Weekly Journal #68
Industry News
Jason Kilar Talks Warnermedia (Deadline)
How Hollywood Movies And TV Shows Impact Real Science (Discover)
What Is an Entertainment Company in 2021 and Why Does the Answer Matter? (Matthew Ball)
Why Virtual Production Benefits Filmmaking In A Pandemic (Variety)
Film
Amy Adams' The Woman In The Window Marks The End Of An Era For Fox (Screenrant)
Parasite's Bong Joon-ho To Direct His First Animated Movie (Screenrant)
Television
Marvel Studios’ Disney Plus Shows Don’t Use Showrunners, That Has Some TV Writers Worried (Variety)
Making a TV show about slavery could undo you. Unless the director steps up like this (New Yorker)
‘Hacks’: Jean Smart Delivers Everything You Want and More in HBO Max’s Sharp Comedy (Indiewire)
Digital
The Real Story Behind Netflix’s Top 10 Lists (Vulture)
Disney+ Misses Expectations With 103.6 Million Subscribers (Hollywood Reporter)
In Other News
‘Am I going to regret it?': forever chemicals dilemma for breastfeeding mothers (Guardian)
J.Lo and Ben Affleck Have Never Been Low-Key (The Cut)
Envisioning Hidden Histories: Avion Pearce’s photographs imagine a Black lesbian love story (The Cut)
Tech vs. Journalism Inside the nasty battle between Silicon Valley and the reporters who write about it (Intelligencer)