Kara sits down with Matthew Belloni, author of the flagship Puck newsletter <a href="https://puck.news/newsletters/what-im-hearing/">What I’m Hearing</a> and host of <a href="https://puck.news/podcasts/the-town/">The Town</a> podcast, to take the entertainment industry’s temperature just a few days before the Academy Awards.

They dig into the Warner Bros. Discovery/Paramount/Netflix saga and the consequences of the Ellison-backed deal for creatives and crews. Then Kara and Matt debate whether consolidation can fix Hollywood’s broken economics and why legacy companies are facing a “Titanic-esque” moment as linear TV collapses.

They also unpack the streaming wars, Netflix’s next moves, Disney’s succession questions and how AI could reshape filmmaking from visual effects to writers’ rooms. Plus, they make their predictions for the Oscars.
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