‘An Intense Couple of Days’
“Everybody was feeling really optimistic going into this year,” says Elaine Low — and while there are encouraging signs for Hollywood, from new business models to a return to the fundamentals, she and...
10 Tammi 202533min
Tales From the ’90s: How New Line Dominated the Decade
For the capstone of his Hollywood Stories series exploring the 1990s — an era of explosive creativity and innovation in the entertainment industry — Richard Rushfield talks to two execs who helped New...
6 Tammi 20251h 3min
Lively vs. Baldoni: Lawsuits! Exposés! Rumors!
Blake Lively alleges a full-on smear campaign aimed against her. Justin Baldoni claims the star of his It Ends With Us used the New York Times to destroy his reputation. Sean McNulty, Elaine Low and R...
3 Tammi 202540min
Tales From the ’90s: Ain’t It Cool News’ ‘Titanic’ Impact on Hollywood
At the dawn of the internet as we know it today, long before social media exploded the Hollywood hierarchy, there was Ain’t It Cool News, an in-your-face site, launched in 1996, that covered the movie...
30 Joulu 202457min
Trends Giving Us Hope in 2025. Seriously
One sure precursor to any Golden Age in Hollywood? A long fallow period preceding it, not unlike the one we’ve been in. Now, with a spec market for originals coming back to life, and fresh opportuniti...
27 Joulu 202438min
Tales From the ’90s: Ron Meyer’s 'Miracle' Hollywood Career
From founding CAA to leading Universal Studios, Ron Meyer built one of the entertainment industry’s most storied careers. The high school dropout and former Marine talks with Richard Rushfield about h...
23 Joulu 202437min
A New Spec Script Boom Catches Fire
Writers are getting paid $1 million or more on so-called “naked” scripts — no IP, actor or director attached. It may sound like Shane Black’s 1990s, but it’s happening right now as Nicole LaPorte join...
20 Joulu 202441min
Tales From the ’90s: Before ‘Wicked,’ Winnie Holzman’s ‘My So-Called Life’ Changed TV
Richard Rushfield sits down with Winnie Holzman, creator of the beloved but short-lived teen drama My So-Called Life, which ran for one 19-episode season from 1994-95 and later became a cross-generati...
16 Joulu 20241h 7min
