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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Trying to Fire Your Agent
Rob Long on what used to happen, what happens now, and how it’s all going to come full circle
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Fantasy Culture and the Flight from Reality
Author Jonathan Taplin on how technocrats are influencing pop culture by capitalizing on economic instability
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Lies, Whispers, Rumors: a Strike Struck
What a runaway tale about a top showrunner meeting with the WGA revealed about agents — and an industry’s anguish
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Inside the Era of Bob Iger 2.0
CNBC’s Alex Sherman goes behind the scenes of Disney’s succession plan disaster and the ‘disintegration’ of his inner circle
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The Clooney Maneuver
Rob Long on the art of landing a Hollywood side gig more lucrative than your main gig
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Nightmare Scenario of January 2024
Why a next-year end to the strike looks possible, what the Charter-Disney debacle has to do with it, and Richard Rushfield’s TIFF report
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No One is Irreplaceable
Rob Long asks why the phrase execs use to dismiss actors and writers isn’t also said of those at top
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Myth of the Hollywood Dream Job
Labor author Sarah Jaffe on what strikers should understand about the studio system: ‘To associate it with greed is to be too personal about it’
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Erotic Thrillers: Unsung Heroes of Home Video
Anthony Penta, director of ‘We Kill for Love’, on the history — and present — of an unfairly denigrated genre
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How to Quit Hollywood
A former hotshot TV writer on why — and how — she said goodbye to the industry
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Ode to My Teacher
It’s back to school, and Rob Long reflects on what you can and can’t learn in the classroom
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The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Warner
Author Chris Yogerst takes a new look at the sibling founders behind one of Hollywood’s most enduring – and complicated – empires
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