"Top Gun: Maverick" Wins the Weekend and Strengthens Studio Businesses

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🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It wasn't just Tom Cruise's biggest opening weekend ever, it was the biggest Memorial Day opening weekend for a U.S. movie. (0:25) Bill Mann discusses:
- How "Top Gun: Maverick" is the right movie at the right time
- Ripple effects for studios, streamers, and more
- Unilever's stock popping 9% by adding activist investor Nelson Peltz to the board
- Why he's a fan of Peltz and his form of shareholder activism

(13:00) Robert Brokamp talks with Dan Caplinger about how investors can fight inflation and one common myth about how to hedge against rising prices.

Stocks discussed: PARA, DIS, AMC, UL, PG

Host: Chris Hill
Guests: Bill Mann, Robert "Bro" Brokamp, Dan Caplinger
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	What can a board member do for a company's stock price?
0:08.4	In the case of one business today, the answer appears to be a 9% bump.
0:13.3	Details next.
0:14.3	Motley Fool Money starts now.
0:16.0	I'm Chris Hill, and joining me today, Motley Fool, Senior Analyst, Bill Mann.
0:24.7	Thanks for being here.
0:25.8	My voice is a little horse today, Chris.
0:27.9	I went to go see Top Gun Maverick last night, so I've got lots to talk about, and no
0:33.8	voice to do it.
0:35.4	What a perfect combination.
0:38.5	There was crying.
0:39.5	I'm not going to lie.
0:40.5	There was crying in the theater.
0:41.8	Not me, not me, but in bare sight.
0:44.3	I don't want you to spoil anything, because I think I'm going to be seeing it on Thursday.
0:49.2	But we're actually going to start with Top Gun Maverick.
0:52.2	The business ripple effects of this film are what I want to talk about.
0:57.4	Now, not adjusted for inflation, 156 million at the box office.
1:02.4	It's the biggest memorial day weekend opening ever.
1:06.3	It's the biggest opening weekend for Tom Cruise for any of his films ever.
1:10.6	So I'm glad something finally good happened for him.
1:15.7	There is a lot of talk today about movie theater stocks in particular AMC, which, if
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