Peter Bart: Oscar Week Brings Comforting Distraction From Hollywood’s Regime Changes & Very Risky Business

While compulsively watching The Sopranos on HBO 20 years ago, I never imagined that the network itself soon would become corporate bounty. As such it was conquered successively by AT&T, Discovery, Warners and Paramount+. The dealmaking agonies of HBO reflect a Hollywood agenda committed more to regime change than to chasing awards. Indeed, for many […]

By Patrick Hipes