Weekly Journal #173
Industry News
An “Existential Fight” Looms If Actors Join the Writers Strike (The Hollywood Reporter)
Across The Movie-Verse (Variety VIP+)
CTV & Fast Strategies of the Broadcast Networks (Variety VIP+)
In Conversation: Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson (Vulture)
Film
Universal Says On-Demand Film Strategy Has Increased Audience (The New York Times)
Studio Ghibli to Release Hayao Miyazaki’s Final Film With No Trailers or Promotion (The Guardian)
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Has Starred In Major Film & TV’s Franchises, Yet One Stage Role Haunted Him For Nearly Two Decades (Deadline)
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Review: A Bedazzling Sequel, and the Rare Comic-Book Movie That Earns Its Convolutions (Variety)
How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Swallowed Hollywood (The New Yorker)
Television
The Binge Purge TV’s Streaming Model Is Broken. It’s Also Not Going Away. (Vulture)
Their Show Flew Under the Radar. TikTok Blew It Up. (The New York Times)
‘The Idol’ Creators: ‘This Is Not Going to Be for Everybody’ (The New York Times)
Formula 1 Races Into Scripted TV: Felicity Jones To Star In & Produce Drama ‘One’ (Deadline)
‘Swarm’ Showrunner Janine Nabers Looks Back at the Ominous Start to Dre’s Rampage (The Hollywood Reporter)
In Other News
CNN's Chris Licht Showed the Problem With Anti-Woke Centrism (The Washington Post)
Trump's Indictment (The New York Times)
The Truth Is, Many Americans Just Don’t Want Black People to Get Ahead (The New York Times)
Inside the Wagner-verse: How Hollywood-Style Propaganda Films Are Selling Putin’s War (The Hollywood Reporter)
Did This Writer Actually Know Tennessee Williams? (The New Yorker)