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Discussed in today’s email: Daniel Kaluuya, Mark Pedowitz, Channing Dungey, Bob Chapek, Dawn Hudson, Joss Whedon, Nina Tassler, Taylor Sheridan, Dick Wolf, and an A-lister’s “life strategist.”
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Who Won the Week: Gary Barber
The Scream executive producer (and one of the great Hollywood assholes) successfully engineered a franchise reboot with a $35 million opening after extricating the title from the ashes of the Weinstein Co. bankruptcy.
The Star and the ‘Life Strategist’
What’s up with Daniel Kaluuya? The Oscar-winning British actor has raised a few eyebrows lately through his association with a guru named Heir Holiness. She’s a self-described “life strategist” and founder and “Head Mistress” for “The International Alma Mater, Blessed University,” which teaches “spiritual self-sufficiency as a foundation for excellence in life and business...”
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FOUR STORIES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 
It's amazing in retrospect that the CW lasted as long as it did. Here's who wins, and who loses, in the streaming era sale. MATTHEW BELLONI 
Is Washington losing its luster to the media-content machine? Plus: Ted Cruz’s apology tour and the return of Beto O’Rourke. PETER HAMBY 
Some thoughts on whether Netflix is trying to steal ESPN’s playbook, and Axios’ turning point. Plus some other dish. DYLAN BYERS 
What’s really going on between Wall Street’s blockchain envy, bonus season at Goldman, and Larry Fink’s god complex. WILLIAM D. COHAN 
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