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The High Cost of Chasing Netflix: Expect Big Losses for Years • NBCU’s Peacock and WarnerMedia’s HBO Max are touting notable subscriber gains but also forecasting billions in investment charges to establish a streaming presence
U.S. Streamers Bulk Up With Non-English-Language Shows • In a rush to build libraries with originals — and with an eye to rolling out services worldwide — platforms are increasingly buying finished shows off the shelf
How Will Hollywood Cash in on Investor Frenzy? • The epic trading battle over GameStop has been a boon to AMC Theatres, spurred new film deals and impressed Big Short director Adam McKay: ‘It’s hard not to love what that Reddit group is doing’
Wall Street’s Wild Ride • At the end of January, AMC Entertainment and GameStop whipsawed amid social media-fueled trading while AMC Networks also saw a boost (perhaps from its similar name). Fellow exhibition giant Cinemark, by contrast, remained stable.
First Case: Actor Sues Netflix for COVID-19 Conditions • The streaming giant is a co-defendant in a set-safety lawsuit that may foreshadow other pandemic-era litigation in Hollywood
How Hollywood Assistants Manage Amid the Pandemic • A majority of industry support staff make less than $50,000, and about 20 percent say they have left L.A. or moved back in with family and friends due to lost income during the COVID-19 crisis, a new survey from advocacy group #PayUpHollywood finds
It’s Time to Stop Dithering and Start Making Choices • Voting on Academy shortlists for music, docs, makeup/hairstyling, shorts and international features closes Feb. 5
APPLE BREAKS SUNDANCE RECORD WITH CODA AMID SLOW-GOING MARKET
Local TV M&A Heating Up With $925 Million Deal
Rights Available! • Hot new books with Hollywood appeal
7 Days of DEALS • Who’s inking on the dotted line this week
$1B Big Number • Available credit to David Ellison’s Skydance Media after closing a loan from J.P. Morgan and partnering banks for film and TV expansion.
Dominique Fishback • The actress and playwright shines in awards contender Judas and the Black Messiah
The Super Bowl Party Scene Is Largely MIA • While some stars may pop up in stadium suites, the pandemic curtails most in-person events
RESEARCHING MIKE NICHOLS: HOW THE NEW BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR CAME TOGETHER • Author Mark Harris recounts interviewing his own husband, Tony Kushner, getting Elaine May to talk, and chasing gay-relationship rumors
Yes, I Did Say That! • A look at who’s saying what in entertainment
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Hitched, Hatched, Hired • Inside the industry’s celebrations and news
Cicely Tyson • Condola Rashad, who starred with the actress on Broadway in 2013’s Trip to Bountiful revival, on her friend and mentor
Jesse Collins • The onetime radio DJ dishes on his upcoming gigs producing the Super Bowl halftime show, the Grammys and the Oscars
Can Borat Crash the Oscars the Second Time Around? • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm may not be quite as funny as the 2006 original, but by confronting Trump’s America, Sacha Baron Cohen has raised the stakes
A Return to Old Hollywood … and Then a Visit to the Afterlife • For his two most recent films, Mank and Soul, Ren Klyce re-created how a 1940s movie would have sounded and then imagined the aural feel of life before birth
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