Big IP’s Midlife Crisis: Marvel, DC, Bond
Ankler Agenda14 Mar 2025

Big IP’s Midlife Crisis: Marvel, DC, Bond

Can Jeff Bezos be trusted with 007? Is James Gunn the hero DC needs right now? Will Casey Bloys help Harry Potter make it safely to TV? All of Hollywood’s signature IP franchises face uncertain, perilous paths forward, and Richard Rushfield, Elaine Low and Sean McNulty decide whether they’d buy, sell or hold these tentpoles plus Marvel and Star Wars. Plus: The crew guesses which five series earned the coveted writers’ streaming performance bonus. For more entertainment news, subscribe to The Ankler or apply to The Ladder, a members-only hub for early career entertainment professionals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Raw Deal Point Roiling Hollywood

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

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

The Murky Definition of a Hit Show

The Murky Definition of a Hit Show

As streamers remove series and unions fight over residuals, agreeing on metrics is near impossible. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bon...

30 Jun 202351min

Iger, Zaslav and the Hollywood CEO Crisis

Iger, Zaslav and the Hollywood CEO Crisis

Who had the worst week in Hollywood? Was it Bob Iger, whose Disney headaches keep mounting? Or The Flash hype man David Zaslav, who watched his superhero film sputter just days before Steven Spielberg...

23 Jun 202347min

Inside Bob Iger's Ticking Timeline

Inside Bob Iger's Ticking Timeline

The most-watched entertainment company in the world, Disney lately is roiled by major exec changes, an animation eclipse from other studios, layoffs and a CEO racing to both name a successor and right...

16 Jun 202353min

The Agency Titans Showdown

The Agency Titans Showdown

Turning Tiffany into Walmart: that’s how Ari Emanuel recently described Bryan Lourd’s stewardship of CAA, putting some harsh, eyebrow-raising words behind the heated rivalry between the Endeavor and C...

9 Jun 202350min

Hollywood Execs' Summer Bummer

Hollywood Execs' Summer Bummer

In-between the writers and studio/streaming chiefs are Hollywood’s day-to-day working executives, who find themselves in a rare slowdown — and assorted existential crises. This is a public episode....

2 Jun 202333min

Summer's High Stakes Movie Showdown

Summer's High Stakes Movie Showdown

The box office drought is over. But there are only so many slots for winners. For a transcript, click here. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acces...

26 Mai 202335min

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