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🎧 Jason Bateman Has Seen It All — And Probably Directed It, Too
The ‘Black Rabbit’ star and, yes, director, tells me what he’s learned through decades of shifting models and audiences
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🎧 ‘The Pitt’: Patrick Ball’s 15-Year Overnight Success
‘I’ve done a lot of things to survive,’ the actor tells me
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🎧 L.A.’s Mayoral Race Becomes a Fight for Hollywood Jobs
Finally, runaway production is a campaign issue — and the industry’s workers are the prize
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🎧 Power, Delusion & Matthew Macfadyen’s Post-‘Succession’ Bet
The Emmy winner plays a real-life presidential assassin in Netflix’s ‘Death by Lightning’
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The Mid-Career Reset: Two Top Execs Ditch Hollywood’s Playbook — and Find the Fun Again
Jana Winograde and Susan Rovner on their new app (scoop: we’ve got the name) and the bet on microdramas the industry can’t ignore
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🎧 The Merger Drama That Won’t Stay in Vegas
CinemaCon under a Paramount-Warners cloud; plus, inside the WGA deal with a top negotiator
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Sepideh Moafi on ‘The Pitt’ Twist She’s Been Hiding All Season
The actress explains her character’s emotional ending, and what comes next
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🎧 Jean Smart’s Perfect Exit (Again)
Why five seasons may be her sweet spot — but leaving ‘Hacks’ is more complicated
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🎧 The WGA’s Surprise Deal — SAG and DGA, You’re Up
A fast agreement delivers a major healthcare win but shifts the stakes for the next guilds at the table
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🎧 Steven Soderbergh on Art, Commerce & Legacy
The renaissance filmmaker on his new film, ‘The Christophers.’ Plus: An early Emmy season primer
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🎧 No Jobs, No Ladder, No Relief — Except, For Some, a Cigarette
Millennials’ careers stall as Gen Z takes up smoking
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🎧 Recklessly Early Oscar Predictions for 2027
From ‘Project Hail Mary’ to ‘The Odyssey,’ it’s never too soon to start thinking about next year’s top contenders
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🎧 ‘Silicon Valley’ Creators: Tech Bros ‘Don’t Give a Flying Fuck About Humanity’
Mike Judge and Alec Berg on their HBO comedy’s prescience about AI and Big Tech
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