New Year Review/Exercise - Actors on Acting - Business News - Streaming Ad Increase
By Abigail Hardin, January 02, 2024
Happy New Year, UTD!
I hope you had a wonderful holiday season with family and friends! While 2023 was a good year, I am extremely happy to welcome this New Year. I hope to set some better habits (waking up earlier) and in general, have more patience and kindness. I want to work on being more present in each moment and get rid of old knee-jerk reactions. What are you working on this New Year?
As the wheel of the year turns, we have the perfect time to take a moment and review our 2023 artist career. What goals were accomplished and what goals are still to be achieved?
At the same time that we review 2023, this moment also brings us to the transition of looking ahead to the New Year. I encourage you to see this illuminating exercise as an insight into your career and personal development. You will notice patterns that have empowered your artistry and patterns that have held you back from thriving as a performer. Everything that you discover is golden information. No criticism, Please! Just nurture your inner creative child and playfully imagine where you want to go and who you want to be.
2023 Year End Review Exercise
- Make a list of successes you created both professionally and personally for each month in 2023
- Make a list of the goals that are still to be achieved.
- Decide what to bring with you from your accomplishments list into 2023.
- What beliefs and habits have you outgrown and want to release and change?
- What resources and new skills did you acquire in 2023 that enriched your goals and life?
- Make 3 career goals for 2024
- Make 3 personal goals for 2024
Production is back! Start booking!
After a rough 2023 of strikes and limited opportunities, production is back! To help you make the most of this New Year energy and production surge, Annie and I will be hosting our extremely popular workshop Booking Film/TV Roles With or Without an Agent. I hope you can join us! We will go over new production trends and give you actionable steps to booking more Film & TV work with or without representation. The workshop is free but registration is required.
- January 23, 2024 @ 3:00 PM EST — Booking Film/TV Roles With or Without an Agent with Actors Connection
Let's create a fantastic New Year! 🎇
Year End
Film
- The Year in Movies 2023: What We Didn’t See Was Most Important
- Hollywood in 2024: 5 Biggest Problems
- 2023 Was the Year That Studios Learned Bigger Movies Are Not Better
- 9 Bold TV and Film Predictions for 2024
TV
- Ginny & Georgia, YA/Female-Led Titles Dominate Netflix Viewership
- The Worst TV in 2023 May Just Suggest a Bad Year — Or It May Get Worse
- ABC 2023 Ratings Recap: Fall Buoyed By Unscripted Fare
- Disney Biggest Moments of 2023
- Most Watched Channels of 2023: TV Network Ratings Winners & Losers
- TV Shows Canceled in 2023: ‘The Great,’ ‘Riverdale,’ ‘Ziwe,’ and More
Theatre
- What a new class of artistic directors could mean for Broadway and beyond
- Is a January slump inevitable or surmountable?
- Broadway Slow To Recover From Covid, Report Finds
- Best Of Broadway 2023: The Year’s Top 10 And What To See In 2024
Actors on Acting
- Arnold Schwarzenegger Recalls Some Of The Less-Glamorous Moments From His Career
- Charles Melton Says Method Acting Causes ‘Suffering’
- Timothee Chalamet’s ‘Wonka’ Dancing — Choreographer on Making Him Tap
- Choreographer Chris Gattelli on Helping Timothée Chalamet Dance in Wonka
- May December Star Elizabeth Yu on Moore and Portman Masterclass
- Carey Mulligan on Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Audition: I Went All In
- Jacob Elordi ‘Completely Blew’ His ‘Euphoria’ Audition
- Colman Domingo On Golden Globe Nomination For ‘Rustin’
- Taraji P. Henson Fired Her Entire Team After ‘Empire’ Success
- 'What Is for You Will Not Pass You': 30 Broadway Artists Share Hard-Earned Advice
- Interview: How HAMILTON Standby Marc delaCruz Took on Two Different Roles in the Same Night
Business
- SAG-AFTRA Draws Ire For Using AI Image To Promote Technology Summit
- Media & Entertainment Stocks 2023: How Netflix, Disney, More Performed
- Mergers And Acquisitions 2024 Outlook For Media, Entertainment Industry
- Streaming Advertising Rises As Netflix, Disney And Amazon Gear Up For 2024
- Lionsgate Studios Spinoff: $4.6B Valuation, Deal to Raise $350M
- What Would Warner Bros. Discovery-Paramount Merger Mean for Cable TV?
- Byron Allen Offers $3.5 Billion Again for BET
Film & TV Content
- 2023 The Black List Reveals Best Unproduced Scripts
- 2024 TV Development Outlook: Pilot Contraction, Selling Frenzy
Streaming
- Streaming Services In 2024:, Questions For Netflix & More
- Netflix Shows Canceled in 2023: 'Shadow and Bone,' 'Sex/Life,' More
- Ads Are Coming to Amazon Next Month – How to Opt Out for a Fee
- Netflix’s Viewership Data On ‘Shadow And Bone’ & Other Cancellations
- Netflix Reveals Viewing Data For First Time Across Its Full Catalog
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Melissa Barrera Shares Pro-Palestine Message Amid ‘Scream 7’ Turmoil: “I Hope This Christmas Feels Weirdâ€
- DGA Finds Little Progress on Diversity in Feature Film Hires
- Taraji P. Henson Breaks Down In Tears Over Pay Disparity In Hollywood
- Sofia Coppola On Gender Pay Disparity & “Fighting For A Tiny Fraction†Of What Male Directors Bank
- Lily Gladstone Makes History At Golden Globes With ‘Killers’ Nomination
- Taraji P. Henson 'Almost Had to Walk Away From Color Purple' Over Low Pay
- BBC Denies Feeding Viewers A “Diet Of Woke Biasâ€
- Colman Domingo: Boardwalk Empire Didn’t Cast, Not Light-Skinned