Joe Escalante, Live From Hollywood

Joe Escalante, Live From Hollywood

Movies! Disneyland! and the business side of Hollywood from Entertainment Business Affairs Expert and TV Showrunner Joe Escalante.

Episodes

This Week's Pantheon of Alleged Industry Rapists...

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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Chronicles of a Wandering Saint

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...
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Has Nathan Felder Been Wasting Your Time?

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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The Revenge of Chiang Kai-Peck

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...
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Kneecap Gets Kneecapped

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...
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Happy Easter! Live from Red Rocks!

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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Live from Coachella 2025!!!

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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Paddington Bear and the Peruvian Marching Powder

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...
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Snow White and the 47 Ronin

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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The Hackman Connection

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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Only Joe's Sister Likes Emilia Pérez

February 23, 2025 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly graceful swan dive into the business end of showbiz. This week: We're a week away from the Oscars, which can only mean one thing... the SAG Awards!!! Joe ranks the nominees for Best Picture in order of preference. He really didn't like Emilia Perez... speaking of which... Karla Sofía Gascón is not showing up to the SAG Awards amid the controversy of past tweets that came back to bite her. We'll see if she sho...
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Our Top Ten Movies of 2024

February 16, 2025 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly plunge into the business end of showbiz. This week: in anticipation of the upcoming Academy Awards, Joe and the crew go over their individual favorite movies of 2024. Joe has been ranting and raving about Wild Robot since he saw it, so obviously, that's his pick for #1... Producer Nikki is all about The Substance. Engineer Sam picked Monkey Man as his favorite of 2024. 

Joe ios excited about the upcoming Oscar...
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The Brutalest Oscar Ever

February 2, 2025 • 76 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly exploration into the business end of showbiz. This week: The Grammy's are tonight, and Joe hates them. Maybe it has something to do with there being no category for Best Punk Album. Then again, maybe Joe is too punk for your stupid music award show. Fun fact: did you know that there are 94 categories that get Grammy awards... including Best Album Notes... Jeez, no wonder why Joe hates the Grammy's... Anyways,...
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Kneecap SNUBBED!!!

January 26, 2025 • 40 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly spelunk into the business end of showbiz. This week: Joe, Nikki, and Sam talk about the impact of the wildfires on the communities hit hardest, talking about how many people are not planning on returning, and the trauma that comes with rebuilding. On a lighter note, we take a look at the latest box office numbers, and talk about the films seen this week. Joe also looks at the recently released nominations for...
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Better Man, Secret Chimp

January 19, 2025 • 37 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly sojourn into the oily depths of the business end of showbiz. This week: TikTok got banned (thanks, Congress!) and then unbanned (thanks, Trump!). Also, a bunch of TV political hacks are getting positions in Trump's White House. Not like it hasn't happened with other politicians on both sides of the aisle...

And, the latest numbers from the box office (One of Them Days and Mufasa reign supreme), Joe's approval ...
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Letterboxd party!

January 12, 2025 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dive into the business end of showbiz. This week: saluting our first responders during the tragic fires that are currently burning throughout Los Angeles. Joe talks about the impact the fires have had on the business end of Hollywood. It's hard to ask an actor to work on a project when their house just burned down. Also, Joe and producer Nikki explore and critique each others' Letterboxd film reviews. Nikki m...
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Golden Globe Preview

January 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dive into Hollywood's backside (business end of showbiz). This week: a look at the Golden Globes and the politics of award shows. Joe explains the reasons why no one wanted to see an anti-Trump movie (there are millions). Also, the latest from the Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni issues... it's a mess. At least the movie is finished filming, but damn...

And... are eco-friendly touring practices taking over the musi...
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It Ends with Litigation

December 22, 2024 • 80 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dip into the business end of showbiz. This week: the latest from the Kendrick Lamar/Drake lawsuit. Don't know why people call it that, when Drake is suing everyone except Kendrick Lamar... Also, the latest from the box office, and how things got so bad on the set of a Blake Lively's film that they had to call together a crisis meeting to stop the director from showing random people porn on his phone. And Adel...
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Joey, Do You Like Movies About Gladiators?

December 15, 2024 • 52 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly cruise through the business end of showbiz. This week: the latest box office numbers (Moana 2 is #1), Joe's favorite places to golf in SoCal, and is the film industry going anti-woke??? 

Also, the latest from the George Stephanopolis/ Donald Trump defamation suit. Trump wins, again! 
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Tropic Thunder is Funny Again. Thanks Trump!!

December 8, 2024 • 41 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly drive-thru the business end of showbiz. This week: the latest box office numbers. Moana 2 is out, and Joe tells you about the best way to see it... Movies in D-Box theaters turn mediocre movies into memorable experiences. Joe really enjoyed it at the Cinemark Bella Terra in Huntington Beach. Also, Joe watched Tropic Thunder, noting how, after Trump's election, people are allowed to be offensively funny again....
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