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Pull up a lawn chair and crack open an alamo. #KingOfTheHill returns JULY 20 on @hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
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Charles Crain
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@redsteeze I hate to tell you this, but the difference between 2026 and 1985 would be equal to a toy that was popular in 1945. Let’s go see the Slinky Movie!
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Look I'm all here for this, but this would be like if Hollywood in the year 1985 made a movie about a toy that was popular in 1965.
Hollywood be promoting a Ball In Cup film right now if they think it would make them a profit.
That's the kind of time disparity we're talking about with Hollywood making a he-man movie in the year 2026.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
A ‘MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE’ drone show takes over the Los Angeles night sky.
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Charles Crain retweetledi
@JJ_McCullough Those of us who have no children have a lot more disposable income, lol.
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I don’t know if this is because I am a renter or what, but I must say “paying bills” is a much smaller part of my grown-up life than the TV shows I watched as a kid had led me to believe.
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@konstructivizm Why do they colorize these images? What is the blue supposed to represent?
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The clearest image of Pluto captured by the New Horizons spacecraft.
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@WallStreetApes 1/4th of Russian homes don’t have indoor plumbing.
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Man in Moscow Russia shows what their regular supermarket has for selection
This entire section is just eggs, so many different brands and sellers. Butter and more is the same huge variety
In America we only have a couple brands that are monopolies all owned by the same company
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@EmpireCityBO @Lionsgate I just feel like this movie is coming out a decade too late. There’s not much else to say or see that hasn’t been done before. 🤷♂️
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Hey @Lionsgate marketing, if you want some free advice on this. Right or wrong, lean all the way into Michel Jackson. Start showing a lot more archival footage in your ads. Celebrate the early years of his career and mix in footage of the movie. You can't straddle the fence.
EmpireCity Box Office@EmpireCityBO
Sounding a mini-alarm about @michaelmovie presales and @Lionsgate marketing. They aren't great and trending in the wrong direction. Still time to recover this in the next 3 weeks, but no longer looking like the potential mega-opener it should be. Closer to $40m type than $100m.
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@ToonHive Not true. Best Animated Feature didn’t exist until 2001. Shrek was the first film to win the category.
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@bendreyfuss Yeah, this is no different than I Love Lucy and the Honeymooners funding CBS News in the ‘50s.
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I don’t know how new this is. I mean no significant number of people has ever really paid for “just news” in any medium. The only way any news organization has ever been able to exist has been by including other stuff.
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
The New York Times made news the loss leader for a $2 billion digital revenue machine, and this chart is the receipt. News-only subscribers dropped 65% since June 2022. Bundle subscribers grew 227%. That looks like a news collapse. But the NYT deliberately killed its standalone news product. They stopped marketing it. They made it nearly impossible to buy a news-only subscription on their website. They priced the full bundle (News + Games + Cooking + Athletic + Wirecutter) at $2/month introductory, cheaper than a standalone Games subscription. News-only ARPU is $13.33. Bundle ARPU is $12.92. Single non-news product ARPU is $3.36. Those 4.3 million single-product subscribers paying $3.36/month? They’re not the business. They’re the funnel. The NYT CEO said it explicitly on the earnings call: single products are “funnels to get people to subscribe” to the bundle. Games now accounts for over 50% of time spent inside the NYT app. Wordle, Connections, and the Mini pull 10+ million weekly players who never intended to read a news article. But half of all NYT subscribers now pay for the bundle, and bundle subscribers retain longer, engage more, and accept price increases. The bundle just went from $25 to $30/month. The result: digital revenue crossed $2 billion for the first time in 2025. Free cash flow hit $550 million. Adjusted operating margins reached 24% in Q4. Berkshire Hathaway just took a billion-dollar position. While the Washington Post cut 300 journalists last week, the Times added 1.4 million subscribers. This chart shows a news company that built an attention ecosystem where Wordle gets you in the door, Cooking keeps you at breakfast, The Athletic owns your commute, and by the time you think about canceling, you’d lose four products instead of one. The NYT figured out that the way to fund journalism in 2026 is to make sure you can’t quit the crossword.
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Charles Crain retweetledi
32 years ago today, February 17, 1994: #TheSimpsons episode “Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy” first aired on Fox.
Guest-starring: Kathleen Turner as Stacy Lovell. Dir: Jeffrey Lynch. Wr: @thatbilloakley & @Joshstrangehill. EP: @DaveMirkin.
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Charles Crain retweetledi
“When you lose freedom, you lose everything,” pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai told 60 Minutes in 2019. Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law.
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29 years ago today, February 7, 1997: #TheSimpsons episode “Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious” first aired on Fox. Featuring @MaggieRoswell as Shary Bobbins.
Dir: Chuck Sheetz. Wr and EP: @AlJean & @MikeReissWriter. #NonStopFox
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Charles Crain retweetledi
Bill Cassidy’s got some problems. I wrote about them at the @washingtonpost. Link in replies.
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@bendreyfuss I mean, I’m wealthier than the average citizen of every other country, TV is great, and I can get sushi delivered to my front door. My life in America is awesome.
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A really nice thing about being an American is that of course there are ups and downs like anything else in life but we have really good cards
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I don’t think I’ve ever felt true fear for this country. I mean, America has solid fundamentals. Even on 9/11, which is I guess the closest I’ve ever come, I was like “this is going to change things in unpredictable ways and require us to kill many people but everything be fine”
Caitlin Flanagan@CaitlinPacific
In all of my long life, I’ve only felt afraid for this country twice: on 9/11 and now.
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@ggreenwald @MeghanMcCain …she started sharing her political views?
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Wanna know one of the best things about Mr. Rogers growing up? I never knew anything about his political opinions. He just entertained kids. That's it.
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@ryanweather If I live in the pink portion of Louisiana, what did that mean for me? Just cold rain, I hope?
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@neontaster Dave Filoni is responsible for a ton of A+ Star Wars content, though. Nobody bats a thousand.
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Andor was an accident and they'll never let it happen again.
Scott Gustin@ScottGustin
Andor, widely regarded as one of the strongest creative achievements of Kathleen Kennedy’s tenure at Lucasfilm, was reportedly disliked by Dave Filoni, according to Lucasfilm sources cited in a new analysis by @DrewTailored and @TheWrap. Story: thewrap.com/industry-news/…
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@chartdata Wha percentage of music consumers in Nigeria pays for a streaming platform?
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62% of streams in Nigeria come from local Nigerian artists, the highest percent of local support for any country in the Middle East and Africa (via Luminate).
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