☀️'Fall Guy' Crashes 2024 Summer Box Office Hopes
Studio earnings week preview / Tough decisions for new, or existing PAR leadership / NETFLIX gets new F1 series
Evenin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on SUNDAY, May 5, 2024.
Where let’s add Will Ferrell to the list of growing celebrity soccer football ⚽️ club owners, as he reportedly has taken a stake in LEEDS UNITED in the U.K. (it’s currently in the league below the PREMIER LEAGUE), which is on top of his existing ownership stake in the LOS ANGELES FC.
I mean, if there’s one guy who knows how to motivate a team . . .
ALSO: The WNBA pre-season has tipped off (the regular season begins on Tuesday), but the league is only streaming Caitlin Clark’s pre-season games, so an industrious fan livestreamed the CHICAGO vs. MINNESOTA game this weekend on his TWITTER/X account, featuring Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso, and peaked at 173k concurrent live viewers 🤯.
PLUS: This was a fantastic 60 Minutes piece tonight, on a pair of high school seniors at an all-girls school in NOLA who found a new solution for the Pythagorean Theorem — showing what the power of a good educational environment can do to help kids achieve.
In education, as in Hollywood, culture matters.
WAKEUP BOX OFFICE POLL
Well, we tried. Kudos to the 11% of bears onThe Fall Guy.
HOUSEKEEPING NOTE: Given the back-to-back-to-back earnings calls of DISNEY-FOX-WBD on Tues-Wed-Thurs (great, now I’m outta hyphens 🙄), The Wakeup will be hitting your inbox a little later than usual this week so I have time to listen to and analyze just how great everyone’s Q1s were.
IN THIS EDITION:
March box office hopes were thoroughly dashed by April, and May is off to a rocky start — dive into the numbers to know.
The things to look for in the big studio earnings week ahead at DISNEY, FOX and WBD.
All the latest PARAMOUNT developments, and with the SKYDANCE exclusivity period over and not extended, let’s not discount that “Office of the CEO” — changes need to be made at the company, there’s no reason the trio can’t be the one to make them after years of kicking the can down the road.
📽 THE SILVER SCREEN
