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🎧 Joker 2, Flops and Why Everyone Should Calm Down

WBD took a big swing, shot in L.A. and people are . . . mad?

Oct 11

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Joker 2, Flops and Why Everyone Should Calm Down

The Ankler Podcast

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Nobody is arguing Joker: Folie à Deux was a success. But it took a ballsy, director-led swing, followed up on a rare R-rated smash hit and — oh yeah — fought to shoot in L.A. Does it really deserve the pile-on? Elaine Low, Richard Rushfield and David Lidsky break down why cinema’s sudden “Flop Era” is actually a positive (seriously), and what it has to do with a new report that reveals how drastically production is down, particularly in L.A. Plus: Manori Ravindran surveys brand-funded series beyond Chick-fil-A, and Richard dives into his exposé of the Golden Globes’ questionable under-the-radar Sharon Stone gala in Turkey, a country with a wildly antisemitic Trump-buddy dictator. Where could you read about it? Not in Jay Penske’s many trades. Ooof!

Transcript here.

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The Wakeup Legendary seeks to buy out China partner
If Trump Wins: The Hollywood M&A That Could Follow The deals the CEOs at the studios and streamers want (and should want) — and what they have to do to get them
The Golden Globes Event Penske’s 3 Trades Buried. Why? Richard Rushfield investigates. Plus: the Joker 2 journalism crisis!
AI Can Now Tell if Netflix Will Like Your Pitch Erik Barmack also reveals how WME is using chatbots every day in part three of our Ankler survival guide
AI at the Studios: Casting, Script Coverage and Pre-Production Part two of our Ankler survival guide on new technology and the workforce
AI at the Studios: The Tools Coming For Exec and Development Jobs A three-part Ankler survival guide about the new technology about to alter the workforce beyond the creative community
Jason Reitman: The Rushfield Conversation The director and Richard Rushfield discuss showmanship, loneliness, letting go and Saturday Night: ‘What does the moment feel like before culture changes?’
🎧 Shane Smith is Ready to Talk Media. Again Out of semi-retirement, Vice’s co-founder returns with a podcast into a dire media landscape: ‘I’m essentially Michael Corleone . . . I hope it’s not Godfather III'
Producer: I’m 43 and My Parents Still Buy Me Toilet Paper Today’s Salary Confession: ‘There is no version of my younger self that could ever have possibly conceived of where I am now’
11 Best Actor Contenders to Watch And, Katey Rich is sorry to say, one to give up on
So Donald Trump Threatened to Sue Your Movie — Now What? The Apprentice writer Gabriel Sherman tells me how he captured the person before he became the persona. Plus: Todd Phillips’ Joker hangover
🎧 Sell the House Rob Long on the practical advice TV writers should follow
🎧 Cristin Milioti on Staying Sane in ‘Crazy-Making’ Hollywood The Penguin star goes deep with Katey Rich on playing an unlikable character and the lingering toll of 2023’s strikes