The Wakeup HBO Max is back 🤯, Disney Upfront: Scripted shines
Cannes Daily Day 1: ‘Art is a threat’ as Oscar race, the Resistance, begin
Penske Scoops: SXSW Leak; Golden Globes-Attorney General Mess Builds Richard Rushfield has 11 mins of leaked audio from an internal meeting, and dish on the nepo baby-of-media’s legal entanglement over his awards show
‘Favourite’ Producer Ken Kao’s Hit Indie Model: No More Films ‘Seven People See’ The Waypoint CEO, partners with Neon, talks to Ashley Cullins about the sweet spot of budgets today, how he picks what to finance, horror’s future, and when to bring a studio on board
Before You Fly, Read This. It Could Change Your Journey Home From social media ‘likes’ to shopping receipts to detainment: USC professor Jean Reisz on what to know before facing U.S. border control
Why Apple’s App Store Beatdown is SO SO HUGE for Streamers Financial gains are coming for Netflix, Disney, WBD, Peacock & Paramount (but not Apple TV+), Entertainment Strategy Guy writes in the first of two takes on Trump’s Big Tech breakups
Break ’Em Up: Google’s Reckoning Day is Hollywood’s Big Chance Big Tech breakups, part 2: Amid historic antitrust rulings, ESG outlines a shift that could revive studios, boost creators and reshape the ad market
Disney’s Rita Ferro Rethinks Upfronts: ‘You Buy Cars All Year.’ Why Not Ads? The ad chief, along with WBD’s ad team, talk to Elaine Low about Hollywood’s annual ad blitz, banged up by tariffs, crashed by streamers
TV Chaos Underway in U.S.-Canada Trade War: ‘Someone Takes the Hit’ Producers see locations changing, fewer greenlights and budget crises between ‘Hollywood North’ & Hollywood, Manori Ravindran reports
Bloody-Good TV Worlds: Inside Vampire and St. Denis Medical From Anne Rice’s dark mythos to a mock-doc in a chaotic ER, showrunners and stars talk to Elaine about making distinctive series in a shifting landscape
Cannibal Queens to Cancer Sex: Creators on Risk & Ambition in the Algo Age Teams behind Yellowjackets, American Primeval and Dying for Sex tell Katey Rich the wild stories behind their buzzy shows — and what gives them hope
First Twins. Now Quintuplets? Cynthia Erivo’s Poker Face Turn(s) The Wicked diva follows similar acts by Pattinson, De Niro, Michael B. & Pugh
🎧 My ER Trip to Grey’s Anatomy: Gen Z What Rob Long’s hot stroke doctors taught him about TV
🎧 Étoile Star Luke Kirby on His Second Dance with Maisel Creators Lenny Bruce to Lincoln Center, the actor goes where the Palladinos lead him.
🎧 The Week Trump Terrified Hollywood The president, Jon Voight and Gov. Newsom can't save an industry
