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    The Business

    Hollywood news banter

    WarnerMedia is set to debut its streaming service HBO Max next year filled with Warner Brothers content and taking one of Netflix’s crown jewels “Friends” with it.

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    By Kim Masters • Jul 11, 2019 • 1 min read

    • WarnerMedia is set to debut its streaming service HBO Max next year filled with Warner Brothers content and taking one of Netflix’s crown jewels “Friends” with it. But other studios are following suit, pulling their content and bringing it to their own streaming service. Will Netflix survive the competition when studios like Disney take away their movies?

    • Speaking of Disney, the studio’s new formula for future blockbusters seems to be remaking past hits like Beauty and The Beast and Aladdin. But some tepid reviews of its new celebrity-packed computer-generated version of The Lion King call that idea into question. And, in a few years, will there be anything left to remake?

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    Career memories from Reginald Hudlin; Caleb Deschanel on shooting ‘Lion King’
    1. 1:17Hollywood news banterYou’re reading this
    2. 8:39Reginald Hudlin on writing ‘Black Panther’ comics and running BET...at the same time
    3. 22:15‘Lion King’ cinematographer Caleb Deschanel on falling in love with virtual animals
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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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      Kaitlin Parker

      Producer, 'The Business' and 'Hollywood Breakdown'

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      Matthew Belloni

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    Career memories from Reginald Hudlin; Caleb Deschanel on shooting ‘Lion King’
    1. 1:17Hollywood news banterYou’re reading this
    2. 8:39Reginald Hudlin on writing ‘Black Panther’ comics and running BET...at the same time
    3. 22:15‘Lion King’ cinematographer Caleb Deschanel on falling in love with virtual animals
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