Weekly Journal #172
Industry News
Disney Officially Discloses $1.5B In Write-Downs For Yanked Streaming Content, As It Signaled It Would On Its May Earnings Call (Deadline)
WGA, Saying “Era Of Divide & Conquer Is Over,” Accuses AMPTP Of “Gaslighting” Union Members & Telling A “Lie” About The Breakdown Of Contract Talks (Deadline)
Writers’ Shut-It-Down Strategy Has Been Effective, Executives Privately Concede (The Hollywood Reporter)
Netflix Shareholders Reject Exec Pay Packages, Days After Writers Guild Urged “No” Vote (The Hollywood Reporter)
Peter Rice Signs Film & TV Production Deal With A24 (Deadline)
Raising Our Voices: Hollywood’s 50 Forces for Change (The Hollywood Reporter)
Film
The Tom Cruise vs ‘Oppenheimer’ Movie Theater Smackdown (Puck News)
Stephanie Mills Likens Her Experience On ‘The Wiz’ To Halle Bailey’s In ‘The Little Mermaid’: “I Got So Much Hate Mail” (Deadline)
Larger Screens, Heated Seats, Sushi: Theater Owners Want You Back (The New York Times)
Throwing a Dinner Party: The Art of Casting from the Experts (IndieWire)
Television
‘Fubar’ Takes No. 1 On Netflix Top 10; ‘Maid’ Sees Surge In Viewership After Trending On TikTok (Deadline)
The 40 Best TV Finales of the 21st Century, Ranked (The Ringer)
The Algorithm is Still a Lie (The Entertainment Strategy Guy)
Lost Illusions: The Untold Story of the Hit Show’s Poisonous Culture (Vanity Fair)
‘ER’ Writers Reunion on WGA Picket Line Puts Sharp Focus on What TV Has Lost Amid the Streaming Boom (Variety)
Vimeo Instituting Changes To How You Can Watch Content On Your TV (Deadline)
In Other News
Inside the Barbie Dreamhouse, a Fuchsia Fantasy Inspired by Palm Springs (Architectural Digest)
Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Deadwyler and Common on How Going to an HBCU Helped Them Succeed in Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
‘Queer Ecology’ Gifted Him New Perspective. (The Los Angeles Times)