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Showbiz Sandbox 441: Music Industry Gets Into The Stream of Things
March 18, 2019

In February the RIAA reported that music sales in the United States reached $9.8 billion in 2018, up nearly 12% over the previous year. Total worldwide sales were up over 13% reaching $18.9 billion. What’s remarkable is of that figure $9.6 billion,

Showbiz Sandbox 440: Why The Writers Guild Battle With Agents Needs A Rewrite!
March 12, 2019

The showdown between the Writers Guild of America and talent agents is growing ever more heated. The WGA wants to upend the way business has been done in Hollywood for decades while agents continue to increase their conflicts of interest through lucrat...

Showbiz Sandbox 439: Fox Suffers “Bones” Shaking Legal Defeat
March 05, 2019

Fox lost a blockbuster lawsuit to the stars and creative talent behind their smash television series “Bones.” An independent arbitrator used scathing language to describe 21st Century Fox executives, calling them out for lying,

Showbiz Sandbox 438: The Oscars Play It By The Book
February 26, 2019

In a year when diversity took center stage at the Oscars, with people of color and women taking home some of the major prizes, the Academy awarded Best Picture to “Green Book,” a film partially about race relations that has been faulted by some as bein...

Showbiz Sandbox 437: Sinemia Seeks Profit In Subscription Moviegoing
February 11, 2019

Sinemia is taking on MoviePass in hopes of achieving what no movie subscription service has ever attained before: profitability. We are joined by Rıfat Oğuz, the CEO of Sinemia, who discusses the history of the service,

Showbiz Sandbox 436: A Wealth in Diversity at Sundance
February 05, 2019

This year’s Sundance Film Festival was more diverse than it usually is in every way one might imagine. Sure, there were the usual crop of independent films and documentaries, but the predominance of women and people of color and queer voices was more n...

Showbiz Sandbox 435: Netflix By The Numbers
January 21, 2019

Despite having cultivated a reputation for keeping its viewership statistics under tight wraps, Netflix has made a complete about face and is now boasting about how many subscribers are tuning in to its original content.

Showbiz Sandbox 434: The Golden Globes Are Full of Surprises
January 07, 2019

As the 2019 award season continues its steady pace toward the Oscars, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association kicked the year off by confounding pundits when they gave Golden Globes to a few underdogs. While many thought “A Star Is Born” or “Roma” woul...

Showbiz Sandbox 433: 2018 Was A Blockbuster Year at the Box Office
December 31, 2018

A string of big movie releases during the holidays helped the North American box office set a record in 2018, ending the year at $11.9 billion. Ticket sales also set a record in China where roughly $8.7 billion was earned.

Showbiz Sandbox 432: Peak TV Just Got Peakier
December 17, 2018

When John Landgraf, head of the FX network, proclaimed we had reached a state of “peak TV” back in 2015, he predicted the 422 television shows being produced at the time would inevitably decline since there was no way for audiences to keep up.