Conventional Wisdom: Final Cut Edition
Summary
Newsweek revived its “Conventional Wisdom” feature, which assigns rising, falling or unchanged ratings to people and forces in current events. This edition covers reported box-office results, corporate investments, protests, sponsorship decisions and a planned Super Bowl halftime show.Key Facts
- The article says the documentary You Can See Everything, about Elizabeth Holmes, earned $15 million in its debut.
- The article reports that Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary Musk earned $69,321 in its video-on-demand release, which was moved up by nearly three weeks.
- Elon Musk reportedly invested about $1 billion in Skydance’s combination of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.
- The article says theater chains did not cancel screenings of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G: Who Iz I? after campaigners urged them to do so; Amazon later released it on Prime Video.
- The article says three Chinese sponsors dropped Kylian Mbappé after comments about a meme, and Chinese state broadcaster CCTV stopped airing La Liga.
- The NFL announced that Jay-Z will headline the February Super Bowl halftime show; his company, Roc Nation, has produced the show and helped cast it since 2019.
- Newsweek says the feature uses arrows to reflect its editors’ assessment of current trends and does not claim to predict the future.
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