Deadline reports as WGA’s current film and TV contract is set to expire, and AMPTP only five months away, the TV studios are starting to prepare for a potential strike.

Plus, DOJ looks to end Paramount Consent Decrees. Indiewire reports that ” Maybe that means small theaters will find it impossible to get big movies, and small distributors will lose access to big chains. Maybe studios will try to push their weight and force chains to accept movies with a 60-day theatrical window. Maybe studios will be so aggressive and greedy that it inspires a flurry of lawsuits. “

Plus, KOP concludes his conversation with Michelle Danner, a legendary acting teacher and co-founder of the Edgemar Center for the Arts and the Los Angeles Acting Conservatory

Danner’s also now well-established as a successful feature film director. Her latest completed film, “Bad Impulse,” is a psychological thriller about family secrets and modern technology, starring Sonya Walger (Lost), Grant Bowler (Syfy’s Defiance), and Paul Sorvino.

Plus: As TV Consumption Shifts, Streamers Struggle With How to Apply Programming Standards and Taylor Swift To Perform On the AMAs As Label, Producer Reach Agreement.

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