THOUSANDS OF TINY TYRANTS: The Mostly Movies Podcast
Hollywood veteran James J. Harker shares frank and audacious stories, commentary, and analysis about what actually goes on behind the scenes in movies and television. Thousands of Tiny Tyrants shines a spotlight on the famous and nameless producer conmen, divas, nepo babies, and union toughs fighting to dominate and survive in La La Land.
Episodes
Accidents and death plague The Dream Factory as unionized crews neglect safety. The Teamster and IATSE unions threaten to shut down Tinsel Town...again. Will OpenAI's text-to-video model transform filmmaking? Is the sun about to rise on Hollywood's day of reckoning?
WEBSITE: Thousands of Tiny Tyrants
SHOW NOTES
Additional Reading:
Marvel Crew Member Survived Deadly Bomb Before On-Set Death | Daily Beast | February 9, 2024
Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror masterpiece, "Alien", is the lens through which James examines the forces threatening independent movie and television producers with extinction in the Hollywood parasite colony.
WEBSITE: Thousands of Tiny Tyrants
SHOW NOTES
Additional Reading:
The Producers Union | Website
Blumhouse | Website
Genome Spotlight: Christmas Island Rat | The Scientist | March 24, 2022
Miami Blue Butterfly | Florida Fish & Wil...
James uses “The Sting”, Universal's classic 1973 film about grifters and conmen, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, to explore how studios and streamers create and perpetuate a culture of out of control spending in Hollywood.
WEBSITE: Thousands of Tiny Tyrants: The Mostly Movies Podcast
Transcript | EP4 | Hollywood & The Big Con
ADDITIONAL VIEWING:
The Sting (1973) | Universal
Woody Allen: A Documentary (2013) | by Robert B. Weide...
George Clooney and his band of wealthy actor-producers execute a daring raid on SAG-AFTRA headquarters in a clever but ill-fated scheme to free thousands of Hollywood workers held hostage by reckless union leaders.
WEBSITE: Thousands of Tiny Tyrants: The Mostly Movies Podcast
Transcript | Episode 3
ADDITIONAL READING:
SAG-AFTRA TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee Message to Membership | SAG-AFTRA | October 19, 2023
Hollywood's unionized A-list predators continue to be protected by "cinematic immunity". But have the WGA and SAG strikes pushed studios closer to using federal law to purge the guilds and unions of powerful producers and managers?
WEBSITE: Thousands of Tiny Tyrants: The Mostly Movies Podcast
Transcript | Episode 2
ADDITIONAL READING:
The White Album | Joan Didion | Simon & Schuster (1979)
Who — rather than Netflix, Disney, and the big studios — are the predator Godzillas smashing up Hollywood and terrorizing the movie crew Bambis in pursuit of profit? In the first episode of Thousands of Tiny Tyrants, James J. Harker focuses his spotlight on the extraordinary efforts of Hollywood's guilds and unions to advance the interests of the powerful union-member producers and showrunners in their ranks, to the detriment of ra...
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