Ankler Features
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DC Palace Coup: Gunn & Safran Ousted — What Now
The rise of Josh & Dana’s Hollywood empire, and what happens next for Superman, Batman and HBO
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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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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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Terrence Malick’s Lost Decades: What Really Happened
EXCERPT: He burst on the scene with ‘Badlands’ and ‘Days of Heaven’ and then disappeared. A new biography solves the mystery
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MSNBC Mayhem: Rachel Maddow Pay Cut, Brutal Lineup Shakeup Coming
SCOOP: TV’s ‘safe space for liberals’ is about to reshuffle its stars as the network re-ups its marquee name under a tough new spinoff-ready reality
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How Cybertruck Became a Hollywood Reject
Execs, agents, managers and showrunners flex their wheels, but Elon Musk has them in a bind. Says one owner: ‘I’m stuck’
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