Weekly Journal #50
Industry News
Disney Stock at All Time High (Variety)
AT&T Fields DirecTV Offers Above $15 Billion Including Debt (WSJ)
The 5 Stories That Shaped the Streaming Industry This Year (Vulture)
Roku Stock Closes at All-Time High After HBO Max Deal (Variety)
Employers can bar unvaccinated employees from the workplace, EEOC says (CBS)
Film
Viola Davis and Company on ‘Ma Rainey’ and Chadwick Boseman’s Last Bow (New York Times)
The Small Irish Animation Studio That Keeps Getting Oscars’ Attention (New York Times)
Television
Disney+ Developing Adventure Series From Michael Golamco, Randall Park And Hieu Ho (Deadline)
Peacock Hits 26m Signups (Hollywood Reporter)
The Year of Ambitious TV Watching (Atlantic)
Digital
The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs (Atlantic)
Crowd-created TikTok phenomenon Ratatouille the musical is coming to Broadway (Guardian)
In Other News
I’m Sorry, WHAT Does the Peloton CEO Do Every Morning? (The Cut)
The Year in Brad Pit (The Cut)
The Best Video Games of 2020 (New Yorker)