The Hollywood Villain of the Year Is…

Gunnar Wiedenfels
Nobody at WBD has better personified its controversial strategy than Gunnar Wiedenfels, the company’s genial chief financial officer. Photo: Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
December 23, 2022

Let’s call 2022 the year of the write-off. Or maybe the year that most entertainment people would like to write off. Or, if we’re really being honest, it was the year that Hollywood itself was written-off—and not like when a TV star bails on a hit because he thinks he’s a movie star.