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🐝 The Weekly Buzz (10 things you need to know)

1) Taylor Swift just bought back her own music catalog for $360 million. After 20 years of relentlessly trying to regain ownership, and 4 re-recorded ‘Taylor’s Version’ albums, the day has finally come.

🧠 Industry Insight: Companies buy the rights to Artist catalogs as an investment in the potential future income generated by those songs through licensing (for film, television, commercials, etc.), streaming, and other forms of usage. This practice

2) YouTube is swallowing TV whole, now it’s coming for Sitcoms. (Bloomberg)

3) Size Matters. Deborah De Luca backs out of Hard Summer over the size of her font on the poster.

🧠 Industry Insight: When Artists get confirmed for Festivals, their teams, usually their agent, will negotiate how big their font is on the poster, how close to the top and to the left their name is on the poster etc. This convos can get VERY tense, and apparently something fell through the cracks here..

4) ‘Lilo & Stitch’ tops box office while reaching $610 million globally. The film earned $63 million domestically, followed by ‘Mission: Impossible 8’ with $27.3 million, and ‘Karate Kid: Legends’ debuted this weekend in third with $21 million. Full list here.

5) The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is partnering with Saturday Night Live. The exhibit is shining a light on ‘50 Years of Music’ at SNL, and the opening ceremony will be hosted by none other than 11-season cast member Fred Armisen.

6) Breakout limited series Adolescence sweeps at Gotham. Sign of things to come at the major award shows?

7) Music publishing brings in $11.1 billion annually. (MBW)

8) Disney laid off hundreds of employees in TV & Film. Disney CEO Bob Iger's total pay package was $41.1 million in 2024, up 30% from 2023. Just saying. Deadline has the full list of recent media layoffs. 

9) Ariana Grande, Pedro Pascal, and more sign an open letter to protect LGBTQ+ suicide prevention funds. This message was in response to a proposal to eliminate funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ youth specialized services, which has provided help to over 14 million people so far.

10) Roots Picnic is getting heat over over fans waiting 5 hours in line due to weather. No refunds coming according to the fest.

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