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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…

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: We haven't done this column since March, when the pandemic had just begun to show the unprecedented hardship it would…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. PETER BART: The major corporate players this year seem more jittery than ever about defying the rules of the marketplace, real or imagined…

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: As I watched Kevin Hart on The People’s Choice Awards grow introspective about second chances and feelings of morality after…

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. BART: Is it just a generational spat, or perhaps a vital reality check? Launching stern critiques of Marvel movies, Martin Scorsese…

The rookie co-hosts on the Golden Globes show Sunday had their ups and downs, so perhaps the Oscars would do better to pursue proposals of going without hosts at all, especially since the job of clearing an emcee is proving ever more tenuous, as we discuss on this week’s episode of The Bart & Fleming Podcast. The…

By inviting viewers to create and effectuate their own favored endings to shows, Netflix via its recent movie Black Mirror: Bandersnatch may be opening audiences to participate positively in the filmmaking process, but may also be opening a can of worms, as we discuss in the latest episode of Deadline’s The Bart & Flem…

Despite the much publicized gains of Netflix and other streamers, Hollywood studios got good news this week about solid increases in ticket sales and attendance, as we discuss in this week's episode of The Bart & Fleming Podcast. And the good numbers stemmed not just from sequels but from several well-performing…

In the latest episode of The Bart & Fleming Podcast, we look back on the year in the movie business, and what it means going forward. Led by Netflix, 2018 saw more money and attention spent on films meant not for theatrical release but home viewing. The ground continues to shift, with the aftermath still to be felt…

With Disney's acquisition of Fox now imminent, Hollywood is only now coming to terms with its impact in terms of lost jobs and the emerging predominance of the new entity in film and TV, as we discuss in the latest episode of The Bart & Fleming Podcast. On the movie side, with a hefty lineup of tentpoles and sequels…

Does the giant box office business but poor reviews of films like Bohemian Rhapsody suggest film critics are underrating fare that offer pure entertainment values? We discuss that question and other issues in our latest edition Deadline’s The Bart & Fleming Podcast. Also on the docket: Is the public ready to embrace…

The Golden Globe nominations that will be announced December 6 symbolize the unofficial start of awards season and also spark snarky commentaries about the impact of the musical/comedy category at the show, as we discuss in our latest edition of The Bart & Fleming Podcast. The Globes awards succeed in expanding the…