Weekly Journal #200
Industry News
Exclusive: Streaming Study Reveals What Netflix Data Dump Doesn’t (Variety VIP+)
Netflix Won the Year and the Streaming Wars. What Comes Next? (Variety VIP+)
Hollywood's Animation Workers are Unionizing at a Rapid Pace. Here's Why. (The Los Angeles Times)
H'wood Saudi Pivot: the Players and Playbook (The Ankler)
The 2024 Award Season Is Weird. Here’s a Guide to Unpacking It. (CNN)
Film
Box Office: Existential Crisis Ahead As Hollywood Rethinks What Makes a Hit (The Hollywood Reporter)
Will Social Issue Docs Like ‘Beyond Utopia’ and ‘Four Daughters’ Snag Oscar Noms This Year? (Variety)
The Great 2023 Streaming Movies You May Have Missed (The New York Times)
‘Origin’: Read The Screenplay By Ava DuVernay That Fuses Original Research With A Bestselling Book To Create An Emotional Epic (Deadline)
This Was the Year That the Golden Age of Documentary Felt Like a Distant Memory (IndieWire)
Television
Amazon’s Adding Ads to Prime Video, Too (Vulture)
Historians Vibe-Check The Gilded Age (Vulture)
Watch ‘Off Script With The Hollywood Reporter’ Featuring Top Actors, Directors This Sunday on SundanceTV (The Hollywood Reporter)
In Other News
These Classic Characters Are Losing Copyright Protection. They May Never Be the Same. (The New York Times)
Why the Noise of L.A. Helicopters Never Stops (The New Yorker)