Joe Escalante, Live From Hollywood
Movies! Disneyland! and the business side of Hollywood from Entertainment Business Affairs Expert and TV Showrunner Joe Escalante.
Episodes
August 31, 2025 • 39 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly spelunk into the business end of showbiz. This week: what does a filmmaker, cancelled for sexual assault, do to stay working? Ask Bryan Singer! He apparently moved to Israel to make propaganda films with Jon Voight.
Also, the latest numbers from the box office (go see Weapons), and the latest from Joe's Letterboxd account. Will Smith is desperate for attention, and needs the help of AI to make him seem more p...
Also, the latest numbers from the box office (go see Weapons), and the latest from Joe's Letterboxd account. Will Smith is desperate for attention, and needs the help of AI to make him seem more p...
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August 25, 2025 • 18 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly plunge into the business end of showbiz... This week: Orlando Brown joins the celebs behaving badly segment of the show, and Lil Nas X goes from a stroll down Ventura Blvd in his underoos.
Joe thinks the venn diagram between people getting stabbed and people who have tattoos is a donut.
Joe and his wife are building a Disney home, and the latest numbers from the box office (Weapons is still on top, with K-Pop...
Joe thinks the venn diagram between people getting stabbed and people who have tattoos is a donut.
Joe and his wife are building a Disney home, and the latest numbers from the box office (Weapons is still on top, with K-Pop...
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August 10, 2025 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly plunge into the business end of showbiz. This week: everyone's favorite two words... COPYRIGHT LAW (and the impact of AI)! Also, Trump's taking over CBS.
Joe gives us the latest from the Box Office (Weapon's takes the #1 spot this week. And Diddy is reigning king of Celebs Behaving Badly. His sentencing is set for early October... We'll be keep eye's on that.
The Boston Celtics are off the hook after a sex tra...
Joe gives us the latest from the Box Office (Weapon's takes the #1 spot this week. And Diddy is reigning king of Celebs Behaving Badly. His sentencing is set for early October... We'll be keep eye's on that.
The Boston Celtics are off the hook after a sex tra...
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August 3, 2025 • 85 mins
Joe Escalante’s weekly fingering of the business end of showbiz. This week: the latest from the Box Office (Fantastic Four is #1), and Joe’s film recommendations from his Letterboxd account… see Fantastic 4 and Architecton, avoid Happy Gilmore 2 at all costs…
Also, in this week’s Celebs Behaving Badly, Soulja Boy clings to relevance any way he can, even if he goes to prison for it. Shannon Sharpe can’t escape the legal issues, but h...
Also, in this week’s Celebs Behaving Badly, Soulja Boy clings to relevance any way he can, even if he goes to prison for it. Shannon Sharpe can’t escape the legal issues, but h...
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July 27, 2025 • 82 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly excursion into the business end of showbiz. This week: did Candace Owens defame Macron's wife by caller her a man? Also, the latest from the box office (superheroes reign supreme). And the latest info from the fallout of the Paramount/Skydance sale. Colbert was bleeding out financially, so I guess it makes sense to can a guy that takes shots at Dear Leader. South Park seems to be making money, because they go...
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July 21, 2025 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly probe into the business end of showbiz. This week: South Park got some legal issues, Jane's Addicition got some legal issues, and Kanye might have some sexual assault issues. Also, Stephen Colbert gets canned for biting the hands that feed him for totally financial reasons.
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July 6, 2025 • 59 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dip into the business end of showbix. This week: Joe called it weeks ago!!! Diddy gets off with what, in some states, is a misdemeanor. That's what happens when lawyers reach for charges that they'll have a hard time proving. The solution for Diddy, according to Joe... GIVE ALL YOUR MONEY AWAY. Give it to charities supporting the kind of people he's victimized, and rebuild his empire after that. But does anyo...
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June 28, 2025 • 39 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly look into the business end of showbiz. This week: The latest box office predictions, Joe's perspective on the Iran bombings and Trump's demands for retractions from sources saying anything different than him. Also, Joes recent Disneyland visits, contract breeches, and musicians suing Twitter for copyright infringement, and the impact of AI on music and books.
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June 21, 2025 • 37 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly expedition into the treacherous business end of showbiz. This week: news from the Box Office... Disney/Pixar's Elio (finally! a new IP, and not another live action knock off!), 28 Years Later is the new prequel to 28 Decades Later, and Joe discusses with fascination with The Materialist. Also, the latest from Celebs Behaving Badly... Diddy's case may be wrapping up after showing videos of freak off's in cour...
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June 14, 2025 • 80 mins
Joe Escalante's Weekly spelunk into the business end of showbiz. This week: let's try to steer away from celebs behaving badly... How about some box office news??? Lilo and Stitch is #1... and Joe hasn't seen it... But he did see a few good movies this week: Dogman, The Face of Jesus (which claims that Jesus may have had a nuclear resurrection), and the hot nun in Wes Anderson's The Phoencian Scheme triggers Joe's kink.
Also, murde...
Also, murde...
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June 1, 2025 • 78 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly lambasting of the business end of showbiz. This week: after a brief look at the Box Office and the amazing new Pee-Wee Herman documentary on HBO, the show gets overwhelmed by Celebs Behaving Badly... There's a theme this week: Alleged industry rapists (and not one mention of professor emeritus of alleged non-consensual debauchery Harvey Weinstein!). Diddy's trial had explosive testimony from a former personal...
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May 27, 2025 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly fingering the pulse of the business end of showbiz, live and direct from Boston (hence the audio quality)!!! This week: two Box Offices splashes in what may be the biggest Memorial Day for the theater industry. Thank you Mission Impossible and Lilo & Stitch! You've given Joe hope for the movie theater industry!
Also, the latest from Cannes, with a bunch of movies that you'll never see. The best movie is a...
Also, the latest from Cannes, with a bunch of movies that you'll never see. The best movie is a...
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May 18, 2025 • 74 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly cannonball into the business end of showbiz. This week: the latest numbers from the box office, and ways to get more people into the theaters. Also, HBO finally realizes that they are actually bigger than Cinemax, Diddy and Harvey Weinstein make their weekly appearance on "Celebs Behaving Badly," and Joe is joined by Rob Wallace, the "OC Movie Fiend," to discuss the local movie theater scene. The guy has a s...
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May 4, 2025 • 56 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly 2-hour tour into the business end of showbiz. This week: the latest from the Box Office (Thunderbolts* is killing it, Sinners and Minecraft are still pulling in numbers). Also, Jon Voight has a plan to revive Hollywood, after production companies havce begun shipping filmmaking overseas.
Joe discusses the latest legal issues surrounding rights to make money off of Superman. Diddy is still in jail. And Joe acc...
Joe discusses the latest legal issues surrounding rights to make money off of Superman. Diddy is still in jail. And Joe acc...
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April 27, 2025 • 75 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly trip into the business end of showbiz. This week... Joe talks about the controversial Kneecap performance at Coachella, and defending the band amid the backlash against the political statement they made on stage during their performance. Also, the latest numbers from the Box Office (Sinners takes the top spot over... Star Wars: Episode 3???).
Joe also talks about the film industry leaving Hollywood for more a...
Joe also talks about the film industry leaving Hollywood for more a...
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April 21, 2025 • 37 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly journey through the business end of showbiz. This week: Joe is snowed in in Denver after a freak snow storm, but nothing will prevent him from delivering the latest news from Hollywood. Joe was at Coachella last week, and, to Joe's disappointment, it was nothing like the Fyre Festival...Also, The Sinners are #1 at the Box Office, with The Minecraft Movie right behind. Joe loves the kids going crazy for the Ch...
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April 13, 2025 • 37 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dip into the shark infested waters of the business end of showbiz. This week: Joe is live from Coachella (check out the Yo Gabba Gabba tent!)!!! Joe marvels at Weezer's bass player's fortitude after playing Coachella right after his wife had been shot by police in following a hit-and-run incident. Joe also reviews the latest numbers from the Box Office (Minecraft is on top, and highly recommends it). Joe is b...
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March 30, 2025 • 73 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dip into the business end of showbiz. This week: Celebs Behaving Badly, featuring Paul Rodriguez and Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue). Also, the latest numbers from the Box Office: Snow White may not be as woke as conservatives seem to think, but that's not stopping them from tanking the film. SNL's Colin Jost takes aim at Joe's mortal rival, Paddington Bear.
We discuss the film "Arcades and Love Songs," and asks if el...
We discuss the film "Arcades and Love Songs," and asks if el...
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March 24, 2025 • 42 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly visit with the business end of showbiz. This week: Snow White is too woke... OR IS IT???? Can it be that the anti-woke hype-train ran over a perfectly fine Disney movie, or are people just too tired of the live-actioning of classic animated films? Also, Joe is buying a Disney home, and gives you the details on how you can secure your own space in the Disney neighborhood!! Je goes into the latest numbers fro...
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March 16, 2025 • 72 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly plunge into the business end of showbiz. This week: studios are looking to create more immersive experiences focused on their more popular shows and movies. They've done this before with shows like Stranger Things, so expect more of the same. Also, the latest from the box office (Novocaine hits #1), and the legal ripple effect stemming from the death of Gene Hackman. And Joe speaks out against bad lawyers bec...
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