Money!

How to make it and how to spend it.

I’m here to share two small things I worked on in the new issue of New York magazine.

Back in January, I published a profile of David Ellison when he owned Paramount but seemed to have lost in his pursuit of also owning Warner Brothers Discovery. Last week, I wrote a short (by my standards!) column taking stock of Ellison’s sudden $111 billion victory over Netflix in the WBD auction. Among the many questions he now faces as one of the most powerful people in Hollywood, here is my personal favorite:

Last year, Paramount announced a version of A Christmas Carol starring Johnny Depp — his first major American film since the trial with Amber Heard — while Warner Bros. announced its own version of Dickens’s tale directed by Robert Eggers with Willem Dafoe as a potential lead. Is there room in one company for two Scrooges?

I also contributed one of the anonymous interviews in the magazine’s big cover package on the question everyone is too afraid to ask: so, how much do you make?

I am unfortunately not the “Seasoned Journalist” who makes $500,000 a year, but if you can guess which person I did interview, I’ll gift you an annual subscription to the magazine :)

Thanks for reading!