Ankler Agenda
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🎧 David Ellison’s Promise to Outspend Netflix and Disney
The co-CEOs are saying it all: more content, $6B in cuts and lower leverage. So how exactly does this work?
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🎧 Kreiz In, Bloys Wins: Paramount’s Head-Spinning New Order
Overnight, Ellison ushers in a new power structure. Plus: Disney swings the ax
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🎧 Mike Schur: Paramount-WBD Is a ‘Nightmare Scenario’
‘This is gasoline on a fire,’ says the ‘Parks & Rec’ co-creator, as mass layoffs loom. ‘I would’ve fought harder to stop that’
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🎧 Paramount-WBD Chaos: The Settlement, the Layoffs, the Superstreamer
The legal battle is over. The upheaval begins now
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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
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🎧 Studios Ghost the Film Festivals; Trump’s Hollywood Rescue Plan
Also: HBO Max’s last stand at the Emmys
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🎧 YouTube’s Netflix Death Match Levels Up
Natalie Jarvey scoops the millions Neal Mohan is paying to fend off Ted Sarandos
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🎧 ‘Sleep in the Bed They Made’: Bonta Fires Back as Paramount Talks Collapse
California’s AG on Newsom and Bass’ pressure, the CNN myth, Paramount’s ‘PR campaign’ — and Mark Ruffalo
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🎧 Hayden Panettiere’s Child-Star Tragedy; Bonta on Paramount ‘Playing Cute’
California’s AG tells Elaine what it will take to get him to the table to settle the Paramount fight
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🎧 Private Equity Has Billions Ready for Hollywood. Who Gets It?
Plus: Paramount talks tough on California — and softer on settlement
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🎧 How Zendaya & Tom Holland Won Summer; Ellison on the Defensive
Hollywood’s power couple delivers a $2.1 billion box office haul as Paramount’s boss tries to shift the narrative
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🎧 The Waiting Game at WBD; SpaceX’s L.A. Mansion Rush
With the merger in legal peril, employees start eyeing the exits. Plus: 4,000 new millionaires hit the housing market
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🎧 Paramount’s Looming Debt Bomb — With Analyst Robert Fishman
Can the studio afford the fight? MoffettNathanson’s expert joins Sean McNulty to assess what happens now — including to WBD
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🎧 Why A24 Wants Letterboxd — and the Impossible ‘Odyssey’ Ticket
Paramount and Sony also kick the tires on the Gen Z film site
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🎧 Rob Bonta: How We Plan to Kill the Paramount-WBD Deal
California’s AG joins Elaine hours after the merger was halted to explain the odds of survival and the options
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🎧 The Case Against Paramount-Warner — From the People Fighting It
Former FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya and the WGA’s Adam Conover on the multi-front effort to stop the merger
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.