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'Hacks' Creators on Their Wild Ride: 'Every Season is a Miracle'
Heart surgery to strikes: Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello share how they pulled off their latest run and the state of TV sitcoms today. Plus: I talk to…
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Katey Rich
🎧 Pray for Paramount. And the Movies
The state of play for the storied studio as box office hits the skids. And let's not even start on TV . . .
☀️ A24 Adds Life to Fall Theatrical Slate
SONY 👋 at AI to lower costs / A-List movie casting day / AMAZON, NETFLIX get animated
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Sean McNulty
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IP Dependence is Not the Problem. It's the Answer
The data is clear that people love pre-sold ideas more than originals
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
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Chronicling Bob Chapek's Signature Disaster on YouTube
I talk to Jenny Nicholson, whose blistering four-hour saga questions Disney's bet on theme parks. Plus: The downturn is official, and the Ellison moment
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Richard Rushfield
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Private Thoughts of an Anonymous High-Level Development Exec
What’s sending 'shockwaves' through town, the new budget norm, and the comedy 'conundrum': 'If there's one element that scares the networks away . . .'
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Elaine Low
First-Look Deals: How Much, Who's Getting Them and Why
Lawyers and execs on the new tricky replacement for overalls. Says one: 'They're the worst of all worlds'
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Ashley Cullins
🎧 Are You a Showbiz Clown or Monkey?
Or third option: Are you the 60-year-old wearing Supreme?
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Rob Long
☀️NETFLIX Films 2023 Data: What Worked, What Didn't
New ‘Knives Out’ pic casts up / How the NETFLIX JLo pic did / SPC makes new buy
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Sean McNulty
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MAYPOCALYPSE!
Now do you mo-fos believe me!?
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Richard Rushfield
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Cannes' Hot Hand; Maya Rudolph in Conversation
Neon wins again, with 'Anora' — and we go to work with the star of Apple TV+ 'Loot'
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Katey Rich
'Appalling,' 'Untenable': Inside the U.K.'s Diversity Disaster
Backlash as a struggling market, U.S. right-wing influence, put TV's DEI jobs under pressure
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Manori Ravindran
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