The Ankler
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Paramount-WBD Deal on Pause: States Land the First Blow
A federal judge found the attorneys general’s antitrust case strong enough to indicate the mega-merger could break the law
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Ethan Smith Joins Ankler Media as News & Features Editor
He previously was at ‘The Wall Street Journal’ for two decades
Latest The Ankler stories
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The Employees Praying Inside Paramount
Anxiety as potential new owners, layoffs, headlines cloud every move inside the legacy studios: ‘I think about job security every day’
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🎧 ‘My Career Feels Like it’s On Life Support’
One TV exec reveals their salary and stunted ambition as who — and how — you get hired in Hollywood shifts
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‘Tell Your Kids Don’t Come Here’: Brutal Job Advice from Hollywood Hits Schools
Top profs at Penn, UCLA and Chapman tell me about the tough reality for newly-minted alums — even as hope springs eternal
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🎧 ‘Shogun’s’ VFX Pro Knows Exactly How a Cannonball Would Kill a Man
Michael Cliett decodes the brutal violence and painstaking world-building of the FX drama set in Sengoku-era Japan
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Transcript: ‘Shogun’s’ VFX Pro Knows Exactly How a Cannonball Would Kill a Man
Michael Cliett decodes the brutal violence and painstaking world-building of the FX drama set in Sengoku-era Japan
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🎧 How to Unleash Your Inner Gangster, Guy Ritchie Style
Production designer Martyn John and costume pro Loulou Bontemps pulled out the stops to match the ‘maverick’ auteur’s expansive vision for Netflix’s ‘The Gentlemen’
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Transcript: How to Unleash Your Inner Gangster, Guy Ritchie Style
Production designer Martyn John and costume pro Loulou Bontemps pulled out the stops to match the ‘maverick’ auteur’s expansive vision for Netflix’s ‘The Gentlemen’
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Hollywoodland’s Jews: ‘Dreams and Fears, Always Fear’
Two years ago, I interviewed Neal Gabler, a harsh critic of an Academy Museum omission. With its new exhibit, the author, still unsparing, helped tell the complicated story
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🎧 Pray for Paramount. And the Movies
The state of play for the storied studio as box office hits the skids. And let’s not even start on TV . . .
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Transcript: Pray for Paramount. And the Movies
The state of play for the storied studio as box office hits the skids. And let’s not even start on TV . . .
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Transcript: Cannes vs. Box Office: Film’s Troubling Split Personality
Sales boom as theatrical slumps: What’s happening?
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🎧 All-Access Pass: 40 Years of Bon Jovi
Director and EP Gotham Chopra and editor-producer Alex Trudeau Viriato unpack their Hulu doc series about the New Jersey glam rockers
