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NEWSLETTERS
Bob Chapek
HOLLYWOOD June 13, 2022
Chapek’s fate at Disney will be decided by a board without any outside media or entertainment experience. That could be a problem.
J.J. Abrams
HOLLYWOOD June 12, 2022
Abrams, who has a $250 million overall deal with Warner Bros., risks becoming a casualty of the new cost consciousness in Hollywood as David Zaslav’s management team wonders, what are we actually getting for all that money?
Peter Rice
HOLLYWOOD June 9, 2022
The abrupt firing of beloved Disney executive Peter Rice was widely interpreted inside Hollywood as a move by Chapek to eliminate a prospective rival. Instead it has exposed just how weak his position really is.
Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos
HOLLYWOOD June 5, 2022
I recently chatted with a trio on the frontlines of the content wars about the future of Disney+, what a recession would mean for development (and bidding wars), The Great Netflix Correction, and what Wall Street got wrong about Hollywood.


Zaslav
HOLLYWOOD June 2, 2022
David Zaslav would like nothing more than to replicate the Marvel miracle, to mine the archives for new franchises and compete with Pixar on animation. But DC isn’t Marvel, and new WB film chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy will need more than just Igerian ambition to compete.
Ted Sarandos
HOLLYWOOD May 30, 2022
Ted Sarandos’ damage-control confessional provides a fascinating glimpse into Netflix’s psyche at an inflection point for the company.
Cruise and Ellison
HOLLYWOOD May 26, 2022
Hollywood old timers hope that Top Gun’s retro appeal will resuscitate the box office, and if so, Cruise and producer David Ellison have set themselves up for huge windfalls.
Johnny Depp
HOLLYWOOD May 22, 2022
The dark arts of media manipulation for political gain, once the realm of D.C., have come to Hollywood in the sordid trial of Depp vs Amber Heard, and there’s no going back now.


Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront 2022
HOLLYWOOD May 19, 2022
It’s all about “the portfolio” now, or “our unified approach,” or “company-wide capabilities.” Everyone is all-in on the kitchen-sink approach, which quickly becomes about the brands and platforms, not the actual content.
Alan Horn
HOLLYWOOD May 15, 2022
The biggest rumor swirling around town is that Alan Horn is returning to Warner Bros. under the new Zaz era. Rather than partake in the rumormongering, I picked up the phone and asked Horn myself.
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