Weekly Journal #155
Industry News
Apple Falls Short Of Wall Street Quarterly Targets But Surpasses 2 Billion Active Devices (Deadline)
Going First At Bargaining Table Means A Lot, But No Word Yet If It Will Be DGA, WGA or SAG-AFTRA (Deadline)
Netflix’s Password Sharing Crackdown Is Coming: What We Know So Far About How It Will Work (CNBC)
Showtime Shocker: Linear Network Rebrands As Paramount+ With Showtime; Move Comes Amid Streaming Integration, Cancellations & Potential Layoffs (Deadline)
Showtime-Paramount+ Merger: $300M-Plus in Cost Savings Estimated (The Hollywood Reporter)
Did Disney Buy a Dud With Fox? The $71 Billion Deal Is Weighing Bob Iger Down (The Wrap Pro)
Film
His Grandma’s Story Charmed Tom Brady. Now It’s a Hollywood Movie (The Los Angeles Times)
‘Infinity Pool’ and the Battle for an R Rating (The New York Times)
Animated Sundance Sleeper ‘The Amazing Maurice’ A Viva Pictures Milestone; ‘Freedom’s Path’ Marks Black History Month – Specialty Preview (Deadline)
Television
WBTV Boss Channing Dungey on Navigating Regime Change, Inflated Budgets and Future of ‘Ted Lasso’ (The Hollywood Reporter)
A Guide to Black History Month Programming on TV, from ‘The 1619 Project’ to ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ (Variety)
Peacock/NBC Chief on Streamer’s ‘Poker Face’ Hot Streak, Ad Tier Changes and Lessons From ‘Vampire Academy’ (The Hollywood Reporter)
Perfectly Imperfect: 6 Layered Black Women Moving TV Forward (Indiewire)
In Other News
How Podcasts’ Gold Rush Crashed and Burned (The Ankler)
How Ticketmaster Became The Most Hated Name In Music (The Los Angeles Times)
Elaine Hsieh Chou on the Ethics of ‘Trauma Porn’ (The Atlantic)
Ernst Lubitsch Made the Hollywood Comedy Sublime (The New Yorker)
We’ve Lost The Plot (The Atlantic)