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📝 ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ becomes the 2nd fastest film to cross $1 billion. Paramount and WBD’s antitrust trial has been moved back by over 6 months. Super Bowl ad slots are already sold out before the season even started, and more.
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📹 Today on AvA LIVE we’ll be talking questions live from the chat for this iconic lineup:
⭐ Jennifer Davidson - CMO + Chief Comms & Content Officer of The Academy. We'll discuss The Oscars move to YouTube & the future of movies in Hollywood.
⭐ Este Haim - You may recognize her from wearing the Knickole Kidman shirt at Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals at MSG with Taylor Swift. Her IG handle is @Jizzymcguire and she’s scoring the new Universal Pictures film ‘One Night Only.’ Oh yea she plays in a band you may know too.
⭐ Cailin Russo - GRAMMY-Nominated artist & songwriter who has worked with everyone from Bieber (his love interest in TWO music videos) to Meg Stalter.
⭐ Todd Bartels & Lou Howe - Screenwriters for A24's Tony, the biographical film on Anthony Bourdain
⭐ Tyler Denk - Helped launch Morning Brew & now CEO of beehiiv. We have a major competition to announce.
⭐ Netflix announced their longest ever theatrical window of 47 days for ‘La Bola Negra’ (Yet another sign that theaters are so back btw)
But also I think it’s a story bigger than that, it seems platforms are all converging YouTube Premium adds Peacock, Netflix adds a theatrical run, Fox buys Roku everyone is battling to become the access point to all our media
⭐ ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ passed $1 billion in just 6 days making it the 2nd fastest film to reach that mark behind ‘Avengers: Endgame’
⭐ Your video could end up on Disney+ then you could get a job?
Disney will bring selected TikTok fan videos to Disney+ through Verts, its vertical-video hub, with a U.S. launch planned in the next few months.
Creators who opt in can use official Disney photos and clips. Standout contributors may also score event access, extra visibility and career opportunities?
⭐ Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery’s antitrust trial has officially been set for March of 2027
The trial will run for a total of 12 days starting on March 2nd. The timing is a huge deal for Paramount. Starting October 1, it will owe Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders a $7 million-per-day “ticking fee” until the deal closes. With the trial not expected to begin until roughly five months later, Paramount could owe around $1.2 billion by the time the case is resolved. Lots of details here.
⭐ Super Bowl commercial slots sold out before the NFL season even started
“We signed deals with 58 brands across 34 distinct categories, including financial services, candy, personal care, and software. This captures one of the broadest advertiser and category mixes in Super Bowl history with 9 advertisers having their first-time in the Big Game.”
⭐ Country songs took up the entire top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time ever
⭐ Hearst just bought Disney’s shares of A+E Global Media worth $1.2 billion to become 100% owners of the company
The pair owned A+E Global Media together for over a decade, but this brings it all under Hearst’s umbrella.
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