Big entertainment bets: World Cup & Avatar

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The sequel to Avatar has been hyped up for over a decade, but Covid outbreaks in China threaten its box office success. And the World Cup champion will have more than glory to celebrate — its GDP should rise, too.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:12.2	This is the Indicator for Planet Money.
0:13.5	I'm Adrian Ma.
0:14.5	And I'm Whalen Wong.
0:15.5	And it is time for Indicators of the Week.
0:19.2	Today we are examining the numbers behind two of the most anticipated global entertainment
0:25.4	events happening this week.
0:27.7	The Golden Globes and the Return of the Real Housewives.
0:32.0	Well now I have an excellent idea of your media diet, but no, I was talking about the
0:37.4	World Cup and the release of Avatar the Way of Water.
0:41.6	Today on the show, what winning the World Cup means for a country's economy and the high
0:46.6	stakes for Avatar 2's box office performance.
0:52.6	You can't avoid it.
1:10.4	The World Cup is everywhere right now and is almost coming to an end.
1:14.8	There have been winners and losers, redemption and heartbreak.
1:19.6	Helen, have you been watching any of this drama?
1:30.1	I do take pleasure in seeing how much joy everyone else gets out of the World Cup.
1:38.8	I understand what a big deal it is.
1:40.3	Oh yeah, it's all my friends are talking about right now.
1:43.4	So far, 32 teams have been whittled down to two, France and Argentina.
1:49.9	What these teams are playing for is not just national pride or the thrill of victory or even
1:54.9	a piece of the $440 million prize pool.
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