Showbiz Sandbox 593: This Year’s Emmy Awards Turns Into A Rerun
September 16, 2022
The 74th Annual Prime Time Emmy Awards were held this week and they managed to honor most of the winners from last year’s ceremony. The same shows, and at times the same actors, continue to top most of the big categories. This begs the perennial question, what is the actual purpose of the Emmy Awards?
Meanwhile, the world’s second largest movie theater chain officially filed for bankruptcy. We discuss what this will mean not only for Cineworld, but also whether the move will affect the industry-at-large.
Of course we also cover the week’s top entertainment headlines including how “CoComelon” is creating video games for toddlers, the Sundance Film Festival names a new head director and a Bollywood movie tops the worldwide box office.
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‘Brahmastra’ Fires Up $26.5M WW Bow, ‘Minions: Rise Of Gru’ Passes $900M, ‘Top Gun’ Tops $1.45B
https://deadline.com/2022/09/brahmastra-minion-rise-of-gru-top-gun-maverick-jurassic-world-dominion-spider-man-no-way-home-global-international-box-office-1235114924/
Box Office Doldrums Continue as ‘Barbarian’ Debuts With $10 Million
https://variety.com/2022/film/box-office/box-office-barbarian-1235367673/
Cineworld Commences Chapter 11 Cases
https://celluloidjunkie.com/wire/cineworld-commences-chapter-11-cases-with-approximately-1-94-billion-in-debtor-in-possession-financing-commitments-to-facilitate-a-significant-de-leveraging-transaction-and-position-company-for-long/
Arab States Demand That Netflix Drop ‘Offensive Content’
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/world/middleeast/egypt-arab-gulf-states-netflix.html
Emmys 2022 Winners: See the Full List Here
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/emmys-2022-winners-list
The Emmys Featured Forward-Looking Winners but a Retro Production
https://variety.com/2022/tv/reviews/2022-emmys-review-boring-show-1235370460/
‘CoComelon’ Video Game Is a First for Fast-Growing Moonbug
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/business/cococomelon-video-game-is-a-first-for-fast-growing-moonbug.html
MUBI Founder on Evolving Into a Studio, Building Global Cinemas and Outbidding Competitors
https://variety.com/2022/film/global/mubi-strategy-efe-cakarel-toronto-decision-to-leave-1235369417/
Hugh Jackman-led ‘Music Man’ Sets Final Performance Date
https://broadwaynews.com/2022/09/13/hugh-jackman-led-music-man-sets-final-performance-date-on-broadway/
Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ Holds Atop Hot 100, ‘Late Night Talking’ Leaps to No. 3
https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/harry-styles-as-it-was-late-night-talking-hot-100-top-10-1235137490/
Eugene Hernandez Joins Sundance Institute as Festival Director and Head of Public Programming
https://celluloidjunkie.com/wire/eugene-hernandez-joins-sundance-institute-as-festival-director-and-head-of-public-programming/
‘Batgirl’ Shelving Was “Blown Out Of Proportion” By Press, Warner Bros Discovery CFO Says
https://deadline.com/2022/09/batgirl-movie-shelving-blown-out-of-proportion-warner-bros-discovery-cfo-1235111790/
Bob Iger Predicts A Reckoning For Streaming Services, Linear TV Death, “Smaller” & “Scarred” Movie Industry
https://deadline.com/2022/09/bob-iger-predicts-future-death-of-tv-streaming-service-reckoning-disney-1235110628/
Investor Daniel Loeb Backs Off Disney-ESPN Sale Proposal, Citing ‘Better Understanding’ of Company’s ‘Growth and Innovation’ Plan
https://variety.com/2022/biz/news/disney-daniel-loeb-espn-sale-bob-chapek-1235368737/
Ramsey Lewis, Jazz Pianist Who Became a Pop Star, Dies at 87
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/arts/music/ramsey-lewis-dead.html
Bernard Shaw Dies: First Chief Anchor At CNN’s Launch Was 82
https://deadline.com/2022/09/bernard-shaw-dead-longtime-cnn-anchor-1235111097/
Peter Straub, Literary Master of the Supernatural, Dies at 79
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/books/peter-straub-dead.html
Jean-Luc Godard, 91, Is Dead; Bold Director Shaped French New Wave
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/movies/jean-luc-godard-dead.html
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