☀️NETFLIX takes CBS / PAR slot at TV Upfronts in MayWWE retains firm with Ari history to explore sale / HBOMAX now $16, WBD looks to sell off Music / MINX lands at STARZ
Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect here on LINKED IN if ya like) and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on FRIDAY January 13, 2023. Where technically there are 3 movies opening wide today from major Studios, here on a 3-day Holiday weekend.
POP QUIZ: What are the other 2?
Sorry Burt, we were looking for: WB’s “House Party” and LGF’s “Plane” - anyone seen a lotta promo here, especially for “Plane” which opens on 3000 screens and actually has a 73% Fresh 🍅 Critics score? But hey maybe it’s just my bubble… even if I am the target demo on “Plane” (which I thought had a pretty great trailer with kinda action-throwback genre vibes). ALSO: Ezra Miller accepted a deal for a suspended sentence of 90 days, and a fine of about $700 for what’s now a Trespassing charge from stealing liquor from a home in VT. PLUS: Here are your PGA AWARDS nominations. REST IN PEACE to Lisa Marie Presley, who died at 54 years-old yesterday. AND: Tim Cook took home $99.8 Million for a year’s work in FY22. Don’t worry - most of it was in stock, just as I’m sure the factory workers who put your iPhone together are paid as well.
KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON: The power at UTA’s Beverly Hills headquarters is out due to the intense rain storms, causing the office to close. STOCK TIPS:
Wakeup BOX OFFICE Poll: How ya feelin about Otto?
AND: Thanks to the folks at CNBC for having me on yesterday to discuss the latest DISNEY “Activist Investor” situation that developed this week.  With Disney shares popping after Nelson Peltz's push to join the Disney board, does he have the right ideas to turn around the stock performance? @Variety_Cynthia, @theseanmac, and @sherman4949 debate the activist push at $DIS 📽 THE SILVER SCREEN
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LIONSGATE TV-produced “Minx” ends up at LIONSGATE-owned STARZBoth seasons of the former HBOMAX series will hit STARZ later this year (Season 2 of course being brand new). No price or terms disclosed. /Variety AHEAD IN TODAY’S EDITION:
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