Ankler Features
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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP
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The NFL Has a Rom-Com Strategy
I go inside Hallmark Channel’s three-movie experiment to super-serve the other half of the league’s 250 million fans
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Inside Macron’s Room: Sarandos, Langley, Walden — and a Big Warning
Hollywood flew to France as its chief made the case U.S. leaders haven’t: that cinema is an industry worth fighting for
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729 Auditions Later, Vertical Dramas Made Him a Star at 47
TJ Wilk, Kate Mantilini waiter, Equinox trainer and Beverly Hills manny, is now A-list — just not where he expected
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As Directors Rise From YouTube, What’s Film School for, Then?
Lessons in craft are free online, as deans sell something else now — including room to fail comfortably
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The 17 Press Stops Publicists Are Fighting Over — and Fighting About
Matt Damon in costume, influencers charging six figures: Hollywood’s ever-changing PR circuit is a ‘cycle of hell’
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‘I’m Not Successful Enough to Get Away With Being Old’
As careers stall, Hollywood professionals confess they’re on a costly hamster wheel of treatments to stall their faces, too
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George Clooney Should Buy Warner Bros.
Op-ed: The actor couldn’t afford the studio alone. Then again, neither can the Ellisons
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Hollywood’s Over-40 Style Rules — and Which Execs Get It Right
Look current, not desperate as top stylists reveal tips — and rate David Zaslav’s denim to Ted Sarandos as… James Bond?!
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SpaceX Millionaires Are Coming for L.A. Homes
The IPO has agents bracing for bidding wars in a soft market — and Palisades Fire families caught in the middle
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L.A.’s Most Exclusive Clubs Are Book Clubs
Waitlisted salons to raucous theme nights: New Hollywood meet-ups fight the algorithm and AI and, yes, also scout for adaptations
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Paramount’s 28-Day Time Bomb: Settle, Fight or Walk
Every bad choice out of Monday’s ruling comes at a steep price. Here’s where each one lands and what it means for WBD
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BookTok Called the Hockey Boom. Shadow Daddies Are Next
Dark romances, dragons and morally ambiguous men are Hollywood’s next adaptation challenge — and big hope
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Photos: Sun Valley Players’ Private Thoughts Behind Those Ray-Bans
Joel Stein imagines what’s going on inside the heads of Allen & Co. attendees
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Men Who Don’t Read Books: MrBeast, Clavicular — and Me
Inside the storytelling slump, plus recs from Bruce Bozzi, Chuck Klosterman and 5 more men who defy the data
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‘Lost’ Producer: I Gave L.A. 33 Years. Now I’m Leaving — Here’s Why
An Emmy winner’s new chapter, even as ‘the 7-year-old boy’ with dreams ‘hates 56-year-old me for making this choice’
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