Weekly Journal #96
Industry News
Disney Plans to Spend $33 Billion on Content Next Year (Hollywood Reporter)
Chernin Entertainment Taps Advisers to Explore Options (Wall Street Journal)
How Disney’s Streaming Pipeline Got Clogged (Information)
Film
Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Back to the Valley With ‘Licorice Pizza’ (New York Times)
Television
Nielsen Plans 2022 Rollout of New Commercial Metrics, Upgrading Longtime ‘C3’ Ratings (Deadline)
Is the Streaming Winner of October Actually...Warner Bros? (Entertainment Strategy Guy)
‘The Wheel of Time’ Makes Strong Debut as Amazon Prime Video Doubles Down on Genre (Deadline)
Why Does Everyone in Netflix's Cowboy Bebop Talk Like That? (Vice)
Digital
Super-Apps Are Inevitable, Get Ready for the First $10 Trillion Tech Company (Intelligencer)
Metaverse Is a Multitrillion Dollar Opportunity, Epic CEO Says (Bloomberg)
In Other News
How the World’s Foremost Maze-maker Leads People Astray (New Yorker)