Why A24 Wants Letterboxd — and the Impossible ‘Odyssey’ Ticket
Who’s buying Letterboxd? The social media platform, prized for its Gen Z audience and movie fan bona fides, is on the market for a rumored $250 million — with multiple studios circling. Dealmakers col...
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BONUS EP: Rob Bonta: How We Plan to Kill the Paramount-WBD Deal
States, 1. Paramount, 0. The $111 billion Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger has hit its first real wall after a coalition of 12 states won a temporary restraining order blocking the deal. And Ca...
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The Case Against Paramount-Warner — From the People Fighting It
It’s a bad week for David Ellison, with Paramount Skydance facing two concurrent lawsuits seeking to block its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — plus a shareholder case accusing Ell...
16 Heinä 33min
BONUS EP: Netflix’s Next Deal? Spotify Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Welcome to Netflix’s hard pivot. Faced with lagging engagement from its users and signs of audience disinterest in some of its top shows between seasons, Netflix’s next big thing might be… cable tele...
13 Heinä 41min
Nolan’s ‘Odyssey,’ Taylor Swift’s Wedding & the Summer of Spectacle
Monoculture may not be dead after all — it just needed Taylor Swift in a wedding dress and Christopher Nolan in IMAX. Elaine Low, Sean McNulty and Natalie Jarvey break down an old-fashioned July of cu...
9 Heinä 33min
The Books Hollywood Is Obsessed With This Summer
Books run on word-of-mouth. So what are the people who shape what gets made, watched, read and bought reading? Elaine Low, Natalie Jarvey and Sean McNulty dig into The Ankler’s inaugural summer readin...
2 Heinä 32min
BONUS EP: Comcast Is Leaving Hollywood. What Now for NBCU?
Another Monday, another huge deal in Hollywood. Two weeks ago, Fox Corp. announced its intentions to acquire Roku for $22 billion. Now, it’s Comcast’s turn — in reverse. Today, the company revealed ...
30 Kesä 35min
BONUS EP: What Is Cannes Lions — and Why YouTube vs. Netflix Was All the Talk
Oprah flew in to close deals, FOX Entertainment CEO Rob Wade came to talk up his investment in creator-led programming and even the Teletubbies arrived, ready to party. Last week, a cross-section of d...
30 Kesä 37min
