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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, finishing up a weekend of quiet optimism on the strike front. I got a download today about the Friday meeting between the Writers Guild and studios, but I’m not gonna discuss details, lest the WGA leadership freak out and the talks blow up. I’ll just say it was a positive meeting with at least a little movement by the AMPTP.
Programming note: I’m back on CNBC at 7:50 a.m. eastern on Monday. Plus, this week on The Town: Lucas Shaw and I asked whether creators actually want to see their streaming data; Rick Nicita compared CAA in the ’90s to today’s gerontocracy; and Justine Bateman predicted A.I. will destroy Hollywood as we know it. Subscribe here.
ICYMI: Puck, the home of WIH, has a new Business Daddy. We closed a Series B funding round led by J Rothschild Capital Management, as well as existing investors TPG, Standard Investments, and publicist Kelly Bush Novak (kidding about that last one). If you care, Axios has details here.
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Discussed in this issue: Bob Iger, Florence Pugh, David Zaslav, Tom Holland, Jimmy Pitaro, Adam Aron, Aaron Korsh, Robert Pattinson, Bryan Lourd, Kathy Kennedy, and your must-have submersible.
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