Weekly Journal #151

Industry News

Tax Write-Offs For Content Are Over At Warner Bros Discovery As CFO Once Again Scolds Entertainment Biz For “Spending Frenzy” (Deadline)

YouTube Does It Again: My Thoughts on One of the Smartest Companies in Entertainment Making Another Great Move (The Entertainment Strategy Guy)

Warner Bros. Discovery CFO: Hollywood Went “Overboard” With Streaming “Spending Frenzy” (The Hollywood Reporter)

What to Expect From the 2023 Golden Globes (Variety)

Film

‘Avatar: The Way of Water‘ Swims Past ’Top Gun: Maverick’ at Global Box Office (The Hollywood Reporter)

Box Office: As 2023 Begins, Worry and Fear Linger After a Topsy-Turvy Year for Moviegoing (The Hollywood

Reporter)

What a 1985 Novel Can Tell Us About Life in the 2020s: Almost Everything (The New York Times)

Letitia Wright and John Boyega — Actors on Actors (Variety)

Television

The Four Horsemen of the TV Apocalypse (Doug Shapiro)

Can a Video Game Be Prestige TV? (The New Yorker)

In Other News

What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround? (The Honest Broker)

Electric Vehicles Are Bringing Out the Worst in Us (The Atlantic)

This Could Be a Rough Year for the Podcast Industry (Vulture)

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John Wells