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Matthew Belloni

The former editor of The Hollywood Reporter and an entertainment lawyer, Matthew is the author of Puck’s flagship What I’m Hearing, and the host of The Town, covering the real inside conversation about money and power in Hollywood.

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NEWSLETTERS
Brie Larson in 'The Marvels.'
Matthew Belloni • November 20, 2023
Apple, Marvel, and the Great Box Office Fallacy
In a perverse side effect of the streaming age, Hollywood seems unwilling to call a flop a flop. Instead, the question of what is “profitable” or “value-additive” has become convoluted—especially if it involves a pure-play streamer or a Scorsese movie.
The Brie Larson-led ‘The Marvels’ vastly underperformed Disney’s hopes at the box office.
Matthew Belloni • November 13, 2023
Marvel Enters Its Age of Reduced Expectations
When did Marvel lose its automatic connection with casual movie fans, and what can Disney do to get audiences excited again about superhero films?
Warner Bros. film chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy
Matthew Belloni • November 13, 2023
Warners Reverses Course in ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Fight
In a surprising about-face, Warner Bros. executives will allow the filmmakers of Coyote vs. Acme, a $70 million live action/CGI hybrid Looney Tunes film, to shop the movie to other potential distributors.
SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland (C) raises his fist while speaking at the conclusion of picketing outside Paramount Studios on day 113 of their strike against the Hollywood studios on November 3, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.
Matthew Belloni & Jonathan Handel • November 10, 2023
Are There Still More Strikes Ahead?
Hollywood is rejoicing after an awful six months, but as 2024 negotiations loom, will C.E.O.s take the high road?
The question for David Zaslav: Is anything off limits?
Matthew Belloni • November 6, 2023
Maybe Don’t Sell Everything to Netflix
Is David Zaslav making a mistake by licensing so much top-shelf content to the industry’s 800 pound gorilla? Or has Netflix simply already won the streaming wars, and everyone else must simply attempt to ensure their own debt-servicing survival?
Matthew Belloni • November 3, 2023
Hollywood’s Post-Strike Hellscape
What should be a time of relief and celebration as the SAG-AFTRA negotiations near their end is more akin to what soldiers experience in countless war movies—the horrors of battle are giving way to the equally grim reality of the new world for which they fought.
Endeavor’s Ari Emanuel and CAA’s Bryan Lourd.
Matthew Belloni • October 27, 2023
The Best-Laid Plans of Ari and Bryan
Amid the labor strikes and diminishing Hollywood economics, Ari Emanuel’s Endeavor may go private and Bryan Lourd’s CAA is dealing with twin scandals—a series of events that have forced the super-agent arch-rivals to press pause on their coronations.
One unreported aspect of Spears’s memoir centers on Lou Taylor, the business manager whose cozy relationship with Britney’s dad came under the microscope during the whole conservatorship fight.
Matthew Belloni • October 23, 2023
Hollywood’s Israel War & A Britney Villain
News and notes from Hollywood: CAA’s Maha Dakhil drama, Britney Spears’ memoir, and Netflix’s subscriber boom.
Alas, the Clooney plan will not end this strike.
Matthew Belloni • October 20, 2023
Clooney Can’t Solve the Actor Strike
A celebrity-led proposal to redistribute income could have generated $150 million over three years—nice, of course, but it’s ultimately a symbolic gesture, and entirely irrelevant to the issues in this negotiation.
British actress Julia Ormond sued the talent agency CAA for allegedly enabling Harvey Weinstein’s predatory abuse.
Matthew Belloni • October 6, 2023
The Harvey Weinstein Story That Hasn’t Been Told
Actress Julia Ormond’s lawsuit against CAA raises troubling issues about the alleged enabling of abuse in the pre-#MeToo era—murkier, both legally and ethically—and the key subjects are Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane, two of the most powerful agents in Hollywood.
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