Showbiz Sandbox 609: Consumers Are Spending A Fortune on Home Entertainment
February 28, 2023
According to Digital Entertainment Group, consumers in North America spent $37 billion on home entertainment in 2022. That includes not only spending on streaming services, but also DVD, Blu-ray and digital sales. Not to mention physical and digital rentals. And none of these figures includes spending on cable television.
Meanwhile, awards season is in full swing with the SAG Awards, PGA Awards, Annies and the Cesars all being handed out over the past week. We’ll give you the quick summary and what it all means for the Oscars.
Of course we also cover the week’s top entertainment headlines including how Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramout are in a dispute over “South Park,” Stephen Fry will host “Jeopardy” in the United Kingdom and new “Lord of the Rings” movies are in the works.
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‘Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania’ Reaches $364M WW On Way To $500M+ Final; ‘Cocaine Bear’ Starts Sniffing Overseas & WB’s ‘Mummies’ Awakens
https://deadline.com/2023/02/ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-second-weekend-cocaine-bear-china-global-international-box-office-1235271793/
Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man 3’ Gets Mauled by ‘Cocaine Bear,’ Suffers Record 69.7 Percent Drop
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ant-man-wasp-quantumania-box-office-cocaine-bear-1235334642/
Kristen Stewart’s Berlin Jury Awards Golden Bear to ‘On the Adamant’
https://www.indiewire.com/2023/02/berlin-film-festival-2023-winners-list-1234813307/
NAACP Image Awards 2023: See the Complete List of Winners
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/25/entertainment/naacp-image-award-winners-list/index.html
‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Takes Producers Guild Award
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/movies/producers-guild-awards.html
SAG Awards 2023: See the Complete Winners List
https://ew.com/awards/sag-awards/sag-awards-2023-winners-list/
‘The Night of the 12th’ Wins Best Picture at France’s Cesar Awards
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/cesar-awards-2023-announced-1235534915/
The Trouble With the Rewrites to the James Bond Books
https://time.com/6258547/james-bond-books-rewritten/
Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 16 Years In Prison for Los Angeles Rape
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-23/harvey-weinstein-sentenced-to-xx-in-los-angeles-rape-case
As Criticism Mounts, Roald Dahl’s Publisher Offers a Messy Compromise
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/02/24/roald-dahl-book-changes/
New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies in the Works at Warners, New Line
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/lord-of-the-rings-new-movies-in-the-works-1235332695/
Rapid Demise of ‘Dilbert’ Is No Surprise to Those Watching
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/27/dilbert-demise-scott-adams-00084665
‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Tops 267 Million Hours Played, Fan Interest Surpasses ‘Fantastic Beasts’
https://variety.com/2023/gaming/news/hogwarts-legacy-launch-numbers-harry-potter-1235530632/
‘Clarkson’s Farm’ Breaks UK Viewing Records For Amazon Prime Video After Meghan Markle Scandal
https://deadline.com/2023/02/clarksons-farm-viewing-record-amazon-meghan-markle-scandal-1235268525/
‘Jeopardy!’: Stephen Fry To Host Rebooted ITV Version Of U.S. Classic
https://deadline.com/2023/02/stephen-fry-jeopardy-itv-uk-1235272799/
OpenAI Is Faulted by Media for Using Articles to Train ChatGPT
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-17/openai-is-faulted-by-media-for-using-articles-to-train-chatgpt
Voice Actors Lament Apple’s Misuse of Their Work for AI Training
https://www.techspot.com/news/97632-voice-actors-lament-apple-misuse-their-work-ai.html
ChatGPT Launches Boom in AI-written E-books on Amazon
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-launches-boom-ai-written-e-books-amazon-2023-02-21/
Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/technology/clarkesworld-submissions-ai-sci-fi.html
‘South Park’ Lawsuit: Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Paramount Global Over Licensing Dispute
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/south-park-lawsuit-hbo-max-sues-paramount-1235534780/
Herzog, Swinton, Rushdie and More on Tom Luddy, Cinema’s Quiet Titan
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/21/herzog-swinton-rushdie-cinema-tom-luddy-telluride
Walter Mirisch, Former Academy President and ‘In the Heat of the Night’ Producer, Dies at 101
https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/walter-mirisch-dead-academy-president-in-the-heat-of-the-night-1235535877/
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