☀️‘Scream’ Win Saves Otherwise Scary Box Office
PAR 30 movie pledge feasibility & week ahead in WBD drama / ‘G.I. Joe’ gets 2 scripts / CHARTER-COX FCC stamp
Evenin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LINKEDIN here if ya like or email me at seanmcnultynyc@gmail.com), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on SUNDAY, March 1, 2026.
Where for those keeping track at home of 2026 regime change — that’s Hollywood 1, Trump Administration 2. Only 10 more months to go!
PLUS: Here are your PGA Award winners last night. Although I had no idea this was turned into a roast! Or at least it did in the hands of Barry Diller:
On David Ellison: “Samuel Goldwyn, Adolph Zukor, Jack Warner — what would Jack Warner do to know he’d been succeeded by a stunt pilot?”
On the history of the PGA Milestone Award: “Cecil B. DeMille, Disney and now Blum: Not the most obvious succession, but then you also gave this award to Harvey Weinstein and Les Moonves. So there’s that.”
On Jason Blum, the person he was there to give the award to: “There’s some commonality with the great. DeMille made movies for $15,000, and so did Blum almost 100 years later. To say he’s cheap isn’t a characterization. It’s a defining attribute.”
NEXT: Tonight’s SAG-AFTRA Actor Awards, formerly known as the SAG Awards, stream tonight on Netflix at 8 p.m. Watch along with Prestige Junkie pals Katey Rich and Christopher Rosen at Prestige Junkie After Party, if ya like.
ALSO: No WGAW awards show this year, as its staff is still on strike. The East branch will still proceed on March 8.
AND: It still baffles me how this is on ROKU CHANNEL and not PAR+. Well, here’s your release date info! Enjoy your trip back to your high school years, millennials.
THEN: With all of the FY25 major movie theater chain financial data in — industry tracking service THE NUMBERS puts the average U.S. movie ticket price at $12.49 in Q4 2025, and +6% YoY, and well above the inflation rate. This includes IMAX/PLF ticket prices in the average.
The average price of going to the movies has gone up 14% in just 3 years.
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Kudos to the 13% dreamers! The one week I don’t go high . . . 🤦♂️.
🎥 THE BOX OFFICE
Well, say what you will about the likelihood of the Ellison #30MoviePledge — and a lot of folks have done just that to me and elsewhere lately (much more on that below the box office chart today — we could certainly use the movie volume.
It’s a good thing Scream did so well because when your #4 movie didn’t even make $4M, this is a very sad state of affairs — not to mention those #4 and #5 movies are concerts.
Hey, gotta fill those theaters somehow! (Does TICKETMASTER know about this?) Let’s dive in.