Vanity Fair UK - 11.2019

TV projects like Big Little Lies,

podcasts, a book club,

and a mentorship program for

women lmmakers.

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JORDAN PEELE

Horror impresario, Twilight

Zone revivalist AGE: 40

The genius behind Get Out

and Us is already changing

the way Hollywood looks at

America: “I want to see

a black family on the beach,

goddamnit!” he told

Vanity Fair. “That happens. And

we’ve never seen it.”

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AVA DUVERNAY

Filmmaker, activist, member of

the Twitterati AGE: 47

A former P.R. person, she came out

of the indie world as the rst black

woman to direct a $100 million

movie and now presides over a

sprawling mini-empire. (Her drama

Queen Sugar, which she executive-

produces with Oprah, was

just renewed for a fth season.)

DuVernay made the award-

winning Central Park Five series

When They See Us as a reminder

of “how far we’ve not come.”

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JANET MOCK

Writer, director, trans rights

activist AGE: 36

Transgender icon, former sex

worker, best-selling memoirist.

In June, Mock signed a three-year,

multimillion dollar deal

with Net’ix that still allows her to

continue as a writer-director

on Ryan Murphy’s FX series Pose.

JONATHAN NOLAN

& LISA JOY

Amazon Studios

SHONDA RHIMES

Netflix

KENYA BARRIS

Netflix

JOHN WELLS

Warner Bros. TV

J.J. ABRAMS

WarnerMedia

GREG BERLANTI

Warner Bros. TV

RYAN MURPHY

Netflix

DAVID BENIOFF

& D.B. WEISS

Netflix

$250-500M

$400M

$300M

$200M

$150M

$150M

$100M

$100M

Streaming Dealmakers The SVOD arms race has given rise to the latest envy-inducing indicator of Hollywood status

M&A Power
Ranking
Which media
conglomerate is holding
the best hand?

Disney

Marvel (now including

Deadpool and X-Men),

Star Wars, Avatar,

The Simpsons, Toy Story

WarnerMedia

DC Comics, Harry Potter,

Game of Thrones,

Westworld, Watchmen,

His Dark Materials

Amazon

The Lord of the Rings,

The Wheel of Time, The

Dark Tower

Netflix

The Chronicles of Narnia,

Stranger Things, The

Witcher, the Roald Dahl

library, Cowboy Bebop

Comcast

Fast & Furious, Shrek,

Jurassic Park, Minions,

Universal Classic

Monsters, The Purge

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Kevin

Feige

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Kathleen

Kennedy

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Bob

Greenblatt

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Jordan

Peele

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Janet

Mock

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J.J.

Abrams

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Shonda

Rhimes

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