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There are many adjectives that one could justifiably apply to Disney’s venerable czar Bob Iger, now four years into a board-requested second act after a 15-year that outlasted most of his peers.  That run began with a groundbreaking deal that VARIETY’s equally seasoned Andrew Wallenstein recently revisited that he teed up thusly: On Oct. 12,

NOTE: This musing also appears today on our sister site, The Double Overtime.  Please visit it regularly for coverage of media, sports, politics and life. I was literally on the cusp of the purported target demographic that ESPN was going after when it took full advantage of the demand for additional channels that the advent

You would have been justified in calling me out for somehow completely missing the announcement of Golden Globes nominees that as per usual of late took place in the wee small hours of the morning in early December.  If you’ve been a regulat reader. or at least someone with nominal Google skills, you’d note I

Like most young lovers who get jilted on a Friday, David Ellison could have taken the weekend to regroup, reflect and regenerate.  But most jilted young lovers aren’t nepobaby billionaires with ‘tude, so instead we got an over-the-top plan for revenge that would make his daddy’s bosom buddy proud. Instead of sitting down and putting

I get that the announcement late last week that Netflix was acquiring the sexier assets of Warner Brothers Discovery is a BIG deal.  It’s not every day when a century-old media brand gets somewhere between $72 and $83 billion thrown at it by an upstart that didn’t even exist in the 20th century–and that price

I saw a pretty good new movie last night, and I didn’t even have to leave my bed and heating pad to go out or worry about having enough in my bank account to afford dinner.  My back, stomach and net worth are especially appreciative. The movie was JAY KELLY, a decidely mature and adult-appeal

The battle for Warner Brothers Discovery just shifted into fourth gear late last night, when news began to trickle out that despite the white-hot passion and intense lobbying that Paramount Skydance has demonstrated over the past few weeks–and even though he’d had been guaranteed a platinum parachute and a future role–our buddy Yosemite Zas and