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Taylor Sheridan
Matthew Belloni February 7, 2025
A bundle of fresh intel from around Hollywood: The brewing legal battle between CAA and Gersh over Taylor Sheridan commissions, Netflix’s first-look arrangement with a former Warner Bros. chief, an Oscars telecast scoop, and much more.
Brian Roberts
Matthew Belloni January 31, 2025
Comcast’s Brian Roberts has a decision to make with Peacock, a subscale, money-losing, U.S.-only streamer whose growth has been tied mostly to exclusive sports programming. As Netflix and the other global platforms pull away, new numbers add urgency to the push to merge or bundle.
Michael Jackson
Matthew Belloni January 24, 2025
The late pop star’s estate overlooked a key contract with a child accuser that has now rendered the already shot third act of the film unusable. With the clock ticking on a delayed October release date, producers are scrambling to rewrite, reshoot, and somehow salvage MJ’s big-budget musical biopic.
greta gerwig
Matthew Belloni January 17, 2025
Netflix has finally conceded to put the big-budget film on about 1,000 Imax screens over Thanksgiving as a streaming-theatrical hybrid—a major, precedent-setting deal months in the making.


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.
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