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Peter Bart: Would Hollywood’s Old Guard Tinker With TikTok? Dismiss “Disclaimer’?

Peter Bart ponders how Hollywood's founding czars would deal in a world of social media and streamers -- and Alfonso Cuarón.

I wonder how impresarios of his era — Selznick, Sam Goldwyn or Darryl F. Zanuck — would have coped with the unruly YouTubers, TikTokers, Instagrammers or superstar influencers crowding today’s marketplace. Cuarón mobilized a feature-level cast (Cate Blanchett, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kevin Kline) to star in a flashback-laden, tableau-ridden series that keeps teetering on the brink of its “big theme.” And now younger filmmakers like Emerald Fennell and Margot Robbie are poised to bring a new point of view to the classic Wuthering Heights – again free from the demands and dictates of a previous generation of producing czars.

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