☀️What WBD Knows About NBA Viewers No One Else DoesBeavis moves to linear TV / New Hunger Games installment / Shane Smith back to VICE
Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on THURSDAY, June 6, 2024. Where let’s start the day by taking a moment to commemorate the bravery and sacrifice made on the shores of France by a generation of Americans 80 years ago today on D-Day.
This moment in our history that was of course extremely well-portrayed by one of our country’s all-time top filmmakers in one of the best war films ever, Saving Private Ryan (avail to stream on PEACOCK here) — a film that was not recognized with the Best Picture award by the industry that year however . . . which instead went with Shakespeare In Love.
THEN: APPLE has made a deal of some sort with OPENAI to integrate it into the iPhone’s iOS according to Bloomberg, details of which will be revealed next week at its WWDC event.
BTW: MCDONALD’S is now touting AI to let you talk to grandma as a part of its, IMO, bizarre McFlurry promotional campaign this summer (sorry grandpa, you’ll have to go to WENDY’S).
OH: There will be a new Hunger Games book from Suzanne Collins, I’m guessing to the surprise of few, given the success of the film last year. This one will be called Sunrise on the Reaping, which as we all know really is the best place to enjoy the full beauty of the start of a day.
AND: Shane Smith is back as an on-air correspondent for VICE MEDIA, and editor-in-chief of VICE NEWS . . . while somehow having no managerial responsibility, according to the WSJ.
ALSO: GOOGLE will have to face a $17B lawsuit in the U.K. over de rigueur anti-competitive advertising practices, etc. However the trial likely won’t begin until late 2025. GOOGLE had more than $23B of profit in Q1 alone this year. WAKEUP BOX OFFICE POLL TWOFERBad Boys: Ride or Die — yeah okay, no one has any idea . . . early tracking in the $50M-ish range, current tracking closer to $30M-ish, last one did $62M right before Covid on MLK weekend. So let’s go pretty wide here.
The Watchers seems to be staying pretty close to horror crowd-only norms, with tracking around $10 Million. Will this one break out of the $10M to $12M ceiling on the genre so far in 2024?
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