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    The Business

    Hollywood News Banter

    Matt Belloni, executive editor of the Hollywood Reporter joins Kim Masters to discuss top entertainment news stories of the week.

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    By Kim Masters • Apr 24, 2015 • 1 min read

    Matt Belloni, executive editor of the Hollywood Reporter joins Kim Masters to discuss top entertainment news stories of the week.

    - The Comcast and Time Warner merger is officially dead. The giant cable companies tried to argue that a merger would actually be good for consumers, but government regulators said not so fast.

    - Verizon FiOS announces that they'll let customers put together smaller, personalized cable packages. It's not quite ala carte, but it's moving in that direction, perhaps in anticipation of the new "skinny" bundles Apple TV will start offering this summer.

    - The big crowd-pleasers at this year's CinemaCon in Las Vegas were Tom Cruise doing stunts on an airplane for the latest Mission Impossible movie and a screening of Pixar's Inside Out, which had audiences tearing up. Warner Bros is coming out with an ambitious nine movies this summer, but at this point, none of them are guaranteed box office mega-hits.

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      Kim Masters

      partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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      Matthew Belloni

      founding partner of Puck News

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      Kaitlin Parker

      Producer, 'The Business' and 'Hollywood Breakdown'

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    'Fresh Off the Boat;' Prepping Pups for a Big Screen Debut
    1. 1:27Hollywood News BanterYou’re reading this
    2. 8:52Fresh Off the Boat
    3. 19:42White God
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