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Back to SearchEpisode 131: Tom Cruise, 30 Movies, and the Paramount-WBD Bet
Episode 131
Tom Cruise appeared on the Pat McAfee Show Tuesday to discuss his Days of Thunder sequel — and ended up delivering an unsolicited public endorsement …
1 month ago
Episode 130: Range Media's Paramount First-Look Deal
Episode 130
Range Studios, the production arm of Range Media Partners, is in final talks to close a two-year first-look deal with Paramount Pictures focused on c…
1 month ago
Episode 129: Letterboxd's $1 Billion Question
Episode 129
Letterboxd's sale process just got significantly more interesting. Bankers who opened buyer conversations at a $250 million valuation are now floatin…
1 month ago
Episode 128: Banijay Absorbs All3Media, Holland Named UK CEO
Episode 128
The All3Media acquisition has officially closed, and Banijay Entertainment has named Patrick Holland CEO and Executive Chairman of the combined Banij…
1 month ago
Episode 127: UTA's War With Variety
Episode 127
UTA CEO David Kramer fired off a companywide memo attacking Variety reporter Matt Donnelly following a story about high-profile client departures — i…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 126: RedBird's $250M Bet on Puck
Episode 126
RedBird Capital is nearing a deal to acquire Puck — the subscription journalism platform behind Matthew Belloni's Hollywood coverage — at a reported …
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 125: Ruffalo, Paramount, and The Antisemitism Debate
Episode 125
Mark Ruffalo's Instagram criticism of Oracle's ties to the Israeli military — framed around Larry Ellison's role as Paramount's controlling sharehold…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 124: Mike Schur Says the Paramount-WBD Merger Kills Writers
Episode 124
Mike Schur — showrunner of Parks and Recreation, The Good Place, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, currently on an overall deal at Universal Television — has g…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 123: Versant's Post-Bundle Strategy Takes Shape
Episode 123
Less than a year after Comcast spun out its non-Bravo cable assets into the newly public entity Versant, CEO Mark Lazarus is making his first real mo…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 122: The ParaBros Relocation Threat and the AG Who Won't Fold
Episode 122
The Paramount–Warner Bros Discovery merger is in the most dangerous stretch of its long regulatory fight. California AG Rob Bonta is refusing to sett…
1 month, 2 weeks ago