Jake Tapper on Afghanistan War Classic 'The Outpost'
On this week’s episode Sonny is joined by Jake Tapper, CNN anchor and author of The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, to talk about his book on Combat Outpost Keating and its adaptation into...
26 Aug 202135min
Zak Penn on 'Free Guy,' Writing Villains, and the Fate of 'PCU'
Very excited to have on Zak Penn this week, who, in addition to being one of the writers of Free Guy, is also a credited writer on a series of HBO classics from my younger days: Last Action Hero, PCU,...
19 Aug 202158min
Matthew Belloni on the Changing Ways Hollywood Gets Paid
This week, Sonny is joined by Matthew Belloni, author of the newsletter “What I’m Hearing” for the exciting new web publication Puck.news. Formerly an entertainment lawyer and editor for The Hollywood...
12 Aug 202132min
Clayton Childress Explains How Taste and Status Reinforce Each Other
On this week’s episode, Sonny talks to Clayton Childress, an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Sociology of University of Toronto who studies taste, decision, and meaning making in the creation, pro...
5 Aug 202137min
Ray Subers on Polling Moviegoers
On this episode of The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, Sonny talks to Ray Subers, a vice president at NRG, which has helped Hollywood studios with polling about movies for decades. Currently, NRG’s most in...
29 Juli 202134min
John Mass on the Future of Content
This week Sonny is joined by John Mass, Executive Vice President of Content Partners, LLC, to talk about the business of acquiring intellectual property and figuring out how to make the business side ...
22 Juli 202132min
Ryan Faughnder on How Valuable You Are (to Streaming Companies)
This week on The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, Sonny talks to the Los Angeles Times’s Ryan Faughnder about arr-poo (that is, RPU, or revenue per user) and how such calculations figure into the value of a...
15 Juli 202133min
Richard Rushfield on the Latest Hollywood News
On this week’s episode we ask a very important question of The Ankler’s Richard Rushfield: Is Vin Diesel a star? Really, what does it mean to be a star these days anyway? How are the streaming wars sh...
9 Juli 202131min
