Sports Rushes the Field As 'Thing That Will Fix Everything'
What could go wrong? Plus: A studio history lesson for Paramount
Welcome to the Jamboree, my weekly series of quick(ish) takes on the industry’s passing parade.
Are Sports the New Superheroes?
When I say superheroes, I am not using the word in its world-captivating Avengers: Endgame sense, but in the tired, overwrought, overused, audience-exhausting superhero fatigue meaning.
The number of sports-related announcements in the past weeks indicates Hollywood has found a new Thing That Will Fix Everything. Throughout its history, Hollywood always has one of these on the shelf, waiting to be smothered to death by the industry’s love.