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ICYMI: TV's Overall Deal Chaos; Paramount Peril; Agents' Brand Plays

Seinfeld's 'Unfrosted' and Hollywood's Cynical Corporate Cinematic Universe

You're Invited: Coming Events

🎧 TV Deal Turmoil 2024

Transcript: TV Deal Turmoil 2024

Katey Rich interviews Expats’ Lulu Wang & Sarayu Blue

☀️ A24, AMAZON Increase Q2 Buying Spree

☀️NETFLIX vs. Studios: Summer Movie Showdown

🎧 Paramount: Buy, Sell, Fight

TV Writers' New Strategy, Struggle: 'Everyone is Looking for Work'

Death of TV's Overall Deals (As We Knew Them)

Join Kelsey Grammer Tomorrow Night

☀️ WB's Big New Movie Deals As Stock Hits Record Low

Transcript: Paramount: Buy, Sell, Fight

Photos: 'Poolman' Premiere, Giffords' Gang

Come See Expats' Lulu Wang & Sarayu Blue

Paramount: A Slow-Motion Murder in Plain Sight

☀️PAR Q1: No Questions, No Profit and a 3-point Plan

Agents & Stars: Equity Stakes are the New 10%. While They Last

Join Kelsey Grammer This Thursday

The Ankler, Screen International Partner for Cannes Film Festival

'Great for the Refugee Quota!' BBC Doc Accusation Rocks the U.K.

☀️ Inside the 'Challengers' 💰 Math: Did Zendaya Open?

ICYMI: TV Agents' 'Rough' Market; AI-Made Docs; Dad TV Stats

🎧 How Dad TV Muscled Into Hollywood

Transcript: How Dad TV Muscled Into Hollywood

☀️ ROKU Rebounds, Reveals New Push to Own TV Viewers

Kelsey Grammer Has Entered The Chat!

My 'Blair Witch' Star Q&A; Zaslav, Ari & CEO Paycheck Shock

Prime Video and the Dad TV Myth

☀️ PEACOCK Q1 Subs Pop, But Losses Still Massive

Jen Psaki, Dee Dee Myers & Janice Min: In Conversation

🎧 Dumpster Diving on the Studio Lot

Marketing Mojo! 5 Studio Stunts that Struck Gold

☀️'Rebel Moon 2' tops NETFLIX globally — but U.S. Not So Much

Transcript: Dumpster Diving on the Studio Lot

True Crime Docs' Terrifying AI Future

☀️ APPLE Sets Sights on Next Global Sports Deal

Ed Zwick and Janice Min: In Conversation

5 TV Agents on the State of the Industry

☀️Horror's 2023 Heater is Over, as 'Abigail' Fails to Wow

ICYMI: TV Agents Reveal What's Selling; CAA's AI Vault; How to Lose $500M

Ted, Ari and Netflix's New Sports Bloodlust

🎧 AI and Hollywood's 'Sophie's Choice'

Transcript: AI and Hollywood's 'Sophie's Choice'

☀️ NETFLIX Ends Subs Reporting — Why & What it Means for Streaming

A24 Enters the Uncanny Valley

☀️ APPLE TV+ Finds Its Franchise Series

🎧 Burger King Kids Club

Participant and How to Lose Half a Billion in Hollywood*

☀️New CHARTER TV Bundle Shows Exactly What's Wrong with Hollywood

Transcript: Burger King Kids Club

Death, Taxes and 49 Hollywood Inevitabilities

☀️ NETFLIX Films Strategy Shift Reveals New Opportunities

‘Is it Too Late?’: Talent Lawyers, CAA Reveal AI Behind-the-Scenes Rights Fight

5 TV Agents Reveal What's Selling Now

☀️'Civil War' Tops Predictions, Audience Scores Mixed

ICYMI: AI Script Reading; Job Hope After Layoffs; Par's 99 Problems

Where I Answer the Question, 'Are You Not Entertained?'

A Movie Called 'Civil War' Shouldn’t Avoid Politics This Much

Katey Rich Joins The Ankler as Awards Editor

🎧 The Paramount Soap Opera

Transcript: The Paramount Soap Opera

☀️ TV Upfronts Preview: 'Flat Is the New Up'

How the Esports Bubble Burst and Why

A Very British TV Tempest Rocks the International Market

☀️ Sudden PAR Board Exits Put 🧐 on SKYDANCE Talks

🎧 Gossipy, Critical, Snippy

AI Script Coverage: Machines vs. Humans

Fear and Kvetching in Las Vegas: CinemaCon Day 1

☀️ NETFLIX Global Film Strategy Paying Off in 2024

Transcript: Gossipy, Critical, Snippy

RIPLEY is “Masterful, Sumptuous, and Suspenseful" | Watch Now on Netflix

☀️ Layoffs, Re-org Hits NETFLIX Films

Join Us For A Loki Affair

Jobs One Year After the Bloodbath: Hope & Pain

Meet a Sasquatch — Live Q&As with Directors and Stars of SASQUATCH SUNSET

Walt vs. Spielberg: 'The Players' Tourney Final

☀️'Omen' misses as Women's 🏀 Dominates Weekend

'The Players' Tourney: Final Four

ICYMI: Endeavor Wall St. Wipeout; AI at the Gates; TV Exec Tell-All

'The Players' Tourney: Elite Eight

Ari, Patrick and Endeavor's Delusion of Being a Tech Company

🎧 How Ari & Iger Outfoxed Wall St.

Transcript: How Ari & Iger Outfoxed Wall Street

☀️ PAR 💰 Fears Resurface, as Streaming JV Talk Enters Picture

The AI Evangelists vs. Hollywood

☀️ What's Next for Endeavor? Follow the Exec 💰 Incentives

🎧 'It Only Made, Like, $50 Million'

'The Players' Tourney: Sweet Sixteen

Private Thoughts of an Anonymous TV Studio Production Exec

Tom Hiddleston at Harmony Gold

☀️ Endeavor Goes Private, What's Next and What it Means for Talent

Transcript: 'It Only Made, Like, $50 Million'

'The Players' Tourney, Round 2: 1970s-2000s

☀️ OpenAI Drops Potential Voiceover Work Destroyer

'The Players' Tourney: Round 2 Begins

Death of 'Craft': U.K. Actors vs. Streaming Age

☀️'Godzilla' Destroys Tracking with Kong Assist

ICYMI: TV's Darwin Event; WBD Endgame

The Ankler and Backstage Team Up for Screening Series

The Ankler x Backstage Invite You To...

🎧 UTA vs. the Talented Mr. Kassan

Transcript: UTA vs. the Talented Mr. Kassan

☀️ Q1 Streaming TV Output: How Bad Was It?

'The Players' Tourney: 2010s-Now

Disney and Uni's Moanageddon Game of Release-Date Chicken

Peacock, NFL and Streaming's Dangerous Double Standard

☀️ AMAZON's March Film Spending Spree Booms — but NETFLIX gets Alan Ritchson pic 🧐

'The Players' Tourney: Big IP Era

'Lose the Romney': Inside Ronna McDaniel's Long Fall

🎧 The '10 Pages in One Night' Trick

☀️ A24 in Springsteen Pic talks, as New Project News Surges

Transcript: The '10 Pages in One Night' Trick

'The Players' Tourney: Easy Riders/Raging Bulls Round

Endgame: WBD and Streaming Wars' Final Scenarios

☀️ OPENAI Enlists Humans in Hollywood March

Todd on the Town: 'Road House' to 'All American'

TV Production Decline: 'A Darwin Sort of Event'

Ankler Bracket: 'The Players' Tourney Starts Now

☀️ Ghostbusters Nails Tracking, Dune 2 blows past Wonka

ICYMI: Kassan Bombshells; Netflix Job Hunt; U.K. Agent Woes

Michael Kassan Files: PPP Loan, $3.3M IRS Lien and 'Fired Up'

🎧 Wall Street's War on Hollywood

Transcript: Wall Street's War on Hollywood

☀️ Eisner, Powell Jobs enter DISNEY Board Fray

Agents, Actors and Warning Signs from the U.K.: 'Forget TV's Golden Era'

Ready to Talk about Hollywood's Kids Yet?

☀️ Inside the $11B PAR Offer

🎧 The Scariest Word in Hollywood

☀️ NETFLIX Film Gets Biggest Viewership since 'Glass Onion'

Transcript: The Scariest Word in Hollywood

Perverse Incentives of the Poobahs

☀️ WB A-List Theatrical Spending Blitz Continues

📸 Todd on the Town: From 'Apples' to Austin

The Job Files: Netflix and NBCU

☀️ Wahlberg's Dog Falters, Strong Panda Rules

ICYMI: Creative Jobs 911; Movies' Missing Billions

🎧 Disney, WBD and Hollywood's Jobs Shift

Transcript: Disney, WBD and Hollywood's Jobs Shift

☀️ NETFLIX Doubles Down on Limited Series

Mysterious Case of the Missing Box-Office Billions

7 Lingering Oscar Night Puzzles

☀️ PAR Parts-Sale: India Deal Raises Half-Bil

Where the Jobs Are (and Aren't), Part II

☀️ UTA in Lawsuit War with Division Head

☀️ If Ads Are Streaming’s Future, Which Streamers Are Winning

Todd on the Town

Murdoch's U.K. Fox News Dream Fizzles

This is Me Smiling at the Oscars

Murdoch's U.K. Fox News Dream Fizzles

The Academy Isn't Built for Sweeps Anymore

☀️'Kung Fu Panda' Overperforms, 'Oppenheimer' takes top Oscar

ICYMI: Ozempic Oscars; Netflix's New Ambition

🎧 Netflix's New Sports Playbook

Transcript: Netflix's New Sports Playbook

How Ozempic Ate Awards Season

Welcome to High Society. THE GENTLEMEN is Now Available on Netflix.

☀️ TIKTOK PR Stunt Backfires

I'll See You at the Oscars

☀️ NETFLIX Enters Boxing, PAR in Talks for Next Asset Sale

🎧 Shut Up and Pitch

IATSE vs. Studios: Fear, Smoke and Possible Fire

☀️ Iger Defends Disney Creative Process to Wall Street

Transcript: Shut Up and Pitch

State of the Industry 2024: Hope

The Ankler's 1st Annual Oscar Pool

Netflix Exec: 'We’ve Now Talked to Every League, Every Athlete, Every Team'

☀️ Dune 2 Destroys, but Rest of Box Office 😴

ICYMI: Lin for the Win at Netflix

🎧 Film Shakeup at Netflix and Disney

Transcript: Film Shakeup at Netflix and Disney

☀️ "Sports Cartel" in Crosshairs as Cord-Cutting Surges in Q4

I Am Big. It's the Pictures That Got Small

Binge Release vs. Weekly: Who's Winning Now

☀️ PAR Cutting '24 TV Spend, Sets Plan for U.S. Streaming Profit

🎧 We Cannot Be Boring

☀️ Endeavor's Fine, but uh, No Questions Please

Transcript: We Cannot Be Boring

Meeska! Mooska! Bailey Ankles Disney!

☀️ DISNEY Makes Leadership Change in Live-Action Film

Photos: Todd on the Town

Teamsters Boss Lindsay Dougherty: One-on-One

Lily Gladstone Makes History with SAG Lead Actress Win in Martin Scorsese’s KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

☀️Box Office ⬇️ Every Weekend in '24 vs. '23

ICYMI: Zaslav's Hollywood; AI Shock; Strike Three?

Transcript: Warner Bros.' Wobbly Future

Brian Williams on SOCIETY OF THE SNOW an Inspirational True Story from J.A. Bayona | FYC Best International Feature

🎧 Warner Bros.' Wobbly Future

Richard Rushfield's Field Guides

The Making of Barbie & How its Artistry Captivated a Global Audience

DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS | Now Playing Only in Theaters

Field Guide #5: Reporters

☀️ WB's Grim Q4: Strikes, Cord Cutting & "Underperforming" Studio

Berlin Interrupted: Gaza Tumult, Right-Wing Pols, Navalny

For Your Consideration - Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - Best Animated Feature

Best Actor Slugfest: Oscar's Best Drama

FYC |Oscar® Nominated BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT | “It’s a Campaign For Life”

Shock and Awe: OpenAI's Video Rocks Hollywood

Field Guide #4: Executives

☀️Movie Biz Amps Up Casting for Busy Spring

Academy Award® Nominee Elemental - “The Strongest Character-Driven Narrative We’ve Ever Seen In a Major Animated Movie”

🎧 I Don’t Get Important Phone Calls

David Zaslav's Blown Up Hollywood. Now It's Robert Evans' Home

Academy Award® Nominee, Best Special Effects, GODZILLA MINUS ONE is "one of the best movies of the year"

Field Guide #3: Agents

☀️ Sports Hulu Scores its First Legal Headache

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON | Martin Scorsese on his longtime creative collaboration with composer Robbie Robertson, nominated for Best Original Score | Watch Now

Transcript: I Don’t Get Important Phone Calls

For Your Consideration - Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse - Best Animated Feature

Field Guide #2: Writers

"It’s All About Forgiveness” & “Humanity’s Healing” - Martin Scorsese | KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, Nominated for 10 Oscars

Pros vs. Cons: 10 at the Finish Line

🎧 The Making of Bella Baxter and a Mad Scientist

🎧 The Making of Bella Baxter and a Mad Scientist

Transcript: The Making of Bella Baxter and a Mad Scientist

BARBIE "Smashes the Glass Ceiling of Cinema" | Nominated for 8 Academy Awards incl BEST PICTURE + ADAPTED SCREENPLAY – Go Behind the Scenes

Field Guide #1: Actors

FYC | PERFECT DAYS | Best International Feature

'Strike Ready': A Two-Front Labor Fight in Two Weeks

☀️ Bob Marley dunks on Madame Web, blows away tracking

ICYMI: Landgraf's View of the Market; Christian Gold Mine

Introducing 'Todd on the Town', Our New Photo Newsletter

Watch in full THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK, EP’d by Dwyane Wade + The New Yorker I Academy Award Nominated Documentary Short Film

FYC: “Best Picture of the Year” THE HOLDOVERS | Nominated for 5 Academy Awards, Winner of 3 Critics Choice Awards and 2 Golden Globes

‘Silk: Spider Society' Writers Room 'Paused' at Amazon

🎧 Paramount's Best/Worst Week Ever

🎧 Paramount's Best/Worst Week Ever

Transcript: Paramount's Best/Worst Week Ever

☀️ OpenAI Launches New Video Weapon; ROKU Stock Plummets

Faith-Based Films and TV: The Next Big Thing?

From American Beauty to NYAD, a Look Back at Annette Bening’s Illustrious Career | SAG® & Oscar® Nominated for BEST ACTRESS

The Netflix Film Chief Favorite Is...

☀️ A-List Signals Hot 2024 Film Marketplace as EFM Begins

🎧 The Imaginary List of Approved Writers

Female Execs' Awful Truth

☀️ ESPN Doubling Down on College Sports in $7+ Billion deal

Transcript: The Imaginary List of Approved Writers

The Washington Post Calls OPPENHEIMER a “Masterpiece” | Nominated for 13 Academy Awards | Watch a Conversation with Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy & Robert Downey Jr.

Super Bowl and the Entertainment 'Event' Siren Song

☀️ PAR's Good/Bad News: Mass Layoffs Start Amid Super Bowl Ratings Record

Grim, Global, Gutsy. And Going for Gold

DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS | Only in Theaters February 23

DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS | Only in Theaters February 23

Brad Pitt Says Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’ Is a “Masterwork” (WATCH) | FYC Best Actor + Best Makeup & Hairstyling

John Landgraf: One-on-One

☀️ The Box Office Hits Bottom

ICYMI: Where the Jobs Are; Doc Drama; TV News Star $$ Falling

🎧 Disney's Next Decade

Transcript: Disney's Next Decade

☀️Lionsgate & AMC Show Squeeze is on for Mid-Sized Hollywood

How Documentary Went Off the Rails

BARBIE Smashes the Glass Ceiling | Nominated for 8 Academy Awards incl. BEST PICTURE | Go Behind the Scenes with Producer Margot Robbie

How Documentary Went Off the Rails

☀️ Inside Iger's Disney Stock Pop, What's Making/Losing Money

The Falling TV News Star Salary

🎧 If Lucy Ran a TV Network

The Falling TV News Star Salary

☀️ The Studios Just Lit the Fuse to Blow-up the Cable TV Bundle

Transcript: If Lucy Ran a TV Network

How to Save a $70B Business We Don't Know What To Do With

☀️SPOTIFY Crosses 600M Users, Still Loses Money

Oscar, Actors and the Double Exposure Effect

Where The TV Jobs Are Now (And Not)

☀️'Argylle' Latest $200M APPLE Dud as Feb. Box Office Looks Grim

ICYMI: Stuber Succession Names, L.A. Private School Wars

Hollywood's New Private School Arms Race

🎧 Netflix's Search for the Most Powerful Job in Film

🎧 Netflix's Search for the Most Powerful Job in Film

Transcript: Netflix's Search for the Most Powerful Job in Film

☀️CHARTER #CordCutting Up, Growth Stuck, Stock Plummets

Netflix's Threat Isn't in Hollywood. It's YouTube

"Lily Gladstone dominates every scene” | KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON is nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Actress & Best Picture

New Netflix Film Chief Name in the Mix; Sweeney Mystery

☀️ HULU Next in Password Crackdowns, but How Potent are They

Who You Gonna Call? To Save a Theater, Jason Reitman

☀️ YOUTUBE 💰 Growth Returns, Tops NETFLIX in Q4

Handicapping the Stuber Succession Sweepstakes

The Ankler-LAist Partnering on Entertainment News for SoCal's Largest Public Radio Station

☀️ The Rewatchables: Nielsen Reveals Library Dominance at NETFLIX and More

'Parasite' to 'Past Lives': Korea's Hitmakers Strike Oscar, Again

How Netflix’s $5B WWE Deal Could Body-Slam Reality's Slump

☀️ NFL-less Dudes Hit BEEKEEPER as Jan. Box Office Limps to an End

ICYMI: Netflix Quake; Toughest Job in Tinseltown

Watch Lily Gladstone’s “Unforgettable, Timeless, and Spellbinding” Performance in KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON | Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture

🎧 The Rapid-Fire News Out of Netflix

Transcript: The Rapid-Fire News Out of Netflix

☀️ A-List Movie Packages Rule January Dealmaking

FYC – "SUCCESSION”. Don’t miss the series IndieWire calls “THE END ALL, BE ALL OF TV”.

Penske's 'Killers' Eraser, Sundance Postcard Part 2

☀️PEACOCK $$ Bleed: An Enigma Wrapped in an Earnings Report

🎧 Fragile Egos Don't Take Fountain

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON is “A Landmark Motion Picture Achievement” Now Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Actress, Lily Gladstone & Best Picture

‘Pain Sponge’: The New Hell of Being PR Chief

Transcript: Fragile Egos Don't Take Fountain

☀️ NETFLIX Boomtimes Return in Q4 💰! What Lies Ahead for 2024

The Fever Dream of Barbenheimer

Shake-up at the Netflix Film Corral

☀️ NETFLIX-WWE Surprise Deal: $$ Breakdown, What it Means

Putting the Hard 'R' in Oscar

What the TV Market is Telling Us

☀️ The 2024 Box Office Collapse Begins

ICYMI: The Art of the Dealmakers

Postcard from Sundance... Starting with H'wood Agents at Burbank Airport

Transcript: Ari Golds of a New Hollywood

🎧 Ari Golds of a New Hollywood

☀️The NETFLIX Films 2023 List - What Dominated, What Missed

Agents' New Big Deal: Quitting

Why Do Deals Take So Long To Sign?

☀️AMAZON Upheaval Continues, Pulls Plug on 2nd Global Region

🎧 Cover Charge and a Minimum

'Series Business' TV Newsletter to Launch

Tales from the Agency Mailroom. Still a Thing

☀️NETFLIX Oscar hopeful is bonafide global hit

Transcript: Cover Charge and a Minimum

FYC | FERRARI | Penélope Cruz - Best Supporting Actress

Big Managers of the Moment 2024

Prepare to be dazzled by Leonardo DiCaprio’s complex portrayal in the captivating epic KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

'Color Purple' and Oscar's Musical Curse

PGA Nominated ELEMENTAL: Director Peter Sohn in Conversation with Composer Thomas Newman

☀️ MEAN GIRLS takes 👑, BEEKEEPER shows #DadTV has theatrical life

ICYMI: Tip Sheet 2024; Mistake of Making Musicals; Richard in Sundance

THE COLOR PURPLE | “A vibrant and joyous tour de force with a perfect ensemble"

FYC | ANATOMY OF A FALL | Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay

Ta-Da! Welcome to AnklerEnjoy

Stop Paying McKinsey! 7 Steps to Get Our Groove Back

THE HOLDOVERS | For Your Consideration in all categories including Best Director and Best Picture of the Year

🎧 Pain in the New Year: Amazon Layoffs, Paramount Peril

Transcript: Pain in the New Year: Amazon Layoffs, Paramount Peril

☀️ The NBA is not winning for ABC in January

Early Signs of a Hollywood Turnaround

Movie Musicals: Myths, Money and Mistakes

JANE CAMPION on BARBIE with Writer/Director GRETA GERWIG & Writer NOAH BAUMBACH

A Grueling Love Story, Loved by the Obamas

☀️ PAR Widens Hunt for Suitors; Amazon Axings Revealed

🎧 Hey, That's My Joke!

Transcript: Hey, That's My Joke!

9 Questions that Will Define 2024

THE HOLDOVERS | For Your Consideration in all categories including Best Director and Best Picture of the Year

☀️ Layoffs Come for AMAZON, MGM

Gang of Five: the CEOs Deciding Hollywood's Fate

Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER | Winner of 5 Golden Globes Including Best Picture (Drama)

☀️DISNEY rumored for another huge College Sports TV deal

☀️DISNEY rumored for another huge College Sports TV deal

For Your Consideration | Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project a film by Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson

Congrats Jay Penske! You Made the RC Cola of Awards Shows

☀️ANYONE BUT YOU stuns, NIGHT SWIM takes silver medal

THE HOLDOVERS | For Your Consideration in all categories including Best Director and Best Picture of the Year

ICYMI: 5 Days of Rushfield Event! Starts Tomorrow

CONSIDER “ORIGIN” | Best Picture | “Few American Movies This Year Reach So High, So Boldly” | Written and Directed By Ava DuVernay

H'wood Saudi Pivot: the Players and Playbook

🎧 'It's Like California in the 1920s'

H'wood Saudi Pivot: the Players and Playbook

Greta Gerwig’s BARBIE “Feels Like a New Dimension in Modern Cinema” | Nominated for 18 Critics Choice Awards & 9 Golden Globes

Transcript: 'It's Like California in the 1920s'

☀️DISNEY Sets Near $1B Deal with NCAA

Jamboree: It Was All a Fever Dream

☀️ A Futile and Stupid Gesture: Things That Will Happen in 2024

My Email From George Santos: HBO Was ‘Scammed’

Yellow Ribbons on the Red Carpet for Israeli Hostages? Maybe

Hollywood's 2024 To-Don't List

Transcript: Hollywood's 2024 To-Don't List

☀️ Ad Buyers Rank the Streamers, as Churn Grows

Hollywood 2024: 10 Resolutions

☀️ WONKA Wins, MIGRATION Flutters, Calling BS on 2023 Movie Biz Hot Takes