Exploring the struggles faced by original films in the family market post-COVID, along with the internal dynamics at Pixar and Disney amidst the shifts towards streaming. The chapter also delves into the conflict between Scarlett Johansson and Disney over Black Widow's release and the controversy surrounding her claim against OpenAI.
A frighteningly lackluster summer box office, human ScarJo dukes it out with OpenAI’s ‘definitely-not-supposed-to-sound-like-ScarJo’ ScarJo, and the movies making noise at this year’s Cannes Film Festival–not necessarily in a good way. Kim Masters and Matt Belloni break down this week’s news in a special Spring Megabanter episode of The Business.