The Ankler Podcast
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‘Make Movies Better’: Roger Deakins & James Ellis Deakins’ Blunt Words For the Industry
The married couple and ‘Team Deakins’ podcast hosts on the future of the cinematic experience
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WGA Prez’ Dire Warning on Netflix-WB: ‘We Know How This Movie Ends’
In an emergency convo, Michele Mulroney tells Elaine Low about the inevitable ‘self-dealing,’ the ‘distressing’ time for guild members and what writers can do now
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‘It Can Be Stopped’: Fighting Back Against the ‘Bad Faith’ Netflix-Warner Bros. Deal
I reconvened monopoly expert Matt Stoller and former FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya to break down what’s really driving the merger bid and what happens next
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How Taylor Swift Masters the Art of Internet Relevance
Ahead of ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ release, Natalie Jarvey and as seen on’s Ochuko Akpovbovbo break down the megastar’s cultural dominance and ‘effortlessness’
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Jane Fonda’s Free Speech Warning: ‘They Come for One of Us, They Come for All of Us’
The Hollywood legend speaks for the first time about the Committee for the First Amendment relaunch on Rushfield Lunch
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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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‘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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Richard & Katey: Our Best Movies of the 21st Century
Come for the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ praise, stay for the ‘Barb and Star’
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Talking ‘Thunderbolts*’ & Tariffs
Richard and Sean make sense of Marvel’s big weekend & Trump nonsense
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‘Hey, Who Looks Dumb Now?’ ‘Sinners’ is a Winner and 4 Movies Open Over $20M
Monday Morning Quarterbacks with Richard Rushfield and Sean McNulty
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H’wood Scion Matthew Specktor on Agents, Artists & the Arc of the Business
I sit down with my old friend to discuss a family’s journey in entertainment, growing up with CAA and more tales from his new memoir
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Amazon Studios Founder Roy Price Helps Me Save Hollywood
On ‘The Rushfield Lunch’: A searing perspective on the streaming landscape and how to compete against Netflix
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Live from Las Vegas CinemaCon Wrap
Sean McNulty joins Richard Rushfield to discuss the movies, parties, candy and big topics of the theater business’ annual confab
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Science of Personality: Hope for the Anxious, Angry, Introverted
I talk to Olga Khazan about whether you can conquer who you are for ‘The Rushfield Lunch’