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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, joining you in pessimistic wait-and-see mode regarding Wednesday’s possible actors strike. I’m hitting send tonight from the premiere of the highly-anticipated Barbie movie, a sentence I definitely never thought I’d write.
Programming note: I’ll be on CNBC tomorrow morning at 6:50 eastern talking box office and “Barbenheimer.” This week on The Town, Lucas Shaw and I parsed the David Zaslav pile-on, and I answered mailbag questions with Producer Craig while proposing a studio luxury tax for movies over 2.5 hours. Subscribe here.
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Discussed in this issue: Howard Weitzman, Andy Jassy, David Nevins, Donna Langley, Adam Aron, Tyler Perry, Kelly Bush, Shawn Holley, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Bob Iger, Bob Bakish, Ron DeSantis, David Zaslav, and the “daring” Barney the Dinosaur movie…
But first…
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| You don’t need me to tell you that the burst of the Peak TV content bubble is being felt acutely across Hollywood. But there’s a growing group that believes the contraction has actually created an opportunity for independent studios that have been squeezed by the global streamers and their desire to own all rights to all content for all time. And this week, David Nevins, the veteran Showtime and Paramount Global executive, joined them, becoming C.E.O. of investor Peter Chernin’s entertainment venture, North Road Co., which launched last summer with... |
