☀️NBA NETFLIX Show Misses Charts, Sports Doc Boom Overheated?
PAR CEOs get pay bump / Menendez Bros. rule NETFLIX Films / HULU orders NFL drama series
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, October 16, 2024.
Where who’s ready for a 295-page book about a tour that started 18 months ago and also had a 3-hour movie?! Yes, T-Swift has your holiday shopping needs covered with The Official Eras Tour Book! (btw that tour is still going until December).
It’ll hit TARGET just in time for Black Friday on Nov. 29, along with vinyl and CD editions of The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, with yes . . . more songs. Although as the AMAZON Black Friday NFL game this year will feature the CHIEFS — gotta wonder about that retail partner choice. 🤔
And yes, just like your Aunt Tracy’s Victorian erotica that you really hope she doesn’t mention at Thanksgiving this year, Taylor is also self-publishing the tome.
ALSO: Here are the 6 script projects chosen for THE BLACK LIST’s Writers Lab program this year, out of 1,700 submissions.
BTW: Did you know the big annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show that used to be a pretty big annual event happened last night for the first time since 2019? And that uh, AMAZON livestreamed it? I mean folks, if you’re gonna pay $1B a year for NFL games . . . and not promote an upcoming lingerie fashion show in those games, I gotta wonder about the strategy here.
PLUS: Here is your full list of Hamptons Film Festival winners, with Bob Trevino Likes It taking the audience award — which it also won at SXSW 👀 — and Armand winning the best narrative feature award.
THEN: The WNBA momentum continued Sunday afternoon . . . as game 2 of the LYNX vs. LIBERTY Finals had the biggest audience for a Finals game in 23 years (1.3M), and was +200k from game 1.
It was also up against NFL football on CBS and FOX.
Game 3 is tonight on ESPN at 8 p.m.
OH: FOX now has a (minority) NFL team owner calling NFL games in the broadcast booth — Tom Brady’s bid to own 5% of the LAS VEGAS RAIDERS was approved by NFL team owners. He’s already part-owner of the WNBA’s LAS VEGAS ACES.
YEAH: If you needed any more evidence that gambling apps target & prey on people with real or potential gambling problems — read this. And remember that both DISNEY and FOX CORP have significant revenue attachments to this business.
PLUS: NETFLIX dropped a little something special for the kids from ILLUMINATION for Halloween — a short film from the Sing crew called Sing: Thriller. You can check it out here.
IN THIS EDITION
The appetite for all things Menendez Brothers keeps surging at NETFLIX, as the new doc that dropped last week was the biggest doc opening in the past 2 years, and almost topped a 2022 powerhouse.
Dive into the numbers to know . . . as the turn of the '90s pop culture is hot on NETFLIX, with a studio pic from a franchise launched in that same timeframe also had a huge week.
AND: While “sports is the new entertainment” is an annoying phrase getting more prominence this year . . . let’s take a look into the real viewing numbers that the mythically popular “sports adjacent” content is actually getting.
PLUS: The sports rights deals that are actually up in the very near future that no one seems to be talking about
THE WAKEUP IRL IN NJ
As you may have seen — I’ll be at the Montclair Film Fest on Saturday, Oct. 26 to host an early afternoon panel conversation and hang with the fine folks of my home state.
So if you’ll be there — come say hi! I’ll be the 6’4” guy who definitely looks like he’s from NJ (well, Central NJ). Get your free tickets to the panel here.
📽 THE SILVER SCREEN
