With this year's summer box office done, dusted, and disappointing, @elainelow.bsky.social , @seanmcnulty.bsky.social , @natjarv.bsky.social and @kateyrich.bsky.social look forward to the movies on next year’s slate theankler.com/p/summer-dud...

Outside of #Weapons - count the #KpopDemonHunters theatrical experiment as the most important development to watch at the box office in August or September.

Viewers don’t want ads, so marketers are slipping them into the story. @ashleycullins.bsky.social tells @elainelow.bsky.social, @seanmcnulty.bsky.social , and @natjarv.bsky.social how brand integration became less about Coke cans and more about Krypto selling Milk-Bones theankler.com/p/apples-f1-...

Disney's Q1 earnings are in and they're...fine! Any exponential growth? No. Are there any big uh-oh’s on the horizon? No . . . depending how that HULU / COMCAST decision goes. @seanmcnulty.bsky.social breaks it down for The Wakeup Lunch Hour: theankler.com/p/dis-on-tru...

Come hang with Richard and I in our weekly Monday lunchtime (or late breakfast for west coast folks) live chat - #thunderbolts is up first as summer movie season kicks off! Plus reading thru the movie tariff tea leaves. Link below!

. @richardrushfield.bsky.social and @seanmcnulty.bsky.social are live on Substack to talk about actually good box office news from this weekend: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Sinners is #1 at the box office, the highest-grossing non-IP film since "Us", and the first horror film to earn an A CinemaScore. @richardrushfield.bsky.social and @seanmcnulty.bsky.social discuss these achievements and why many in the media are committed to tearing it down bit.ly/44zmgIP

Time for an Ankler crossover episode: @seanmcnulty.bsky.social and @richardrushfield.bsky.social assess 13 franchises from Marvel to Star Wars to see which IP worlds have more life, which need to go away for a while, which have promising revivals, and which look wobbly theankler.com/p/big-ip-fra...

The @netflix.com Film chart this week shows just how potent studio libraries are, plus how NETFLIX usage continues to pretty much mirror what cable TV was: A 1998 action comedy was the 3rd most popular film in America. Take a dive into the comps & numbers to know 👇 theankler.com/p/netflix-fi...

What movies worked on @netflix.com in 2024? I break down what their self-reported data tells us across US movies, what regions globally deliver hit movies, what genres are most NETFLIX users not interested in and much more in today’s WAKEUP. theankler.com/p/netflix-fi...

Comcast’s #SpinCo not only raised a ton of ?s at @nbcnews.com — but also in Hollywood at large as it searches for a solve to its melting #cabletv core. Sadly, Comcast’s attempt at a solve really doesn’t look like one for everyone else. Here’s why 👇 theankler.com/p/why-a-spin...

Last week, The Atlantic discovered a database of over 139,000 scripts used to train AI, setting writer group chats ablaze. @elainelow.bsky.social spoke to writers to see what recourse they have and what kind of systems could be put in place for them to be compensated. theankler.com/p/tv-writers...

12 million folks left their house this weekend to go to a US movie theaters to see #Glicked This weekend also matched 2018 & 2019 totals (not adjusted for inflation). Still a lotta money in the banana stand out there when it’s properly stocked. theankler.com/p/glicked-ge...