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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
Latest The Ankler stories
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🎧 Amazon Delivery: TV & Film Whiplash
As its film studio ascends, its small screen strategy is primed for confusion
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🎧 TV Writers Hated Mini-Rooms. Now They Want Them Back
Showrunners and scribes’ ideas to fix TV, including faster development
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🎧 MrBeast & Beyond: Hollywood’s New Stars
Why streamers are going creator crazy; plus: Apple TV+’s billion-dollar losses
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🎧 Big IP’s Midlife Crisis: Marvel, DC, Bond
Did the mojo go-go as the franchise era ages? Plus: Streaming bonus reveal!
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🎧 Tina Brown & Janice Min Talk Meghan Markle, Demi Moore, DOGE
ICYMI: a recorded conversation from earlier this week
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Oscar Fashion: Stealth Wealth’s Rich Switch
Maximalism met the red carpet in the age of MAGA, trad wives and sequins
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🎧 Broadcast TV Surge; WBD’s Sports Pause; Paramount Stalled
Plus the team’s final thoughts before Oscar’s big show
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🎧 Michael Wolff on Trump’s Coming ‘Self-Destruction’: ‘He Will Pay the Price’
The ‘All or Nothing’ author, under attack from the president, on misguided Dems, Musk and media panic: ‘Just because you don’t abide by the law doesn’t mean you’re going to get away with it’
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RFK Jr.’s $100K Deal to Shill Just Like Tom Brady and Khloé Kardashian
Scoop: Ethics disclosures reveal his payday for a bizarre endorsement amid that $1.2M in credit card debt, and his cabinet position’s impact on wife Cheryl Hines
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🎧 Hollywood’s New Mission Impossible: Greenlights
Scribes and producers adapt to studios’ new rules of engagement
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Team Trump Spent $9,137 on a Calm App Subscription (and LOTS of News)
As the prez and Musk slash federal spending for news subscriptions, I find what his PAC and RNC paid for after the election — including ‘Business of Fashion’, Tucker Carlson Network and, yes, Peacock
