☀️New NETFLIX UNI Deal Raises Big 🤔 About Existing One
How NFLX's new ad hire goes in new direction / ANGEL, LGF make new buys / YT's new vanity metric
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 30, 2024.
Where it’s rare that a gif encapsulates so much — both culturally and about the status of a World Series itself, and yet here it is from last night’s game.
Enjoy game 5 tonight! Thinking these 2 guys will be watching from Billy’s bar across the street since they were uh, subsequently thrown out.
THEN: If the Boomers had “Don’t trust anyone over 30” as a generational slogan back in the Vietnam War era — I think “Don’t trust anyone under 30” is the new motto for how we should view anything Gen Z tells us in a poll, or tells you directly to your face apparently.
See you on Tuesday, folks.
ALSO: Ya gotta love this WSJ experiment on every journalist’s favorite app, creating new X accounts that only indicated interests in non-political things (cooking, sports, etc), which were then fed . . . yes, a ton of unsolicited political crap. While Kamala Harris’ account was the most-seen — 10 of the top 14 most-seen accounts were right-wing content or directly Trump-affiliated.
AND: Here are your Gotham Award nominations this year.
PLUS: One more for The Great 2024 Hollywood Remake board — PAR and MIRAMAX are doing a new Scary Movie, with Keenan, Marlon and Shawn Wayans on board to write a script alongside Rick Alvarez. Come on Hollywood — just 2 more and we all get free GENERRA t-shirts!
OH: Sorry folks, you’re just gonna have to go back to chugging olive oil at home like you used to — STARBUCKS’ olive oil-infused Oleato drinks are the first to go on the new menu-shaving process.
REST IN PEACE: Goes out to another icon, as Teri Garr died at the age of 79 yesterday, whom Gen X likely knows best from Tootsie and Mr. Mom, and Millennials from Friends — a versatile, unique talent in the comedy world.
IN TODAY’S EDITION
NETFLIX’s new North America Ad biz VP hire actually seems to be the company’s latest salvo to put the cable TV bundle into the ground. This is an intriguing choice — I’ll explain why and what it nods to about strategy ahead.
The curious timing in NETFLIX’s new UNIVERSAL live-action pics output deal raises a real 🤔 about another current deal to keep in mind come 2025.
And to round out the NETFLIX trio of items — it finally scored with horror again! It also debuted another big international hit.
Take a dive into the numbers to know this week in NETFLIX Films, as Anna Kendrick also saw a nice bounce as Halloween approaches.
YOUTUBE’s latest 💰 numbers, and the thing to note about that seemingly random revenue stat that it “divulged.”
📽 THE SILVER SCREEN
