Weekly Journal #135
Industry News
WGA Collects Over $4 Million in Settlement With Amazon Over Unpaid Residuals (Deadline)
Bob Iger Predicts a Reckoning for Streaming Services (Deadline)
CBS Launches a New Performers With Disabilities Talent Initiative (Variety)
Endeavor Content Rebrands as Fifth Season (Variety)
Film
‘Batgirl’ Directors Tried to Pirate Movie Before HBO Max Locked Them Out of Servers (The Daily Beast)
Oscar-nominated Screenwriter Billy Ray Crafted Nicole Kidman’s Iconic AMC Ad (Variety)
Critics and Fans Have Never Disagreed More About Movies (Bloomberg)
Television
‘House of the Dragon’ Linear Audience Drops to 2.5 Million for Episode 3 (The Wrap)
A Chess Champion Resolves Her ‘Queen’s Gambit’ Lawsuit Against Netflix (New York Times)
Why TV Fans Can’t Get Enough of Rewatch Podcasts (Indiewire)
David E. Kelley Urges Writers to Focus on Work That ‘Matters’ (Variety)
Digital
DALL-E Can Now Help You Imagine What’s Outside the Frame of Famous Paintings (The Verge)
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Isn’t Ready to Sell His Company (Vox)
In Other News
In a Japanese Nursing Home, Some Workers Are Babies (New York Times)
Frances Tiafoe Is More Than a Good Story (New Yorker)