Richard Rushfield
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You Won, David Ellison. Don’t Blow It
The dog caught the car. Now it’s time to prove how the deal makes Hollywood stronger
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Inside Paramount’s Deal Fine Print — Loopholes and Escape Hatches
30 films? Well, not so fast, says Matt Stoller
Latest Richard Rushfield stories
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Layoffs to Lost Guilds: Leaders, Pull Your S*** Together
10 man-made disasters coming this fall. It’s time to impeach the idiots
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The Rushfield Lunch: Nicholas Stoller & Francesca Delbanco
The ‘Platonic’ co-creators on comedy, theatrical and how they write: ‘We’re both hard on the material’
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Amber Alert: Hollywood Democrats Vanish — at the Worst Time
Don’t think Donald Trump is done with the studios or us
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Hollywood Syllabus: What to Read (and Watch) Before Opening Your Mouth
Franklin Leonard, R.J. Cutler, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Sarah Schecter and more share their essential curriculum for not embarrassing yourself — as do I
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How-To H’wood: Say Goodbye to Your Career the Right Way
The art of the transition: my final guide on industry survival
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How-To H’wood: Business Lunch Kabuki
Location, when to end chit-chat, and how to gain the upper hand. The art of the ‘friendly’ nosh — with an agenda
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How-To H’wood: Making Friends (and Keeping Them)
Insight into forging real bonds in this industry: part 2 of my four-day series
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How-To H’wood: The Blood Sport of Asking for a Favor
In the marketplace of asks lurks danger and payback. Part 1 of my four-day series with top names on outsmarting Hollywood’s dysfunction
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‘Naked Gun’, 90-Min. Movies & Hard Truths About Comedy Neglect
In my new Rushfield Rants series: A big LOL launch, the first in ages, means mid-budget crowd pleasers must return in a genre Hollywood left for dead
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The Rushfield Lunch: Lauren Greenfield
The ‘Social Studies’ creator and director says teens would ditch social media if they had the choice and are ‘nostalgic for the ’90s’
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‘South Park’ Rebellion & the Gaslighting of Hollywood
Trey Parker and Matt Stone poke a bear as our industry leaders cower
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The Rushfield Lunch: Joshuah Bearman
The writer/producer, whose work spawned ‘Argo’, has now written an account of Altadena and what was lost
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‘The Numbers Don’t Add Up’ Problem
On Colbert, Trump and the slippery slope that is leading us to the apocalypse
A must-read for industry insiders, Richard Rushfield’s columns are unfiltered and unflinching analysis of the people and forces reshaping the business.