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Hollywood by becoming a puck member today. It is Monday, August 4th.

It's officially the dog days of summer.

I hope you're listening to this on your yacht.

Craig and I are relaxing in the town's official above-ground pool today.

But there's actually been a decent amount of Hollywood business news lately.

David Ellison, the about-to-be new owner of New Paramount,

he announced his leadership team this

morning, signaling a very different studio from Paramount under the Redstone family.

This past weekend, Marvel's Fantastic Four, Disney's big summer superhero movie.

It dropped a very concerning 66% in its second weekend.

That's on the high end for summer movies.

It's now looking doubtful that it will beat Superman at the global box office

or convince fans that Marvel is quote-unquote back,

despite positive reviews and reactions.

On the streaming side, Peacock released subscriber numbers

that were underwhelming to say the least,

and Netflix finally has its first animated original film mega hit with

K-pop Demon Hunters. That film crossed 100 million views and will likely become one of its

top 10 biggest movies ever. Lots to talk about, so I thought I'd do a combo episode today with

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