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Chris Rock and Will Smith
Matthew Belloni March 29, 2022
Inside the Dolby Theater, there was no doubt the attack was real. Now come the recriminations: What, if anything, could the Oscars have done differently? And will there be punishment for one of Hollywood’s biggest stars?
Tim Cook and Marlee Matlin
Matthew Belloni March 25, 2022
If Apple wins the top prize Sunday for CODA, it will have achieved in two years what Amazon and Netflix couldn’t accomplish in a decade. How? The road to the Oscars wasn’t easy—and reveals a lot about the harsh realities of Hollywood.
Jane Campion
Matthew Belloni March 21, 2022
Puck’s first annual, totally subjective and partially grievance-based salute to the oddities and embarrassments of Hollywood’s interminable Oscar season.
Reed Hastings
Matthew Belloni March 18, 2022
Media companies were betting on the ability to invest big, grow fast, and join Netflix in the redefined TV hierarchy. Now, increasingly, they seem to be asking: What if everything Netflix thought it knew turns out to be a lie?


Bob Chapek
Matthew Belloni March 14, 2022
Disney’s new C.E.O. badly miscalculated in his attempt to pivot the company from left to center, compounding one of Disney’s worst internal crises in years. Will the public relations train wreck derail Chapek, too?
David Fenkel and Daniel Katz
Matthew Belloni March 11, 2022
Inside Hollywood, A24 has always punched above its weight for an indie studio. Now the arty New York media brand is trading on its hipster ethos for $225 million in private equity cash—and, in this overheated market, why not?
Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos
Matthew Belloni March 7, 2022
Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos’ deal with a Russian media partner with ties to Vladimir Putin was already deeply controversial inside Netflix, even before Putin invaded Ukraine.
Shari Redstone and Bob Bakish
Matthew Belloni & William D. Cohan March 6, 2022
The inside conversation at the nexus of Hollywood and Wall Street.


The Batman premiere
Matthew Belloni March 4, 2022
If theaters are going to survive post-Covid, they very badly need to evolve the model. Does “ape”-obsessed AMC C.E.O. Adam Aron have a solution, or just another schlocky ploy?
Larry David
Matthew Belloni March 1, 2022
As if a plot point from Curb, the HBO star determined that a two-part film about his life, set to debut today, wasn’t up to snuff yet.
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