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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.

‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer's’ Epic Weekend Face-Off

32 mins; July 19, 2023

Bob Iger’s Fire Sale: The Fate of ESPN, ABC, and Hulu

32 mins; July 17, 2023

Inside the Actors Strike With Its Top Negotiator

30 mins; July 14, 2023

BREAKING: Actors Go on Strike

32 mins; July 13, 2023

The State of R-Rated Comedies, With Evan Goldberg

31 mins; July 12, 2023

Amazon’s Spending Spree Under Scrutiny

31 mins; July 10, 2023

Town Hall: Bob Iger’s Legacy, Summer Flops, and Streamer Mega-Mergers

32 mins; July 05, 2023

Is David Zaslav Misunderstood?

32 mins; July 03, 2023

What Will Bring Gen Z to Theaters?

32 mins; June 30, 2023

How Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is Becoming the Most Successful in History

32 mins; June 29, 2023

The 2023 Executive Draft

27 mins; June 26, 2023

It’s Time to Break Up Hollywood

37 mins; June 22, 2023

Is the Superhero Era Finally Ending?

31 mins; June 20, 2023

Has Pixar Lost its Magic Touch?

31 mins; June 16, 2023

'The Flash' and Marketing a Movie With a Controversial Star

32 mins; June 14, 2023

Netflix Top 10 Lists and the Era of Streamer Manipulation

32 mins; June 12, 2023

What the Writers Really Fear About AI in Hollywood

32 mins; June 08, 2023

CNN’s Messy Chris Licht Era Is Over, Now What?

32 mins; June 07, 2023

Hollywood’s Stealth Winners and Losers of the First Half of 2023

37 mins; June 05, 2023

Who Is on the Studios' Side in the Writers Strike?

31 mins; June 01, 2023

Cannes Winners, Losers, Scandals, and Big Takeaways

32 mins; May 30, 2023

Disney’s Prickly Theme Parks Problem

31 mins; May 25, 2023

How to Pull Off a Real-Life Mockumentary

31 mins; May 24, 2023

Netflix Crashes TV’s Ad Party

32 mins; May 22, 2023

The NBA Team Blowing Up Sports TV

32 mins; May 19, 2023

Hollywood’s China Problem

32 mins; May 17, 2023

Bob Iger’s Six-Month Report Card at Disney

32 mins; May 15, 2023

The Struggle of the Modern TV Writer With Mike Schur

32 mins; May 11, 2023

The Weird State of Media and Hollywood’s Role in It

32 mins; May 10, 2023

The 5 Biggest Narratives After Week 1 of the Writers Strike

32 mins; May 08, 2023

The 2023 Summer Blockbuster Confidence Scale

39 mins; May 04, 2023

Inside the Writers Strike With a WGA Negotiator

31 mins; May 02, 2023

The Writers' Strike Deadline Is Here. What Will Happen?

32 mins; May 01, 2023

60 Is the New 30: The Revealing Ranking of Biggest Movie Stars

32 mins; April 27, 2023

Ben Winston Refuses to Declare Late-Night TV Dead

32 mins; April 26, 2023

Another Executive Sex Scandal? How NBCU Can Pick Up the Pieces

32 mins; April 24, 2023

One Year After the Crash: Is the New Netflix Working?

32 mins; April 20, 2023

Inside Fox’s $787M Settlement With Dominion and the Future of Fox News

30 mins; April 18, 2023

Is ‘Air’ a Hit? Why That's Harder Than Ever to Answer

32 mins; April 17, 2023

Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama

31 mins; April 14, 2023

How the Fox News Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Will Unfold

31 mins; April 12, 2023

One Year After the Merger: Is Warner Bros. Discovery Actually Working?

32 mins; April 10, 2023

Disney vs. DeSantis: Who Will Win

29 mins; April 06, 2023

From Viral Videos to Hit TV With Dave Burd

32 mins; April 05, 2023

WWE Sells, Netflix Pulls Back, and the Oscars' Bold Bid on Theaters

32 mins; April 03, 2023

Has Hollywood Finally Figured Out Video Games?

34 mins; March 30, 2023

Marvel’s Bad CGI and the Firing of a “Kingmaker”

32 mins; March 29, 2023

Apple’s Billion-Dollar Bet on Movie Theaters

31 mins; March 27, 2023

Lionsgate Film Chief Joe Drake on ‘John Wick’ and the Modern Independent Studio

33 mins; March 24, 2023

BET and the Future of Small Streamers

30 mins; March 23, 2023

Is the Franchise Model Starting to Fatigue in Hollywood?

32 mins; March 20, 2023

Matt’s Year One Prediction Report Card

27 mins; March 16, 2023

Michael B. Jordan and How to Build a Modern Movie Star Career

32 mins; March 15, 2023

The Oscar Bump: Which Young Stars Won Awards Season?

32 mins; March 13, 2023

Academy CEO Bill Kramer on the New and Improved (?) Oscars

34 mins; March 09, 2023

Tips, Trends, and Storylines to Help You Bet on the Oscars

31 mins; March 08, 2023

The End of Peak TV Is Finally Here

31 mins; March 06, 2023

The Ploys and Tactics Behind Oscar Campaigning

32 mins; March 03, 2023

How F--ked Is Fox News?

33 mins; March 02, 2023

The Perfect Storm for a Writers Strike

32 mins; February 28, 2023

Watching Your Favorite Team Is About to Get Harder

32 mins; February 23, 2023

The 2023 Box Office Draft

30 mins; February 21, 2023

The Companies Most Likely to Be Sold or Acquired in 2023

31 mins; February 16, 2023

The Soap Opera Fight Over Paramount and CBS

34 mins; February 14, 2023

Will Bob Iger Sell Hulu or ESPN?

31 mins; February 13, 2023

How to Write a Hit Rom-Com

31 mins; February 09, 2023

True Crime Is Murdering Documentaries

32 mins; February 08, 2023

The Death and “Rebirth” of Showtime

32 mins; February 06, 2023

DC Is Going Big, but Can It Catch Marvel?

31 mins; February 02, 2023

The Future of Live Events and Late Night TV With Grammys EP Ben Winston

32 mins; February 01, 2023

Peacock’s Promising Start to 2023 Might Not Be a Fluke

32 mins; January 30, 2023

How an Indie Film Becomes an Oscar Winner

27 mins; January 26, 2023

Is the Sundance Dream Still Alive?

30 mins; January 25, 2023

How the Shocking Andrea Riseborough Oscar Nomination Happened

32 mins; January 24, 2023

Inside the Netflix Executive Shake-up

32 mins; January 23, 2023

Making Movie Stars Younger With AI

33 mins; January 19, 2023

Should Disney Be Afraid of Nelson Peltz?

35 mins; January 17, 2023

Around the World With Netflix’s Head of TV

32 mins; January 13, 2023

‘M3GAN,' and How to Market a Movie to Young People

32 mins; January 11, 2023

Vince McMahon’s Return and the WWE’s Most Intriguing Suitors

32 mins; January 09, 2023

The New Black List and the Original Screenwriting Recession

32 mins; January 05, 2023

Why Audiences Have Given Up on Awards Movies

28 mins; January 03, 2023

The Townies Part 2: Hollywood’s Best and Worst of 2022

35 mins; December 28, 2022

The Townies: Hollywood’s Best and Worst of 2022

34 mins; December 27, 2022

Why YouTube Landed NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’

32 mins; December 23, 2022

2022 Debacles Part 2: The 2023 Hot Seat and Hollywood’s Biggest Loser

30 mins; December 20, 2022

2022 Debacles Part 1: Movie Bombs, Executive Misfires, and Secret Disasters

30 mins; December 19, 2022

The Stranglehold of Streaming, With United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer

32 mins; December 16, 2022

‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ With Producer Jon Landau

33 mins; December 15, 2022

The Biggest Flexes of the Year in Hollywood

32 mins; December 12, 2022

John Skipper on the Rise of the Sports Documentary and Bob Iger’s Big Plans

35 mins; December 08, 2022

Rob McElhenney on Merging Soccer, Celebrity, and a TV Empire

32 mins; December 07, 2022

Smoke or Fire? The Most Troubled Hollywood Companies

32 mins; December 05, 2022

The Streaming Year-End Review: Biggest Hits, Misses, and Questions

32 mins; December 02, 2022

The Big Business of Christmas Movies

29 mins; November 30, 2022

Disney’s Five Biggest Dilemmas in the New Bob Iger Era

35 mins; November 28, 2022

The Taylor Swift Ticketmaster Debacle, Explained

28 mins; November 23, 2022

A Major Disney Shake-up: Former CEO Bob Iger Is Back

32 mins; November 21, 2022

Oscars Watch Begins: Front-Runners, Story Lines, and the ‘Top Gun’ Debate

32 mins; November 18, 2022

The Secrets of Marvel’s Magic

36 mins; November 16, 2022

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