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The Best and Worst CEOs in Hollywood, According to Industry Experts

Hollywood insiders answer 20 burning questions about the entertainment business.

Paramount Pictures movie studio stands beyond its gate in Hollywood, California, U.S.

Photographer: Armando Arorizo

Welcome to the final Screentime of 2024. Thank you all for reading, responding and sharing. And a special thanks to all the sources who make my reporting possible. We’re always in the market for stories, so please email me if you’ve got a good idea.

Thanks to Kim Masters for hosting me on the 2024 megabanter; we discuss Paramount-Skydance, the future of Disney and the state of sports media. Happy holidays to Spotify’s co-founders, who have collectively sold stock worth about $700 million this year. I assume you all have read the New York Times story about a Hollywood smear campaign it says it can’t prove happened.