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The Town with Matthew Belloni

Town Hall: Writers vs. Hollywood, an 'E.T.' Legacy Sequel, and Apple’s Animation Bet

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3847 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the second Town Hall! Matt and Craig field listener questions covering topics such as the likelihood of Steven Spielberg greenlighting legacy sequels, the future of the WWE after Vince McMahon, a potential WGA strike and the value of writers in Hollywood, how AMC A-List makes money, Apple TV+’s future, Ezra Miller and ‘The Flash’, Apple’s first animated film ‘Luck’, and more!   Host: Matt Belloni   Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The NFL preseason is here, so check out the ringer fantasy football show on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:06.0

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0:10.3

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0:11.5

So come listen to Danny Kelly, Danny Highfits, and me, Craig Horlebeck on the Ringer Fantasy Football Show.

0:26.5

All right, we are here for our second town hall episode of The Town.

0:28.4

I've got producer Craig.

0:33.5

We've got questions that people have tweeted at me or sent to me.

0:34.8

Craig, you ready for this?

0:35.8

Yeah, let's do it.

0:36.5

All right.

0:39.9

This is a version of a mailbag that I have done for my newsletter. I do a newsletter twice a week for Puck, and it gets into some of the

0:45.7

industry questions that people have for me. This one will be a little bit more populace,

0:51.6

a little more consumer-oriented. We'll get into some status of different movies and

0:56.2

different questions people have. We'll do more in-depth questions up front and then a lightning

1:00.5

round where Craig will just spew them at me and I'll try to answer as fast as I can. All right,

1:04.6

let's do it. All right. First question here is a good one. They say, without question,

1:09.0

a legacy ET sequel could flirt with Top Gun Maverick box office

1:13.3

numbers. Who holds the keys here? Spielberg, Amblin, Universal, what's it going to take?

1:18.2

That is a good question. So it's interesting because the original ET, which came out in 1982,

1:24.7

was a universal film. But so Universal technically has rights and can do with the property

1:31.5

what it wants. But obviously the 900 pound gorilla in the room here is Steven Spielberg. This is

1:38.6

his signature movie. He made the ET icon, the logo of his company, Amblin, and he has so far not wanted to do any

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