
PLUS: DJT, aka the stock ticker for TRUTH SOCIAL, now has a market cap of $7.9 Billion . . . on $3.4 Million of revenue in the 9-month Jan. thru Sept. period of 2023, while also posting a loss of $49 Million. Yeah, this should go well.
THEN: The Onion is for sale. Sadly, that is not an Onion headline . . . but rather related to the apparent fire sale going on at its parent company, G/O MEDIA, which also just sold Onion-related businesses A/V Club (to Paste) and The Takeout (to STATIC MEDIA) this month, as well as selling off Deadspin earlier this month.
ALSO: APPLE is hinting at a big AI theme for its WWDC confab on June 10 this year (hope you didn’t spill your coffee reading that).
HUZZAH: HULU now officially has a tile inside DIS+ as of today, making the integration official (it’s still available as its own app/service of course) . . . just as Nelson Peltz gets a nod from a second shareholder advisory firm (this one is EGAN-JONES).
IN THIS EDITION:
The movie biz continues its very active 2024, although TV joins the bandwagon on a day full of new deals, casting and script developments. Maybe that “2nd half of 2024” optimism isn’t unwarranted!
PEACOCK gets a new exclusive NFL game as the service is set up for a strong Q3 (Q2 however . . .). A look at what’s ahead.
Lindsay Lohan rules NETFLIX Films around the world.
Cricket sets a new streaming record in India, plus a look at the scale of NETFLIX and AMAZON’s new impending competitor in the market, and much more.
OH: Remember this 👇 from last year, NYC? Yeah, CANADA is currently thinking the wildfire thing is going to return and then some this summer because the fires never stopped burning this winter, to the tune of over 10x the 5-year average rate, even in the snow . . . but hey, I’m sure it’s fine. #WhatClimateChangeLooksLike
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