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Donna Langley
HOLLYWOOD November 22, 2024
Donna Langley’s NBCUniversal anointment gives her full greenlight authority for movies, NBC, Bravo, and Peacock. It also ends a power struggle with fellow executive Mark Lazarus, now riding an ice floe of cable networks into uncertain seas.
bob iger
HOLLYWOOD November 14, 2024
Disney’s C.E.O. has come roaring back from billions lost on streaming to project major profits and 10 percent margins as the onetime “terrible” business shows signs of life for everyone. If only TV wasn’t losing money faster.
David Zaslav
HOLLYWOOD November 8, 2024
Unlike in Trump’s first term, when entertainment became ground zero for the #Resistance, it feels like the industry—at least the business side of it—is gonna try to make nice to avoid issues with M&A and regulation, which is both sad and a reality of doing business when the president has become so openly vindictive, transactional, and unchecked.
HOLLYWOOD November 5, 2024
News and thoughts from my notebook on Bob Iger's campaign no-show, Amazon's post-election nail-biter, and initial takeaways from a key SEC filing in David Ellison's takeover of the Redstone empire.


nobody wants this
HOLLYWOOD October 31, 2024
In which readers ask me about the showrunner chaos at ‘Nobody Wants This,’ when Netflix will start hosting presidential debates, how much Timothée Chalamet is getting paid for his Dylan biopic, why anyone should still care about Venu, and much more.
John Landgraf
HOLLYWOOD October 29, 2024
The FX C.E.O. and reigning Emmys champ sounds off on Silicon Valley’s influence over Hollywood, the perils of the algorithm, and what would’ve happened if Disney hadn’t acquired his network: “It would be dead.”
kamala harris
HOLLYWOOD October 24, 2024
A pre-election check-in on the Hollywood donors and activists, from a studio chairman to an emerging screenwriter and a late-night TV host, who are simultaneously freaking out and (cautiously) optimistic about the final push for the Harris-Walz campaign.
Tony Vinciquerra
HOLLYWOOD October 22, 2024
Sony Pictures’ C.E.O. blamed union contracts for a shift in film and TV production out of the U.S. Now the head of SAG-AFTRA responds: “A cynical attempt to manipulate workers while masking the industry’s own business failures.”


ted sarandos
HOLLYWOOD October 18, 2024
Yesterday’s earnings portrayed a company pulling away from its competitors, with business fundamentals and future growth pleasing investors. But Netflix’s executives also offered plenty of clues about how they’re going to manage their headaches (the ad tier, their competitors’ ability to gang up, etcetera) and the comp and movie theater questions.
david ellison
HOLLYWOOD October 15, 2024
Paramount’s new mogul and his post-merger deputy Jeff Shell are taking meetings with their top executives, as plans for the storied studio—and especially its streaming video ambitions—come into clearer focus.
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