The Wakeup Upfronts send 😳 message to scripted TV on day 1
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
Break ’Em Up: Google’s Reckoning Day is Hollywood’s Big Chance As Big Tech faces historic antitrust rulings, Entertainment Strategy Guy outlines a shift that could revive studios, boost creators and reshape the ad market
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
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
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+)
The Ankler x Screen International Launch 2nd Annual Cannes Film Festival Newsletter Gregg Kilday returns to helm a joint daily from both titles, with Claire Atkinson also covering culture and parties along the Croisette
Mara Brock Akil on Forever, Netflix, Judy Blume & DEI Rollback: ‘You’ll Lose’ The prolific creator tells Lesley Goldberg about her adaptation of the 1975 classic with Black teens: ‘Who is the most vulnerable now?’
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
📹 Box Office: Marvel’s New Normal & Summer Predictions Richard and Sean McNulty predict who’ll win the summer smackdown
🎧 Étoile Star Luke Kirby on His Second Dance with Maisel Creators Lenny Bruce to Lincoln Center, the actor goes where the Palladinos lead him. Plus: Katey talks to Tyler Coates about the Emmy landscape and what could disrupt it
🎧 The Week Trump Terrified Hollywood The president, Jon Voight and Gov. Newsom can't save an industry
🎧 The Trickery of Tariffs & Incentives Rob Long on why some popular ideas don’t always make financial sense
