The Hollywood Reporter

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Studio Execs Eye 2022 Film Slates: ‘Windowing Is Getting Very Tricky’ • Amid a growing gulf between haves (anything Marvel) and have-nots (West Side Story), distribution chiefs are making difficult calls on which titles to send to streaming as early as 45 days after a theatrical run begins

United States v. Facebook: What Hollywood Has at Stake • Amazon (with MGM on its mind) will watch whether a judge rules that the FTC chair should have recused herself from targeting Facebook

‘TikTok Made Me Buy It’: Livestream Commerce Heats Up Amid Holidays • NBCUniversal joins the YouTube, Twitter and others in exploring an emerging market that may hit $11 billion this year

After Protests, More Black Creators Are Courted by Social Media Apps • Cash grants and equity programs are among the experiments being tried by TikTok — the subject of a virtual strike — as well as competitors like Snapchat and Triller

The Year Hollywood’s China Relationship Finally Unraveled • It doesn’t matter how accommodating the industry may be — the next phase of the Xi Jinping era may be defined by less space for Western content

The High Highs (and Lower Lows) of Hollywood 2021 • From surprise hits (Squid Game) and blockbuster deals (Hello Sunshine) to scandals (remember Armie Hammer?) and outright tragedies (the Rust shooting), it’s been a roller-coaster 12 months even by industry standards. THR charts the ups and downs of the stars, companies and trends that defined the year — and no doubt will shape 2022

Critics Choice and Golden Globe Noms Highlight an Eventful Week • Whether either award will move the needle with Academy voters, the consensus is: Better to have one than not!

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

CHRIS WALLACE’S FOX EXIT MAY SPARK STREAMING-FIRST DEALS

Chelsea Handler & Jo Koy • Comedy’s new It couple on finding equity, laughs and love on tour: ‘If Chelsea’s all soft and mushy, it could happen to anyone’

Steven Soderbergh’s Favorite L.A. Watering Holes • The director — founder of spirits brand Singani 63 — regularly hits these spots: ‘I would be the easiest person in the world to assassinate’

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

Mentors and Scholarships for L.A. Students • THR’s Women in Entertainment program connects high schoolers to execs

THR’S WOMEN IN ENTERTAINMENT BREAKFAST: BACK IN PERSON • The Dec. 8 event honored Jennifer Aniston and Selma Blair, with a keynote from Nikole Hannah-Jones

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

Nicole Byer • The busy comic-actress on strippers, reading comments and earning enough to say no: ‘Five years ago, if you told me to eat a raw potato in the middle of the street and it might end up on Quibi, I’d do it’

Byer’s Big Beautiful World

‘We Have Awoken a Sleeping Giant’ • Hollywood union organizers and observers say that 2021, which saw a confluence of conditions that activated labor and nearly brought an industrywide stoppage, was unprecedented — and only the beginning

When the Wives Want More, They Wage War • In three films this awards season — Being the Ricardos, House of Gucci and The Tragedy of Macbeth — the women take the reins of power

From the Sordid Underbelly of a Traveling Carnival to the Elite World of High Society • For Searchlight Pictures’ Nightmare Alley, production designer Tamara...