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What are we doing, moving around furniture on the Titanic?” SAG-AFTRA leader and former star of The Nanny Fran Drescher asked a packed conference room of reporters on July 13, 2023. Her union of 160,000 performers had just announced it was going on strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. It was joining the Writers Guild of America, whose 11,500 members were already engaged in their own work stoppage, in the first double strike by the two unions since 1960. Just over a year later, Hollywood is still feeling a little bit like the Titanic. During the strike, as creatives contended that they were increasingly being devalued in the streaming era, employment of Los Angeles entertainment workers reportedly dropped 17 percent. Then, as workers emerged from the labor…
Ted Sarandos, Greg Peters The Netflix co-CEOs beat expectations and add 8 million subscribers in the quarter, while signaling that they plan to increase their market share of the streaming landscape. David Wiener Paramount+ pulls the plug on its big-budget Halo adaptation, led by the showrunner, after two seasons. The project will be shopped for a third run. Osgood Perkins and Maika Monroe The director and star (along with Nick Cage) power Neon’s Longlegs to the biggest launch of an indie horror pic in a decade with $30 million since July 12. James Dolan The New York Knicks owner trashed the NBA’s new $76 billion TV deals, arguing that they would “disrupt” the regional networks model that has benefited him. Showbiz Stocks $34.33 (+2.8%) FOX CORP. (FOXA) Fox News dominated…
Six months after the strike-delayed 2023 Emmys were handed out in the wrong year, the July 17 nominations announcement should have felt like déjà vu. But the near-wholesale shift in the drama race took care of any fears about repetition. The 2024 Emmys are on track to be a mostly different affair — outside of The Bear, still a powerhouse and still confoundingly a comedy. The Crown is the only year-over-year holdover in the eight-series best drama race, one where FX freshman Shogun has already cast a formidable shadow as the most nominated project of the year. Amid the 100-plus categories, there is plenty of good news (critical favorite Reservation Dogs finally got its due) and a little bad news (11 nominations for playing the same character is seemingly enough…
Reservation Dogs, What We Do in the Shadows There was no doubt FX would receive best comedy and comedy actor noms for The Bear and its star Jeremy Allen White. But it was a surprise when it also found itself represented in those categories by Reservation Dogs and What We Do in the Shadows and their stars D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (left) and Matt Berry. The Morning Show Among dramas, only Shogun and The Crown landed more noms than this Apple show, which only 12 percent of audiences liked, per Rotten Tomatoes, but which exceeded expectations by landing 16 nods. It was recognized in the best drama category, and an impressive 10 of its performers were also acknowledged. Maya Rudolph Speaking of Apple, its comedy Loot, for its second season, was nearly…
JOHN LANDGRAF AND DANA WALDEN FX’s record haul, which knocked HBO to No. 3 among platforms, is a coup for Landgraf and boss Walden, who saw her Disney portfolio claim a total 183 nominations. BELA BAJARIA FX’s bounty may be swell, but Netflix’s status as the No. 1 Emmy player after years as second fiddle to HBO is just as sweet for the dominant streamer and its chief content officer. JON HAMM The actor’s recent TV ubiquity is paying off, earning him two acting nominations — and not in the cheap “he hosted SNL” way — for regular work on Fargo and Morning Show. OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESSES Traditional Emmy bait fell flat this year, with Kate Winslet (The Regime), Nicole Kidman (Expats) and Emma Stone (The Curse) among the A-listers getting…
Ten years ago, a hacker group calling itself the Guardians of Peace released a trove of data from Sony Pictures. Their demand? That Sony pull an upcoming film, The Interview, in which Seth Rogen and James Franco played journalists trying to secure an interview with Kim Jong Un. What followed became an international story and led to the departure of some Sony executives over the embarrassing contents of some of their emails. In early July, the hacktivist group NullBulge, which says it chooses its targets based on “protecting artists’ rights and ensuring fair compensation for their work,” dumped a terabyte’s worth of data from the Walt Disney Co., including internal Slack channels, images and logins. “Have fun sifting through it,” the group told visitors to its website. To be sure,…
