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The Most Important Movie for Each Studio in 2025

2025/3/24
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The podcast explores the most significant movies for major studios in 2025 and their impact on strategy, highlighting the challenges faced by the industry after COVID and the Hollywood strikes.
  • The domestic box office is down 6% from last year and 40% from pre-COVID levels.
  • Disney's Snow White underperformed this weekend.
  • CinemaCon will see scrutinized studio presentations due to recent box office performance.
  • Studios are chasing theatrical strategy with varied approaches based on assets and ambitions.
  • Lucas Shaw from Bloomberg joins to discuss each studio's most crucial film for this year and beyond.

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to look at the upcoming theatrical slate for each of the major movie studios and determine which movie matters the most for the strategy of each company (02:17). Matt finishes the show with a prediction on where the newly available Jason Bourne franchise will land next (25:40).

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Host: Matt Belloni

Guest: Lucas Shaw

Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez

Theme Song: Devon Renaldo

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