History Is Already Written: Film Comedies Came Back In 2018

One of the hardest things about covering Hollywood for New York editors is trying to convince them that most of the next year’s stories have already happened.

Films are made on a long lead time of, say, 18 months, give or take.

So most of the touchy decisions, political fights, minor victories, major failures and meaningful trends are already history by the time a picture is ready for its close-up with the opinion-makers back East.

(At the New York Times, I was once…

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