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Ted Sarandos
Matthew Belloni September 20, 2024
After years of advocating data obfuscation, Netflix’s Sarandos is focusing on transparency with his twice-a-year data dumps to frame the competition in a way he knows he can win, then advocating for his rivals to play his new game.
Jon Winkelried
Matthew Belloni September 17, 2024
TPG leveraged its investment in an agency into a $7 billion sale and $2.4 billion return. Can it run the same playbook in the management space?
longlegs movie
Matthew Belloni September 6, 2024
According to a new study, only one-tenth of the 500+ movies either released or scheduled for release by the major studios and streamers between 2022 and 2026 actually came from an internal development slate. Is this the new normal, or a wake-up call that the system has become far too risk-averse?
A composite of David Zaslav and Gunnar Wiedenfels
Matthew Belloni August 30, 2024
Coming off a stock price nadir, with its legacy TV business cratering, Warner Bros. Discovery has reached the point where it may need to sell some stuff. Herewith, a rating of marketable assets and the highly speculative likelihood that David Zaslav will part with them.


shari redstone
Matthew Belloni August 16, 2024
Edgar Bronfman Jr. may be publicly kicking the tires, but the special committee of the board has so far delivered what Shari Redstone wants. There’s little reason to think the committee won’t deliver again.
billie eilish
Matthew Belloni August 16, 2024
The tabloid drama preceding Billie and Finneas ditching the Wasserman talent agency for WME has exacerbated an only-in-Hollywood frenemy feud between two of the industry’s biggest egos, with potentially major business repercussions.
david zaslav tom cruise
Matthew Belloni August 9, 2024
The entire media sector is entering a new, more sinister stage of the linear TV meltdown, with massive write-offs at Warner Discovery and Paramount… and yet, the situation confronting WBD C.E.O. David Zaslav is perhaps the most concerning.
Jimmy Kimmel 96th Annual Oscars
Matthew Belloni July 30, 2024
Alas, after four hosting gigs, Jimmy Kimmel has informed the Academy that he won’t return for the 2025 show. And Mulaney passed, too.


david zaslav
Matthew Belloni July 30, 2024
A Studio J-style expert roundtable on how Warner Discovery’s David Zaslav bungled the negotiation, why he sued, what it really means for WBD’s debt and revenue, and what the company might be able to win in a subsequent negotiation or eventual arbitration.
david zaslav
Matthew Belloni July 26, 2024
Zaz is going all-out for the Olympics, which WBD is carrying overseas. But as with the infamous Cannes party, he seems to be tone-deaf to the optics of such largesse during a time of painful cuts at his company.
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