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Domestic Box Office Weekend (Oct 27-29):

1. Five Night’s At Freddy’s - $80m
2. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour- $15m
3. Killers of the Flower Moon- $9m
4. After Death - $5m
5. The Exorcist: Believer - $3m

Box Office Notes:

• As expected, the winner is Five Night’s At Freddy’s . With an estimated budget of $20m, this opening weekend is pretty solid.
  • Reviews are pretty mixed, with critics bashing it while the fans love it, so it’s unclear how next week will pan out for the tickets.
  • My guess is the people who wanted to see it in the theater already have and that everyone else will stream it on Peacock.
• All that matters to me is that a concert movie is not #1.

Top 5 Streamed Titles (From Sept 25 - Oct 1):

1. Suites - Netflix/Peacock
2. Grey’s Anatomy - Netflix
3. Love is Blind - Netflix
4. Elemental - Disney Plus
5. Bluey - Disney Plus

Streaming Notes:

• Suits just cannot be stopped! Why did it have to take the top spot back?! I will accept ANYTHING ELSE in the #1 spot at this point.
• Again, I have to give credit to Netflix and Disney for dominating this list every week.

This isn’t going to be a comprehensive list. It’s going to be curated to the most noteworthy releases. No Reality TV or Anime. Just US theatrical and streaming releases.

Theatrical:

• The Marsh King’s Daughter
  • Hits a wide release Nov 3

Streaming:

• Blue Eye Samurai
  • Nov 3 on Netflix
• Invincible S2
  • Nov 3 on Amazon Prime
  • I’m very hyped for this one
  • First season was a wonderful surprise, expecting this to be just as fun
• Black Cake S1
  • Nov 1 on Hulu

Paramount is looking for a buyer

• The Redstone family that owns Paramount Group has signaled that they’re open to a sale.
• It would be a HUGE sale, like Disney/Fox huge.
• With how large and diverse Paramount’s portfolio is, I can only assume a megacorp like Apple could pull the deal off.
• The Redstone family did give the old “if the price is right” caveat though. So they may ask more than the company’s worth, thus killing a potential sale.

Wondery Video Podcasts on Freevee

• Repurposing video podcast episodes as TV show episodes is a new strategy, and one that could work!
• For a news video podcast for instance, how is that different from a news television program these days?
• I’ll be curious if we see more deals like this. Amazon owns Wondery so this was easy for them to implement.
• Could we get a Joe Rogan channel? A This American Life channel?

Apple reportedly revamping its Apple TV app

• They reportedly want to merge all of their video offerings into one, easy to use app.
• This would match the TV ambitions of the company’s late founder/CEO Steve Jobs.
• They’ve made progress towards Jobs’ ideal over the years, I’d be curious if this will be their final big bush.
• Considering how little attention Apple gives their TV products (aside from Apple TV Plus), I can see this going either way.

Comcast and Spectrum Lose MORE Customers

• They’ve lost over 2 million subscribers since the start of 2023.
• They’re resorting to bundle and save tactics to retain subscribers.
• But the losses are becoming pretty significant as streaming takes over.
• Cable providers have signaled that they want similar deals to what Spectrum and Disney signed a little while ago.

Madison Avenue thinks YouTube is the Future

• There’s more to it than that but that’s the short version.
• Viewers are predicted to move to platforms with less ads as streaming services are flooded with them.
• YouTube is expected to be the biggest gainer from this trend, but FAST services (Pluto, Freevee, Tube, etc…) may also see a boost depending on their ad tech.

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• Pause Ads are on the rise
• Even Apple TV Plus is raising prices
• Peacock hits 28m subscribers
• MAX sports tier is coming soon
• Disney’s Hotter sets Cricket streaming record (after it makes a deal to sell it)
• YouTube might be losing money on NFL Sunday Ticket (and that’s okay)
• Disney replacing Daredevil Writers with Showrunners

I rewatched this movie just yesterday! Should be easy if you know the series (Hint).

Last week’s answer was The Social Network.