Weekly Journal #167

Industry News

IATSE President Matt Loeb Tells Members They Have “Legal Right” To Honor WGA Picket Lines In Event Of A Strike (Deadline)

Hollywood, Both Frantic and Calm, Braces for Writers’ Strike (The New York Times)

A Eulogy for Netflix’s DVD-by-Mail Era (The Hollywood Reporter)

You Can’t Just Make the Hits (Doug Shapiro)

The Captioning Conundrum: Why Hollywood Film Fests Still Struggle to Serve Deaf Audience Members (The Hollywood Reporter)

Film

CinemaCon 2023: 'The Flash' screens, Hollywood Disses Screening (The Los Angeles Times)

In Praise of the Long Movie (The New Yorker)

How ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ Looks as Timeless as the Judy Blume Book (IndieWire)

Nida Manzoor’s Complicated Muslim Women (The New Yorker)

Television

Americans Get Nostalgic for the Cable TV Experience (The Wall Street Journal)

‘Citadel’ Review: Amazon’s Ambitious Espionage Thriller Is Better Off Being Silly (IndieWire)

No, Really, I’m Awful (The Atlantic)

‘Queen Charlotte’ Stars on Show’s Inclusive Portrayal of Black Women and Overcoming ‘Bridgerton’ Pressures (The Hollywood Reporter)

‘Dear Mama’ Becomes FX’s Most-Watched Premiere Ever for an Unscripted Series (Variety)

The Most Quietly Radical Writer on Television (The Atlantic)

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John Wells