David Reads The Trades

Globes happen… Penske/Boehly hype their mess… Disney buys FUBO to add value to the long-flat Hulu Live TV (4m - 4.8m subs for years) and close out the Venu lawsuit and likely to build ESPN solo launch… Roger Pratt and Emilio Echevarría pass, RIP… Demi Moore and Fernanda Torres help themselves, maybe… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bo...

Almost no news, so it’s me talking box office for most of today’s show… have a great New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, January 2, etc… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidpoland.substack.com/subscribe

Touching on Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, but not in a bad way… Amber also has something to write in a single paragraph release… Quick rationalization of the weekend box office… Mike-O, Polio!… More from Maher when less might do… Gibney knees BBC for bending same to Bibi… Dead animal get trade obit… EuropaCorp is back in business in a big way, but how did it come back?… Is Kim Kardashian being...

Netflix back up over $900 a share… Gladiator II passes $400m ww… Mufasa slipping in the tracking… Superman The Teaser Trailer… Projecting a better 2025 at the box office… do we need an animated Ghostbusters?… the nastiness of the nepo baby accusation… Zoe Saldana is a wonderful actress and a bad publicist… Bozoma Saint John needs your attention… does The Brutalist “need” an intermission? This is a...

Sonic 3 is coming… Disney is winning… Jonathan Majors is scary… Katie Aselton is unrecognizable… Sundance is pimpin’… Gliberman is hyperventilatin’… Bad Monkey is coming west… Russ Meyer, who is all about the front, is back… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidpoland.substack.com/subscribe

The new shortlists are here!!! The new shortlists are here!!! ( not a lot of surprises. expected frontrunners all in )… Mufasa gets reviewed… Spider-Verse 3 directors announced ( from inside the team )… Tom Cruise is looking puffy is he gets a medal… Disney transitions away from referencing an animated child’s gender identity… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subs...

On the way to Mufasa… the answer to why Kraven flopped is not very complicated… Fathom Events is so successful that they will become Fathom Entertainment… Nickel Boys gets some more love… The White Lotus is coming and won’t that be grand… a bit of a riff on my weekend box office piece offering detail on why the “problem” with box office is not the movies, but the lack of movies… This is a public e...

The Hollywood Reporter loses its top reporter… Sexual assault settles straight up for Lythgoe and Abdul… Malcolm returns to the middle… Jim Carrey now stuck with a “I need money” media obsession… Sesame Street looks for a new gold brick road… Nic Holt becomes the new Michael Caine… and will Canadian tariffs send more production north of the border… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discus...

The new Sundance is here! The new Sundance is here! And J-Lo gonna ‘dance!… Paul is Paul while Mendes looks for someone named Richard to play Ringo… Kathleen Kennedy gets a deserved ASC honor… Luca’s Psycho is Denis’ psycho, thank you very much… The dominant Yellowstoners keep a’stonin’… Andrew Wallenstein bravely takes aim at himself for enjoying the Sony hack too much… and more… This is a public...

Not a lot of news… so some box office and stock markets numbers… PGA noms docs, leaning against where the critics were… Ang Lee scores a lifetime achievement award from DGA… and some living muahs for hair and make-up achievements… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidpoland.substack.com/subscribe

The Globes fell out of the back of the truck today… and there pretty much ended the news of the day… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidpoland.substack.com/subscribe

It’s a no news Friday… so special… there is a new Mr. Smith for the next season of Mr & Mrs Smith … box office reporting on the second weekend of Mo’ Icked is all over the place with the excuses… Variety is pretending to not have anything to do with the Golden Globes that they own… just go to the movies… please just go to the. movies… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with ot...

Not sure there was any news in the news today… just drink the milk… drink it… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidpoland.substack.com/subscribe

National Board of Review selects pretty much every movie in the field that played ball, leading with Wicked… Indie Spirits stay very indie-relevant… A Complete Unknown gets an IMAX screening slot a week early on 30 IMAX screens… also on Twitter, Dylan plugs the book on which the movie was based, doesn’t seem to have seen Timmy as Bob yet, but likes Timmy… Disney starts the slow movement of Linear...

It’s New York Film Critics Circle Day and you may have a lot of movies you need to go see because they didn’t pick the ones you have been seeing… Gothams matter too!!!! (kinda) as The Year of Carol Kane begins… Snow White trailers and how high were the hos?… Wal-Mart bought Vizio, which I don’t talk about, but should have… and “O Mary!” goes cis gendered in a stunning turn of events… This is a pub...

“You get an award… and YOU get an award…. and you get an award” is the theme of the day, as everyone, including journalists, find a way to win something somewhere… the simple box office reality of Moana 2 overwhelming Wicked and Gl******* II… more sales department work across The Trades… Trump Administration 1 criminals continue to run for cover even as Trump 2 launches… why are we still running s...

The only real news is box office news, which is blurry because Moana 2 keeps doing better than expected and the high from Wicked still hasn’t passed, like starting to date Beyoncé a week after starting to date Zendaya or vice versa ( 2 women who are actually occupied with their long-time romances ), the latter is so thrilling, but not nearly enough time with the former to process that you were eve...

The Moana 2 wave has started… Sonic & Mufasa look strong… Two publicists walk into an industry, one gets fired, so he tries to take his clients… Margot Robbie waves Babylon in everyone’s face again and whiners are still whining… Variety poorly guesses at Best Picture, but not as badly as they missed on Best Director, while still stoking the hopes and ad sales of 29 movies… and the Ewoks are not fo...

Moana 2 is here for you… Wicked has a very nice Monday… Surely, Jim Abrahams can’t be dead. He is. And stop calling me Shirley… aging Vanderpump kids get kicked to the middle-aged curb… news about any pay disparity between Grande & Erivo is denied, as I deny it is news at all… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davi...

So much Wicked, so little insight… The Menendez Boys won’t be home for Christmas… Moana 2 is less than a day away… the dream of sequels to Slumdog Millionaire finally come to fruition like the nightmare of every filmmaker… pre-chewing your TV… Negotiations for Timmy’s Santa Barbara appearance are finalized because celebrity is what is important… and so much less… This is a public episode. If you'd...

Popular, these movies are pop-u-lar… Cillian puts a tingle in Dingle… WGA and PBS seem to have kissed and made up… category yawning via V.. squeezing the last ounce of juice out of Sir Ridley’s chattiness… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidpoland.substack.com/subscribe

So little news… Jussie Smollett and Matt Gaetz get off… Jessie Eisenberg makes Paul Giamatti and Julianne Moore sing… Sept 5 moves to Jan 17… A Complete Unknown screens… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidpoland.substack.com/subscribe

The main conversation is about Comcast/NBCU spinning off most of their cable assets and no one really knowing where the transaction is leading… did I say main? I meant pretty much the only news of the day… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidpoland.substack.com/subscribe

A wildly overlong 30 minute podcast today… overloads on Netflix publicity on Deadline, Sorkin, self-defending Scarborough, overreaching hate and misinformation from Rowling, overstuffed Virtuosos in Santa Barbara, IDA nominations… overserious?, overly modest placement for A Complete Unknown, and more… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to b...

Red One opens better than expected, but the price tag is all people want to talk about… 10 hours of Cape Fear… Morning Joe flavored with Trump’s ass… Conclave success overstated… Governor’s Awards reduced to tears… This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit davidpoland.substack.com/subscribe