The Fresh Prince's Definition of Hollywood Madness

[Mark Jeffries]

Westbrook Media, the production company started by Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, was at one point the hottest production company in LA, producing the only hit Facebook had in its attempt at streaming with Pinkett Smith's "Red Table Talk," receiving good attention for Peacock's "Bel-Air," the reboot of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" as a drama and with many other projects planned and a projected sale to Candle Media, the company owned by former Disney execs that had already purchased Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine and the execrable kiddie show properties "CocoMelon" and "Blippi"--and then came The Slap:

 https://www.semafor.com/article/01/07/2024/the-fall-of-will-and-jadas-media-empire?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

[Tom Wolper]

The article is an odd mix of business reporting and celebrity reporting. The decline of Westbrook can easily be explained by a sector-wide drop in streaming revenue. There might have been a blip as a result of The Slap but it only would have been temporary and the company should have bounced back.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 10:34 AM Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Westbrook Media, the production company started by Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, was at one point the hottest production company in LA, producing the only hit Facebook had in its attempt at streaming with Pinkett Smith's "Red Table Talk," receiving good attention for Peacock's "Bel-Air," the reboot of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" as a drama and with many other projects planned and a projected sale to Candle Media, the company owned by former Disney execs that had already purchased Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine and the execrable kiddie show properties "CocoMelon" and "Blippi"--and then came The Slap:

 https://www.semafor.com/article/01/07/2024/the-fall-of-will-and-jadas-media-empire?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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