55+ min ago   (241+ words) An actual career is the advantage on the platform, where expertise and credibility can now add up to as much as $500,000 a year in brand deals The news prompted some head-scratching among longtime users. After all, the Microsoft-owned professional network…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (478+ words) SK Global head of film Elizabeth Haggard on her production company’s partnership with the faith-based distributor In a political climate as divided as it has been in a lifetime, it could be said movies are the great uniter. The same…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (240+ words) The IPO has agents bracing for bidding wars in a soft market — and Palisades Fire families caught in the middle Degen Pener previously wrote about rats at some of L.A.’s hottest restaurants and why more people in Hollywood are…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (270+ words) More than half the 50 best-selling franchises are taken. What’s left — and changing habits — is worse than Hollywood thinks I cover audience. I wrote about Christopher Nolan and directors whose names alone can open a movie, comedy’s quest for a Backrooms…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (184+ words) As with Netflix and other streamers, the audience isn’t infinite. But attempts to hold attention are — and some will get ugly I recently wrote about A24’s deal with Google DeepMind, data brokers as the new Hollywood agents and how athletes…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (247+ words) My mid-year view of the new venture funds, major investors and the Netflix-YouTube face-off making for a wild market There’s little question that 2025 was the year creators went mainstream. From Ms. Rachel’s debut on Netflix to Salish Matter’s debut in…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (280+ words) ‘Stunned’ workers impacted by cuts at Disney, WBD and Paramount share shock, hope and advice for the next chapter Instead, his entire team was let go, as Disney cut about 1,000 out of its more than 200,000 employees worldwide. In the days…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (706+ words) Plus: AMC vs. the streaming giants; Academy shakeup Plus, we’ve also collected our top feature stories of the year so far — from Sean McNulty’s and Claire Atkinson’s excellent analyses of Paramount’s move to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (and what might…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (283+ words) In an internal email Monday, Academy CEO Bill Kramer said the exec would exit her full-time role as the org dissolves her division ahead of the 100th ceremony Teni Melidonian, AMPAS’ chief Oscars officer and one of CEO Bill Kramer’s most…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (244+ words) Yes, the internet hates the new partnership, but the risks fall entirely on one side — and it’s not about jobs I wrote about the hot AI video startup betting against consumers, how data brokers have become the new Hollywood agents,…...