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New Year Brings New Headaches • As 2024 dawns, here are five pressure points weighing on the entertainment industry

Showbiz’s Annus Horribilis • Having endured strikes, box office bombs and political strife, it’s goodbye and good riddance to 2023

Hollywood’s China Syndrome • Why the ‘Marvel meltdown’ at the Chinese box office could create a new opportunity

From Paris With Ads • TF1 chief Rodolphe Belmer hopes the new free streamer will grow the net’s market share

The Five Hundred • Nearly 90 new faces join Variety’s annual survey of the most influential figures in media and entertainment

It’s Sounding a Lot Like Christmas • Ten essential albums that cut through the holiday cocktail chatter

Go Big or Go Home? • With Hollywood on break, which contenders play well in a living room, and which ones don’t?

EXPOSURE

PRECISION ENGINEERING • How Michael Mann’s life, art and work led him to make “Ferrari,” a complex portrait of a driven man — akin to “8½” and “Citizen Kane”

CREATING ‘FERRARI’ • How director Michael Mann worked with expert department heads to craft one of the finest films of the year

THE 100 GREATEST TV SHOWS OF ALL TIME

LENA WAITHE ON ‘A DIFFERENT WORLD’

DAVID CHASE ON ‘THE TWILIGHT ZONE’

BRIAN COX ON TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES

ELISABETH MOSS ON ‘VEEP’

SETH MEYERS ON ‘BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’

CORD JEFFERSON ON ‘PEEP SHOW’

BOB ODENKIRK ON ‘THE ROYLE FAMILY’

EMMA CORRIN ON ‘LONDON SPY’

Memorable Moments • Variety staffers pick some of their favorite scenes from 2023

Scribe Vibes • Writers weigh in on their favorite screenplays of 2023

The Color Purple

Rebel Moon

Peter Sarsgaard • “If the only way someone can say the truth to me is by being an asshole, at least I’m getting the truth.”