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Hollywood Execs' Summer Bummer
Listen now (33 min) | One month into the strike, creative decision-makers are left wondering, 'what's my purpose?'
☀️UNI sets The Rock for a new FAST & FURIOUS pic before FAST X 2
Music acts' Big $$ for Private Gigs / BALLY SPORTS Anemic Sports SVOD #s / NFLX Exec Pay gets meaningless rebuke
 • 
Sean McNulty
Rushfield: Ariology, Saudis and Maxonomics
Some strike-free snark about this town
 • 
Richard Rushfield
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The Lost Photos: When Hollywood Was Hollywood
 • Jennifer Laski
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H'wood FTX Frenzy as Michael Lewis Reveals He Spent 6 Months with Founder
 • Richard Rushfield and Peter Kiefer
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Apple Votes No on Haberman Trump Project
 • Andy Lewis
Royals, Obamas and the End of the $100M Vanity Deal
 • Nicole LaPorte
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Rushfield: The 6-Month Shutdown Scenario
 • Richard Rushfield
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Business Affairs: Good Cop/Bad Cop of the Streaming Wars
The back engine that led us to a standoff also can get us out of it
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Entertainment Strategy Guy
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Execs on Eggshells: 'This Puts Us in a Weird Place'
Already stressed-out, 'I live in a state of... ugh' says one suit, as the strike tests social lives, allegiances and all sense of what to work on
 • 
Nicole LaPorte
 and 
Peter Kiefer
Rushfield: The Rube Goldberg Nightmare of 2023
Netflix is resolute, CAA braces for an actors strike, writers await a backstabbing as fingers point
 • 
Richard Rushfield
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The Data that Determines What We Watch
Listen now (51 min) | Sonny Bunch is joined by Entertainment Strategy Guy to talk about streaming's black box.
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Sonny Bunch
ICYMI: 2-Day Sale, an Award, and the 6-Month Scenario
Catch up on our recent best
 • 
Richard Rushfield
 and 
Janice Min
Summer's High Stakes Movie Showdown
Listen now (36 min) | The box office drought is over. But there are only so many slots for winners
'Yellowstone' and Hollywood's Quiet Pivot to Showing Gun Safety Onscreen
How showrunners, producers and actors are shifting firearms' portrayal: 'We can show them more responsibly'
 • 
Peter Kiefer
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Rushfield: The 6-Month Shutdown Scenario
What's really going on as the two sides stare each other down
 • 
Richard Rushfield
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ICYMI: Love, War & Our 'Uncensored Lowdown'
Catch up on our recent best
 • 
Richard Rushfield
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Janice Min
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