Weekly Journal #142
Industry News
Warner Bros Discovery Will Take Up To $4.3 Billion In Restructuring Charges From Merger (Deadline)
Hollywood’s Covid Production Protocols Extended Through January 2023 (Deadline)
Fast Programming Data Reveals Two Top Trends (Variety VIP+)
A Strong Kids Content Strategy Is A Key Streaming Power Move (Variety VIP+)
Banking on Entertainment: Why Financial Services Are The New A-List Talent (Variety VIP+)
Why Streamers Are Getting on Board With In-Flight Entertainment (The Hollywood Reporter)
Coming Soon on Netflix: A New Netflix (Bloomberg)
Reality Check: Netflix Profits vs. Everyone Else (The Ankler)
Apple TV+ Hikes Subscription Price For First Time, Will Now Cost $6.99 Per Month (The Hollywood Reporter)
NBCUniversal Is Becoming “Fairly Indifferent” As To Whether Programming Goes On Streaming Or Linear TV (Deadline)
Film
TikTok Will Offer Movie Showtimes and Ticket Options After Showing Trailers (Engadget)
‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Red Carpet World Premiere (Deadline)
The Sounds of Horror: An Aural History of Scary Movies, and the Foley Art and Design That Make Them Great. (Vulture)
Television
‘Never Let Me Go’ Series Greenlit at FX with Viola Prettejohn Set to Star (Variety)
Sex, Drugs and Murder: ‘The White Lotus’ Reopens in Season 2 Trailer With Jennifer Coolidge, Aubrey Plaza (Variety)
Peacock’s ‘Girls5eva’ Renewed for Season 3 — at Netflix (The Hollywood Reporter)
Women, People of Color Are Being Shortchanged by Tv Industry, Study Finds (Los Angeles Times)
Checking In on This Year’s New Network Dramas (Vulture)
In Other News
Adult Halloween Is Stupid, Embarrassing, and Very Important (The Atlantic)
A History of the Modernist Villain’s Lair (The New Yorker)