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Ted Sarandos
Matthew Belloni January 19, 2026
Regal’s Eduardo Acuna goes public with his pitch for Netflix to sign a 10-year binding pledge with the Trump D.O.J. (and other ideas), ensuring Sarandos won’t go back on his recent promise to give Warner Bros. movies a 45-day window. Offering Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ a wide release would help, too.
Ted Sarandos
Matthew Belloni January 16, 2026
The streamer's new global agreement with the studio, valued at up to $8 billion, puts a public value on its slate. Now apply that math to its potential Warners takeover.
Kathleen Kennedy
Matthew Belloni January 16, 2026
As president of Lucasfilm, the producer oversaw five Star Wars films, a wave of TV shows…. and a galaxy’s worth of abandoned projects and jilted filmmakers. With her exit finally official, is the franchise better off now than it was 14 years ago?
Dana Walden
Matthew Belloni January 9, 2026
StrikeWatch ’26, a bizarre Michael Jackson record, and the future of Disney’s Dana Walden (if she’s C.E.O. or not) in the second act of the town’s favorite prognostication of the year ahead.


Sydney Sweeney
Matthew Belloni January 6, 2026
The town’s favorite year-ahead forecast returns, with input from some of my best sources—plus a few celebrity Puck friends. The future of ‘Star Wars,’ Instagram Reels, ‘Rush Hour 4,’ and Sydney Sweeney foretold in the first of two parts…
Pam Abdy, Mike De Luca
Matthew Belloni December 30, 2025
In 2025, Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy went from dead executives walking to a six-month stretch of blockbusters and Oscar contenders that silenced the town and offered a middle finger to their boss, David Zaslav. In an era when I.P. has taken over Hollywood, and their studio has been sold to Netflix (or Paramount?), they decided to go out swinging…
sam altman
Matthew Belloni December 23, 2025
A year before the OpenAI C.E.O. gets the ‘Social Network’ movie treatment, the slop-ification of entertainment took a major leap in 2025 thanks to a copyright infringement hub called Sora 2 and Altman’s brazen courtship of Disney.
Oscars
Matthew Belloni December 19, 2025
The streamer’s bold bid to host the Academy Awards offers maximum reach for a show that was becoming minimally niche, but mixing prestige and base populism has its potentially problematic downsides.


david zaslav
Matthew Belloni & William D. Cohan December 16, 2025
Battle lines have been drawn over David Zaslav’s Warner Bros. Discovery, and both Netflix and Paramount think they have the winning formula. Will the Ellisons get to $34 a share? Can Netflix counter? Is Larry really “backstopping” all the equity? Or is the game already rigged?
wicked cynthia erivo
Matthew Belloni December 12, 2025
Every year, awards contenders and pretenders have been mounting unbridled and financially unchecked press campaigns in the hopes of boosting their chances. A new data analysis reveals that they maybe shouldn’t have bothered.
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