via The launch story: Variety · Rival coverage: Mashable · The headphones, $20, at Target: Target
According to Variety, Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters landed a "limited edition" tech collection at Target this week, five $20 Heyday gadgets from a ramen-bowl charging bundle to a soda-can speaker. A second drop is already scheduled for November 8. Six hundred m…
[ Comments (1) ]via The chart story: Variety · The chart it happened on: Billboard 200 · The $229 box set behind the re-entry: Analog Planet
According to Variety, Taylor Swift has reached 100 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the most by any solo artist, with "The Life of a Showgirl" at the top for a 14th straight week. The Beatles' "Rubber Soul" re-entered at No. 4, its first top 10 appearance …
[ Comments (1) ]via The chart math: Variety · Billboard's own numbers: Billboard
According to Variety, "The Life of a Showgirl" held No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a second week, giving Taylor Swift her 100th cumulative week at No. 1 as a solo artist. One hundred weeks. Elvis got 67. Garth Brooks got 52. The Beatles, as a group, got 132. T…
[ Comments (1) ]via The announcement: Deadline · Rival coverage: Variety · The game in question: DreadXP · The FNAF math: Deadline
According to Deadline, Blumhouse announced Friday that MatPat is developing a feature adaptation of "Amanda the Adventurer," the indie puzzle game about a haunted children's show. For ten years the job went like this: sit on a couch, find one weird thing insid…
[ Comments (1) ]via The announcement: Deadline · Disney's version: Variety · The channel in question: YouTube
According to Deadline, Dhar Mann announced "Creator City" on Sunday, a 4-acre LA campus with 175 sets built as actual brand stores, opening in Super Bowl week. 175 sets. 15 concurrent productions. The pitch says content campus, but the set list reads like a st…
[ Comments (1) ]via The monologue, all of it: Variety · The F-bomb, same episode: Deadline · The episode review: Deadline · The 2019 firing, for the record: Deadline
*Shane Gillis hosted "Saturday Night Live" for the third time Friday night and closed his opening monologue with a Hitler hairline bit, which Variety says got few laughs and ended early. The headline did the work: "bombs (again)." That parenthetical is the who…
[ Comments (1) ]via The cancellation, reported live: Deadline · The May "great progress" update: Deadline · The February postponement that started the pattern: Deadline
The timeline is the whole story. Thursday: "I'm back!" from the stage at a welcome-back show his rep calls "triumphant." Friday: a few songs, then the exit, with "talk amongst yourselves" to the crowd. Saturday: nothing. The residency that was supposed to star…
[ Comments (1) ]via The callout and the store's reaction: Page Six · Rival coverage: Just Jared · The store's own website: Art of Play
The tweet is a customer service review with 8.8 million distribution. "Wow, dude. You're an idiot and just lost a huge sale," then the store's name, then the Julia Roberts comparison. Three sentences, and a shop that bills itself as one of the most beautiful i…
[ Comments (1) ]via The weekend numbers: Deadline · The audience grade angle: Just Jared · Chastain on the Sorkin matchup: Hollywood Reporter · The scorecard: Rotten Tomatoes
The math is the story. A $19 million budget, a $27.5 million opening, an 18 percent critics score, a D+ from the audience. The movie is winning the weekend while losing every review, which is a specific flavor of box office success the marketing team never ask…
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