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👋 Happy first Monday of Cannes if you couldn’t tell from your IG feed. This is Warner, founder of AvA. Connect with me on LinkedIn or IG & follow our IG page for daily resources.
🎥 Our weekly show AvA LIVE helping you build a roadmap for a career in Entertainment is now on Spotify. This week’s guest created everything from Ted Lasso to InStyle’s The Intern to the career of Sombr.
📝 The Atlantic unveils their new ‘AI Watchdog’ project. ‘Toy Story 5’ posts the best domestic opening of 2026 so far. ESPN & Disney are opening an IRL Fan House, and more.
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Tune into AvA LIVE this Wednesday at 12:30pm PT for yet again another stacked lineup of people I admire a lot.
As always, we will be doing live Q&As from the YouTube chat. If you subscribe to our YT I’ll love you forever and ever.
⭐ The Atlantic dropped their ‘AI Watchdog’ project that allows musicians to find out if their work has been used to train generative AI software
Spoiler: it includes everyone from SZA to one of our newsletter’s writers
⭐ ‘Toy Story 5’ posted the best domestic box office opening of the year with $160 million, dethroning Mario’s $130.9 million.
While everyone was Obsessing over Backrooms, it looks like it's the battle of the cute little animated toys we all grew up with.
Toy Story 5’ now has the best opening ever for the franchise, which in its entirety has grossed over $16 billion since debuting 30+ years ago.
⭐ ‘Dr. Oliver Tree’s Extremely Epic Grant For Baby Geniuses’
it's incredibly hard to leave a real lasting legacy for your work. And it's even more admirable for that work to affect the next generation of creatives. We lost one of the most authentic and pure figures in the music industry when Oliver Tree passed away. His last move will ensure his legacy won’t be forgotten anytime soon. Rest in peace king 🕊️
⭐ ESPN is following in Netflix’s footsteps
They plan to open the ‘ESPN Fan House’ to have a more direct line to reach fans. The Disney owned house will open this August and is set to debut alongside College GameDay, with advertisers already frothing at their greedy mouths.
⭐ The Directors Guild of America unveiled a new tentative agreement that limits actors from stepping behind the camera to preserve career Director opportunities
“The ‘Affiliated hires’ will be allowed to direct no more than two episodes per TV season. For a show with fewer than eight episodes, only one ‘affiliated hire’ will be allowed to moonlight as a director.
⭐ ‘Obsession’ Director Curry Barker signed on for his next film with Universal
Welp, no more storyline about his modest $750k budget, He just landed a ‘rich’ 8 figure deal. Cue the balding Hollywood execs sprinting to Reddit with open pocketbooks.
THEATERS ARE BACK. So we're partnering with Sony Pictures Classics and taking over theaters in LA and NYC this Thursday.
What movie are we going to screen??? Jon Hamm & Zoey Deutch's Hollywood-themed Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. AvA & Sony are covering your tix and your popcorn obvi. You never know who will show up (suggestive hint).
🎟️ Enter the ticket lottery for the screenings (Assistants, Interns and Coordinators only duh)
Enter the ticket lottery:
We know assistants don’t get bonuses... SO we had an idea.
You know the horrible feeling of flights changing last minute, getting blamed for traffic in the Uber (Please fix rush hour in LA), being asked to find the bigger hotel suite (but it doesn’t exist).
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-Penelope, EA (who has earned $2,189.43 from just 15 trips), We have a feeling your boss travels even more 👀
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Our new job board features 200+ early career roles in Entertainment, including:
💼 Creative Assistant - Superfan Live - Apply Here
💼 Public Relations Content Assistant - ID Public Relations - Apply Here
💼 Global Film & TV Admin - Universal Music - Apply Here
💼 Entertainment Publishers Strategy - TikTok - Apply Here
💼 Music and Comedy Touring - CAA - Apply Here
💼 Marketing Associate - Spotify - Apply Here
💼 Originals Publicity - Netflix - Apply Here
💼 Global Product Activation - YouTube Live - Apply Here
💼 Creative Services - The-Team - Apply Here
💼 Social Media Producer (Golazo) - CBS - Apply Here
💼 Strategic Partnerships - NBCUniversal - Apply Here
💼 Media Operations Technician - Versant - Apply Here
💼 Staff Accountant - AMC - Apply Here
💼 Technical Services - IMAX - Apply Here
💼 Advisory Associate - UTA - Apply Here
💼 Theatrical Publicity - Warner Bros. - Apply Here
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