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Hollywood “Bombs” And Why The Film Biz Is Falling Apart

I must confess, even more than watching, even more than making, I LOVE talking about film. I particularly like it when I get to do it with a great group of passionate & knowledgable folk — as I just did. On Friday, I was invited to join just that type of conversation on Chicago NPR radio WBEZ. The pleasure for me comes from the same thing that leads me to blog: I think if  we are willing to share our thoughts and hopes, we may just find our way to a better place.

You can check out the full show, via Soundcloud:

Pt One:
https://soundcloud.com/afternoonshiftwbez/hollywood-bombs-and-why-the

Pt Two
https://soundcloud.com/afternoonshiftwbez/what-draws-you-to-the-movie

And as a special treat and you have 4 hours to spare, perhaps you want to check out this video of a masterclass I did with Christine Vachon in the UK awhile back.

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Ted Hope is a “holistic film producer”: he aims to be there from the beginning and then forever after, involved in every aspect of a film’s life cycle and ecosystem, as committed to engineering serendipity as preventing problems, as obsessed with lifting the good into the great, as he is…

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