The Radford Studio Center is currently in foreclosure. I never expected to write that sentence about a place filled with early career memories—not just of soundstages and shows, but of how the television industry actually works. Long before streaming wars, shrinking episode orders, and the shifts I’ve written about in the future of the entertainment […]
Every time a handful of films cross the billion-dollar mark at the international box office, the same question resurfaces: are movie theaters really back? In 2025, three Disney-backed releases — Avatar, Lilo & Stitch, and Zootopia — each surpassed $1 billion internationally. Outside of Disney, only one film reached that level: Ne Zha 2, which […]
A company isn’t only defined by what it sells. It’s defined by what it signals—what it promises before a product is even opened, before a ticket is even scanned, before a word is even spoken. That signal is identity, and for entertainment companies, especially, identity is often carried by one thing above all else: a […]
There are voices you recognize instantly. And then there are voices you’ve known your entire life—without ever realizing how much intention, intelligence, and writing lived behind them. June Foray was a legendary voice actor. But the conversations I remember most with her weren’t really about performance. They were about writing—and about what animated cartoons were […]
The phrase “Chuck Jones fired” is one of those that instantly changes how you see a film. What starts as a fun animation deep-cut can suddenly become a pivotal studio-era turning point. That’s exactly what happened for me while creating work for When Good Toons Go Bad: Villains of Animation at Van Eaton Galleries—a group […]