Weekly Journal #192
Industry News
Hollywood’s Biggest Stars Offer To Kick In $150M Over Three Years In Dues To Help End Actors Strike Stalemate (Deadline)
Netflix, After Reducing Spend During Strikes, Now Expects Free Cash Flow to Be $6.5B (The Hollywood Reporter)
Netflix Unveils Next Steps to Build Advertising Business (The Hollywood Reporter)
Lack of Free Streaming Metrics Leads to Misinformation (Variety VIP+)
Netflix Hikes Prices for Basic and Premium Plans (The Hollywood Reporter)
How Audacious Is SAG-AFTRA’s Subscriber Fee Ask, Really? (The Hollywood Reporter)
What Lies Ahead for Hollywood? Insiders Weigh In (The Hollywood Reporter)
Film
Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Faraway Downs’ Trailer Builds on ‘Australia’ (The Hollywood Reporter)
Apple’s New Film Strategy Debuts With ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ (The New York Times)
Television
Jon Stewart’s Apple TV Plus Show Ends, Reportedly Over Coverage of AI and China (The Verge)
Adapting ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ for TV, and the Blind (The New York Times)
Why Frasier Needs Longer Seasons (and a Network Home) (Vulture)
In Other News
The Visual Power of Black Rest (The New Yorker)
Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore (The New Yorker)