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Hollywood’s Original Fin-Syn

1 day ago | puck.news | Eriq Gardner

When I first read Jon Voight’s plan to rescue Hollywood, I’ll admit that I felt some shock. Not because he’s stumping for pie-in-the-sky tax incentives for domestic production—everyone in town wants that. Nor because he’s calling for tariffs, which might be ludicrous, but nevertheless rest comfortably beside Diet Coke and gauche interior design on Donald Trump’s shortlist of enduring passions. No, what stopped me was Voight’s call to revive the long-buried “fin-syn” rules.
The Untold Story of Tom Cruise’s Career Resurrection

2 days ago | puck.news | Kim Masters

On Wednesday, Tom Cruise will return to the Croisette for the premiere of Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning, the eighth film in a truly remarkable, nearly 30-year run for perhaps the world’s most dedicated movie star.
Republicans Brace for SALT Deduction Showdown

2 days ago | puck.news | Abby Livingston

Naturally, there was incredible relief on the Hill this morning when the White House announced that the United States and China would pause economic hostilities for 90 days, rolling tariff rates back toward “Liberation Day” levels. Sure, it was widely understood that the Trump team had capitulated in the face of impending economic calamity, but any misgivings were largely outweighed by the consolation that the next quarter may not be engulfed in economic tumult.
Upfronts Report: Advertisers Are Cautious, Even With the NFL

2 days ago | puck.news | John Ourand

It didn’t take long for the T-word to make an appearance at the upfronts, which kicked off on Monday with NBC’s presentation at Radio City Music Hall. “This morning, as part of our show, we actually solved all of the tariff issues,” joked NBC’s ad chief Mark Marshall. He was alluding, of course, to this morning’s announcement of a reset in the trade war ignited by Trump’s 145 percent tariff on Chinese goods.
Zaslav Pushes Global HBO/Max as WBD Eyes Cable Split

3 days ago | puck.news | William Cohan

A couple of weeks ago, while I was walking around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, waiting to catch a ride to see the David Hockney show at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, a city bus breezed by with an advertisement on the side for Max’s The Last of Us. Seeing the ad reminded me of one of my recent conversations with David Zaslav, the C.E.O. of Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of Max, HBO, the Warner Bros. movie studio, and a bunch of linear television channels such as CNN and Discovery.
A P.R. Consolidation Play & Fashion’s Substackification

5 days ago | puck.news | Lauren Sherman

Line Sheet, the ultimate fashion industry bible, offers daily intel from Lauren Sherman, Rachel Strugatz, and Sarah Shapiro on every aspect of the business and its biggest players. (Sign up here to get it in your inbox.) Here’s the latest you need to know:Jesse Derris, founder of the influential P.R. agency Derris, has moved into a broader role at Orchestra, the private equity–backed umbrella agency previously known as BerlinRosen.
CNN’s Uncertain Future Amid WBD Spinoff Plans

5 days ago | puck.news | Dylan Byers

When David Zaslav restructured Warner Bros. Discovery late last year, splitting his declining cable networks off from the growth-oriented streaming and studios business and the ever-prestigious HBO, the implications were self-evident. Officially, Zaz was “enhancing” WBD’s strategic flexibility and optimizing his TV business to drive free cashflow.
David Zwirner Christens New 19th Street Location

5 days ago | puck.news | Marion Maneker

At the beginning of this marathon week for the art world, which already seems like a long time ago, I was leaving a press preview when I ran into an important art advisor—the kind of person nobody says no to—who mentioned having just seen the Michael Armitage show at David Zwirner’s new 19th Street gallery. Armitage has near-mythical status in the art market as a painter whose work is extremely hard to acquire. I asked the advisor how the show was.
‘The Substance’ Distributor Mubi Eyes $1 Billion Valuation

6 days ago | puck.news | Matthew Belloni

Mubi is turning into the feel-good story of the independent film business. Fresh off its awards season hit The Substance, the art house streaming service and film distributor is raising $100 million from a consortium led by Sequoia Capital, according to three sources familiar with the dealmaking. If those deals close as expected, the financing round will value Mubi at more than $1 billion, per sources.
What Will ‘Sinners’ Will Be Worth in 25 Years?

6 days ago | puck.news | Matthew Belloni

Last month, a lunch companion noted that there was a big movie coming out soon that was entirely financed by a major studio, but whose copyright would eventually revert to the filmmakers. Yeah, I responded: Sinners. I had already written about that arrangement last year. And, as everyone knows, the movie has since generated outsize attention over its reversion after 25 years to writer-director Ryan Coogler, a deal that Warner Bros.