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Is the Franchise Model Starting to Fatigue in Hollywood?

3/20/2023 • 33 min

Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss whether we are starting to see signs of decline in the franchise entertainment model. After the poor box-office showing of 'Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' and a slow start to Season 3 of 'The Mandalorian,' they speculate about whether the bankable franchise model of spinoffs, sequels, prequels, and universe… Play episode

Matt’s Year One Prediction Report Card
Michael B. Jordan and How to Build a Modern Movie Star Career
The Oscar Bump: Which Young Stars Won Awards Season?
Academy CEO Bill Kramer on the New and Improved (?) Oscars
Tips, Trends, and Storylines to Help You Bet on the Oscars
The End of Peak TV Is Finally Here
The Ploys and Tactics Behind Oscar Campaigning
How F--ked Is Fox News?
The Perfect Storm for a Writers Strike
Watching Your Favorite Team Is About to Get Harder
The 2023 Box Office Draft
The Companies Most Likely to Be Sold or Acquired in 2023
The Soap Opera Fight Over Paramount and CBS
Will Bob Iger Sell Hulu or ESPN?
How to Write a Hit Rom-Com
True Crime Is Murdering Documentaries
The Death and “Rebirth” of Showtime
DC Is Going Big, but Can It Catch Marvel?
The Future of Live Events and Late Night TV With Grammys EP Ben Winston
Peacock’s Promising Start to 2023 Might Not Be a Fluke
How an Indie Film Becomes an Oscar Winner
Is the Sundance Dream Still Alive?
How the Shocking Andrea Riseborough Oscar Nomination Happened
Inside the Netflix Executive Shake-up
Making Movie Stars Younger With AI
Should Disney Be Afraid of Nelson Peltz?
Around the World With Netflix’s Head of TV
‘M3GAN,' and How to Market a Movie to Young People
Vince McMahon’s Return and the WWE’s Most Intriguing Suitors
The New Black List and the Original Screenwriting Recession
Why Audiences Have Given Up on Awards Movies
The Townies Part 2: Hollywood’s Best and Worst of 2022
The Townies: Hollywood’s Best and Worst of 2022
Why YouTube Landed NFL ‘Sunday Ticket’
2022 Debacles Part 2: The 2023 Hot Seat and Hollywood’s Biggest Loser
2022 Debacles Part 1: Movie Bombs, Executive Misfires, and Secret Disasters
The Stranglehold of Streaming, With United Talent Agency CEO Jeremy Zimmer
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ With Producer Jon Landau
The Biggest Flexes of the Year in Hollywood
John Skipper on the Rise of the Sports Documentary and Bob Iger’s Big Plans
Rob McElhenney on Merging Soccer, Celebrity, and a TV Empire
Smoke or Fire? The Most Troubled Hollywood Companies
The Streaming Year-End Review: Biggest Hits, Misses, and Questions
The Big Business of Christmas Movies
Disney’s Five Biggest Dilemmas in the New Bob Iger Era
The Taylor Swift Ticketmaster Debacle, Explained
A Major Disney Shake-up: Former CEO Bob Iger Is Back
Oscars Watch Begins: Front-Runners, Story Lines, and the ‘Top Gun’ Debate
The Secrets of Marvel’s Magic

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