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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Crying Outside the Studio Gates
No one wants to hear it. But Rob Long says every script, joke and rough cut should be shorter
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Why We Need to Know What’s Failing
Entertainment Strategy Guy returns to discuss the importance of knowing
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Leaks, Meetings & Calls. Oh My!
After months of silence, studio heads seem newly committed to ending the industry shutdown
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A Foolish Gamble
Rob Long survived UPN, and other bygone showbiz brands. Now he begs our overlords struggling with streaming to just say ‘sorry’
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Lina Khan Q&A: Hollywood ‘Red Flags’, ‘Doom Loop’ & the Future of M&A
The FTC chair and Biden breakout star on her WGA meetings, A.I. and why the agency’s keeping an eye on entertainment
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‘It Will Surprise Us How Fast it Can Disappear’
‘Dickinson’ creator and showrunner Alena Smith on her warning about Hollywood’s future
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WBD and the Struggle of Legacy Studios
A tale of one day’s three earnings calls reveals how entertainment companies no longer play the same game
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Hollywood’s China Hopes Are Fading
Erich Schwartzel of the ‘WSJ’ on summer movies’ overseas dead-end
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Studios, Strikers and a Tense Game of Chicken
The train wreck if the shutdown goes into 2024 as threatened
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Netflix’s Soft Earnings and the ‘Barbenheimmer’ Juggernaut
Ryan Faughnder talks the week’s big stories and why the strikes might drag on
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Duncan Crabtree-Ireland: ‘It Takes Two to Tango…the Companies Aren’t Stepping Up’
SAG-AFTRA’s chief negotiator on AI, the state of negotiations and that possible six-month timetable