Recommended by The Entertainment Strategy Guy
I’ve adored Mendelson’s breakdowns of weekly box office results, especially forecasting how films will leg out, for years now. Frankly, we should all be thankful that he’s on Substack now.
When it comes to kids content and streaming, Emily Horgan knows her stuff. Also check out her podcast Kids Club Media Podcast!
As someone who’s been writing about cinema and indie film for a long time, Ted Hope is a must read for everyone in Hollywood.
A great source on box office results each week, I’d also recommend David Gross’ “Six Essential Charts” page.
There are a lot of reasons that you should be subscribed to the Ankler—in addition to reading my bi-weekly columns over there and of course reading Richard Rushfield—but the biggest is to support independent media. Right now, the three major entertainment industry trade journals are all owned by one company, Penske Media, along with a bunch of other pop culture websites. So support independent journalism!
I think that I might be overusing some words in this article, but Matt Stoller’s newsletter on monopolies and our modern economy is absolutely excellent, terrific, great, must-read, whatever. It’s one of my favorite newsletters to read each week, hands down.
I’m continually delighted by the wonderful data and anecdata that Walt Hickey manages to dig up around the internet everyday. (And I need to read his book!)