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☀️NETFLIX & SEARCHLIGHT write big SUNDANCE checks

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☀️NETFLIX & SEARCHLIGHT write big SUNDANCE checks

OSCAR noms out / VERIZON loses 10% of TV subs in 2022 / Matt & Ben going theatrical at AMAZON

Sean McNulty
Jan 24, 2023
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Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on TUESDAY January 24, 2023.

Where here are your 2023 OSCAR nominees. I’ll leave the tea leaves to all of you.

I’m usually about this accurate. via Giphy

OF NOTE OFF THE BAT:

ACTRESS: Ana De Armas for “Blonde” (one of those rare Razzie / OSCAR movies), Andrea Riesborough gets a nom for “To Leslie” (the strong celeb campaigning apparently worked).

  • But no Viola Davis (“The Woman King”), or Danielle Deadwyler (“Till”).

ACTOR: Hope you bought that Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”) stock last week.

DIRECTOR: No Cameron, but yes for Ruben Ostlund - “Triangle of Sadness” (which also gets a Picture nom).

PICTURE: No “BP2” but yes “Top Gun: Maverick” (and “Avatar 2”).

  • Streamers get 1 nom of the 10, “All Quiet on the Western Front” for NETFLIX (which also got a Best Int’l Film nod). NETFLIX did get 2 of the 5 Animated Pic nods (“Sea Beast” and “GDT’s Pinocchio”).

SCRIPT: “Glass Onion” got a nod here… but not the other major categories.

Two other performances I was happy to see noticed from talent on the rise - Brian Tyree Henry in “Causeway” (best supp actor) and Stephanie Hsu in “Everything Everywhere” (best supp actress).

IN TODAY’S EDITION:

  • AMAZON goes theatrical with Matt & Ben

  • VERIZON’s latest window into cord cutting, and the burgeoning Fixed Wireless business

  • What NETFLIX spent $20 Million on at SUNDANCE

  • “The Last of Us” looks even more like HBO’s next franchise-level hit

  • DISCO+ ditches lean-back channel viewing in the app, and more


📽 THE SILVER SCREEN

yup… I got the wrong Fair Game don’t I? via Giphy

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