Matthew Belloni

Everyone in town is fighting to sign the 21-year-old director of breakout hit Backrooms. Can A24 keep him in the fold by offering its richest deal ever, or will Warner Bros. or Universal swoop in for the steal?

Days after Paramount’s lawyers made their first appearance in federal court to defend the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, chief legal officer Makan Delrahim joined The Town to make the studio’s case.

Jul 20, 2026 Matthew Belloni Welcome back to What I’m Hearing. Still waiting on World Cup Final ratings, but sources are telling Puck’s John Ourand that the Fox number could hit 40 million (!). If you missed it, Tom Cruise met Elmo, broadcasters mistook Matt Damon for Brad Pitt, and Donald Trump had to be […]

Months after agreeing to sell his talent and marketing firm amid an Epstein-adjacent email scandal, Casey Wasserman is getting a massive payout as a new Morgan Stanley ranking shows just how powerful live events are becoming in the entertainment landscape.

Matthew Belloni Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, still offline this week and only sporadically following along. The Puck editors are in control tonight, and the whole WIH gang is here—Eriq Gardner on California’s big new antitrust bill, Scott Mendelson on Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and Kim Masters on competing Nightmare on Elm Street reboots—so […]

Dana Walden needs new TV hits, and happily welcomed the star showrunner back after his Netflix run. But while Murphy's generated no shortage of buzz (Love Story, All's Fair, and his latest, The Shards), it translates less often to Nielsen magic.

It's hard to gauge the seriousness of the Paramount chief's threat to leave the state, given that it's one of the few levers he can pull in his battle with A.G. Rob Bonta over the WarnerMount merger. But in a recent meeting with his closest advisors, he offered a detailed plan—and a specific date—to pick up his studio and move elsewhere.

Amid the fallout from the Paramount owner’s California exit threat, a reality check on what’s actually true, what’s pure posturing, and why job losses—and a Warner Bros. sale—are likely inevitable.

Matthew Belloni Welcome back to the Tuesday edition of What I’m Hearing, helmed by our legal expert, Eriq Gardner. Tonight, Eriq uncovers a fascinating battle over whether spoilers, those tidbits of plot twists and character reveals that we all click on, violate the intellectual property rights of the studios that make the shows and movies. […]

The once-radioactive actor's appearance at Comic-Con last month was the opening salvo in Paramount's risky-but-choreographed bet on the post-cancellation resurgence of one of the world's last remaining movie stars. Now the test screening numbers are coming in, and every studio in town is watching.