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Not everyone can become a great dealmaker. But with practice, introspection, and intentionality, almost anyone can become a better one. This is my advice for how.
I spent an embarrassing number of hours crafting the perfect WGA, DGA, and SAG-AFTRA scale minimum tables for my own day-to-day use. Would you like to use them?
I know it seems unimaginable. And it's too early to start workshopping UniWarnerMount-like portmanteaus just yet. But don't sleep on David Ellison — or his appetite for a third course.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled speculation about one mega-corporate transaction with breaking "news" and speculation about a different mega-corporate transaction.
Comcast's decision to spin off NBCU isn't a ruse, and it doesn't mean that scale has suddenly gone out of style — only that, in the eyes of our investor overlords, not all scale is created equally.
It's surprising (and nice!) to see the town so sanguine... I'm not here to rile anyone up. That will come in Part 3.
Deadline comments are a window into the soul of this industry. Sometimes that's terrifying. Sometimes it's sublime. Help me catalog both. Or just take a survey.
If you're as fascinated and inspired by true excellence in any professional craft as I am — or if you want to see one small example of what makes HBO shows so reliably good — you're in for a treat.
Two showrunners have completely opposite preferences when it comes to studio notes. Neither is wrong. So why do execs try to guess — or worse, impose their own preferences — when they could just ask?
AI may not take over all of our jobs for a while — but the jobs it's already taking are the ones we use to teach newcomers the business. Do we have a plan here?
