Tag: entertainment

• How Bong Joon Ho Invented the Weird World of Parasite

  January 24, 2021

  Sims: So many of your films are about people contending with monsters they don’t understand. That’s going on in Parasite as well; there’s a gulf these two families can’t breach. Bong: I haven’t heard… more ›

• Netflix has no choice but to disrupt the entertainment business, again

  November 20, 2020

  In January 2013, when Netflix was just dipping its toes into the original content waters, Ted Sarandos, the company’s content boss, issued a pithy assessment of the battle for entertainment… more ›

• Reed Hastings Had Us All Staying Home Before We Had To

  September 7, 2020

  Does it feel good to be the man who killed Hollywood? At 59, the slender, gray-haired Mr. Hastings remains a mystery in the industry he dominates. “He’s a complete cipher… more ›

• Listen to Matt Ball – The Future of Media: Movies, the Metaverse, and More – [Invest Like the Best, EP.185] now.

  August 16, 2020

  “Matthew Ball is the former head of strategy at Amazon Studios, an investor, and probably my favorite business essayist writing today. In fact, I can’t think of another author whose… more ›

• ‘The Twilight Zone,’ from A to Z

  June 27, 2020

  The planet has been knocked off its elliptical orbit and overheats as it hurtles toward the sun; the night ceases to exist, oil paintings melt, the sidewalks in New York… more ›

• Delayed Moves, Poolside Videos and Postmates Spon: The State of TikTok Collab Houses

  May 23, 2020

  Gen Z influencers are settling into life in a shuttered Los Angeles. When Gianluca Conte, 20, a TikTok star with more than 2.4 million followers, left his home in Charlotte,… more ›

• ‘Quality’ Is a Distraction – If It Exists at All (Netflix Misunderstandings, Pt. 6)

  June 15, 2019

  The first lesson you learn when you start working in Hollywood is that everyone you know has an opinion to offer on the content you do (or choose not to)… more ›