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Ethan Smith Joins Ankler Media as News & Features Editor
He previously was at ‘The Wall Street Journal’ for two decades
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Tom Quinn to Diego Luna: The Ankler’s ‘Croisette Conversations’ Debuts at Cannes With Brand Innovators
Katey Rich leads our studio at the film festival with starry names including Ira Sachs and Academy CEO Bill Kramer
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Introducing ‘The Ladder’, The Ankler’s Program For Early-Career Professionals
By invitation only. Apply today to attend our first event in NYC
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Al Pacino and the Real-Life Bank Robbery That Changed Everything
Exclusive excerpts from the actor’s new memoir, ‘Sonny Boy’, reveal how his role in ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ was a turning point — and humanized a trans romance
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🎧 Joker 2, Flops and Why Everyone Should Calm Down
WBD took a big swing, shot in L.A. and people are . . . mad?
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Transcript: Joker 2, Flops and Why Everyone Should Calm Down
WBD took a big swing, shot in L.A. and people are … mad?
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🎧 Shane Smith is Ready to Talk Media. Again
Out of semi-retirement, Vice’s co-founder returns with a podcast into a dire media landscape: “I’m essentially Michael Corleone…I hope it’s not ‘Godfather III’”
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🎧 The $10 Billion in AI Cash About to Rock Hollywood
Studios, agents and lawyers are navigating how to profit — not perish — from machine learning’s big money
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Transcript: The $10 Billion in AI Cash About to Rock Hollywood
Studios, agents and lawyers are navigating how to profit — not perish — from machine learning’s big money
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Rudolph Valentino’s 15 Days of Tawdry, Tabloid Death
‘Daily Mail’, Drudge and the Murdochs owe a debt to Bernarr Macfadden, whose ‘PornoGraphic’ paper rose on the fall of the world’s most famous matinee idol
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🎧 A Hollywood ‘Depression’ the Strike Couldn’t Fix
Inside what the writers strike wrought (and didn’t) one year later
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Transcript: A Hollywood ‘Depression’ the Strike Couldn’t Fix
Inside what the writers strike wrought (and didn’t) one year later
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🎧 Succession and the Cult of Iger
The storied CEO is venerated like a Silicon Valley founder. And that’s a problem
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Transcript: Succession and the Cult of Iger
The storied CEO is venerated like a Silicon Valley founder. And that’s a problem
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Marilyn Monroe’s Overdose and the Echo in Matthew Perry
The lurid media circus around the first public drug-induced end