Hollywood and the Kamala Blockbuster
Hollywood’s forays into politics are often elitist, counter-productive, and sometimes just plain cringey. But at the DNC, it wasn’t just Kamala Harris and Tim Walz who seemed to nail it, but the enter...
23 Aug 202458min
Tubi Puts Hollywood on Edge
People like free. And in an age where CEOs are raising streaming prices faster than you can say gallon of milk, FAST services like Tubi and Pluto TV have doubled in size in the past couple years — ads...
16 Aug 202447min
WBD Financial Panic: No Way Out
First, Disney films may have buoyed its Q2 earnings — thanks Inside Out 2! — but theme park struggles led Anxiety to overwhelm Joy. Then Warner Bros. Discovery delivered its disastrous report, with a ...
9 Aug 202455min
Linear TV's Summer of Pain (If You're Not the Olympics)
Yet another round of layoffs hit Hollywood this week, this time at Disney, as the company preps to let go of 140 people at National Geographic, Freeform and other struggling areas of the largely linea...
3 Aug 202451min
Inside Kamala Harris’ Hollywood
Entertainment execs are paid to find tomorrow’s stars today — and that applies to politics too. Matthew Frank joins Sean McNulty, Elaine Low and Richard Rushfield to name names of who identified Kamal...
26 Juli 202450min
WBD Woes and an Uncertain Future
Paramount isn’t the only legacy studio struggling with tough choices and crushing debt these days. Warner Bros. Discovery, after laying off 2,000 people over the last year, will now be cutting another...
19 Juli 202442min
Paramount: New Boss, Same Problems
The (seeming) finale of the Paramount sale drama brings closure to some questions but raises more. How is David Ellison’s promise of a rejiggered tech stack going to stem linear TV losses? Where is th...
12 Juli 202448min
HBO, A24 and Prestige's Next Phase
HBO and A24 are two of the only Hollywood brands left that signal prestige. But for better or worse, both are now leveling up — or is it down? Sean McNulty, Elaine Low, and Richard Rushfield break dow...
28 Juni 202444min
