Welcome to Crash Zoom, a podcast where we take a deep dive into film and entertainment industry news! Each week, join Rough Draft Atlanta Associate Editor Sammie Purcell and indie filmmaker Aaron Strand as they explore how things happening at the highest level trickle down and affect the independent artist.
Each week, we’ll be releasing two short episodes, one on Wednesday and one on Friday, and diving deep on two news stories.
This week’s Wednesday episode covers the fall out from Paramount Global’s settlement with President Donald Trump (the FCC approved the Skydance-Paramount merger after this episode was recorded).
This Friday’s episode takes a look at Netflix’s most recent earnings report.
Links in this episode:
- Inside the $3 billion South Park fight (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Background of “South Park” streaming battles (Polygon)
- ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ ending in 2026 (IndieWire)
- WGA calls for investigation in Colbert cancellation (USA Today)
- Fallout at Paramount (Guardian)
- Netflix profits and YouTube battle (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The Streaming Wars (New York Times)
You can check out Sammie’s work on Rough Draft Atlanta and subscribe to her weekly newsletter Scene here.
You can check out Aaron’s work here: @strandedonstage, @withdrawalfilm, @behindtheslatepod.
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