The ‘Sinners’ Deal, the Manosphere, and the Biggest Overreactions of the First Half of 2025

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to look back on the first half of 2025 and highlight the stories they believe were most overcovered (01:47). Matt finishes the show with a prediction about the future of the Hulu brand (26:27). 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 BelloniGuest: Lucas Shaw Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie LopezTheme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.9	AI. It is Monday, June 16th. Hard to believe we're at the halfway point of 2025.
1:12.7	Another pretty crazy period in Hollywood.
1:14.8	The sale of one studio, Paramount, has been held up by the president, and the leadership
1:19.1	of another Warner Brothers' discovery.
1:20.7	They admitted its entire strategy has failed, and they're going to break up the company.
1:25.7	Amazon fired his content chief, Jen
1:27.5	Salkey, and pretty much everyone laid off staff. Hovering over at all were the devastating
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