Who’ll Save the Film Industry? France Is Trying
Inside President Macron’s summit, where Ted Sarandos, Dana Walden and Hollywood power players attended — very quietly French President Emmanuel Macron summoned some of the biggest names in global ent...
10 Syys 37min
Studios Ghost the Film Festivals; Trump's Hollywood Rescue Plan
It wasn’t long ago when studios took the biggest jewels of their fall slates — the Gravitys and Jokers and First Mans — to the Venice Film Festival to kick off awards season and put A-list talent on a...
3 Syys 34min
YouTube’s Netflix Death Match Levels Up
Hollywood’s newest talent war isn’t over movie stars. For years, YouTube was treated as a “farm league,” in Ted Sarandos‘ words — a place where talent dreamt of graduating to Hollywood. Now smaller pl...
27 Elo 31min
BONUS EP: ‘Sleep in the Bed They Made’: Bonta Fires Back as Paramount Talks Collapse
So much for détente. California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled Monday’s planned meeting with Paramount after accusing the company of leaking — and misrepresenting — confidential settlement discus...
24 Elo 13min
Hayden Panettiere’s Child-Star Tragedy; Bonta on Paramount ‘Playing Cute’
Hayden Panettiere worked in Hollywood since she was 11 months old, and by the time Heroes made her a household name at 16, she was already navigating the darker side of child stardom. The Wall Street ...
20 Elo 33min
Private Equity Has Billions Ready for Hollywood. Who Gets It?
“Everyone has dry powder for sports,” Ashley Cullins heard while reporting her recent look at the private equity firms circling Hollywood. It’s a truism Bob Iger and Josh Kushner‘s Thrive Capital prov...
13 Elo 34min
How Zendaya & Tom Holland Won Summer; Ellison on the Defensive
It’s been a while since Hollywood has seen a power couple quite like Zendaya and Tom Holland. With Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey, the newlyweds helped drive more than $2 billion (and count...
6 Elo 37min
The Waiting Game at WBD; SpaceX’s L.A. Mansion Rush
What a difference a month makes. With Paramount’s bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery now in limbo, 35,000 Warners staffers have plenty of time to reconsider their options. Could HBO chief Casey Bloys o...
30 Heinä 32min
