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Netflix Hits Every Panic Button. Now What?

To hear Ted Sarandos tell it, things are going great at Netflix. “Our business and our business flywheel are working,” the co-CEO said on this week’s earnings call — a week after layin...

2026-10-22

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Steve Hilton on Hollywood’s Future: ‘We Cannot Let It Collapse’

Steve Hilton has been talking with David Ellison, Ted Sarandos and Trump Hollywood ambassador Jon Voight about how to bring production back to California. ...

2026-10-15

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David Ellison’s Promise to Outspend Netflix and Disney

David Ellison has an ambitious pitch for Hollywood: Skydance will spend more on content than Netflix or Disney, crank out roughly 190 series and 30 movies a year, find at least $6 billion in...

2026-10-08

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Kreiz In, Bloys Wins: Paramount’s Head-Spinning New Order

The new Paramount is taking shape fast. On the eve of the Warner Bros. deal concluding, David Ellison is bringing in fresh blood — and bloodletting. Former Mattel chief Ynon K...

2026-10-02

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Mike Schur: Paramount-WBD Is a ‘Nightmare Scenario’

Mike Schur calls Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. a “nightmare scenario” for Hollywood — and now that David Ellison has cleared the biggest obstacle to getting the deal done, he’...

2026-09-24

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Emergency Pod! Paramount-WBD Chaos: The Settlement, the Layoffs, the Superstreamer

So after months of big talk about only settling for structural remedies, i.e., selling off assets, what did California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the 11 other state AGs suing P...

2026-09-22

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1,000 Sony Hacks at Once? Hollywood’s AI Doomsday

A dire warning from Anthropic and OpenAI that increasingly autonomous AI agents could launch cyberattacks – or worse – has an especially chilling implication for Hollywood, where studios and streamers...

2026-09-18

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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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