ELVIS delivers as LIGHTYEAR plummets, and TOP GUN tops MARVELF1 Racing rights $ increases 15X+ in new TV deal / NFL SUNDAY TICKET bids are in and..? / HULU cancels WOKEMornin! This is Sean McNulty and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on MONDAY June 27, 2022. Where 4 films cracked $20 Million this weekend at the Box Office, first time that’s happened on a non-holiday weekend since July 23, 2017. Too bad people just want to stream movies at home post-Covid isn’t it? And yes that’s still -10% vs 2019… but that had “Toy Story 4” opening to $120 Mil so let’s just kill that conversation once again 🤏. And if “Lightyear” had better-pulled its weight in week 2, it woulda made for five $20+Mil movies this weekend. But look! “Top Gun: Maverick” is now officially a $1 Billion movie 😎. ACROSS THE POND: WIMBLEDON begins today 🎾 . And keep an eye out for James Corden in the stands - “Late Late Show” has shows from London all week. Including Carpool LIZZOoke! (ok yes admittedly I’m the only person calling it that). ALSO: Congrats to the COLORADO AVALANCHE for winning the NHL Stanley Cup last night 🥅. The 3rd in the franchise’s history and first since 2001. PLUS: Dave Grohl took the stage for the first time since Taylor Hawkins’s death at the GLASTONBURY Festival this weekend during PAUL MCCARTNEY’s set, alongside an appearance from SPRINGSTEEN. AND: In the “that’s not creepy at all” category… AMAZON is developing a feature for ALEXA where you can make the voice mimic anyone, including say… a dead relative. And I’m sure people totally won’t use the function to recreate the voice of their Ex. Thanks Bezos! 📽 THE SILVER SCREENBOX OFFICE
NETFLIX gets next pic from “Spencer” director Pablo LarrainCalled “El Conde”, a dark comedy with Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a 250 year-old vampire who has finally decided to die once and for all. (he ruled CHILE from 1973 to 1990, and died in 2006). The “Jackie” director also co-wrote the script and the movie is now shooting. /Variety ALSO IN MOVIES & TV
🙋♂️ A NOTE ABOUT TOMORROW’S NEWSLETTER:This is the last “free preview” Wakeup newsletter for Free Ankler subscribers.If you’d like to still get The Wakeup in its full entirety each morning, please subscribe here now 👇: NOTE 2: If you are an OG Wakeup subscriber (ie pre-Ankler) - you’re still good and will continue to get it, in its entirety each morning for a while longer. 💻 THE MEDIA BIZF1 Racing TV rights go to ESPN, at 15X+ the cost of their last dealWow. ESPN currently pays $5 Million a year for the rights to show the races… and from 2023-2025 they’ll now pay $75 Million to $90 Million a year. #ThanksNetflix! AMAZON and COMCAST were the other contenders for the rights deal. ESPN+ will get some events, and the big races will air on either ESPN or ABC. Also shows the continued power of “being on TV” to sway a deal for a sports league - AMAZON‘s bid was actually higher than ESPN / DIS. Other good details on the bidding process in the link for fellow Sports Rights deal nerds 🤓. /SBJ APPLE TV+, AMAZON and DISNEY are the 3 finalists in the NFL SUNDAY TICKET deal auctionAll bids are in so… everyone is just waiting on the NFL. The SUNDAY TICKET package is in its last year at DIRECTV this upcoming season, so the deal will start with the 2023 season.
DIRECTV has famously lost a lotta money on their current $1.5 Billion a year deal so they didn’t show up for this auction, but they may still play a role (say a carve-out to still sell SUNDAY TICKET to bars & restaurants etc). More details on that in the link. New price is at least $2 Billion a year, and the NFL’s new Mobile-viewing-only service NFL Plus might be thrown in as well. The $300 consumer price won’t get any better due to contractual reasons with other NFL TV deals. So…. any day now NFL! Ok fine yes technically they have a year+ til they need to make the call. /CNBC ALSO IN MEDIA
Share The Wakeup on social or with co-workers 🤝:Hits your inbox weekdays by 8:30am (ish) East Coast time🏦 STOCK NOTESWall Street did a great job of reading the room on Friday once again. DISH +11% ($18.85) META +7% ($170.16) AMC NETWORKS +7% ($30.78) LIONSGATE +6% ($10.02) IMAX +6% ($16.33) CINEMARK THEATERS +6% ($14.81) NETFLIX +5% ($190.85) GOOGLE +5% ($2370.76) PARAMOUNT +5% ($25.76) SNAP +5% ($14.70) 👩💻 NEW TO WATCH:Enjoy the late sunset! 🕵️♀️ THE WEEK AHEADTUE - HULU drops new “Only Murders in the Building” THU - Buy stuff for BBQ’s to avoid the riff-raff on the weekend FRI - “Minions”!!! 🎥 TRAILER HOUSEnil🎧 PLAYING ME OFFIn honor of “Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis” coming alive… this was a beautiful new rendition of “Can’t Help Falling in Love” from KACEY MUSGRAVES. And a rare video for a song from a movie that uses clips from the movie like in the olden days. Very powerful. If you need some new tunes: Email me anytime at seanmcnultynyc@gmail.com or connect here on LINKED IN. -SEAN MCNULTY @theseanmac on TWITTER @TheWakeupNews on INSTAGRAM |