Richard Rushfield
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TV’s Mount Rushmore, According to 50 Hollywood Insiders
I polled the industry for the four most influential figures in the history of the industry — and the runner-up legends
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Scripted TV’s Hazy Future: 3 Burning Questions
Consolidation, storytelling and AI — where does television go from here?
Latest Richard Rushfield stories
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Hollywood’s Backslide Into White Male Directors Becomes Undeniable
How to chase away our future, one complacent decision at a time
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Hollywood’s Advancement in the Art of the Layoff Memo
The industry ‘right-sizes’ its way into the ‘future’; thanks, John Malone!
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Female Directors and Hollywood’s Grim Post-#MeToo Reality
We’re in our own manosphere and it’s time to get mad
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Springsteen, Elizabeth Warren & the Last Populists in Hollywood
A senator calls out a WBD mega-merger while Bruce sings about America’s soul. So why does the industry hum along in silence?
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Our Close Encounters of the AI Kind
Silicon Valley didn’t conquer Hollywood — it cloned it. So why are our leaders suspiciously quiet?
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Hollywood’s Death Wish: Starring Everyone Who Should Know Better
Paramount, Warners and a silence that could kill the business
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Jane Fonda Relaunches the Committee for the First Amendment with 550+ Signatories (Including Me)
Fonda will talk to me LIVE today about the group, first led by her dad to fight McCarthyism: ‘This is not symbolic. This is a fight’
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Originals Win the Long Game. Warners’ Slate Just Showed Us How
Appraising a year-long lineup and its value to a business. The first in my State of Slate series
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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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FFS, Thank God. A Paean to Bob Iger & Dana Walden
Disney did the right thing (after going wrong). But Trump’s still coming for us
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The Kimmel Capitulation: We’re in F*** City
Disney serves up one of its biggest faces. Now let’s find our fight
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Hollywood: Now the Joe Biden of Industries
Aimless, out of step, in denial: How to lose while pretending we’re winning
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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
A must-read for industry insiders, Richard Rushfield’s columns are unfiltered and unflinching analysis of the people and forces reshaping the business.