Weekly Journal #147
Industry News
Amazon CEO: Prime Video Has “Very Attractive Economics” as a Standalone Unit (The Hollywood Reporter)
Iger’s Big Disney Reorg Aims to Fix Problems He Helped Sow (Variety VIP+)
Media Biz Holds up Amid Broader Surge in Layoffs (Variety VIP+)
The Town Is Shutting Down (Podcast: Martini Shot with Rob Long)
Everyone’s Watching: AVOD Finds an Increasingly Receptive Audience (Deloitte Insights)
Netflix’s Reed Hastings Admits He Was Wrong About Advertising, Says ‘Glass Onion’ Theatrical Release Was Promotional Tactic (Variety)
AMC Networks to See ‘Large-Scale Layoff’ After Streaming Miscalculation (Indiewire)
Film
‘Strange World’ to Lose $147M: Why Theatrical Was Best Decision for Doomed Toon — Not Disney+ — as Bob Iger Takes Over CEO from Bob Chapek (Deadline)
The Netflix Glass Onion Experiment: What Lessons Did We Learn (The Ankler)
‘Devotion’ Helmer JD Dillard on the Spark from ‘Good Will Hunting:’ The Film That Lit My Fuse (Deadline)
Fresh Face: ‘Till’ Star Jalyn Hall Says He Saw “A Lot of Myself” in the Tragic Character of Emmett Till (Deadline)
Television
CBS Challenges Netflix for Viewing Time Supremacy (The Hollywood Reporter)
Netflix Will Use Thousands of Subscribers to Test Screen Its Content (Indiewire)
The 21 Best TV Christmas Episodes You Can Watch Right Now (Vulture)
In Other News
Openai’s New Chatbot Can Explain Code and Write Sitcom Scripts but Is Still Easily Tricked (The Verge)
The Symphonic Testament of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (The New Yorker)