Weekly Journal #143
Industry News
The CW Floats $1M An Episode License Fee For Drama Series As Studios Wait For Clarity On New Business Model (Deadline)
YouTube Starts Selling Third-party Subscription Streaming Services Through New “Primetime Channels” Hub (The Hollywood Reporter)
The State of Streaming in 2022: a Special Report (Variety+)
Netflix Ad Tier: Short-Term Challenges, Long-Term Rewards (Variety+)
Streaming Services’ Subscriber Counts Don’t Matter Anymore, Right? Not Quite (Variety+)
Hollywood’s Worsening Catch-22 (Puck News)
We Finally Have an Idea of What Kind of Stuff David Zaslav Wants Warner Bros. Discovery to Make (The Verge)
Paramount Hits Nearly 67M Global Streaming Subs as Paramount+ Grows to 46M (The Hollywood Reporter)
Paramount Eyes “Meaningful and Sizable” Cost Cuts, With Possible Restructuring Charge in Q4 (Deadline)
Warner Bros Discovery Stumbles in Q3, Falling Short of Wall Street Targets Due to Ad Slowdown, Pay-tv Losses and Restructuring Charges (Deadline)
David Zaslav Warns Creating Content at “Any Cost Is Over” But Says “Golden Age” Is Still Alive & Kicking (Deadline)
Film
How Ti West’s ‘X’ Trilogy Shook Up the Indie Business (The Hollywood Reporter)
Did the Oscar-Winning Director Asghar Farhadi Steal Ideas? (The New Yorker)
Television
Pluto TV To Add 6,300-Plus Episodes From CBS Vault To Its Free Streaming Service As Paramount Global Divisions Harmonize (Deadline)
‘Dahmer,’ ‘Rings of Power’ Hold Atop Streaming Series Rankings (The Hollywood Reporter)
‘House of Cards,’ ‘Peaky Blinders’ & ‘Arrested Development’ Among Series Not Streaming on Netflix’s Ad Tie (Deadline)
In Other News
What Moneyball-For-Everything Has Done to American Culture (The Atlantic)