The 2018-19 Broadway season was a banner year as the Great White Way broke box office and attendance records, earning $1.89 billion from an attendance of 14.8 million patrons. The Tony Awards were handed out to the season’s best productions and performances as “Hadestown,” a musical about Hell, took home eight prizes including Best Musical and “The Ferryman” won four trophies including Best Play.

During this episode we take a different approach to reporting box office; rather than report which movie topped the worldwide charts, we look which title earned the most money over the past week. Why only count Friday through Sunday, when there are four may days to every week in which people are seeing movies.

We are also joined by Patrick von Sychowski, the editor of Celluloid Junkie, who tells us how he put together an exclusive story of how Chinese authorities spent three years tracking and shutting down one of the largest movie piracy rings of all time. After uncovering piracy being done on an industrial scale, the question remains, could it happen again.

Of course we also cover the week’s top entertainment headlines including why Netflix was told to stop poaching employees from its competitors, YouTube starts pulling hateful content off its platform and Entertainment Weekly magazine goes monthly.

Comscore Worldwide Box Office Gross

https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings#tab_worldwide_box_office

China’s Top Brass Says Stricter Film, TV Censorship ‘Will Be the Norm’

https://variety.com/2019/film/asia/china-censorship-film-tv-new-norm-1203234643/

Agencies Counter With Bigger Cut of Packaging Fees for Low and Mid Tier Writers

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/agencies-up-packaging-fee-revenue-share-talks-writers-1216658

Tony Awards Hit All Time Low TV Ratings

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tony-awards-hit-all-time-lows-tv-ratings-sunday-june-9-2019-1217066

Playbill’s Complete Coverage of the 2019 Tony Awards

http://www.playbill.com/article/playbills-complete-coverage-of-the-2019-tony-awards

Equity Firm Agrees to Buy B&N

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/80383-equity-firm-agrees-to-buy-b-n.html

States Race to Poach Georgia Film and TV Projects Amid Hollywood Boycott Calls

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/states-race-poach-georgia-film-tv-projects-boycott-calls-1215532

Entertainment Weekly Going Monthly

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/entertainment-weekly-going-monthly-names-new-editor-1216303

Netflix Takes Near TKO In Exec Poaching Suit With Fox & Disney; Could Signal Beginning Of The End Of Legal War