The Most Important Movie for Each Studio in 2025

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to look at the upcoming theatrical slate for each of the major movie studios and determine which movie matters the most for the strategy of each company (02:17). Matt finishes the show with a prediction on where the newly available Jason Bourne franchise will land next (25:40). 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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0:00.0	If you care about Hollywood, and I assume you do if you're listening to the town, you should really be getting the whole story about Hollywood.
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1:06.2	It is Monday, March 24th.
1:09.1	We're almost at the end of the month and the end of the first quarter of
1:12.2	2025, which was supposed to be the big return of the box office after COVID and the Hollywood
1:17.6	strikes. Not so much, at least so far, the domestic grosses for the year are actually down
1:23.1	about 6% compared to last year at this point, and down 40% compared to the peak pre-COVID year of 2019.
1:31.0	Snow White tanked this weekend for Disney, and the past four weekends have come in lower than
1:35.5	their matching weekends in 2024, despite more titles in theaters this year. Not great.
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