ICYMI: 25% Off Ending! Katzenberg Fury; Diller Dumps Biden; Salary ConfessionCatch up on our recent bestHello everyone! Reminder: Our 25% off sale happens only twice a year — and it expires at midnight tonight. If you haven’t become a paid subscriber, we invite you to spend your second half of the year the same way the smartest people in the business do: with The Ankler. Reminder, the offer is for first-time subscribers only and good only for annual subscriptions. Meanwhile, this week, known for big fireworks, did not disappoint. And our newest Ankler staffer, Matthew Frank, found himself firing off some rockets. Matthew is an OG Ankler-ite, starting as our intern while attending the University of Pennsylvania. The just-graduated English major — yes, they still exist and they come to Hollywood — worked at an AMC Theatres in high school cleaning theaters and selling popcorn (who’s to say how those posters for Uncut Gems, Knives Out and Jojo Rabbit ended up in his trunk?). As a first-year at Penn, he cold-emailed Entertainment Strategy Guy about copy-editing his columns. More recently, he wrote a great piece about how college professors are counseling new grads to stay away from entertainment during the industry’s downturn. Matthew moved to L.A. last week, where he was emailing Barry Diller in between Ikea runs, and delivered three hot-button stories: Diller’s take on his long history of negative comments about the movie business as he considers a bid for Shari Redstone’s controlling stake in Paramount; a detailed report about Biden campaign co-chair Jeffrey Katzenberg’s relentless self-promotion and calamitous strategic error in misleading donors about the President’s physical and mental fitness; and a news break about Diller’s revelation to him that he and wife Diane von Fürstenberg are done supporting Biden. Matthew even made time to make his LAist debut discussing the Paramount drama with Morning Edition’s Susanne Whatley:
Expect more from Matthew in your inboxes, but please welcome him — and invite him to your events or out for coffee — at matthew@theankler.com. This may have been a short work week, but it was an eventful one, so here’s what you missed, in case you missed it: Biden’s So-Called 'Secret Weapon' Implodes; Diller Walks
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THE WAKEUPHollywood never stops, and neither does Sean McNulty, breaking down the new Paramount-Skydance almost-deal and Candle re-org with his usual aplomb: 🎧 PODCASTSMARTINI SHOT
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