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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.

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