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Kim Masters and Matt Belloni banter listener questions in mailbag episode of ‘The Business’
Megabanter 2024: Hollywood’s chaotic year of succession races, sports duels, and mergers
Rupert Murdoch denied bid to alter family trust; Documentarian Nic Stacey on the perils of over-consumption
Trump appoints Gail Slater to head DOJ antitrust division; Errol Morris & Jacob Soboroff on their film ‘Separated’
Thanksgiving Weekend box office preview; Grammy-winning songwriter Evan Bogart on the state of the music industry
Comcast enters its spin-off era; ‘Wicked’ creators on adapting the smash hit musical for the big screen
Disney shares big profits + a streaming boost; Director Edward Berger talks ‘Conclave’
'English Teacher' creators on the perfect office comedy setting (from The Sam Sanders Show)
Clint Eastwood’s ‘Juror #2’ out performs Warner Bros.’ investment; ‘The Penguin’ showrunner Lauren LeFranc talks crafting a Gotham crime boss
Will Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ bring big changes to Netflix?; Roy Wood Jr. ‘pledges allegiance to the joke’
Netflix’s strong Q3 + what’s next for its films; ‘The Wild Robot’ director talks CG vs. tradition
Game planning for Paramount; The accidental ‘Apprentice’ financier
Inside the ‘Joker’ sequel flop; The sprint to bring ‘The Apprentice’ to theaters
Sony Pictures enjoys a smooth succession; Kate Winslet gets candid about creating her new film ‘Lee’
AI enters the Hollywood chat in major ways + Demi Lovato’s ‘Child Star’ cautionary tale
Disney’s messy succession story; Overcoming the production challenges of ‘Strange Darling’
SAG-AFTRA is urged to protect Pro-Palestine members; Documentarian Maciek Hamela on ‘In The Rearview’
The Murdoch family’s own private ‘Succession?’; Encore: Writer Justin Kuritzkes on ‘Challengers’
The Journey of ‘Inside Out 2;’ Bronfman backs down
Gary Oldman on ‘Slow Horses’; Edgar Bronfman Jr. enters the Paramount chat
Justin Simien’s ‘Hollywood Black’ chronicles the pioneers of African American cinema; Phoenix and Paramount bail
‘Sing Sing’ director Greg Kwedar models pay equity; streamers still struggle
EJordan Klepper on surviving “bonkers” political news; Apple TV+ tightens its belt
How ‘Survive until 2025’ became Hollywood’s new mantra
FX’s Emmy domination; ‘Shōgun’ makes awards history
Muta’Ali on his documentary ‘MoviePass, MovieCrash’; CNN and Paramount step into the future
The latest twist in the Paramount saga; ‘Hacks’ showrunners Jen Statsky and Paul W. Downs (Encore)
‘Ren Faire’ director Lance Oppenheim; A.I. at the Olympics
Albert Brooks, Rob Reiner on their HBO doc and the state of Hollywood
Neal Brennan on his Netflix special ‘Crazy Good’; Shari Redstone weighs options at Paramount
Paramount’s Chris Aronson on the future of movie-going; Trump, according to an ex-’Apprentice’ producer
Spring Megabanter: Cannes flops, Scarlett Johansson vs. OpenAI, underwhelming box offices
Jane Schoenbrun on ‘I Saw the TV Glow’; 2024 Upfronts
‘Doctor Who’ showrunner on teaming up with Disney; inside Warner Bros. Discovery following Q1 earnings
Pam Grier on ‘Them’; Comcast prepares bid for NBA TV rights
Writer Justin Kuritzkes on ‘Challengers’; Harvey Weinstein rape conviction overturned
‘Quiet on Set’ filmmakers Mary Robertson and Emma Schwartz; Congress vs. Spulu
Mike Birbiglia and Eddie Schmidt talk ‘Good One: A Show About Jokes’; Coppola seeks home for passion project
‘One Life’ director on the true story of Sir Nicholas Winton; Iger triumphs in Disney proxy fight
‘Shōgun’ co-creators on their sprawling limited series; Inside the Ronna McDaniel-NBC staff uproar
Steven Yeun on ‘Beef’; Disney CEO Bob Iger’s potential successors explained
Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira on ‘The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live’; ID docuseries alleges years of abuse at Nickelodeon
Writer Tony McNamara on ‘Poor Things’; Disney heirs back Iger in proxy fight
Composer Laura Karpman, new Disney and Netflix execs, and ‘peak Boomer cinema’
SPECIAL PREVIEW: Tony McNamara on adapting ‘Poor Things’
Mstyslav Chernov on ‘20 Days in Mariupol’; Fubo files lawsuit against announced sports megastreamer
Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird on adapting ‘American Prometheus’; Disney’s proxy war wages on
Ed Zwick recounts his ‘Glory Days’; Disney dishes Q1 surprises
Making sense of the ‘24 Oscar noms; the future of the Netflix-WWE deal
Netflix shake-ups, Jon Stewart’s big news, and Matthew Heineman on ‘American Symphony’
Inside the Tom Cruise-Warner Bros. deal; Jon Batiste talks ‘American Symphony’
Noah Hawley on season 5 of ‘Fargo,’ Amazon layoffs
Gary Oldman on ‘Slow Horses,’ Disney proxy fight continues
Hollywood predictions 2024: studios, streamers, and agencies
A look back at Hollywood’s rollercoaster year
Celine Song and Christine Vachon on ‘Past Lives’; inside Netflix’s big data drop
TV legend Norman Lear on a lifetime of ‘experience’; Actors approve deal
Serving up ‘Waitress,’ streaming BroadwayHD, and Bob Iger on Disney’s future
Justine Bateman, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland on AI contract language; Hollywood’s lean holiday box office
Kristoffer Borgli on the “Dream Scenario” of directing Nicolas Cage; The saga of “Coyote vs. Acme
Inside the end of the actors’ strike; James Burrows on the return of ‘Frasier’
Comedian-actress Leslie Jones bares it all in raw memoir; HBO trolls critics
Robert Kirkman on ‘Invincible’ Season 2; Israel-Hamas conflict’s impact on Hollywood
Agency heads feud, Ken Burns takes the (long) road less traveled with ‘American Buffalo’
Encore: Creating ‘Reservation Dogs’ with Indigenous cast and crew; Swift’s concert hits theaters
Oscar-winner costume designer reflects on career in new book; Netflix price hike
Gareth Edwards’ ‘The Creator’ zeroes in on AI tension as WGA leaders make a deal
Rupert Murdoch steps down, hip-hop femmes shine in the Dream Hampton produced docuseries ‘Ladies First’
Assessing the strike’s damage, plus an encore with ‘Navalny’ director Daniel Roher
‘Reservation Dogs’ director on Indigenous representation, Disney exits Spectrum
‘Telemarketers’ unpacks systemic scamming, CNN gets a new CEO
Encore: Steve Martin can't imagine 'Only Murders in the Building' without Selena Gomez
Blumhouse CEO breaks down real Hollywood horror as strikes rage on
Bill Kristol on Fox Corp. accountability, Emmys postponed
Sam Pollard on making ‘The League,’ AMPTP reopens negotiations
Gloria Calderón Kellett calls for equitable storytelling, ‘Barbenheimer’ wins the box office
Hollywood VFX expert weighs in on AI, studios and guilds dig in
Bigger Banter: SAG-AFTRA strikes, Bob Iger extends contract
Screenwriter Billy Ray on WGA battle with AI; Amazon CEO probes shows’ budgets
Maureen Ryan burns it down, Netflix union-busts, TCM reverses course
Randall Poster on life as a music supervisor, plus WBD’s struggles
Summer previews: Will movies deliver at the box office? Plus, Emmy changes, predictions
Carol Burnett on her sprawling career in entertainment, CNN fires CEO Chris Licht
The resilience of the movie theater industry and Cannes during the writers’ strike
Encore: ‘The Great’ creator on swearing, sex and ‘fun’ violence in 1700s Russia
Jimmy Chin, Chai Vasarhelyi on making ‘Wild Life,’ WGA strike vs. Upfronts
Allen Hughes on Tupac and ‘Dear Mama,’ Paramount’s uncertain future
Cheryl Strayed and Liz Tigelaar on ‘Tiny Beautiful Things,’ WGA strike reactions
Megabanter: NBCUniversal scandal, Disney vs. DeSantis, Fox fires Carlson, strikes
Encore: Aubrey Plaza, John Patton Ford on the student-loan anxiety thriller ‘Emily the Criminal’
Encore: ‘Marcel the Shell’ creators bring beloved tiny creature to the big screen
Steven Yeun on working on dark comedy series ‘Beef,’ making ‘Minari’
Encore: 'Yellowjackets' creators on collaborating to make their hit Showtime series
‘Daisy Jones & The Six’ co-creator talks career, making the limited series
NYT producers examine rise and fall of Hollywood P.I. Anthony Pellicano in new doc
‘Cocaine Bear’ director on tackling the R-rated horror-comedy
‘This film has put my life on a rocket ship,’ ‘Navalny’ director says
For director Shaunak Sen, documentary filmmaking is like ‘a fever dream’
Brendan Gleeson on Oscar nom: ‘A little affirmation is not a bad thing’
Michelle Yeoh on Oscar nom: ‘Shocking, overwhelming and very emotional’