Leaks, Meetings & Calls. Oh My!
After months of silence, studio heads seem newly committed to reaching an agreement with the WGA. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonu...
18 Aug 202331min
'It Will Surprise Us How Fast it Can Disappear'
Dickinson creator Alena Smith joins to discuss the destructive effects of streaming and the corporatization of entertainment. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscr...
11 Aug 202339min
WBD and the Struggle of Legacy Studios
Three earnings calls on the same day reveal how entertainment companies are no longer playing the same game. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acce...
4 Aug 202335min
Studios, Strikers and a Tense Game of Chicken
The WGA accuses the studios of being in a ‘mutual suicide pact.’ This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theankler.com/...
28 Jul 202346min
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland: 'It Takes Two to Tango...the Companies Aren't Stepping Up'
As Week 1 of the actors strike draws to a close, an interview with SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland on Wall Street’s impact on the impasse, the stickiest issues on the table and more...
22 Jul 202314min
The Raw Deal Point Roiling Hollywood
Entertainment Strategy Guy joins to discuss perhaps the most existential of issues at the heart of the current SAG-studio impasse: profit sharing. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discus...
21 Jul 202349min
Iger, Ire, Actors: Apocalypse Now
For the first time in over 60 years, Hollywood is in the throes of a double strike. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, vis...
14 Jul 202343min
