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Netflix’s Summer of Bummer

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) Today, I’ve got a guest post from longtime friend of the newsletter, Brandon Katz. I’ve been trying to find time all summer to look at Netflix’s straight-to-streaming film slate, but between a pre-planned trip and Nielsen moving up their streaming data timeline, I’ve been swamped. So I reached out to Brandon, one of my favorite fellow analysts, to write about it. And I feel like he captured the tone and data focus of the newsletter perfectly. You can connect with Brandon on LinkedIn and Twitter. Enjoy! Don’t worry, folks. You’re in safe hands with me. To ease any anxieties about an interloper in ESG’s domain, I’ll start by stealing one of his best framing devices: headlines. Box office flops are covered in the same way the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles eye pizza: with cartoonish insatiability. I would know. I’m a former reporter who wrote nearly identical headlines: Yet, intentionally or not, streaming misses get treated with kids gloves, filtered through a rosy lens: In the last six years, U.S. streaming viewership has become nearly as transparent as the box office, but the data often arrives weeks later, in a number of less intuitive metrics, and with nary an official budget to be found. This plays into the Wall Street-whispering narratives major streamers have been cultivating for years. They get a pass in a way that theatrical studios simply don’t. Subscribe Netflix’s Summer Slate Not a single Netflix original film released between May and August this year opened above 20 million U.S. TV hours, per Nielsen. That benchmark usually serves as the EntStrategyGuy’s floor for a streaming hit on Netflix. None of these films enjoyed a hit-cementing single week of 20-plus million hours during their runs. Netflix’s two best films were true crime docs, Maternal Instinct (16.5 million hours) and The Crash (19.7 million), the best overall week for a film this summer. Great for most other streamers, but not necessarily what we’re used to seeing from Netflix. For an overly-dramatic comparison, Happy Gilmore 2 opened last summer to around 47 million hours (celebrity cameos, baby!). Zooming out, the picture looks even worse. In 2026, Netflix’s five biggest scripted summer films posted the lowest average (28.6 million hours) and median (28.8 million hours) eight-week viewership totals of the past four years. Now, it’s unrealistic and unfair to expect Netflix to deliver a _KPop Demon Hunters-_sized hit every year. But it’s also not ideal to see the size of their hits shrinking over the last few summers. Let’s quickly run through some of the notable summer misses. Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein’s perfectly fine romcom, Office Romance, fell off the charts after 20 million hours in its first two weeks. Top films usually last for four-plus weeks. Starry titles ideally don’t decay that fast either. Homegrown star Millie Bobby Brown couldn’t prevent the snappy Enola Holmes franchise from diminishing returns. At 14.3 million U.S. hours, the third film posted roughly half of what the first two films did in their first two weeks. What’s on Netflix calculated that per-day global views were down nearly 60% from the second movie. The Whisper Man did okay with more than 36 million hours over its first four weeks. But I expected a little more juice from a film featuring Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, and Adam Scott. Kevin Hart’s Ladies First collected just 11.2 million hours total across two weeks. That’s a big miss for one of Netflix’s go-to stars. Plopping into the same bucket are Sunny Sandler’s Don’t Say Good Luck (10.3 million in two weeks) and John Cena’s Little Brother (17.5 million). Meanwhile, English-language originals Color Book (June 19), In the Hand of Dante (June 24) and Heartstopper Forever (July 17) never sniffed Nielsen’s Top 10 at all, despite needing only 2 to 5 million hours to land in the top ten most weeks. (By my count, eleven English-language scripted original films released between May and August did chart). It’s only fair to mention that Swapped (1-May) posted nearly 42 million U.S. hours over five weeks (the longest Netflix original run this summer) and is currently their eighth most-watched English-language film ever worldwide. Remarkably Bright Creatures (37 million, 4 weeks) and Voicemails for Isabelle (27 million, 4 weeks) weren’t bombs either. Still, overall, I think it’s fair to say this was a quieter summer season than we’re used to seeing from the market-leader. You might not realize that given the language commonly used in public analysis. The Twist Despite the starkly black-and-white tone of the coverage, here’s the twist: when many box office bombs arrive on streaming, their viewership looks a whole lot like many of Netflix’s supposedly successful summer releases. Hmm, where have we heard that one before? Masters of the Universe topped out at $65 million stateside against a $170 million budget_._ I’ll admit, Skeletor ripping sleeveless curls as a gym bro and bodyslamming Adam’s co-workers was funny. But, much to the chagrin of my bank account, my laughter doesn’t launch franchises. Yet the He-Man reboot opened to 19.6 million hours (from a Wednesday five-day opening instead of just one weekend), on par with Hoppers on Disney+ (19.4 million). It put up nearly 47 million hours over its first six weeks, bigger than all of Netflix’s summer releases. Pretty darn healthy and likely to land among the 25 most-watched movies on streaming this year. Sticking with Amazon, The Sheep Detectives just barely broke even at the box office with $133 million worldwide (and only $66 million domestic). I never expected cloven-hooved, cud-chewing mammals to be able to bring me to tears. Yet that’s exactly how I found myself at the end of this surprisingly affecting movie (#NoShame). It was likely the unexpected quality in a family-friendly film that powered its streaming over-performance. Sheep Detectives delivered a solid run for Prime video netting 26.2 million hours! How about franchise IP? Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu had the lowest opening ($81 million) and lowest-grossing Disney-era live-action Star Wars film ($178 million domestic). One day before release, its Heat score (19.8%)—audiences who list their interest as a 7/7—fell behind blockbusters Wicked (21%), Superman (23%), Fantastic Four: First Steps (23%), Michael (23%), Toy Story 5 (26%) and Avatar: Fire and Ash (27%), according to Greenlight Analytics. The urgent enthusiasm just wasn’t there. On streaming, Mando opened to weeks of 12.1 million, 6.1 million and 2.7 million hours (21 million total) over its first three frames. Not the numbers Lucasfilm was hoping for nor the numbers of a streaming hit. But they’re in the same vicinity as some Netflix summer releases with $345 million at the global box office to offset a smidgen of the pain. Final Thoughts So why oh why does this nuance gap exist? Four key reasons: Data Literacy: A “$100 million opening” just makes sense. After decades of box office reporting, even casual movie fans are well-versed in the benchmarks of hits and home runs. There’s an immediate shorthand. But “16.5 million” hours doesn’t land nearly as cleanly. Despite leaps of progress, the streaming ratings era is still in its infancy compared to theatrical. The EntStrategyGuy and I met thanks to a late 2010s group chat of data nerds hungry to find a shred of certainty in nebulous streaming performance. I’m not surprised to see “No. 1 on Netflix” still getting misconstrued out in the wild. Timing: By Friday morning, we have the box office’s Thursday night previews totaled, allowing us to better project the weekend’s expectations. From there, ticket sales are reported daily. By Sunday, the film’s fate is usually finalized, at least in terms of public perception. In streaming, Nielsen recently improved its delay to…two weeks. The medium isn’t forced to contend with instant gratification as harshly. Financials: Theatrical film budgets are a mere Google away. Profit and loss is calculated in the cold and unforgiving naked light of day for all to see. But finding the vast majority of streaming exclusive movie budgets requires the forensic investigation skills of a Criminal Minds detective. Also, it’s very difficult to calculate how much revenue/value a straight-to-streaming films provides a streamer. This is why there are so few stories about streaming original movies “losing X amount of money”. On top of that, marketing budgets are far greater for theatrical movies than streaming exclusive movies, which leads to earlier and better awareness. This then translates to a wider pool of potential interest. Narrative Control: Netflix is the only major streaming service to publish weekly first-hand viewership data and annual engagement reports. Naturally, some headlines borrow their first-hand framing**.** Other streamers benefit from their comparative lack of transparency. They may occasionally announce vague performance platitudes such as Apple TV’s Mayday becoming its “biggest film debut on the platform to date over its first 18 days,” and that it ranked No. 1 with left-handed viewers in its first weekend. (Fine, I made up that second one). But, for the most part, they keep first-hand viewership shrouded in mystery to avoid bad press. Especially for outlets that demand multiple articles per day from their writers, it’s an easy (and understandable) way for some reporters to hit their daily article quota by just repeating what the streamers have told them. TL:DR version: Streaming-exclusive movies are asked to do different things than theatrical movies, but that doesn’t mean they should escape judgment. Both still need to draw enough eyeballs to justify their cost within the proper performance contexts. The more cleanly we can inject a little nuance into streaming analysis, the better we’ll understand the audience and content trends that drive this industry. And that’s what all of this is really about: knowing what audiences actually want! Brandon Katz is the Director of Insights & Content Strategy at Greenlight Analytics where he focuses on evaluating the ever-fluid media landscape to unearth understanding, opportunity and value. Greenlight Analytics is the entertainment intelligence consulting company redefining how Hollywood finds, understands, and activates audiences. Prior to joining Greenlight Analytics, he served as the senior entertainment industry strategist at Parrot Analytics, and as a full-time entertainment industry reporter covering the Xs and Os of Hollywood, most notably with TheWrap and the Observer.

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Oct 9 • 3:32 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
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Inaugural Festival of Ideas, Entertainment, Learning, and Discovery coming to Shakespeare & Company in late October

Founded by producer Hunter Runnette, the three-day festival brings authors, scholars, and thinkers to Shakespeare & Company to explore questions shaping communities and the world.

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Oct 9 • 3:07 PM EDT • Entertainment • theberkshireedge.com
Chiefs Pass Rush Stats Lie, But George Karlaftis Proves It

The Chiefs haven't recorded a sack in three games, but the real numbers show a top-10 unit that just can't finish. Here is why the panic is overblown.

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Oct 9 • 1:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Apple event: Three new products are coming next week

Apple’s ‘Welcome home’ event is October 13. Here’s what to expect, including the HomePad smart display, a new Apple TV 4K, and HomePod mini 2.

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Oct 9 • 12:04 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Gears of War: E-Day sells 230K copies

Gears of War: E-Day has sold 230K copies since its advance-access launch on October 1 and full release on October 6. Steam accounts for 168K of those, with Xbox (console and PC) selling 62K. But there’s more to this story, as Xbox makes up the bulk of revenue. E-Day is the best-reviewed Gears game in nearly two decades (and the best one ever made, in my opinion). The Coalition has made a banger here (it’s currently in my top 10 of the year). Despite E-Day’s undeniable quality, this is a soft result. And it’s down to the business model, really. E-Day has made $37M so far, thanks to the Premium upgrade On Xbox, Game Pass is cannibalising much of the premium revenue. Our estimates show that 1.7M folks accessed E-Day via their subscription rather than a copy. But Xbox is having it both ways – or having it halfway, at least – via its Premium Edition Game Pass upgrade. Game Pass subscribers could pay $30 (or their local equivalent) for up to five days of early access starting October 1. Our estimates show that of the 1.7M who accessed E-Day through Game Pass, 722K paid for the upgrade. Between the review embargo lifting on October 1 and the full release, E-Day managed to shift another 250K early-access upgrades – no doubt helped by the campaign’s rave reviews. So despite selling far fewer copies on Steam, Xbox accounts for almost three-quarters of the revenue (roughly $26M of the $37M, versus about $11M on Steam). So “230K copies” undersells the paying audience. Including the 722K upgrades, nearly 950K people actually paid something for E-Day. The $30 upgrade is a halfstep from cannibalisation, but will Xbox go all the way? While E-Day is a sublime game, these are soft numbers for a flagship when Xbox badly needs revenue wins. E-Day sold 62K copies on Xbox against 722K Premium upgrades, so for every one copy sold on Xbox, nearly 12 Game Pass upgrades were sold. The $70 premium SKU is – functionally – dead on Xbox. Normally you can’t see what a Game Pass player would have paid, because the game’s just there in the subscription. But the $30 early-access upgrade estimate shows that 722K people demonstrated they’ll spend real money on this game. In a world without day-one Game Pass, many of these folks would have bought E-Day at $70. They paid $30 for five days early access to something they don’t own. Xbox is, in effect, charging its most valuable customers the least, based on a hangover from a tried-and-exhausted strategy from a previous administration. Those 722K willing-to-pay players generated about $21.7M via the upgrade. If three quarters of this group – mostly US and European audiences – bought E-Day outright, that’s nearly $40M. Of course, Game Pass does bring in meaningful recurring revenue, and E-Day is adding value for hundreds of thousands of subscribers. However, Game Pass is no longer growing, so Xbox is at a crossroads. Xbox is reportedly looking to do a Netflix and bolt on an ad-supported tier to pad it further. But that will just set a new floor, and leadership keeps telling us the priority now is revenue growth, which is subscriber-speak for ARPU. Xbox has already pulled Call of Duty from day-one Game Pass after day-one inclusion hammered its sales, with new CoD titles now arriving on the service around a year late. We know that some Microsoft executives believe the service devalues games outright, and rumours (which Microsoft has dismissed so far, to be fair) suggest that day-one releases could be taken off Game Pass. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe When a game this well-reviewed does this softly on its home platform, the model – not the game – gets brought into question. What else E-Day’s early adopters have played (including this month so far) Looking at E-Day‘s players on Xbox, most have played the franchise before (86% have played Gears 5, 76% Gears 4), and every game on the crossover list is either a shooter or a title from an Xbox-owned studio (though Game Pass is inflating those numbers, of course, more on that later): As for what else Xbox’s E-Day players have played this month, the top three are Fortnite (16%), Roblox (7%), and Call of Duty (6%). Another 5% played Minecraft Dungeons II, which is also on Game Pass and launched a couple of days before Gears‘ advance-access date. Many Game Pass players are happy to check out most big new additions. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Over on Steam, the top crossover games are also mostly shooters (slightly more PC-coded ones), including Space Marine 2, which was itself heavily inspired by Gears: Looking at what E-Day‘s Steam players are into this month shows who they are – as subscriptions don’t skew the data. The top three are Wardogs (13%), Deadlock (12%), and CS2 (10%), so you’ve got the restless shooter crowd checking out the new hotness. A little further down are Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2, your co-op PVE shooter players who’ll feel right at home in Horde mode. Game Pass is skewing the playtime distribution on Xbox Looking at the playtime distribution in our platform, E-Day players on Steam are – relatively speaking – playing for longer: 54% of E-Day players on Xbox have played for five hours or less (versus 32% on Steam) 19% of Xbox players played for over 15 hours (versus 33% on Steam) 14% of Xbox players played for over 20 hours (22% on Steam) The absolute number of people playing for over 15, 20, and 50 hours is, of course, bigger on Xbox, thanks to the sheer volume of folks who came in through Game Pass (upgraders included). None of that is cause for alarm. Game Pass is the reason Xbox playtime skews lower, as when a game is free to try, people try it and bounce without putting in even an hour (17% under an hour on Xbox versus 6% on Steam). Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe The subscription brings in tourists alongside the committed, dragging down the average even when the game is excellent (but also perhaps winning over the uninitiated). It’s standard across every subscription-included title, on PS Plus too. Forza Horizon 6, for instance, had 11% of its Xbox players bounce under an hour, versus just 2% on Steam. So, Xbox’s crossroads So there we have it. Gears of War: E-Day is an incredible game whose revenues have been stifled by subscription inclusion and exclusivity. It’s the best-reviewed entry in the series in fifteen-odd years, but it still turned into one of the year’s softer flagship launches, not because players didn’t want it, but because Xbox’s own storefront gave its most willing buyers a reason not to pay. Which leaves Xbox at a crossroads. Will it keep making Gears games when the financial returns are this thin and the margins this low? And if it does, does the next one arrive off Game Pass at day one – the way CoD now does, or even on PlayStation? I think it should. Alright, back to E-Day for me! The last word Reply to this email – or reach out here – if you have any feedback for the newsletter – or want to request a game for us to cover. [Alinea Analytics boasts the most accurate PC and console estimates in the business. Game makers use our platform to understand their audience, keep an eye on the competition, monitor sales trends, and spot new opportunities. We equip game studios and financial institutions with accurate data and the confidence to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Want to talk about all things games market data? We’d love to chat!]

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Oct 9 • 11:49 AM EDT • Technology • alineaanalytics.substack.com
Three House races in Pa. — including in Bucks County — shift toward Democrats, Cook Political Report says

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Oct 9 • 11:46 AM EDT • Politics • inquirer.com
Trustees approve named and distinguished faculty, resolutions of appreciation and namings

Purdue University trustees on Friday (Oct. 9) approved a named chair, a distinguished professor and three named professors, along with resolutions of appreciation and namings.

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Royals $3 Billion Ballpark Development Gets Key Approval

The city council overwhelmingly approved three stadium-related measures.

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Oct 9 • 11:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Adidas sues White Fox fashion label over four stripes design

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Oct 9 • 11:02 AM EDT • Business • cnn.com
Majority of brands lack confidence in sports sponsorship as business driver

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Oct 9 • 11:00 AM EDT • Business • mmm-online.com
Marshfield Clinic earns $580K grant to address mental health

SAMHSA has awarded Marshfield Clinic a three-year Mental Health Awareness Training Grant of more than half a million dollars in Wisconsin.

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Oct 9 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • news.sanfordhealth.org
NY Giants’ bruising back needs help, not another 20 carries

Cam Skattebo has carried the ball 50 times over the Giants’ last three games and gained 154 yards. Asking for […]

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Oct 9 • 10:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ben Affleck shares rare insight into coparenting dynamic with Jennifer Garner: ‘I’m really, really grateful’

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Oct 9 • 10:21 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
David Eichenthal

David Eichenthal joins HR&A Advisors as a Senior Advisor with more than three decades of experience in and alongside government.

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Oct 9 • 10:19 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Don't Trust AI For Blood Pressure Monitor Recommendations, Study Warns

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Oct 9 • 9:35 AM EDT • Health • usnews.com
Rômulo: “Now I want more”

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How these census changes could threaten public health

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Oct 9 • 9:23 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
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Three Stanford faculty named American Physical Society Fellows

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Oct 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • news.stanford.edu
U.K. Box Office Back to Full Health — But What Lessons Do We Learn?

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Blindness treatment based on Nobel-winning research shows promise

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Lancaster County public sales: Oct. 9, 2026

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Meet the three inspiring speakers for the Power of Fearless event

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Break gives Hayen's Burnley a new sense of positivity

Burnley boss Nicky Hayen says the extended three-week international break has given his squad positivity as they return to Championship action hoping to turn their form around.

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Nobel Prize 2026: Three Science Discoveries That Sound Straight Out Of Sci-Fi

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Prince live album leads Record Store Day’s Black Friday list

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Oct 9 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Mental health: the burden of childhood trauma in Europe

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Trump presents National Medal of Science to billionaire Elon Musk and three other tech leaders

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Injury Boost For Newcastle With Will Osula Back In Training

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Inside the deadlock at the world's top climate science body

The decision was expected to take minutes. But after nearly three years of debate, members of the world’s leading authority on climate change still can’t agree on a timeline to publish its next review of the latest science on the warming planet.

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Oct 9 • 2:04 AM EDT • Science • reuters.com
Inside the Deadlock at the World's Top Climate Science Body

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Three takeaways from LeBron James' preseason 76ers debut

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Oct 8 • 10:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A Fiesta’s Serious Business

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Christa Pike's health has seen 'profound turnaround' in last three days, lawyers say

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Pentagon draws up new Iran strike plans as Trump hesitates

The U.S. military has drafted options for three days of strikes, but in recent months the president has repeatedly vetoed plans to restart the war.

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Syracuse Basketball: Three Takeaways From ACC Tip-Off Event

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Oct 8 • 8:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dylan Harper among starters for Spurs game against Hawks

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Oct 8 • 7:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Punta Gorda business owner reflects on Hurricane Milton’s devastation two years later

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Oct 8 • 6:59 PM EDT • Business • gulfcoastnewsnow.com
Southwest Airlines weighs Boeing 787 for long-haul international push, sources say

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Oct 8 • 6:08 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
LMH Health Cancer Center reaccredited for excellence in breast care

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Oct 8 • 6:00 PM EDT • Health • lmh.org
Apple will reportedly debut its first touchscreen MacBook in three weeks

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Oct 8 • 4:32 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Congressional District 2 candidates offer competing visions of northern Utah's priorities

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Oct 8 • 3:57 PM EDT • Politics • upr.org
Marshfield Clinic receives nearly $580,000 mental health grant

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BMW’s Greatest Strength Became Its Biggest Weakness. Are You Making the Same Mistake?

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The states that aren’t cooperating with Democrats’ Senate majority hopes

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Oct 8 • 2:40 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Trump gives Elon Musk the National Medal of Science at tech summit

Trump presented the prestigious award to Musk and three other tech moguls at the Institute of Peace on Thursday.

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How does atmospheric turbulence impact tornado formation?

Supported by a new three-year, $1,099,777 grant, researchers in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences will investigate what triggers some storms to produce tornadoes — and when — with the goal of improving forecasts.

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Oct 8 • 2:15 PM EDT • Science • psu.edu
Scouting Villarreal: Real Madrid’s first rival after the international break

In the last five games – two consecutive wins after three consecutive defeats in LaLiga – as they brace for Real Madrid up next

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Oct 8 • 1:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Anthropic Commits $150M To AI Science Mission

Anthropic is committing $150 million over three years to the federal government’s Genesis Mission, expanding access to its Claude AI models.

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Oct 8 • 1:24 PM EDT • Science • benzinga.com
3 businesses broken into in Southwest Side's Chicago Lawn neighborhood

Someone broke into three different businesses in the Southwest Side's Chicago Lawn neighborhood just east of Marquette Park early Thursday.

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Oct 8 • 12:40 PM EDT • Business • cbsnews.com
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Thursday Bantering: Jays Notes

Happy Thurday. We only get one playoff game today, the Guardians and White Sox play game four. White Sox are up two games to one. It is an 8:00 Eastern start. The Rays beat out the Yankees in three games. Yay Rays. The Dodgers beat out the Braves in four games. You disappointed me Braves. […]

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Oct 8 • 11:57 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Missouri Jury Awards $10 Million In Marijuana Business Ownership Dispute

“We are here trying to get back the business that they stole from us.” By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent A St. Louis jury awarded $10 million Tuesday to three plaintiffs in a sprawling ownership battle over six Missouri cannabis licenses involving more than 20 businesses and individuals. Over a week of testimony, jurors heard about […]

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Oct 8 • 11:50 AM EDT • Business • marijuanamoment.net
Teradata Highlights New Enterprise AI Customer Engagements Across Healthcare & Life Sciences

Enterprise AI customer engagements show how healthcare and life sciences organizations are activating intelligence from their data and institutional knowledge at scale SAN DIEGO, Oct. 8, 2026 — Teradata has showcased three customer engagements that demonstrate how leading healthcare and life sciences organizations are closing the gap between institutional knowledge and real-world outcomes, advancing disease […]

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Oct 8 • 10:56 AM EDT • Science • hpcwire.com
Titans Fire Three Business Execs Amid Another Ugly Start

The moves are just the latest high-level exits and shifts in recent years.

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Oct 8 • 10:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Titans Fire Three Business Execs Amid Another Ugly Start

Three business executives are out: senior VP and chief revenue officer Adam Nuse, senior VP of brand marketing Erin Swartz, and VP of creative Charles Jensen.

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Titans Fire Three Business Execs Amid Another Ugly Start

The moves are just the latest high-level exits and shifts in recent years.

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Oct 8 • 10:52 AM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com
GTA 6: Rockstar Releases Brand New Official Screenshots Showing Off Stunning Reflections

Rockstar has released three brand new GTA 6 screenshots alongside its radio station reveal.

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Oct 8 • 10:49 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
‘Minding my business’ – Candace Parker explains her reaction to Caitlin Clark talking trash to her

Candace Parker was sitting at the announcer’s desk when Caitlin Clark took a shot at her after making a clutch three-pointer. Parker had been critical of Clark’s effort on the defensive end of the court, believing that the former University of Iowa standout needed to be more energetic on that front.

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Oct 8 • 8:36 AM EDT • Business • sports.yahoo.com
NASA is searching for hidden caves to build its first Moon base

NASA is preparing for humanity’s first Moon base with three investigations that will hunt for underground shelters, uncover hidden ice, and track dangerous conditions on the lunar surface. The findings could reveal how astronauts can survive and thrive on the Moon while laying the groundwork for future journeys to Mars.

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Oct 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
SC ranks second in measles cases as health officials urge vaccination

South Carolina ranks second in the nation for reported measles cases, with 670 known cases so far this year, according to the CDC. Pennsylvania ranks first. Three states have reported more than 500 cases, the agency says.

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Oct 8 • 7:27 AM EDT • Health • foxcarolina.com
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CVS Health (CVS) Stock May Trade Below Fair Value On Integrated Care Push

CVS Health has delivered a 37.5% share price gain over the past three years, which puts fresh attention on a simple question. Is the current US$87.95 price tag adequately explained by the earnings power investors are paying for today? The 37.5% return over three years means anyone buying now needs to judge whether that past performance has already reflected what the business is earning. Recent developments, from extended distribution agreements with Cardinal Health and McKesson to regulatory...

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Oct 8 • 7:10 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Xbox Seasonal Savings Sale leads massive drop of 1,600+ deals across three sales

The Microsoft Store has been refreshed with new sales, including the Xbox Seasonal Savings Sale, which discounts hundreds of games, DLC, and more.

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St. Mary’s Health Care System opens new facility

St. Mary’s Health Care System opened a new medical office building Tuesday on Hog Mountain Road in Watkinsville, according to a press release. The new facility houses three St. Mary’s

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Bosnia’s political future looks increasingly like its past

Three nationalist parties are poised to dominate again, deepening fears of division and paralysis.

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Oct 8 • 5:37 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com
The Math Singularity Is Here, and Science May Be Next

OpenAI has released an extraordinary body of mathematical work produced by an unreleased frontier model: 722 manuscripts spanning 372 research families across fields including number theory, complexity theory, and mathematical physics. Each result required, on average, the equivalent of roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro reasoning. A New Era of Discovery We may be witnessing the beginnings of a “math singularity”: a point at which machine-generated discovery accelerates beyond humanity’s ability to independently reproduce, verify, or fully absorb it. If frontier models can generate hundreds of meaningful results in the time it takes a human researcher to investigate one, the constraint will no longer be producing new mathematics. It will be our capacity to validate, interpret, and integrate it. This does not make mathematicians obsolete. It changes their role. They may increasingly serve as guides, critics, and meaning-makers. Increasingly, they will decide which questions matter, determining which results can be trusted, and explaining why they are important. Mathematical insight may become abundant, while human judgment becomes more valuable than ever. Mathematics May Be Only the Beginning Every scientific discipline could eventually experience a similar acceleration. AI systems could generate and test hypotheses, connect findings across specialized fields, and explore possibilities at a scale no human research community could match. In medicine, imagine models identifying overlooked disease mechanisms, designing drugs and clinical trials, personalizing treatments, or discovering cures in months rather than decades. In materials science, AI could help create better batteries and cleaner industrial processes. In climate science, it could accelerate advances in energy, forecasting, and carbon removal. In biology, it could uncover relationships hidden across enormous genomic and molecular datasets. The result would not simply be faster research. It could expand the frontier of what is scientifically possible. The New Bottleneck Scientific discovery, however, is not the same as scientific progress. A medical breakthrough must still survive laboratory testing, clinical trials, regulatory scrutiny, manufacturing constraints, and real-world deployment. As machine-generated ideas multiply, the bottleneck may shift from producing breakthroughs to validating them safely and translating them into practice. We may soon have more hypotheses than laboratories can test, more drugs than clinical trials can evaluate, and more mathematical results than experts can review. That imbalance will require better systems for automated verification, reproducible research, prioritization, peer review, and collaboration between AI and domain experts. The importance of OpenAI’s work is not merely the number of manuscripts produced. It offers a glimpse of a world in which intelligence can explore thousands of intellectual paths in parallel. If ideas cease to be scarce, humanity’s defining challenge will be deciding which are true, which matter, and how to turn them into progress. The math singularity is not the end of human inquiry. It is the beginning of a new kind—one in which machines expand the frontier of knowledge and humans decide where it should lead. Subscribe Share Leave a comment

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Max Dowman given three Guinness World Records

Arsenal’s teenage midfielder Max Dowman has been presented with three official Guinness World Records certificates.

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Oct 8 • 4:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Scare up some fun: Dirty Birds host free Halloween double feature at GoMart Ballpark

The Charleston Dirty Birds will transform the field at GoMart Ballpark in Charleston, West Virginia into a free outdoor movie theater on Oct. 9, 2026, for a Halloween-themed double feature sponsored by The Arc of the Three Rivers of Dunbar, West Virginia. Families, friends and movie fans are invited onto the field for an evening featuring the 1993 release “Hocus Pocus” followed by 1991's “The Addams Family,” bringing two Halloween favorites to the big screen in downtown Charleston, according to a news release from the Dirty Birds. Concessions will be available for sale at the park for the event.

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John Gillispie: Season three of 'Reacher' features clever story

Movies & More reviewer John Gillispie shares his thoughts about the third season of “Reacher,” which is “not rated,” according to the DVD box. However, because of the amount of

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GA-ASI Recognizes Three Small Business Suppliers for Quality Performance

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has launched a new annual Supplier Quality Recognition program intended to recognize small businesses...

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Oct 8 • 1:36 AM EDT • Business • unmannedsystemstechnology.com
Dodgers NLCS preview: Who has edge in rematch with Brewers?

The Dodgers swept the Brewers in the NLCS last year. Milwaukee represents their next challenge in pursuit of a World Series three-peat.

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Oct 8 • 1:08 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Winless Titans fire three execs in front office shake-up

A detailed view of the Tennessee Titans logo is seen prior to Week 2 of a preseason game against the Seattle Seahawks at Nissan Stadium on Aug. 23, 2026, in...

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Gas, health care, utilities: high costs squeeze US midterm voters

Former US steelworker Denise Barber retired three years ago, but steep gasoline prices and family healthcare needs are making the Ohio resident consider returning to part-time work to make ends meet."...

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Dodgers win NLDS over Braves, continue march for World Series three-peat

The Dodgers passed their first October test –– and reminded the baseball world of their recipe for postseason success.

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Arkansas political leaders host remembrance ceremony to honor victims of October 7th, 2023 attack in Israel

Three years ago today, Israel experienced the deadliest terrorist attack in the nation's history, when Hamas and allied militant groups launched an attack and invasion that killed approximately 1,200 Israeli's, and resulted in 251 being taken hostage.

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Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs

Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs.

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Who Won August and September: Original Films or Franchises?

(Welcome to the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a newsletter on the entertainment industry and business strategy. I write a weekly Streaming Ratings Report and a bi-weekly strategy column, along with occasional deep dives into other topics, like today’s article. Please subscribe.) I just heard someone say that if you’re reading a pundit or data analyst, and they don’t tell you that they got anything wrong, they’re not a pundit but an “influencer”. I agree with that. You have to tell your audience when you get things wrong, or they won’t (or shouldn’t) trust you as much. Today, we’ve got another edition of “What I Got Right, What I Got Wrong”. In general, I’m patting myself on the back (and patting very hard) about a few things like IP at the box office, LIV golf, horror films, crowdfunding movies, superheroes, and old people going to the theaters. That said, I also made a couple of data mistakes on the streaming bubble popping and HBO’s datecdotes, so I’m not perfect. But first, I need your feedback... Subscribe Follow-Ups: What Should We Call Mid-Budget Movies Which Aren’t Cinematic Enough for Theaters But Are Too Expensive to Make Money on Streaming? After I asked for feedback on what we should call straight-to-streaming films that are too big to pencil out on streaming but not really big enough to resonate in theaters, I got some great suggestions from you all, including... “Moldilocks” from John Aboud “Little Big Indie” from Travis Frick1 “Midflicks” from Jonathan Funke. “Extra-Medium” from Jona Nwuke. (Read the explanation in the footnote.) Between these and Brandon Katz—who suggested “Bermuda Budget Triangle”, “The Platform Gap” and “The Distribution Deadzone”—we’ve got some excellent suggestions. And they’re better than my suggestion, the “Streaming Budget Dead Zone”, so let’s take a poll! The winning entry becomes the new term. Loading... RIGHT: LIV Golf is Fully Bankrupt…Is Anyone Else Next? A few years ago, I was always a bit perplexed at all the articles I’d read praising LIV Golf and their strategy to disrupt the PGA. LIV Golf, a brand new professional golf league, offered PGA stars ten times what they made on the PGA Tour to join their new league. And folks praised this strategy for its initial “success” in that a lot of big names did indeed leave the PGA. Yeah, of course the players came over. LIV Golf paid them so, so, so much more! But LIV Golf hadn’t discovered a way to increase potential revenue. So think about this in basic business terms… They paid much more in costs… …but had no real way to increase revenue. That’s not a strategy! That’s deficit financing. It won’t work unless you bankrupt the competition (and then turn around and pay those same golfers much, much less). It’s not a sustainable strategy and only lasts as long as the company/person/nation backing it decides they’re cool with losing money. For LIV Golf, that meant Middle East oil wealth, in particular Saudi Arabian money. Clearly, the current Iran War has hurt Middle East finances, so they need to trim their more exorbitant spending. And LIV Golf was part of that trimming. This should be a major warning for others. TGL’s parent company, TMRW Sports, just got a $1 billion valuation, despite TGL’s (the indoor golf league) horrible TV viewership of less than half a million viewers per match. Unrivaled, the women’s basketball league, just secured a $650 valuation, despite its horrible TV viewership and a new rival (Project B) entering the scene next year. To relate this to streaming, Hollywood should ask which streamers may have wealthy patrons funding their losses. (Let’s be clear: Google, Amazon and Apple.) Could those patrons lose their appetite? For Amazon, probably not. But Apple has a new boss, so maybe! WRONG: My Analysis of the Streaming Bubble Was Missing a Week I’m going to be congratulating myself a lot today, but I make mistakes too, like this data goof. When I last compiled the data on the decline in TV shows, I was missing one week at the end of June. If you look at the first image, you can see that one week was mislabelled as “July”. Mainly, this image got updated to show a 27% decline, not 29%: This change doesn’t really impact the overall analysis, but it is two percent better. By the way, through the third quarter, the decline increased and it’s now a 30% decrease since 2022. (I’ll write/visualize this in an upcoming article.) But I want you to trust me and my data. Especially these days, when many people are using LLMs that I know are inserting faulty data into their charts, I want to keep earning my audience’s faith. So that’s the accurate data. RIGHT: IP Remains Very, Very Popular In July, I wrote a giant (and I mean giant) article on Backrooms, Obsession, and the box office, going over what we know, what we don’t know about what works in theaters, looking at YouTubers, IP, the horror genre, comic book movies, and a whole lot more. The month of August really tested a lot of my theses and, being honest, mostly supported my arguments. Let’s start with IP. Looking at 8-Aug (the weekend after Spider-Man: Brand New Day came out) to 18-Sep (the weekend that Resident Evil came out, which I think provides a nice bookend to this time period), there were seven films based on pre-existing IP: Resident Evil (2026) ($126 million) Practical Magic 2 ($65 million) _Insidious: Out of the Furthe_r ($65 million) Coyote Vs. Acme ($59 million) Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie ($53 million) Tony ($15 million) Super Troopers 3 ($7 million) Compare those to the notable original films from the past month—I actually could have included more movies, but here are just thirteen, bringing us to an even twenty films—including.... The End of Oak Street ($54 million) Buddy ($26 million) Mutiny ($15 million) By Any Means ($15 million) The Dog Stars ($14 million) Runner ($14 million) One Night Only ($11 million) Hope ($8 million) Spa Weekend ($7 million) The Uprising ($6 million) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ($6 million) Onslaught ($3 million) Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man ($2.8 million) Here’s that in chart form: Five of the top six films in this time period were all based on IP. I made a big chart of films that grossed over $200 million at the box office before Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey hit theaters. Let’s update that chart! By the way, if you want to see how I categorized each film—so another bar chart—here it is: I know that many of my fellow critics/pundits/analysts dislike films based on IP and how Hollywood is making so many of them. And I’m sympathetic to this point of view. As I’ve written many, many times before, you need a balance between existing franchises, new IP, and original films. And Hollywood clearly needs to make more films like Resident Evil (a well-made film from a visionary director) and fewer Practical Magic 2’s (which didn’t get critical or customer buzz). But at some point, critics and pundits need to contend with what audiences are telling them: Movie-goers aren’t showing up to original films. Audiences are speaking with their dollars, telling you they want more IP and franchises. You can try to convince studio heads to make fewer IP-based films and franchises, but the data and numbers aren’t there. Instead, critics need to work harder to convince audiences to show up for original films. Aim your ire/concern at the average person, not studio heads.2 Because they’re just making the films that audiences are telling them to make. WRONG: Original Horror Films Didn’t Break Out I’ll be honest, even though I wrote an article casting some skepticism on the horror genre in July, if you asked me to make a prediction, I would have predicted that, in August, a new, original horror film would have blown up. No, seriously, I just assumed that Obsession and Backrooms presaged a change in audience behavior. But none of the buzzy new original horror films from August—Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Onslaught (not an action film in spite of the ads), The End of Oak Street, Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, or _Buddy—_broke out. To be clear, exactly one of those films (Buddy) had good “ROI”, but again—I try to be specific in my language—none were “popular” in any broad sense of the word. None of them will be “saving” movies theaters like Backrooms or _Obsession_helped save the summer. The new Insidious film and Resident Evil, both based on IP, were far and away the biggest horror films since July. (We’ll see if this changes in October/Halloween season.) RIGHT: Stay Skeptical about Crowdfunding... I’ve long been skeptical about crowd-investing platforms as one of Hollywood’s saviors, mainly because there’s so much hype/buzz. People need to stay more skeptical about more things, explaining both the potential upside but also the downsides. In particular, the media often hypes crowdfunding at the start and never checks in on the actual results after they’ve come in later. And August gave us our first update! _Ice Cream Man—_directed by Eli Roth—grossed $6 million off of a $5.5 million budget. This is a production of The Horror Section, which was one of the first “crowd investing” studios with 2,400 investors, which means that 2,400 investors probably lost money. They certainly aren’t getting as great of returns as if they had just invested their dollars in the stock market. Hopefully Stiletto (Tagline: “Someone’s Going to Make it Rain Blood!”) does better next month. WRONG: Another Data Goof Here’s another data error. When the first episode of House of the Dragon came out, HBO put out that it had 21.5 million viewers in the first three days, and I read that to mean in the US…but no, it was global. So my US-only datecdotes charts shouldn’t have included it. We never got US-only numbers for the first episode, but for the final episode, HBO put out that it had 11 million US viewers. (And that global dropped to 21 million viewers.) Here’s the updated chart (which I’ve since used in the Streaming Ratings Report): Still, this show is absolutely huge. RIGHT: Superhero Films Remain Very, Very Popular After Supergirl flopped, I read a few takes that “comic book movies are going the way of the Western”. Post-Spider-Man: Brand New Day, that take didn’t age well. To be fair, I have a very nuanced take on the superhero genre right now; it’s down right now, for a lot of reasons. But it’s not “dead”. Maybe _Spider-_Man is just a really popular character? I saw that take, and it’s a fair counter-argument. (But pundits arguing that superhero movies were dead should have mentioned this $1.5 billion counter-argument…) But is it just Spider-Man? The next Avengers film already has $50 million in pre-sales (and I was skeptical that that film would do well) and the Avengers: End Game re-release topped the box office two weekends ago (over three original films). And I wouldn’t bet against Batman or Superman. So maybe it’s just Spider-Man, Batman, Superman and the Avengers. Oh, and Deadpool, of course. And Black Panther. And Wolverine. And probably the X-Men. Plus a well-made Wonder Woman or the Hulk film could break out. But that’s it! It’s just those ten characters/teams. Oh, what’s that? Lanterns is also doing well on HBO? (See previous section…) To be fair, I’m actually pretty sympathetic to the argument that more popular characters—like Spider-Man and Batman—anchor more popular films. In fact, I made that exact argument three years ago when I first wrote about the “Marvel-cession”. In many ways, you can blame The Guardians of the Galaxy for fooling Marvel Studios (and the rest of us) into believing that any character could pop. It turns out, the list of iconic characters is probably smaller than most people think. But it’s probably too early to say that superhero films and comic book movies are dead unless “death” means a slight decline over a longtime. RIGHT: Who Killed Theaters? Old People I get frustrated whenever I see headlines or analysis about how young people are “returning” to theaters. As I’ve detailed(for years), young people have always powered the US box office, despite narratives about “kids these days” and their “phones”. Really, what’s changed post-2020/pandemic is that old people aren’t going to the movies nearly as much. This summer, I saw a movie (from an older director) in a theater near a retirement community, and multiple older people at the theater were talking about how this was their first time seeing a movie in years. I dislike personal anecdotes, so YouGov can fill in the data, best summarized by this headline: “Who killed movie theaters? Not the youths”. According to them, 64% of people aged 18-29 have seen a movie in the last year, but only 30% of 65-and-older. 20% of 18-29 have seen a movie in theaters in the last week and 42% in the last month. Here’s the polling data: Most concerning? Many Americans (17%) think theaters are a worse or much worse experience than watching films at home. Slight WRONG: Hadestown Opens Big A live theater capture of the Broadway musical, Hadestown, made $20 million at the US box office, which begs the question: was I wrong to be skeptical about musicals a few years ago? Yes and no. On the one hand, $20 million is a far cry from being “popular”, so yeah, the genre isn’t that popular overall and Hadestown is one of the more popular musicals from recent years (i.e. the “Taylor Swift Data Fallacy” in action). On the other, I doubt filming this cost all that much, and I don’t think that they spent much on marketing, so this is a good source of ancillary revenue. Smaller Updates WRONG: As I mentioned in a Streaming Ratings Report, I underestimated the budget for Enola Holmes 3. It probably cost more like $50 million, if not more. But... I’m not sure that it really matters? At sub-10 million hours, prices have to come down to make this work. WRONG: Netflix is giving Ink a 27-day in theaters! To quote the kids/YouTubers these days, let’s go! Now I might actually have a chance to see Danny Boyle’s latest in theaters. I’d complained about this in a “Coming Soon” section, but I was heartened to read that Netflix is giving multiple films longer theatrical windows this year. RIGHT: Netflix is sending 4-5 films per year to theaters. Netflix is slowly but surely sending more and more films to theaters, as I cautiously predicted earlier this year. For now, it’s just three big films and a number of awards contenders, but still, this is great news. And they’ll be releasing box office grosses! Just this week, Ted Sarandos confirmed that KPop Demon Hunters 2 will come to theaters (and my guess is it performs in the box office top ten at a minimum). WRONG: Angel has 3 million subscribers! How do I know this? Well, they told Deadline, who reported it. I marked this as “wrong”, since they’ve doubled their subscribers in one year but, you know, they don’t really have a hit film to speak of and they’re still losing money. WRONG: Furious was only renewed for one more season. I accidentally wrote “two more seasons” in my latest “Renewals, Cancellations, Un-Orders and Removals Update”. RIGHT: House of David is ending with its third season. In July, Prime Video renewed House of David for a third season, as I just wrote in my latest “Renewals and Cancellations” report. Well, now it’s ending after that third season. Why? As I’ve been writing, its viewership wasn’t great. I got feedback that this show didn’t cost very much, but it cost enough that its limited viewership didn’t save it. WRONG: Adults was a Hulu original! So I missed Adults when it first came out last year; I saw that it aired on FX and just assumed that it was a linear-first program. Turns out, it aired three episodes on FX, but binge-released the rest of its episodes the next day on Hulu. Huh. So I should have covered it last year! But I just wrote about it. 1 “When I was a kid in the 90s, if you wore a t-shirt to school that wasn’t too big and also wasn’t too small, but somehow didn’t quite fit, we’d say you were wearing an “extra-medium” shirt.” 2 As always, a huge exception is Disney, which barely makes anything original anymore.

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Opus College of Business Faculty Member Delivers Keynotes From Twin Cities to Cameroon  - Newsroom

Christopher Wong Michaelson recently delivered three keynote talks exploring meaningful work, responsible business and professional ethics across business, health care and public relations.

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Right wing laughter to take center stage in Naples

Three years ago, Arynne Wexler was working in the tech industry. Two years ago, she became a TikTok darling of the political right.

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Trump’s Texas two-step: From the Politics Desk

Plus, what has and hasn’t changed three years after the Oct. 7 attack.

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Braver Angels, Rochester rotary clubs collaborating to facilitate civil political discussions

Three workshops will take place in Rochester promoting civil political discussion.

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Wisconsin voters will consider 'equality amendment' on Election Day

The constitutional amendment is one of three that will be on ballots across the state in November.

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BCBS Downcoding Issues Impact Behavioral Health Providers in Multiple States

This is an exclusive BHB+ story. Behavioral health providers in at least three states have been impacted by downcoding actions from Blue Cross Blue

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Boston Scientific promotes Fitzgerald to COO, reorganizes business segments

Alongside Fitzgerald’s promotion, Boston Scientific will establish three reportable business segments.

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Three Things to Watch in Cavaliers Opening Preseason Game vs Celtics

The Cleveland Cavaliers will be opening their preseason tomorrow against the Boston Celtics.

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Cowboys rule out three, list LG Tyler Smith as questionable
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In Good Health: The Evolution Of Prostate Cancer Treatment

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in American men — and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths. One in eight men will be diagnosed in their lifetime. And Black men are more than twice as likely to die from it.Between the social stigma and misconceptions about diagnostic methods, it’s not something many men want to talk about. Some 99 percent of people diagnosed early with prostate cancer live at least 5 more years. And treatment options and guidelines are evolving rapidly.Our “In Good Health” series continues. We gather a group of doctors from three of the disciplines involved in the treatment of prostate cancer.Find more of our programs online. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a.

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Taking healing to new heights with three sky-high rescues

Taking healing to new heights with three sky-high rescues

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Oct 7 • 1:15 PM EDT • Health • news.uthscsa.edu
Oct. 7 reshaped Israel. Three years on, its political map remains largely unchanged.

As Israelis head to the polls, analysts say Oct. 7 and the war that followed have hardened existing political divisions rather than fundamentally changing them.

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Oct 7 • 1:08 PM EDT • Politics • jta.org
OpenAI says teens use ChatGPT for under 15 minutes a day as worries over risks grow

Teens spend under 15 minutes a day on average on ChatGPT, while less than 2% of them interact with the chatbot for over three straight hours, OpenAI ​said, as technology companies face scrutiny over the risks AI chatbots pose to children.

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Oct 7 • 12:00 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Three Bucksport residents vie for two town council seats

Bucksport voters will have a choice of three candidates for two open town council seats on Nov. 3: Incumbent Mark Eastman and newcomers Jon Goss and Ralph Chapman.

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Oct 7 • 11:55 AM EDT • Politics • ellsworthamerican.com
Redesigned MacBook Pro will reportedly include these three changes

Apple has a fully redesigned MacBook Pro launching soon, its first new design since 2021. Here are three design changes reportedly coming.

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Oct 7 • 11:22 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Combining science and community knowledge could shape coral reef conservation in Indonesia

Coral reefs in Indonesia's Spermonde Archipelago are under pressure from both natural and anthropogenic activities. Researchers from Hasanuddin University assessed reef conditions across three islands ...

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Oct 7 • 11:20 AM EDT • Science • phys.org
MSC Celebrates 30 Years of Real Estate Tax Savings

MSC, a national tax consulting firm with an office in Virginia Beach, is proud to celebrate its 30th anniversary, marking three decades of helping clients

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Oct 7 • 10:57 AM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com
Most Texas Republicans ignore Democratic calls to debate in statewide races

The last U.S. Senate race in Texas to go without a debate was in 2000. Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, debated his Democratic opponents in each of his last three campaigns.

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Oct 7 • 10:01 AM EDT • Politics • houstonpublicmedia.org
South Korea considers scaling back athlete military service exemption, sports minister says

Three footballers apologised this week for appearing to celebrate avoiding conscription after winning Asian Games gold.

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Oct 7 • 9:04 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Three years into Gaza’s genocide, U.S. political rhetoric hasn’t translated into action

While some political candidates rose to prominence through their support for Palestine, the U.S. has not stopped backing Israel

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Oct 7 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • prismreports.org
Another ‘blank check’ program passes at King County

It's a rather tiny amount — just $10 million per year for three years. But it comes after a series of blunders and mismanagement in social services funding.

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Oct 7 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Business - Three years after October 7 attacks, Israel's economy shows its strength
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Oct 7 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • france24.com
Giants hit the jackpot with their No. 5 pick

Arvell Reese called his game against Arizona “decent.” Nine solo tackles, three passes defensed, a tackle for loss and his […]

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Oct 7 • 8:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Braver Angels joins Rochester Rotary Clubs to facilitate political discussions

Rochester’s Rotary Clubs are collaborating with the organization, Braver Angels, for three workshops surrounding civil political discussion and understanding disagreements.

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Oct 7 • 8:06 AM EDT • Politics • kttc.com
The people of UTC: Get to know Center for Wellbeing Director Lucy White

Lucy White is back at the UTC with a new role and the same goal of helping students take care of themselves. White, the new director of the Center for Wellbeing, previously worked at UTC in 2022 as assistant director for education and suicide prevention. After the grant-funded position ended, she spent three and a half years at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center counseling medical students and residents.

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Oct 7 • 8:03 AM EDT • Health • blog.utc.edu