Hollywood’s New Trick to Screw Writers
Who loves doing free work? No one. Who loves getting free work? The studios. “If-come” deals — where a writer develops a show under contract but only sees money if the show sells — are on the rise pos...
24 Jan 202536min
L.A. Production Spiral. Trump to the Rescue?
Can Jon Voight save Hollywood? Probably not. But President Trump’s announcement that the Midnight Cowboy, Mad Max (Mel Gibson) and Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) would be his “special envoys” in L.A. on t...
17 Jan 202543min
‘An Intense Couple of Days’
“Everybody was feeling really optimistic going into this year,” says Elaine Low — and while there are encouraging signs for Hollywood, from new business models to a return to the fundamentals, she and...
10 Jan 202533min
Tales From the ’90s: How New Line Dominated the Decade
For the capstone of his Hollywood Stories series exploring the 1990s — an era of explosive creativity and innovation in the entertainment industry — Richard Rushfield talks to two execs who helped New...
6 Jan 20251h 3min
Lively vs. Baldoni: Lawsuits! Exposés! Rumors!
Blake Lively alleges a full-on smear campaign aimed against her. Justin Baldoni claims the star of his It Ends With Us used the New York Times to destroy his reputation. Sean McNulty, Elaine Low and R...
3 Jan 202540min
Tales From the ’90s: Ain’t It Cool News’ ‘Titanic’ Impact on Hollywood
At the dawn of the internet as we know it today, long before social media exploded the Hollywood hierarchy, there was Ain’t It Cool News, an in-your-face site, launched in 1996, that covered the movie...
30 Dec 202457min
Trends Giving Us Hope in 2025. Seriously
One sure precursor to any Golden Age in Hollywood? A long fallow period preceding it, not unlike the one we’ve been in. Now, with a spec market for originals coming back to life, and fresh opportuniti...
27 Dec 202438min
Tales From the ’90s: Ron Meyer’s 'Miracle' Hollywood Career
From founding CAA to leading Universal Studios, Ron Meyer built one of the entertainment industry’s most storied careers. The high school dropout and former Marine talks with Richard Rushfield about h...
23 Dec 202437min
