Weekly Journal #91
Industry News
Hollywood Crews Union Reaches a Deal With Studios, Averting a Strike (LA Times)
Los Angeles Filming Surges in Busiest Quarter Since 2018 (Hollywood Reporter)
Netflix Q3 2021 Earnings Interview: Jump to 38:25 for Some MAID Love (Watch Here)
HBO Max Loses 1.8m US Subs on Amazon Prime Exit, Global Users Rise by 1.9m (Hollywood Reporter)
Film
How Hollywood’s Toxic Addiction to Franchises Changed Movies Forever in 2014 (Grantland)
Tracking the Return to Normal: Entertainment (Morning Consult)
Television
Netflix to Change How it Measures a Title’s Viewers Post-‘Squid Game’ (Hollywood Reporter)
‘Squid Game’: Netflix Reveals a “Mind-Boggling” 142m Households Have Watched (Deadline)
Digital
The Next Big Thing in Podcasts Is Talking Back (Verge)
Russia Is Censoring the Internet, With Coercion and Black Boxes (New York Times)
In Other News
What I Learned About My Writing by Seeing Only the Punctuation (Medium)
Amanda Gorman on Building up Joy and Embodying Who You Are (Variety)
Let the Queen Have Her Martinis (The Cut)