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Gavin Newsom los angeles fires
Matthew Belloni, Peter Hamby & John Heilemann January 17, 2025
An intimate conversation on the political, media, financial, and Trumpian dimensions of the fire, and what it means for Hollywood, Bass, Newsom, Iger, and millions of Angelenos.
Justin Bieber
Matthew Belloni January 10, 2025
An NBC shake-up, a merger of two streamers, Bieber goes back to work, and Joe Biden finds an agent: It’s the second half of a moderately speculative look at the year ahead in Hollywood.
Kelly Campbell
Matthew Belloni January 9, 2025
Kelly Campbell, hired from Hulu in 2021, will step down as parent NBCUniversal reorganizes ahead of a spinoff of its cable networks.
the sopranos
Matthew Belloni January 7, 2025
Rupert’s potential sale, a CAA verdict, an ‘Avatar 3’ projection, and other hypotheses for another wild year in the entertainment business.


melania trump
Matthew Belloni January 7, 2025
The streamer is paying a whopping $40 million to license the Brett Ratner-directed Melania Trump documentary plus another, previously undisclosed project from the first lady.
Shari Redstone
Matthew Belloni December 31, 2024
In a year when thousands were fired or fled the ever-contracting entertainment business, Paramount owner Shari Redstone finally recognized she couldn’t compete and shrewdly sold the company to a Silicon Valley heir with the means to save the studio, not consolidate it out of existence.
it ends with us blake lively justin baldoni
Matthew Belloni December 24, 2024
Blake Lively’s legal complaint against co-star Justin Baldoni and his team of operators exposes the sinister subset of the crisis communications industry that seeks to attack and misinform, even as Lively’s own tactics, and the role of notorious publicist Stephanie Jones, come further into focus.
Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Chris Evans, Red One
Matthew Belloni December 20, 2024
Deploying Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Red One’ to Prime Video after only 27 days has angered the theatrical industry and raised a pertinent question that will define this next hybrid era: Can Amazon leverage movie theaters more than theaters can leverage Amazon?


Bob Iger
Matthew Belloni December 17, 2024
A frank exchange with Kim Masters, Puck’s newest partner, about Iger’s $15 million blood sacrifice to Trump, its implications for ABC News, and whether this is the beginning of the end for Stephanopoulos.
Todd Boehly Jay Penske
Matthew Belloni December 13, 2024
Two years after the Penske-Boehly takeover, and with the publicists’ war in the rearview, a new set of cascading challenges is befalling Hollywood’s perpetually scandalous awards show: apparent profiteering, marginalized membership, and an A.G. inquiry that threatens the whole party.
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