Ankler Features
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The Gulf Buys Big Into Paramount. What It Wants in Return
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE sovereign funds will own 22% after the merger and potential influence to match
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Maria Sharapova: The ‘Bitch’ Label Every Ambitious Woman Knows
The tennis champ confronts the double standard on the court, in the C-suite and on the podcast charts
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The Live Nation Verdict Won’t Fix Tickets. It Should Rattle Hollywood
The same attorneys general eyeing Paramount-Warner land a victory, but not clarity on what happens next
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‘Love Story’ Is a Hit. JFK Jr.’s ‘George’ Staff Refuse to Watch
Former columnist Ann Coulter is a fan. One former boss couldn’t quite press play. Others weigh what to sell on eBay
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The Music Business Has a Problem. Bill Ackman Just Pounced
Inside details of his $64B bid for Universal Music Group — a wager that Wall Street is misreading the entire sector
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Cigarettes Get a Sequel: Hollywood’s ‘Cool’ Bad Habit Is Back
‘People are stressed out of their fucking minds’ as the industry lights up again
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‘Can You Be Less Black?’: Arsenio Hall’s Impossible Late-Night Note
Excerpt: The host was squeezed by Paramount, Black celebrities and the NAACP over the ‘right’ amount of Blackness
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Kevin Williamson on His Post-‘Scream’ Dream and the Truth About His Netflix Cancellation
The data that sank his hit drama ‘Waterfront’ and his goal of making one more horror franchise ‘before I die’
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Hollywood Money Gushed from the Gulf. Then Came War
Stalled projects, a ‘carefully constructed’ industry at risk — and even the biggest merger in entertainment industry history under threat
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Wall St. Sours on the Ellison Deal: ‘This Should Not Be a Public Company’
Analysts warn that debt, shaky financing and a Middle East war could derail history’s largest test of legacy media
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After Katzenberg: Hollywood Democrats Come Back To Life — With Cash
Stars like Ro Khanna and James Talarico reopen entertainment’s ATM — ‘as long as they never hear from Jeffrey Katzenberg again’
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‘Heated Rivalry’ and the Risk of Loving Romance to Death
A once-niche genre is now a vertically integrated IP machine, and saturation is looming
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Bari Weiss and the Great TV News Pay Cut
Tony Dokoupil’s paycheck, Gayle King’s looming haircut and the shrinking economics of today’s on-air talent
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Searching the Epstein Files: Hollywood’s New Test of Fame (and Nerves)
Ctrl+F dread spreads as everyone who was anyone between 2008-2018 is name-dropped in a messy soup of the guilty, the adjacent, and the random
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Coppola & Lucas Started a Studio in the 1970s. Disaster Followed
Excerpt: Warners backed two promising film school grads. They fought, fell into debt and had nowhere to go — until a certain project came calling
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Lachlan Murdoch and the Cold Calculations of Estrangement: Fox Before Family
Author Gabriel Sherman on dynasty schism, the ‘California Post’ and why ‘you’d have to be a psychopath not to feel sadness’
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Shadow War for Warner Bros.: Advisors, Bankers, Out-of-Control Spin Doctors
The who’s who behind each camp — and yes, Trumpworld is on speed dial
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