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AMC’s ‘Boutique’ Streaming Plan: Don’t Try to Compete With Netflix • The media company, led by CEO Josh Sapan, takes a different tack than most Hollywood giants by focusing on growing niche services (like Acorn TV) that have tallied 6million-plus subscribers so far

Black News Channel Preps Primetime Reboot • The upstart cable outlet, launched in 2020, hopes to expand its audience by focusing on underserved communities ‘to fill a void’ left by legacy media

TV’s Big NFL Rights Gamble • Broadcasters ante up $100 billion for 10 years to show football—but the league can opt out

Game of Thrones Plots New Territory to Conquer: Broadway • As WarnerMedia inks a multiyear megadeal with creator George R.R. Martin and plots five spinoff series, the franchise is enlisting talent to stage a big-budget theatrical show

Contenders Hit the Home Stretch, the Finish Line Comes Into View • As the Producers and Writers Guilds pick their favorites, the last, frenzied month of politicking begins

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN MERGER WAGERS BIG ON SPORTS BETTING

News Corp Spends $625M+ in Media Buying Spree

Rights Available! • Hot new books with Hollywood appeal

7 Days of DEALS • Who’s inking on the dotted line this week

Kwame Onwuachi • The former Top Chef contestant returns as a judge for season 18 as preproduction starts on a film about his life that will star LaKeith Stanfield

Asian Americans’ Plight: ‘Do You Serve COVID?’ • Restaurants and neighborhoods like Little Tokyo contend with a rise of hate-fueled incidents as celebrities come together to raise funds for struggling eateries

Yes, I Did Say That! • A look at who’s saying what in entertainment

FLASHBACK! • Did I Really Say That?

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Hitched, Hatched, Hired • Inside the industry’s celebrations and news

David Leitch and Kelly McCormick • With multiple box office smashes under their belts, the married producing duo is turning Bob Odenkirk into an action star and celebrating the ‘light at the end of the [pandemic] tunnel’

Legal Do’s and Don’ts in Hollywood’s ‘Cancel Culture’ • It takes just moments for an incident to go viral and prompt calls for a person’s cancellation, but companies might want to proceed carefully to avoid the same fate

Fiction? Nonfiction? The Definition’s Blurry • While such narrative features as Nomadland and the docu-comedy Borat Subsequent Moviefilm lean into reality, this season’s docs like Collective, My Octopus Teacher and The Mole Agent play more like dramatic inventions

How Studying Bugs Inspired Love and Monsters • The Oscar-nominated VFX team researched all sorts of creepy crawlers to craft a menagerie of fearsome creatures, born of a combination of practical effects and CG work, in the tightly budgeted, postapocalyptic adventure feature

Colman Domingo’s Retro-‘Purist’ Life • The Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom actor and nightlife investor talks about his love for all things ’60s and ’70s, from his midcentury home to gold chains and unbuttoned shirts: ‘That’s exactly who I’ve become’

Jeweler Jennifer Fisher Opens a West Coast Flagship in Beverly Hills • ‘You’re not really able to express yourself via handbags and shoes on Zoom,’ says the designer of booming demand for her hoop earrings

Good Night Stunners • Thin, elegant and displaying only the time, the latest two-and three-hand watches can transition from Zoomed awards shows to post-COVID red carpets and Hollywood evenings out

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