“I wrote this because I can’t speak about it.
I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on.”
@RBLeipzig and @equipenatciv winger Yan Diomande on the life of his sister, Roxane. https://t.co/6wQmpdWTSi
A lawyer turned $500M of debt into $3B in earnings. His latest project just became the highest-grossing music biopic ever made.
When Michael Jackson died in 2009, the estate was roughly half a billion dollars in the red. John Branca, Jackson's longtime attorney, became co-executor and ran what 60 Minutes called the most remarkable financial resurrection in pop culture history. Earnings since: north of $3B.
Branca also co-produced this movie. And Miles Teller plays him in it. The man who controls the estate made the film about his client and cast an actor to portray himself on screen.
Watch where the story stops. The original cut spanned Jackson's whole life. After 22 days of reshoots, the film now ends around 1979 and Off the Wall, before any allegation ever surfaced. Whoever owns the estate owns the edit.
Now the timing. Sony paid the estate $750M for its half of Sony/ATV in 2016. In 2024, the estate sold a piece of Jackson's catalog to Sony in a deal valuing it above $1.2B. Two years on, a near-billion-dollar movie pushes a whole generation back to streaming that catalog.
Critics scored it 38%. Audiences scored it 97%. That gap is the business model working exactly as designed: the film was built to send people to the music, and 97% means they went.
$911M in tickets for a portrait that ends before the hard parts, produced by the executor it depicts, reviving the catalog he sold a stake in two years ago. It's about to pass Oppenheimer's $975M and take the biggest-biopic crown outright.
This father couldn't afford treatment for his son. So every morning, he takes him to the beach and buries him halfway in the ground, upright.
This is to help him build lower body strength so that he can learn to stand and walk.
A while ago I said I wanted to spend a summer in nyc. A few years later I've got my dream 1L summer internship in nyc. I'm so blessed I can't believe it.
If you want to learn more about the way the government uses the criminal justice system to profit off of the most vulnerable in a way that plunges them into debt and traps them in poverty cycles check out:
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Kobe Bryant reveals exactly why so many athletes go broke a few years after retirement
"Once you retire you don't have that source of income coming in. Even if you save over a 15-year career, if your spending habits remain the same, eventually that well is going to run dry"
"For us athletes the retirement age is 32, 34, if you're lucky 37 like myself. What comes next?"
"The question needs to be, what is my passion. Not where I can create the most value or generate the most revenue, but what is my next passion"
"When you find that next passion, then everything else will make sense"
"But that's the hardest part for us"
"We have to constantly learn. Our mantra is value growth, because to grow you have to constantly learn, constantly move, constantly improve"
Congrats! Former Cardinals standout QB Josh Rosen has officially earned his MBA from the prestigious Wharton School of Business.
Rosen is now an investment banker at J.P. Morgan.
Rosen is a true inspiration 👏
fortunately, things do always work out in my favor, I do always get what I want, sometimes better/more than I prayed for, however, all credit is due to God because, yea . . . he does it for me, time and time again ✨
The Corgi was the one leading them home
The German Shepherd was injured
The dogs kept a protective formation around the German Shepherd
The Corgi stopped often to make sure they were still okay
It took them 2 days to get home
They are neighbourhood friends
I’m going to cry😭😭😭
The year of the fire horse has just been me putting in the work to keep promises, faith, and continuing giving love. Releasing what won’t grow, accepting what is, 10’s!