Spring Megabanter: Cannes flops, Scarlett Johansson vs. OpenAI, underwhelming box offices

Update: 2024-05-24

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A frighteningly lackluster summer box office, human ScarJo dukes it out with OpenAI’s ‘definitely-not-supposed-to-sound-like-ScarJo’ ScarJo, and the movies making noise at this year’s Cannes Film Festival–not necessarily in a good way. Kim Masters and Matt Belloni break down this week’s news in a special Spring Megabanter episode of The Business.

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Spring Megabanter: Cannes flops, Scarlett Johansson vs. OpenAI, underwhelming box offices

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Spring Megabanter: Cannes flops, Scarlett Johansson vs. OpenAI, underwhelming box offices

Spring Megabanter: Cannes flops, Scarlett Johansson vs. OpenAI, underwhelming box offices