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Bigger Banter: SAG-AFTRA strikes, Bob Iger extends contract
The Business analyzes SAG-AFTRA’s strike, which will effectively shut down Hollywood at an already perilous time. Plus, Bob Iger announces a contract…
2 years, 6 months ago
Screenwriter Billy Ray on WGA battle with AI; Amazon CEO probes shows’ budgets
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy asks for detailed budgets of all the biggest shows made by its Hollywood studios. Why now? Plus, another polemic involving Davi…
2 years, 6 months ago
Maureen Ryan burns it down, Netflix union-busts, TCM reverses course
Following the decision to fire top execs at Warner Bros. Discovery’s TCM, WB’s CEO David Zaslav feels the blowback and is forced to reverse the chann…
2 years, 6 months ago
Randall Poster on life as a music supervisor, plus WBD’s struggles
To pay debt, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is licensing HBO original series to Netflix, and fires the head of TCM. Meanwhile, Disney/Pixar’…
2 years, 6 months ago
Summer previews: Will movies deliver at the box office? Plus, Emmy changes, predictions
A summer banter: Will the season bring the big box office returns studios are hoping for? Plus, Disney pushes back franchise releases, and The Golden…
2 years, 7 months ago
Carol Burnett on her sprawling career in entertainment, CNN fires CEO Chris Licht
CNN CEO Chris Licht is out from the network following a damning article in The Atlantic reporting his “alienating” behavior towards his staff. Was he…
2 years, 7 months ago
The resilience of the movie theater industry and Cannes during the writers’ strike
While the WGA strike continues in the U.S., many writer-directors, actors were off promoting their films at Cannes. Did that weaken the WGA effort?
…2 years, 7 months ago
Encore: ‘The Great’ creator on swearing, sex and ‘fun’ violence in 1700s Russia
As week three of the writer’s strike continues, other unions and guilds show solidarity while studios cut costs to see quarter stock increase. Plus, …
2 years, 7 months ago
Jimmy Chin, Chai Vasarhelyi on making ‘Wild Life,’ WGA strike vs. Upfronts
“Wild Life” directors Jimmy Chin and his wife Chai Vasarhelyi discuss mortality, making the film, and its uncanny parallels with their own lives.
Pl…
2 years, 7 months ago
Allen Hughes on Tupac and ‘Dear Mama,’ Paramount’s uncertain future
Director Allen Hughes discusses his five-part FX documentary series “Dear Mama: The Saga of Afeni and Tupac Shakur,” his relationship with the late r…
2 years, 8 months ago