The Oscars are the climax of an awards season that’s a prolonged exercise in collective congratulation, and in early March the rest of the year still looks bright.
The Sundance Film Festival and its attendant bidding wars have wrapped up, offering nothing but promise and excitement.
At the box office, the biggest bets of the year have typically not yet opened and thus have not yet bombed.
For Hollywood, 2023 was not so much a disaster as a preview of disasters to come.
That fury persists: Each new headline about the huge compensation package for Robert Iger, Disney’s chief executive, or decisions by David Zaslav, the chief executive of Warner Bros.
Persons:
that’s, blithely, Robert Iger, David Zaslav
Organizations:
Sundance Film, Hollywood, Warner Bros