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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.

Why Documentaries Are Better and Worse Than Ever With Sheila Nevins

32 mins; April 04, 2024

A WWE Business Smackdown With Nick Khan

46 mins; April 03, 2024

The Disney Proxy War: Does Peltz Have a Shot Against Iger?

32 mins; April 01, 2024

Inside TMZ’s Cozy Relationship With Hollywood

32 mins; March 29, 2024

The Battle for Attention: Streaming Vs. Social

32 mins; March 25, 2024

How AI Is Already Transforming Moviemaking

32 mins; March 21, 2024

Lemon, Tucker, and the Cable News Star Turned Influencer

32 mins; March 20, 2024

The Juice List: The Most Powerful People in Hollywood

31 mins; March 18, 2024

‘The Holdovers’ Plagiarism Claim and How to Protect Your Script

31 mins; March 15, 2024

Inside Netflix’s Calculated Sports Strategy

32 mins; March 14, 2024

Oscar Winners and Losers and the Updated Movie Studio Power Rankings

32 mins; March 11, 2024

Insider Tips to Predict the Oscar Winners

32 mins; March 07, 2024

The Money and Power Behind the Oscars’ Red Carpet

35 mins; March 06, 2024

New Film Heads and a New Direction for Netflix and Disney

31 mins; March 04, 2024

The Awards Season Awards: Which Oscars Campaigns Worked (and Didn’t)

36 mins; March 01, 2024

Will AI Video Replace Hollywood?

38 mins; February 28, 2024

Panic Time for Max and Warner Bros. Discovery?

32 mins; February 26, 2024

The Harsh Data Behind ‘Barbie’ and Taylor Swift’s Success

32 mins; February 22, 2024

Peacock-Paramount+ Merger Rumors, Questions, and What-Ifs

32 mins; February 20, 2024

How to Win Best Picture on a Budget, With Neon’s Tom Quinn

31 mins; February 16, 2024

Hopeful or Hopeless? Takeaways From 2024's Bleak Box Office Beginning

32 mins; February 14, 2024

Live From Las Vegas: Oscars Pressure, Late-Night TV, and the Vegas Sports Boom With Jimmy Kimmel

40 mins; February 12, 2024

Did Disney Get Its Magic Back?

32 mins; February 08, 2024

Will the New All-in-One Sports App Finally Kill Cable?

32 mins; February 07, 2024

Five Major Music Business Questions After the Grammy's

32 mins; February 05, 2024

TikTok vs. Universal Music: Why Taylor, Drake and Others Were Yanked

32 mins; February 02, 2024

The Politics of Studios and Movie Stars

32 mins; February 01, 2024

A Wild Week at Netflix: Stuber’s Out, WWE Is In, and Subs Are Up

32 mins; January 29, 2024

A Top Dealmaker’s Media M&A Predictions

34 mins; January 25, 2024

Can Sundance Save Indie Film? With CEO Joana Vicente

37 mins; January 24, 2024

The 2024 Box Office Draft

31 mins; January 22, 2024

The 'SNL' Succession Sweepstakes

36 mins; January 18, 2024

Peacock’s NFL Debut and the Viability of Streaming-Only Sports

32 mins; January 16, 2024

The Billionaire Blueprint to Buy Paramount

31 mins; January 12, 2024

The McAfee Hail Mary and ESPN's Search for Answers

32 mins; January 10, 2024

Four Burning Hollywood Questions to Kick Off 2024

32 mins; January 08, 2024

Are the Golden Globes Unkillable?

32 mins; January 04, 2024

The Young Movie Star Power Rankings

35 mins; January 03, 2024

The Townies, Part 2: Who Won the Year in Hollywood?

38 mins; December 28, 2023

The Townies: Hollywood’s Best and Worst of 2023

44 mins; December 27, 2023

Warner Bros. and Paramount Are Talking. Should They Merge?

32 mins; December 21, 2023

The Biggest Debacles of 2023: Studio Screwups, Executive Misfires, and Underrated Disasters

36 mins; December 18, 2023

The Animation Arms Race With Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri

36 mins; December 14, 2023

Ted Sarandos on Netflix’s New Era of Data Transparency

40 mins; December 12, 2023

Are Streamers Helping or Hurting the Movie Business?

33 mins; December 07, 2023

The Companies Most Likely to Be Bought or Sold in 2024

33 mins; December 06, 2023

The Murky Metrics of Podcast Success

32 mins; December 04, 2023

The Biggest Streaming Power Moves of 2023

32 mins; December 01, 2023

Hollywood’s Star-making Problem, with a Top Casting Director

32 mins; November 30, 2023

Who Will Buy Paramount?

32 mins; November 27, 2023

Does Big Tech Belong in Hollywood?

32 mins; November 22, 2023

Unexpected Winners and Losers of the Hollywood Labor Strikes

32 mins; November 20, 2023

Potential Backfires in the Actors AI Deal

37 mins; November 16, 2023

Rupert’s Retirement and Fox’s Place in Hollywood

32 mins; November 14, 2023

Bob Iger’s Year One: Highs, Lows, and Marvel Woes

32 mins; November 13, 2023

The End of the Actors Strike With Duncan Crabtree-Ireland

37 mins; November 09, 2023

How the Strike Derailed Oscar Season

31 mins; November 08, 2023

Why Batman and Everything Else Is Coming to Netflix

32 mins; November 06, 2023

Should Reality Stars Have a Union? With Bethenny Frankel

39 mins; November 02, 2023

The Reboot Era and TV’s IP Obsession

32 mins; November 01, 2023

How Screwed Is the 2024 Movie Calendar?

32 mins; October 30, 2023

Town Hall: Hasan Minhaj, a SAG Stalemate, and Apple’s Scorsese Bet

32 mins; October 27, 2023

Marvel’s Post-‘Avengers’ Mismanagement

32 mins; October 25, 2023

There Is Netflix, and There Is Everyone Else

32 mins; October 23, 2023

NBA TV Rights and Players Owning Teams With Rich Paul

32 mins; October 19, 2023

How Long Can the Live Concert Boom Last?

31 mins; October 18, 2023

The Hollywood Stock Market: Travis Kelce’s Media Career, Netflix With Ads, Mega Music Docs, and More!

42 mins; October 16, 2023

Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, and the Fights Over Song Credits

32 mins; October 12, 2023

Price Hikes and the Streaming Class System

32 mins; October 10, 2023

Live Sports on Max, and the Inevitable All-In-One App

34 mins; October 05, 2023

Influencers Don’t Need Hollywood Anymore

32 mins; October 04, 2023

The Post-Strike State of TV and Movie Writing

31 mins; October 02, 2023

Lessons From the ‘Must-See TV’ Era, with Warren Littlefield

32 mins; September 29, 2023

What the Writers Guild Won, With a Negotiator

32 mins; September 27, 2023

The Writers Strike Is Over. Can We All Be Friends Again?

33 mins; September 25, 2023

The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Empire

31 mins; September 21, 2023

From Sports to Hollywood With Casey Wasserman

32 mins; September 20, 2023

The Strike’s Permanent Damage: Who Will Suffer the Most?

32 mins; September 18, 2023

Why Can’t Bob Iger Find a Successor?

35 mins; September 14, 2023

A WWE and UFC Tag Team, With Endeavor’s Mark Shapiro

32 mins; September 12, 2023

CAA’s New Billionaire Owner and the (Over)Value of Talent Agencies

32 mins; September 11, 2023

Fall Festival Buzz and the Beginning of Oscar Season With the Head of TIFF

32 mins; September 07, 2023

Disney’s ESPN Fight and Taylor’s Movie Takeover

32 mins; September 05, 2023

The Summer Box Office Awards Show

38 mins; August 31, 2023

The Growing Power of IMAX, With Its CEO

32 mins; August 30, 2023

The Three Biggest Hold-ups in the Writers Strike

32 mins; August 28, 2023

Is Apple’s Sports Experiment Working?

32 mins; August 24, 2023

Justin, Ariana, and the Scooter Braun Mess

32 mins; August 23, 2023

Predicting Hollywood’s September Surprises

32 mins; August 21, 2023

How Much Money Does a Hit Movie Really Make (and a Flop Really Lose)?

39 mins; August 17, 2023

Disney’s ESPN Dilemma: to Sell or Not to Sell?

32 mins; August 14, 2023

The Doomsday AI Scenario In Hollywood

32 mins; August 10, 2023

Everyone Running Hollywood Is Old. Does That Matter?

32 mins; August 09, 2023

Will Anyone Budge on Data Transparency in Hollywood?

32 mins; August 07, 2023

Checking in on Warner Bros. Discovery and the Max Platform

32 mins; August 03, 2023

The Barbie Effect on Female Filmmakers

32 mins; August 02, 2023

Villains, Saviors, and Developments Three Months Into Hollywood’s Shutdown

32 mins; July 31, 2023

Selling ‘Barbie’: Inside the Marketing Phenomenon

32 mins; July 26, 2023

How 'Sound of Freedom' Outperformed 'Mission: Impossible'

31 mins; July 24, 2023

Has Netflix Officially Won the Streaming War?

32 mins; July 20, 2023

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