Weekly Journal #31
News
ANTENNA Q2'20 Streaming Scorecard (Medium)
The Early Winners and Losers of the Streaming Wars (Bloomberg)
Jeff Bezos Asked at Big Tech Hearing About Being Unfair to Streamers (Hollywood Reporter)
Netflix Tests New Low Cost Subscription Plan in India (TechCrunch)
Film
Six Movie Business Questions After Universal and AMC’s Historic Deal (Variety)
Winterstate Entertainment Biopic About Civil Rights Trailblazer Lena O. Smith In The Works (Deadline)
Jordan Peele, Issa Rae Team for Supernatural Feature 'Sinkhole' (Hollywood Reporter)
Hollywood Is Finally Admitting That the U.S. Is a Lost Cause (Atlantic)
Television
CBS All Access Gets Programming Boost Ahead of Rebrand (Hollywood Reporter)
NBCUniversal's Peacock Reaches 10 Million Sign-Ups (Hollywood Reporter)
Netflix Strikes Landmark Investment Deal With ‘Black Mirror’ Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones (Deadline)
Supermarket Sweep Was the Most Hilariously American Game Show of All Time (Paste)
‘Genius: Aretha’ Director/EP Anthony Hemingway Signs Overall Deal With 20th Century Fox TV (Deadline)
Digital
Creator-Owned Streaming Service Nebula Hits 100,000 Monthly Paying Subscribers (TubeFilter)
Why America Is Afraid of TikTok (Atlantic)
Why Comic-Con ‘At Home’ Was a Bust (Variety)
Facebook Creates Teams to Study Racial Bias, After Previously Limiting Such Efforts (Wall Street Journal)
Good Reads
Trump Can’t Postpone the Election—But He’s Trying to Destroy Its Legitimacy (Atlantic)
Dodgers launch Home Plates with Postmates (MLB)
America Really Does Have a Space Force. We Went Inside to See What It Does (Time)
What Is ‘Challenge Accepted,’ Exactly? (The Cut)
Olivia de Havilland, the Last Lioness of the Hollywood Studio System (New Yorker)
“Nice White Parents” is a new podcast from Serial Productions (New York Times)