Richard Rushfield
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YouTube Horror Kids vs. Nolan: Beware of Summer’s Wrong Lessons
Against all odds, it’s a great time for theatrical — now just don’t get cocky
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How to: Survive TV Development Hell in Hollywood
Secrets for enduring notes, free work and the heartbreak of a process built to kill great ideas
Latest Richard Rushfield stories
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Two Scary Numbers Hollywood’s Pretending Not to See
A shrinking Oscars audience and a looming debt bomb
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Elephant at the Oscars: Great Movies, Terrible Moment
The good, the bad and my 32 photos from inside
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A Brutal David Ellison Billboard Is Coming to the Oscars
Scoop: I’ll give you the big reveal; plus Iranian drone panic and a rousing night at the DGA
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Grading the Tycoons’ Exits
Zaslav joins a long lineage that includes players from Bronfman to Bewkes
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14 Dangerous Ideas for a New New Hollywood
The blueprint for post-consolidation entertainment is here
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Matt Stoller to Hollywood: Time for a ‘Knife-Fight’ Over Paramount-WBD
‘Not fighting has consequences,’ the antitrust expert says — and the industry has weeks to prove it to state attorneys general
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State of the Showbiz Union: Hollywood Is Dead. Long Live Hollywood
The corporate era is over. What comes next depends on us
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The WGA Files & the $80,000 Business Card
I peek inside the disclosures; plus: the new new Colbert mess
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The Trump Dossiers: Hollywood Cowards
Most of our industry leaders have cozied up to the president. Let’s not let them forget
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The Josh D’Amaro Coronation Olympics: A Week of Gold-Medal Butt-Kissing
Far from Cortina, a choice we’re told was so obvious… it took years to make
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Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook and the ‘Melania’ Trap
There is no ‘I’m kinda Trump’: You either are or you’re not
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The People, the Parties: Inside the Last Sundance in Park City
Who I saw, what I did and what mattered to everyone this year
A must-read for industry insiders, Richard Rushfield’s columns are unfiltered and unflinching analysis of the people and forces reshaping the business.