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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.

THE LATEST ARTICLES
NEWSLETTERS
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.
Less than a week after the WGA strike ended, hundreds of reinstated writers have been notified that their deals will not be extended.
Matthew Belloni • October 2, 2023
And Now the TV Purge Begins…
One of the post-strike realities: fewer shows, fewer writers on overall deals, and perhaps an amusing roundabout: after a generation of Peak TV, writers are starting to focus on movies.
The studios made it clear that if there wasn’t a deal this weekend—and preferably before the Yom Kippur sundown—they were planning to move on to SAG-AFTRA.
Matthew Belloni & Jonathan Handel • September 25, 2023
Hollywood’s Post-Writers Strike Reality
Both sides claim victory as the 146-day impasse ends, the actors wait in the wings, and the next weeks and months come into focus. A sigh of relief in Hollywood, yet there are reasons to believe this aftermath will look very different.
Lachlan, James, Anna and Rupert Murdoch in New York City, 1987.
Matthew Belloni • September 22, 2023
Murdoch’s Audience of Two
Was Rupert’s ‘retirement’ notice intended to signify his ride off into the sunset or denote his full-blown support of Lachlan—or, more likely, was it meant for an audience of his daughters, Liz and Prue, whose votes may control the family trust?
Drew Barrymore
Matthew Belloni • September 18, 2023
Social Media Has Already Won the Strike
The Drew Barrymore saga perfectly encapsulates an underappreciated aspect of this labor impasse. Online discourse hasn’t necessarily dictated what the studios will agree to, but it’s unquestionably offered the WGA leadership more leverage.
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