Tag: HBO

• The Writers’ Strike Won’t End Soon; Here’s Why

  The Writers Guild strike isn’t going to end any time soon and here’s why. It goes to the core of why Hollywood producers have always hated Hollywood writers. The stone cold fact is, film and video are not writers’ media. Screenplays and teleplays are just floorplans. Other artists will have to fill in significant details…

  A L Katz

  June 2, 2023

  Labor, Movies, Showbiz Stories, Writers Guild Strike

  DGA, HBO, Hollywood Producers, Jack Warner, MAX, Moves, Residuals, SAG, Strike, TV, Underwood, Warner Bros Studio, WGA, Writers Guild

• Netflix Broke Hollywood But, Then, Hollywood Had It Coming

  The end of the pandemic means entertainment can finally get back fully onto its feet and start entertaining us. For Hollywood however, getting back onto its feet is already proving a challenge. That’s because what Netflix had started to break before the pandemic slammed into Hollywood, the pandemic finished breaking for good. If you now…

  A L Katz

  June 4, 2021

  Movie Reviews, Showbiz Stories

  Breaking Bad, English TV, HBO, HBOMax, Hollywood, Napster, Netflix, Network TV, Streaming TV, Syndication, Tales From The Crypt, Walter White, Warner Bros Studio

• Will Covid-19 Be The End Of Feature Films & Movie Theaters?

  

  I’ve been writing & producing feature films & TV shows for 35 years. Boy, has this business changed. And then changed again. In 1985, when I arrived in Los Angeles from the East Coast, the feature business and the TV business were strangers to each other. One did not cross over freely from one to…

  A L Katz

  July 8, 2020

  American News Media, Live Bullshit Free, Movie Reviews, Showbiz Stories, Uncategorized

  Covid19, Feature Films, HBO, Netflix, Tales From The Crypt, The Sopranos, TV Show Production, William Goldman

• Showbiz Stories From The Vault — Buck Henry Died Today; I’m Proud To Say I “Put Words Into His Mouth”

  Back in the day, I ran a show for HBO called “Tales From The Crypt”. My creative partner and I were hired to take over the show’s third season after its second season went a million dollars over budget. We ran “Tales” through four more seasons (60 plus episodes) and two “Tales From The Crypt”…

  A L Katz

  January 9, 2020

  Live Bullshit Free, Showbiz Stories

  Bordello Of Blood, Buck Henry, Crypt Keeper, Get Smart, HBO, Screenwriting, Tales From The Crypt, The Graduate, The Graduate Plastics Scene