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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, and happy Succession Sunday to all. I’ve purposely avoided screeners and reviews, so I’ll only share James Andrew Miller’s recent ranking of all 29 episodes leading to tonight and, of course, the Times profile of Gerri.
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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, and happy Succession Sunday to all. I’ve purposely avoided screeners and reviews, so I’ll only share James Andrew Miller’s recent ranking of all 29 episodes leading to tonight and, of course, the Times profile of Gerri.

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Discussed in this issue: Joe Drake, Alan Bergman, Nicole Kidman, Victoria Alonso, Bob Iger, Scott Z. Burns, Jay Penske, John McILwee, and Lauren Sanchez’s play for victimhood.

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Who Won the Week: Chad Stahelski
Quick, name a filmmaker with an action franchise that grew in its fourth installment. Stahelski’s John Wick 4, with its $74 million domestic opening, will almost certainly outgross the $328 million made by the third installment, in 2019. And, yes, he’s got...

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Lionsgate’s Future & the ‘John Wick’ Effect
Lionsgate’s Future & the ‘John Wick’ Effect
A candid conversation with studio motion picture chair Joe Drake about the fate of the Wick franchise, the challenge of making mid-budget movies, and whether the studio could sell in 2023.
MATTHEW BELLONI MATTHEW BELLONI
It’s gonna be a big and potentially existential year for Lionsgate. MGM sold to Amazon, and I’m still not quite sure what’s happening with STX Entertainment, so Lionsgate is pretty much the last of the so-called “mini-major” studios that release a wide slate of small-budget originals and quasi-franchise fare. Plus, it’s planning to spin off Starz later this year, leaving the film and TV studio as a pure-play production unit, which presumably will be more attractive for a buyer.

The Lionsgate film division basically bailed on theaters during the pandemic, which led me to kinda write it off. But, as I learned when I had motion picture chairman Joe Drake on my podcast this week, the division pivoted to PVOD, direct sell-through, and selling off movies to streamers, like J.Lo’s Shotgun Wedding, which went to Amazon. Now Lionsgate is back in theaters, and...

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