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TV in 3: Seth MacFarlane-Peacock Open Marriage; a WB Insider’s Vicious Substack
☀️UNI’s New Movie Tactics Bring Hope
A Semi-Farewell: My Favorite Ankler Data Dives
A Brutal David Ellison Billboard Is Coming to the Oscars
My Final Oscar Predictions: Part 2
🎧 Oscar Week: Prestige and Panic
☀️SONY TV Exec Shakeup; HULU’s ’26 TV Pilot Heater
Why Did Ben Affleck Start an AI Company in Secret?
Why Did Ben Affleck Start an AI Company in Secret?
After Katzenberg: Hollywood Democrats Come Back To Life — With Cash
🎧 How the Oscars Actually Happen
Bill Lawrence: How I Turned a Slump Into a TV Hot Streak
Bill Lawrence: How I Turned a Slump Into a TV Hot Streak
☀️NETFLIX Scores Huge with Alan Ritchson
Hollywood's Employed Unemployeds
YouTube Is the Biggest Media Company — and Creators Are Going Full Studio
☀️ Movie Theater Biz Report 2025
The Internet Made Luigi Mangione a Star. Watch the Short Documentary ‘LUIGI’ on Rolling Stone
Warners’ 9-Film No. 1 Streak Left at ‘The Bride!’ Altar
My Final Oscar Predictions: Part 1
‘Show Wall St. the Blood’: A Biz Affairs Exec on the Brutal Paramount-Warners Math Ahead
‘Show Wall St. the Blood’: A Biz Affairs Exec on the Brutal Paramount-Warners Math Ahead
☀️PIXAR’s ‘Hoppers’ Pop; WB’s ‘Bride’ Jilted
A New New Hollywood Forms; Jeff Shell Vanishes; Annapurna Returns
TV in 3: Where’s Jeff Shell?; The New Showrunner Arms Race
☀️ ANNAPURNA Comes Back To Life; AMAZON 🫶 Gyllenhaal
The Oscars’ Arrogance Is the Point
Taking Stock of the ‘Sinners’ Vibe Shift
Int’l Brief: The Banijay Behemoth, Europe Tests Paramount-WBD, ‘SNL’ vs. London
Int’l Brief: The Banijay Behemoth, Europe Tests Paramount-WBD, ‘SNL’ vs. London
🎧 The Paramount-Warners Plan They Won’t Say Out Loud
☀️NETFLIX Buys Affleck AI Company; TKO’s ’26 Ambitions
10 Burning Qs: Paramount–Warner Bros. — What Survives, and Who
10 Burning Qs: Paramount–Warner Bros. — What Survives, and Who
The Lost Movie Palaces of L.A.
☀️ NETFLIX 🎥 Viewership Slump Continues
'Wake Up Dead Man' and Religion on Screen
RSVP Today: Top Directors on Representation & the Business of Filmmaking 3.6
Identity Is the New Piracy. Will You Get Paid For Your Likeness?
Identity Is the New Piracy. Will You Get Paid For Your Likeness?
Digging Deeper on Kalshi’s MrBeast Insider Trading Scam
14 Dangerous Ideas for a New New Hollywood
🎧 Two Days Out: Oscar Shockers, Shorts and Second Thoughts
☀️VERSANT’s Rough 2026 Ahead, Plans For Growth
The Disappearing Ladder: Gen Z Inherits the Collapse
The Disappearing Ladder: Gen Z Inherits the Collapse
Michael B. Jordan’s Big Night Happened at the Exact Right Time
☀️‘Scream’ Win Saves Otherwise Scary Box Office
Paramount-WB Org Chart From Hell; Rushfield’s Hit Manifesto
🎧 Kate Hudson’s Wild Oscar Ride: ‘It Doesn’t Come Along Often’
Ryan Coogler & Franklin Leonard on How ‘Sinners’ Became the Director’s Most Personal Film Yet
She Quit Hollywood. Now They Subscribe to Her in Secret
TV in 3: Warners’ ‘Tone-Deaf’ Town Hall; Falchuk on ‘Famous Last Words’
Link to watch Oscar® nominated RETIREMENT PLAN now | Starring Domhnall Gleeson
Matt Stoller to Hollywood: Time for a ‘Knife-Fight’ Over Paramount-WBD
☀️ PSKY-WBD Reality: Huge Debt, Layoffs, Streaming & News Chaos
The Brazilian Wave Hits the Oscars
☀️WBD’s Dark Q4 as Turnaround Signs Start Too Late
My Favorite Netflix Bros. Conspiracy Theory
☀️PSKY Q4: Half Billion 💰 Bleed, But Streaming Finds Profit
How the BAFTA winning AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH VFX Team Achieved Groundbreaking Performance-Capture
Superagent Robert Newman’s Big Oscar Ideas: A Live Best Picture Elimination
You’re Invited: The Ankler & DGA Discuss The State of Film Directing 3.6
Org Chart From Hell: ‘Too Many Tentacles for One Octopus’
Org Chart From Hell: ‘Too Many Tentacles for One Octopus’
When Pitt Fought Cruise — and Why Hollywood Could Barely Punch Back
When Pitt Fought Cruise — and Why Hollywood Could Barely Punch Back
🎧 Paramount vs. Netflix: Your Big Questions Answered
☀️ What WBD Is Really Telling PSKY & NETFLIX
State of the Showbiz Union: Hollywood Is Dead. Long Live Hollywood
🎧 Realizing Guillermo del Toro’s Dream: Inside the Production Design of ‘Frankenstein’
Discovery Is Broken. This Startup Says Its Tech Can Help Creators Fix That
🎧 The Hug That Helped Make an Oscar Nominee
☀️ PSKY’s Mystery WBD Bid; Shell Threatened with Lawsuit
Glen Powell & A24 Fail to Make a ‘Killing’
Inside the Powerful Realism of ‘One Battle After Another’
A ‘Top Model’ Reckoning Goes No. 1 on Netflix. Why?
A ‘Top Model’ Reckoning Goes No. 1 on Netflix. Why?
BAFTA Shockwaves Hit the Oscar Race
☀️‘Goat’ Shows Legs as 🎥 Newbies Stumble
Wasserman Feeding Frenzy; TV’s Three-Bucket Reset
🎧 ‘Blue Moon’ Pushed Ethan Hawke Harder Than Ever
Penny Lane and the Tyranny of Cool
TV in 3: Netflix Adult Animation Spree, WGA Disarray
Songwriter Marc Shaiman vs. the ‘Unfair’ Oscars
☀️ PSKY Passes DOJ Hurdle As Senate Perks Up
You’re Invited — Prestige Junkie Live! with Kate Hudson 2.26
The Man Who Built ‘Marty Supreme’ (and Won Over Chalamet)
🎧 Hollywood Is Back on Strike Watch
The WGA Files & the $80,000 Business Card
Tubi’s Gen Z Grab in the U.K. Heats Up
Tubi’s Gen Z Grab in the U.K. Heats Up
ZOOTOPIA 2 | Academy Awards & BAFTA Nominee - Learn More about the Creative Process
🎧 From ‘Us Weekly’ to City Hall? Spencer Pratt Makes His Case to Janice Min — Again
The Three Budget Buckets Running TV in 2026
The Three Budget Buckets Running TV in 2026
Gen Z Will Make or Break These 7 Upcoming IP Films
☀️WBD to PSKY: Put Up or Shut Up
Only Two Sequels in the Top 10 — And That’s the Story
The Billion-Dollar Scramble for Wasserman
The Billion-Dollar Scramble for Wasserman
🎧 Ryan Coogler Wrote ‘Sinners’ for Wunmi Mosaku — She Just Didn’t Know It
Video Pods Are Eating TV. Apple Wants In
Introducing: The Disappearing Ladder
☀️‘Wuthering’ Withers, ‘GOAT’ Scores, ‘Crime’ Doesn’t Pay
Epstein, Wasserman & Who’s in the Files; Bari Weiss’ TV News Pay Squeeze
🎧 What It Really Feels Like to Be an Oscar Nominee
Creator Spotlight: The AI Expert Teaching 500,000 on Instagram
TV in 3: WGA Signals Lines in the Sand as Studio Talks Loom
‘Heated Rivalry’ and the Risk of Loving Romance to Death
Canada’s Instant Cult Hit Comes for America
☀️AMAZON Film Spree Grows; ROKU Turnaround Gains
Bari Weiss and the Great TV News Pay Cut
The Only Day Every Oscar Nominee Wins
Universal’s Michael Moses: My Modern Movie Playbook
🎧 The Epstein Files Hit Hollywood
☀️APPLE Buys Out ‘Severance’; SONY Snares Momoa
Searching the Epstein Files: Hollywood’s New Test of Fame (and Nerves)
Fox’s Michael Thorn: A Faster Path to Yes — ‘No Layers,’ No Pilots
Fox’s Michael Thorn: A Faster Path to Yes — ‘No Layers,’ No Pilots
☀️WBD Activist Rattles NETFLIX BROS. Deal
Creators Move to Unionize. Hollywood Wants to Help. Solidarity Not Guaranteed
How Hollywood Choked Sora 2’s Rise
How Hollywood Choked Sora 2’s Rise
The Trump Dossiers: Hollywood Cowards
🎧 The Death of Sex on Screen Was Greatly Exaggerated
☀️ WTF Happened To January Movies
Coppola & Lucas Started a Studio in the 1970s. Disaster Followed
Curious Case of Kevin James; Charli XCX’s ‘Moment’ Missed
President Nolan, a DGA Love Fest & ‘The Secret Agent’ Moment
‘Middle-Power’ Execs: Scrappier, Indie, Fast Greenlights — ‘Heated Rivalry’ Included
‘Middle-Power’ Execs are Having a Moment: ‘Don’t Need a Studio and a Water Tower’
☀️H’wood Super Bowl Ad Report; Feb. Box Office ❤️ Low-Budget Films
D’Amaro–Walden: 5 Must-Reads to Decode Disney’s New Power Map
You’re Invited to Crowd Pleaser LIVE “Zootopia 2” 2.11
Creator Spotlight: How ‘Fantasy Footballers’ Won the Long Game Beyond the Super Bowl
Indie Film is Broken. Ted Hope Has a New Idea: ‘NonDē’
TV in 3: Dana’s Dilemma, Daytime Goes Dark, and ‘The Floor’ SCOOP
☀️NETFLIX Nabs Blackpink’s Lisa, Kerry Washington For Growing 🎥 Slate
Oscar Dirty Tricks in the Social Media Age
The Josh D’Amaro Coronation Olympics: A Week of Gold-Medal Butt-Kissing
🎧 White Smoke Over Space Mountain: Disney Crowns Josh D’Amaro
Disney vs. Netflix on Int’l: The D’Amaro–Walden Test
Disney vs. Netflix on Int'l: The D’Amaro–Walden Test
☀️NETFLIX vs. YOUTUBE: How The 2025 💰 Stacks Up
5 Burning Qs: Dana Walden, Disney’s Creative Reset — and the Internal Power Scramble Ahead
5 Burning Qs: Dana Walden, Disney’s Creative Reset — and the Internal Power Scramble Ahead
Cinema. Cuisine. Culture. NVAAFF Returns Feb 6–7
Age of Cinemanesia: The Vanishing Afterlife of Movies
☀️APPLE Rejects Theatrical With ’26 🎥 Slate
Catherine O’Hara, A Writer’s Dream
🎧 ‘KPop Demon Hunters’: Maggie Kang on Rumi’s Skateboard Origins
The Bob Era Is Over. Meet Josh
Ben Meiselas Built ‘MeidasTouch’ Into an Empire as TV News ‘Betrayed Their Audiences’
Warnings as SAG’s 5-Month Strike Clock Starts: ‘They’re Angry. And Feel Unheard’
Warnings as SAG’s 5-Month Strike Clock Starts: ‘They’re Angry. And Feel Unheard’
☀️Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro's To-Do List, Mandates & Messes to Fix
Lachlan Murdoch and the Cold Calculations of Estrangement: Fox Before Family
The ‘Melania’ Mirage: A $7M ‘Hit’ That Isn’t
The Surprise ‘Avatar’ Costume Design Nom, Years in the Making, in an AI Era
☀️DISNEY Q4 Numbers: Theme Park 💰 Buries Entertainment
‘Heated Rivalry’ Effect: Bidding Wars and 7-Figure IP as Romance Sizzles
‘Heated Rivalry’ Effect: Bidding Wars and 7-Figure IP as Romance Sizzles
☀️55+ Powers ‘Melania’; ‘Send Help’ & YOUTUBER Pic Pop
29 Shadow Advisors Behind WB War; ‘Heated Rivalry’ Casting Secrets; the ‘Melania’ Mess
Remembering Catherine O’Hara: ‘On the Mount Rushmore of Comic Actors’
TV in 3: Amazon TV After the Trainwreck; the WGA’s Next Demands
Richard Rushfield's Sundance Daily
☀️Chernin’s NORTH ROAD Sold as MEDIAWAN Spree Continues
The Most Competitive Oscar Races: Part Two
Shadow War for Warner Bros.: Advisors, Bankers, Out-of-Control Spin Doctors
☀️COMCAST Q4: Movies ⬇️, Cable TV 🤞 And The PEACOCK Problem
Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook and the ‘Melania’ Trap
🎧 Disney’s CEO Race: Down to the Buzzer
☀️ ’25 Streaming Movie Leaders: Which Studio Won
🎧 It Didn’t Matter That I Was Right
It Didn’t Matter That I Was Right
The Oscars’ AI Lie: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
The Oscars’ AI Lie: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
‘Pitt’ Boss John Wells on Netflix’s Endgame — and Whether the WGA Strikes Again
‘Pitt’ Boss John Wells on Netflix’s Endgame — and Whether the WGA Strikes Again
☀️AMAZON, AGBO Layoffs Add to ’26 Job Woes
The YouTuber With $7M in Ticket Pre-Sales for His Movie. How He Did It
🎧 Oscar’s Instagram Wars; Sundance’s Last Magical Hurrah
The People, the Parties: Inside the Last Sundance in Park City
☀️Sundance Deals Come Alive; AMAZON TV Shakeup
Amazon MGM’s First Swing of ’26: Hit, Miss or TBD?
Oscar’s 11th Hour Showdowns, Decoded
☀️ Box Office Freeze-Out ☃️ as ‘Mercy’ Wins
Sundance Day 3: A Gen Z Congressman and a ‘Totally F*cked Up’ Racist
How a Universal Exec Picks IP; Sundance’s Last Dance; Netflix-WB Global Fallout
Sundance Day 2: Charli XCX, It Girl
Sundance Day 1: Indie Film Organizes to Stop the Merger Era
TV in 3: Netflix Licensing Spree, Decoded; WBD Cable Strategy
☀️NETFLIX ’25: The SONY, WB 🎥 and Sports Shows That Worked
🎧 What ‘Heated Rivalry’ Reveals About Minting Stars
Judgment Day for Indie Film Starts Today at Sundance
Oscar Morning Shockers, Snubs & Screams
Netflix, Warner Bros. and the Global Fallout Begins
SCOOP: Substack Is Launching a TV App Today
☀️PSKY Extends Offer; NETFLIX Can’t Get Enough Wahlberg
🎧 What Happened to Our Great Parties?
Brent Montgomery: Hollywood ‘Needs a Win.’ Microdramas Are the Answer
Inside Hollywood’s Book Wars: How a Top Universal Exec Decides What to Buy
Inside Hollywood’s Book Wars: How a Top Universal Exec Decides What to Buy
☀️NETFLIX ’26: Behind the Numbers
The Impact Lounge returns to Park City during the 2026 Sundance Film Festival
What Happened to Our Great Parties?
Was the ‘28 Years Later’ Sequel Netflix’d?
Super Bowl Ads: A New Ruthless Game for Stars and Their Agents
Super Bowl Ads: A New Ruthless Game for Stars and Their Agents
🎧 Final Oscar Predictions: Who’ll Make It In?
You Bet: Hollywood’s New Money Is Dirty — and Hard to Resist
You Bet: Hollywood’s New Money Is Dirty — and Hard to Resist
All the right people are converging @ Realscreen + NATPE
☀️SONY’s 16-Month Banger Drought Continues With ‘28 Years’
L.A. Real Estate Freeze; The Anthropic Assault; Ankler’s Power Hire
Hollywood Stopped Making Movies About Women. Susanna Fogel Flipped the Script
Lynne Segall Joins Ankler Media as Publisher
TV in 3: Is Pilot Season Taking Off Again?
Kathleen Kennedy: A Legend in a Galaxy That Rarely Makes Them
☀️NETFLIX Theatrical Blitz: Big 💰 SONY, UNI Deals
Closing Arguments for This Year’s Best Picture Frontrunners
How-To H’wood: Take Credit and Avoid Blame
Hollywood Is Struggling. Now L.A.’s Real Estate Market Is Too
🎧 Hollywood’s New Gamble: Interactive TV Goes All In
☀️A24, DISNEYFOX Set New Pics, BLACK BEAR Sets '26 Plan
🎧 ‘Heated Rivalry’ and the Oldest Trick in Showbiz
Andrew Jarecki on His Unsettling Prison Doc That Broke the Rules
Sara Bareilles Is Back: ‘Grief Is This Miraculous Teacher’
Versant’s Mark Lazarus and Val Boreland Detail What’s Coming: ‘No Handcuffs’
Versant’s Mark Lazarus and Val Boreland Detail What’s Coming: ‘No Handcuffs’
How-To H’wood: Dark Arts of Film Pitching
☀️ NETFLIX Mulls All-Cash To Speed Up WBD Deal Vote
James Cameron’s AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH “is a True Epic” | Discover the Innovation of Pandora
'Heated Rivalry' and the Oldest Trick in Showbiz
TikTok, BuzzFeed Jump Into the Microdrama Race
BUGONIA is “The Movie of the Moment” | For Your Consideration
Anthropic Is a $350 Billion Problem for Hollywood About to Strike
Anthropic Is a $350 Billion Problem for Hollywood About to Strike
🎧 Oscar Ballots Are Live: Who’s Peaking at the Right Moment?
How-To H’wood: Surviving on Location, Reputation Intact
☀️NBC Ratings Test: NBA ’25 vs. Scripted ’24
🎧 The ‘Wicked: For Good’ Team Is ‘Heartbroken’ the Movies Are Done
Inside the Ankler Invitational: Where Hollywood Took the Court (and Who Won)
Sequel Math Comes for ‘Avatar’
‘F1’: How Joseph Kosinski Turned Real Races Into Hollywood’s Most Exhilarating Set
Globes Night Was the Warm-Up. But the Parties Were the Point
The Golden Globes Just Humiliated Hollywood
☀️ Ape Beats Butler, ‘Housemaid’ Cleans Up, ‘Avatar’ Dropping 😧
Kurtzman on Star Trek’s Future; MoviePass 2.0; Blumhouse’s TV Playbook
Documentary Spotlight: Inside the Films Cutting Through Power, Prisons & Patriarchy
Spike Lee and the Star Born in His DMs
TV in 3: Sheridan Meets Cindy Holland’s Hammer; USA’s Post-Peacock Playbook
What ‘Wicked’ Producer Marc Platt Really Thinks of Awards
☀️ MTV Looks For Help, STX Gets New Life
🎧 Is Everyone Leaving L.A. (Or Is That Just Your Group Chat)?
SAG’s Actor Awards Blind Spot Strikes Again
Three Buckets of Deals About to Hit the Industry: ‘Transformational Crisis’
The Golden Globes Still Give The Ick
☀️NETFLIX ’25: What Worked, What Didn't in Movies, Docs, Comedy
Homebound | FYC Best International Feature | Watch Conversation w/ Exec Producer Martin Scorsese
🎧 Quibi: Short Form, Long Regrets
Snapchat’s Second Act: How the Underdog Is Minting New Creators — and Real Money
Alex Kurtzman on Star Trek’s Future — and Paramount’s New Regime
Alex Kurtzman on Star Trek’s Future — and Paramount’s New Regime
MoviePass Is Back (Really). This Time, The Bet Isn’t On Tickets
☀️Brutal Math: Why WBD Rejected PSKY Again
Quibi: Short Form, Long Regrets
Three Buckets of Deals About to Hit the Industry: ‘Transformational Crisis’
Last Chance to Register – Virtual Documentary Spotlight: The Shortlist
Hollywood’s Last Stand: 6 Fronts That Make or Break 2026
🎧 Michael B. Jordan Tuned Out His Inner Director to Play Twins in ‘Sinners’
☀️Indie Film Wellness Check 🩺: A ’25 Box Office Analysis
📹 ‘The Housemaid’ Proves Hollywood’s ‘Dead’ Genres Still Have Life
Wall Street’s Brutal Verdict on Hollywood ’26: Versant Fumbles, AI Buyers, Family Office Cash
Wall Street’s Brutal Verdict on Hollywood ’26: Versant Fumbles, AI Buyers, Family Office Cash
Nia DaCosta’s Double Header: The Week ‘Hedda’ Meets Horror
The Blumhouse TV Playbook in 2026, Straight From the President
The Blumhouse TV Playbook in 2026, Straight From the President
☀️Winners & Losers Of ’25 Holiday Box Office Season
8 AI Companies Doing it Right; IP Winners & Losers; Holiday Box Office’s Hard Truths
🎧 Vision, Trust & Risk: How Amanda Seyfried & Mona Fastvold Truly Connected
RSVP Today – Virtual Documentary Spotlight: The Shortlist 1.7
How Much AI Will Audiences Accept in Movies and Music? Here Are the Poll Answers
How Much AI Will Audiences Accept in Movies and Music? Here Are the Poll Answers
☀️ 18–34s Power Holiday Box Office, Even as Their Movies Disappear