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
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
Hayden Panettiere’s Child-Star Tragedy; Bonta on Paramount ‘Playing Cute’
Hayden Panettiere worked in Hollywood since she was 11 months old, and by the time Heroes made her a household name at 16, she was already navigating the darker side of child stardom. The Wall Street ...
20 Aug 33min
