Hollywood Heretic Podcast
Conversations with prominent figures about the problems in media and entertainment and how to fix them. hollywoodheretic.substack.com
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Five years on from the COVID contraction, and a year after the dissonance of Barbenheimer and the Summer of Strikes, Hollywood is still struggling to get its groove back. No one is quite sure what to make of the landscape. Is exhibition on its way out or staging a comeback? When will they start making movies again? Has streaming peaked? What will become of Paramount under the aegis of the House of Ellison? Is the DirecTV/Dish merge...
When Steven Spielberg brought Stanley Kubrick’s unfilmed screenplay “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” to the screen in — of all ironic years — 2001, most of us had never before heard the acronym. In science fiction parlance it represented an ominous harbinger of things to come — the prospect of a “Terminator”-level tipping point where humanity finds itself at risk of being replaced by its own artificial creations.
Twenty-three years l...
Most people think they know everything about the mercurial rise and fall of discount ticketing service MoviePass because they were subscribers.
Except they don’t.
Thanks to the exceptional new HBO Original documentary MoviePass, MovieCrash, exclusively available on Max, MoviePass founders Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watt finally tell the inside story as they lived it. It’s a remarkable cautionary tale of corporate treachery, misguided p...
John Fithian, Jackie Brenneman and Patrick Corcoran of The Fithian Group break down the first post-pandemic, post-strike summer movie season, and what Hollywood needs to do to recapture its former glory.
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