For the first time, former top Paramount exec Kevin Kay reveals how he risked his career on a do-or-die bet on Taylor Sheridan in an impassioned rebuttal to AI| The Ankler.
For the first time, former top Paramount exec Kevin Kay reveals how he risked his career on a do-or-die bet on Taylor Sheridan in an impassioned rebuttal to AI| The Ankler.
PEACOCK gets more 'Paper' / UTA adds to creator rep team / PAR makes 'Duty' deal| The Ankler.
Rob Long's syllabus for reaching young men again| The Ankler.
Franchise flops, one comedy and no ‘Inside Out 2’-size hit — what did you expect?| The Ankler.
10 man-made disasters coming this fall. It’s time to impeach the idiots| The Ankler.
Deborah McIntosh is scoring profit participation (for some) and talks a fresh market where every window is shattered and ‘plug-and-play’ deals are over| The Ankler.
Deborah McIntosh is scoring profit participation (for some) and talks a fresh market where every window is shattered and ‘plug-and-play’ deals are over| The Ankler.
Netflix, Apple, HBO, Disney: Agents and execs say the market is moving again, but with sharper tastes, fewer slots, and smart pitching mattering more than ever| The Ankler.
+ I reunite with my former ‘Little Gold Men’ hosts David Canfield & Richard Lawson to survey the nascent Oscar race| The Ankler.
The trends ahead in movie volume, original pics, box office 💰 comps and more| The Ankler.
Movie release slate shifts, additions / AMAZON gets McCartney pic / NFL makes 2nd U.K. TV deal| The Ankler.
Sphere, TikTok Live, ‘KPop’: Summer signs off with a bang| The Ankler.
The ‘Platonic’ co-creators on comedy, theatrical and how they write: ‘We’re both hard on the material’| The Ankler.
Summer news ends on a bang, plus the 5 biggest stories of the season| The Ankler.
NEON’s active TIFF market / Ryan Kavanaugh backs Liman crypto pic / YT TV, FOX end standoff| The Ankler.
My conversation with director David Mackenzie about his thrilling throwback. Plus: Our big plans for Telluride as fall festivals begin| The Ankler.
For audiences, it’s breathtaking; for the workforce, it’s a test| The Ankler.
For audiences, it’s breathtaking; for the workforce, it’s a test| theankler.com
The data behind the genre's sudden overperformance, how to win and why live-action family can't compare| theankler.com
Plus: 5 charts that explain romcom winners & losers| theankler.com
SEARCHLIGHT, 'Troopers' reunite / NETFLIX adds more Jake Paul / WWE hits ESPN early| theankler.com
YT, NFLX’s new NIELSEN records / NEXSTAR’s $6.2B TV deal / AMAZON sets Costner, Gyllenhaal pic| theankler.com
As Big Tech faces historic antitrust rulings, a new power shift could revive studios, boost creators and reshape the digital ad economy| theankler.com
“An All-Time Technical Masterpiece”| theankler.com
Plus: ‘The Studio’ exec on how to pitch a comedy; USA Network’s big scripted return| theankler.com
‘We, as a generation, kind of have the reins now,’ the first-time Emmy nominee for ‘Nobody Wants This’ tells me| theankler.com
Alexandra Fehrman, CAS moderates a conversation with Emmy nominees Eliot Connors, MPSE (‘Arcane’) and Brad North, MPSE (‘Love Death + Robots Vol 4’)| theankler.com
Emmy nominees Rob Tokarz and Ruth Ammon in conversation with moderator and set director Claire Kaufman, nominated for ‘The Studio’| theankler.com
Emmy nominees Eric Kissack, ACE (‘The Studio’), Jamie Martin, ACE (‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’) and Peggy Tachdjian, ACE (‘Monsters’) tell all| theankler.com
In the marketplace of asks lurks danger and payback. Part 1 of my four-day series with top names on outsmarting Hollywood’s dysfunction| theankler.com
The business of entertainment. Click to read "The Ankler.", by Richard Rushfield, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.| theankler.com
Financial gains are coming for Netflix, Disney, WBD, Peacock & Paramount (but not Apple TV+) in the first of my two looks at Trump's Big Tech breakups| theankler.com
The top 10% now account for half of U.S. spending as entertainment must redefine 'mass' media in an era of upsells and price increases| theankler.com
As digital stars take audience and ad dollars, my half-year check-in reveals who’s writing big checks, where investment & opportunity are and what’s coming| theankler.com
Actor Tye Sheridan and Nikola Todorovic’s Wonder Dynamics streamlines VFX, cuts costs and is backed by the software giant that helped power ‘Avatar’| theankler.com
Before firing up the BBQ, catch up on these greats, past and present — including an unsung A24 gem — streaming this holiday weekend| theankler.com
HULU, Winslet part ways / Writer employment falls again in '24 / UA sets 2nd movie in a week| theankler.com
Plus: Rachel Zegler's empty H'wood dance card, decoding the streamers' billboards, the return of Mel Brooks and comedy's iceberg| theankler.com
'Publicists are scrambling and pulling their hair out to figure out what platform is hot this week,' Nicole LaPorte tells me| theankler.com
Productions disrupted, workers paralyzed: Crew & staff who grew up undocumented (like I did) are filled with fear as studios stay mum| theankler.com
APPLE TV+'s showrunner switch / VERIZON shuts down Play store / Whitesell adds partner| theankler.com
Plus: AI film studios have movies to sell. Hollywood isn't buying| theankler.com
The Oscar nominee and 'Atlanta' alum on finding his own way into the dark material: 'Yeah, I can relate to this'| theankler.com
I evaluate performance of the contenders that could bring new life — and audiences — to the big screen| theankler.com
Who'll stop strike three? Of the 'evil empire' AMPTP, 'none of them like each other, so it's hard to get anything done.' Plus: International TV upfront preview| theankler.com
Hollywood fell for the 'Drive to Survive' myth as the genre crashes and burns| theankler.com
What EOne's discount sale to Lionsgate warns about the inflated talent-driven bubble| theankler.com
