podcasts
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🎧 Hollywood’s New Trick to Screw Writers
Studios are asking scribes to develop without pay — and are getting away with it
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🎧 L.A. Production Spiral. Trump to the Rescue?
The 47th President enlists a team of ’80s action heroes
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🎧 Lively vs. Baldoni: Lawsuits! Exposés! Rumors!
Both sides lodged 80-page legal filings in a holiday greeting from hell
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🎧 Tales From the ’90s: Ain’t It Cool News’ ‘Titanic’ Impact on Hollywood
Drew McWeeny recalls his adventures with the upstart website that confounded studios, enraged execs and changed the fortunes of blockbusters
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🎧 Tales From the ’90s: Ron Meyer’s ‘Miracle’ Hollywood Career
The CAA founder and longtime Universal exec tells Richard Rushfield about his wild showbiz ride: ‘I wanted to be the guy in that fast car with beautiful women’
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☀️ ‘Sonic 3’ Crushes ‘Mufasa’ to Kick Off Christmas Box Office
A24 makes horror pickup / Lively-Baldoni scandal rocks weekend / PAR makes 2024 slate adjustments
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🎧 A New Spec Script Boom Catches Fire
Writers are raking in millions again on original ideas. Why now?
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Transcript: Tales from the ’90s: ‘Last Action Hero’ Screenwriters Tell All
Richard Rushfield speaks with Adam Leff and Zak Penn about how their spec script dream curdled into a crushing nightmare of Hollywood excess
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Transcript: HBO & the Harry Potter Gamble
Casey Bloys talks a big game as questions abound for the prestige network
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Transcript: AI Stole My Scripts: Rage as Big Tech Takes Without Asking
‘Good Wife’ creator Robert King on the outrage after writers find their words used to train models
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Transcript: MSNBC Bets on its ‘Ratings Viagra’
Inside the liberal net’s survival plan for a Trumpian, post-spinoff world. Plus: Our exclusive on the fight for the future of the Golden Globes
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Transcript: Trump 2.0: Why Ari Wins, Studios Lose
Mergers galore? Is the news business cooked? Does anyone want what Hollywood’s selling?
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Transcript: Hollywood’s WFH Wars Worsen
Workers revolt over RTO mandates at Amazon and Lionsgate as industry vets warn about the eventual costs of a career on Zoom