Joe Escalante, Live From Hollywood
Movies! Disneyland! and the business side of Hollywood from Entertainment Business Affairs Expert and TV Showrunner Joe Escalante.
Episodes
April 14, 2024 • 39 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly exploration of the business end of showbiz... This week, he's live right behind the main stage at the coldest Coachella ever (and you could tell!)!!! He was backstage for the first big gig for Sublime, and saw the No Doubt reunion. Also, the latest legal battle from the shoot that happened on the set of Rust... this time, the medic is suing for pain and suffering. Joe just thinks she was doing her job, but wh...
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March 31, 2024 • 38 mins
Taken from a talk given by Joe to the Southeast District Bar Association in Los Angeles in March of 2024. See the pictures Joe is referring to on the Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood Facebook Page.
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March 25, 2024 • 70 mins
This week on Joe Escalante's weekly dip into the business end of showbiz... Joe is Big in Japan! He just flew in from Tokyo, and boy, are his arms tired (HEYO!!!!)... He saw Sumo wrestling live!!!!
Ghostbusters got a new movie on top of the box office! Elon Musk isn't thrilled with Don Lemon for calling out hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter, and Joe brags about being a member of some exclusive clubs here in SoCa...
Ghostbusters got a new movie on top of the box office! Elon Musk isn't thrilled with Don Lemon for calling out hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter, and Joe brags about being a member of some exclusive clubs here in SoCa...
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March 10, 2024 • 40 mins
Joe Escalante's Weekly dive into the business end of showbiz. It is Oscar Sunday!!! Joe goes over his picks for Best Picture, and his own top 10 films of the last year. Also, the latest from the Rust case... The armorer was found guilty of manslaughter. And there is a major controversy brewing with one of the films up for several awards tonight... Plagiarism??? Joe goes in deep on The Holdovers controversy.
Pleadse forgive the audi...
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March 4, 2024 • 36 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly journey into the business end of showbiz. This week: Joe has plenty of celebs behaving badly... Alec Baldwin is on trial, P. Diddy is sexually harassing other men, Oprah is off the board of Weight Watchers for taking a diet drug (THE AUDACITY!!!). Also, the latest from the box office, and a rundown of the nominees for Best Picture at the Academy Awards (it's Oppenheimer).
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February 26, 2024 • 75 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly look into the business end of showbiz. This week: Joe saw the Bob Marley bio-pic and spills the beans about a new Sublime bio-pic project he's working on. Also, candidate for LA District Attorney Maria Ramirez joins Joe to discuss the hotly contested race to unseat George Gascon as Los Angeles District Attorney. They discuss the rampant crime issues in LA, placing the blame for the rise in crime and loss of m...
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February 26, 2024 • 36 mins
Maria Ramirez joins Joe to discuss the hotly contested race to unseat George Gascon as Los Angeles District Attorney. They discuss the rampant crime issues in LA, placing the blame for the rise in crime and loss of moral at the DA's office squarely on the shoulders of Gascon.They talk about ways to keep the city from becoming like how San Francisco currently is. Maria also talks about her life growing up in LA, and her desire to se...
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February 19, 2024 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly escapade into the business end of showbiz. This week: Joe talks about the precursor to the Oscars, the BAFTAs (it's a British award show). Poor Things and The Holdovers look like they are poised for Oscar night success, even though Joe can't understand why. Also, is ESPN/Disney/Fox creating a sports programming monopoly? Are you ready to pay $40 to watch your favorite sports team? And one of Joe's old bosses,...
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February 6, 2024 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dive into the business end of showbiz. This week: Alec Baldwin pleads not guilty, as did the armorer on the Rust set. Also, the latest from the Box Office, and Joe starts digging into his Oscar picks for Best Picture, including Zone of Interest, a WWII film that caught all of Joe's attention, and Poor Things (nominated for 11 Academy Awards). Also, Universal pulled all their artist masters off of TikTok for n...
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January 28, 2024 • 39 mins
This week on Joe Escalante's graceful swandive into the business end of showbiz. Joe talks Vince McMahon and Brock Lessnar potentially being in serious marital and legal trouble. Also, the latest from the Box Office (why isn't anyone seeing ISS???). And Texas does not like Alec Baldwin. At all. Joe doesn't think it'll amount to much, but Alec Baldwin is selling his home in the Hamptons for a reason... This whole thing isn't going t...
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January 21, 2024 • 29 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dip into the treacherous waters of the business end of showbiz. This week: Madonna got hilariously sued for starting a show late. Also, the latest from the box office, Joe's awesome band management skills, and Pauly Shore tryiong his hand at acting like someone else for a change! Richard Simmons??? Oh this is going to be good...
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January 15, 2024 • 38 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly sojourn into the business end of showbiz. This week: the latest from the box office, and George Carlin's family is pissed off at Artificial Intelligence. Also, Disneyland has a secret day-drinker day.
Ok... Now we know that there's a secret day-drinking day at the park. Next step is to figure which day that actually is!
Ok... Now we know that there's a secret day-drinking day at the park. Next step is to figure which day that actually is!
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January 8, 2024 • 27 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dip into the business end of showbiz. The show was shortened by NFL football, but that doesn't stop Joe Escalante from bring you the latest info from Hollywood. This week: the latest from the box office, and the Steamboat Willy is now public domain. That's not stopping people from making huge legal mistakes when trying to make new Mickey Mouse stuff.
You really don't want to piss off Disney's legal department...
You really don't want to piss off Disney's legal department...
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January 6, 2024 • 37 mins
Joe Escalante's dip into the murky waters of the business end of showbiz. This week: a look back at the top movies of 2023!!!
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December 18, 2023 • 73 mins
Joe Escalante's arduous journey through the business end of showbiz. This week: Mickey Mouse enters the public domain, Joe's lifelong love affair with Steve Martin, and Mr Broadway Pants returns to talk about some of the great shows you can catch in LA this winter. Whatever you do... DON'T TAKE JOE TO SEE RENT.
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December 14, 2023 • 16 mins
Joe got pre-empted by NFL football, so he's bringing you an emergency edition of the podcast. This week: Godzilla may have not won in the box office, but it certainly won over Joe Escalante's heart.
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December 4, 2023 • 36 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly exploration of the business end of showbiz. This week, Joe talks about Kelly Clarkson's latest legal news... apparently managers aren't allowed to get talented people jobs. Who knew (Joe did)?
Also, the latest from the box office, and Joe goes into some of his favorite cults of all time.
Also, the latest from the box office, and Joe goes into some of his favorite cults of all time.
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November 29, 2023 • 39 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dip into the shark infested business end of showbiz. This week: the latest from the box office and Joe's weekly movie picks. Also, Hall & Oates are no more, thanks to Daryl Hall's restraining order against John Oates. And more and more musicians are getting taken to court for being naughty with their female fans. Diddy and Axl Rose might be in trouble...
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November 20, 2023 • 39 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly look at the business end of showbiz. This week: the latest from the box office. Also, Joe is really pissed at PBS for blatant lies told in their new Monopoly documentary. Also, Joe still hates Killers of the Flower Moon. And, in this weeks celebs behaving badly: P-Diddy settles a rape charge (that was quick...), and Ron Jeremy is out of prison... Not sure if he's aware of that fact, but he's out!
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November 8, 2023 • 42 mins
Joe Escalante's weekly dive into the business end of showbiz. This week: the latest box office numbers. Also, AI is taking over everything, and Scarlet Johannson Is not a fan... Even with a disclaimer saying that it isn't really her, she's worried that people will think that the AI is actually her. And Joe rips apart Aerosmith's Steven Tyler for being a terrible person in the 1970s.
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