Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect here on LINKED-IN if ya like) and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on FRIDAY Dec. 15, 2023.
Where I’m pretty sure I know what AMAZON’s lowest rated Thursday Night Football game will be this season… this was pretty much right after halftime last night 🤦♂️.
ALSO: The Winter TCA is set for Feb. 5 to Feb. 15 in Pasadena. Tentative schedule in the link but looks like some more to come here.
PLUS: TSwift will hit CHINA on New Years Eve on the big screen, as The Eras Tour looks to try and overtake MJ for the biggest concert movie ever (it still needs about $2 Mil to $3 Mil).
AND: The Rebel Moon Pt 1 reviews are dropping today and… well, you know it’s not going great when you lose Deadline.
WAKEUP BOX OFFICE POLL RESULTS
Here’s what we got for Wonka:
UNDER $36 Million: 25%
$36 Mil to $41 Mil: 39%
OVER $41 Mil: 36%
I’m going with the over’s myself.
NEW ANKLER PODCAST EPISODE
Here’s the latest from Richard, Elaine and myself this week – diving into all things GLOBES, PARAMOUNT, NETFLIX, the list of 2024 changes coming to the business that we know of, and more.
Plus – Chris Brancato (Narcos, upcoming Hotel Cocaine series) joins Claire for a conversation about writer-life, 2.5 months post-strike and dives into his new MGM+ series as it wraps production.
IN THIS EDITION
Another very busy day of deals as execs finish up their holiday shopping – from NETFLIX (again) to UNI, SONY, MGM, PAR, FOX and… well, if you didn’t pick up a project or attach major talent to one yesterday, are you even in the business bro?
DISNEY pitted two Monday Night Football games against each other on 2 of their networks – who won? Wasn’t even close actually.
A case study showing how the Great NETFLIX H1 2023 Data Dump is great… but lacks some very important context to note when declaring something a “hit”, or even comparing seasons of different series.
NETFLIX’s sports docuseries get a lot of chatter… but how do they stack up popularity wise? Thanks to the NETFLIX Tuesday data dump – we now know! Sorry tennis.
Plus a look at the new things to watch & stream this weekend and much more.
A NETFLIX Data Dump case study
FIRST: NETFLIX will debut the new 6-episode season of Girls5Eva on March 14 🥳. To note, the 2 previous PEACOCK seasons will join it on NETFLIX. /Variety
BUT: I’m also starting here with that news to demonstrate something called “context”… which again, is lacking severely in a lot of reporting this week on NETFLIX Bi-Annual Data Dump.
🙋♂️ NETFLIX – we really need to brand this thing.
Is it as simple as The Netflix List? Or do we need to class it up a bit like The Netflix Folio? Eh, we’ll workshop it.
So let’s simply look at a few of the top entries on this H1 2023 list (#1 entry The Night Agent is far and away the most popular series NETFLIX did in H1 2023, no matter how you cut it), and you’ll see how evaluating a layer beneath the pure tonnage of ‘hours viewed’ can change things up, quite dramatically in some cases.
Plus – a look at how the data compares for their lauded sports docuseries projects in 2023, but first…
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