The Best and Worst Deals of the Past 10 Years in Entertainment

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to look back and make a case for the best and worst deals in entertainment over the past decade. They also look at the worst deal that almost was and the biggest deal that should have happened. Email us your questions, thoughts, or ideas at [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.1	It is Monday, October 17th.
0:35.0	Since it's beginning 100 years ago, Hollywood has been a deal town.
0:38.3	M&A, investments, IPOs, the behind-the-scenes deals that fuel the industry.
0:43.3	There are a constant source of speculation and gossip around town.
0:47.3	Who's got the best studio deal? Which agency may or may not be buying?
0:51.3	Which other agency? That kind of stuff.
0:53.3	When big deals happen, only in
0:55.3	retrospect can we evaluate whether they were good or bad. George Lucas retaining the rights to
0:59.7	Star Wars. Pretty good deal for George. Stephen Spielberg's deal at Universal gave him a small
1:05.0	piece of every ticket sold at Universal Studios. That's translated to hundreds of millions of dollars over the years,
1:11.8	according to my sources. When Jim Carrey was paid $20 million for the cable guy,
1:16.2	it set a new standard for movie stars. But then the movie wildly disappointed at the box
1:20.4	office. So who was that a good deal for? Jim Carrey, not for the studio.
1:25.0	Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for Myspace in 2005. Then he sold it for
1:31.5	$35 million in 2011. Not great for Rupert. More recently, Disney paid $4 billion for Marvel.
1:38.6	Paid for itself very, very quickly and a pretty good deal for both sides, if you ask me.
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