Weekly Journal #107
Industry News
Paramount Stock Plunge Shows Perils Of Trying To Give Wall Street The Razzle-Dazzle (Deadline)
David Zaslav WB Discovery Won’t Try to “Win the Spending War” In Streaming (Hollywood Reporter)
Film
Studio Profit Report: Disney Dives as Sony Soars, Paramount Rises (Hollywood Reporter)
IMAX Looks Beyond Movies to Live Events (New York Times)
How Black Horror Became America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre (New York Times)
Television
Roku Reaches 60M Active Users as Total Revenue Misses Expectations (Hollywood Reporter)
The Key to Adapting Video Games Is to Make Them Into Television (Ringer)
‘Rick and Morty,’ Production Workers File to Unionize With Animation Guild (Hollywood Reporter)
‘Euphoria’ Is the Most-Tweeted TV Show of the Decade (So Far), Twitter Says (Variety)
Welcome to the Age of Peak Tech TV (Ringer)
Digital
Magazines Owned by Barry Diller’s Group Will End Print Editions. (New York Times)
Meta’s Facebook Escalates TikTok Rivalry, Launches Reels Globally (Wall Street Journal)
In Other News
On Google Maps, Tracking The Invasion of Ukraine (Washington Post)
Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News (Raptitude)
Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints (New York Times)
Joaquina Kalukango and Amanda Williams on Creative Freedom (New York Times)