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“I wanted to approach it as a commentary on the time we live in, and Gen Z, but also myself because I’m totally addicted to my phone,” says Bodies Bodies Bodies director Halina Reijn on what drew her to the Kristen Roupenian story and Sarah DeLappe scripted feature. The horror comedy, which stars Pete Davidson, Oscar…

Spoiler Alert Warning: This podcast talks about the ending of Focus Features’ Vengeance.  In an industry where smaller films are sidelined to streaming, and making theatrical films even harder, 5x Primetime Emmy The Office nominee B.J. Novak headed to the one oasis where he knew he could make Vengeance, his feature…

Before Legendary Entertainment Godzilla franchise scribe Max Borenstein became attached as showrunner to Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty series, it took co-creator Jim Hecht some years after optioning Jeff Pearlman’s 2014 book, Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the…

“You can’t make this stuff up.” Such is the impromptu motif, and thus magic, of how The Kardashians continues to work for a new streaming audience, according to the series star, EP and matriarch Kris Jenner. Sure, the family can provide goal posts for the show’s EPs of what their social lives look like in the coming…

“It was a wild ride,” exclaims 2x Primetime Emmy nominated Grace and Frankie production designer Devorah Herbert about the final season of the Netflix/Skydance Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin series. A pinnacle task for Herbert no thanks to the pandemic’s impact on production: Tearing down all the sets she previously built on…

Obi-Wan Kenobi EP Joby Harold tells us about his spark for the continuing story of Luke Skywalker’s first Jedi Master; the hermit in the Tatooine desert who’s hiding from the Imperials. You can listen to our chat below: In keeping step with the original trilogy, Obi-Wan can’t really make contact with Luke just yet…

Spoiler Alert: The following podcast and article contains spoilers about tonight’s season 3 finale of HBO’s Barry.  After a three-season investigation, the cops have finally surrounded Barry. In a sting operation, orchestrated by Janice’s father, Jim Moss (Robert Wisdom), the title hit man, played by Bill Hader, is…

Today on Crew Call, The Afterparty architects Phil Lord and Christopher Miller discuss how they took what was a feature concept at TriStar more than 10 years ago and turned into a Rashomon comedy series for Apple TV+. The streamer literally died for it, so much that they gave a greenlight to a Season 2 writers room…

Today on Crew Call we speak with Jurassic World Dominion co-scribe Emily Carmichael about how she broke into the Universal $5 billion-grossing series; one of the keys to wowing over filmmaker Colin Trevorrow was her screenplay redo of Disney’s 1980s sci-fi movie The Black Hole.  We also talk with Carmichael about the…

For all the shock and awe that the Hulu series Pam & Tommy has to offer on the tortured romance of Baywatch bombshell Pamela Anderson and priapic Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, creator/EP Robert Siegel, EP D.V. DeVincentis and EP/episodic director Craig Gillespie saw a whole other, higher layer in the couple’s…

Molly Smith Metzler was first handed a copy of Stephanie Land’s book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive during her time in the Shameless writers’ room. Metzler had just written a play on motherhood called Cry It Out, and was the prime candidate for Maid EPs John Wells and Margot Robbie to adapt…

WeWork founder and former CEO Adam Neumann, who steered his real estate office company through some disastrous decisions, only to walk away from it with $1.7 billion, was a tell-tale ripe for a binge-viewing era. What was the way into this Icarus story? For co-creators Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello, it was through…