Business of Hollywood The YouTube Oscars News broke yesterday that the Oscars will move online to YouTube in 2029. The Oscars will continue to run on ABC through 2028, which is its centenary year, and then will shift online in 2029 for a five-year deal with YouTube that includes access to the red carpet and the By Sarah • Dec 18, 2025 10:00 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for December 12, 2025 Dear Gossips, It’s Friday and I’m back on my AI bullsh-t, mainly because Disney announced a huge deal to exclusively license Disney characters, including those of subsidiaries like Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel, to Sora, Open AI’s video-based generative AI platform. This means users will be able to By Sarah • Dec 12, 2025 09:41 am
Business of Hollywood What about HBO? With the Warner Bros. Discovery/Netflix merger now on, there are a lot of questions, including what happens to Warner Brothers’ actually successful theatrical distribution model—which, why is everyone so hellbent on destroying Warners’ theatrical model? First it was Jason Kilar and his day-and-date scheme, now it’s Netflix, By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 04:19 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for December 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, I was all set to write about a specific piece of Warner Bros. Discovery merger nonsense, but then the news broke—Netflix won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery. The two companies will enter into exclusive talks to close the deal. What the timeline of that looks By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 09:08 am
BFFs Gwyneth aims to please Gwyneth Paltrow is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment issue as this year’s recipient of the publication’s Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. GP was also at a morning event yesterday celebrating the women who’ve been recognised by the trade. By Lainey • Dec 04, 2025 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, My favorite time of year is the liminal space between Christmas and New Year's. My birthday falls during that time. I think this is why I have a strange relationship with chronology. Because my birthday exists in the never-ending hallway of time, I have no sense By Sarah • Dec 04, 2025 09:09 am
Business of Hollywood Glen Powell’s mixed bag weekend It was a big weekend for Glen Powell, with The Running Man opening on Friday, and hosting Saturday Night Live on Saturday, but the weekend ended up a mixed bag. The Running Man hit a wall with audiences, opening in second place against magician heist movie Now You See Me: By Sarah • Nov 17, 2025 09:57 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for November 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, Today in Just Feed Us To The Woodchipper Already news, Bob Iger said that Disney is having “productive conversations” with “unnamed” AI companies about bringing user-generated, short-form slop to Disney+. It’s part of a larger initiative of upgrades planned for their streaming platform, Disney+, which will also By Sarah • Nov 14, 2025 09:03 am
Business of Hollywood Taylor Sheridan flounced on David Ellison In a bombshell report originating in Matthew Belloni’s Puck newsletter, CBS/Paramount golden goose and self-appointed savior of the cowboy way Taylor Sheridan will exit his production deal with Paramount for sweeter pastures with NBCUniversal. Despite new Skydance Paramount CEO David Ellison praising Sheridan as a “singular genius with By Sarah • Oct 28, 2025 10:07 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for October 24, 2025 Dear Gossips, All week I’ve been watching the headlines and the developing story about Warner Bros. Discovery’s potential sale to another studio. The news came Tuesday morning with “multiple parties circl[ing]” the studio, followed just hours later with reports that WBD’s stock hit a three-year high By Sarah • Oct 24, 2025 09:18 am
Business of Hollywood The Golden Globes are at it again Buckle up, babes, some new Golden Globes f-cksh-t just dropped! Because our time on this revolving rock is fleeting and precious, let’s keep the rundown of Golden Globes’ f-cksh-ttery to just this past calendar year: there were the “secret” pay-to-play parties; the attorney general of California is investigating the By Sarah • Oct 21, 2025 10:39 am
TV Updates Jimmy Kimmel 2.0 With all eyes on him—except those in blacked out markets controlled by Nexstar and Sinclair Media (but they could and probably did watch on YouTube)—Jimmy Kimmel returned to host his first episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! since his show was abruptly pulled off the air last week. Call By Sarah • Sep 24, 2025 10:34 am
Business of Hollywood The View, a Letter, and Lilith ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air last Wednesday and there have been no updates on the show’s future since, but it has remained the top story in Hollywood for days. What we’ve been watching for is whether or not it would stay that way. With social By Lainey • Sep 22, 2025 02:53 pm
Top Reads Another late-night host is silenced Last night, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be put on indefinite hiatus effective immediately following “controversial” statements Jimmy Kimmel made in Monday night’s monologue regarding the assassination of right-wing advocate Charlie Kirk. Notably, Kimmel’s comments were not about Kirk himself, but about his alleged killer. Kimmel By Sarah • Sep 18, 2025 11:12 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for September 12, 2025 Dear Gossips, Walter Benjamin was a cultural critic, essayist, and philosopher who published “The Work of Art in the Mechanical Age of Reproduction” in 1935. Benjamin believed that increasingly easy means of reproduction devalued the “aura” of original works of art, that a print of a painting could “travel” to By Sarah • Sep 12, 2025 09:08 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 19, 2025 Dear Gossips, There were some interesting numbers in the Puck newsletter on Monday for someone who loves numbers and her fans: Taylor Swift. This is related to her appearance on Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast, New Heights, last week. And the ratings are in. Per Puck: “The NFL brothers’ By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 09:24 am
