Weekly Journal #106
Industry News
ViacomCBS Renames Itself as it Plays Catch-up With Paramount+, Its Streaming Service. (New York Times)
Study Finds Sustained Progress for Female Directors and Filmmakers of Color (New York Times)
Film
Netflix’s Kanye West Documentary ‘Jeen-Yuhs’ Is a Sad Reminder of Who He Was (Decider)
How China Used Hollywood To Build The World’s Biggest Film Market (Bloomberg)
MoviePass Is Officially Coming Back (Verge)
Six Highlights From the Black Film Archive (New York Times)
Television
Paramount+ Adding Showtime Programming In Enlarged Service Costing $12 A Month (Deadline)
AMC Networks Tops Wall Street’s Q4 Estimates, Passes 9M Streaming Subscribers (Deadline)
‘The Book Of Boba Fett’ Finale Viewership 36% Higher Than ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Closer (Deadline)
‘Ted Lasso’ Showrunner Bill Lawrence Signs Massive New Overall Deal at Warner Bros. TV (Variety)
UPN Ushered in a Golden Decade of Black TV, Then Was Merged Out of Existence (Hollywood Reporter)
Disney+ Just Ran Its First Test of Livestreaming in the Us (Tech Crunch)
Digital
Why Podcasts Are Becoming Netflix (New York Times)
Beware the FOMO Bullies of Technology (Atlantic)
In Other News
The Many Lives of Crypto’s Most Notorious Couple (Intelligencer)
A Vibe Shift Is Coming Will any of us survive it? (The Cut)