Holding Our Breath in Hollywood This Year

TheGrill 2023: This year has been a painful convergence of long-term trends and short-term realities driven by the impact of technology

Sharon Waxman TheGrill
TheWrap editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman at TheGrill 2018. (Ted Soqui)

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Figuring out the future of entertainment wasn’t easy before 2023. But this year, it got really hard.  

We have had two strikes that shut down nearly all production and hobbled new releases for four-and-a-half months. We have had Wall Street dissatisfaction. A moribund box office. Streaming challenges. And we have the rise of AI. 

It doesn’t mean doom and gloom for the future, but it does mean there’s a lot to figure out as the future hurtles toward us at a frantic pace.

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