Donna Langley
Matthew Belloni November 22, 2024
Donna Langley’s NBCUniversal anointment gives her full greenlight authority for movies, NBC, Bravo, and Peacock. It also ends a power struggle with fellow executive Mark Lazarus, now riding an ice floe of cable networks into uncertain seas.
our father Keith Boyle as Donald Cline
Eriq Gardner November 19, 2024
Here’s an unscripted plot twist: Netflix has become a villain in its own documentary film, about a fertility specialist who secretly inseminated his patients, after disclosing the names of the doctor’s children without their consent. A lawsuit, now headed to a jury trial, raises the provocative question: Did they have a constitutional right to remain private?
’Red One‘ is also another example of the industry overestimating The Rock’s bankability.
Scott Mendelson November 19, 2024
The Rock’s kidnapped Santa caper sure looks like a $253 million Christmas catastrophe for Amazon MGM Studios. It also represents the peril of a certain kind of genre and a limit to its star’s bankability.
bob iger
Matthew Belloni November 14, 2024
Disney’s C.E.O. has come roaring back from billions lost on streaming to project major profits and 10 percent margins as the onetime “terrible” business shows signs of life for everyone. If only TV wasn’t losing money faster.


Julianna Margulies and George Clooney in "ER"
Eriq Gardner November 12, 2024
Warner Bros. TV has fired back at Sherri Crichton’s lawsuit over Max’s new medical drama, ‘The Pitt,’ which she claims is little more than an ‘ER’ knockoff. Max claims that Sherri is trying to monopolize the medical genre. But it’s not that simple.
wicked movie
Scott Mendelson November 12, 2024
For the first time since ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ opened days before ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet,’ in 2018, this year’s mid-November box office slate will mimic the pattern from the prior two decades. Everyone should win.
David Zaslav
Matthew Belloni November 8, 2024
Unlike in Trump’s first term, when entertainment became ground zero for the #Resistance, it feels like the industry—at least the business side of it—is gonna try to make nice to avoid issues with M&A and regulation, which is both sad and a reality of doing business when the president has become so openly vindictive, transactional, and unchecked.
Matthew Belloni November 5, 2024
News and thoughts from my notebook on Bob Iger's campaign no-show, Amazon's post-election nail-biter, and initial takeaways from a key SEC filing in David Ellison's takeover of the Redstone empire.


venom: the last dance movie
Scott Mendelson November 5, 2024
As it turns out, avoiding monstrous budgets and not always swinging for the fences can be a solid way to make money on a mid-sized global hit like ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ or ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’—with or without China’s occasionally significant (but far less reliable) returns.
nobody wants this
Matthew Belloni October 31, 2024
In which readers ask me about the showrunner chaos at ‘Nobody Wants This,’ when Netflix will start hosting presidential debates, how much Timothée Chalamet is getting paid for his Dylan biopic, why anyone should still care about Venu, and much more.
Monsters menendez brothers netflix
Eriq Gardner October 29, 2024
Thanks to Ryan Murphy and a Netflix docuseries, everyone is reconsidering the fate of the infamous brothers—including L.A. District Attorney George Gascón, who is in danger of being deposed in next Tuesday’s election.
John Landgraf
Matthew Belloni October 29, 2024
The FX C.E.O. and reigning Emmys champ sounds off on Silicon Valley’s influence over Hollywood, the perils of the algorithm, and what would’ve happened if Disney hadn’t acquired his network: “It would be dead.”


Chris Hemsworth
Scott Mendelson October 29, 2024
Why is Disney considering the Thor actor for ‘Prince Charming’ despite prodigious evidence that he has failed to lure audiences to theaters outside of his Marvel movies?
kamala harris
Matthew Belloni October 24, 2024
A pre-election check-in on the Hollywood donors and activists, from a studio chairman to an emerging screenwriter and a late-night TV host, who are simultaneously freaking out and (cautiously) optimistic about the final push for the Harris-Walz campaign.
david ellison
Eriq Gardner October 22, 2024
Unexpected legal developments, each with a uniquely political twist, have emerged in David Ellison’s deal to take over CBS, as part of his $8.4 billion Paramount acquisition, and Fox, Disney, and WBD’s struggle to launch their sports streamer, Venu.