Mike De Luca Pam Abdy
Scott Mendelson August 27, 2024
From August 2022, when Amazon officially acquired MGM, through to this past weekend’s flop Blink Twice, the studio released copious features greenlit by predecessors Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy. So, how’d they do? Not great… but not awful considering the grim new normal.
sex lives of college girls
Lesley Goldberg August 27, 2024
The third and final (for now) installment of our semi-conclusive and detail-rich list of the most costly showrunner deals, nine-figure pacts that led to zero new shows, and biggest underperformers of Hollywood’s hyper-inflated Peak TV era. Plus, the ones that really worked, too.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Lesley Goldberg August 22, 2024
The latest installment of our semi-conclusive and detail-rich list of the most costly showrunner deals, nine-figure pacts that led to zero new shows, and biggest underperformers of Hollywood’s hyper-inflated Peak TV era.
bryan lourd
Eriq Gardner August 21, 2024
Bryan Lourd’s CAA is lobbing serious allegations at its former employees, accusing them of contract breaches, loyalty breaches, and tortious interference by coaxing clients and at-will employees to jump ship.


franchise summer movies
Scott Mendelson August 20, 2024
Overseas matters more than online controversies, younger moviegoers already want to relive their youth, audiences are hungry for old-school movie stars, and other revelations from this year’s better-than-expected blockbuster season.
j.j. abrams
Lesley Goldberg August 19, 2024
A conclusive and detail-rich list of the most costly showrunner deals, the nine-figure pacts that led to zero new shows, and the biggest underperformers of Hollywood’s hyper-inflated Peak TV era.
hbo pannel discussion
The Editors August 19, 2024
A lively conversation with the talented filmmakers and actors behind the fourth season of the hit HBO and Max show.
shari redstone
Matthew Belloni August 16, 2024
Edgar Bronfman Jr. may be publicly kicking the tires, but the special committee of the board has so far delivered what Shari Redstone wants. There’s little reason to think the committee won’t deliver again.


billie eilish
Matthew Belloni August 16, 2024
The tabloid drama preceding Billie and Finneas ditching the Wasserman talent agency for WME has exacerbated an only-in-Hollywood frenemy feud between two of the industry’s biggest egos, with potentially major business repercussions.
it ends with us blake lively
Scott Mendelson August 12, 2024
After years of ignoring female-focused melodramas, romantic comedies, cat-and-mouse thrillers, etcetera—a string of hits like It Ends With Us may finally convince Hollywood to revisit some of its tried-and-true genres.
david zaslav tom cruise
Matthew Belloni August 9, 2024
The entire media sector is entering a new, more sinister stage of the linear TV meltdown, with massive write-offs at Warner Discovery and Paramount… and yet, the situation confronting WBD C.E.O. David Zaslav is perhaps the most concerning.
trap movie m night shyalaman
Scott Mendelson August 5, 2024
Has the box office finally bottomed out? Despite a rough first quarter, ’24 is shaping up to be an inflection year, with an encouraging fourth quarter upon us.


Jimmy Kimmel 96th Annual Oscars
Matthew Belloni July 29, 2024
Alas, after four hosting gigs, Jimmy Kimmel has informed the Academy that he won’t return for the 2025 show. And Mulaney passed, too.
david zaslav
Matthew Belloni July 29, 2024
A Studio J-style expert roundtable on how Warner Discovery’s David Zaslav bungled the negotiation, why he sued, what it really means for WBD’s debt and revenue, and what the company might be able to win in a subsequent negotiation or eventual arbitration.
david zaslav
Matthew Belloni July 26, 2024
Zaz is going all-out for the Olympics, which WBD is carrying overseas. But as with the infamous Cannes party, he seems to be tone-deaf to the optics of such largesse during a time of painful cuts at his company.