Disney's Next Decade
Disney CEO Bob Iger dropped one bombshell after another this week: a new ‘sports Hulu’ with Warner Bros. Discovery and Fox, a gaming splurge, and, yes, of course, news about Taylor Swift. As the Q4 ea...
9 Helmi 202440min
Netflix's Search for the Most Powerful Job in Film
A film executive with a TV metabolism. Relationships with top talent. A culture fit in a challenging company. If you can manage all three, you might have a shot at the Netflix film chief role recently...
2 Helmi 202436min
The Rapid-Fire News Out of Netflix
Netflix’s head of film, Scott Stuber, stepped down from his post after seven years in a perfect ankling (meaning, it was unclear who left whom and why). That shocker was followed by one bombshell afte...
26 Tammi 202446min
Ari Golds of a New Hollywood
Inside the gleaming towers of marble and modern art containing Hollywood’s storied agencies lays the beehive of Hollywood: 10 percenters rolling calls and doing deals (that close slowly), and fresh fa...
19 Tammi 202435min
Pain in the New Year: Amazon Layoffs, Paramount Peril
Toast the New Year with RC Cola? It’s the kind of subpar beverage apropos to the first days of 2024, where a dreary Golden Globes (the RC Cola of Awards Shows) was celebrated for not being the lowest-...
12 Tammi 202440min
'It's Like California in the 1920s'
Five years ago, Hollywood rose up in protest over Saudi Arabian dissident Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, which U.S. intelligence found was approved by the country’s leader, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman...
5 Tammi 202438min
The Most Blunder-ful Time of the Year!
From mass layoffs to major strikes to multiplex disasters, the entertainment industry isn’t likely to forget 2023. Richard Rushfield runs through his annual Ankler 100, Hollywood’s most miserable mome...
22 Joulu 20231h
A Peek Under Netflix's Secretive Hood
Hollywood officially entered the upside-down this week: streamers flexed like it was 2019 again with a flurry of new deals; Disney about-faced by licensing shows to one-time nemesis Netflix; and then ...
15 Joulu 202348min
