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Will Hollywood’s Streaming Ambition Lead to Gaming Buys? • As Microsoft snaps up Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion to shore up its streaming platform, and Netflix also enters the sector, Sony — or even Disney — may be next to strike a deal
The Fight to Save Afghan Film and TV Workers • For more than two decades, the U.S. helped train hundreds of Afghans to work in the local entertainment sector. Now international producers have banded together to help former colleagues who are trapped and fearing for their lives
TV News Joins Streaming’s Nostalgia Play • Networks like CBS and CNN are leaning on ‘iconic franchises’ and ‘old-school’ reporters in a bid to lure viewers to their streaming offerings
China’s New Year Bonanza Awaits • Box office grosses for local films could hit highs over the holiday
Daredevil’s Return • NETFLIX
Amazon Flexes Its Rings Power • In a crowded year for epic fantasy, massive social reach for a title reveal of the Tolkien series shows the brand’s enduring appeal
L.A. Shoot Days: Streaming TV Fuels High
The Playlist • Podcast and audio news worth following
On Your Marks… Get Set… Vote! • Guilds — and A-listers — weigh in on the contenders ahead of the Jan. 27 start of Oscar nomination voting
APPLE INKS SKYDANCE PACT IN SEARCH OF TENTPOLE FILMS
Dune VFX House Going Public in $1.7B SPAC Deal
Rights Available! • Hot new books with Hollywood appeal
2.5M • That’s how many subscribers Netflix thinks it will add in Q1 2022, a figure that worried Wall Street and sent its stock plummeting.
Jenna Ortega • The actress scores a hit in Scream just ahead of the release of her school-shooting drama The Fallout
Travel in 2022: ‘People Are Eager to Plan Trips’ • As omicron numbers start to level off, many insiders are forging ahead with plans to see family and ‘recharge’ over President’s Day weekend and during spring break in spots like New York, Miami and Deer Valley
No Longer a Leader of BLM, Patrisse Cullors Charts a New Course: ‘My Work Doesn’t End’ • Author of a new book on how to be a modern-day abolitionist, the L.A. native talks about how far-right attacks on her finances last year were attempts to ‘get me killed,’ how her stance on activism has shifted and the projects she has planned under her overall deal with Warner Bros.
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
1953-2022 Louie Anderson • Writer-director Travon Free remembers the comedian and Baskets star, who died Jan. 21 of cancer
Roland Emmerich • Nearly destroying the world multiple times in a run of blockbusters, the filmmaker takes his latest swing with Moonfall, but as he sees it, the thing he may be best at breaking is his agents’ hearts
Why the Oscars Have Become Harder Than Ever to Predict • A look at how the explosion of the international membership of the film Academy — people who are largely unrepresented in the groups that dish out the nominations and awards before the Oscars — has changed the calculus
The ‘Edge of Silence’ Soundscape of The Power of the Dog • Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb detail how Jane Campion’s delicate use of sound conveys the expansive landscape and isolated characters in the Netflix Western
House Next Door? They’ ll Buy It, Too • It’s a land rush out there as stars...