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david zaslav
HOLLYWOOD July 19, 2024
Warner Bros. Discovery’s well-compensated C.E.O. faces the reality of new pressure from Wall Street analysts, box office bombs, a fresh round of layoffs, and no answer for the worsening economics of television, as he contemplates the inevitable: Something big needs to change.
prince
HOLLYWOOD July 15, 2024
The Oscar winner Ezra Edelman’s exhaustive 9-hour documentary is stranded over a surprising objection from the late music icon’s dueling estates: It’s too long.
David Ellison
HOLLYWOOD July 11, 2024
Skydance’s leader told me he’ll be involved in the decisions at Paramount Global during the deal-review process “within all the regulatory bounds we have,” and that he’ll maintain “the appropriate seat at the tables.” But what does that actually mean in practice?
Larry Ellison, David Ellison
HOLLYWOOD July 9, 2024
Skydance’s David Ellison reveals plans for the storied studio as he leverages his father’s Oracle fortune and the motivation to reinvent a dying company amid questions about his promised tech fixes: “This is what I wanna do for the rest of my life.”


Chris Meledandri
HOLLYWOOD July 2, 2024
Comcast/NBCUniversal’s deal with Despicable Me’s Chris Meledandri is up soon, and negotiations to re-sign him have begun in earnest. If he can’t find a way to capture more of the value he’s created, he and his Minions will explore their options elsewhere.
Taylor Sheridan Kevin Costner
HOLLYWOOD June 23, 2024
Costner was never coming back to ‘Yellowstone,’ not after his absurd demands for the final season, and Sheridan was perfectly happy to write him out. So why did Costner go public about the breakup now?
SAG-AFTRA strike
HOLLYWOOD June 20, 2024
So says Scott Galloway, the business school professor and podcaster as he unloads on Hollywood in decline—why its unions “have their heads up their ass,” the urgent A.I. threat (“Try to shut them down”), and an entertainment industry he sees as “arrogant:” “You’re subject to the same economics as the rest of us, folks,” as he puts it.
teens movies
HOLLYWOOD June 17, 2024
A surprising conversation with a group of next-generation teen movie watchers about what they actually like, where they watch it, and the stars that move the needle.


shari redstone
HOLLYWOOD June 14, 2024
By putting Paramount up for sale, negotiating publicly for six months, and nuking a fully negotiated deal at the goal line, Shari has likely set the company on a downward spiral of chaos and uncertainty—one her father might have foreseen.
baby reindeer netflix
HOLLYWOOD June 11, 2024
Netflix is pushing the stalker drama for Emmys as a “true story” even as key facts have fallen apart and its subject has sued for defamation. Now, TV Academy voters have a chance to reject the dishonest campaign.
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