Easy Rider Is the Roadmap Hollywood Needs Right Now | Episode 563
Easy Rider is not a good movie. It's a chaotic, half-improvised, drug-fueled mess that stumbles for its first half and only becomes a movie...
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CEO of Crafty Apes Alana Newell on What Actually Motivates Artists | Episode 562
Alana Newell is CEO of Crafty Apes, a company that grew through the worst stretch this industry has seen in decades. She got there the rare...
Spider-Man's Record Weekend, the EU vs. AI Video, and the First Rule of Being a VFX Supervisor | Episode 561
Spider-Man just posted the biggest opening weekend in box office history, and Chris, Daniel, and returning panelist Todd Perry dig into why,...
Inside the VFX of Disclosure Day with Matthew Butler | Episode 560
Steven Spielberg doesn't want you to know his aliens aren't real. That's the standard Matthew Butler had to hit on Disclosure Day : total ph...
Nolan's Odyssey Is Really a Movie About Waiting | Episode 559
Is it a good movie if you have to watch it ten times? That's the question Chris and Daniel keep circling back to as they take on Christopher...
Split Diopters, Indie Film Private Equity, and the Rock and Roll of Making Movies | Episode 558
Something is shifting in independent film right now, and Ron Cohen, one of the producers on June July and a veteran of physical production,...
Disclosure Day and The Secret Weirdness of Steven Spielberg | Episode 557
Steven Spielberg is the most famous filmmaker alive, which is exactly why almost nobody actually understands him. Chris and Daniel use Discl...
A24, DeepMind, and the "No CGI" Marketing Lie Everyone's Tired Of | Episode 556
A24 announced a $75 million research partnership with Google DeepMind and framed it as R&D for production tools, not a content deal. Nobody...
He Cold-Called Kubrick's Secret Number | Doug Trumbull | Episode 555
Doug Trumbull spent fifty years trying to convince Hollywood that the way movies are projected is fundamentally broken, and most of the indu...
What If Orson Welles Had a Steadicam? | Hnedel Maximore | Episode 554
Hnedel Maximore did not come up through the traditional VFX pipeline. He started drafting floor plans in Liberia, studied architecture in Mi...
Obsession, Backrooms, and the 1970s Moment Hollywood Needs Right Now | Episode 553
For years Chris and Daniel have been saying the corner was going to turn, that history would repeat itself the way it did in the 1970s. It t...
Why Hollywood Keeps Getting Its Audience Wrong | Trina Renee & Julianna Politsky | Episode 552
Hollywood is having a Marie Antoinette moment. The people running studios and making AI announcements have no idea how their decisions are l...
Mocking AI With AI: Sergio Cilli on Why the Joke Only Works If You Actually Use It | Episode 551
Sergio Cilli is going to get hate from both sides. The pro-AI crowd thinks he's mocking their tools. The anti-AI crowd thinks he's a hypocri...
How to Make and Distribute a Gothic Horror Film on a Shoestring | Justin Denton | Ep. 550
Gothic horror is having a moment, and Justin Denton got there before the wave. His feature The Curse of the Sin Eater is now streaming on Pr...
Filmmaking Needs a New Revolution. Bill Warner, Founder of Avid, Is Building It | Ep. 549
The man who invented nonlinear editing is not done disrupting filmmaking. Bill Warner, founder of Avid Technology and the engineer behind th...
The Devil Wears Prada Predicted 20 Years of Cultural Stagnation | Episode 548
A movie from 2006 looks like it could have come out last year. The cars are the same. The computers are the same. The fashion, the cinematog...
Your VFX Skills Are Your AI Advantage | Marc Rienzo | Episode 547
Marc Rienzo is a veteran VFX artist and supervisor with his roots deep in compositing -- the kind of career that runs through Digital Domain...
VidViz, a Pocket Watch, and the Character That Rewrote June July | Episode 546
Hollywood isn't dying. It's being deconstructed and reassembled into something nobody has a blueprint for, and the people falling into the w...
Episode 545 - Victor Varnado: Why Every Creator Needs to Think Like an Entrepreneur
Hollywood has been gatekept for decades, but a multi-hyphenate who has appeared in films with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Werner Herzog, co-wr...
Episode 544 - Jay Worth: Fallout Season 2, 500 Episodes of Hard Lessons, and when to say no
500 episodes of television is a number that stops people cold, and Jay Worth hit that milestone last year without slowing down. Worth came u...