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Who’ll Save the Film Industry? France Is Trying

Inside President Macron’s summit, where Ted Sarandos, Dana Walden and Hollywood power players attended — very quietly French President Emmanuel Macron summoned some of the biggest names in global ent...

2026-09-10

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Studios Ghost the Film Festivals; Trump's Hollywood Rescue Plan

It wasn’t long ago when studios took the biggest jewels of their fall slates — the Gravitys and Jokers and First Mans — to the Venice Film Festival to kick off award...

2026-09-03

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YouTube’s Netflix Death Match Levels Up

Hollywood’s newest talent war isn’t over movie stars. For years, YouTube was treated as a “farm league,” in Ted Sarandos‘ words — a place where talent dreamt of graduating to Hollywood....

2026-08-27

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BONUS EP: ‘Sleep in the Bed They Made’: Bonta Fires Back as Paramount Talks Collapse

So much for détente. California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled Monday’s planned meeting with Paramount after accusing the company of leaking — and misrepresenting — confidential settlement discus...

2026-08-25

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Hayden Panettiere’s Child-Star Tragedy; Bonta on Paramount ‘Playing Cute’

Hayden Panettiere worked in Hollywood since she was 11 months old, and by the time Heroes made her a household name at 16, she was already navigating the darker side of child stardom.&n...

2026-08-20

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Private Equity Has Billions Ready for Hollywood. Who Gets It?

“Everyone has dry powder for sports,” Ashley Cullins heard while reporting her recent look at the private equity firms circling Hollywood. It’s a truism Bob Iger and...

2026-08-13

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How Zendaya & Tom Holland Won Summer; Ellison on the Defensive

It’s been a while since Hollywood has seen a power couple quite like Zendaya and Tom Holland. With Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey, the newlyweds helped dr...

2026-08-06

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The Waiting Game at WBD; SpaceX’s L.A. Mansion Rush

What a difference a month makes. With Paramount’s bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery now in limbo, 35,000 Warners staffers have plenty of time to reconsider their options. Could HBO chie...

2026-07-30

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BONUS EP: California AG Rob Bonta on the Coming Paramount Trial: 'We're Not Talking Settlement'

What could Paramount Skydance do to make a dozen attorneys general drop their lawsuit against the Warner Bros. Discovery merger? Sell off CNN? Paramount Pictures? According to California Attorney Gene...

2026-07-28

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BONUS EP: Paramount’s Looming Debt Bomb — With Analyst Robert Fishman

David Ellison may be calling Paramount’s agreement to delay its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition a “significant win.” Wall Street appears less convinced. Paramount Skydance shares...

2026-07-28

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Why A24 Wants Letterboxd — and the Impossible ‘Odyssey’ Ticket

Who’s buying Letterboxd? The social media platform, prized for its Gen Z audience and movie fan bona fides, is on the market for a rumored $250 million — with multiple studios circling. Dealmaker...

2026-07-23

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BONUS EP: Rob Bonta: How We Plan to Kill the Paramount-WBD Deal

States, 1. Paramount, 0. The $111 billion Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger has hit its first real wall after a coalition of 12 states won a temporary restraining order blocking the deal. A...

2026-07-21

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The Case Against Paramount-Warner — From the People Fighting It

It’s a bad week for David Ellison, with Paramount Skydance facing two concurrent lawsuits seeking to block its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — plus a shareholder ca...

2026-07-16

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BONUS EP: Netflix’s Next Deal? Spotify Is Hiding in Plain Sight

Welcome to Netflix’s hard pivot. Faced with lagging engagement from its users and signs of audience disinterest in some of its top shows between seasons, Netflix’s next big thing ...

2026-07-14

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Nolan’s ‘Odyssey,’ Taylor Swift’s Wedding & the Summer of Spectacle

Monoculture may not be dead after all — it just needed Taylor Swift in a wedding dress and Christopher Nolan in IMAX. Elaine Low, Sean McNulty and Natalie ...

2026-07-09

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The Books Hollywood Is Obsessed With This Summer

Books run on word-of-mouth. So what are the people who shape what gets made, watched, read and bought reading? Elaine Low, Natalie Jarvey and Sean McNulty dig into The Ankler’s inaugural summer readin...

2026-07-02

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BONUS EP: Comcast Is Leaving Hollywood. What Now for NBCU?

Another Monday, another huge deal in Hollywood. Two weeks ago, Fox Corp. announced its intentions to acquire Roku for $22 billion. Now, it’s Comcast’s turn — in reverse. Today, the company revealed ...

2026-06-30

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BONUS EP: What Is Cannes Lions — and Why YouTube vs. Netflix Was All the Talk

Oprah flew in to close deals, FOX Entertainment CEO Rob Wade came to talk up his investment in creator-led programming and even the Teletubbies arrived, ready to party. Last week, a cross-section of d...

2026-06-30

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The World Cup’s Streaming Cash Machine

Leave it to the U.S. sports-TV machine to turn three-minute hydration breaks at the FIFA World Cup — a new feature to prevent players from collapsing in the heat — into a multimillion-dollar ad opport...

2026-06-25

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BONUS EP: Roku’s Charlie Collier on Fox Deal & Beating Big Tech for Ad Dollars

At Cannes Lions, the exec tells Ankler CEO Janice Min how the hardware behemoth became a streaming empire — 'We really do have almost Super Bowl-size audiences every day' — and makes his first public ...

2026-06-24

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