Matthew Belloni
Founding Partner and Writer at Puck
Founding partner @pucknews, host @ringer The Town, @kcrw; Ex-editor @THR, entertainment lawyer. Get my email: https://t.co/dz6BFxPrRp
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2 days ago |
puck.news | Matthew Belloni
It’s been a bit since I checked in with my Disney text chain, a small group of Burbank employees who added me to their chat—Trump administration-style, except on purpose—way back when all the drama surrounding former C.E.O. Bob Chapek was going down. That was arguably the heyday for disgruntled white-collar Disney workers, and since Bob Iger re-arrived in late 2022, the group has been semi-dormant, save for the occasional outburst about the ABC News settlement, or Kathy Kennedy, or Snow White.
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1 week ago |
puck.news | Matthew Belloni
Lately, producer Graham King has been chatting with Skydance’s David Ellison about an intriguing potential opportunity—taking over international distribution of Michael.
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2 weeks ago |
puck.news | Matthew Belloni
Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, hope you’ve got big plans for the long weekend. I’ll be in St. Louis and Chicago on a baseball trip with my dad and kid. Send tips for restaurants that can span three generations. 👏👏 Great seeing everyone who came out to Hollywood on Tuesday for our Stories of the Season Emmys event.
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2 weeks ago |
puck.news | Matthew Belloni
If you remember, last summer I got a group of high school students together to re-create one of my favorite media stunts from the early 2000s: the “summer movie posse.” That’s what L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein used to call his annual focus group.
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3 weeks ago |
puck.news | Matthew Belloni
Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, now cruising at 35,000 feet on the way home to L.A. from the TV upfronts in New York. 👏👏 While I was gone, we got an early leader for The Clappies, my competition for the silliest and most over-the-top media coverage of standing ovations at Cannes. Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning generated 7.5 minutes of clapping, according to Deadline.
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