Avex Closes Its First Catalog Bet With a $100 Million Bank Line
City National financed Avex's $100M line and Infamous's catalog opened it, putting music IP on a balance sheet with a commercial bank attached.
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Bureau: Los Angeles
Lionsgate Books Michael Past $100 Million Domestic
Michael cleared $104.9M domestic in four days with a 70% Sunday-Monday drop and an estate co-producer, putting Lionsgate's balance sheet inside the biopic record.
Kahan's Face Value Exchange Goes Live as Great Divide On-Sale Ages
An $807 Boston seat last week is now a Ticketmaster-resale-at-face-value box this week — the policy meets its inventory.
Foo Fighters Open the Take Cover Tour in a 10,000-Seat Bridgeport Arena
A stadium band warmed up its September run by playing a mid-market arena — the door-time, parking, and resale numbers are the new album's first business fact.
Madonna's Grindr Takeover Adds an Exclusive Vinyl to the App-as-Venue Experiment
A picture-disc vinyl sold only inside Grindr turns a hookup app into a record store six days into rollout.
Apple TV's Widow's Bay Premieres Wednesday and Tests a Mid-Tier Streaming Slate
Matthew Rhys headlines a ten-episode comedy that has to hold the slate until Severance and Slow Horses return.
Ted Lasso Returns August 5 and Coaches a Women's Soccer Side
Apple sets a hard date for season four and pivots Lasso to a second-division women's team — the plot is the strategy.
Stranger Things Tales From '85 Gets a Second Season Five Days After Premiere
Netflix renews the animated spinoff in five days — the speed is the news, not the show.
Don't Nod Ships Aphelion and Asks Whether Its Narrative Model Survives Sci-Fi
A thirty-five-dollar PS5 release lands as the French studio rebuilds after a year of layoffs.