Matthew Belloni

A frank exchange with Kim Masters, Puck's newest partner, about Iger's $15 million blood sacrifice to Trump, its implications for ABC News, and whether this is the beginning of the end for Stephanopoulos.

Welcome back to What I’m Hearing. If you missed the news on Friday, Kim Masters is joining Puck! Yes, very exciting. I worked with Kim for a decade at The Hollywood Reporter and she’s the best reporter and writer covering the entertainment business, so we’re thrilled she’s our newest author. She’ll contribute to What I’m […]

Hello and welcome back to What I’m Hearing+, the Oscar shortlist of Puck private emails. Today, while I sun myself on a 72 degree December day in L.A., Eriq Gardner is here from chilly D.C. with his own, legally nuanced take on Disney’s settlement of the Trump/ABC News litigation. Plus he’s got a look at […]

Deploying Dwayne Johnson's ‘Red One' to Prime Video after only 27 days has angered the theatrical industry and raised a pertinent question that will define this next hybrid era: Can Amazon leverage movie theaters more than theaters can leverage Amazon?

Among the many ways that the internet has destroyed traditional Hollywood: What used to constitute public relations doesn't really work anymore.

Matthew Belloni Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, coming to you this week from my secret holiday hideaway. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to everyone, even those who haven’t yet filled out the survey on our new redesigned private emails. We want your opinion! Just click here. Today it’s an extra-stuffed WIH […]

Matthew Belloni Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, now fully in holiday mode. Nobody had a better Christmas than Brandon Riegg and Gabe Spitzer, the heads of unscripted programming and sports, respectively, at Netflix, which escaped its first NFL broadcasts without the tech meltdown that plagued last month’s boxing match. Okay, Beyoncé did […]

In a year when thousands were fired or fled the ever-contracting entertainment business, Paramount owner Shari Redstone finally recognized she couldn't compete and shrewdly sold the company to a Silicon Valley heir with the means to save the studio, not consolidate it out of existence.

Matthew Belloni Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, a little early tonight because I’m headed out of the country for the week. Box office guru Scott Mendelson will be here on Thursday, but today I’m ending 2024 with my annual anointment of the Hero of the Year. Drumroll please… No, the Hero […]

Matthew Belloni Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, and Happy New Year to everyone who survived ’til ’25. Is it too early to suggest Hollywood will be “fixed in ’26”? As I mentioned Monday, I’m taking a few days off, and unlike my usual vacations, I’m not holed up in some hotel […]