Private Equity Has Billions Ready for Hollywood. Who Gets It?
“Everyone has dry powder for sports,” Ashley Cullins heard while reporting her recent look at the private equity firms circling Hollywood. It’s a truism Bob Iger and Josh Kushner‘s Thrive Capital prov...
13 Aug 34min
How Zendaya & Tom Holland Won Summer; Ellison on the Defensive
It’s been a while since Hollywood has seen a power couple quite like Zendaya and Tom Holland. With Spider-Man: Brand New Day and The Odyssey, the newlyweds helped drive more than $2 billion (and count...
6 Aug 37min
The Waiting Game at WBD; SpaceX’s L.A. Mansion Rush
What a difference a month makes. With Paramount’s bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery now in limbo, 35,000 Warners staffers have plenty of time to reconsider their options. Could HBO chief Casey Bloys o...
30 Jul 32min
BONUS EP: California AG Rob Bonta on the Coming Paramount Trial: 'We're Not Talking Settlement'
What could Paramount Skydance do to make a dozen attorneys general drop their lawsuit against the Warner Bros. Discovery merger? Sell off CNN? Paramount Pictures? According to California Attorney Gene...
28 Jul 13min
BONUS EP: Paramount’s Looming Debt Bomb — With Analyst Robert Fishman
David Ellison may be calling Paramount’s agreement to delay its $111 billion Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition a “significant win.” Wall Street appears less convinced. Paramount Skydance shares sank...
27 Jul 45min
Why A24 Wants Letterboxd — and the Impossible ‘Odyssey’ Ticket
Who’s buying Letterboxd? The social media platform, prized for its Gen Z audience and movie fan bona fides, is on the market for a rumored $250 million — with multiple studios circling. Dealmakers col...
23 Jul 28min
BONUS EP: Rob Bonta: How We Plan to Kill the Paramount-WBD Deal
States, 1. Paramount, 0. The $111 billion Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger has hit its first real wall after a coalition of 12 states won a temporary restraining order blocking the deal. And Ca...
21 Jul 35min
The Case Against Paramount-Warner — From the People Fighting It
It’s a bad week for David Ellison, with Paramount Skydance facing two concurrent lawsuits seeking to block its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — plus a shareholder case accusing Ell...
16 Jul 33min
