Always fun to go through an Iger to-do list with Alex - and good luck with that Niners spread on Sunday. Thanks for making time!

With the highly depressing #WinningTime cancellation (🙏 Max Borenstein & co for 2 great seasons) - #hbo now faces 6 wks with no new Sunday series…and a 🤷‍♂️ 2024 esp if the strikes go thru Oct. I took a look at what’s ahead in todays WAKEUP The Ankler theankler.com/p/box-office-h…

Good conversation around music labels. For some reason the Bud Fox asking Gordon how much is enough in Central Park scene just kept popping in my head about Peter’s Spotify family plan.

Hollywood's new report cards come out starting tomorrow with the #Netflix earnings call. Sean McNulty walks through what to expect theankler.com/p/ad-tiers-cor…

This analysis by Sean McNulty is just *Chef’s Kiss*. Love it. theankler.com/p/taylor-swift…

🎧 With streaming's pivot into advertising off to a rough start, The Information's Sahil Patel joins Sean McNulty, Ankler Rushfield and Elaine Low to weigh in on the shuffle inside Netflix as it misses first-year ad goals by half. theankler.com/p/streamings-n…

Excellent breakdown of what CAA's new investment bank really means Sean McNulty theankler.com/p/caas-new-inv…

Sharp piece today from Sean McNulty on TV's advertising woes. theankler.com/p/hollywoods-s…

Strap in, media nerds: Sean McNulty explores the Paramount-Skydance deal, which isn't even expected to close until 2025. He looks at why the deal is happening, what the company will look like under Ellison, and how the deal will impact employees. theankler.com/p/paramount-wh…

Join us at the 2024 Montclair Film Festival October 18-27 in Montclair, New Jersey for free film industry panels with incredible guests. Plus movies, conversations, parties, and so much more. Visit montclairfilm.org for more information and tickets.

I very much appreciated Sean McNulty coming on the pod this week to explain what it means that Comcast/NBC is spinning off (most of!) its cable assets into a separate company. Some rank speculation here, but not *too* much. thebulwark.com/p/comcast-is-s…

How "Final" is "Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning? Sean McNulty and Ankler Rushfield consider if Tom Cruise's next stunt will really be exiting the Mission: Impossible franchise for good theankler.com/p/richard-sean…

Can Lionsgate turn John Wick into a Marvel-level franchise? Since Ballerina stumbled at the box office, Ankler Rushfield and Sean McNulty's answer is: not likely! Full breakdown of this weekend's box office and WB&D's "conscious uncoupling": theankler.com/p/richard-and-…

.Ankler Rushfield is solving a very important mystery: Who's Brad Pitt's dad in F1? Could it be the ghost of film producer Don Simpson?! Watch Richard's full box office chat with Sean McNulty: theankler.com/p/richard-and-…

COMCAST's Q2 earnings were like a ride at their wildly successful Epic Universe: full of ups and downs. Sean McNulty breaks down the call in The Wakeup: theankler.com/p/comcast-q2-p…

What was behind Fantastic Four's precipitous 66% drop in North America in its second weekend? Ankler Rushfield and Sean McNulty saw disappearing fan boys and MIA families theankler.com/p/richard-and-…

Ted Sarandos may have called the theatrical experience “outmoded” but he’s throwing a lifeline to theater owners with the KPop Demon Hunters Sing-Along Event. Christopher Rosen and Sean McNulty explain why Netflix's bet could pay off: theankler.com/p/sean-and-chr…

Warner Bros is coming off a banner year at the box office. On Oct. 14 in NYC, marketing co-heads Dana Nussbaum and Christian Davin join Sean McNulty at the DPAA Summit to share how they’re using AI, audience insights and OOH to drive campaigns dpaasummit.com/global/

🎬 Marketing the movies: Warner Bros. Dana Nussbaum + Christian Davin & Sean McNulty of The Ankler pull back the curtain on how storytelling, data, and creativity drive campaigns, integrate digital & OOH, and move audiences seamlessly from screen to screen. #VideoEverywhereSummit

David Zaslav just fired the starting gun on Hollywood’s next M&A race. Sean McNulty Natalie Jarvey and Elaine Low assess who could buy Warner Bros. Discovery, why Netflix and Big Tech are sitting out, and how Zaslav might slice up the assets to get a deal done theankler.com/p/supermerger-…