Amazon’s Spending Spree Under Scrutiny
Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss his latest piece about Amazon CEO Andy Jassy asking his studio executives for detailed budget analyses of some of their biggest shows. They debate w...
10 Jul 202331min
Town Hall: Bob Iger’s Legacy, Summer Flops, and Streamer Mega-Mergers
Welcome back to Town Hall! Matt and Craig answer a slew of listener questions about Bob Iger’s legacy, an overpacked summer of blockbusters, how the AMPTP really works, inflated movie budgets, the fut...
5 Jul 202332min
Is David Zaslav Misunderstood?
Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to look back on Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s publicly disgraced decisions to cut costs at the company and determine whether or not they were justi...
3 Jul 202332min
What Will Bring Gen Z to Theaters?
Matt is joined by Matthew Liebmann, the Chief Innovation and Data Officer at Vista Group, to discuss Gen Z’s relationship with going to the movies. Matthew talks about how much Gen Z is going to movie...
30 Jun 202332min
How Taylor Swift's Eras Tour is Becoming the Most Successful in History
Matt is joined by Nathan Hubbard—former CEO of Ticketmaster, current CEO of Firebird Music and Ringer podcaster—to discuss Taylor Swift’s world dominating Eras Tour and her path to achieving the first...
29 Jun 202332min
The 2023 Executive Draft
Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to compete in the very first executive draft. Matt and Lucas will each select who they believe is the best in the business in each of these four categories: CE...
26 Jun 202327min
It’s Time to Break Up Hollywood
Matt is joined by Matt Stoller, the research director for the American Economic Liberties Project and the writer of the monopoly-focused newsletter 'Big,' to discuss the evolution of Hollywood’s marke...
22 Jun 202337min
Is the Superhero Era Finally Ending?
Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss whether the recent stretch of superhero flops is a sign of things to come or simply a blip on the radar. Four of the last six Marvel films have unde...
20 Jun 202331min
