Hollywood’s Stealth Winners and Losers of the First Half of 2023

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to parse through the first half of an eventful 2023 and highlight the under-discussed winners and losers across the industry so far. Matt finishes the show by giving a prediction about the future of CNN CEO Chris Licht. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! [email protected]. 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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1:07.6	We're coming up on the halfway point to 2023.
1:09.8	It's been a pretty weird one so far.
1:13.1	If 2022 was the year Hollywood went crazy,
1:18.2	with the great Netflix correction, the upheaval at Disney, the Will Smith slap, this year so far has been in some ways about attempts at recovery. Everyone's canceling shows, green lighting less,
1:23.7	cutting costs, even taking content off streaming services to save money. You may have noticed that.
1:28.8	Disney laid off 7,000 people, and all the studio conglomerates are shrinking. That was before
1:34.2	the writers went on strike last month, with no end in sight, although the Directors Guild made a deal
1:38.9	this past weekend to avert a strike. After a period of decline, the stock prices of most of the
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