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Welcome back to fine-tuning with Drew Taylor. You're one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

I'm entertainer writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor, who's writing in the industry you can

regularly read over on the rap, and whose musings on the Mission of Possible movies you can

listen to on Light the Fuse, the official Mission Impossible podcast. He and I are recording this week's show on Sunday, December 22nd.

So we are just three days out from Christmas through.

Have we finished our shopping?

We have finished our shopping.

The tree is trimmed.

The presents are underneath it.

Looking forward to having most of the week off.

So, yeah, yeah.

Okay, forgive me, this is a personal question, folks, but I have to ask, how does Nova deal with the tree?

She loves the tree. She investigates the packages when they're underneath, but she's, none of these stories

like you hear from cat owners, like yourself, Jim, of the cats climbing the tree and knocking down

all the ornaments and things like that. Okay, okay. Well, no, all right, that's good to hear. I always

knew Nova was a good dog. So, anyway, like we said, three days out from Christmas, not an especially happy holiday

for Disney.

A week started off well with the mouse managing to do something that no other movie studio

had done since the start of the pandemic back in 2019, which was cross the $5 billion mark when it comes to global ticket sales for calendar 2024.

And just in case you're wondering, folks, Disney has managed to do this five other times once in 2010.

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