Matthew Belloni

Founding partner @pucknews, host @ringer The Town, @kcrw; Ex-editor @THR, entertainment lawyer. Get my email:

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'You've Got Mail': Jason Orley Directing New Take On Rom-Com For Warner Bros. https://t.co/zwIg8lw3v5

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New pod: Election 🌊 impact on Skydance, Kimmel, LA film/TV production, and more. Plus: DC’s FOURTH reset in a decade, what could go wrong? With @Lucas_Shaw. Listen! Watch! https://t.co/REkbh6PrSr

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Casting Director Wittney Horton talks about helping then 20-year-old director Kane Parsons cast Chiwetel Ejiofor in Backrooms with a practice zoom. And whether an actor’s social media following should inform casting.
And @mattbelloni and I banter 🌊🌊

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A new $22B billboard going up on the Fox lot in LA (Nakatomi Plaza in background) …

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Here's a fun betting game: Which media leaders that sucked up to Trump will now be hauled in front of the new Congress? https://t.co/TxEgxaZRlG

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New pod: The return of @jason_blum! How horror audiences are changing, sale/investment plans for Blumhouse Atomic, and what happens in Hollywood when you admit you failed. Plus a lightning round! Listen! Watch! https://t.co/fYRkflkyn3

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New pod: The Netflix identity mini-crisis and calling BS (kinda) on the whole YouTube vs Hollywood discourse. With @loudmouthjulia. Listen! Watch! https://t.co/7hzLo1MCHo

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New pod: Lots of movement lately among Hollywood gatekeepers. So….who’s got The Juice? The top 5 RANKED, with @Lucas_Shaw. Listen! Watch! https://t.co/fYjhkBFvqN

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This week, @alexgibneyfilm on having his Musk ads blocked, his reaction to Elon’s investment in Skydance and more.
Plus @mattbelloni and I banter!

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The Regal and Cinemark chains are refusing to play Netflix's CLIFF BOOTH on their Imax screens, citing the short theatrical window. Details ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/2ENoIe8yVl

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New pod: The winding path from sitcom actor to hottest horror filmmaker in Hollywood. With Zach Cregger! Recorded LIVE at Loyola Marymount film school. Listen! Watch! https://t.co/E6PkyANGz5

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News: Disney is backburnering a planned second theme park in Shanghai. It was never formally announced but was an open secret at Imagineering. Details ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/2ENoIe8yVl

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New pod: THE NETFLIX CRISIS ISN'T WHAT IT SEEMS

I talked about the entertainment story of the moment with @MattBelloni

Take 1: Netflix is having a bad, bad year. The stock is down nearly 50 percent. The company has laid off more than a 1,000 people this year, including its chief content officer and its head of film.

Take 2: Wait. Actually, Netflix is objectively having its best year ever. It has decidedly won the streaming wars, it has a lower churn rate and higher LTV than any streaming competitor, global subscribers are growing, and its operating margin is higher than ever.

Take 3: Netflix won the last war. That is, it perfected a 20th century business model of making traditional video entertainment (docs, reality shows, TV series, film) and serving millions of at-home customers. But the final boss of video entertainment is not 20th-century TV but 21st-century TV—YouTube, TikTok, and infinite video scrolls, which are not only commanding more and more of our daily attention but also do so with significantly lower upfront production or licensing costs. As attention fractures, it becomes harder to create monocultural moments—what once went by the name "hits."

I, personally, think Netflix makes too much slop. But one household's slop is another household's 8pm downtime. The problem isn't quite that Netflix forgot how to make hits but rather than it's a hit-making enterprise in a world where monocultural moments are getting structurally harder to make with every passing decade.

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Today on The Powers That Be:

@MattBelloni on how A24 made You Can See Everything a phenomenon + which films are getting early Oscar buzz in Hollywood

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New pod: TV writing advice (and what to do when Scientology calls your land line) from a guy with more than 1,500 executive producer credits. With Chuck Lorre. Listen! Watch! https://t.co/ZICpPzkntR

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New pod: What could Elon possibly want with Skydance?? With @Lucas_Shaw. Listen! Watch! https://t.co/nbxhF57Nir

[Kim Masters @kimmasters]

This week: Tasty unaired leftovers from our earlier conversations. First up: Eric Goode—restaurateur, hotelier and producer of Tiger King and Monsters of God. And more dish from marketing exec Gerry Rich.
Plus, @mattbelloni and I banter Netflix!

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Kathleen Kennedy sent the directors she fired off SOLO an amusing note when PROJECT HAIL MARY came out. 🎧🎧 https://t.co/ZtsRM5tgWA

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Reports of a “new era” of programming at Netflix under Peter Rice may be overblown. Details on why ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/LGmnXJway2