The Town with Matthew Belloni
Puck founding partner Matthew Belloni takes you inside Hollywood, using exclusive reporting and insight to explain the backstories on everything from Marvel movies to streaming wars. Multiple times each week, Matt is joined by major executives, dealmakers, and journalists, to discuss what is getting made and why, who is winning and losing, and what people in show business are actually talking about.
Episodes (670)
The Three Biggest Hold-ups in the Writers Strike
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Is Apple’s Sports Experiment Working?
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Justin, Ariana, and the Scooter Braun Mess
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Predicting Hollywood’s September Surprises
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How Much Money Does a Hit Movie Really Make (and a Flop Really Lose)?
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Disney’s ESPN Dilemma: to Sell or Not to Sell?
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The Doomsday AI Scenario In Hollywood
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Everyone Running Hollywood Is Old. Does That Matter?
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Will Anyone Budge on Data Transparency in Hollywood?
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Checking in on Warner Bros. Discovery and the Max Platform
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The Barbie Effect on Female Filmmakers
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Villains, Saviors, and Developments Three Months Into Hollywood’s Shutdown
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Selling ‘Barbie’: Inside the Marketing Phenomenon
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How 'Sound of Freedom' Outperformed 'Mission: Impossible'
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Has Netflix Officially Won the Streaming War?
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‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer's’ Epic Weekend Face-Off
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Bob Iger’s Fire Sale: The Fate of ESPN, ABC, and Hulu
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Inside the Actors Strike With Its Top Negotiator
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BREAKING: Actors Go on Strike
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The State of R-Rated Comedies, With Evan Goldberg
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Amazon’s Spending Spree Under Scrutiny
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Town Hall: Bob Iger’s Legacy, Summer Flops, and Streamer Mega-Mergers
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Is David Zaslav Misunderstood?
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What Will Bring Gen Z to Theaters?
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How Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is Becoming the Most Successful in History
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The 2023 Executive Draft
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It’s Time to Break Up Hollywood
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Is the Superhero Era Finally Ending?
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Has Pixar Lost its Magic Touch?
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'The Flash' and Marketing a Movie With a Controversial Star
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Netflix Top 10 Lists and the Era of Streamer Manipulation
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What the Writers Really Fear About AI in Hollywood
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CNN’s Messy Chris Licht Era Is Over, Now What?
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Hollywood’s Stealth Winners and Losers of the First Half of 2023
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Who Is on the Studios' Side in the Writers Strike?
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Cannes Winners, Losers, Scandals, and Big Takeaways
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Disney’s Prickly Theme Parks Problem
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How to Pull Off a Real-Life Mockumentary
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Netflix Crashes TV’s Ad Party
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The NBA Team Blowing Up Sports TV
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Hollywood’s China Problem
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Bob Iger’s Six-Month Report Card at Disney
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The Struggle of the Modern TV Writer With Mike Schur
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The Weird State of Media and Hollywood’s Role in It
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The 5 Biggest Narratives After Week 1 of the Writers Strike
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The 2023 Summer Blockbuster Confidence Scale
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Inside the Writers Strike With a WGA Negotiator
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The Writers' Strike Deadline Is Here. What Will Happen?
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60 Is the New 30: The Revealing Ranking of Biggest Movie Stars
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Ben Winston Refuses to Declare Late-Night TV Dead
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