From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

Hollywood eyes the summer box office uneasily.

Disney shuffles the heck out of its release schedule,

while the Golden Globes undergo a mystifying change.

And as voting begins, a look at the state of the Emmy's race.

We bring you expanded banter with Matt Bellany and a visit from the Hollywood reporter's executive editor of awards coverage, Scott Feinberg.

I mean, HBO, I think we have to acknowledge, has probably the three strongest for drama series.

You've got Succession, the White Lotus, and The Last of Us are all essentially slam dunk nominees, and then they might also get House of the Dragon.

Banter Plus, stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my partner in banter Matt Bellany.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So summer is underway, and the hope of Hollywood has been that movies that come out this summer,

those are always the big tent pole movies, will get to a $4 billion gross by the end of summer,

signaling that perhaps movies truly have recovered

and the whole thing is back. However, after a promising start with the Mario movie,

we are looking at potentially a much less promising turn of events. Yeah, it's been interesting

because some of these movies that were tipped as the early summer favorites

to do a billion dollars in theaters are pretty clearly not going to do a billion dollars

in theater. Even Guardians of the Galaxy 3, which I think is a success at between 8 and 900 million,

that's less than the early summer Marvel movie from last year, Dr. Strange 2.

And then we had these other movies like Fast 10, which is doing fine overseas but is really

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