The Mail Cart: Monday, August 3rd

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🎥 We launched a new series called Unsung Hero at Lolla this past weekend. Big shoutout to Max Styler (and his head of social media), i-dle (their videographer), 54 Ultra (his first piano teacher) and Suki Waterhouse (and her assistant):

📝 ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ is already one of the most successful movies of all time. The President of FIFA was bullied out of selling part of the World Cup. A record set in 1953 was broken in the UK, and more.

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AvA LIVE Lineup Booked In Partnership With:

This Wednesday 12:30pm PT on AvA LIVE…

Este Haim & her assistant!
Jennifer Davidson - CMO & CCO for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Michelle Khare - Television host, stunt performer, actress and former professional cyclist
Todd Bartels and Lou Howe - Writers of Tony, A24's biographical comedy-drama profiling the iconic Anthony Bourdain
Tyler Denk - Co-Founder and CEO of beehiiv

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As always, we’ll be taking questions live from the chat and maybe even pulling people live on the stream..

⭐ Jake Paul is taking on…Ari Emanuel?

Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian are merging Most Valuable Promotions with the PFL, creating a privately held combat sports company with nearly 400 fighters.

Their big plan? challenge UFC’s dominance in combat sports, let the ego games begin.

⭐ The music industry continues to grow:

Sony’s revenue hit $3.53 Billion (+20%), fueled by a 36% surge in merch, vinyl & live
Warner Music Group quarterly revenue hit $1.9 Billion (+10%) fueled by streaming growth
Live Nation shared their earnings report for Q2 and revenue is up by 9% to $7.7 Billion (Full report here)

⭐ ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ swung itself into box office history after only one weekend

The film debuted at $927 million worldwide… for reference, only 3 movies released this entire year have crossed $1 billion (Toy Story 5, Michael, and Super Mario Galaxy)
It broke the record for best opening day of all time at $168 million
The project also posted the highest earning preview day ever with $72 million
‘The Odyssey’ & ‘Spider-Man’ helped post the highest grossing weekend in box office history with $430 million
It is also just a phenomenal movie that you should 100% go check out. No better time than now to support the movie industry!!

⭐ The domestic box office is also up by 15% compared to this point last year :)

Credit: Hollywood Reporter

⭐ The President of FIFA was bullied by the entire world into backing down from his goal of creating a $20 Billion company to run the World Cup with private investors, including the Kushner family.

Rare cyberbullying W and fueled by two iconic women

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“It has become clear that the project has created divisions of a nature that, regardless of the level of support, are no longer in the interest of the objective set out in the first place.”

— Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA

⭐ Sam Fender & Olivia Dean’s ‘Rein Me In’ just broke a record that stood since 1953 in the UK

Their song together has spent 19 weeks at the top of the UK singles chart, knocking off Frankie Laine’s ‘I Believe’ that held the record of 18 weeks for nearly 73 years.

⭐ Influence Media Partners just bought out Anthem Entertainment’s music, film, and TV catalog for $600 million

This includes over 24,000 released songs by artists like Britney Spears and OneRepublic, as well as soundtracks from past ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Men In Black’ films.