On this recent California Sun podcast I talk with Ben Fritz, who covers the entertainment industry for The Wall Street Journal. We explore Hollywood’s perfect storm of existential threats — empty theaters, streaming wars, production flight, artificial intelligence. If that wasn’t enough, as Fritz has reported: audiences today seem to be rejecting both franchise tentpoles and original films. He discusses whether Hollywood can reinvent itself as it has done in the past and adapt to technological change while maintaining its global cultural influence and economic importance to California.

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