Weekly Journal #170
Industry News
WGA Strike: As Broadcast Fights For Survival, “Divided” AMPTP Could Face Splintering Over Conflicting Agendas (Deadline)
A Startup From the Co-Founder of Pluto TV Thinks America Is Ready for Free TVs (The Hollywood Reporter)
Time to Break Up Hollywood (BIG by Matt Stoller)
Visualizing and Quantifying the WGA-AMPTP Negotiations Part I: Overall Compensation (The Entertainment Strategy Guy)
Film
Critic’s Notebook: At the New York African Film Festival, Pondering the Past, Present and Future of a Continent’s Cinema (The Hollywood Reporter)
Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ Is So Complex, It Required New Animation Technology (IndieWire)
Television
Apple TV+ Hits All-Time Viewership Highs With ‘Ted Lasso’, ‘Silo’ & ‘The Last Thing He Told Me’ (Deadline)
Apple TV 4K Adds Multiview Feature to Watch Up to Four Streams at Once, Aimed at Pushing MLS Season Pass (Variety)
Netflix’s Next Level: How the Streamer Is Looking to Boost Growth With Ads, Password-Sharing Crackdown, Live Events and More (Variety)
Two Television Showrunners on ‘Creative Short Circuits’ (The New York Times)
Why ‘Abbott Elementary’ Creator & Star Quinta Brunson Made An Old-School Network Sitcom (Deadline)
In Other News
Picket Line and Chill (The New York Times)
In Montana, Creators Await — and Dread — a TikTok Ban (The New York Times)
At the Real Embassy, Netflix’s ‘Diplomat’ Draws a Diplomatic Response (The New York Times)
My Night in the Sistine Chapel (The Atlantic)