Showbiz Sandbox 452: The Tony Awards Go To Hell
June 10, 2019
The 2018-19 Broadway season was a banner year as the Great White Way broke box office and attendance records, earning $1.89 billion from an attendance of 14.8 million patrons. The Tony Awards were handed out to the season’s best productions and performances as “Hadestown,” a musical about Hell, took home eight prizes including Best Musical and “The Ferryman” won four trophies including Best Play.
During this episode we take a different approach to reporting box office; rather than report which movie topped the worldwide charts, we look which title earned the most money over the past week. Why only count Friday through Sunday, when there are four may days to every week in which people are seeing movies.
We are also joined by Patrick von Sychowski, the editor of Celluloid Junkie, who tells us how he put together an exclusive story of how Chinese authorities spent three years tracking and shutting down one of the largest movie piracy rings of all time. After uncovering piracy being done on an industrial scale, the question remains, could it happen again.
Of course we also cover the week’s top entertainment headlines including why Netflix was told to stop poaching employees from its competitors, YouTube starts pulling hateful content off its platform and Entertainment Weekly magazine goes monthly.
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Comscore Worldwide Box Office Gross
https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings#tab_worldwide_box_office
China’s Top Brass Says Stricter Film, TV Censorship ‘Will Be the Norm’
https://variety.com/2019/film/asia/china-censorship-film-tv-new-norm-1203234643/
Agencies Counter With Bigger Cut of Packaging Fees for Low and Mid Tier Writers
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/agencies-up-packaging-fee-revenue-share-talks-writers-1216658
Tony Awards Hit All Time Low TV Ratings
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tony-awards-hit-all-time-lows-tv-ratings-sunday-june-9-2019-1217066
Playbill’s Complete Coverage of the 2019 Tony Awards
http://www.playbill.com/article/playbills-complete-coverage-of-the-2019-tony-awards
Equity Firm Agrees to Buy B&N
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/80383-equity-firm-agrees-to-buy-b-n.html
States Race to Poach Georgia Film and TV Projects Amid Hollywood Boycott Calls
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/states-race-poach-georgia-film-tv-projects-boycott-calls-1215532
Entertainment Weekly Going Monthly
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/entertainment-weekly-going-monthly-names-new-editor-1216303
Netflix Takes Near TKO In Exec Poaching Suit With Fox & Disney; Could Signal Beginning Of The End Of Legal War
https://deadline.com/2019/06/netflix-poaching-lawsuit-setback-fox-disney-executives-1202627601/
YouTube Bans Supremacist Content, Including Neo-Nazi and Holocaust Denial Videos
https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/youtube-bans-supremacist-content-neo-nazi-holocaust-videos-1203233873/
LGBTQ Influencers Criticize YouTube After Homophobic Videos Are Allowed to Stay
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/lgbtq-influencers-steven-crowder-carlos-maza-homophobic-video-youtube-844561/
Quibi Architects Jeffrey Katzenberg & Meg Whitman Break Down The Economics Of Their Frosh Mobile Short Service – Produced By
https://deadline.com/2019/06/jeffrey-katzenberg-meg-whitman-quibi-economics-1202629648/
Hunting Ghost No. 1 – China’s Three Year Quest to Take Down The Most Sophisticated Movie Piracy Ring Ever
https://celluloidjunkie.com/2019/06/06/hunting-ghost-no-1-chinas-most-sophisticated-movie-piracy-ring/
Dr John Dies At 77
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8514889/dr-john-funky-new-orleans-night-tripper-dead-77
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