Weekly Journal #21
News
L.A. City Councilman Proposes “Bringing Back Hollywood” Task Force (Deadline)
HBO Max Sets Apple Deal For Streaming Distribution (Deadline)
Endeavor's Credit Rating Gets Downgraded (Hollywood Reporter)
Apple Q2 Sales Beat Wall Street Estimates: Tim Cook Calls it a Unique Quarter (Deadline)
How a Nashville Production Company Plans to Return to Filming (Rolling Stone)
How Global Producers Have Found New Ways to Work (Hollywood Reporter)
Should ViacomCBS Blow Up Its Streaming Strategy? (Vulture)
Film
Oscars Will Allow Films to Skip a Theatrical Release This Year (New York Times)
Universal, movie theaters fighting over digital releases (The Market Place)
Many Americans Would Return to Theaters with New Protocols (Hollywood Reporter)
8 Films to Watch Right Now, According to Barry Jenkins (Atlantic)
25 Movies and the Magazine Stories That Inspired Them (Long Reads)
Television
The Irresistible Intimacy of Normal People (Atlantic)
Why True-Crime TV Has Become So Popular During the Coronavirus Pandemic (Daily Beast)
Digital
Hello Sunshine CEO Sees ‘New Content Formats’ Emerging From Crisis (The Information)
Quibi’s email verification process reportedly sent data to multiple ad firms (The Verge)
Good Reads
With One Line, William Goldman Taught Hollywood Everything It Needed to Know (Variety)
“Zoom fatigue” is taxing the brain. Here’s why that happens (National Geographic)
The Hollywood Vigilante (Marie Claire)
In Negotiations, Givers Are Smarter Than Takers (New York Times)
The first modern pandemic (GatesNotes)
The Best Shows and Movies to Watch This Week: Blood Quantum, Never Have I Ever (TV Guide)
Fans Tried to Involve Tyler Cameron in Gigi Hadid’s Pregnancy, But He Shut It Down (Glamour)