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As Ridley Scott and his high-profile Gladiator II cast — including Denzel Washington, Paul Mescal and Connie Nielsen — walked the red carpet during the Nov. 18 Los Angeles premiere, a makeshift wall prevented them from seeing an enormous Christmas tree perched at the entrance of the Ovation Hollywood mall adjacent to the TCL Chinese Theatre. Consider it a symbol of Christmas coming early this year for all of Hollywood, with tentpoles Gladiator II, the musical Wicked and the animated juggernaut Moana 2 hitting the big screen. “For the first time in a long time, there will be something for everyone at movie theaters this Thanksgiving,” notes one top studio executive. By all accounts, the three films are expected to fuel the biggest Thanksgiving in history in terms of overall…
Maverick Carter and Ben Winston (left) Is SpringHill plus Fulwell 73 a merger of convenience or necessity? Either way, the moguls’ pair-up will create an unscripted powerhouse. David Zaslav As part of a settlement, he keeps Inside the NBA alive — but Warner Bros. Discovery will produce it for ESPN while ceding its quest for a rights deal with the league. Brendan Carr Donald Trump’s pick to run the FCC will look to rein in the reach of Big Tech and relax rules around how many TV stations an owner can have in a market. Mark Thompson The CNN CEO presides over ever-shrinking ratings — the network trailed MSNBC and Fox News in the lead-up to the election and after it — even as he preps for a digital future.…
A mid the launch of Taylor Sheridan’s latest series, Landman, oil isn’t the only precious resource being discovered in Texas. Content from the venerable publication Texas Monthly has been enjoying an unprecedented boom of interest from Hollywood, with adapted projects ranging from the Paramount+ drama and Richard Linklater’s recent Netflix movie Hit Man to the HBO limited series Love & Death and the Discovery+ documentary series How to Create a Sex Scandal. Why so much from the venerable 51-year-old magazine, and why lately? One reason is the entertainment zeitgeist has caught up to what Texas Monthly has always done well. The magazine has a long history of compelling and in-depth true crime reporting, particularly by award-winning writer Skip Hollandsworth (who wrote the piece that inspired Hit Man). “He writes about…
A recent decision by a little-known industry oversight group could end up having a sizable impact on TV ratings and the ad business that relies on them. The Media Rating Council, which accredits audience measurement models from such companies as Nielsen, Comscore and VideoAmp, gave a thumbs-up to Nielsen’s plan to incorporate first-party data from streaming outlets into its national TV ratings panel. The “panel plus big data” measurement has the potential — at least for live events — to show that a noticeably higher number of people are watching a given program than the panel-only measure. The sample size for panel plus big data measurement, it needs to be noted, is exceedingly small at the moment: The only Nielsen client using the new measurement so far is Amazon, and…
Source: Pew Research (Nov. 18) analysis of 500 influencers with more than 100,000 followers.…
NETFLIX 108M viewers 1 Live event Netflix says 108 million people worldwide tuned in to the Nov. 15 spectacle between social media star turned boxer Jake Paul and 58-year-old former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson. Despite a glitchy telecast, the event was the biggest boxing draw in recent years, though probably not in history. Worldwide viewing numbers are notoriously fuzzy, but it’s likely the biggest fight since a 2017 match between Wladimir Klitschko and Anthony Joshua drew a nine-figure worldwide audience (with estimates ranging as high as 500 million viewers).…
