How Hollywood’s Businessmen Got It So Wrong
A conversation with Xochitl Gonzalez about who really broke the entertainment industry
by Isabel Fattal
Jul 18, 2023
3 minutes
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Last week, the roughly 160,000 members of SAG-AFTRA went on strike, joining the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since May. As my colleague Xochitl Gonzalez put it, “The Hollywood machine … has officially ground to a halt.” I chatted with Xochitl about who really broke Hollywood.
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