The Decline in Hollywood Content and the Journey of 'American Prometheus'

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This chapter explores the decline in Hollywood content volume due to the strike, as well as Netflix shifting its focus to profitability. It then delves into the book 'American Prometheus' and its adaptation into a film, with the co-authors Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin discussing their journey of completing the book and bringing it to the big screen.

Kim Masters and Matt Belloni examine the latest updates in the Disney proxy vote saga. Also, has peak TV officially ended? The banter partners break down FX chairman John Landgraf’s recent remarks on the current state of television.

Plus, Masters speaks to Oppenheimer writer and director Christopher Nolan and American Prometheus co-author Kai Bird about adapting the film’s Pulitzer Prize winning source material. Bird talks about the 25 years it took to complete the sprawling biography with co-author Martin Sherwin, and Nolan shares how he approached adapting their 700-page book into a summer blockbuster hit.