Kreiz In, Bloys Wins: Paramount’s Head-Spinning New Order
The new Paramount is taking shape fast. On the eve of the Warner Bros. deal concluding, David Ellison is bringing in fresh blood — and bloodletting. Former Mattel chief Ynon Kreiz boards as the surpri...
1 Okt 31min
Mike Schur: Paramount-WBD Is a ‘Nightmare Scenario’
Mike Schur calls Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. a “nightmare scenario” for Hollywood — and now that David Ellison has cleared the biggest obstacle to getting the deal done, he’s even more ala...
24 Sep 38min
Emergency Pod! Paramount-WBD Chaos: The Settlement, the Layoffs, the Superstreamer
So after months of big talk about only settling for structural remedies, i.e., selling off assets, what did California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the 11 other state AGs suing Paramount Skydance wi...
22 Sep 40min
1,000 Sony Hacks at Once? Hollywood’s AI Doomsday
A dire warning from Anthropic and OpenAI that increasingly autonomous AI agents could launch cyberattacks – or worse – has an especially chilling implication for Hollywood, where studios and streamers...
17 Sep 37min
Who’ll Save the Film Industry? France Is Trying
Inside President Macron’s summit, where Ted Sarandos, Dana Walden and Hollywood power players attended — very quietly French President Emmanuel Macron summoned some of the biggest names in global ent...
10 Sep 37min
Studios Ghost the Film Festivals; Trump's Hollywood Rescue Plan
It wasn’t long ago when studios took the biggest jewels of their fall slates — the Gravitys and Jokers and First Mans — to the Venice Film Festival to kick off awards season and put A-list talent on a...
3 Sep 34min
YouTube’s Netflix Death Match Levels Up
Hollywood’s newest talent war isn’t over movie stars. For years, YouTube was treated as a “farm league,” in Ted Sarandos‘ words — a place where talent dreamt of graduating to Hollywood. Now smaller pl...
27 Aug 31min
BONUS EP: ‘Sleep in the Bed They Made’: Bonta Fires Back as Paramount Talks Collapse
So much for détente. California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled Monday’s planned meeting with Paramount after accusing the company of leaking — and misrepresenting — confidential settlement discus...
24 Aug 13min
