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It is Monday, December 23rd.

We make a lot of predictions on this show with varying degrees of accuracy.

But today is a chance to hear from the people who actually run Hollywood, what they think.

Lucas Shar, a Monday guy, he and his team at Bloomberg did a survey of about 400 executives

in the entertainment and music business and asked some things like, who will be the next CEO of

Disney? Which streaming service

would you cancel last? Which buyer would you sell your movie or show to if you could pick?

Interesting stuff. So I asked Lucas to come on the show and take us through some of the highlights

and the biggest surprises of the survey. We'll also do a little on the Mufasa box office,

very depressing for me and my draft team,

and the equally depressing legal saga between Blake

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