Inside Recording Studios: How a Session Day Runs From Load-In to Rough Mix
The clock, the crew and the money behind one day in a professional tracking room.
Studios
Studios covers the companies making and distributing entertainment: slate planning, greenlight criteria, output and distribution deals, library valuations, restructurings, layoffs and ownership changes. Reporting draws on filings, memos and named executives. Intended for industry readers tracking which buyers are active and what they will pay.
The companies themselves: slate decisions, output deals, layoffs, library sales and the ownership changes reshaping what gets greenlit next year.
How Movie Studios Choose What Gets Made — and Who Signs Off
The greenlight process runs from script coverage to budget approval, and most projects die quietly along the way.
V10 Entertainment Hires Three Ex-Paramount and Amazon MGM Sellers: What Buyers Should Do With That
Three veteran distribution hires land just before MIPCOM — and each one tells you exactly which markets V10 is chasing.
Netflix Cleared $11 Billion in Q2 2025 — and the Money Story Is Margins Now
Revenue rose about 16 percent to roughly $11.1 billion in the quarter, per the company's July 2025 shareholder letter — with operating margin, not subscriber counts, doing the talking.
How Overall Deals Work — and Why Writers Are Fighting to Save Them
The WGA's antitrust lawsuit against the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger singles out overall deals as a market at risk — here is what those contracts actually pay for.
Why Streaming Rivals Pool Content: Inside Joint Ventures Like SkyShowtime
Streaming rivals pool content in joint ventures because two half-sized streaming services lose money separately in small markets — and one combined service can reach scale with both parents' libraries behind it.