September 2, 2022 • 42 mins
This week my guest is a very talented young film maker and streaming video executive. We are joined by Stefanie Hubbard who has a new film out called Lilly Darling – a Punk Rock Romance.
She wrote and directed the film which you can now watch on Pure Magic Pictures a wonderful streaming service that she and husband Kalani Hubbard launched less than a year ago.
We talk about Lily Darling plus all the great new content coming out of their Brooklyn based studio. According to the very talented duo they created for movie lovers.
Pure Magic Pictures is an independent "mom and pop movie shop" making original feel-good entertainment. We're just a few passionate indie filmmakers who are inspired by the movies that we watched growing up in the 90's. From The Goonies to Mean Girls, we take inspiration from the movies that made us.
Be sure to give Pure Magic a try and watch Lily Darling plus all the creative, fun and most of indie made content. The have a free trial and you can off course watch their service on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire Stick or on you smartphone, tablet or phone.
Check out Lily Darling
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Follow them on social media
IG - @puremagicpictures
Also, checkout their YouTube Channel for great trailers and shorts.
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She wrote and directed the film which you can now watch on Pure Magic Pictures a wonderful streaming service that she and husband Kalani Hubbard launched less than a year ago.
We talk about Lily Darling plus all the great new content coming out of their Brooklyn based studio. According to the very talented duo they created for movie lovers.
Pure Magic Pictures is an independent "mom and pop movie shop" making original feel-good entertainment. We're just a few passionate indie filmmakers who are inspired by the movies that we watched growing up in the 90's. From The Goonies to Mean Girls, we take inspiration from the movies that made us.
Be sure to give Pure Magic a try and watch Lily Darling plus all the creative, fun and most of indie made content. The have a free trial and you can off course watch their service on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire Stick or on you smartphone, tablet or phone.
Check out Lily Darling
https://puremagic.pictures/lilydarling
Be sure to visit Pure Magic
https://www.puremagicpictures.com/
https://puremagic.pictures/
Follow them on social media
IG - @puremagicpictures
Also, checkout their YouTube Channel for great trailers and shorts.
https://bit.ly/3cJk5Ks
Promotional consideration for Stream On with Jim Williams comes from Sling TV. They are far and away, the best live streaming service on the planet.
Cord cutters and cord nevers want a place to keep up with live TV with sports or news? Well, we have the best possible option at the best cost in the business.
Check them out at https://www.sling.com/
It doesn’t matter if you like sports, or news, or entertainment they have it all in one place at a price that will have you cutting the cord today!
Have questions or comments?
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(00:27):
Hey one, and welcome to thisedition a stream On. I'm Jim Williams,
your host. Now. My guesttoday is Stephanie Hubbard, the creative
force behind the new film Lily Darling, A punk Rock Romance. Now one
of the joys that I have hereof doing stream on it. We've done
it now for four years, overtwo hundred podcasts. As you know,
(00:48):
we've interviewed pretty much major executives fromall of the key streaming services, stars
from many of the shows. Butas much fun as that is to me,
the real fun is finding little gemsand turning you onto them, finding
little streaming services or things that youjust have never seen before. Well,
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such is the case this week.As I said, Stephanie Hubbard is my
guest now. Lily Darling a PunkRock Romance is a labor of love for
Stephanie because she wrote it and shedirected it. Presently streaming on Pure Magic
Pictures. Now. You may remembera while back that Stephanie and her husband
(01:34):
Klanni came on the podcast to talkabout Pure Magic just as they were getting
ready to launch. It's an outstandingstreaming service. Lots of really fun and
creative stuff and things that you're notgoing to find on Netflix or Amazon or
Disney Plus or any of the othermajors, because this is a mom and
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pop shop and they do an outstandingjob. So it's really a treat to
have Stephanion today and to chat withher about her new film, Lily Darling.
And Steph, I gotta say this. You know, in sports,
specifically in baseball, when someone cando everything, they're called a five tool
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player. Now that's a very elitetitle, five tool player. But clearly,
my friend, you are a fivetool filmmaker. You can direct,
you can write, you can produce, and in this case, you also
help run the streaming service, hencethe term mom and pop shop. But
kudos to you for putting together acharming movie, Lily Darling, a punk
(02:46):
rock romance. Let's talk about that. Well, thank you so much.
I'd love to tell you about LilyDarling. So, Lily Darling is my
first feature length film that I wroteand directed, and it is a punk
rock romance about like these emo teenagersthat fall in love and it's set back
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in two thousand and six, soit's just a really good time. It's
full of nostalgia romance. It hassuch a fun score with a bunch of
source music from different indie bands,and we have a May Day parade song
and an early November song, andthen my husband actually did a lot of
composing for the music. That's alllike very guitar driven, so it kind
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of all comes together and it's justthis really fun experience of celebrating punk rock
and alternative culture. And you know, it's got a good teen romance and
some really fun characters in it aswell. So that's Lily Darling. You
know, after seeing the trailer,I now realize I have to learn to
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play the bass. It's a littleinside joke. Look at the trailer.
It's on YouTube. There'll be alink in the in the showbox below and
you'll get the joke. You know, the two folks who play the lead
characters in the film are very talentedand they've got very good chemistry. Tell
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me a little about your casting ofthe show. I'm sorry the movie.
Yes, I could not agree withyou more. Riley Rose, who plays
Darling in the film, the lead. She just hold down that role so
well, and it was just thislike God ordained, How did we get
(04:40):
perfect person to play this character likeshe was Darling? She just embodied her
so perfectly, and she just gotthe character. It just clicked with her
so well. It just didn't reallyfeel like that far of a stretch for
her to get there, which Iyou know, it is compliment because she
is a very talented actress, butI feel like, you know, sometimes
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a role is maybe a further stretchfor an actor or sometimes more naturally,
and this role just came so naturallyto her. I was like, tap
into your upbeat, bubbly, golucky, whimsical side, and she just
totally did. And I remember whenI was watching through all of the audition
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tapes for Darling, you know,I had my maybe pile and my no
pile, and as I was goingthrough, when I saw Riley Rose's audition
for Darling, it was that wasit. I'm like, I'm not watching
another audition. She's the one,like she has to play Darling. It
was just completely perfect. I hadno doubt in my mind. And I
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was so nervous when I called herto ask her if she could play the
role, because I wanted her tosay yes so bad. I was trying
not to get my hope, toset myself for disappointment if for some reason
the scheduling didn't work out or somethinglike that, but it was. It
was really fun, and I definitelyput a lot of myself in the Darling
character, and there's definitely a lotof the Darling character that Riley can relate
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to, and so I feel like, you know, Riley and I just
ended up naturally having a lot incommon in that way, and so we
definitely got along really well on sefelike we became. But I ended up
joking around a lot by the endof filming that she was like my little
mini me because we just everything workedout so well. And then Jake Blakesley,
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who played Alie, the love interestin the film opposite of Darling,
Oh that I'm going to be completelyreal, like a little bit of the
behind the scenes of filmmaking. Wasthe most last minute casting I've ever had.
I looked high and low for Ali. It was like I could make
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an entire documentary about finding Ali,and he was so hard to find and
I was so nervous, and Ijust kept I just kept feeling this sense
of peace, like, don't worryabout it. You're gonna find him.
It's just going to be at thelast minute. And it was days before
the table read, Like, wehad the table read on the calendar,
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we had the dates for filming oncalendar. They were not movable, and
I was like, we have tofind Ali. This is so important,
you know this, there has tobe the chemistry. He has to have
all of this. And I lookedand finally, at the very last second,
Jake Blakeslee's audition tape came in andagain it was just like this,
Oh, this is perfect. Ihope he's available. And it was literally
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like, we want you to bethe lead in this feature film. Can
you come to the table read.It's in like five days. You know.
I was like, so last minute, But working with Jake was so
great and like the chemistry between himand Riley just worked out so well.
I'm just so thankful that we wereable to find the two of them.
You know, it's funny that yousay that. Jim Mecurio, who for
(07:58):
the BBC has produced Line of Duty, which is one of the highest rated
shows there, as well as Bodyguard. Not the Bodyguard, but Bodyguard was
just a Netflix film, has saidthat when he was casting for the show
that he had a pile of Okay, you know, maybe's callbacks and killed
(08:22):
it and he goes there was onlyone name in the kill it file.
So clearly that's what happened here.The other to parallel you're talking about.
He also said that he was upagainst it trying to find a lead character,
and Adrian Dunham is literally at arestaurant that he's at. He goes
(08:48):
over and says hi. Adrian says, Higa, so what are you up
to? And he says, youknow what, I just finished the show,
got nothing going on, and hesaid, I'm gonna send something over,
look at it, tell me whatyou think, calls it back.
Forty eight hours later. He casthis guy two weeks before they had to
start filming without a lead character.So it happens. It happens to those
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with big budgets, and it happenswith those who I know from your standpoint,
you do everything you know organically ina very wonderful indie fashion. And
I think that you know what makespure magic fun is that you know what
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you are creating, something that you'repassionate about, and you know you don't
have five or six people from thenetwork or the streaming service or whatever sending
you show notes. You're your basicwriter, director, show runner, and
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I think that is something that isfresh and fun, you know, especially
in these movies like you know,like you created with Lily Darling. Thank
you. Yeah, We've had somuch fun creating it. And that's really
what we're doing all the way around, from the cast to the crew,
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to how we get the music inthis film and everything like that. I
mean, I reached out to someof my favorite, all time favorite indie
bands like Fluorescence and Friends Circle andMoonroof and Matt the Graham and Raccoon Tour
and I was like, hey,like, will you let me use your
music in this film? And theywere all so graciously like yes, you
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know, like they are so excitedto get to be a part of the
film, and I'm excited to getto have them in the film. And
we actually made the Lily Darling MixCD. We're lovingly calling it the Mix
TV because it's from two thousand six, right, but it's a playlist and
it's on Spotify and Apple Music andit's every single song that's in the movie
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in a playlist and um, youcan find that on Lily Darling dot com.
We have, you know, thewebsite for the film is Lily Darling
dot com where we put the playlist, But people who love the movie then
they go and they listen to theplaylist as well, and they're like digging
the playlist, and then you know, we have also made some merch of
you know, like classic iconic wardrobepieces from the film. You can actually
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buy um Coles hoodie or Darling's hoodiefrom the movie um as well. And
I think the fans of the filmhave like really loved buying Coles hoodie and
like being like, you know,listening to the playlist and just being completely
engrossed in this film. It's likeits own it's its own little you know,
it's it's more than a film.I guess this is where I'm going
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with that. It's become a community. It's thank you you said it so
beautifully. It's to become its ownLily Darling community, you know. And
as thankful as I am that wegot to use indie bands to let us
put their music in there. Wedid also get Mayday Parade Motion City soundtrack
and the Early November I All havea featured song in this film as well.
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So it's just a complete nod andappreciation of the style of music and
the culture and the time. AndI just think anybody who was an Emo
kid in two thousand and six orwish they was Emo Kid in two thousand
and six, like, well,absolutely love this film, you know,
going back behind the ropes again,as you say, behind the scenes.
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I don't think people out there whoaren't in the business realize how difficult getting
music for a film is and howmuch that can cost you just to get
you know, one song, youknow, cleared, and it takes sometimes
it takes months to get that stufftaken care of. And the fact that
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you were able to get these bandsand to get them involved again, it
just shows that sense of community thatthat you have with Blue Magic and obviously
you created with you know, LilyDarling, and hey, you know the
most important thing you got merch.You know that you've made it when you
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got merch, right, I mean, because that means people are out there
on their own pitching the movie bysimply wearing a T shirt, right exactly.
Yeah. I mean the people whohave discovered Lily Darling like absolutely love
it and they just want to bethat much more part of it. I've
I've had people tell me they've watchedLily Darling like six or seven times.
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I'm like, oh, my gosh, you've watched I. I mean,
I technic we have because I'm theone who edited. I was in the
editing room. I'm sure you've seenit more than once. Yeah. Yeah,
but I'm like, Wow, there'svery few movies that I've watched six
or seven times. Like, Ifeel so honored and humbled that a movie
I wrote and directed somebody loved somuch that they just watch it over and
over like that, and just like, I'm just so blown away by that.
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I could tear up thinking about it. You know, well, it's
a testimony to again, your passion, your ability to do something that is
very very difficult, and that istakes something from your head and created a
story and then make that story cometo life. That is not an easy
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thing to do. Yeah, well, thank you so much for saying that.
I think, oh yeah, alot of people are kind of used
to just hit and play and watchingsomething and not really thinking about where it
came from and the amount of workthat goes into it. And it definitely
a lot of work and passion anddedication. But I can say it's one
of the most fulfilling things I've everdone, and all the blood, sweat
(15:07):
and tears were completely worth it.So let's talk for a second about Blue
Magic. You guys, you andKalani your husband started this and it's grown
and it's just getting better and biggerall the time with wonderful programming. And
(15:28):
you've got we're talking. Earlier inyou had said that you've got a couple
of shows that you're very excited about. Yes, we do. In fact,
just yesterday we wrapped production on thenext couple episodes of our late night
(15:48):
comedy show. So we have alate night comedy show called good Night Tonight,
and it's just a fun, fresh, new, completely indie take on
a late night talk show. Soyou know, it's it's got comedy,
it's got like monologues and stand up, and we also are filling it with
(16:08):
lots of fun little sketches, kindof like old school Saturday Night Live,
you know, bits and sketches withdifferent characters, and we are having really
fun and entertaining and unique guest starscome onto the show. So our last
we just had Gershawn, who's thekids six on TikTok come on and talk
(16:30):
about skateboard culture in New York City, and then we had a fun bit
with him where he did a popshove it on everyone's problems from the audience.
You just have to watch it ifyou want to understand. But we've
also had like really cool comedians andmagicians from New York just really unique,
entertaining talented people who maybe aren't ata place yet in their career where they're
(16:55):
gonna get invited onto Jimmy Fallon,but are still gonna just blow you away
with like their story and what itis that they're doing. And then in
addition to that, we also haveour version of you know, we have
indie bands. Local indie bands orcome and perform on the show as well,
all you know, usually punk rockmusic, something in that genre that's
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really like the genre behind Pure MagicPictures, and they get to come and
show off their stuff and do acool, like usually a little bit acoustic
version of their songs. So thatshow has been really fun. That's called
good Night Tonight, and we dohave the good Night's Night Instagram, good
Underscore Nights, Underscore Tonights, oryou can also you know, go to
(17:38):
good Night's Nightdot Pictures if you wantto be in the audience because we have
an audience for the show, soyou can even come and be in the
audience. And we love having anaudience too because it's a really fun way
to also meet other people. Alot of times people come into our audience
or actors or you know, inthe industry in some way and we get
(17:59):
a chance to meet them there.But this show has been just really fun
and refreshing, and when people findout about it and see how different than
what's already out there, they justreally fall in love with the concept and
they're like, wow, we reallywe needed this and we didn't even know
it, and we want more ofit. And so it's the way it's
fun to your people say that.The other thing with a live audience in
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you know, doing those types ofshows is the comedians or the magicians or
the bands react so much better whenit's just not a cold, you know,
studio setting um. When they canplay off the crowd or they get
crowd reaction, which is what they'renormally used to, they seem to perform
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better, right, That is sotrue. Yeah, definitely just makes the
atmosphere in the room that much morefun and enjoyable. So we're We love
that we're able to just in ourlittle studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, you
know where we operate out of allthe time. We just set it up
and we we just sit an audiencein there, you know, like very
indie making it happen. Yeah,but it's a lot of fun, a
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lot of fun. And then theother show we're really excited about as we
do have a news show that we'redoing, which I know might seem like
surprising for who we are and whatwe do, like we mostly do narrative
and things like that, but wejust, um, we just really wanted
to provide a place where people cango and watch the news and have it
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be a really pleasant, up beat, fun experience. You know, no
downers, nothing, nothing upsetting,right, and um, the type of
stories that we cover are usually anythingnerd um geek culture. You know,
we like talk about tech movies,video games, card games, what's going
on in the world of you know, these these different things. You know,
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somebody who might enjoy going a comiccon would also probably enjoy our news
show that's called Good Magical Morning.And um, of course we have the
Instagram the TikTok for that as well. Good Underscore Magical Underscore Morning. But
you'll see a theme here that wehave our Good Magical Morning and our Good
Night Tonight and Good Magical Morning comesout on Monday mornings, and good Night
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to Night comes out on Friday night. So we've got your cover some you
know, feel good shows. Andthat's kind of the motto of Pure Magic
pictures the streaming platform as a whole, like what is cohesive? What what
are we? Well, we're theonly independent feel good platform, So you
know if you come here and youwatch anything on our platform, that it's
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going to be feel good. AndI think we can all in this da
use, no matter how old weare, use something that is UM feel
good because there's a lot of notfeel good around m Yeah, I feel
like everyone else does not feel good. Covered still makes people. I guess
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you stay in your lane. Yeah, stay in your lane because the other
lanes are pretty full at this pointin time. Exactly necessarily a good thing.
M You know. One of theother things about Pure Magic is that
you guys are very, very diverse, and I think that's important because you're
(21:22):
creating UM a streaming service that iskind of you know, as I said,
as View said, and Klane,and I've spoken to both of you.
Um, it's really kind of likereflective of the community you live in,
which is you know, the Brooklynarea, but definitely reflective of what
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the country has become. And that'sa great thing. Yes, thank you
so much for exactly you said itso well. I mean where we're in
Brooklyn, New York. So that'sjust gonna happen naturally for us, which
I think is a beautiful thing.I love, absolutely love living in Brooklyn,
well, New York City as awhole, but especially like you know,
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I have a heart for Brooklyn BestBorough, right, But you know,
I just I love the culture here. I love like the diversity here.
I love the foods that are hereand and everything. It's just it's
such a wonderful place to live,and it's such a great place to operate
a film studio and a streaming serviceout of because those things just it just
(22:32):
happened so naturally, you know,I don't even really have to it's just
it's it just there, it is, you know, m you know,
it's um it's also the best placeto actually see New York City, Manhattan,
it's from Brooklyn. Um, it'sjust the walk there, um across
the river, you can you cansee the whole you know, skyline lit
(22:56):
up. It's um. It's definitelyplus. And Brooklyn's back. I mean,
Brooklyn was, you know out therefor a while. We're it didn't
really have an identity, and nowit seems to have recaptured that. And
I'm both you. I'm not aManhattan kind of guy. I'm definitely down
(23:17):
with Brooklyn. So you got Brooklynproud. Yes, we'll talk about some
of the stuff that's coming up.I would love to tell you about what
we have coming up so well,a few. We're working on multiple projects
right now, as I'm sure youcan imagine, right because that's who we
are in indie film studio, makingour own things for our own streaming service.
(23:41):
So we've got to keep things coming. So one thing that we're working
on that we're very excited about isour first narrative TV show series. It's
gonna be like a sitcom, acomedy series, and it is called Dino
Guru, so we're really excited aboutit. It is a show about a
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group of friends who are all playersof a trading card game called Dinoguru,
and so you know, they're inBrooklyn and they're going to different Dino Guru
tournaments. Then it's just a reallyfun, you know, story of them
playing Dino Guru. So I thinkif I were to point to a show
to say it's kind of like blank, you know, it's kind of like
(24:26):
Community or you know, Thirty Rockor The Office or Parts and Wreck,
you know, has like that kindof a vibe to it. But then
of course it's difficult doing that becausethen when it comes out, it's so
if it's going to be very unique, right, it's going to be its
own thing. But if I triedto point to something, that's what it
would be. And one of thereally fun things about creating the TV show
Dinah Guru is that in order todo so, we're also creating the actual
(24:51):
playable trading card game Dino Guru thatthe characters play in the TV show.
And so, you know, it'sa trading card game kind of like you
know Digimon or Magic the Gathering Pokemonright where it's um, you know,
you you buy the decks, youbuild your you build your deck, and
you battle people with Dino Guru,which is um, you know, little
(25:17):
adorable cute dinosaurs and so it's beenso much fun. We've been building the
game, we've been testing the deck. We actually have some friends who are
professional Digimon and Pokemon players who havecome and help us play our decks that
we've built and give us feedback onhow to make the game even better.
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So the game will be coming outand be purchasable alongside with the TV show.
So that has been a really funproject. And we have the most
talented illustrator drawing all of these dinosaurs. So if you want to see what
the dinosaurs and Dino Guru are lookinglike, you know, you can always
(25:59):
see on the Dino Guru Instagram.It's you know at Dinoguru Pure Magic,
or you can also like sign upfor our newsletter up pure Magic Pictures dot
com as well. But it's reallyfun to just see this coming together,
like one dinosaur at a time comingin and getting to name the dinosaur and
what moves does it have and thingslike that. So Dino Guru has been
(26:22):
so much fun to work on.And that's gonna be written and directed by
my husband Kalani, but I'll alsoI'll be producing it and doing all the
things, so that we're really excitedabout you'll handle the showrunner aspects of it.
M Yeah, somebody has to makesure that all the logistics are in
place, so I'll be doing thelogistics. And then additionally, also this
(26:45):
year, we're doing a lot allat once, but we're also making our
next feature length film, and thisone is called The Squatchers, and it's
about a group of friends who goup state New York and go sas squats
hunting. They're gonna go look forBigfoot and so this has been so much
fun to work on. It's umyou know, also written by, written
(27:07):
and directed by Kalani and he wroteand directed plunder Quest, And just like
plunder Quest, it has that EightiesSpielberg vibes and inspiration, so you know,
picking up from like Back to theFuture or the Goonies or Indiana Jones,
you know, et like those kindsof that vibe. You know,
that tone of film. I feellike you don't really see movies coming out
(27:30):
that feel the way those movies felt, and so it's definitely going to have
that feel to it. And it'syou know, it's a it's an adventure
but also a bit of a comedy, you know, about friends that are
looking for Bigfoot, you know.So it's gonna be a lot of fun
called the Squatchers. And we've beenhaving so much fun creating a mask like
(27:51):
at actual like custom you know,molded mask for Bigfoot himself. And we've
casted Bigfoot. He's a good friendof ours. Now since casting him,
we've already hung out a few timesand he came to like, you know,
some parties in our studio and stuff, and he's like really excited to
do like the creature work and bein the big Foot costume running around.
(28:11):
So it's going to be so muchfun. I mean, you've got some
pretty good pull if you can getbig Foot to start in your films.
Yeah, that's not a bad situationthere. That's that's better than scoring That's
better than scoring Brando for the God, you know. I mean, I
guess we've we've made it now.We were able to get big Foot,
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and you know what, that's right, make a phone called big Foot says
I'm there, you know. Yeah, the contracts, no agent, just
you know, whatever you need,I'm here. M hm. He's actually
surprisingly easy to work with. Well, there you go. Of course,
he has big feets. You haveto be careful in that aspect. But
yeah, no, it's yeah.You know, you're so right about the
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you know, the Spielberg guest mgenre of Indiana Jones and and those shows,
because those movies, because they wereplayful. There was no in those
days when they were doing it.There was no green screens, there were
no CGI stuff. I mean,you know, whatever you saw, ye
had that was there. You know, nowadays, you know, they could
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do a movie and literally, youknow, not leave the sound stage and
and make it look like they're onthe moon or you know, like the
Mandalorian or as some of these thingshave done by George Lucas for Disney.
Plus you know, when you lookat where they're shot, you know,
literally you wouldn't you couldn't tell ifyou didn't know what the you know,
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what was there, because it's alldigitally and computer generated. But that was
the beauty of the Spielberg stuff wasit wasn't They didn't have that technology.
So what you saw was you know, stunt people and all kinds of a
fun thing. So um, thatsounds like you've guys have got plenty of
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good stuff going on. All right, kiddo, here we go. You've
got the elevator pitch like I callit shameless plugs. It's my term,
not yours. Give me what youwant people to know about Lily Darling,
about your magic and about you know, where they can find it. Yeah,
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There's definitely something missing. And ifyou feel that as well, I think
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know, it's it's fresh, it'snew, it's authentic, it's genuine,
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you know, check out. Wehave a lot of movies and shows on
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be a part of the be apart of it, be a part of
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Hey one, and welcome to thisedition a stream On. I'm Jim Williams,
your host. Now. My guesttoday is Stephanie Hubbard, the creative
force behind the new film Lily Darling, A punk Rock Romance. Now one
of the joys that I have hereof doing stream on it. We've done
it now for four years, overtwo hundred podcasts. As you know,
(00:48):
we've interviewed pretty much major executives fromall of the key streaming services, stars
from many of the shows. Butas much fun as that is to me,
the real fun is finding little gemsand turning you onto them, finding
little streaming services or things that youjust have never seen before. Well,
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such is the case this week.As I said, Stephanie Hubbard is my
guest now. Lily Darling a PunkRock Romance is a labor of love for
Stephanie because she wrote it and shedirected it. Presently streaming on Pure Magic
Pictures. Now. You may remembera while back that Stephanie and her husband
(01:34):
Klanni came on the podcast to talkabout Pure Magic just as they were getting
ready to launch. It's an outstandingstreaming service. Lots of really fun and
creative stuff and things that you're notgoing to find on Netflix or Amazon or
Disney Plus or any of the othermajors, because this is a mom and
(01:57):
pop shop and they do an outstandingjob. So it's really a treat to
have Stephanion today and to chat withher about her new film, Lily Darling.
And Steph, I gotta say this. You know, in sports,
specifically in baseball, when someone cando everything, they're called a five tool
(02:19):
player. Now that's a very elitetitle, five tool player. But clearly,
my friend, you are a fivetool filmmaker. You can direct,
you can write, you can produce, and in this case, you also
help run the streaming service, hencethe term mom and pop shop. But
kudos to you for putting together acharming movie, Lily Darling, a punk
(02:46):
rock romance. Let's talk about that. Well, thank you so much.
I'd love to tell you about LilyDarling. So, Lily Darling is my
first feature length film that I wroteand directed, and it is a punk
rock romance about like these emo teenagersthat fall in love and it's set back
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in two thousand and six, soit's just a really good time. It's
full of nostalgia romance. It hassuch a fun score with a bunch of
source music from different indie bands,and we have a May Day parade song
and an early November song, andthen my husband actually did a lot of
composing for the music. That's alllike very guitar driven, so it kind
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of all comes together and it's justthis really fun experience of celebrating punk rock
and alternative culture. And you know, it's got a good teen romance and
some really fun characters in it aswell. So that's Lily Darling. You
know, after seeing the trailer,I now realize I have to learn to
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play the bass. It's a littleinside joke. Look at the trailer.
It's on YouTube. There'll be alink in the in the showbox below and
you'll get the joke. You know, the two folks who play the lead
characters in the film are very talentedand they've got very good chemistry. Tell
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me a little about your casting ofthe show. I'm sorry the movie.
Yes, I could not agree withyou more. Riley Rose, who plays
Darling in the film, the lead. She just hold down that role so
well, and it was just thislike God ordained, How did we get
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perfect person to play this character likeshe was Darling? She just embodied her
so perfectly, and she just gotthe character. It just clicked with her
so well. It just didn't reallyfeel like that far of a stretch for
her to get there, which Iyou know, it is compliment because she
is a very talented actress, butI feel like, you know, sometimes
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a role is maybe a further stretchfor an actor or sometimes more naturally,
and this role just came so naturallyto her. I was like, tap
into your upbeat, bubbly, golucky, whimsical side, and she just
totally did. And I remember whenI was watching through all of the audition
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tapes for Darling, you know,I had my maybe pile and my no
pile, and as I was goingthrough, when I saw Riley Rose's audition
for Darling, it was that wasit. I'm like, I'm not watching
another audition. She's the one,like she has to play Darling. It
was just completely perfect. I hadno doubt in my mind. And I
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was so nervous when I called herto ask her if she could play the
role, because I wanted her tosay yes so bad. I was trying
not to get my hope, toset myself for disappointment if for some reason
the scheduling didn't work out or somethinglike that, but it was. It
was really fun, and I definitelyput a lot of myself in the Darling
character, and there's definitely a lotof the Darling character that Riley can relate
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to, and so I feel like, you know, Riley and I just
ended up naturally having a lot incommon in that way, and so we
definitely got along really well on sefelike we became. But I ended up
joking around a lot by the endof filming that she was like my little
mini me because we just everything workedout so well. And then Jake Blakesley,
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who played Alie, the love interestin the film opposite of Darling,
Oh that I'm going to be completelyreal, like a little bit of the
behind the scenes of filmmaking. Wasthe most last minute casting I've ever had.
I looked high and low for Ali. It was like I could make
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an entire documentary about finding Ali,and he was so hard to find and
I was so nervous, and Ijust kept I just kept feeling this sense
of peace, like, don't worryabout it. You're gonna find him.
It's just going to be at thelast minute. And it was days before
the table read, Like, wehad the table read on the calendar,
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we had the dates for filming oncalendar. They were not movable, and
I was like, we have tofind Ali. This is so important,
you know this, there has tobe the chemistry. He has to have
all of this. And I lookedand finally, at the very last second,
Jake Blakeslee's audition tape came in andagain it was just like this,
Oh, this is perfect. Ihope he's available. And it was literally
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like, we want you to bethe lead in this feature film. Can
you come to the table read.It's in like five days. You know.
I was like, so last minute, But working with Jake was so
great and like the chemistry between himand Riley just worked out so well.
I'm just so thankful that we wereable to find the two of them.
You know, it's funny that yousay that. Jim Mecurio, who for
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the BBC has produced Line of Duty, which is one of the highest rated
shows there, as well as Bodyguard. Not the Bodyguard, but Bodyguard was
just a Netflix film, has saidthat when he was casting for the show
that he had a pile of Okay, you know, maybe's callbacks and killed
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it and he goes there was onlyone name in the kill it file.
So clearly that's what happened here.The other to parallel you're talking about.
He also said that he was upagainst it trying to find a lead character,
and Adrian Dunham is literally at arestaurant that he's at. He goes
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over and says hi. Adrian says, Higa, so what are you up
to? And he says, youknow what, I just finished the show,
got nothing going on, and hesaid, I'm gonna send something over,
look at it, tell me whatyou think, calls it back.
Forty eight hours later. He casthis guy two weeks before they had to
start filming without a lead character.So it happens. It happens to those
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with big budgets, and it happenswith those who I know from your standpoint,
you do everything you know organically ina very wonderful indie fashion. And
I think that you know what makespure magic fun is that you know what
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you are creating, something that you'repassionate about, and you know you don't
have five or six people from thenetwork or the streaming service or whatever sending
you show notes. You're your basicwriter, director, show runner, and
(10:03):
I think that is something that isfresh and fun, you know, especially
in these movies like you know,like you created with Lily Darling. Thank
you. Yeah, We've had somuch fun creating it. And that's really
what we're doing all the way around, from the cast to the crew,
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to how we get the music inthis film and everything like that. I
mean, I reached out to someof my favorite, all time favorite indie
bands like Fluorescence and Friends Circle andMoonroof and Matt the Graham and Raccoon Tour
and I was like, hey,like, will you let me use your
music in this film? And theywere all so graciously like yes, you
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know, like they are so excitedto get to be a part of the
film, and I'm excited to getto have them in the film. And
we actually made the Lily Darling MixCD. We're lovingly calling it the Mix
TV because it's from two thousand six, right, but it's a playlist and
it's on Spotify and Apple Music andit's every single song that's in the movie
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in a playlist and um, youcan find that on Lily Darling dot com.
We have, you know, thewebsite for the film is Lily Darling
dot com where we put the playlist, But people who love the movie then
they go and they listen to theplaylist as well, and they're like digging
the playlist, and then you know, we have also made some merch of
you know, like classic iconic wardrobepieces from the film. You can actually
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buy um Coles hoodie or Darling's hoodiefrom the movie um as well. And
I think the fans of the filmhave like really loved buying Coles hoodie and
like being like, you know,listening to the playlist and just being completely
engrossed in this film. It's likeits own it's its own little you know,
it's it's more than a film.I guess this is where I'm going
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with that. It's become a community. It's thank you you said it so
beautifully. It's to become its ownLily Darling community, you know. And
as thankful as I am that wegot to use indie bands to let us
put their music in there. Wedid also get Mayday Parade Motion City soundtrack
and the Early November I All havea featured song in this film as well.
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So it's just a complete nod andappreciation of the style of music and
the culture and the time. AndI just think anybody who was an Emo
kid in two thousand and six orwish they was Emo Kid in two thousand
and six, like, well,absolutely love this film, you know,
going back behind the ropes again,as you say, behind the scenes.
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I don't think people out there whoaren't in the business realize how difficult getting
music for a film is and howmuch that can cost you just to get
you know, one song, youknow, cleared, and it takes sometimes
it takes months to get that stufftaken care of. And the fact that
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you were able to get these bandsand to get them involved again, it
just shows that sense of community thatthat you have with Blue Magic and obviously
you created with you know, LilyDarling, and hey, you know the
most important thing you got merch.You know that you've made it when you
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got merch, right, I mean, because that means people are out there
on their own pitching the movie bysimply wearing a T shirt, right exactly.
Yeah. I mean the people whohave discovered Lily Darling like absolutely love
it and they just want to bethat much more part of it. I've
I've had people tell me they've watchedLily Darling like six or seven times.
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I'm like, oh, my gosh, you've watched I. I mean,
I technic we have because I'm theone who edited. I was in the
editing room. I'm sure you've seenit more than once. Yeah. Yeah,
but I'm like, Wow, there'svery few movies that I've watched six
or seven times. Like, Ifeel so honored and humbled that a movie
I wrote and directed somebody loved somuch that they just watch it over and
over like that, and just like, I'm just so blown away by that.
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I could tear up thinking about it. You know, well, it's
a testimony to again, your passion, your ability to do something that is
very very difficult, and that istakes something from your head and created a
story and then make that story cometo life. That is not an easy
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thing to do. Yeah, well, thank you so much for saying that.
I think, oh yeah, alot of people are kind of used
to just hit and play and watchingsomething and not really thinking about where it
came from and the amount of workthat goes into it. And it definitely
a lot of work and passion anddedication. But I can say it's one
of the most fulfilling things I've everdone, and all the blood, sweat
(15:07):
and tears were completely worth it.So let's talk for a second about Blue
Magic. You guys, you andKalani your husband started this and it's grown
and it's just getting better and biggerall the time with wonderful programming. And
(15:28):
you've got we're talking. Earlier inyou had said that you've got a couple
of shows that you're very excited about. Yes, we do. In fact,
just yesterday we wrapped production on thenext couple episodes of our late night
(15:48):
comedy show. So we have alate night comedy show called good Night Tonight,
and it's just a fun, fresh, new, completely indie take on
a late night talk show. Soyou know, it's it's got comedy,
it's got like monologues and stand up, and we also are filling it with
(16:08):
lots of fun little sketches, kindof like old school Saturday Night Live,
you know, bits and sketches withdifferent characters, and we are having really
fun and entertaining and unique guest starscome onto the show. So our last
we just had Gershawn, who's thekids six on TikTok come on and talk
(16:30):
about skateboard culture in New York City, and then we had a fun bit
with him where he did a popshove it on everyone's problems from the audience.
You just have to watch it ifyou want to understand. But we've
also had like really cool comedians andmagicians from New York just really unique,
entertaining talented people who maybe aren't ata place yet in their career where they're
(16:55):
gonna get invited onto Jimmy Fallon,but are still gonna just blow you away
with like their story and what itis that they're doing. And then in
addition to that, we also haveour version of you know, we have
indie bands. Local indie bands orcome and perform on the show as well,
all you know, usually punk rockmusic, something in that genre that's
(17:15):
really like the genre behind Pure MagicPictures, and they get to come and
show off their stuff and do acool, like usually a little bit acoustic
version of their songs. So thatshow has been really fun. That's called
good Night Tonight, and we dohave the good Night's Night Instagram, good
Underscore Nights, Underscore Tonights, oryou can also you know, go to
(17:38):
good Night's Nightdot Pictures if you wantto be in the audience because we have
an audience for the show, soyou can even come and be in the
audience. And we love having anaudience too because it's a really fun way
to also meet other people. Alot of times people come into our audience
or actors or you know, inthe industry in some way and we get
(17:59):
a chance to meet them there.But this show has been just really fun
and refreshing, and when people findout about it and see how different than
what's already out there, they justreally fall in love with the concept and
they're like, wow, we reallywe needed this and we didn't even know
it, and we want more ofit. And so it's the way it's
fun to your people say that.The other thing with a live audience in
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you know, doing those types ofshows is the comedians or the magicians or
the bands react so much better whenit's just not a cold, you know,
studio setting um. When they canplay off the crowd or they get
crowd reaction, which is what they'renormally used to, they seem to perform
(18:44):
better, right, That is sotrue. Yeah, definitely just makes the
atmosphere in the room that much morefun and enjoyable. So we're We love
that we're able to just in ourlittle studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, you
know where we operate out of allthe time. We just set it up
and we we just sit an audiencein there, you know, like very
indie making it happen. Yeah,but it's a lot of fun, a
(19:08):
lot of fun. And then theother show we're really excited about as we
do have a news show that we'redoing, which I know might seem like
surprising for who we are and whatwe do, like we mostly do narrative
and things like that, but wejust, um, we just really wanted
to provide a place where people cango and watch the news and have it
(19:29):
be a really pleasant, up beat, fun experience. You know, no
downers, nothing, nothing upsetting,right, and um, the type of
stories that we cover are usually anythingnerd um geek culture. You know,
we like talk about tech movies,video games, card games, what's going
on in the world of you know, these these different things. You know,
(19:52):
somebody who might enjoy going a comiccon would also probably enjoy our news
show that's called Good Magical Morning.And um, of course we have the
Instagram the TikTok for that as well. Good Underscore Magical Underscore Morning. But
you'll see a theme here that wehave our Good Magical Morning and our Good
Night Tonight and Good Magical Morning comesout on Monday mornings, and good Night
(20:15):
to Night comes out on Friday night. So we've got your cover some you
know, feel good shows. Andthat's kind of the motto of Pure Magic
pictures the streaming platform as a whole, like what is cohesive? What what
are we? Well, we're theonly independent feel good platform, So you
know if you come here and youwatch anything on our platform, that it's
(20:36):
going to be feel good. AndI think we can all in this da
use, no matter how old weare, use something that is UM feel
good because there's a lot of notfeel good around m Yeah, I feel
like everyone else does not feel good. Covered still makes people. I guess
(21:00):
you stay in your lane. Yeah, stay in your lane because the other
lanes are pretty full at this pointin time. Exactly necessarily a good thing.
M You know. One of theother things about Pure Magic is that
you guys are very, very diverse, and I think that's important because you're
(21:22):
creating UM a streaming service that iskind of you know, as I said,
as View said, and Klane,and I've spoken to both of you.
Um, it's really kind of likereflective of the community you live in,
which is you know, the Brooklynarea, but definitely reflective of what
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the country has become. And that'sa great thing. Yes, thank you
so much for exactly you said itso well. I mean where we're in
Brooklyn, New York. So that'sjust gonna happen naturally for us, which
I think is a beautiful thing.I love, absolutely love living in Brooklyn,
well, New York City as awhole, but especially like you know,
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I have a heart for Brooklyn BestBorough, right, But you know,
I just I love the culture here. I love like the diversity here.
I love the foods that are hereand and everything. It's just it's
such a wonderful place to live,and it's such a great place to operate
a film studio and a streaming serviceout of because those things just it just
(22:32):
happened so naturally, you know,I don't even really have to it's just
it's it just there, it is, you know, m you know,
it's um it's also the best placeto actually see New York City, Manhattan,
it's from Brooklyn. Um, it'sjust the walk there, um across
the river, you can you cansee the whole you know, skyline lit
(22:56):
up. It's um. It's definitelyplus. And Brooklyn's back. I mean,
Brooklyn was, you know out therefor a while. We're it didn't
really have an identity, and nowit seems to have recaptured that. And
I'm both you. I'm not aManhattan kind of guy. I'm definitely down
(23:17):
with Brooklyn. So you got Brooklynproud. Yes, we'll talk about some
of the stuff that's coming up.I would love to tell you about what
we have coming up so well,a few. We're working on multiple projects
right now, as I'm sure youcan imagine, right because that's who we
are in indie film studio, makingour own things for our own streaming service.
(23:41):
So we've got to keep things coming. So one thing that we're working
on that we're very excited about isour first narrative TV show series. It's
gonna be like a sitcom, acomedy series, and it is called Dino
Guru, so we're really excited aboutit. It is a show about a
(24:02):
group of friends who are all playersof a trading card game called Dinoguru,
and so you know, they're inBrooklyn and they're going to different Dino Guru
tournaments. Then it's just a reallyfun, you know, story of them
playing Dino Guru. So I thinkif I were to point to a show
to say it's kind of like blank, you know, it's kind of like
(24:26):
Community or you know, Thirty Rockor The Office or Parts and Wreck,
you know, has like that kindof a vibe to it. But then
of course it's difficult doing that becausethen when it comes out, it's so
if it's going to be very unique, right, it's going to be its
own thing. But if I triedto point to something, that's what it
would be. And one of thereally fun things about creating the TV show
Dinah Guru is that in order todo so, we're also creating the actual
(24:51):
playable trading card game Dino Guru thatthe characters play in the TV show.
And so, you know, it'sa trading card game kind of like you
know Digimon or Magic the Gathering Pokemonright where it's um, you know,
you you buy the decks, youbuild your you build your deck, and
you battle people with Dino Guru,which is um, you know, little
(25:17):
adorable cute dinosaurs and so it's beenso much fun. We've been building the
game, we've been testing the deck. We actually have some friends who are
professional Digimon and Pokemon players who havecome and help us play our decks that
we've built and give us feedback onhow to make the game even better.
(25:38):
So the game will be coming outand be purchasable alongside with the TV show.
So that has been a really funproject. And we have the most
talented illustrator drawing all of these dinosaurs. So if you want to see what
the dinosaurs and Dino Guru are lookinglike, you know, you can always
(25:59):
see on the Dino Guru Instagram.It's you know at Dinoguru Pure Magic,
or you can also like sign upfor our newsletter up pure Magic Pictures dot
com as well. But it's reallyfun to just see this coming together,
like one dinosaur at a time comingin and getting to name the dinosaur and
what moves does it have and thingslike that. So Dino Guru has been
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so much fun to work on.And that's gonna be written and directed by
my husband Kalani, but I'll alsoI'll be producing it and doing all the
things, so that we're really excitedabout you'll handle the showrunner aspects of it.
M Yeah, somebody has to makesure that all the logistics are in
place, so I'll be doing thelogistics. And then additionally, also this
(26:45):
year, we're doing a lot allat once, but we're also making our
next feature length film, and thisone is called The Squatchers, and it's
about a group of friends who goup state New York and go sas squats
hunting. They're gonna go look forBigfoot and so this has been so much
fun to work on. It's umyou know, also written by, written
(27:07):
and directed by Kalani and he wroteand directed plunder Quest, And just like
plunder Quest, it has that EightiesSpielberg vibes and inspiration, so you know,
picking up from like Back to theFuture or the Goonies or Indiana Jones,
you know, et like those kindsof that vibe. You know,
that tone of film. I feellike you don't really see movies coming out
(27:30):
that feel the way those movies felt, and so it's definitely going to have
that feel to it. And it'syou know, it's a it's an adventure
but also a bit of a comedy, you know, about friends that are
looking for Bigfoot, you know.So it's gonna be a lot of fun
called the Squatchers. And we've beenhaving so much fun creating a mask like
(27:51):
at actual like custom you know,molded mask for Bigfoot himself. And we've
casted Bigfoot. He's a good friendof ours. Now since casting him,
we've already hung out a few timesand he came to like, you know,
some parties in our studio and stuff, and he's like really excited to
do like the creature work and bein the big Foot costume running around.
(28:11):
So it's going to be so muchfun. I mean, you've got some
pretty good pull if you can getbig Foot to start in your films.
Yeah, that's not a bad situationthere. That's that's better than scoring That's
better than scoring Brando for the God, you know. I mean, I
guess we've we've made it now.We were able to get big Foot,
(28:33):
and you know what, that's right, make a phone called big Foot says
I'm there, you know. Yeah, the contracts, no agent, just
you know, whatever you need,I'm here. M hm. He's actually
surprisingly easy to work with. Well, there you go. Of course,
he has big feets. You haveto be careful in that aspect. But
yeah, no, it's yeah.You know, you're so right about the
(28:59):
you know, the Spielberg guest mgenre of Indiana Jones and and those shows,
because those movies, because they wereplayful. There was no in those
days when they were doing it.There was no green screens, there were
no CGI stuff. I mean,you know, whatever you saw, ye
had that was there. You know, nowadays, you know, they could
(29:22):
do a movie and literally, youknow, not leave the sound stage and
and make it look like they're onthe moon or you know, like the
Mandalorian or as some of these thingshave done by George Lucas for Disney.
Plus you know, when you lookat where they're shot, you know,
literally you wouldn't you couldn't tell ifyou didn't know what the you know,
(29:45):
what was there, because it's alldigitally and computer generated. But that was
the beauty of the Spielberg stuff wasit wasn't They didn't have that technology.
So what you saw was you know, stunt people and all kinds of a
fun thing. So um, thatsounds like you've guys have got plenty of
(30:07):
good stuff going on. All right, kiddo, here we go. You've
got the elevator pitch like I callit shameless plugs. It's my term,
not yours. Give me what youwant people to know about Lily Darling,
about your magic and about you know, where they can find it. Yeah,
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I mean I think that there isa gap in entertainment right now.
There's definitely something missing. And ifyou feel that as well, I think
you might be able to find itat your Magic Pictures dot Com. You
know, it's it's fresh, it'snew, it's authentic, it's genuine,
it's made by the artists, andit's going from the artist directly to you,
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skipping over all of the middlemen.You know, it's like we are
making it and putting it on ourplatform, and I get something that a
lot of people would really enjoy andwould really resonate with them. So,
you know, check out. Wehave a lot of movies and shows on
there and there's only more to come, and we'd love for you to come
be a part of the be apart of it, be a part of
the community. As you said,the part of the family is pure Magic
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Pictures, you know, and we'reextremely reach out to a bowl, We're
extremely approachable. So if you comeand you check out what we're doing,
you know, reach out to uson Instagram. Send it's an email.
You will hear back for me directly, because that's who we are. You
know where we are, the momand pop movie shop, and we would
love to hear from you. Sothat's my Elevator Pitch special thanks to my
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guest today, Stephanie Hobbar. Wouldbe sure to check out her new film
Lily Darling, a punk rock romance, streaming now on Pure Magic Pictures.
Take the seven day free trial andreally kick guitars and have fun watching all
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is reportedly considering the possibility of dumpingthe ten o'clock primetime hour and giving it
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back to their affiliates. Now,that would not happen overnight. And by
the way, it has been somethingthat's been going on, or at least
they've been looking into it for acouple of years. Now goes all the
way back to in two thousand andnine, when Jay Leno's ten o'clock primetime
show was bringing new meaning to theterm ratings disaster. NBC affiliates across the
(36:30):
country were howling about the damage thatnetwork's latest attempt to save money was doing
to their late night news. Soaffiliates personally, you know, they liked
Jay. Everybody likes Jay. Ilike Jay, but television is for business
and that cuts no slack. SoNBC quickly returned to a traditional program.
(36:52):
Sensing the rare opportunity to perhaps changethe paradigm, a number of stations lobbied
NBC to shrink prime time, givingback the ten o'clock hour something they would
like to do and use for startinga news block that we now see on
many Fox stations that begins at tenpm and ends at eleven fifteen. I'm
(37:19):
sorry, at eleven thirty. Now, why does that? Why is that
important to affiliates? Will affiliates maketheir money off of news and the possibility
of a shortened prime time, sayfrom eight to ten, like Fox did
when they launched and still due tothis day, CW does the same thing.
It's profitable for NBC affiliates around thecountry to have that extra hour for
(37:43):
which, as I said before,they can cash in on the news product.
Now, this is not something that'sgoing to happen overnight, okay,
and too many even though as Isaid before, it started the conversation in
two thousand and nine, it isstill something that will take time to implement,
if indeed they decide to pull thetrigger on the ten o'clock hour.
(38:08):
But this also has to do withstreaming services. Because streaming services, because
of all of the different product andyou know, primetime being anytime that you
wanted to be, uh, there'sless watching of linear television, which is
broadcast networks and the shows especially youknow, the ones that we see on
(38:28):
NBC and other networks. The scriptedprogramming like Law and Order and such.
Those you know, cost a lotof money to produce, and so the
networks have tried ways, mainly beingusing uh, the reality type programming to
get them by, but after awhile that gets tiresome. So anyway,
(38:52):
this is an interesting thing. Watchand keep an eye on it. It's
not going to happen, as Isaid over night. It could have happened
within a year. It could betwo years. But the situation of the
cost of producing quality primetime programming nowin a very combative and very competitive situation
(39:15):
with regards to streaming services out there, and you know, it makes network
TV much more difficult to sell toadvertisers. It makes it much more difficult
to produce twenty two episodes a yearof each program when you see you know,
Netflix and others producing anywhere from tento twelve and still doing well with
(39:39):
it. So this is going tobe something we want to keep an eye
on. Just keeps the heads upon it, and so by all means,
keep an eye on what's going onwith NBC and if NBC is getting
ready to kick that ten o'clock hourback to their affiliates. Meanwhile, on
the sports side, if you area tennis fan, and I am,
(40:00):
you know that this week is noneother than the US Open, one of
my favorite events, in Flushing Meadowsin New York. It'll be on ESPN,
and I hope that you'll have timeto check out Venus Williams. It
is going to be her swan songas far as tennis goes. She's a
(40:23):
world class athlete, she's the goat, she is the greatest of all time.
And so Venus is playing in FlushingMeadows. Check that out. A
lot of great tennis all weekend longon ESPN or friends over at ESPN and
the ESPN app as well as ESPNPlus. So by all means check it
(40:44):
out. And another thing, againtalking sports, there's a number of outstanding
college football games this weekend Georgia andOregon. That's gonna be Saturday and that's
gonna be three thirty Cincinnati in Arkansasalso Saturday, and that one's going to
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be again three thirty. You taughtin Florida, My Gators taking on the
Mutes. That's gonna be a seveno'clock primetime game on ESPN Notre Dame at
Ohio State, and know a lotof people are excited about that game.
That game is going to happen onABC at seven thirty on Saturday night.
And then we close out the weekendwith Florida State taking on LSU at the
(41:31):
Superdome in almost sit in bed rouge, but it's in New Orleans. That
game Sunday night, and that's alsois a primetime game seven thirty on ABC
and the ESPN app. So plentyof fun stuff. We hope that you
have a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend. We're getting into September, boys and
(41:54):
girls, so the fall season oftelevision's coming, and it's coming fast.
We'll be ready for that when wesee you again a week from today.
Until that time, have a wonderfuland safe holiday weekend. Thanks for joining
us and for the entire team hereat stream on. I'm Jim Williams saying
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