Melissa Barrera is quite alright with In The Heights not being a major blockbuster.
01.03.2023 - 01:53 / deadline.com
Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel isn’t making many predictions or taking sides as the WGA deadline approaches.
But on the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call with Wall Street analysts, the exec said his company, parent of talent agency WME, is “well-positioned” in the event of a strike.
“We support our clients on both sides,” Emanuel said, noting he has “been through many strikes” during his career. “Compared with last time [in 2007-08,] it’s very different and we’re very different as a company.”
The WGA and the AMPTP are getting set to begin negotiations on March 20, ahead of the May 1 expiration of the company’s current contract. Emanuel said if a strike does happen, it would likely take place in the second half of 2023.
Emanuel and his executive team have stressed for years how diversifying into areas like sports, fashion, live events and technology has helped decrease the vulnerability of the company to any pressure experienced by WME. That theme was a prominent one on the earnings call. CFO Jason Lublin noted that more than 50% of WME rev comes from non-film or TV activity.
Along with the strike threat, a cool wind is blowing through the media business as far as streaming spending. Even top player Netflix has reined things in and newer rivals are pledging to lower their outlays. Emanuel was asked about any potential impact of a pullback on the agency business. There are “some spending more, some spending less,” he mused. “Strategies change.” Beyond subscription streaming, though, sports rights and theatrical box office are poised for strong growth in 2023, which will provide a boost, in the company’s view.
At the time of the last writers strike, which lasted from November 2007 to February 2008, no Hollywood talent
Melissa Barrera is quite alright with In The Heights not being a major blockbuster.
Charna Flam The Sun Valley film festival announced Emilio Estevez is set to receive the Pioneer Award at the festival’s upcoming pioneer party. Estevez joins previously announced Sun Valley film festival honorees including Variety‘s 10 Producers to Watch, Josh Brolin, Sophie Thatcher and Nina Yang Bongiovi, who are set to receive the Vision Award, the Rising Star Award and the Variety Creative Impact Award in Producing, respectively. On March 31, Estevez will receive his Pioneer Award, and on April 1, will host a special screening of his 2011 feature, “The Way.”
The Glory star Cha Joo-young has touched on her first-ever dance challenge with SEVENTEEN, and how member Seungkwan helped her go viral on TikTok.Back in February, Cha appeared on SEVENTEEN’s TikTok account, where she joined members Seungkwan, DK and Hoshi – also members of the sub-unit BSS – for a dance challenge to the BSS song ‘Fighting’.The clip, which has since gone viral with over 4.6million views and nearly 650,000 likes, notable opened with Seungkwan addressing Cha by Hye-jeong, the name of her character in Netflix‘s The Glory, before handing her a signed copy of BSS’ single album ‘Second Wind’.멋지(시)다…! 차주영 배우님
Last year, it was announced that John Woo was actually ready to direct a remake of his classic Hong Kong action film, “The Killer.” Well, not only is that still happening, but we now know the two leads that will star in the film. According to Deadline, Nathalie Emmanuel and Omar Sy are set to star opposite each other in John Woo’s upcoming “The Killer” remake.
Nathalie Emmanuel is set to join the cast of The Killer for Peacock to star opposite Omar Sy in a leading role.
has “Lupin” headliner Omar Sy attached to star.The crime action thriller followed a top-tier mob assassin named Jeffrey, who decides to retire after he accidentally blinds a nightclub singer who gets caught in the crossfire of one of his hit jobs. Before quitting his beloved profession, he takes one last job to pay for her sight-restoring operation, only to be double-crossed.
Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch for creating “monsters” like Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, then trying to disavow their words.Those words, of course, came in the form of emails and text messages, which have been steadily released in court filings from Dominion. Quite a bit has come out, so here’s what you need to know: At the end of February, Dominion docs revealed that several Fox hosts, including Ingraham and Hannity, were privately bashing election deniers that were being brought on their shows in 2020.Among the messages: “Sidney Powell is lying,” sent from Tucker Carlson to his producer Alex Pfeiffer on Nov.
Southampton striker Che Adams has insisted the Saints are "confident" going into their Premier League clash with Manchester United on Sunday.
At more than a few points during Jamie Lloyd’s hypnotic Broadway revival of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, you could swear that stars Jessica Chastain and Succession‘s Arian Moayed are confiding in you, whispering their secrets to no one else. This stark, sometimes chilly production is an eavesdropper’s paradise, so intimate and conversational that all but the most guarded among us will be immune to its frequent enticements.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Disney CEO Bob Iger is touting “newness” when it comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The executive appeared at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference and questioned whether or not Marvel needs to continue churning out multiple sequels for individual characters. His comments arrived amid critical and box office disappointment for the most recent MCU tentpole, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” “Sequels typically worked well for us,” Iger said at the conference. “Do you need a third and a fourth, for instance? Or is it time to turn to other characters?” Not only is “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” one of the worst-reviewed Marvel films in history (its 48% on Rotten Tomatoes nearly matches the record-low “Eternals” score of 47%), but the film dropped a massive 69% at the box office in its second weekend, marking the second-biggest drop in MCU history. “Quantumania” currently stands at $420 million worldwide and $189 million domestically. While these grosses are higher than the first two “Ant-Man” movies, they’re also underwhelming considering “Quantumania” kicks off Phase 5 of the MCU and introduces the new Thanos-sized villain of the franchise in Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conquerer.
Bob Iger returned as CEO of Disney last November, and since his return, the company’s mantra has been “stick with what works.” Last month, Iger put that into practice when he announced sequels to the “Toy Story,” “Frozen,” and “Zootopia‘ franchises. But what isn’t working at Disney recently? THR reports that Iger doesn’t like how expensive making films and shows has gotten, with Deadline adding that franchises like “Star Wars” and Marvel may see some shifts because of that.
Anitta is calling out Warner Music.
Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is still being “very careful” with developing Star Wars feature films in the wake of Solo‘s soft box office, while Marvel is also getting a rethink in terms of how many sequels characters get.
Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel ruled out any major stock deal right how and indicated reluctance to increase debt, both at a time when the UFC’s main rival, WWE, is up for sale.
Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish decided to, in his words, “cross the line” and address a recent bid the company received for Showtime.
Endeavor Group Holdings CEO Ari Emanuel’s longstanding ties with Elon Musk led to the company investing a “small amount” in Twitter, a source has confirmed to Deadline.
Gloria and Emilio Estefan have been together for over 40 years. Gloria took to social media to celebrate Emilio’s 70th birthday and share some of their love with the world. Gloria Estefan reveals she was ‘reluctant’ to let Emily Estefan tell her grandmother that she was gayChristmas with the Estefans: The famous Latin family full of love and lots of musicA post shared by Gloria Estefan (@gloriaestefan)The photo was shared on Instagram, where Gloria shared two photos of Emilio.
The sibling rivalry continues. Prince William has some strong feelings regarding his brother Prince Harry’s decision about whether to attend their father King Charles III’s upcoming coronation.
Che Lingo has released new single ‘Out The Blue’ and shared details of his sophomore album ‘Coming Up For Air’.The album follows his critically acclaimed debut ‘The Worst Generation’, and will see the AIM Award-nominated south Londoner talk about mental health and anguish to the full extent“CUFA is an intimate and personal look at myself and the people like me who find it hard to see themselves sometimes,” said Che Lingo. “The CUFA album in my own way is to let people know that they aren’t alone in these trials”.In anticipation of his follow-up record, Lingo has released ‘Out The Blue’; a sombre track to help “break out of the cycle of pressures, inherited and personal, that he and so many suffer from”.Speaking of what inspired the song, Lingo talked of “Times where I felt like I was drowning, fighting things, emotionally and mentally I couldn’t even see and repeating that cycle…This is a story about times like that and how I sung and rapped my way through it.
Adam Driver looks like a totally different person while on the set of his new movie, Megalopolis.