High Anxiety in Hollywood: “Everyone Is Totally Drained and Burnt Out”

When WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar announced in April that he would leave the company after its merger with Discovery was completed, he promised to gift staffers with photos he’d taken during his frequent walks around the Warner Bros. Studios lot. At the time, the workforce that Kilar had led through the pandemic was largely optimistic about the future under new leader David Zaslav, partly because the $43 billion deal he engineered would move the company out from under the telecommunications giant AT&T. Here was a leader who had worked in entertainment for decades, and had even bought the Beverly Hills… Read Full Article