Patrick Whitesell is self-financing WME Football, plans to focus on sports and live events and shared a bit more about his new investment firm (minority stakes in a range of industries) in a new interview hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Story: JAMES BOND fallout, actual FALLOUT, expensive shows, and weak talent relations. Inside Jen Salke's Amazon ouster. hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Scoops with the Heat Vision Newsletter: Citadel season 2 pushed, spinoffs on hold ... Scott Derrickson has found his next movie view.email.hollywoodreporter.com/?qs=8a2a62f1f8…

It's surprising to see Bloomberg, of all publications, accept a degree of inaccuracy and imprecise (at best) wording as part of doing business to "embrace the future." nytimes.com/2025/03/29/bus…

A new FRIDAY movie with Ice Cube. THE CONJURING UNIVERSE to have "phases." More EVIL DEAD. Drew Barrymore as Roller Girl in BOOGIE NIGHTS. And losing a job to Donna Langley. My chat with New Line boss Richard Brener. hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…

Alternate headline: How an M&Ms movie went from being an absurd idea to the new reality for Hollywood studio chiefs New from Peter Kiefer and Borys Kit hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

My profile of superstar defense attorney Joe Tacopina, aka the Devil's Advocate. (Clients include Aruba murder suspect Joran Van Der Sloot, Michael Jackson, and, yes, Trump.) One of New York's true characters. hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

"G/O Media had already destroyed several of their properties... Deadspin... Jezebel, The Root. It would take him three years to do the same to Quartz. The end came on Friday" Zach Seward zachseward.com/what-was-quart…

Another warning sign of the major spending pullback by the studios hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

New: The WGA West has gone public with the members disciplined (expelled, suspended, censured) after its 2023 strike trials — and four have appealed hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

This week's Heat Vision Newsletter focuses in on the stunt Oscar, and what it could mean for those 2027 movies that will be eligible. With insights from David Leitch, Chad Stahelski and more... view.email.hollywoodreporter.com/?qs=12cdeca9e3…

A short Q&A with Hi Desert Times Magazines — a great shop in Twentynine Palms — on Lyrics as Poetry, print media and vintage magazines ... lizlapp.substack.com/p/a-toast-to-s…

With the calamitous drop in production & post-production, LA is danger of becoming the next Detroit. Industry insiders got together last night to highlight the issues and to fight for a post & music tax incentive carve out. hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

The Dissolve 2.0?

Joker 2 tidbit from this candid interview with Warners' film chiefs: "De Luca and Abdy were thrilled with the cut they saw but Zaslav wasn’t and made it clear he had strong concerns." hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

In retrospect, it may have been helpful for the LA Times to add AI to its article pages. In relegating Perplexity AI's random blurbs to "barnacle at the end of articles"-status it reminds people that they're just as valueless as those "around the web" ads

Newspaper home delivery - there are very few national brands that compete anymore. That's one big reason why Rupert Murdoch sees a big opportunity in L.A. hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

A long way from "Lean Forward" to "My Source for News, Opinion and the World" ... hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

This story took an interesting turn - hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Most interesting detail here arguably - "About a quarter of the billionaires in the list have known donations of less than $1 million in the past decade." wsj.com/finance/invest…