Weekly Journal #119
Industry News
The Revenge of the Budget Streamers (Vulture)
Streaming Wars on a Budget? How Hollywood Plans to Scale Back Content Spending | Chart (The Wrap)
Netflix Customers Canceling Service Increasingly Includes Long-term Subscribers (9 to 5)
David Zaslav on Warner Bros. Discovery: ‘This Really Is a Moment for Us as an Industry’ (Variety)
HBO Max Broken Out in Nielsen Streaming Estimates, Notches 1% Share of April TV Viewing (Variety)
$100 Million Film Studio to Rise from Rubble of Ex-Public Housing Site (New York Times)
Film
DC Movie ‘Wonder Twins’ Shut Down by Warner Bros. (Hollywood Reporter)
The Review: Knocked Up (Atlantic)
Television
CBS’s Success and the Case for Paramount+ (Vulture)
Amazon's Freevee is now available on Apple TV (Verge)
SNL Is Facing Intense Backlash For Parody of Depp and Heard Defamation Trial (Buzzfeed)
Why Broadcast Networks Took a Back Seat at the Upfronts (Hollywood Reporter)
Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney Expected to Exit ‘SNL’ (Variety)
‘She-Hulk’ Images Reveal the Return of Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk and Tim Roth’s Abomination (Collider)
In Other News
Health Officials Consider Mask Mandates As Covid Cases & Hospitalizations Surge (Deadline)
The American Prison System’s War on Reading (Protean)
Taylor Swift’s to NYU’s Class of 2022: ‘Mistakes Led to Best Things in My Life’ (Wall Street Journal)