Matthew Belloni
@MattBelloni
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Founding partner @pucknews, host @ringer The Town, @kcrw; Ex-editor @THR, entertainment lawyer. Get my email: https://t.co/dz6BFxPrRp
Los Angeles, CA
Joined January 2008
RT @kimmasters: This week: Larry Charles, the writer-director known for bold, influential material, from Seinfeld to Borat to Curb Your Ent….
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New @PuckNews: Celebrate America with this no-BS (and no hyperbole) conversation about how AI is about to upend Hollywood. With @IKrietzberg and @eriqgardner. ⬇️⬇️
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RT @brianstelter: Highlight of my day today: Visiting "The Town" with @MattBelloni. Here's our CBS/Paramount/future of media talk 👂🏼 https:….
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"Incredibly niche." —rBillSimmonsPod.
We give some love to @MattBelloni’s The Town podcast. “I like the business side of Hollywood, hearing about the streamers. And Matt’s pretty funny”. “The Town is one of Bill’s best moves as Ringer GM. I love when he has on media execs and challenges them, doesn’t put up with bs”
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New pod: Outrage all around at the Paramount's $16M Trump settlement, but when faced with the 2 specific choices Shari Redstone and her Paramount board faced, what would you do? With @brianstelter. Listen!
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RT @FreddyInSpace: "We all thought M3GAN was like Superman." This is an excellent, surprisingly honest post mortem interview with Jason Blu….
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New @kimmasters: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and their Artists Equity company are figuring out what happens now that streaming services will no longer dramatically overpay for their movies.
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New pod: Producers NEVER want to talk publicly when their movies flop. But when M3GAN 2.0 failed last weekend, Jason Blum of @blumhouse gave me a call. Listen!
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BTW we taped before F1 domestic number was revised up from $55M to $57M. .
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New pod: F1's opening weekend and the difference between a "win" and a "hit." With @Lucas_Shaw. Listen!
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Threw a bunch of news into latest @PuckNews What I’m Hearing: Denis’ Bond deal details, Michael Bay returns to Transformers, a Peacock movie purge, and everyone who voted for their own movies in The NY Times Top 10 lists. Details ⬇️⬇️
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For the first time in more than 20 years, HBO is changing how it pays stars and creators. The question is why? Full details and my theory ⬇️⬇️
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New pod: Netflix desperately wants to beat YouTube, so why not just throw money at YouTube’s biggest stars? With @WellsFargo analyst Steven Cahall. Listen!
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"Sources stress that the new film isn’t a January 6 movie" except Sorkin told me explicitly that it is.
EXCLU: After teasing a potential follow-up for years, Aaron Sorkin looks ready to make his return to the word of Facebook as he is set to write and direct THE SOCIAL NETWORK PART II, which will be inspired by the WSJ series THE FACEBOOK FILES
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Should Netflix just pillage the best YouTube talent like they bought up the top TV creators? The argument ⬇️⬇️
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New pod: The most important Hollywood news stories of ‘25 that AREN’T getting enough attention. With @Lucas_Shaw. Listen!
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RT @kimmasters: .@glaad’s Sarah Kate Ellis talks about who’s winning and who’s sinning when it comes to LGBTQ representation in movies. (….
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It’s mailbag time: Reader questions, the Bond director list, Batman’s timeline, I.P. troves, the Saw and Village Roadshow deals, and more!
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