Hollywood is jumping into this mobile-friendly storytelling format, and it’s drawing in major stars

While much of Hollywood was consumed by the streaming wars, Issa Rae was thousands of miles away studying a different mode of entertainment: microdramas.No stranger to creating a successful online series, the Emmy-nominated actor and producer became intrigued by China’s booming market for the short, mobile-first soap operas, seeing the format’s potential to build audiences and intellectual property.In May, Rae’s Hoorae Media released the thriller Screen Time, one of the first major...