Ryan Faughnder

Los Angeles

Senior Editor, Company Town at Los Angeles Times

Senior editor, Company Town, @latimes. Writer of the Wide Shot newsletter. https://t.co/az9qUqNJ0S Tips: [email protected]

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Paramount’s ‘South Park’ streaming deal is in limbo as Skydance merger drags on

2 weeks ago | dailygazette.com | Meg James |Matt Hamilton |Ryan Faughnder

LOS ANGELES — Media giant Paramount Global is trying to avoid a streaming future without Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny. As Paramount struggles to complete a key merger, the company is in the midst of a protracted negotiation to extend one of its biggest and most important franchises: the long-running, foulmouthed cartoon “South Park.”kAm!2C2>@F?E’D Sh__ >:==:@? @G6C2== 562= H:E9 “$@FE9 !2C<” 4C62E@CD |2EE $E@?6 2?5 %C6J !2C<6C 5@6D?’E 6IA:C6 7@C 2?@E96C EH@ J62CD] }6H 6A:D@56D CF? 7:CDE @?
Paramount's 'South Park' streaming deal is in limbo as Skydance merger drags on

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Meg James |Matt Hamilton |Ryan Faughnder

Media giant Paramount Global is trying to avoid a streaming future without Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny. As Paramount struggles to complete a key merger, the company is in the midst of a protracted negotiation to extend one of its biggest and most important franchises: the long-running foulmouthed cartoon “South Park.” Paramount’s $900-million overall deal with “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker doesn’t expire for another two years.
Paramount's 'South Park' streaming deal is in limbo as Skydance merger drags on

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Meg James |Matt Hamilton |Ryan Faughnder

'South Park' Fans Fight Back Against "Banned" Episodes With Petition to Paramount+There are few TV shows that have courted controversy quite like over the last 30 years, and it is still doing so – but not for the reasons you would …
'Lilo & Stitch,' 'Minecraft' and the revenge of the PG family movie

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Ryan Faughnder

The PG rating has made a major comeback in Hollywood. It’s strange to remember now, but during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic — when studios were sending many of their family-friendly movies straight to streaming services — there were serious conversations in the movie business about whether youngsters and their parents would ever return to theaters in full force. Streaming was just too convenient and affordable, compared with a Saturday outing of two parents and 2 1/2 kids, the logic went.
Hollywood isn't ready for AI. These people are diving in anyway

1 month ago | latimes.com | Ryan Faughnder

When filmmakers say they’re experimenting with artificial intelligence, that news is typically received online as if they had just declared their allegiance to Skynet. And so it was when Darren Aronofsky — director of button-pushing movies including “The Whale” and “Black Swan” — last week announced a partnership with Google AI arm DeepMind to use the tech giant’s capabilities in storytelling.
What Elmo, Netflix and HBO Max tell us about the state of streaming

1 month ago | hastingstribune.com | Ryan Faughnder

LOS ANGELES - If you want to understand what's going on in the streaming business, go find Elmo and Cookie Monster. Netflix's recent deal to stream the upcoming season of "Sesame Street" is, on its own, a major step in the entertainment giant's effort to become a go-to destination for preschooler programming. At the same time, it's a useful way to understand one of the media industry's other big stories of the last week - Warner Bros.
What Elmo, Netflix and HBO Max tell us about the state of streaming

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Ryan Faughnder

LOS ANGELES - If you want to understand what's going on in the streaming business, go find Elmo and Cookie Monster. Netflix's recent deal to stream the upcoming season of "Sesame Street" is, on its own, a major step in the entertainment giant's effort to become a go-to destination for preschooler programming. At the same time, it's a useful way to understand one of the media industry's other big stories of the last week - Warner Bros.
What Elmo, Netflix and HBO Max tell us about the state of streaming

1 month ago | latimes.com | Ryan Faughnder

If you want to understand what’s going on in the streaming business, go find Elmo and Cookie Monster. Netflix’s recent deal to stream the upcoming season of “Sesame Street” is, on its own, a major step in the entertainment giant’s effort to become a go-to destination for preschooler programming. At the same time, it’s a useful way to understand one of the media industry’s other big stories of the last week — Warner Bros. Discovery’s re-rebranding of its streaming service back to HBO Max.
What Elmo, Netflix and HBO Max tell us about the state of streaming

1 month ago | dailygazette.com | Ryan Faughnder

LOS ANGELES — If you want to understand what’s going on in the streaming business, go find Elmo and Cookie Monster. Netflix’s recent deal to stream the upcoming season of “Sesame Street” is, on its own, a major step in the entertainment giant’s effort to become a go-to destination for preschooler programming. At the same time, it’s a useful way to understand one of the media industry’s other big stories of the last week — Warner Bros.
Hollywood's all-important summer box office has never been less predictable

1 month ago | latimes.com | Ryan Faughnder

Summer movie season is here, which means another season chock full of sequels, “re-imagined” classics and, yes, a smattering of risky originals. If you already believe that Hollywood is out of ideas, you won’t find much contradictory evidence at the local multiplex in the coming months. As much as audiences say they crave originality, how they actually spend their money tells a different tale, with 2024’s full-year top 10 completely dominated by existing intellectual property.