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Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on TUESDAY, April 2, 2024. Where I hope you “enjoyed” everyone’s hot take on an April Fool’s social post yesterday (Ad Age has a roundup here in case you actually love this stuff). I’m sure they were all well worth the several hours of time put in by the marketing department to execute the “great idea” the CEO had at the “amazing” dinner he was at on Saturday night. Although NETFLIX — can you please call off your Leave the World Behind deer already? They’re starting to really freak out my afternoon park walks, 4 months later.
AND: WBD and Air Mail will be hosting another Cannes party this May, but it’ll be Furiosa-centric, and officially held by Mike & Pam — not David Zaslav, whose attendance is “currently TBD” according to Page Six’s “studio insider” source. Place your bets . . . ALSO: Ryan Reynolds continues to show Hollywood how it’s done — sure, liquor is great . . . but do you process payments, bro?
NEW DATE, WHO DIS: The Golden Globes will take place Sunday, January 5 on CBS (once again up against NFL on NBC) — related submission/voting/etc. dates are in the link. READER PERSPECTIVE: Thanks to reader Ben Miller (whom I know has a very extensive TV subscription setup), who sent me this stat he counted up while scanning around his TV dial Sunday night — there were just 7.5 hours of original new scripted TV on the entire cable bundle on Sunday night by his count, here at the end of March with TV back in full swing, post-strikes (note: FOX had NASCAR / no animation):
AHA: Fellow AT&T current and former customers, the data for 7.6 Million current AT&T customers — and 65 Million customers pre-2019 — leaked to unknown dark web entities, including their social security numbers. OH: Just another TRUTH SOCIAL financial update, as it just released its full-year 2023 results:
As Dan Primack put it in his Axios Pro Rata newsletter yesterday: “At this point, owning TMTG (DJT stock) is basically an in-kind donation to Donald Trump. Both financially and reputationally.” THEN: My daily Connections habit is finally paying off . . .
OH: How about a YOUTUBE revenue snapshot? An entertainment firm that operates multiple YT channels told The Information that its March revenue looked like this:
AH!: Don’t forget, vote early and vote often today in the final day of DISNEY Board voting (the voting period ends at midnight), which . . . shocker, sounds like DISNEY is winning thus far — but tune in tomorrow for all the fun. Today in March MadnessFirst, if you’re not watching the women’s 🏀 tournament this year, you’re really missing out. Another two fantastic games last night, and ESPN has a really great studio team for these games too.
SO: We now have a pretty great women’s Final Four on ESPN Friday night.
ALSO: Friday night’s men’s March Madness games averaged 10.5 Million viewers across CBS/TBS/TruTV, +11% over the same night last year.
ALTHOUGH: Hollywood, where ya at, brah? 🤷♂️ Granted, I missed Q1 of the first game, but otherwise I saw just one UNI Monkey Man ad last night in the women’s games on ESPN. AND: As far as I saw — DISNEYFOX didn’t even advertise the young-demo leaning horror movie it has opening this Friday . . . on its own network 🤦♂️ (and if DISNEY isn’t gonna tell you about the movie on ESPN, I’m not gonna write the name here either). HUH: AMAZON MGM — no advance spending for your Zendaya-led sports movie coming out in 4 weeks? Seems like a huge awareness whiff. Maybe we’ll see you in the ad breaks Friday night or Sunday afternoon.
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