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Welcome back to a jam-packed Sunday edition of What I’m Hearing.
Before we start, thanks to New York magazine for the profile this week on me and the What I’m Hearing community. (No, I did not think my bare feet would be in the photo!) Journalists are typically the most annoying subjects to write about, and I didn’t love everything (especially the Nikki Finke comparisons, which I hate), but writer Nick Quah took the time to hang with me in L.A. and Toronto and talk to a bunch of readers and others in town, so I can’t complain.
Programming note: This week on The Town, Lucas Shaw and I debated the wisdom of a merged Peacock and Paramount+, and Dr. Stacy Smith parsed the new inclusion data for film releases (while kinda suggesting a Puerto Rican Oppenheimer?). Subscribe here and here.
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Discussed in this issue: Reese Witherspoon, David Ellison, Jeff Shell, David Zaslav, Bill Weinstein, Jenna Ortega, Brian Robbins, Bradley Cooper, Tom Staggs, Gerry Cardinale, J.K. Rowling, Ben Affleck, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Todd Boehly, Shari Redstone, Ted Sarandos, and… Barbra’s party photo police.
But first…
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| Bob Marley: One Love, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, just topped the charts for the second weekend in a row and brought its global box office to $120.6 million. The movie is now on pace to top out at $185 million, plus whatever it earns in the handful of Asian territories (Japan, Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan) still on the docket. Unless it plays closer to Bohemian Rhapsody ($115 million in Japan, $75 million in South Korea, etcetera) than Elvis (around $5 million total in those six territories), Marley is looking at an over/under of around... |
