The Hollywood Reporter

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TV News’ Dangerous Game: Hedging on a Streaming Future • While touting new platforms (think CNN+ or Fox Nation), top broadcast and cable executives are incentivized to protect the linear status quo, given that’s where the money is—even if it’s a rapidly declining business model

The Comic Book Industry’s Next Page-Turner: Union Organizing • Production and edit staff at Image, publisher of Spawn and The Walking Dead series, unveiled plans to unionize in what could be a test case watched by employees at larger companies

Hollywood Warms to Saudi Arabia’s Money Again • It wasn’t too long ago that power brokers rushed to distance themselves from the country after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Now it’s hosting a star-studded film festival and backing big-budget features with U.S. talent

When a Major Theater Chain Plays Ball With Netflix • Cinemark puts aside old grievances and carries Red Notice in hundreds of locations in a pandemic-era team-up, but AMC and Regal aren’t on board

Oscar Hopefuls Make the Rounds • The race heats up on both coasts as A-listers clamor for attention before the Thanksgiving break

7 Days of DEALS • Who’s inking on the dotted line this week

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Suzanna Son • A chance meeting in downtown L.A. led to a key part in Sean Baker’s Red Rocket

Oceanside: SoCal’s Surprising New Foodie Destination • In the once-sleepy town, the Top Gun house is becoming a dessert stop, two boutique hotels have opened and chefs are hotly pursuing Michelin stars

Yes, I Did Say That! • A look at who’s saying what in entertainment

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Hitched, Hatched, Hired • Inside the industry’s celebrations and news

Pamela Abdy • MGM’s Motion Picture Group president has juicy Oscar bait (House of Gucci), a franchise at a crossroads (007) and, pending FTC approval, new bosses

Will Best Picture Be a Feel-Good or Serious Flick? • In a politically tumultuous time, the Academy could honor a film that speaks to the zeitgeist or one that is a distraction from our world — but why can’t it be both?

Making James Bond ‘a Real Person With Vulnerabilities, Emotion and Pain’ • For Daniel Craig’s final performance as 007, editors Tom Cross and Elliot Graham sculpted No Time to Die as a ‘character-driven drama that has action’

New York’s Top 15 Agents Repping A-List Clients • Luxury sales have surged since the city reopened, and Hollywood names are buying and selling trophy properties at a rapid clip

Off-Market Sales Soar in New York City

‘I DON’T ALLOW THAT THING TO DRIVE ME’ • Jessica Chastain, Kirsten Dunst, Jennifer Hudson, Emilia Jones, Kristen Stewart and Tessa Thompson share and swap advice on industry anxieties (COVID or otherwise), the moment when success seemed furthest away and the female head of state they admire

MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY’S PATH TO PUBLIC SERVICE: ‘I WANT THIS TO BE A LEGACY’ • As he mulls a run for Texas governor, the actor talks about what drives him to help 3,000 kids each year through his foundation, plus personally pull together benefit concerts: ‘I was always going to be hands-on’

WHEN STARS ARE ‘PART OF THE SOLUTION’ FOR PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS • Two magnets in Los Angeles will open next year thanks to the visions of Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine and of George Clooney and Grant Heslov: ‘We feel we owe a lot to the inner city’

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