☀️DISNEY Summer Ends with HAUNTED whimper as A24 scores
SONY boots Fall tentpoles to 2024 / DIS+ exploring INDIA password crackdown / Shark Week opens big
Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on MONDAY July 31, 2023.
Where apparently my gif last week was too influential… as DISNEY austerity measures have come for DVDs. Well, in AU/NZ at least, where DISNEY will no longer be selling the DVD format (oddly enough, DIVX is still thriving! And I’m guessing that joke was for about 4 people out there - you’re welcome).
I try to repeat gifs too often here, but when it’s called for… it’s called for.
AND: FOX is getting out of the gambling business, as FOXBET is being shut down after 4 years. This follows NBCU’s recent exit from the business, ending their deal with POINTSBET. Which is weird because everyone is making so much profit in that business 🥴.
WAKEUP BOX OFFICE POLL Results:
Kudos to da’ bears…
Correction: The Lando project that Donald & Stephen Glover are working on for DIS+ is indeed a series, not a movie. My apologies for the error… although I’d totally watch a one-off Lando movie and I’m not even a big Star Wars guy. A series… yeah that sounds like too much canon.
IN THIS EDITION
A Q2 Earnings Week 2 preview, including some questions that should be asked as WBD, SIRIUSXM, ALTICE and more take over the conference call lines.
DISNEY’s Summer O’ Fun comes to a whimpering conclusion… with one surprise result coming to the fore.
All of the SONY PICTURES 2023 (and ‘24) release slate changes.
News of DIS+ password crackdown in INDIA surfaces and more.
📽 THE SILVER SCREEN
