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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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

Hollywood's Disappearing ATM Machine

Hollywood's Disappearing ATM Machine

What the death of cable TV has to do with the writers strike. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theankler.com/subs...

19 Mai 202336min

How Writers are Winning the Strike Narrative

How Writers are Winning the Strike Narrative

How writers have leveraged themes around the gig economy, CEO pay and suspicions about Silicon Valley to their benefit. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers...

12 Mai 202347min

Warning Signs from Week One of the Strike

Warning Signs from Week One of the Strike

With an impasse over everything from quotas to AI, the first week of the strike has revealed an entirely different playing field than the one from 2007-2008. Richard Rushfield and Elaine Low join Sean...

5 Mai 202353min

On the Ground with the WGA Picketers

On the Ground with the WGA Picketers

In a special Strikegeist episode, Elaine Low and Richard Rushfield join Sean McNulty to report back what they are seeing and hearing (and the who’s who) at the picket lines across town. “Upbeat but no...

3 Mai 202325min

What Really Happened in Vegas

What Really Happened in Vegas

If the theme of last year’s CinemaCon was “movies are back,” then this year’s is “movies are really back.” Richard Rushfield and Elaine Low join Sean McNulty to report what they saw during their three...

28 Apr 202345min

The Dark Underbelly of 'Love is Blind'

The Dark Underbelly of 'Love is Blind'

As Hollywood braces for a writers strike, one genre of television will remain unscathed: unscripted. But reality has its own pitfalls: recently Netflix juggernaut Love is Blind whiffed in its attempt ...

21 Apr 202344min

Netflix Earnings: What We Learned

Netflix Earnings: What We Learned

Sean McNulty and Elaine Low analyze what the co-CEOs said (and didn’t) in its Q1 earnings report about the strike, subscribers, the ad tier and passwords. For a full transcript, click here. This is...

19 Apr 202321min

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