Weekly Journal #159
Industry News
Historic Radford Studio Center Set For $1 Billion Expansion; Room For 20-25 New Soundstages (Deadline)
Everything You Never Thought to Ask About In-Flight Entertainment (Vulture)
David Zaslav Chases the One Metric to Rule Them All: Streaming Profits (The Hollywood Reporter)
Franchises and Film Tentpoles Crucial for Boosting Streaming Services’ Popularity (Variety VIP+)
‘Honestly, I Equate It To Human Greed' (Vulture)
Pivot to ... Something? The Blurry Future of Podcasting (The Hollywood Reporter)
Film
A24 Buys Cherry Lane Theatre (Curbed)
Bad Projection Is Ruining The Movie Theater Experience (Vulture)
After ‘Ant-Man 3’s’ Second Weekend Box Office Collapse, Should Marvel Get Concerned? (Variety)
Michael B. Jordan Teases “Creed Universe” During ‘Creed III’ Premiere & Says Directorial Debut Was A “Team Effort” (Deadline)
Television
What’s Old is New (and Successful!) Again: Sitcoms and Procedurals Come to the Streaming Wars (The Entertainment Strategy Guy)
As AI Comes Into Focus With Rise Of ChatGPT, WGA Seeks To Protect Writers From Robots (Deadline)
John Landgraf Handed Nat Geo & Onyx Oversight & Simran Sethi Adds Freeform As Dana Walden Makes First Changes Since Promotion (Deadline)
In Other News
Welcome to the Museum of the Future AI Apocalypse (Wired)
Fake Bands, Real Songs: The 50 Best Tunes by Made-Up Musicians (Rolling Stone)
The Power of Art in a Political Age (The New York Times)