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Ryan Reynolds Years of marketing savvy pay off as the actor and producer, a minority owner of Mint Mobile, cuts his first billion-dollar deal in a sale to wireless giant T-Mobile. Bryan Woods & Scott Beck The Quiet Place writers couldn’t conjure the same box office magic with Sony’s sci-fi thriller 65, which opened to $12.3 million from 3,400 theaters stateside. Kevin Hart The comedy superstar inks a new multiyear deal with SiriusXM that keeps him and his Laugh Out Loud network on satellite radio. Jonathan Kasdan & Wendy Mericle Disney+ ends its Willow revival, led by the co-showrunners, after a single season that didn’t break into Nielsen’s top streaming chart. Showbiz Stocks $265.44 (+3.7%) MICROSOFT (MSFT) The tech titan is benefiting from a halo effect as its partner OpenAI…
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank has sent shock waves throughout U.S. financial institutions. And nowhere was that felt more than at other regional banks. At New York’s Signature Bank — which is one of the two main banks that works with Broadway productions — the board spent days grappling with the repercussions. Yes, there were outflows on Friday, March 10, as some clients sought to move cash to “safer” banks, but former Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, a Signature Bank board member, says he believed they would be able to open Monday, March 13, without issue. Nonetheless, he spent the weekend lobbying federal officials to guarantee all deposits. It’s an area Frank knows well, having co-authored the landmark 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, a bill that reformed Wall Street by dramatically…
This time last year, all I was hoping for was just a job.” That’s how Ke Huy Quan opened a tearful acceptance speech at the Gotham Awards in November, when the possibility that the Vietnam-born, Chinese American actor might be nominated for — and even win — an Oscar for his performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once was starting to crystallize. Quan would go on to help drive a wildly successful Oscar night for Everything Everywhere All at Once’s indie producer and distributor, A24, which became the first studio in history to sweep the top six awards in a single year. The studio’s stunning Oscar haul, which also included Brendan Fraser’s win for The Whale, owes a lot to the appeal of its actors, and to the deft deployment…
Nearly a year before Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert collected the best picture Oscar, the team behind Everything Everywhere All at Once was onstage at The Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin, debuting the movie at the South by Southwest film festival. The best picture win marks a first for a feature premiering at SXSW. Toronto and Telluride have long been considered launching pads for awards runs, while recent best picture winners CODA, Nomadland and Parasite have had their premieres at Sundance, Venice and Cannes, respectively. Of this year’s best picture nominees, two had Cannes debuts (Elvis, Triangle of Sadness), two bowed at Telluride (Women Talking, Tár), two more at TIFF (All Quiet on the Western Front, The Fabelmans), and there was Venice provenance for good measure (The Banshees of Inisherin).…
The streamer ended 2022 with 230.75 million global subscribers, adding 8.9 million for the year. Original movies, such as Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and awards season hit All Quiet on the Western Front, as well as series Wednesday and Stranger Things season four, drove viewership, as did royal docuseries Harry & Meghan. On a Jan. 19 earnings call, co-CEO Ted Sarandos gave shoutouts to Sea Beast, “which is our biggest animated film ever,” as well as Purple Hearts and actioner Gray Man, “two of our most watched films ever on Netflix.” The company’s full-year revenue climbed 6 percent, but operating profit fell 10 percent as operating expenses jumped 11 percent, with leadership citing “increased personnel costs to support our continued improvements in our streaming service and our international…
FILM Jenna Ortega (CAA) is circling a role in Warner Bros.’ Beetlejuice 2 from director Tim Burton. Oscar Isaac (WME), Andrew Garfield (CAA) and Mia Goth (WME) are eyeing roles in the Guillermo del Torodirected Netflix feature adaptation of Frankenstein. Julianne Moore (WME) and Sydney Sweeney (Paradigm) will star as mother and daughter in Apple Films’ Echo Valley. Beast helmer Michael Pearce will direct and Mare of Easttown creator Brad Ingelsby wrote the script. James Van Der Beek (APA) is in talks to join Rebel Wilson (WME) and Leslie Mann (CAA) in the eOne comedy Rock the Boat from director Luke Greenfield. Jason Clarke (CAA), Scott Eastwood (UTA) and Chaske Spencer (CESD) are set to star in Wind River: The Next Chapter from director Kari Skogland and Castle Rock Entertainment. Jonathan…
