Jordan’s Scream Room, Farfetch Deal Fears, Rich Paul’s Fantasies

Happy Friday and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon compilation of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Matt Belloni explains why George Clooney’s well-meaning actors strike resolution more than missed the mark—and how the ongoing AMPTP-SAG stalemate will shake up the ’24 entertainment calendar and beyond.

Plus, below the fold: Tara Palmeri reveals how Kevin McCarthy is leveraging the House speaker madness. Lauren Sherman digs into the real impact of Farfetch’s blockbuster YNAP deal. On The Town, Matt is joined by legendary sports agent Rich Paul to discuss the NBA’s media rights, Messi’s MLS deal, Lebron’s business interests, and more. And on The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Eriq Gardner dissect the latest developments in the various Trump trials, while Ben Landy and Abby Livingston try to make sense of the House speaker vote chaos.

MATTHEW BELLONI

A celebrity-led proposal to redistribute income could have generated $150 million over three years—nice, of course, but it’s ultimately a symbolic gesture, and entirely irrelevant to the issues in this negotiation.

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TARA PALMERI

So does Kevin McCarthy want his old job back, or does he instead want to cut a role for himself as a background-lurking shadow Speaker fundraising rainmaker? Either way, unlike his predecessors, he doesn’t seem to be going anywhere…

LAUREN SHERMAN

Once upon a time, Farfetch seemed like the future of online luxury—and fabulous boutique brands and beauty and even a secondary market for sneakerheads. Is the YNAP deal its white whale, or the prelude to another public failure?

PETER HAMBY, ERIQ GARDNER, ABBY LIVINGSTON and BEN LANDY

Eriq Gardner joins Peter to discuss the latest developments in the Trump trials. Then Abby Livingston and Ben try to make sense of the historic House Republican speaker vote chaos.