Pain in the New Year: Amazon Layoffs, Paramount Peril
Ankler Agenda12 Jan 2024

Pain in the New Year: Amazon Layoffs, Paramount Peril

Toast the New Year with RC Cola? It’s the kind of subpar beverage apropos to the first days of 2024, where a dreary Golden Globes (the RC Cola of Awards Shows) was celebrated for not being the lowest-rated in history; one of the most valuable companies in the world (Amazon) laid off hundreds in Hollywood, and one of the most storied studios (Paramount) has perched a semi-permanent “For Sale” sign out front. “It’s not a great way to start off the year,” says Elaine Low, who’s joins Sean McNulty and Richard Rushfield to survey the worsening landscape that — surprise! — may yet deliver some silver linings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Is it Worth Working in Hollywood Anymore?

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 ...

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Rich Paul: 'Don't Get Comfortable Having a Lot of Money'

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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 ...

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'It Was a Great Show': Bruce Vilanch Unpacks the Oscars

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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...

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Jeremy Zimmer: I'm Siding With the WGA

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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...

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Streaming's Reckoning: Industry Titans Speak Up

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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

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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

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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

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