Richard Rushfield
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Hayden Panettiere, the Final Blow of Child Stardom — and Hollywood’s Shame
Another lost soul joins an awful list of tragedies. When will this horror show make the industry realize something is wrong?
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First Look: Hollywood’s Secret AI Talks Go Public. Here’s the Plan
Kathleen Kennedy quietly convened Oscar winners, actors, studio execs, Silicon Valley — and me. Now our first public framework draws a line in favor of human-controlled AI
Latest Richard Rushfield stories
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The Rushfield Lunch: Lena Dunham
The actor-writer-director-producer reveals her new projects, when she might revisit ‘Girls’ & how she feels about Gen Z
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Shari’s Sliding Doors Moment is Closing
Plus: Zaslav wakes up to what HBO actually is. Congratulations!
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Mike & Pamaggeddon: Everyone Was Wrong But Won’t Let it Go
Naysayers reveal a deep self-defeating brokenness in our system
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H’wood Scion Matthew Specktor on Agents, Artists & the Arc of the Business
I sit down with my old friend to discuss a family’s journey in entertainment, growing up with CAA and more tales from his new memoir
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M&A Interruptus: Ellison, Malone & the Mystery Pause
What happened to the Golden Age of Consolidation under Trump? And are we really ready for the alternative? No, we are not
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Amazon Studios Founder Roy Price Helps Me Save Hollywood
On ‘The Rushfield Lunch’: A searing perspective on the streaming landscape and how to compete against Netflix
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Time to Weed Out Hollywood Idiots
Film-illiterate ne’er-do-wells are killing the business. I’ve got the test to prove it
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The Outsiders: 4 Players Fixing What Hollywood Won’t
The century-old studio players are too bloated to change. These newcomers have caught my attention
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CinemaCon: Uni, Disney & My Studio-by-Studio Journey
Pam & Mike swing strong, MGM blitzes, a chieftain walks onstage to ‘Baby Got Back’?! What really happened in Vegas
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Live from Las Vegas CinemaCon Wrap
Sean McNulty joins Richard Rushfield to discuss the movies, parties, candy and big topics of the theater business’ annual confab
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CinemaCon: Theater Owners’ Window Wonderland
Gimme more or . . . we’ll ask again?! Inside the tough talk about 45-day exclusivity and what we’re not saying out loud
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Science of Personality: Hope for the Anxious, Angry, Introverted
I talk to Olga Khazan about whether you can conquer who you are for ‘The Rushfield Lunch’
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Amazon’s Now All-in on Theaters. Why?
Plus: The ‘Snow White’ blame game, Penske piffle bubbles over, and much more
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Substack’s Hamish McKenzie on the Creator Revolution
The Substack cofounder joins my weekly live video show, ‘The Rushfield Lunch’, to dish about his hot platform — and up-close times with the world’s richest man
A must-read for industry insiders, Richard Rushfield’s columns are unfiltered and unflinching analysis of the people and forces reshaping the business.