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The Wakeup Amazon’s curious movie slate boom: 2 more buys
Next Cash Cow: AI-Fueled Fan Fiction IP icons from Friends to Harry Potter are being manipulated by consumers. Now it’s time studios and tech worked together, writes Erik Barmack
WME’s Top Digital Exec: AI’s Here. Now Let's Cash In (Carefully) Chris Jacquemin speaks to Elaine Low about the tech’s chance to give creators “superpowers” and big paydays
Exec Coach: The New Industry Must-Have (and Career Off-Ramp) With bosses too stressed to mentor, Elaine reports, more Hollywood pros are seeking (and giving) leadership advice. You’ll just have to pay up
Ari and Bryan Are on the Clock Plus: Richard Rushfield’s takes on Apple TV+’s $1B bleed; you can’t kill Tony Hinchcliffe; return of the Hollywood grifter
Jake & Logan Paul: Secrets of the Producer Who Shaped Their Outrageous Story for TV As streamers court creators, Andrew Fried shares with Like & Subscribe’s Natalie Jarvey how the ‘formidable’ and 'frustrating’ princes of the manosphere somehow ended up on Max
CBS Ex-Pres on Life After the Big Job: ‘You Don’t Get to Choose Your Own Exit’ Kelly Kahl opens up to Lesley Goldberg about his journey that led him to produce a doc about the Milwaukee Brewers’ 1982 World Series, a childhood obsession
H’wood Dem Donors Rage: ‘Ask Me for Another Dollar, I Dare You’ ‘We’re not just an ATM’ as top party funders seek Silicon Valley-style leverage, Matthew Frank reports, while they wait (and wait) for a plan on how the party will meet the moment
Long Bright River, Adolescence & Limited Series’ Long Comeback Katey Rich goes inside the category’s, yes, dramatic Emmy’s evolution as The Penguin, Dying for Sex and more reshape the race
No Other Land & a Raucous First Amendment Fight The campaign to protect Miami Beach’s O Cinema, Katey writes, has activated Hollywood: ‘The city would be an international laughing stock’
🎧 White Lotus, Black Doves & the Zeitgeist Effect on Emmys Elaine and Manori Ravindran join Katey to break down this year’s race (so far)
📹 Substack’s Hamish McKenzie on the Creator Revolution The Substack cofounder joins Richard’s weekly live video show, The Rushfield Lunch, to dish about his hot platform — and up-close times with the world’s richest man
🎧 MrBeast & Beyond: Hollywood’s New Stars Why streamers are going creator crazy; plus: Apple TV+’s billion-dollar losses
🎧 The Lineman TikTok TV Show Rob Long calls for new much-needed words in the Hollywood lexicon
