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The Wakeup. Entertainment Strategy Guy. Richard Rushfield.

As Warner Bros. For more entertainment news, subscribe to The Ankler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone. The gods of Hollywood never give with both hands. But currently for sale, the debt-laden studio within days was laying off three percent of its workforce — roughly staffers — and Warren Buffett shed a third of his stock in the company. The team weighs in on what appears to be a shortage of interested buyers, why, and what happens next.

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It was June , weeks after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, sparking Black Lives Matter protests around the world and a widescale conversation about race. In Hollywood, power players pledged support, money and change. Richard Rushfield, a veteran entertainment journalist, took note. It was the kind of bold, no-holds-barred take that Rushfield set out to deliver when he launched the Ankler in Intended as a wry alternative to the soft touch and frequent gladhanding of the Hollywood trades, it began as an email Rushfield sent to his friends. They plan to slingshot the Ankler into a more ambitious media business. They also saw an opening. Puck too has lofty plans. Now, two new media ventures are angling to be the authoritative source on Hollywood gossip and goings-on, built around the personalities of veteran entertainment journalists offering their own — they say — unvarnished take on an industry that is obsessed with coverage of itself. Ankler and Puck are just the latest upstarts in the Hollywood trade business.

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It has three main business areas: email newsletters, podcasts, and live events. In February , Richard Rushfield [5] founded The Ankler as a paid subscription publication about the entertainment industry, which he then moved to the Substack platform two years later. In January , Janice Min officially joined the company to form Ankler Media, which expanded the initial newsletter into several newsletters, podcasts, and live events. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools.

Richard Rushfield assessed the State of the Industry this week, and we have questions: Why is there reason for hope? Why is Netflix suddenly so into sports? What are its live TV ambitions? Is there really no superhero fatigue? Or do we just need better superhero movies, as Disney's Bob Iger says? Will the Oscar telecast be less than four hours? And will anyone watch?

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ankler Media. Times Events. Both say that by leading with subscriptions, and remaining largely free from putting out special issues and award season coverage, they can produce content without fear or favor. First, look the part. The Town with Matthew Belloni. September Learn how and when to remove this template message. She says the Ankler now has a total of about 25, paid and free subscribers, and that profitability is in the low seven figures. Stacy Perman. A voters guide for each best picture nominee as they ride the tides of taste and time. Puck has more than a dozen writers, including Julia Ioffe and Baratunde Thurston. What does it all mean? Matthew Belloni, founding partner of Puck, at his Los Angeles home. In January , Janice Min officially joined the company to form Ankler Media, which expanded the initial newsletter into several newsletters, podcasts, and live events. Field Guide 3: Agents theankler. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options.

It has three main business areas: email newsletters, podcasts, and live events. In February , Richard Rushfield [5] founded The Ankler as a paid subscription publication about the entertainment industry, which he then moved to the Substack platform two years later. In January , Janice Min officially joined the company to form Ankler Media, which expanded the initial newsletter into several newsletters, podcasts, and live events.

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