Weekly Journal #95
Industry News
Why Streamers Are Stalling on Sharing Data (Hollywood Reporter)
Endeavor Swings to the Black and Q3 Sales Jump as Live Events Rebound from Covid Lows (Deadline)
Netflix Changes How it Measures Its Daily Top 10 (Hollywood Reporter)
Hollywood Crew Union Narrowly Ratifies Its Contracts with Studios. (New York Times)
Intimacy Coordinators, Safeguarding Officers & Complaints Bodies (Deadline)
Endeavor Clinches $775m Deal With CJ for 80% Stake in Scripted Content Unit (Deadline)
Streaming at 30,000 Feet: One Airline’s Take on In-flight Entertainment (Deadline)
Film
Christopher Nolan’s $100 Million WWII Drama ‘Oppenheimer’ Could Be Last of Its Kind (Variety)
The Experiment Podcast: How Netflix’s Passing Upends a Hollywood Genre (Atlantic)
Television
Mathematician Explains What Foundation Gets Right About Predicting the Future (The Science of Fiction)
Netflix’s MAID Helped Me Open up About Domestic Violence (Marie Claire)
Broadcast Pulls Even With Streaming in October TV Usage (Hollywood Reporter)
“The Streaming Business Is War”: an Excerpt from HBO Oral History ‘Tinderbox’ (Hollywood Reporter)
Digital
A Look Under the Hood of the Most Successful Streaming Service on the Planet (Verge)
Podcasts Always Had Instrumental Music — Now Some Have Singing, Too (Verge)
A Former Facebook VP Thinks Investing in Humans Is the Future of VC (Vice)
In Other News
There Will Be More Rittenhouses (Intelligencer)
“Picture a Frat Basement If It Had an Insecurity About Being a New Yorker.” (The Cut)