👋 Your watchlist just got better.

• 🎥 The Home | 7.25

• 🎥 Fantastic Four | 7.25

• 🎥 Together | 7.30

Follow Creative Principles for new writer-director interviews.

TRENDING

• 🎬 Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" new trailer.

• 🎸 "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues" trailer drops for 9/12 release.

• 💻 "War of the Worlds" screen-life thriller trailer starring Ice Cube.

• 💋 Pedro Pascal's touchy-feely co-star PDA confuses fans.

• 🎭 Philip Seymour Hoffman tribute shows BTS laughter on The Master.

FEATURE

🖕 South Park's $1.5B Middle Finger to Trump

Interesting timing. Trey Parker and Matt Stone just inked a $1.5 billion streaming deal with Paramount on Monday, then dropped a nuclear bomb on Wednesday with a season premiere showing naked President Trump in bed with Satan.

The White House is absolutely losing its mind, and Parker's response at Comic-Con was peak South Park: "We're terribly sorry."

The Numbers Are Staggering The five-year Paramount+ deal breaks down to $300 million annually just for streaming rights:

• $1.5 billion total for global streaming over five years

• 50 new episodes guaranteed through the deal

• Previous seasons moving to Paramount+ for the first time in the U.S.

• Deal preserves South Park's status as one of the world's most valuable TV franchises

The White House Meltdown, Trump's team went absolutely ballistic over the premiere, with spokesperson Taylor Rogers calling South Park "a fourth-rate show" that "hasn't been relevant for over 20 years."

But here's the kicker: the episode also torched Paramount's $16 million Trump settlement, with Jesus literally telling South Park residents: "You guys saw what happened to CBS? Do you really want to end up like Colbert?"

Parker revealed at Comic-Con that Paramount tried to censor the episode: "They said, 'OK, but we're gonna blur the penis,' and I said, 'No you're not gonna blur the penis.'" Translation: Even with $1.5 billion on the line, these guys bow to nobody.

PUNCHLINES