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The Wakeup How family flicks are fixing ’25 box office
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: How Swinging, Scandal, Soda = Big Bank Natalie Jarvey talks to EP Lisa Filipelli about the Hulu hit's influencer lives, the way they make money and the show's lucrative 'halo effect' on their #MomTok brands
Mubi’s $24M Bet Just Made Agents Bullish Again. Here's Why CAA’s Roeg Sutherland, WME’s Deborah McIntosh and more tell Ashley Cullins why the JLaw-Pattinson Cannes buy signals that the market ‘turned a corner’
Joe Biden & Hollywood: Gerontocracy, Kleptocracy, Kakistocracy? A new book names names in the Worst Generation web of DC's leaders and ours, Richard Rushfield writes
Ordinary People Enduring Life Under Dictators: The Cannes Jury’s Choice Analysis: The just-wrapped fest honored films ‘from human points of view’ that critics loved, Claire Atkinson reports. But will audiences?
The Palme D’Oracle Strikes Again as Neon Scores its 6th Winner Mon Dieu! The jury’s ‘Conclave with Champagne’ deliberations leave U.S. filmmakers in the cold as a slow market wraps
Prime to Peacock: The Right Next Genre for Every Streamer Netflix isn’t doing this. Disney+ used to. HBO Max forgot how. Here’s what each platform should pursue now to grow, writes Entertainment Strategy Guy
Global TV Market Reboot: A New Second Window Blows Open SCOOP: Amazon is now selling some of its biggest shows to buyers where they already stream, reports Manori Ravindran
The Biggest Studio Bet of the Year is in a Swamp Uni just opened the first major U.S. theme park in 24 years. Richard was there
🎬 Richard & Sean: Lilo & Tom Turn Up the Nostalgia Taking stock after a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend
🎧 Say Nothing: Tackling ‘Profound and Tough Questions’ of the Irish Troubles How the FX limited series’ creator, director & cinematographer conveyed three violent decades in Northern Ireland
🎧 Bruce Vilanch & the Wild World of 1970s Variety TV Spectaculars The maestro recalls his infamous trio: the Star Wars Holiday Special George Lucas disowned, the Paul Lynde Halloween Special and the Brady Bunch Hour
🎧 Cheers & Art of the ‘Norm!’ Entrance Rob Long on the pleasure of writing for George Wendt
🎧 Palme Today, Oscar Tomorrow? Katey Rich breaks down post-Cannes Film Fest buzz with Chris Feil. Plus, Severance star Britt Lower & creator Dan Erickson take Katey inside the dystopian drama
🎧 Netflix, Disney+ & YouTube: The Fight to Babysit Your Kids Sesame Street and Ms. Rachel are just the start. What’s next