The Town with Matthew Belloni

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 Nov 20, 2024

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Puck founding partner Matthew Belloni takes you inside Hollywood, using exclusive reporting and insight to explain the backstories on everything from Marvel movies to streaming wars. Multiple times each week, Matt will touch on what is getting made and why, who is winning and losing, and what people in show business are actually talking about.

Episode Date
The Multi-Billion-Dollar Plan to Improve Going to the Movies
Dec 20, 2024
Making Millions on Dead Celebrities in the AI Age
Dec 18, 2024
The Fate of Warner Bros in 2025, and Iger’s Trump Capitulation
Dec 16, 2024
Which Movies Actually Popped (and Flopped) on Streaming in 2024?
Dec 13, 2024
Which Streaming Shows Hit and Bombed in 2024?
Dec 13, 2024
Winners and Losers of 2024 in Streaming
Dec 09, 2024
ESPN on Disney+, Cable’s Spinoff Moment, and Who Would Buy CNN?
Dec 07, 2024
Equal Pay, Equal Stake: A Filmmaking Experiment
Dec 06, 2024
Does Disney Have Its Movie Mojo Back?
Dec 02, 2024
‘Dune’ Director Denis Villeneuve on Plans for Part 3, ‘Star Wars’ Interest, and Art Vs. Commerce
Nov 27, 2024
The Young Movie Star Draft
Nov 25, 2024
‘Anora’ Actress Mikey Madison. Plus, ‘Wicked’ Vs. ‘Gladiator II’!
Nov 22, 2024
Secrets of the NBA-TNT Divorce Settlement With Bill Simmons
Nov 20, 2024
Disney’s Streaming Turnaround and Netflix’s Boxing Debut
Nov 19, 2024
Digital TV Giants: Amazon, Google, and … Roku?
Nov 15, 2024
Martha Stewart and When a Celeb Disavows Their Doc—With the Director!
Nov 13, 2024
Netflix’s Greta Gerwig Situation, a Buried Clint Eastwood Movie, and Streaming’s Good Week
Nov 11, 2024
Winners and Losers of Hollywood Under Trump 2.0
Nov 08, 2024
How Much Money a Hit TV Show Can Make (and How It’s Changed)
Nov 06, 2024
The Existential Crisis of the Cable Juggernauts
Nov 04, 2024
Is There a Right Way to Use AI to Make Movies?
Oct 31, 2024
FX’s John Landgraf on Resisting the Algorithm, Green-lighting ‘Shogun’, and ‘The Bear’ S3
Oct 29, 2024
FX Chief John Landgraf on Silicon Valley’s Effect on Hollywood
Oct 28, 2024
The Post-Pandemic Life of a Hustling Screenwriter
Oct 25, 2024
Netflix: Unstoppable or Overvalued?
Oct 21, 2024
The New Era of ‘SNL,’ 50th Plans, and ‘Saturday Night’
Oct 17, 2024
The Secret Recipe For an Indie Horror Hit
Oct 15, 2024
The Hollywood Stock Market: Travis Kelce, J.Lo, DC Studios, Prime Video, Todd Phillips, and More!
Oct 11, 2024
Is Hollywood Screwing Up Male Characters?
Oct 09, 2024
The 'Joker 2' Mega Flop and a New CEO at Sony Pictures
Oct 07, 2024
Burning Questions for the Most Uncertain Oscar Race in Years
Oct 04, 2024
The End of the $20M TV Host Era
Oct 02, 2024
How Should Movie and TV Stars Be Paid?
Sep 30, 2024
Lionsgate, Meta, and a Wild Week in AI
Sep 27, 2024
How to Make Your Own TV Show (and Get Netflix to Buy It)
Sep 25, 2024
Biggest Takeaways From Netflix’s New Data Dump
Sep 23, 2024
The War Over the Secret Nine-Hour Prince Documentary
Sep 20, 2024
The Screenwriter Struggle and How to Break Through
Sep 18, 2024
The Real Winners and Losers of the Emmys With the ‘Hacks’ Creators!
Sep 16, 2024
The Dire State of Movie Development
Sep 12, 2024
Seth Meyers on Late Night’s Future, 'SNL' 50, and Lorne’s Successor
Sep 11, 2024
Five Burning Hollywood Questions for the Rest of 2024
Sep 09, 2024
How to Choose the Right Festival to Premiere Your Movie
Sep 06, 2024
Who's to Blame for the ESPN Blackout?
Sep 03, 2024
Should Someone Step In to Save Warner Bros. Discovery?
Aug 29, 2024
Summer Box Office Winners, Losers, and Head-Scratchers
Aug 27, 2024
The Billionaire Battle for Paramount and the Return of 'Ted Lasso'
Aug 26, 2024
Are Expensive Showrunner Deals Worth It?
Aug 23, 2024
The Arms Race Behind Where Movies Shoot
Aug 21, 2024
A New Setback in Hollywood's Cable Crisis
Aug 19, 2024
The Legacy of the Infamous Sony Hack, 10 Years Later
Aug 15, 2024
Kamala’s Hollywood Connections: Do They Help or Hurt?
Aug 14, 2024
Why Can’t Apple Figure Out Movies?
Aug 12, 2024
The Biggest Losers of Hollywood’s Cable-pocalypse
Aug 09, 2024
Disney’s Streaming Profits and Parks Problem
Aug 07, 2024
Has the Music Industry Peaked?
Aug 05, 2024
The 2024 Intellectual Property Draft
Jul 31, 2024
‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and Marketing Disney’s First R-Rated Marvel Movie
Jul 29, 2024
WBD’s Billion-Dollar War on the NBA
Jul 26, 2024
The High Stakes of Broadcasting the Olympics
Jul 24, 2024
Is Netflix or YouTube the King in Streaming?
Jul 22, 2024
Warner's M&A Options and an NBA Rights Scoop
Jul 19, 2024
The 'Star Wars' Ratings Problem and What To Do Next
Jul 17, 2024
Does Hollywood Need Deregulation?
Jul 15, 2024
Betting on Theaters, Embracing Tech, and ‘Wicked’ With Director Jon M. Chu
Jul 11, 2024
Burning Questions About the Future of Paramount
Jul 09, 2024
Skydance’s David Ellison on His Plans for Paramount
Jul 08, 2024
The NFL's $15B Sunday Ticket Problem
Jul 03, 2024
The Biggest Over- and Underreactions of the First Half of 2024
Jul 01, 2024
Will the Debate Debacle Revive TV News?
Jun 28, 2024
How Much Kevin Costner Stands to Win or Lose on ‘Horizon’
Jun 26, 2024
Is Hollywood Really That Effed Up?
Jun 24, 2024
Hollywood’s Big Big Tech Problem
Jun 20, 2024
Sony Bought a Movie Theatre Chain. Plus, Pixar’s Big Comeback
Jun 18, 2024
Jon Stewart on AI Fears, Election Plans, and ‘Daily Show’ End Date
Jun 14, 2024
Jon Stewart Talks Apple Split, Corporate Constraints, and Media’s Regression
Jun 13, 2024
Paramount-Skydance Is Dead. What Now?
Jun 12, 2024
Will Smith’s Comeback and the Butts-in-Seats Star Ranking
Jun 11, 2024
The Science of Green-Lighting Movies
Jun 07, 2024
Is Netflix Fumbling Ads?
Jun 05, 2024
The 2024 Summer Concert Tour Draft
Jun 03, 2024
TV Viewers Are Getting Old. Do Advertisers Care?
May 31, 2024
The Memorial Day Box Office Meltdown
May 28, 2024
Everyone Hates Ticketmaster, but Is It a Monopoly?
May 24, 2024
Scarlett Johansson Vs. OpenAI: Does She Have a Case?
May 22, 2024
A War Is Coming Over Hollywood Pay
May 20, 2024
NFL on Netflix, and Big Tech’s TV Upfronts Takeover
May 16, 2024
Latinos See More Movies Than Anyone. Why Is Hollywood Ignoring Them?
May 15, 2024
Disney+ and Max Have Bundled, Who’s Next?
May 13, 2024
Are Producers in Hollywood Nearing Extinction?
May 09, 2024
The Year of Peacock?
May 08, 2024
‘The Fall Guy’ Swung and Missed … Should We Panic?
May 06, 2024
The 2024 Summer Blockbuster Confidence Scale
May 03, 2024
The Fight for the Last NBA Rights With Bill Simmons
May 01, 2024
A CEO Firing, and the Chaos at Paramount
Apr 30, 2024
The Rise of Tubi and If “Free” Is Really the Future of Entertainment
Apr 29, 2024
Aaron Sorkin, Live From D.C.
Apr 26, 2024
Which Bidder Is Best for Paramount?
Apr 24, 2024
Netflix’s Backtrack on Transparency
Apr 22, 2024
Taylor Swift’s Questionable Return to TikTok
Apr 18, 2024
Hollywood’s Struggle to Reinvent Itself
Apr 17, 2024
The Best and Worst Media Mergers of the 21st Century
Apr 15, 2024
Can IMAX Save Movie Theaters?
Apr 11, 2024
Hollywood vs. Big Tech in the Age of Consolidation
Apr 10, 2024
Early Winners and Losers of 2024
Apr 08, 2024
Why Documentaries Are Better and Worse Than Ever With Sheila Nevins
Apr 04, 2024
A WWE Business Smackdown With Nick Khan
Apr 03, 2024
The Disney Proxy War: Does Peltz Have a Shot Against Iger?
Apr 01, 2024
Inside TMZ’s Cozy Relationship With Hollywood
Mar 29, 2024
The Battle for Attention: Streaming Vs. Social
Mar 25, 2024
How AI Is Already Transforming Moviemaking
Mar 21, 2024
Lemon, Tucker, and the Cable News Star Turned Influencer
Mar 20, 2024
The Juice List: The Most Powerful People in Hollywood
Mar 18, 2024
‘The Holdovers’ Plagiarism Claim and How to Protect Your Script
Mar 15, 2024
Inside Netflix’s Calculated Sports Strategy
Mar 14, 2024
Oscar Winners and Losers and the Updated Movie Studio Power Rankings
Mar 12, 2024
Insider Tips to Predict the Oscar Winners
Mar 07, 2024
The Money and Power Behind the Oscars’ Red Carpet
Mar 06, 2024
New Film Heads and a New Direction for Netflix and Disney
Mar 04, 2024
The Awards Season Awards: Which Oscars Campaigns Worked (and Didn’t)
Mar 01, 2024
Will AI Video Replace Hollywood?
Feb 28, 2024
Panic Time for Max and Warner Bros. Discovery?
Feb 26, 2024
The Harsh Data Behind ‘Barbie’ and Taylor Swift’s Success
Feb 22, 2024
Peacock-Paramount+ Merger Rumors, Questions, and What-Ifs
Feb 20, 2024
How to Win Best Picture on a Budget, With Neon’s Tom Quinn
Feb 17, 2024
Hopeful or Hopeless? Takeaways From 2024's Bleak Box Office Beginning
Feb 15, 2024
Live From Las Vegas: Oscars Pressure, Late-Night TV, and the Vegas Sports Boom With Jimmy Kimmel
Feb 12, 2024
Did Disney Get Its Magic Back?
Feb 09, 2024
Will the New All-in-One Sports App Finally Kill Cable?
Feb 08, 2024
Five Major Music Business Questions After the Grammy's
Feb 05, 2024
TikTok vs. Universal Music: Why Taylor, Drake and Others Were Yanked
Feb 02, 2024
The Politics of Studios and Movie Stars
Feb 01, 2024
A Wild Week at Netflix: Stuber’s Out, WWE Is In, and Subs Are Up
Jan 29, 2024
A Top Dealmaker’s Media M&A Predictions
Jan 25, 2024
Can Sundance Save Indie Film? With CEO Joana Vicente
Jan 24, 2024
The 2024 Box Office Draft
Jan 22, 2024
The 'SNL' Succession Sweepstakes
Jan 19, 2024
Peacock’s NFL Debut and the Viability of Streaming-Only Sports
Jan 16, 2024
The Billionaire Blueprint to Buy Paramount
Jan 12, 2024
The McAfee Hail Mary and ESPN's Search for Answers
Jan 10, 2024
Four Burning Hollywood Questions to Kick Off 2024
Jan 09, 2024
Are the Golden Globes Unkillable?
Jan 04, 2024
The Young Movie Star Power Rankings
Jan 03, 2024
The Townies, Part 2: Who Won the Year in Hollywood?
Dec 28, 2023
The Townies: Hollywood’s Best and Worst of 2023
Dec 28, 2023
Warner Bros. and Paramount Are Talking. Should They Merge?
Dec 21, 2023
The Biggest Debacles of 2023: Studio Screwups, Executive Misfires, and Underrated Disasters
Dec 18, 2023
The Animation Arms Race With Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri
Dec 14, 2023
Ted Sarandos on Netflix’s New Era of Data Transparency
Dec 13, 2023
Are Streamers Helping or Hurting the Movie Business?
Dec 08, 2023
The Companies Most Likely to Be Bought or Sold in 2024
Dec 07, 2023
The Murky Metrics of Podcast Success
Dec 05, 2023
The Biggest Streaming Power Moves of 2023
Dec 01, 2023
Hollywood’s Star-making Problem, with a Top Casting Director
Dec 01, 2023
Who Will Buy Paramount?
Nov 28, 2023
Does Big Tech Belong in Hollywood?
Nov 22, 2023
Unexpected Winners and Losers of the Hollywood Labor Strikes
Nov 20, 2023
Potential Backfires in the Actors AI Deal
Nov 17, 2023
Rupert’s Retirement and Fox’s Place in Hollywood
Nov 14, 2023
Bob Iger’s Year One: Highs, Lows, and Marvel Woes
Nov 13, 2023
The End of the Actors Strike With Duncan Crabtree-Ireland
Nov 09, 2023
How the Strike Derailed Oscar Season
Nov 08, 2023
Why Batman and Everything Else Is Coming to Netflix
Nov 07, 2023
Should Reality Stars Have a Union? With Bethenny Frankel
Nov 02, 2023
The Reboot Era and TV’s IP Obsession
Nov 01, 2023
How Screwed Is the 2024 Movie Calendar?
Oct 30, 2023
Town Hall: Hasan Minhaj, a SAG Stalemate, and Apple’s Scorsese Bet
Oct 27, 2023
Marvel’s Post-‘Avengers’ Mismanagement
Oct 25, 2023
There Is Netflix, and There Is Everyone Else
Oct 23, 2023
NBA TV Rights and Players Owning Teams With Rich Paul
Oct 20, 2023
How Long Can the Live Concert Boom Last?
Oct 18, 2023
The Hollywood Stock Market: Travis Kelce’s Media Career, Netflix With Ads, Mega Music Docs, and More!
Oct 16, 2023
Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, and the Fights Over Song Credits
Oct 12, 2023
Price Hikes and the Streaming Class System
Oct 10, 2023
Live Sports on Max, and the Inevitable All-In-One App
Oct 05, 2023
Influencers Don’t Need Hollywood Anymore
Oct 04, 2023
The Post-Strike State of TV and Movie Writing
Oct 02, 2023
Lessons From the ‘Must-See TV’ Era, with Warren Littlefield
Sep 29, 2023
What the Writers Guild Won, With a Negotiator
Sep 27, 2023
The Writers Strike Is Over. Can We All Be Friends Again?
Sep 25, 2023
The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Empire
Sep 21, 2023
From Sports to Hollywood With Casey Wasserman
Sep 20, 2023
The Strike’s Permanent Damage: Who Will Suffer the Most?
Sep 19, 2023
Why Can’t Bob Iger Find a Successor?
Sep 14, 2023
A WWE and UFC Tag Team, With Endeavor’s Mark Shapiro
Sep 12, 2023
CAA’s New Billionaire Owner and the (Over)Value of Talent Agencies
Sep 11, 2023
Fall Festival Buzz and the Beginning of Oscar Season With the Head of TIFF
Sep 07, 2023
Disney’s ESPN Fight and Taylor’s Movie Takeover
Sep 06, 2023
The Summer Box Office Awards Show
Aug 31, 2023
The Growing Power of IMAX, With Its CEO
Aug 30, 2023
The Three Biggest Hold-ups in the Writers Strike
Aug 28, 2023
Is Apple’s Sports Experiment Working?
Aug 25, 2023
Justin, Ariana, and the Scooter Braun Mess
Aug 24, 2023
Predicting Hollywood’s September Surprises
Aug 21, 2023
How Much Money Does a Hit Movie Really Make (and a Flop Really Lose)?
Aug 17, 2023
Disney’s ESPN Dilemma: to Sell or Not to Sell?
Aug 14, 2023
The Doomsday AI Scenario In Hollywood
Aug 10, 2023
Everyone Running Hollywood Is Old. Does That Matter?
Aug 09, 2023
Will Anyone Budge on Data Transparency in Hollywood?
Aug 07, 2023
Checking in on Warner Bros. Discovery and the Max Platform
Aug 04, 2023
The Barbie Effect on Female Filmmakers
Aug 03, 2023
Villains, Saviors, and Developments Three Months Into Hollywood’s Shutdown
Jul 31, 2023
Selling ‘Barbie’: Inside the Marketing Phenomenon
Jul 26, 2023
How 'Sound of Freedom' Outperformed 'Mission: Impossible'
Jul 24, 2023
Has Netflix Officially Won the Streaming War?
Jul 20, 2023
‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer's’ Epic Weekend Face-Off
Jul 19, 2023
Bob Iger’s Fire Sale: The Fate of ESPN, ABC, and Hulu
Jul 17, 2023
Inside the Actors Strike With Its Top Negotiator
Jul 14, 2023
BREAKING: Actors Go on Strike
Jul 14, 2023
The State of R-Rated Comedies, With Evan Goldberg
Jul 12, 2023
Amazon’s Spending Spree Under Scrutiny
Jul 10, 2023
Town Hall: Bob Iger’s Legacy, Summer Flops, and Streamer Mega-Mergers
Jul 05, 2023
Is David Zaslav Misunderstood?
Jul 03, 2023
What Will Bring Gen Z to Theaters?
Jun 30, 2023
How Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is Becoming the Most Successful in History
Jun 29, 2023
The 2023 Executive Draft
Jun 26, 2023
It’s Time to Break Up Hollywood
Jun 22, 2023
Is the Superhero Era Finally Ending?
Jun 20, 2023
Has Pixar Lost its Magic Touch?
Jun 16, 2023
'The Flash' and Marketing a Movie With a Controversial Star
Jun 14, 2023
Netflix Top 10 Lists and the Era of Streamer Manipulation
Jun 12, 2023
What the Writers Really Fear About AI in Hollywood
Jun 08, 2023
CNN’s Messy Chris Licht Era Is Over, Now What?
Jun 07, 2023
Hollywood’s Stealth Winners and Losers of the First Half of 2023
Jun 05, 2023
Who Is on the Studios' Side in the Writers Strike?
Jun 01, 2023
Cannes Winners, Losers, Scandals, and Big Takeaways
May 30, 2023
Disney’s Prickly Theme Parks Problem
May 25, 2023
How to Pull Off a Real-Life Mockumentary
May 24, 2023
Netflix Crashes TV’s Ad Party
May 22, 2023
The NBA Team Blowing Up Sports TV
May 19, 2023
Hollywood’s China Problem
May 17, 2023
Bob Iger’s Six-Month Report Card at Disney
May 15, 2023
The Struggle of the Modern TV Writer With Mike Schur
May 11, 2023
The Weird State of Media and Hollywood’s Role in It
May 10, 2023
The 5 Biggest Narratives After Week 1 of the Writers Strike
May 08, 2023
The 2023 Summer Blockbuster Confidence Scale
May 04, 2023
Inside the Writers Strike With a WGA Negotiator
May 02, 2023
The Writers' Strike Deadline Is Here. What Will Happen?
May 01, 2023
60 Is the New 30: The Revealing Ranking of Biggest Movie Stars
Apr 28, 2023
Ben Winston Refuses to Declare Late-Night TV Dead
Apr 26, 2023
Another Executive Sex Scandal? How NBCU Can Pick Up the Pieces
Apr 24, 2023
One Year After the Crash: Is the New Netflix Working?
Apr 20, 2023
Inside Fox’s $787M Settlement With Dominion and the Future of Fox News
Apr 19, 2023
Is ‘Air’ a Hit? Why That's Harder Than Ever to Answer
Apr 17, 2023
Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama
Apr 14, 2023
How the Fox News Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Will Unfold
Apr 12, 2023
One Year After the Merger: Is Warner Bros. Discovery Actually Working?
Apr 10, 2023
Disney vs. DeSantis: Who Will Win
Apr 06, 2023
From Viral Videos to Hit TV With Dave Burd
Apr 05, 2023
WWE Sells, Netflix Pulls Back, and the Oscars' Bold Bid on Theaters
Apr 03, 2023
Has Hollywood Finally Figured Out Video Games?
Mar 30, 2023
Marvel’s Bad CGI and the Firing of a “Kingmaker”
Mar 30, 2023
Apple’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Movie Theaters
Mar 27, 2023
Lionsgate Film Chief Joe Drake on ‘John Wick’ and the Modern Independent Studio
Mar 24, 2023
BET and the Future of Small Streamers
Mar 23, 2023
Is the Franchise Model Starting to Fatigue in Hollywood?
Mar 20, 2023
Matt’s Year One Prediction Report Card
Mar 16, 2023
Michael B. Jordan and How to Build a Modern Movie Star Career
Mar 15, 2023
The Oscar Bump: Which Young Stars Won Awards Season?
Mar 13, 2023
Academy CEO Bill Kramer on the New and Improved (?) Oscars
Mar 09, 2023
Tips, Trends, and Storylines to Help You Bet on the Oscars
Mar 08, 2023
The End of Peak TV Is Finally Here
Mar 06, 2023
The Ploys and Tactics Behind Oscar Campaigning
Mar 03, 2023
How F--ked Is Fox News?
Mar 03, 2023
The Perfect Storm for a Writers Strike
Feb 28, 2023
Watching Your Favorite Team Is About to Get Harder
Feb 23, 2023
The 2023 Box Office Draft
Feb 21, 2023
The Companies Most Likely to Be Sold or Acquired in 2023
Feb 16, 2023
The Soap Opera Fight Over Paramount and CBS
Feb 14, 2023
Will Bob Iger Sell Hulu or ESPN?
Feb 13, 2023
How to Write a Hit Rom-Com
Feb 09, 2023
True Crime Is Murdering Documentaries
Feb 08, 2023
The Death and “Rebirth” of Showtime
Feb 06, 2023
DC Is Going Big, but Can It Catch Marvel?
Feb 02, 2023
The Future of Live Events and Late Night TV With Grammys EP Ben Winston
Feb 01, 2023
Peacock’s Promising Start to 2023 Might Not Be a Fluke
Jan 31, 2023
How an Indie Film Becomes an Oscar Winner
Jan 27, 2023
Is the Sundance Dream Still Alive?
Jan 26, 2023
How the Shocking Andrea Riseborough Oscar Nomination Happened
Jan 25, 2023
Inside the Netflix Executive Shake-up
Jan 23, 2023
Making Movie Stars Younger With AI
Jan 19, 2023
Should Disney Be Afraid of Nelson Peltz?
Jan 17, 2023
Around the World With Netflix’s Head of TV
Jan 13, 2023
‘M3GAN,' and How to Market a Movie to Young People
Jan 11, 2023
Vince McMahon’s Return and the WWE’s Most Intriguing Suitors
Jan 09, 2023
The New Black List and the Original Screenwriting Recession
Jan 05, 2023
Why Audiences Have Given Up on Awards Movies
Jan 03, 2023
The Townies Part 2: Hollywood’s Best and Worst of 2022
Dec 28, 2022
The Townies: Hollywood’s Best and Worst of 2022
Dec 27, 2022
Why YouTube Landed NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’
Dec 23, 2022
2022 Debacles Part 2: The 2023 Hot Seat and Hollywood’s Biggest Loser
Dec 20, 2022
2022 Debacles Part 1: Movie Bombs, Executive Misfires, and Secret Disasters
Dec 19, 2022
The Stranglehold of Streaming, With United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer
Dec 16, 2022
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ With Producer Jon Landau
Dec 15, 2022
The Biggest Flexes of the Year in Hollywood
Dec 12, 2022
John Skipper on the Rise of the Sports Documentary and Bob Iger’s Big Plans
Dec 08, 2022
Rob McElhenney on Merging Soccer, Celebrity, and a TV Empire
Dec 07, 2022
Smoke or Fire? The Most Troubled Hollywood Companies
Dec 05, 2022
The Streaming Year-End Review: Biggest Hits, Misses, and Questions
Dec 02, 2022
The Big Business of Christmas Movies
Nov 30, 2022
Disney’s Five Biggest Dilemmas in the New Bob Iger Era
Nov 28, 2022
The Taylor Swift Ticketmaster Debacle, Explained
Nov 23, 2022
A Major Disney Shake-up: Former CEO Bob Iger Is Back
Nov 21, 2022
Oscars Watch Begins: Front-Runners, Story Lines, and the ‘Top Gun’ Debate
Nov 18, 2022
The Secrets of Marvel’s Magic
Nov 16, 2022
The 2022 Directors Draft
Nov 14, 2022
Town Hall: Apple Buying Disney? 'SNL's Host Problem, and a Ryan Murphy Apology
Nov 10, 2022
Predicting the Opening Weekend for ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’
Nov 09, 2022
What a Wall Street Meltdown Means for the Consumer
Nov 07, 2022
Netflix vs. HBO: The TV Rivalry of the Century
Nov 03, 2022
Why Are Movies Longer Than Ever?
Nov 02, 2022
TikTok Killed the Pop Star
Oct 31, 2022
Ad-Supported Television Was the Past, and It Might Be the Future
Oct 27, 2022
Can James Gunn Deliver as New Head of the DC Universe?
Oct 26, 2022
The Riskiest Hollywood Bets for the Rest of 2022
Oct 24, 2022
Netflix Is Back, Baby!
Oct 19, 2022
The Looming NBA Rights Bonanza
Oct 18, 2022
The Best and Worst Deals of the Past 10 Years in Entertainment
Oct 17, 2022
Endeavor President Mark Shapiro
Oct 14, 2022
The Unfunny Decline of Comedy Central
Oct 11, 2022
Tom Cruise and an Explosive Scientology Book
Oct 06, 2022
Angelina Jolie vs. Brad Pitt Goes Nuclear
Oct 05, 2022
‘House of the Dragon’ vs. ‘The Rings of Power,’ Who Is Winning?
Oct 03, 2022
Can ‘SNL’ Get Back to Making Stars?
Sep 30, 2022
Hollywood’s (Still) Embarrassing Gender Gap
Sep 29, 2022
Millions Are Watching the NFL on Amazon Prime. Is This the Future?
Sep 26, 2022
Town Hall: Star Wars Missteps, Top Gun’s Oscar Potential, and Where Is James Bond?
Sep 22, 2022
‘Don’t Worry Darling’ and How Controversy Impacts the Box Office
Sep 21, 2022
Did a $200M Direct-to-Streaming Movie Ever Make Sense?
Sep 19, 2022
Is TV Saving or Killing College Football?
Sep 16, 2022
HBO’s Reassertion, Quinta Brunson’s Breakout, and More Emmy Takeaways
Sep 13, 2022
A Status Check on Disney and CEO Bob Chapek
Sep 12, 2022
The Summer Box Office Reckoning
Sep 08, 2022
The Biggest Threat to YouTube’s World Domination
Sep 06, 2022
Florence Pugh or Pete Davidson? Buying or Selling Hollywood’s Biggest Stars Under 30, Part 2
Sep 02, 2022
Chalamet or Holland? Buying or Selling Hollywood’s Biggest Stars Under 30
Sep 01, 2022
The Troubled Coexistence of Movie Theaters and Streaming
Aug 31, 2022
Winners and Losers of NBC Axing an Hour of Prime-Time TV
Aug 29, 2022
MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes On Reinventing Moviegoing (Again)
Aug 26, 2022
David Zaslav Doesn’t Care About Your Favorite HBO Shows
Aug 24, 2022
The 2022 Showrunner Draft
Aug 22, 2022
The Wackiest CEO in Entertainment
Aug 18, 2022
The Lawsuit Striking Fear Into Fox News (Plus 'LOTR' Predictions)
Aug 17, 2022
Should Disney Sell ESPN?
Aug 16, 2022
Disney+ and the Streaming Price Hike
Aug 11, 2022
TikTok’s Dominance and Hollywood’s Place in the Creator Economy
Aug 10, 2022
Springsteen and the Scourge of Concert Ticket Pricing
Aug 08, 2022
The Great TV Purge Is Coming
Aug 05, 2022
Why Warner Bros. Just Made the $90M ‘Batgirl’ Movie Disappear
Aug 03, 2022
Will Smith's Apology and Apple’s Predicament
Aug 01, 2022
Town Hall: Writers vs. Hollywood, an 'E.T.' Legacy Sequel, and Apple’s Animation Bet
Jul 27, 2022
The 2022 Intellectual Property Draft
Jul 25, 2022
How the Metaverse Could Transform the Entertainment Industry
Jul 21, 2022
Release the Snyder Article
Jul 20, 2022
Is the Netflix Movie Model Broken?
Jul 18, 2022
The Uncertain Futures of Netflix, Hulu, and Apple
Jul 15, 2022
Snubs, Surprises, and Industry Takeaways From the 2022 Emmy Nominations
Jul 12, 2022
A New Look at Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood’s Enablers
Jul 11, 2022
The 10 Nicest Stars in Hollywood
Jul 07, 2022
Predictions for Sun Valley’s Summer Camp for Billionaires
Jul 05, 2022
CAA and the New Reality of Talent Agencies
Jul 01, 2022
Producer Jason Blum on Money vs. Creativity
Jun 29, 2022
The 2022 Half-Year Hollywood Awards
Jun 27, 2022
You Will Pay More for Disney Parks and You Will Like It
Jun 23, 2022
How the Pandemic Changed the Way You Consume Entertainment
Jun 21, 2022
Who Survives at the New CNN?
Jun 16, 2022
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Why the Late Night Talk Show Is Dead, and ‘SNL’ After Lorne
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Netflix’s Crash and the Company's Future in Streaming
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