Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business.FLEMING: The perfect storm of a pandemic that won’t go away, and the explosion of studio-owned streaming services has created an ornery environment in Hollywood as studios and talent and their reps clash over a new dealmaking paradigm.
This includes deals made back when movie theaters were the main way films made money. Many of these skirmishes are settled in back rooms, but the recent lawsuit filed by Scarlett Johansson against Disney over the day and date Disney+ release of Black Widow underscored the distrust in this tense moment.
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