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Hilariously enough, that's the big question and the one that none of us really know the answer to.
You're right that the Ellisons have a longstanding good relationship with Trump, and that's something that they've made no secret of.
And Trump has spoken very highly of the Ellisons and said that he really liked the way that they were stewarding Paramount.
On the flip side, Trump has been reportedly has been very impressed by
by Ted Sarandos and seems to like him.
And, you know, crucially enough, Netflix doesn't also have a news division.
So there's not like this nightly or daily stream of content that's pissing off the administration and the White House.
And so I think that that also plays a role here.
Yeah, so last month I got this amazing tip that Donald Trump had been telling people that he was lobbying the Ellisons to make another installment of the movie Rush Hour.
The amount will be $50 million.
It was one of those tips that I was like, this is too good to be true.
And it turned out it was exactly true.
Trump had been talking to Larry Ellison, saying that he should bring back this buddy cop comedy series starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.
I kind of raised some questions for me, like, is Trump a huge fan of this series?
Is he like watching the reruns of this on TNT or something?
But actually, it turned out, as it all, as many things do with Trump, to have a lot to do with his own personal relationships.
The longtime kind of overseer, creator, director of the Rush Hour series, Brett Ratner, also has a personal connection to Trump.
He is the director of