Weekly Journal #42
Industry News
AT&T Boss John Stankey Says HBO Max Launch Has Hit Every Goal, WarnerMedia Revamp Is “Spot-On”; No Comment On DirecTV (Deadline)
Hollywood has a talent pipeline problem. Brian Grazer and Ron Howard have an app for that (LA Times)
Disney and Integrators Versus Aggregators (Stratechery)
UCLA Report Finds Improvement In Diversity Among TV Actors, Majority Of Hollywood Execs Remain White And Male (Deadline)
Film
It's Official: China Overtakes North America as World's Biggest Box Office in 2020 (Hollywood Reporter)
Ellen Barkin Joins Kevin Hart In Sony’s Action-Comedy ‘Man From Toronto’ (Deadline)
AT&T CEO John Stankey “Not Optimistic” On Theatrical; “I Can’t Tell You We Walked Away From The ‘Tenet’ Experience Saying It Was A Home Run” (Deadline)
Television
Native American Drama From Ava DuVernay in the Works at NBC (Hollywood Reporter)
Nina Wolarsky Becomes Latest Netflix Exec to Depart Streamer (Hollywood Reporter)
Digital
Quibi To Shut Down, Ending $2B Streaming Experiment (Deadline)
HBO Max has 28.7 million subscribers, but not all of them are actually watching yet (Verge)
In Other News
The Flaming Lips performed a concert with the band and fans encased in plastic bubbles (CNN)
Rare green puppy 'Pistachio' born in Italy (BBC)
The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark (Vice)
How to Spot a Military Impostor (New Yorker)
Los Angeles Coronavirus Update: County Records Highest-Ever Number Of New Daily Infections On Thursday, With An Asterisk (Deadline)
How a Fake Rent-a-Hitman Site Became an Accidental Murder-for-Hire Sting Operation (Rollingstone)