You survived ’til 2025. Here are the big Hollywood business stories to watch for
LA TimesCovering the entertainment business is never boring, and 2025 is already shaping up to be another banger as business models that have been around for decades continue to evolve, erode and unravel. Prominent and highly paid anchors are already heading toward the exits, with Hoda Kotb quitting NBC’s “Today” show, Neil Cavuto bailing from Fox News and Chris Wallace exiting CNN. Not much talk of climate change in Universal’s summer heartland hit “Twisters.” With Trump in office, the ever-reactive entertainment business will internalize some of the culture’s rightward shift, mostly by focusing on producing nonpartisan escapism. Last year, Apple ruffled creatives’ feathers by bailing on its planned wide theatrical release of the Brad Pitt-George Clooney vehicle “Wolfs.” Amazon MGM Studios, for its part, gave its Dwayne Johnson holiday bet “Red One” a window in theaters, but then took it to Prime Video after just a few weeks. The Cupertino tech titan has a big summer release coming up with “F1” in June, which could be a pivotal moment for Apple’s film strategy.
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