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🎧 Would You Rather: Spend $22B on Roku or $18B on Shows?
Fox’s big buy will trounce most streaming rivals in size — not by spending like Netflix, but by buying the pipes
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🎬 Taylor Swift Has Everything. But the Oscar She Wants
‘Showgirl’ is the latest in her tortured romance with Hollywood (remember her Searchlight directing deal?). Hunter Harris, Christopher Rosen & I explore her final frontier
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How Taylor Swift Masters the Art of Internet Relevance
Ahead of ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ release, Natalie Jarvey and as seen on’s Ochuko Akpovbovbo break down the megastar’s cultural dominance and ‘effortlessness’
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Jane Fonda’s Free Speech Warning: ‘They Come for One of Us, They Come for All of Us’
The Hollywood legend speaks for the first time about the Committee for the First Amendment relaunch on Rushfield Lunch
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🎧 ‘One Battle After Another’: Will Hollywood Learn Anything?
Richard Rushfield and I on what the movie business can and should learn from the success of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest
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Lina Khan Warning: Warnermount Has ‘Real Consequences Here’
The former FTC chair & former FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya joined us to tell unions, writers & creatives how to use their power to get their way
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Rushfield Lunch: Garry Kasparov Sounds the Hollywood Alarm
Don’t relax about Kimmel, warns the Russian dissident, as ‘evil doesn’t die’ and comes back ‘the moment we lose our vigilance’
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🎧 ‘Sinners’ vs. ‘One Battle’: Warners Takes on Warners in the Oscars
Why I don’t envy the studio’s tough awards campaigns ahead, and state of the race with Tyler Coates
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The Rushfield Lunch: First, They Came for Kimmel, with Jonathan V. Last
The Bulwark editor paints a bleak picture after Trump’s latest encroachment on Hollywood: ‘Do not surrender in advance’
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Richard, Katey & Chris: Remembering Robert Redford
How the actor, director and Sundance founder changed Hollywood forever
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The Good, Bad & Bargatze of the Emmys
Winners suggest an industry pivot to feelings, my thoughts on what worked and where Nate went so wildly wrong
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🎬 The Rushfield Lunch: Why Awards Actually Matter with Christopher Rosen
I talked to Ankler Media’s own deputy editor about Dwayne Johnson, Netflix & his early bet on Oscar contenders
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🎬 Paramount–Warner and the Attorney General Who Could Kill It
The merger that would gut Hollywood’s ecosystem will sail through Trump’s D.C. But one man has the power to stop it, says antitrust expert Matt Stoller
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🎧 Psychos, Muggers, Thieves (And Agents)
Why budgets need to be big enough for everyone to get a piece
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Transcript: Psychos, Muggers, Thieves (And Agents)
Why budgets need to be big enough for everyone to get a piece
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🎧 Star Wars to ‘Train Dreams’: Joel Edgerton Live from TIFF
I talk to the Australian actor about his career and new Netflix indie darling
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