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	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more ICYMI: Top TV Anon Exec Spills; First Looks Divide Dealmakers Catch up on our recent best David Lidsky Jun 2   READ IN APP   Share Upgrade to paid Hello and Happy Sunday. If you see me at the Irvington Farmers Market today outside New York City, introduce yourself. I’ll be wearing my Ankler hat, listening to a podcast with one earbud in and probably checking out the fresh asparagus. (A more reliable way to reach me: email me at david@theankler.com and let me know how we’re doing.) Ankler Events An Ankler IRL triple-header alert! From June 8-10, we have three exciting events in L.A. Make sure to RSVP: June 8: John Leguizamo has been a thrilling performer for decades. Check out his new period drama, followed by his conversation with awards editor Katey Rich. RSVP here June 9: It’s The Ankler x Thom Powers Documentary Spotlight event, featuring conversations with Andrew Jarecki, James Carville and Matt Tyrnauer, Alex Gibney, Lisa Henson, Fisher Stevens and Prentice Penny. I’m told Carville will have lots to say about this election year and, I gotta presume, a certain conviction that just happened. RSVP here June 10: David Oyelowo, another acting great, will also be interviewed by Katey following a screening of the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves. RSVP here Now, here’s our best of the week, ICYMI: Share First-Looks and Development Your career wants you reading Ashley Cullins’ Dealmakers column and Elaine Low’s Series Business to understand what’s really happening in the business right now (for paid subscribers only). This week, Ashley talked to agents and lawyers about the good and bad of first-look deals as overalls diminish, and Elaine’s unfettered conversation with an anonymous leader at an indie studio reveals the major change in the development market sending “shockwaves,” the new budget normal for a TV episode and the genres selling now: Private Thoughts of an Anonymous High-Level Development Exec Elaine Low · May 30 Read full story First-Look Deals: How Much, Who's Getting Them and Why Ashley Cullins · May 29 Read full story Share Give a gift subscription Rushfield: Box Office to Bob Chapek Anyone can wring their hands about the box office, but only Richard Rushfield resets all the broken ways we’re talking about the problem. Plus, don’t miss Richard’s interview with Jenny Nicholson about Bob Chapek and Disney’s Star Wars Hotel debacle. You’ll never abuse the word immersive again: Chronicling Bob Chapek's Signature Disaster on YouTube Richard Rushfield · May 30 Read full story MAYPOCALYPSE! Richard Rushfield · May 28 Read full story Share IP Now & Forever What if the trouble with theatrical and streaming isn’t IP but a lack of it? Entertainment Strategy Guy makes the case for more — and fresh — IP: IP Dependence is Not the Problem. It's the Answer Entertainment Strategy Guy · May 30 Read full story Share Prestige Junkie: Hacks’ Miracle, Maya’s Loot When Katey isn’t on stage with talent, she’s talking to them for her Prestige Junkie newsletter and podcast. This week: Hacks co-creators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello on that finale scorcher . . . 'Hacks' Creators on Their Wild Ride: 'Every Season is a Miracle' Katey Rich · May 31 Read full story . . . and the marvelous Maya Rudolph: A Cannes Miracle Run, Plus a Conversation with Maya Rudolph Prestige Junkie 59:10 Share Give a gift subscription 📸 Todd on the Town Roving photog Todd Williamson gets all the stars to pose. This week was Christopher Nolan to Kaley Cuoco: Photos: Nolan Brothers, 'Ripley', SVU Todd Williamson · May 27 Read full story Share Must-Reads About the Moment Andy Lewis, who writes our sister IP newsletter The Optionist, tackled the Academy Museum’s Hollywoodland exhibit to write about how it does — and doesn’t — serve the story of the Jewish founders: Hollywoodland's Jews: 'Dreams and Fears, Always Fear' Andy Lewis · Jun 1 Read full story Meanwhile, in London, Manori Ravindran gets to the bottom of how DEI has gone sideways in U.K. television: 'Appalling,' 'Untenable': Inside the U.K.'s Diversity Disaster Manori Ravindran · May 28 Read full story Share Upgrade to paid ☀️THE WAKEUP Every morning, the industry’s smartest people get their news from Sean McNulty. 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