By Walt Hickey No Longer Wait For It In February, Lin Manuel Miranda announced that Disney had picked up the global rights to a film of the hit Broadway show Hamilton for $75 million, what is believed to be the largest amount of money ever spent for a finished film. The intention was to release the film theatrically on October 15, 2021, but then some stuff happened that I don’t really want to get into, and now the film will be released July 3 on Disney+, which is the closest thing we’re going to get to a huge Independence Day weekend movie release. The hotly-awaited film was compiled from three performances of the musical, which won 11 Tony Awards, a Pulitzer for Drama, and has grossed $636 million since opening in 2015. It will have scarce competition that weekend, as the only film planning to brave the proper box office on July 1 is
1. Had to look to see the 1080 referred to skateboarding. One click more than I'd have ever given it. :) I guess the vertical reference sort of made clear it wasn't ice skating or floor gymnastics. Those would have been ungodly cool.
2. Seems like a compromising begging to happen would be a sharing agreement that used decline in overall profitability as a governor for salary reductions. But since team owners are notorious at lying about their actual finances, that would never work.
1. Had to look to see the 1080 referred to skateboarding. One click more than I'd have ever given it. :) I guess the vertical reference sort of made clear it wasn't ice skating or floor gymnastics. Those would have been ungodly cool.
2. Seems like a compromising begging to happen would be a sharing agreement that used decline in overall profitability as a governor for salary reductions. But since team owners are notorious at lying about their actual finances, that would never work.