Swipe, Pay, Cry: A $5 Billion Boom in 60-Second Soaps
Ankler Agenda13 Kesä 2025

Swipe, Pay, Cry: A $5 Billion Boom in 60-Second Soaps

Green shoots are rare in Hollywood these days, but some writers and actors are cashing six-figure checks in a format as questionable as its new Luigi Mangione series. Welcome to the world of microdramas: 60-second, phone-first serialized soap operas. Elaine Low, Sean McNulty and Natalie Jarvey unpack the sudden rise of white-hot vertical series. How is it not a punchline like Quibi? And what does it say about the other dreaded Q-word holding back Hollywood: quality? Plus, Dealmakers’ Ashley Cullins joins with a scoop on Apple’s new competitive performance-based pay model — and why Jon Hamm is competing with... Jon Hamm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Enter The Warner Bros. Thunderdome

Enter The Warner Bros. Thunderdome

One studio to rule them all and in the darkness bind them: Netflix, Paramount Skydance and Comcast have submitted new bids to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, part or parcel. One’s got cash (Netflix), anot...

4 Joulu 202538min

How ‘Wicked’ Women Saved the Movies

How ‘Wicked’ Women Saved the Movies

After ignoring weeks of theatrical disappointments, moviegoers fell under the spell of Wicked: For Good last weekend to the tune of almost $150 million in North America. Who does the industry have to ...

25 Marras 202532min

The Clock Strikes Midnight for Warner Bros.

The Clock Strikes Midnight for Warner Bros.

How long before Warner Bros. becomes another studio swallowed up by David Ellison? With final bids for WBD due this week, all eyes remain on Paramount Skydance — despite the Comcast and Netflix red he...

20 Marras 202534min

BONUS EP: ‘The Rushfield Lunch’ with Mike De Luca & Pam Abdy on Making Box Office History in the Face of ‘Surreal’ Criticism

BONUS EP: ‘The Rushfield Lunch’ with Mike De Luca & Pam Abdy on Making Box Office History in the Face of ‘Surreal’ Criticism

In this special bonus Ankler Agenda episode, Richard Rushfield chats with Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group co-chairs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy about their journey to Warners, their record-break...

16 Marras 202556min

AI Warning Signs — and How Hollywood Invited the Enemy Inside

AI Warning Signs — and How Hollywood Invited the Enemy Inside

Hollywood had its eyes on Web Summit Lisbon this week — where Tilly Norwood creator Eline van der Velden joined Ankler Media EIC Janice Min to showcase her AI “actress.” But Wild Sheep Content CEO Eri...

13 Marras 202536min

Bari Weiss, MS Now & the Sad Battle for the Last TV News Viewer (Age: 70)

Bari Weiss, MS Now & the Sad Battle for the Last TV News Viewer (Age: 70)

Election Day had New York City’s Gen Z cheering in the streets as proud socialist Zohran Mamdani crushed the Democratic establishment (in the form of disgraced state governor-turned-flop independent c...

6 Marras 202542min

Hollywood Alarm as Recession Indicators Rack Up

Hollywood Alarm as Recession Indicators Rack Up

Thousands of jobs lost at Paramount Skydance and Amazon, quiet panic on the Warner Bros. Discovery lot, shoot days in L.A. on a continued decline — all while streaming churn, anecdotally, is becoming ...

30 Loka 202532min

Coming Soon: "Ankler Agenda with Elaine Low"

Coming Soon: "Ankler Agenda with Elaine Low"

This Thursday, "The Ankler Podcast" relaunches as "Ankler Agenda," hosted by Elaine Low. Elaine, author of Ankler Media’s popular “Series Business” newsletter, will be joined weekly by her Ankler coll...

30 Loka 202551s

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