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pasture is charlie crist. >> with me senior data reporter harry eton. i want to start with you. polls came out in pennsylvania and wisconsin, two crucial senate races. what do they so? >> i want to note if i can make that sound you made with the paperwork right there i might have a future in movie being a sound effect guy. look. okay. choice for u.s. senate in pennsylvania john fetterman, democrat. we had him up by six points. wisconsin had ron johnson, republican of wisconsin up by one. we call that no clear leader. well with the marge's of error. both results within margin of error...

No one could predict you could do this well. but -- you know, it was a good movie. from the first time we screened it, we said, this is a good movie. i don't think anyone, and certainly we wouldn't bank on this being a recurrent phenomenon and why we're such a bleevger in 45-day fast follow. bite the time you get close to 45 days there is no theatrical money. yet for a consumer, that's a real movie. in theaters, and all marketing has fresh impact. you really get a great secondary effect in the streaming. >> christine romans is here now. part of your risktaker series. risktaker, dreammaker, don...

On investment in film. so we very much design our slate with that in mind, and go to "smile." $17 million movie. done about, to date, $120 million in the box office. way more than paid for itself and then it's going to go to paramount plus and streaming and will crush it. that's how we think about it. we think about multiplatform as a fundamental advantage in the media business and that was very much questioned two years ago. i don't think anyone's questioning it now. >> "smile," a creepy movie, by the way. grorruerrilla marketing, too. >> i think he believes it to be really sweet and innocent...

No bigger box office suction than "top gun: maverick." the only one to take top spot on memorial day and labor day weekend. a huge bet. would not release for streaming holding on to it until audiences came back. cnn chief business correspondent spoke to paramount ceo about that success. >> reporter: was tucker maverick, captures lightning in a bottle, or did it prove to you audiences want to go to a movie theater? >> we always believe in the latter. we believe in the theatrical experience. said it from day one in the depth of covid. those not doing it are making a mistake. the theatrical exper...