Strikes! AI! And a Steven Soderbergh show he’s selling himself.

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This is a very good week to make a Recode Media episode: Hollywood is reeling from two different strikes. Disney CEO Bob Iger has hung a For Sale sign on parts of his company. And Steven Soderbergh just made a TV series and is selling it directly to consumers, like it’s 2012 or something. First up, Vox’s Peter Kafka runs all of his Hollywood strike theories past Matt Belloni (@MattBelloni), founding partner of Puck News. Is AI really that big of a hangup for writers and actors on the picket line? When does this get solved and will consumers care? Then they discuss the problems Iger is grappling with in his second stint as Disney’s boss - and how he created those problems during his first stint in that job. Finally, a conversation with writer Kurt Anderson (@KBAndersen), who co-created Command Z with Soderbergh, on why now is the perfect time to self-release a project. It’s a business move that feels like a throwback to times before the streaming boom. Are we going to see more of these? Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.6	Welcome to Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
1:08.0	That is me.
1:09.3	And today we're talking about newsy stuff.
1:11.6	And we're also going to talk about a project that is so very recode media, it ought to be called,
1:16.6	Here's a Good Idea for a Recode Media episode.
1:20.6	First, we're going to talk about Hollywood and the Actors Strike and the Writers Strike and AI,
1:25.6	and Bob Eager having a hard time at Disney and putting a lot of Disney up for sale surprisingly.
1:32.0	We're going to talk about all of that with Puck's super plugged in Matt Bellany.
1:36.1	He's been on the show before.
1:37.1	I'm very impressed with Matt's ability to be super connected with all parts of Hollywood and also be a bullshit clearing truth teller.
1:44.5	I'm a little surprised he thinks the issue of AI in Hollywood has also be a bullshit clearing truth teller. I'm a little surprised, he thinks.
1:45.9	The issue of AI in Hollywood has now become a real thing and not just a bargaining point
1:50.5	between the guilds and the studios, but we will see.
1:53.6	And then I talked to writer Kurt Anderson about Command Z.
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