Weekly Journal #123
Industry News
WB Discovery Begins Buyouts As First Step Toward Trimming Ad Sales Force By Up To 30% (Deadline)
Netflix Stresses Business As Usual But Confusion Remains Over Budgets (Deadline)
Inside Blackstone’s Plans to Create an Entertainment Empire (Information)
Film
Vandal’ Team Delivers an Instant Classic Fictional Sports Doc (Indiewire)
‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ Isn’t Trying to Be Cool. That’s Part of Its Ample Charm (LA Times)
Lawsuit Targets High-Flying ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
Television
The Numbing Rise of I.P. TV (New Yorker)
Why ‘Hacks’ Earned Its Season 3 Renewal, Despite Season 2’s Perfect Ending (Variety)
Is Binge Watching Over? (Parrot)
It Starts On The Page: Read Issa Rae’s Series Finale Script For ‘Insecure’ (Deadline)
In Other News
How Louis Theroux Became a ‘Jiggle Jiggle’ Sensation at Age 52 (New York Times)
Why Closing the ‘Boyfriend Loophole’ Would Be a Huge Deal (Intelligencer)