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☀️'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

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May 06, 2024
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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 . . .

The new Leeds mantra. Via Giphy

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.


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