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 nearly 40% 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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H’wood Dem Donors Rage: ‘Ask Me for Another Dollar, I Dare You’
‘We’re not just an ATM’ as top party funders seek Silicon Valley-style leverage and wait (and wait) for a plan on how the party will meet the moment
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H’wood Dem Donors Rage: ‘Ask Me for Another Dollar, I Dare You’
‘We’re not just an ATM’ as top party funders seek Silicon Valley-style leverage and wait (and wait) for a plan on how the party will meet the moment
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Lorne Michaels vs. NBC: The Epic 1990s War That Nearly Cost Him His Job
Excerpt: It was the ‘SNL’ era of Sandler, Farley, Carvey. But ratings fell, and the suits wanted its producer out, Judd Apatow to take over and O.J. erased
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Gazillion-Dollar Listings: Inside L.A.’s Wild Post-Wildfires Real Estate Market
All-cash offers, desperate buyers lead to ‘Hunger Games’. ‘Purgatory,’ says one evacuee, as realtors and residents reveal what is really happening
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The Super Bowl Has Changed. Hollywood’s Boring Ads Have Not
Just trailers, again? Really? Marketing gurus tell me how studios have lost step in how to play — and win — within the Big Game’s big game
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Gazillion-Dollar Listings: Inside L.A.’s Wild Post-Wildfires Real Estate Market
All-cash offers, desperate buyers lead to ‘Hunger Games’. ‘Purgatory,’ says one evacuee, as realtors and residents reveal what is really happening
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Bums vs. Billionaires: Malibu’s Silicon Valley Takeover is Almost Complete
‘Seething resentment’: Big Tech is colonizing Hollywood’s hideaway, trampling on what locals hold dear. And the fires only make things worse
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Bums vs. Billionaires: Malibu’s Silicon Valley Takeover is Almost Complete
‘Seething resentment’: Big Tech is colonizing Hollywood’s hideaway, trampling on what locals hold dear. And the fires only make things worse
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The MIT Grad Whose Prediction Market Can Reveal What Netflix Show Will Be #1
Tarek Mansour’s Kalshi foretold Trump’s election. Now his site’s users are betting on everything from Bob Iger’s exit day to Oscar odds for ‘The Brutalist’ as a new data set for entertainment emerges
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Subscriber-in-Chief: Donald Trump’s News Outlets He Pays For
Records show the campaign spent thousands for the ‘NYT’, ‘WSJ’, ‘WaPo’ and more — despite pummeling them as ‘corrupt,’ ‘unhinged,’ ‘pathetic’ and ‘dying’
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Docs Under MAGA: Stranded, Abandoned & Hollywood ‘Kryptonite’
Alex Gibney on ‘no appetite [to] offend’, buyers ghosting Oscar shortlist films, Amazon’s $40M Melania check and CEOs’ fear
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Hollywood’s Gen Z War: Win By Any Memes (Or Get Roasted Trying)
Inside the fight as studios and streamers struggle to match viral hits built off its own TV & movies: ‘Nothing top-down ever works in the internet age’
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TV News Terror: Joy Reid Pay Cut; CNN Anchor Switch; ABC News ‘Demoralizing’ Decision
SCOOPS! Plus: A new name emerges as a contender for MSNBC chief
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Big Spec Script Sales Are Back, Baby!
It’s not quite a Shane Black-1990s frenzy, but the industry is growing allergic to big packages — and writers (seriously!) are cashing in
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Rogan’s Heroes: The ‘Manosphere’ Comics Making Millions — With Hollywood’s Help
Tony Hinchcliffe, Theo Von and more score eight-figure fortunes as comedy gatekeepers lose power in a new Trump-era culture of the uncancelable
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