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The Great Streaming Reset: Your Bill Is About to Get Simpler — and Stranger The $40 Million Movie Is Quietly Eating Hollywood Awards Season Just Got a Third Act Awards Voters Are Watching Differently — and It Is Changing What Wins Nadia Okonjo Walked Away From a Franchise at Its Peak. She'd Do It Again.The Publicist's Dilemma: When Your Client Becomes the Story The Great Streaming Reset: Your Bill Is About to Get Simpler — and Stranger The $40 Million Movie Is Quietly Eating Hollywood Awards Season Just Got a Third Act Awards Voters Are Watching Differently — and It Is Changing What Wins Nadia Okonjo Walked Away From a Franchise at Its Peak. She'd Do It Again.The Publicist's Dilemma: When Your Client Becomes the Story

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A rack of entertainment magazines softens into abstraction on a city street.

Say Almost Nothing, Sell Everything

Carefully worded captions, brand-partnership announcements and nothing else. The celebrity media landscape is being restructured by people who have decided not to speak to it.

By Elena Vasquez · Oct 3

A small creator studio waits between recordings in Mexico City.

Creator Studios Are Becoming the New Talent Agencies

The middle layer of the entertainment business is being rebuilt around people who arrived with an audience already attached.

By Elena Vasquez · Oct 1