Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, coming at you from the BofA Media in Montauk conference. I’m here until tomorrow, then on June 7, I’m doing a Manatt webinar with lawyers and executives called The Writers Strike—What Now? (register here), and on June 9, I’m moderating an I.P. Law panel at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium (register here). And, of course, I’m in your inbox Sundays and Thursdays, and your ears via The Town three times a week.
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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, coming at you from the BofA Media in Montauk conference. I’m here until tomorrow, then on June 7, I’m doing a Manatt webinar with lawyers and executives called The Writers Strike—What Now? (register here), and on June 9, I’m moderating an I.P. Law panel at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium (register here). And, of course, I’m in your inbox Sundays and Thursdays, and your ears via The Town three times a week.
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- Disney’s Florida setback: Ron DeSantis has succeeded far beyond just convincing the Florida judge overseeing Disney’s self-governance lawsuit to recuse himself. Chief judge Mark Walker...
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| The Tom Cruise vs ‘Oppenheimer’ Movie Theater Smackdown |
| Cruise has been forcefully pushing exhibitors to put ‘Mission: Impossible’ ahead of Chris Nolan’s film on large-format screens after he lost three weeks of IMAX exclusivity in the first truly competitive summer for blockbusters since Covid. |
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| Tom Cruise is pretty pissed these days. The star-producer of Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One has been complaining loudly to Paramount executives and others about the IMAX situation, per multiple sources familiar with the dialogue. Mission 7 has booked most of the IMAX screens for the week of the film’s July 12 opening, but then on... |
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| FOUR STORIES WE’RE TALKING ABOUT |
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| Orszag’s Shadow |
| Is the new C.E.O. of Lazard actually in charge? |
| WILLIAM D. COHAN |
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| Yalta 2023 |
| Imagining the post-invasion contours of Russia and Ukraine. |
| JULIA IOFFE |
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