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
A New Spec Script Boom Catches Fire
Writers are getting paid $1 million or more on so-called “naked” scripts — no IP, actor or director attached. It may sound like Shane Black’s 1990s, but it’s happening right now as Nicole LaPorte join...
20 Dec 202441min
Tales From the ’90s: Before ‘Wicked,’ Winnie Holzman’s ‘My So-Called Life’ Changed TV
Richard Rushfield sits down with Winnie Holzman, creator of the beloved but short-lived teen drama My So-Called Life, which ran for one 19-episode season from 1994-95 and later became a cross-generati...
16 Dec 20241h 7min
Joe Rogan Helped Trump Win. Now He’s Conquered Comedy
Pro-free speech, anti-trans, anti a lot of things, the standup comedians who made their bones on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast — from Theo Von to notorious Trump rally opener Tony Hinchcliffe — are...
13 Dec 202437min
Tales From the ’90s: ‘Last Action Hero’ Screenwriters Tell All
In this new Ankler series, Hollywood Stories, we are starting with wild untold showbiz tales from the '90s. For our debut episode, Richard Rushfield sits down with Adam Leff and Zak Penn, the original...
9 Dec 20241h 21min
HBO & the Harry Potter Gamble
What is HBO heading into 2025? A major prestige cabler that can attract any talent it wants? An empire in decline? A little bit of both? Series Business writer Manori Ravindran was at the intimate Lon...
6 Dec 202432min
