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
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)