Author: Michael

In this installment, we look at advice from top creators and creator industry experts on how to work with the TV and film industry. These days, you can’t go a week without a headline about a new partnership between a widely popular creator and a legacy media company. Both Alex Cooper and Alix Earle have reality shows on Netflix. Dhar Mann is making content for Disney+ and Fox. Curry Barker is set to direct a reboot of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” with A24 and an original horror movie with Universal Pictures. The convergence between creators and Hollywood is here. But as…

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There is a tricky balance that makes “Reacher” such a good and entertaining show. It would have been quite easy for Prime Video’s action hit to be a problematic power fantasy, rather than the nuanced and cartoonishly over-the-top fun show it is. Lose any element that makes that show great and it falls apart. That was the big question mark hanging around the franchise’s first spinoff, “Neagley,” whether leaving the funny hulking Reacher behind as a protagonist would lose what makes this franchise special. In short, “Neagley” is not the same kind of show, and it loses a lot of…

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