Linear TV's Summer of Pain (If You're Not the Olympics)
Yet another round of layoffs hit Hollywood this week, this time at Disney, as the company preps to let go of 140 people at National Geographic, Freeform and other struggling areas of the largely linea...
3 Elo 202451min
Inside Kamala Harris’ Hollywood
Entertainment execs are paid to find tomorrow’s stars today — and that applies to politics too. Matthew Frank joins Sean McNulty, Elaine Low and Richard Rushfield to name names of who identified Kamal...
26 Heinä 202450min
WBD Woes and an Uncertain Future
Paramount isn’t the only legacy studio struggling with tough choices and crushing debt these days. Warner Bros. Discovery, after laying off 2,000 people over the last year, will now be cutting another...
19 Heinä 202442min
Paramount: New Boss, Same Problems
The (seeming) finale of the Paramount sale drama brings closure to some questions but raises more. How is David Ellison’s promise of a rejiggered tech stack going to stem linear TV losses? Where is th...
12 Heinä 202448min
HBO, A24 and Prestige's Next Phase
HBO and A24 are two of the only Hollywood brands left that signal prestige. But for better or worse, both are now leveling up — or is it down? Sean McNulty, Elaine Low, and Richard Rushfield break dow...
28 Kesä 202444min
Greenlight Like It’s 1985
What’s the one common trait across every studio executive with greenlight power? They’re all old enough to remember the launch of the first Mac. And what they give the go-aheads to on their film slate...
21 Kesä 202443min
Hot Seat: Ed Zwick’s Battles With the Stars
Over four decades, legendary director, writer and Oscar-winning producer Ed Zwick built an enviable body of work, from acclaimed films (Courage Under Fire, Legends of the Fall) to zeitgeisty TV series...
15 Kesä 202456min
A TV Deal Flurry. For Some
It feels like 2019 all over again — for a lucky few, that is. The Night Agent creator Shawn Ryan this week inked an eight-figure overall with Netflix, the latest in a flurry of recent announcements bu...
14 Kesä 202436min
