Weekly Journal #223
Industry News
Unprecedented time': Hollywood slowdown brings peril for talent agencies, managers (LA Times)
Mark Ruffalo, Quinta Brunson, Ryan Coogler Among Hollywood Union Members Signing Letter Of Solidarity Urging AMPTP To Bargain “Fair Contract” With IATSE, Basic Crafts (Deadline)
Film
Box Office: ‘Inside Out 2’ Passing ‘Dune: Part Two’ to Become Top Movie of 2024 in North America (Hollywood Reporter)
The Summer Box Office Crisis: Is the Sky Really Falling This Time? (The Hollywood Reporter)
Dave Filoni Weighs the Possibility of an R-Rated ‘Star Wars’: “It Has to Be Really Well Done” (The Hollywood Reporter)
How Francis Ford Coppola’s Embattled ‘Megalopolis’ Finally Landed a Distributor (The Hollywood Reporter)
Television
Why does TV feel so underwhelming yet so overwhelming? (Vox)
Why Aren’t FX Shows on FX? Basic Cable Is Dying, But Here’s a Fix for Its Branding Conundrum to Inject Some Personality in These Waning Days (Variety)
In Other News
Supreme Court upholds law barring domestic abusers from owning guns in major Second Amendment ruling (CNN)