Weekly Journal #186
Industry News
SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland Says Warner Bros Discovery $300M-$500M Loss “Can Almost Pay For The Entirety” Of Actors’ Proposal “For Three Years” – TIFF (Deadline)
WGA & SAG-AFTRA To Rally For California Bill That Would Grant Unemployment Insurance To Strikers (Deadline)
Disney’s Wildest Ride: Iger, Chapek and the Making of an Epic Succession Mess (CNBC)
Disney Says Charter Dispute Is Driving A 60% Increase In Hulu + Live TV Subscriptions Relative To Internal Expectations (Deadline)
Inside the NFL’s All-Media Blitz: How Roger Goodell Conquered Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
Film
The Era of the Original Streaming Movie Is Over (Yahoo)
Summer Studio Scorecard: Ranking ROI on Every Movie (The Ankler)
Denzel Washington: Deadline’s How They Reached The Top (Deadline)
Ava DuVernay Says Black U.S. Directors Are Told “Not to Apply” to International Film Festivals, but ‘Origin’ Has “Opened the Door” (The Hollywood Reporter)
The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes (Vulture)
Television
The Anticlimactic Death of the Streaming Wars (Wired)
Cable’s Biggest Hit? A Paramount+ Show From 2021 (Vulture)
Creators Once Dreaded the Pressure of Ratings, Now They’re Fighting for the Data (The Hollywood Reporter)
In Other News
Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison (The New Yorker)
An Unexpected Hotbed of Y.A. Authors: Utah (The New York Times)
Can We Talk to Whales? (The New Yorker)