December 7, 2024 • 6 mins
Moana 2 broke box office records in the US over the weekend after its release last week.
The sequel to the first Moana film hit cinemas on November 27 - November 28 in New Zealand - and reports claim it's beating box office records for the Thanksgiving weekend.
Flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall says it's already become the fifth biggest film of the year worldwide.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is Beyond from Nana Too, which is dominating the
worldwide box office. And joining me now is Steve Nell,
editor at Flicks dot Code at NZ to Talk Entertainment.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
So that's that was a very like if you played
that somebody in said, oh no, I don't know the question,
but it's just so clearly obviously from a movie. It's
just one of those lovely, big sort of you know,
I don't know, how do you describe those?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I think those I think those core changes don't take
place anywhere outside the story being moved along by some
emotional journey of happening.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Produced kind of stirring number, is what I'm trying to say.
There we go, I got it out. It's going well.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Though it's going well. I mean, look Disney, sometimes it
turns out they've got they know a thing or two
about making big animated movies. So one or two obviously
has a very strong connection here in also and New
Zealand on its opening day here, but bust a whole
bunch of records, including highest animated opening day of all time,
the highest grossing Walt Disney Animation Studios opening day of
(01:19):
all time, and the biggest opening day of twenty four.
That momentums mirrored overseas and isn't it second week in
the US. It's just it's caning it worldwide. It is
already the fifth biggest film of the year, gives Disney
three of the top five titles of twenty twenty four,
the others being Inside Out, to and Deadpool and Wolverine. Okay,
(01:41):
so just going for strength to strength. It's a very
strong box office at the moment. Gladiator two is still
selling a bunch of tickets. Wicked is another box office phenomenon.
So the idea that we might have a bit of
a kind of softer box office this year is maybe
turning a slightly unexpected corner, and it can all seem
really arbitrary. This is money that goes to big international
(02:03):
conglomerates just disappears into the void. But without it, you know,
you don't see an increase in investment in films if
they don't make money. So it's good to see things
a bit.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Healthier, yeah, absolutely, and really great to see that they
release the today more one or two at the same time,
which normally they don't.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And that itself helping helping those box office records fall
here as well.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, Spotify CEO earns more than any musical artist in history. Now,
please tell me that's from the platform, not like in general.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Here we go, We're drawing a slightly long bow with
this one. This is a statistic that arose earlier this year.
But I thought at a time when we're all sharing
our Spotify rapped status online, when everyone's falling over themselves,
that the Prime Minister listens to post malone, we're all
out there doing Spotify's marketing for them. Meanwhile, this company
(03:00):
isn't really paying musicians very much. And weirdly, given its
dominance in the industry and how much it's kind of
reshaped everything works, this is the first year it looks
like it's actually going to make money, which is it's okay,
kind of typical for these like app based disruptor companies,
Like it's quite an uber type thing to happen right
(03:20):
where you know, the whole industry gets turned up so
down by something that hasn't actually made any money yet.
But here we are, and Daniel Eck, the co founder
and CEO of Spotify. This calculation comes from the company
stock that he's sold this year, right, and comparing how much, well,
let's the company stock that he has sold this year.
(03:40):
He's been selling all these kind of bundles of Spotify stock,
and it totals just into three hundred and twenty million
dollars that he's cashed out of the company, which is sorry,
it's three hundred and forty five million dollars. Goodness, that's
equivalent to around one hundred and fifteen billion streams, which
is more than anyone else's getting. As comparison, Taylor Swift
(04:05):
over the same period seventy six billions straight, right, Okay,
So the math is, if he was generating that money
out of Spotify, it would have made him in the
most successful music artist on the platform of all time.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Gotcha.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
So it's just to kind of illustrate I guess this
disconnect between someone that talks about how maybe all artists
shouldn't make money and maybe you know, creative it doesn't
really cost anything, and then himself was cashing up to
the chap of hundreds of millions of dollars in a year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Really good to get some context around the headline, because
I wasn't sure whether that was money that he earned
off the platform himself, so whether he was earning directly.
But the selling of the shares makes sense. But it's
still makes a very good point, doesn't it. My Spotify
and Raped turned out to be pretty interesting because it's
always you're right, They've got everyone rap around the little fingers.
Everyone gets so excited about it. My kids were like, oh,
(04:57):
let's take a look.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
What is it? What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
And so I had a look at mine and my
top song was no Poll by Don Tolliver, and I
was like, Who's Don Tolliver? And I was like, this
is very strange. And then I listened to the song
about a stripper that I didn't really understand the and
I thought, yeah, no, no, no problem with that. But I
was just listening to going, yeah, no, I still don't
(05:21):
know the song. Clearly, we had my son and I
we'd had a phone swap situation in the middle of
the year when he dropped a weight on a phone
at the gym, and he'd listened to that songs and
that song enough in the short period of time that
we had a bit of a phone swap that hit
the top and I was like, oh, how disappointing.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
How's the algorithm treating you after the phone swap?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, terrible, It's it's absolutely terrible.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Because getting some great music.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
My top songs are from Skepta, Theorious Big Afro Surrealist,
Brent Fayez, and Don Talver.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I don't think I've listened to one of those, so
I can't work. So I'm very disappointed.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Okay, So and so, in the spirit of this conversation,
just after lambasting the company that is Spotify, my top
artist Charlie XX. Oh look, I'm on the top one
percent of fans. I got a special message filmed on
a phone and ten seconds in a hotel room Charlie XX,
Dive Red Cross, Fat White Family, and Paranoid London. And
(06:22):
I'm sure you're achingly familiar with all of those. X.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, Okay, right there we go. The algorithms at work.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
See for more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin.
Listen live to News Talks It'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is Beyond from Nana Too, which is dominating the
worldwide box office. And joining me now is Steve Nell,
editor at Flicks dot Code at NZ to Talk Entertainment.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
So that's that was a very like if you played
that somebody in said, oh no, I don't know the question,
but it's just so clearly obviously from a movie. It's
just one of those lovely, big sort of you know,
I don't know, how do you describe those?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I think those I think those core changes don't take
place anywhere outside the story being moved along by some
emotional journey of happening.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Produced kind of stirring number, is what I'm trying to say.
There we go, I got it out. It's going well.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Though it's going well. I mean, look Disney, sometimes it
turns out they've got they know a thing or two
about making big animated movies. So one or two obviously
has a very strong connection here in also and New
Zealand on its opening day here, but bust a whole
bunch of records, including highest animated opening day of all time,
the highest grossing Walt Disney Animation Studios opening day of
(01:19):
all time, and the biggest opening day of twenty four.
That momentums mirrored overseas and isn't it second week in
the US. It's just it's caning it worldwide. It is
already the fifth biggest film of the year, gives Disney
three of the top five titles of twenty twenty four,
the others being Inside Out, to and Deadpool and Wolverine. Okay,
(01:41):
so just going for strength to strength. It's a very
strong box office at the moment. Gladiator two is still
selling a bunch of tickets. Wicked is another box office phenomenon.
So the idea that we might have a bit of
a kind of softer box office this year is maybe
turning a slightly unexpected corner, and it can all seem
really arbitrary. This is money that goes to big international
(02:03):
conglomerates just disappears into the void. But without it, you know,
you don't see an increase in investment in films if
they don't make money. So it's good to see things
a bit.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Healthier, yeah, absolutely, and really great to see that they
release the today more one or two at the same time,
which normally they don't.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And that itself helping helping those box office records fall
here as well.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, Spotify CEO earns more than any musical artist in history. Now,
please tell me that's from the platform, not like in general.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Here we go, We're drawing a slightly long bow with
this one. This is a statistic that arose earlier this year.
But I thought at a time when we're all sharing
our Spotify rapped status online, when everyone's falling over themselves,
that the Prime Minister listens to post malone, we're all
out there doing Spotify's marketing for them. Meanwhile, this company
(03:00):
isn't really paying musicians very much. And weirdly, given its
dominance in the industry and how much it's kind of
reshaped everything works, this is the first year it looks
like it's actually going to make money, which is it's okay,
kind of typical for these like app based disruptor companies,
Like it's quite an uber type thing to happen right
(03:20):
where you know, the whole industry gets turned up so
down by something that hasn't actually made any money yet.
But here we are, and Daniel Eck, the co founder
and CEO of Spotify. This calculation comes from the company
stock that he's sold this year, right, and comparing how much, well,
let's the company stock that he has sold this year.
(03:40):
He's been selling all these kind of bundles of Spotify stock,
and it totals just into three hundred and twenty million
dollars that he's cashed out of the company, which is sorry,
it's three hundred and forty five million dollars. Goodness, that's
equivalent to around one hundred and fifteen billion streams, which
is more than anyone else's getting. As comparison, Taylor Swift
(04:05):
over the same period seventy six billions straight, right, Okay,
So the math is, if he was generating that money
out of Spotify, it would have made him in the
most successful music artist on the platform of all time.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Gotcha.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
So it's just to kind of illustrate I guess this
disconnect between someone that talks about how maybe all artists
shouldn't make money and maybe you know, creative it doesn't
really cost anything, and then himself was cashing up to
the chap of hundreds of millions of dollars in a year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Really good to get some context around the headline, because
I wasn't sure whether that was money that he earned
off the platform himself, so whether he was earning directly.
But the selling of the shares makes sense. But it's
still makes a very good point, doesn't it. My Spotify
and Raped turned out to be pretty interesting because it's
always you're right, They've got everyone rap around the little fingers.
Everyone gets so excited about it. My kids were like, oh,
(04:57):
let's take a look.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
What is it? What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
And so I had a look at mine and my
top song was no Poll by Don Tolliver, and I
was like, Who's Don Tolliver? And I was like, this
is very strange. And then I listened to the song
about a stripper that I didn't really understand the and
I thought, yeah, no, no, no problem with that. But I
was just listening to going, yeah, no, I still don't
(05:21):
know the song. Clearly, we had my son and I
we'd had a phone swap situation in the middle of
the year when he dropped a weight on a phone
at the gym, and he'd listened to that songs and
that song enough in the short period of time that
we had a bit of a phone swap that hit
the top and I was like, oh, how disappointing.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
How's the algorithm treating you after the phone swap?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Well, terrible, It's it's absolutely terrible.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Because getting some great music.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
My top songs are from Skepta, Theorious Big Afro Surrealist,
Brent Fayez, and Don Talver.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I don't think I've listened to one of those, so
I can't work. So I'm very disappointed.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Okay, So and so, in the spirit of this conversation,
just after lambasting the company that is Spotify, my top
artist Charlie XX. Oh look, I'm on the top one
percent of fans. I got a special message filmed on
a phone and ten seconds in a hotel room Charlie XX,
Dive Red Cross, Fat White Family, and Paranoid London. And
(06:22):
I'm sure you're achingly familiar with all of those. X.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, Okay, right there we go. The algorithms at work.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
See for more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin.
Listen live to News Talks It'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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