What I’m Hearing: Summerslam ’23, Disney’s Fire Sale & Fran’s P.R.

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CAA’s client hierarchy on parade: Nice to see CAA’s Bryan Lourd out there picketing in New York now that his actor clients are on strike. But it does beg the question...

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Can Anyone Win Hollywood’s Labor Summerslam?

With Netflix pulling away in streaming and L.A.’s mayor poised to jump into the fray, the incentives for the studios and talent guilds to make a deal become even more complicated.

MATTHEW BELLONI

It’s funny how everyone in Hollywood now thinks they have the solution to end the strikes. On phone calls and over meals, whether it’s executives or lawyers, picketing WGA strike captains or talent agents with nothing to do, so many people seem convinced that they have come up with...

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FOUR STORIES WE’RE TALKING ABOUT

ESPN Crunch Time

Is Disney gearing up for a deal with Comcast?

WILLIAM D. COHAN

Khan’s Achilles Heel

There’s a new playbook for challenging the F.T.C.

ERIQ GARDNER

The Politico Animal

Notes on a shakeup atop Politico.

DYLAN BYERS

Bankman-Fried’s Arm Twist

A scandalous legal subplot to the FTX drama.

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