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Box Office Is Bad. Streaming Films Are So-So. I Have a Win-Win Solution
Top straight-to-TV original films could have changed 2025 with a detour to the theater — I've got the numbers to prove it
6 hrs ago • 
Entertainment Strategy Guy
Box Office Is Bad. Streaming Films Are So-So. I Have a Win-Win Solution
Top straight-to-TV original films could have changed 2025 with a detour to the theater — I've got the numbers to prove it
6 hrs ago • 
Entertainment Strategy Guy
5 Trends from Award Season’s Busiest Week Yet
‘One Battle’ rules, ‘Train Dreams’ keeps chugging and who could still come from behind. Plus: I talk to Will Arnett & John Bishop about ‘Is This Thing…
7 hrs ago • 
Katey Rich
Oooh. Are You Scared Now, Sarandos?
You want friends in Warnerwood? Get a dog!
8 hrs ago • 
Richard Rushfield
Jane Fonda Op-Ed: The WBD Deal Puts Hollywood, and Democracy, at Risk
What terrifies me — and should terrify anyone who cares about a free society
11 hrs ago • 
Jane Fonda
🎧 Enter The Warner Bros. Thunderdome
Netflix, Paramount and Comcast step into the ring. But who needs it most?
13 hrs ago
☀️ PAR’s WBD-NETFLIX Rage Mail, New Breakup 💰 Play
BLUM revives ‘Paranormal’ / WME adds UTA agent / NFL’s 💪 T’giving / A24 swaps Durkin pic leads
14 hrs ago • 
Sean McNulty
RSVP Today – Join Jordan Chiles & Noah Beck for an Exclusive Conversation 12.6
15 hrs ago
🎧 How to Stay in the Game When the Axe Swings
A survival guide for the newly ankled ‘independent producers’
Dec 3 • 
Rob Long
AI Search and the New Hot Mess of Hollywood Discovery
‘What to watch’ is a minefield as Literate AI uncovers major biases around stars, Harry Potter and the MCU — and grim fallout for marketing, greenlights…
Dec 3 • 
Erik Barmack
AI Search and the New Hot Mess of Hollywood Discovery
‘What to watch’ is a minefield as Literate AI uncovers major biases around stars, Harry Potter and the MCU — and grim fallout for marketing, greenlights…
Dec 3 • 
Erik Barmack
Why 34 Million Tuned In: Secrets Behind NBC’s Thanksgiving Ratings Shocker
EVP Jen Neal unpacks the strategy behind ‘our entertainment Super Bowl.’ Plus: my ‘Showrunner Sessions’ with 'Diplomat’ creator Debora Cahn
Dec 3 • 
Lesley Goldberg
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