Hold the superheroes—it’s the return of the “relatable” blockbuster. “In many ways, Twisters recalls tentpole hits of the 1980s and 1990s, which largely featured regular people engaged in more or less regular activities—think Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop, who was just a blue-collar Detroit police officer stuck solving a crime in L.A., or Tom Cruise’s Pete Mitchell, a pilot focused not on saving the world but on succeeding in flight school,” Scott Mendelson writes. Puck’s box office contributor breaks down the encouraging $81.5 million domestic launch of Universal Pictures’ Twisters: https://lnkd.in/dXji4Nux Photo courtesy of Universal #Hollywood #BoxOffice
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Puck is a new subscription media company covering power, money, and ego, focusing on the inside story at the nexus of Hollywood, Wall Street, Washington, and Silicon Valley. We offer readers unprecedented access to elite journalists through articles, podcasts, newsletters, conference calls, events, and more. Puck is proudly journalist-owned. It was founded by four media industry veterans, in partnership with a team of entrepreneurial journalists, who believe that there is a better model to create sustainably excellent content while narrowing the synapse between elite creators and their audiences.
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Riding a surge of Democratic enthusiasm, endorsements, and record-breaking donations, the Harris campaign is racing to reintroduce their candidate to America before the Trump campaign can define her. Puck’s Peter Hamby digs into exclusive polling from Echelon Insights that illuminates just how critical the next few weeks will be: https://lnkd.in/dmJfiY5B Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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John Ourand, author of Puck’s sports business newsletter ”The Varsity,” is doing a Reddit AMA tomorrow about the National Basketball Association (NBA)’s new media rights deals. To access the AMA and ask John a question, which he’ll answer in real time tomorrow starting at 3:00 p.m. ET, head to Reddit: https://lnkd.in/dDnx-5hV #Sports #Media
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After breaking the news of TOM FORD creative director Peter Hawkings’ exit, Puck fashion correspondent Lauren Sherman drills down on what went wrong and what’s to come for the brand. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/erCVW_yY Photos: JP Yim/Getty Images, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images #Fashion #Leadership
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On the heels of the now-infamous BofA note suggesting that Warner Bros. Discovery needs to buy or sell assets to survive, and David Zaslav’s own misguided political commentary at the Lodge in Sun Valley, it’s increasingly clear that both the markets and Zaz know that his company needs a shake-up. But what to do in an environment so inhospitable to M&A? Puck’s William D. Cohan explores: https://lnkd.in/dpvvxxig Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images #Media #WallStreet
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The midsummer departure of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.’s longtime C.F.O. Tracey Travis raises some renewed questions about the future of the family-controlled, $23 billion cosmetics company. Puck’s contributing beauty correspondent Rachel Strugatz explores: https://lnkd.in/d3WaQZPj Photo: George Chinsee/WWD via Getty Images #Beauty #Leadership
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ICYMI: Political strategist Steve Schmidt joined Puck’s Tara Palmeri on “Somebody’s Gotta Win” in the wake of Biden ending his campaign to discuss Harris’s anointment as his successor. Read, or listen, to their full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/dwK9myh2 Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images #Podcast
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“I want to take another stab at the question: Where did all the money go? When I wrote about Jacob King’s analysis of the primary art market, I got an email from a money manager who wanted to flag a major factor in declining art spending…” Read the full dispatch from Puck’s art market expert, Marion Maneker, here: https://lnkd.in/eQ_5-PWz Photo: Jay Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images) #Art #Finance
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After Biden’s exit from the presidential race, Puck’s John Heilemann contemplates Nancy Pelosi’s power, Kamala Harris’s positioning, and what’s to come. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gjbyMi5A Photos: Getty Images (Bill Pugliano; Anna Moneymaker; Win McNamee; Tasos Katopodis/GLAAD)
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s well-compensated C.E.O. faces the reality of new pressure from Wall Street analysts, box office bombs, a fresh round of layoffs, and no answer for the worsening economics of television, as he contemplates the inevitable: Something big needs to change. Read Matthew Belloni’s full dispatch on Zaz here: https://lnkd.in/eSQKXp_4 Photo: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images #Hollywood #Media #Leadership