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Daily Variety -- Box Office: 'Black Phone 2' Connects for Blumhouse in a Record Year for Horror; Q3 Earnings Preview for Netflix, Disney and More

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Google Cloud Gaming Boss on the Virtues of AI and Learnings From the Rise and Fall of Stadia

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Daily Variety -- AI Vs. Script Readers – Who Does the Job Better?; Microdramas, Creators and YouTube Dominate Mipcom Buzz

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Daily Variety – Cover Story: Go Deep Inside the Hive Mind of Matt and Ross Duffer and the Final Season of ‘Stranger Things’; French YouTuber Inoxtag Scales New Heights

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Daily Variety -- Mattel's Robbie Brenner, Banijay's Marco Bassetti and All the Buzz From the Mipcom Content Market

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Daily Variety -- Box Office Yawns as 'Tron: Ares,' 'Roofman' and 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' Disappoint; What's Making Waves at Mipcom

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20 Years After a Landmark Disney-Apple Deal, Anne Sweeney Recalls Negotiating With Steve Jobs

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Daily Variety -- Tatiana Siegel on Bari Weiss and What Her New Job Means for CBS News; Rome Media Market Heats Up

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Daily Variety -- Jason Blum on the Frights, Fights and Fandoms That Fuel Blumhouse; Variety's Horror Impact List: Who Made the Cut?

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Daily Variety -- Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves on the Journey From 'Bill & Ted' to 'Waiting for Godot'; Paying Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne

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Daily Variety – Box Office: Taylor Swift Leaves ‘Em Wanting More; Celebrating Variety’s 10 Broadway Stars to Watch

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Digital Native Creatives Talk Shop, Compare Notes on Social Media Platforms

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Daily Variety – COVER STORY: How Charlie Hunnam Transformed into a ‘Monster’ for Netflix; Showbiz News Reverb From the Variety Archives

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Daily Variety -- Why Electronic Arts is Taking the Private Equity Route; Bad Bunny’s Going to the Super Bowl

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Daily Variety – Box Office: ‘One Battle After Another’ Banks on Word of Mouth; San Sebastián Film Festival Scene

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Top TV and Studio Leaders on Why Streamers Want to Experiment With Broadcast Series Norms

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Daily Variety — Los Angeles Film School Accused of Massive Student Loan Fraud; Scopely Banks Mobile Gaming Moolah

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Daily Variety -- Sterlin Harjo Embraces Tulsa Noir in 'The Lowdown'; Christopher Nolan Takes Side Job at DGA

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Daily Variety — Owen Gleiberman on Why 'One Battle After Another' is a Movie for Our Moment; Sylvia Rhone's Impact

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Daily Variety 9/22/25 - Box Office: What Went Wrong With ‘Him’ and ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’; What’s Next for Jimmy Kimmel and Disney

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VideoAmp’s Jenny Wall on Challenging Nielsen and What It Takes to Measure Modern TV Audiences

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Julia Roberts Gets Provocative in Luca Guadagnino's 'After the Hunt'; Revisiting the Days of Lilith Fair in Hulu's New Documentary

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Daily Variety 9/17/25 — Shari Redstone on Why She Invested in Israel's Sipur; Why Paramount Wants to Pounce on Warner Bros. Discovery

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Religion of Sports CEO Ameeth Sankaran on Teaming With Coco Gauff and Building a Content Powerhouse

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Daily Variety — Fifth Season Chiefs on 'Severance,' Emmys and Building an Indie Studio; A Bold Proposal for the Next Emmy Awards TV Contract

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Daily Variety – COVER STORY: The Transformation of Kathy Bates; Variety TV Producers Impact Report: Who Made the Cut?

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Daily Variety – AI Legal Jousting in Hollywood Intensifies; ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sets Season 51 Cast Amid Comedy’s ‘Mad Dash’

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Daily Variety – Box Office Monday: ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Slays; Giancarlo Esposito, Shawn Hatosy at Creative Arts Emmys

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Pushkin Industries Revs Up Fall Slate with 'The Big Short' Audiobook and Companion Podcast

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Daily Variety – Michael Lewis Revisits ‘The Big Short’ as Part of Pushkin’s Fall Podcast Slate; Variety’s Jem Aswad Goes Inside the Brain of David Byrne

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Daily Variety – How Channing Tatum and Derek Cianfrance Raised ‘Roofman’; Lowdown on the Lido Fest With Elsa Keslassy

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Daily Variety – Box Office: ‘Weapons’ Impresses as Summer Haul Stays Flat; Why Telluride Film Festival is the Ultimate Binge for Movie Lovers

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The Trade Desk’s Matthew Henick Talks Ventura, the OS Looking to Change the Smart TV Game

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Dr. Orna Guralnik Reflects on the Ethics of Practicing 'Couples Therapy' on TV

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Daily Variety – The Wizardry of Industrial Light and Magic; Netflix’s ‘Long Story Short’ Celebrates the Jewish American Experience

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Daily Variety – COVER STORY: How Guillermo del Toro, Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac brought ‘Frankenstein’ to Life; Gamescom Boots Up in Germany; ESPN’s Big Send Off for Streaming App

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Daily Variety – Chris McGurk and Jana Winograde on Cineverse’s Big Plans for Micro Dramas; How AI is Fueling Product Placement in TV and Film

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Daily Variety – Box Office Monday: ‘Weapons’ Flexes in Week 2; Lowdown on Upfront Ad Sales; Truth Seekers Highlights With Jake Tapper, Ronny Chieng, Amber Ruffin and Roy Wood Jr.

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CAA Insiders Talk Agency’s Leadership Evolution, Social Media ‘Game-Changers’ and Content Marketplace Expansion: ‘Our Job Description Has Expanded So Much’

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Daily Variety – David Ellison and Paramount’s New Regime Meets the Media in L.A. and New York; The Backstory on Variety’s 10 Storytellers to Watch

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Daily Variety — COVER STORY: Clayton Davis Remembers Everything About His Time With Tramell Tillman; Sharon Stone Talks ‘Euphoria’ on ‘Nobody 2’ Red Carpet

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Daily Variety -- 'Grand Theft Auto 6' and the Gaming Debate Over Pricing; Inside Variety's Emmy Extra Editions

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Daily Variety — Box Office Monday: ‘Weapons,’ ‘Freakier Friday’ Impress as Superhero Alternatives; Why the Locarno Film Festival Punches Above its Weight

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Accelerate the Positive: How Michael Nyman is Building a New Breed of Marketing and Communication Firms

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Daily Variety – A Deep Look at Paramount Pictures: What’s Next for the House that Adolph Zukor Built and David Ellison Just Bought

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Daily Variety -- COVER STORY: Inside the Power of Young Hollywood Issue; WGA 2026 Contract Priorities Take Shape

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Daily Variety -- Eva Longoria on 'Necaxa' and Building Hyphenate Media Group; Hello Hank and Peggy, 'King of the Hill' is Back

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Daily Variety -- Box Office: 'The Fantastic Four' Stumbles; KCON Lights Up K-Pop Fandom; Jason Momoa Triumphs in 'Chief of War'

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The Key Changes Rocking the Music Industry in 2025

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Daily Variety — Tatiana Siegel Sits Down With Trump-Loving Superman Alum Dean Cain; Sports Fuels Upfront Sales as Disney, NBCU and Fox Wrap the Haggle

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Daily Variety — Harrison Ford Speaks! Behind the Scenes of Variety's Cover Story With the Industry Legend

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Daily Variety — Unpacking the Sony Pictures Shakeup as Josh Greenstein Heads to Paramount; Tubthumping and a Tutorial on Variety Slanguage

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Daily Variety — Box Office: Good First Steps for ‘Fantastic Four’; Cosplay Soars at Quieter Comic Con

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How the Streaming Ad Market Is Changing for Better and Worse with Wurl’s Dave Bernath

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Daily Variety — Skydance Media Offers Olive Branches to FCC; Why Steve Stoute is Variety's Music Mogul of the Year

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Daily Variety — How Noah Hawley and FX brought 'Alien: Earth' to Life; Kevin Feige Gets Candid as Comic Con Approaches

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Daily Variety — Venice Film Festival Lineup Blends Hollywood Star Power and World Cinema

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Daily Variety — 'Saiyaara' Lights Up Bollywood Box Office; 'Superman' Hangs Tough in Week 2

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From the Pitch to Pitch Decks: Alex Morgan Wants to Help Female Athletes Become Owners and Entrepreneurs

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Daily Variety — ESPY Awards Score Despite Host Shane Gillis; Happy 70th Birthday Disneyland

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Daily Variety – Netflix Q2 Earnings Preview; Cover Story: Unpacking Trump’s War on Truth

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Daily Variety — Parsing the Emmy Nominations, Revisiting 'Nashville' After 50 Years

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Welcome to Daily Variety — a Strictly Business Spinoff

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ESPN's Chiney Ogwumike Holds Court Amid a Hectic Hoops Summer

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Inside the Courtroom for the Sean Combs Trial Verdict

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Financing Film & TV Isn't What It Used to Be

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Strictly Business Live From Cannes Lions with UTA CEO David Kramer

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Scopely Exec on 'Monopoly Go's' $5B Milestone, Closing 'Pokemon Go' Deal

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Strictly Business Live From Cannes Lions: How Deloitte and AWS are Harnessing AI Tools

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Canadian Media Myths Debunked With Bell Media’s Sean Cohan

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How I Made It with Invent.TV Founder Sergio Alfaro

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How Gamers and Category Experts Are Shaping the Creator Economy

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‘Mountainhead’ Mines AI Anxieties at Just the Right Time

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The Value of Videogame IP in Post-'Minecraft' Hollywood

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Jeffrey P. Jones on Why the Peabody Awards are America’s Archive of TV Excellence

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CAA Insiders Talk Agency’s Leadership Evolution, Social Media ‘Game-Changers’ and Content Marketplace Expansion: ‘Our Job Description Has Expanded So Much’

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How to Make Money with Content: A Ben Silverman Explainer

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Wheelhouse Entertainment's Courtney White on How Streaming Has Changed Unscripted TV

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Tom Rogers on How Stock Market Volatility is Hitting Hollywood

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Gov. Phil Murphy on New Jersey's Courtship of Content Creators: 'This Has Been an Absolute, Cold-Blooded, Focused Strategy'

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The TikTok-ification of TV is Coming

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On the Ground at CinemaCon in Tense Times for Exhibitors and Studios

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Revolt CEO Detavio Samuels Rebuilds a Black-Owned Media Brand

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Griffin Gaming Partners’ Peter Levin Talks AI, Market Trends, Emerging Markets & Hollywood Interest Amid GDC

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How COVID Changed Television Production Forever

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Kickstarting Kickstarter into High Gear with Professional Filmmakers

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Legion M CEO on 'My Dead Friend Zoe' Release and Building First Fan-Owned Media Company

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'Kugel' Marks Big Moment for Israeli Streamer Izzy

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The Future of TV & Film Production After LA Fires

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TV Volume Declines, Box Office Rebounds: 2024 By the Numbers

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Social Video Diverts Audience Time Away From TV, Films? This Study Suggests the Opposite

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Exploring the Wide World of Webtoons

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Leadership and a Few Laughs in a Moment of Crisis

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Dice CEO Phil Hutcheon on a Decade of Fighting Dynamic Pricing in the Ticketing Industry and Why the Mid-Market Is Their 'Superpower'

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Vim, Vigor and Verve: Talent Agency Partners Talk Industry Turmoil, Transitions and Surviving 15 Years in Hollywood

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I Defended Publishing the Sony Hack Emails 10 Years Ago. Now I Regret It.

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Chappell Roan Collaborator Daniel Nigro on the Evolving Role of the Writer-Producer in Pop

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John Landgraf Wrestles with the Entertainment Industry’s ‘Really Big Reckoning’

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Nebula Builds Streaming Platform with A24 Vibes

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Why Riot Games’ Entertainment Ambitions Stalled Beyond ‘Arcane’