Evenin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LinkedIn here if ya like), and right here’s the Hollywood + Media information to know on SUNDAY, March 17, 2024.
Where a Happy St. Pat’s Day to you all 🇮🇪! My barista even accurately pronounced my title in the present day!
But in the present day’s actual winner is PGA golfer Scottie Scheffler, who’s getting a $4.5 Million verify (or money suitcase 🧳, relying how he rolls) for profitable the Players Championship.
The loser(ish) is Wyndham Clarkwho might have tied for the lead/precipitated a playoff if this putt dropped 😩. He’ll need to console himself with $2.7 Million, however that’s a tricky technique to miss out on a shot at one other $1.8 Million.
AND: Here is your men’s March Madness bracket (with 3 of the 4 #1 seeds having misplaced their convention tournaments, ahem), and women’s March Madness bracket. Men begin on Thursday, girls begin on Friday.
THEN: IATSE and AMPTP negotiations pick back up again tomorrow, with the cinematographers, artwork administrators, editors and set painters/signal writers’ guilds set for conferences in the course of the week.
PLUS: Country music star Jimmie Allen and one of his accusers have reached a “mutual accord” and dismissed their lawsuits (sexual assault and defamation, respectively) towards one another. She continues to be pursuing her case towards her former employer, Jimmie’s former administration firm, and Jimmie continues to be dealing with a second lawsuit from one other girl.
AND: Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS tour is now hitting pause on reproductive rights groups handing out condoms and morning-after drugs at exhibits on account of issues across the younger demos in attendance, however the organizations will nonetheless have a presence at exhibits, and the tour continues to be giving a minimize of proceeds to assist them.
ALSO: This is a really worthwhile read from Bloomberg this weekend — not on the leisure business, however the financial system at giant.
Namely how a lot excessive rates of interest have actually squeezed Americans purse strings — particularly in decrease earnings brackets, primarily because of the uneven unfold of bank card debt. This chart alone is one thing:
And so is that this one 👇 — bear in mind, it’s the financial system silly.
Note: The President does not have any direct power over the federal interest ratethough I’d assume one other time period for present Fed chief Jerome Powell is uh, unlikely if Trump wins.
Kudos to the bears who knew the place the canine would find yourself by Sunday.
