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shari redstone
Matthew Belloni May 3, 2024
Barring a last-minute reversal, the special committee of the troubled media company is planning to explore Apollo’s finally-revealed bid as Skydance mulls walking away.
bob bakish
Matthew Belloni April 30, 2024
A corporate eulogy for a Redstone yes-man as Shari finally turns on the guy she plucked from obscurity and empowered through Paramount’s troubled foray into the streaming wars, until he quietly sought to sabotage her planned sale to Skydance.
shari redstone
Matthew Belloni April 25, 2024
A feisty dealmaking debate over which suitor will win over Shari Redstone, which offer is better for shareholders, and how the future of Paramount Global could unfold.
jeff skoll
Matthew Belloni April 19, 2024
Jeff Skoll, the eBay billionaire behind Participant Media, was happy to take risks and lose money on “important” projects like Oscar winners ‘Spotlight’ and ‘Green Book.’ But after a year of trying to sell, including a potential lifeline from Eric and Wendy Schmidt that went south, he shut the company down. Why?


adam aron matt belloni
Matthew Belloni April 12, 2024
AMC C.E.O. Adam Aron and I have had many, uh, spirited conversations in private over the past few years, so I was excited when he agreed to join a panel that I moderated in Las Vegas, where we talked candidly about bankruptcy fears, his faith in a 2025 box office rebound, his desires for Apple and Amazon, and all his meme-stock-loving APE buddies.
amc Movie Theater
Matthew Belloni April 9, 2024
The U.S. is clearly over-screened, with the new normal of moviegoing falling far behind all the available theaters. What’s needed is a wholesale murder of the multiplex, so why won’t that happen anytime soon?
ari emanuel
Matthew Belloni April 5, 2024
News and notes on Endeavor’s take-private: the eye-popping windfalls for leaders Ari Emanuel, Patrick Whitesell, and Mark Shapiro, whether this was the deal Silver Lake wanted, what Whitesell’s next move will be with $250 million of Egon Durban’s money, and much more.
bob iger
Matthew Belloni April 2, 2024
The Peltz-Ike-Rasulo proxy battle may seem like the ultimate indignity for Bob Iger, but it’s also the direct result of the few (but glaring) mistakes amid his own tenures atop Disney: “If Peltz finds his way to the Disney board, that will be Iger’s biggest failure as C.E.O.”


yellowstone kevin costner
Matthew Belloni March 25, 2024
Answers to burning questions from readers, sources, listeners, agents, producers, and hangers-on about the sad state of movie stardom, the Iger proxy war, AppleTV+ ratings, Shohei’s moneymen… and much more.
shari redstone
Matthew Belloni March 22, 2024
The latest bid for Paramount’s “film and TV studio” isn’t just from Apollo, but also Legendary Entertainment—a previously undisclosed element that may portend how the Redstone saga eventually ends.
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