Weekly Journal #144
Industry News
Warner Bros. Discovery Q3 Reaction: Zaslav Still Has So Much to Prove (Variety+)
For Netflix, Sports Rights Isn’t a Matter of If, But When (Variety+)
Disney Plans Layoffs, “Rigorous Review” of Spending & Hiring Freeze; “Tough & Uncomfortable Decisions” Coming, CEO Bob Chapek Tells Staff (Deadline)
Rushfield: A Tortured Business of Flops (The Ankler)
Pack Your Bags, We’re Moving to ‘Roku City’ (The New York Times)
Film
Media Companies Find New Ways to Exploit Their IP as Innovation Drives Content (Variety)
James Gunn, Peter Safran Are Mapping Out “Eight-to-Ten-Year Plan” for DC (The Hollywood Reporter)
Rebuilding ‘Black Panther’: How the ‘Wakanda Forever’ Family Fought Through Grief and Injury to Create a $250 Million Superhero Tribute (Variety)
What To Make Of This Year’s AFM? (Deadline)
Steven Spielberg: Streamers Like HBO Max ‘Threw My Best Filmmaker Friends Under the Bus’ (Variety)
Television
Amazon’s Silence on ‘The Rings of Power’ Audience Size Is Deafening (Variety+)
This Land Is His Land (The New York Times)
Table for Two: FX’s John Landgraf Is Ready to Listen (The Hollywood Reporter)
In Other News
Why Did We All Have the Same Childhood? (The Atlantic)
The Case Against the Twitter Apology (The New Yorker)