The Wakeup
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☀️ UNI’s ‘Disclosure Day’ Opens With Cloudy Outlook
DOJ 👍 WARNAMOUNT, what’s ahead / DGA, AMPTP deal provisions / ROKU’s for sale, who’s buying?
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☀️ PAR, LGF Go Deeper on AI
APPLE nabs JLaw rom-com / WBD exec pay packages reprimanded (ish) / AMC kills summer concerts plan
Latest The Wakeup stories
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EDDIE MURPHY doing 3 movies at AMAZON
NETFLIX sets Kev Hart heist movie / THE ATHLETIC is for sale / SHOWTIME orders Vampire series
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DISNEY+ growth drastically slowed this Summer
PEACOCK orders PITCH PERFECT tv series / VIACOM bundles SHO & PAR+ for $10 / NETFLIX buys Roald Dahl complete works
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TWITTER pays $810 Million to settle user data fraud lawsuit
SONY casts Bobby Brown role in WHITNEY biopic / CNN pushes office return to 2022 / Maniscalco + DeNiro movie adds cast
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THE LOST BOYS getting remake at WB
Elizabeth Banks doing AMAZON musical / CHINA limits TIKTOK use for kids under 14 / Why AMAZON is now making TV’s
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FACEBOOK spent just 13% of content moderation resources outside the U.S in 2020
Bradley Cooper + Guillermo Del Toro trailer drop / JEOPARDY’s 2 host plan thru 2021 / Weekend TV & Movie preview
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CBS pulls new limited-reality show after huge public blowback
Helen Mirren hosting HARRY POTTER quiz show / COMCAST broadband growth slowing / THE BODYGUARD getting a reboot
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TRACY MORGAN doing TWINS sequel with Arnold & DeVito
Alanis slams HBO docu about her 1st album / INSTA knows its toxic for teens / MTV VMA ratings down 30%
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TED LASSO cast getting 2X pay increases
TMZ sold to FOX / APPLE TV+ unofficial subscriber # report / Keegan-Michael Key joins WB’s WONKA musical movie
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DISNEY+ Premiere Access finished for rest of 2021
PARAMOUNT TV gets executive re-org / WILL SMITH in talks to sell production co. / SHANG CHI drops 53% at Box Office
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Christopher Nolan shopping WWII nuclear bomb movie
HALLOWEEN KILLS hitting PEACOCK & Theaters / CBS + Nashville for New Years / FACEBOOK’s RAYBAN camera glasses
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VIACOM launches Production group under former CBS NEWS Prez
Tom & Gisele doing $20 Mil Crypto Ad campaign / JLaw & JMulaney baby news – separately / Owen Wilson joins HAUNTED HOUSE pic at DISNEY
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TIKTOK expanding with $5 Billion loan, HULU lifts prices in Oct
Susan Sarandon stars in FOX Country music show / New Jake Gyllenhaal NETFLIX trailer / Trump doing guest Boxing commentator gig
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge exits AMAZON’s Mr & Mrs Smith series
VENOM 2 moves before BOND in Oct / RIP Michael K Williams / SHANG CHI proves box office vibrancy
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Will Smith’s KING RICHARD gets raves at TELLURIDE, Soderbergh dropping “secret” movie at TIFF
YOUTUBE MUSIC hitting big growth / Snooki going back to JERSEY SHORE / Weekend TV & Movie preview
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PARAMOUNT abandons 2021 box office – TOP GUN 2 & JACKASS 4 punted
TWITTER launches paid Super Follows / HULU orders VACATION FRIENDS sequel / CBS revamps B-POSITIVE
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