What I’m Hearing: Bloys’ Deal, Netflix Nailbiting, An Agency Shit Storm

Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, today I’ve got a few shorter news and notes items for your summer Sunday.

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Discussed in this issue: Casey Bloys, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Stuber, Spencer Baumgarten, Spencer Neumann, Peter Rice, Beanie Feldstein, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Barbra Streisand’s mud mask.

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Zaz Rewards HBO Chief with 5-Year Pact

Sure, Zaslav and Gunnar have been fleecing WBD looking for redundancies, but re-signing Casey Bloys was a goal of the new C.E.O.’s first 100 days.

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If you haven’t sent Casey Bloys a quick email congratulating him on 140 Emmy nominations, now you’ve got another reason. The HBO/HBO Max chief content officer just closed a big new deal to stay at the company. It’s a five-year contract, I’m told, and it comes with a sigh of relief from Warner Bros. Discovery C.E.O. David Zaslav, who made re-signing Bloys the top personnel priority of his first 100 days. An HBO rep confirmed the deal to me but declined to comment further.

I never thought Bloys was going anywhere, but it’s weird that in his Emmy victory lap interviews this week, nobody asked him about his own status. Inside HBO, people knew Bloys’s deal was coming up...

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