However profits, operating income drop.Paramount Global president and CEO Bob Bakish talked up box office success in the company’s Q2 earnings call on Thursday (August 4), led by the 1.3bn global performance of Top Gun: Maverick.Theatrical revenue grew by 630m year-on-year to 764m and the company highlighted Paramount’s all-time biggest hit as well as other four number one releases so this year: Scream, The Lost City, Sonic The Hedgehog 2 and Jackass Forever.Maverick drove a 126 year-on-year rise in filmed entertainment revenue and currently ranks as the biggest Hollywood release of the year to date and has
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