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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The sequel to a $239 million movie fell apart over a $110,000 offer. And the writer who walked away just got handed the entire franchise.

Crazy Rich Asians cost Warner Bros $30 million in 2018 and grossed $239 million worldwide. First studio film with an all-Asian cast since The Joy Luck Club in 1993. A sequel should have been greenlit before opening weekend ended.

Instead the franchise went dark for seven years.

The unraveling started with the pay offers. Co-writer Peter Chiarelli, the veteran who wrote The Proposal, was offered $800,000 to $1 million for the sequel. Adele Lim, the writer Jon M. Chu brought in to give the script its cultural voice, was offered around $110,000. Chiarelli offered to split his own fee with her. She turned it down, said what she makes shouldn't depend on the generosity of the white-guy writer, and quit.

Warner Bros came back months later with an offer near parity. She passed on that too.

Without her, the sequel never recovered. Chu left to make In the Heights and then Wicked. Two separate sequel attempts collapsed. The most bankable rom-com of its decade produced nothing for most of a decade.

Now look at the structure of what got announced. The HBO series runs through Lim's own production company, 100 Tigers, with Lim as showrunner, writer, and executive producer. Chu and Kevin Kwan are EPs on her show. Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Michelle Yeoh are all back.

In 2019 the studio wouldn't match her co-writer's $800,000. In 2027 the same studio is putting the whole franchise in her hands.

Walking away from the biggest credit of her career looked like a terrible move for a first-time feature writer. It turned out to be the trade that got her everything.

[dank @cptdankkk]

Jeremy Lin reveals he tried to reject the Rockets' $29,000,000 offer and would have taken significantly less to stay with the Knicks

“I was crushed and my agent is telling me, ‘Be prepared that they won't match.’ And I'm like, ‘There's no way. There's no way. I got to go back to New York’”

“They could have offered me three years, $9 million, but there wasn't even that offer on the table. And when the Rockets offer came in, the first question I asked my agent is, ‘Are the Knicks going to match this?’”

“I was like, ‘Can you go back to the Rockets and tell them we won't accept this offer? We only want a lower offer.’ I tried to take less. I was trying to sabotage the Rockets offer.”

“I remember it vividly. I call my agent back and I'm like, ‘Okay, the offer came through. No, we have to get a less lucrative offer because I got to go back to New York’”

“Finally I'm like, ‘Can we just not accept their offer?’ And he's like, ‘No, we can't not accept their offer because the Knicks refuse to give us any offer. You have zero offers on the table. You have one offer and you have to accept it and leave it to the Knicks to match or not’”

“It was kind of difficult to see that people thought I willingly left the Knicks or did it for the money or whatever. I would have played for significantly less if that meant staying with the Knicks because my heart was always here”

[curiouswuwu @curiouswuwu]

Who knew that all it would take is Coldplay and a cheating CEO to unite all of America? 🤝

[curiouswuwu @curiouswuwu]

@TheMavsQueen Poor Chilli. Catching strays

[chart data @chartdata]

TLC's "No Scrubs" has now surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. It's their first song to reach this milestone.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

BREAKING: New Model 3 Performance (Ludicrous) spotted for the first time fully uncovered.

Initial noticeable differences vs LR:
• Performance seats
• Wheels (aero caps)
• Red brake calipers
• Front splitter
• Ludicrous badge on rear
• Lowered suspension
• Rear spoiler

Another one was also spotted being filmed. That one was gray.

[curiouswuwu @curiouswuwu]

@elonmusk Is it Elizabeth Holmes? 🩸

[Golden @netflixgolden]

.@steveyeun and @aliwong are so good at being bad! BEEF premieres Thursday

[Joy Ride @JoyRideMovie]

LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOO! 🖕💛 ✨ #JoyRideMovie pulling through to theaters July 7. 💕

[Nancy Wang Yuen @nancywyuen]

At the #JoyRideMovie premiere at #SXSW and documenting the #AsianAmericanJoy which began with a party bus and a pre-premiere panel. The original title for ‘Joy Ride’ was ‘Joy F*ck Club’ 😂

[Phil Yu @angryasianman]

Fuck yeah! JOY RIDE. I am absolutely here for the Asian American women-led raunchy comedy.

[curiouswuwu @curiouswuwu]

@angryasianman You’re like Simu, when tweets turn to reality

[The Academy @TheAcademy]

Of all the universes, we live in the one where Michelle Yeoh makes history as the first Asian woman to win the Best Actress Oscar—love that for us! #Oscars #Oscars95

[FINNEAS @finneas]

As a person who travels for a living… this is gonna be soooooo Fucking stupid

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’ve been building my businesses on @Shopify for years, and now we’re paying it forward!

Link your business in the replies and tell us in 6 words or less why your product is UNIQUE and I might buy a bunch :)

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The days are long but the years are short.

[gaut @0xgaut]

American healthcare, with tipping culture