Ankler Agenda
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🎧 The Democrat Working With Trump’s Team to Save Hollywood Production
Plus: 1,000 Sony hacks at once? Hollywood’s AI doomsday
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🎧 Who’ll Save the Film Industry? France Is Trying
Inside President Macron’s summit, where Ted Sarandos, Dana Walden and Hollywood power players attended — very quietly
Latest Ankler Agenda stories
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🎧 The World Cup’s Streaming Cash Machine
What Telemundo and Peacock’s ratings success means — and why the broadcast rights deal was a GOOOOOOAL for Fox
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🎧 Roku’s Charlie Collier on Fox Deal — and Beating Big Tech for Ad Dollars
At Cannes Lions, the exec makes his first public remarks to Janice Min on the mash-up set to reorder the streaming wars
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🎧 Would You Rather: Spend $22B on Roku or $18B on Shows?
Fox’s big buy will trounce most streaming rivals in size — not by spending like Netflix, but by buying the pipes
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🎧 Sean McNulty & Peter Kafka on Fox Buying Roku and What It All Means
BONUS EP: How the $22 billion deal will ripple across Hollywood. Plus, Sean decodes the box office with Christopher Rosen
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🎧 The New Podcast Wars: Streaming Now
Netflix, Spotify, Tubi and Hulu are chasing up to nine-figure deals in a low-cost programming fight
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🎧 A24’s ‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of YouTube Filmmakers
What do box office breakouts like Kane Parsons’ sensation and Focus’ ‘Obsession’ mean for the future of moviegoing?
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🎧 Can L.A.’s Next Mayor Save Hollywood?
A voters’ guide to Bass, Raman and Pratt as they promise to save production — if City Hall can get out of the way
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🎧 Spidey, Nolan, Spielberg — Hot Movie Summer Is Here
The box office is back — but which movie will reign supreme? Plus: Spencer Pratt keeps gaining in the L.A. mayor race
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🎧 TV’s YouTube Era Wags the Upfronts’ Dog
Sports, stunts, live! Streamers and studios pitch almost anything but scripted to thwart living rooms’ big platform
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🎧 Disney’s Super App Era Arrives. What Does It Mean?
Plus: What WBD and Paramount signaled to employees on their earnings call
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🎧 The Fight For Wasserman Intensifies
From private equity to Patrick Whitesell, it’s down to the wire
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🎧 L.A.’s Mayoral Race Becomes a Fight for Hollywood Jobs
Finally, runaway production is a campaign issue — and the industry’s workers are the prize
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The Mid-Career Reset: Two Top Execs Ditch Hollywood’s Playbook — and Find the Fun Again
Jana Winograde and Susan Rovner on their new app (scoop: we’ve got the name) and the bet on microdramas the industry can’t ignore
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🎧 The Merger Drama That Won’t Stay in Vegas
CinemaCon under a Paramount-Warners cloud; plus, inside the WGA deal with a top negotiator
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🎧 The WGA’s Surprise Deal — SAG and DGA, You’re Up
A fast agreement delivers a major healthcare win but shifts the stakes for the next guilds at the table
The Ankler Agenda podcast is a conversation on what’s driving Hollywood — explained each week by host Elaine Low, alongside Natalie Jarvey, Sean McNulty and special guests.