About The Showbiz Clinic

Behind every career that looks effortless sits a manager, a lawyer and a term sheet. The Showbiz Clinic reports show business as business: what a name is worth, who owns the upside, how studios allocate risk, and why some famous people end up rich while others merely stay busy. It is written for agents, publicists, producers and readers who find the deal more interesting than the party.

Profiles are the main instrument. A career gets followed the way an analyst follows a company: revenue lines, ownership, dependency on a single franchise, and the moment leverage shifted. Sources are named where they can be, and unnamed sources are described by their position and their interest in speaking. Anonymous character attacks stay out, a valuation is never confused with cash, and numbers that turn out to be wrong are corrected publicly.

Showbiz is the wide beat, covering representation, management and the mechanics of getting hired. Celebrity treats individual public figures as commercial enterprises with staff and liabilities. Film covers pictures from financing through release, while Studios reports the companies themselves: slates, layoffs, ownership, distribution. Style follows the wardrobe economy around all of it, from ambassador contracts to loaned archive. Awards is examined as marketing spend with measurable returns. Profiles carries the long reported portraits, Showbiz News files dated announcements, and Business News handles earnings, financing and industry deal flow.