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Scott Mendelson • August 20, 2024

7 Lessons From Hollywood’s Good-Not-Great Summer

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.
Scott Mendelson • January 14, 2024
Hollywood’s Dude Slump
Paramount's 'Mean Girls'
Following the so-called #Barbenheimer phenomenon, the only big-deal domestic hits in the last five months of 2023 were female-driven or female-skewing films. Too bad Hollywood is still betting on male-dominated superhero I.P.
Matthew Belloni • December 28, 2023
Is a Bob Iger Successor Hiding in Plain Sight?
Ynon Kreiz, Chairman and CEO, Mattel Inc., speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference on October 19, 2021 in Beverly Hills, California.
Ynon Kreiz, the veteran executive who restructured Mattel and bet its future on the Barbie movie (and the tenuous I.P. business), has the experience and momentum to be a potential replacement for Bob Iger, despite a checkered past with Disney. At the very least, Kreiz is the Hollywood Hero of the Year.
Margot Robbie in 'Barbie'
Scott Mendelson • December 18, 2023
The 10 Commandments of Movies in 2024
As the industry takes stock of a year that will fall short of $9 billion at the domestic box office, here are 10 rules that can help executives decide what movies to make.
Matthew Belloni • August 11, 2023
Strike Pressure, Iger’s Desperation, & the ‘Barbie’ Effect
News and notes on the biggest Hollywood stories of the week: Disney earnings, ‘Oppenheimer’ in China, a Globes deadline, and more.
Barbenheimer awakened normal people to the continued existence of a theatrical window.
Matthew Belloni • July 24, 2023
Barbenheimer, Revisited
The lesson learned from Hollywood’s biggest weekend of the Covid era is that there’s really no lesson to be learned.