A Showdown Over Streaming Economics
With a strike looming, will Apple, Amazon and Netflix decide to make real concessions. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,...
24 Mar 202340min
Is it Worth Working in Hollywood Anymore?
Amid a looming writers strike, cutbacks across the board, price increases and layoffs, Hollywood is at an inflection point, both in terms of how Wall Street sees it and how Hollywood sees itself. New ...
17 Mar 202348min
Rich Paul: 'Don't Get Comfortable Having a Lot of Money'
Sports agent Rich Paul shares his strategy for keeping clients like LeBron James and Jalen Hurts in the money. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get ...
16 Mar 202323min
'It Was a Great Show': Bruce Vilanch Unpacks the Oscars
Bruce Vilanch spent 14 of his 24 years on the Academy Awards as the show’s head writer (2000-2014), collaborating with hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal, David Letterman and Steve Martin. Today, he...
13 Mar 202330min
Jeremy Zimmer: I'm Siding With the WGA
With the entertainment business in chaos, and a potential WGA strike looming, UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer comes out swinging in support of better economics for writers, and delivers sometimes scathing opini...
11 Mar 202334min
Streaming's Reckoning: Industry Titans Speak Up
As the one-year anniversary of the Great Netflix Correction approaches, the town’s streaming future sure looks a lot more uncertain as Bob Iger, Jeremy Zimmer, UTA CEO, and Sony Pictures Entertainment...
10 Mar 202341min
Tony Vinciquerra: Will Smith, the 'Woman King' Snub & Spider-Man's Future
Sony Pictures Chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra talks to Janice Min about The Woman King’s Oscars snub; PlayStation and The Last of Us; the decision to work with Will Smith again, and Spider-Man and K...
10 Mar 202339min
Hollywood at War: Now and Then
For decades, the prevailing narrative around Gone With the Wind has been that it romanticized slavery and the antebellum south. But, as David Vincent Kimel learned when he discovered one of the film's...
3 Mar 202352min
