Four Burning Hollywood Questions to Kick Off 2024

The Town with Matthew Belloni

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss the most pressing questions as we begin a new year in Hollywood, including the drama around Disney’s proxy battle, Bob Iger’s continued search for a successor, the looming NBA rights deal and the fate of local sports, and Oppenheimer’s dominance at the Golden Globes and what the rest of awards season will hold. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! thetown@spotify.com Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Asa Kwonger and I'm Ryan Hunt and we co-host Stadio, a football podcast on the Ring of Podcast Network.
0:06.7	If you like soccer or football, make sure you search for Stadio, a football podcast on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:15.9	It is Monday, January 8th.
0:18.5	It's a new year. It's going to be an eventful one for the entertainment
0:21.2	business, I think. Last year was sort of a lost year with the strikes. Everyone I talked to
0:26.1	once a reboot in 2024, fresh start. It's going to be kind of tough, but a bunch of the dramas
0:32.1	that we've been following on this show are about to come to a head for the big companies.
0:36.2	In April, the tax rules expire and Warner
0:38.4	Brothers Discovery will be able to sell itself or merge with another media company. Disney has to
0:43.2	figure out how to reverse its recent creative problems at Marvel and elsewhere, bend off a bunch
0:48.0	of activist investors. Paramount is clearly in trouble, and Comcast has to decide whether it's a buyer
0:54.1	or a seller of its entertainment assets.
0:56.7	That's not even mentioning the tech companies that now dominate Hollywood.
1:00.2	So for today, our first show of the year with Lucas Shaw from Bloomberg,
1:03.2	we're going to ask each other a couple burning questions.
1:05.7	See what we think is going to happen on topics like Disney, NBA rights, an award season, and more.
1:11.3	From the ringer and puck, I'm Matt Bellany, and this is the town.
1:19.0	All right, we are here with Lucas Shaw from Bloomberg.
1:22.6	Welcome back, Lucas.
1:24.0	Good to see you.
1:24.8	We were together last night at a party that I guess we're not allowed to talk about.
1:29.1	So maybe I should. No, we're allowed to talk about it. Yeah, closed notebook means that you cannot, like, harass people for quotes.
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