Benzinga Buzz: The Latest On Ye, Disney, Twitter’s New CEO, Oscars Backlash, TikTok & More

Each week, Benzinga Buzz brings you the latest entertainment news into a cohesive column. Read on for the latest updates – both useful and irreverent.

• For sale: Nazi shoes, never worn. Adidas (OTC: ADDDF) (OTC: ADDYY) got stuck with Yeezy worth more than $1.3 billion Shoes have been in storage since they separated Kanye West about the singer’s anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi tirades. The sportswear company has now decided to sell the merchandise because “burning the merchandise would not be a solution,” according to the CEO Bjorn Gulden called. west will continue to be involved in every sale and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to charities. And like that Charlotte KnoblochPresident of the Jewish community in Munich and Upper Bavaria predicted back in March: Yeezy products would come back “as if nothing had happened.”
• Hello, he will go. Linda Yaccarinothe global head of advertising Comcast Corporation CMCSA NBCUniversal is expected to replace Elon Musk as Twitter CEO. That makes sense. Twitter desperately needs a grown-up in the room. When Musk first came on board, the social media platform lost a significant number of advertisers. In the meantime, Tucker Carlson – who had scared off advertisers during his now-defunct prime-time Fox show – announced that he was launching a “new version” of his show on Twitter. Good luck, Linda!

• Blow into the cartridge. Nintendo doesn’t work. profits and sales Nintendo NTDOY are far below. And yet, Super Mario (the beloved plumber who practically carries the company on his back) saw his film gross more than $1 billion at the box office. That’s how we are these days: instead of playing video games at home, we watch them in the cinema.

• Disney Discussions. governor Ron DeSantis‘favorite company, Walt Disney Co. DISHe is not doing well in India. But after laying off thousands of employees, CEO Bob Iger recently announced, “We are pleased with our performance this quarter.” Also, hulu marries Disney Plus.

• Autobot your TikTok. ViacomCBS (NASDAQ:VIAC) Paramount Pictures permitted tick tock to incorporate the iconic voice of Peter Cullen integrate with the text-to-speech functionality of the platform. Who is Peter Cullen you ask? Why, that’s him Optimus Prime in “Transformers” of course. The versatile actor also roared as King Kong, gurgled as The Predator and moped as Winnie the Pooh’s sidekick Eeyore. If the Oscars still mattered, I would definitely give him one.
• Mr Holland is offended. Speaking of Oscars, under the new Oscar guidelines, films nominated for Best Picture must meet two out of four criteria, including leading actors from underrepresented groups or 30% or more of the cast and crew from underrepresented groups. In an interview for the PBS series “Firing Lane” Richard Dreyfuss – Star of “Jaws” and “Mr. Holland’s Opus” – said the new rule changes make him want… Click to find out.
• Other. Legendary rapper RickRoss has a new cannabis strain; MrBeast bought several houses; Grand Theft Auto 6 cost a whopping $1 billion to produce; Guitar Hero plans a comeback; And Seth Rogen confronts streamers for “secrecy”.

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