Weekly Journal #98
Industry News
AT&T Calls Congressional Letter Opposing Discovery-WarnerMedia Deal Unfounded (Hollywood Reporter)
Roku And Google End YouTube Impasse, Set Multi-Year Distribution Renewal (Deadline)
Hollywood Still Matters. This Year’s Best Actors Showed Why (New York Times)
Where the Secret Weapon Behind Barstool Sports and Hello Sunshine Is Investing Next (Fast Company)
Film
Are Movies Too Long? Hollywood Tests the Limits of Our Pandemic Attention Spans (LA Times)
Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story Is an Undeniable Triumph (Atlantic)
Television
Why the Cathartic Release of Female Rage Dominated 2021’s TV Plotlines (Hollywood Reporter)
FX Rebrands Hulu Tab Amid Global Expansion (Hollywood Reporter)
The Genius Behind the Weirdest Show on TV (New York Times)
On “Succession,” Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke (New Yorker)
‘Cowboy Bebop’ Canceled By Netflix After One Season (Deadline)
‘Outer Banks’ Renewed For Season 3 By Netflix (Deadline)
Digital
Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, ‘It’s Unreliable.’ (New York Times)
Netflix Launches a Website Dedicated to News About Renewals, Interviews and More (Tech Crunch)
In Other News
Make Art Using AI (Wombo)
A ‘War on Christmas’ Story Who’s supposed to be waging this war? I have an idea. (Intelligencer)