Ankler Features
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James Carville: Democrats’ ‘Civil War Starts Wednesday’
5 Election Day dramas for your watch party with Carville and Mike Murphy — and the Oscar winner Nithya Raman snubbed
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Netflix Regime Change Explained in 5 Shocking Charts
Its originals aren’t hitting the zeitgeist — or Nielsen charts — the way they once did. Peter Rice, you’re up
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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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Hollywood Is Struggling. Now L.A.’s Real Estate Market Is Too
Luxury pads slash prices, houses ‘sit for months’ as execs grow cautious and industry workers pull up stakes: ‘They just saw the writing on the wall’
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Wall Street’s Brutal Verdict on Hollywood ’26: Versant Fumbles, AI Buyers, Family Office Cash
Pros from TD Cowen, Integrated Media, Magid, Gamco and more map what’s coming for Disney, WBD and media as generational change arrives
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How Much AI Will Audiences Accept in Movies and Music? Here Are the Poll Answers
A clear line is drawn as 2026 becomes make-or-break for the technology
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The Strange Case of ‘Avatar’ and Its Missing Cultural Footprint
How could such a massive franchise be so small online? The data tells a fascinating story about fandom and filmgoing
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