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The Hollywood Show That Kept Showing Up
Behind the Scenes has outlasted feeds, formats and the usual Hollywood reinventions by turning one weekly conversation into radio, television, podcasts and clips. Its trick is less glamorous than its guest list: access, chemistry and the discipline to return next Friday.
The Tiny Hollywood Showroom Hiding in the Fashion Credits
& Public Relations does its most legible work in the smallest type on the page - supplying the clothes and jewelry that help a stylist turn a pitch into a picture.
Why a gin brand needed a rock band: the BNC story
Bragman Nyman Cafarelli built a business connecting Hollywood talent with consumer brands. Its history, from a cassette-era music contest to a reunion of former colleagues in 2025, shows what an agency can own - and what walks out the door.
The Six-Person Studio That Put a Movie Camera Inside a Game Engine
How a former VR outfit turned into the off-the-shelf toolmaker for virtual production - selling filmmakers a camera that shoots worlds that do not physically exist.
The Camera Shop Run by People Who Actually Held the Camera
In a business full of order-takers, this Burbank shop bets that filmmakers would rather buy cameras from people who have actually pulled focus at 3 a.m. on a real set.
Pressman Film
Pressman Film is a Los Angeles-based independent production company founded in 1969 by the late producer Edward R. Pressman and now led by his son, CEO Sam Pressman. With more than 100 motion pictures to its name - including Badlands, Conan the Barbarian, Wall Street, The Crow and American Psycho - the company has a long history of backing risky, director-driven cinema before the rest of Hollywood catches on. Today it is expanding into television, virtual-reality storytelling (the Cate Blanchett/Terrence Malick VR piece Evolver), stage work and experimental, blockchain-enabled film financing that lets everyday fans invest in its development slate.
The Ankler
The Ankler (Ankler Media) is an independent, subscription-driven media company covering the business of Hollywood and the collision of entertainment, media and technology. Founded as a one-man newsletter by Richard Rushfield in 2017 and expanded into a full media company with former Hollywood Reporter/Billboard chief Janice Min as CEO in 2022, it has grown into a multi-platform operation of roughly 15 newsletters, podcasts, video and live events - read by studio chiefs and moguls it covers, raised $1.5M at a $20M valuation via Y Combinator, and reportedly aiming for $10M in annual revenue in 2026.
Flawless
Flawless is an AI filmmaking company building assistive tools that let studios re-edit dialogue and localize films into other languages while preserving the original actor's performance. Its products TrueSync and DeepEditor use computer vision and deep learning to reshape an actor's lip movements and expressions to match new lines or dubbed dialogue, removing the disconnect of traditional dubbing and subtitles. Co-founded by filmmaker Scott Mann and tech entrepreneur Nick Lynes, Flawless positions itself as a rights-first, consent-driven alternative to generative AI in cinema, endorsed by SAG-AFTRA and used across hundreds of studio productions.
Puck
Puck is a New York-based digital media company founded in 2021 that covers the four centers of American power - Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Washington, and Wall Street. It treats journalists like founders, giving its writers equity and a cut of the subscription revenue their newsletters generate, and reaches readers through email newsletters, podcasts, and live events.