Rushfield Lunch
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Surprise! Fox Village Theater’s Comeback Starts This Summer
Scoop: Programmer Grant Moninger updates me on his big plans for the historic venue
Latest Rushfield Lunch stories
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Not Just Directors: Women Are Losing Ground Across Hollywood
WIF CEO Kirsten Schaffer tells me the ‘numbers are going backward‘
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Wu-Tang’s RZA in His Director Era, Fueled by Tarantino
The cinephile makes his case for theatrical — and why filmmaking is ‘an orchestra’
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Warner Bros.’ Jeff Goldstein on the Big Tom Cruise Bet: ‘We Landed the Plane’
‘Owners come and owners go,’ the president of global distribution tells me from CinemaCon
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Inside the Oscar Knife Fight: How Best Picture Is Really Won (And Lost)
Legendary awards strategist Tony Angellotti reveals how the race is fought — and why losing can cost you everything
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The Oscars’ Arrogance Is the Point
A brutally honest conversation with my colleagues about the awards industry and its future
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Superagent Robert Newman’s Big Oscar Ideas: A Live Best Picture Elimination
The WME legend has a few smart ways to make the ‘boring’ ceremony feel fresh
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Penny Lane and the Tyranny of Cool
In a heroes-and-villains culture, she fights for nuance — even if it’s a ‘dirty word’
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Canada’s Instant Cult Hit Comes for America
I talked to Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol about TIFF darling ‘Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’
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Universal’s Michael Moses: My Modern Movie Playbook
The legendary chief marketing officer on selling urgency in the streaming age — and what we get wrong about Gen Z
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Indie Film is Broken. Ted Hope Has a New Idea: ‘NonDē’
‘What has happened to our country, is happening to our culture’
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Hollywood Stopped Making Movies About Women. Susanna Fogel Flipped the Script
The writer and director behind ‘Ponies’ tells me why the spy genre is the next best thing
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What ‘Wicked’ Producer Marc Platt Really Thinks of Awards
‘The way I measure success is the journey that I go on’
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How ‘Song Sung Blue’ Director Craig Brewer Went From Barnes & Noble to the Big Time
The filmmaker on how ‘Hustle & Flow’ changed his life and what to make of the Oscars’ jump to YouTube: ‘We are moving into a different age’
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‘Make Movies Better’: Roger Deakins & James Ellis Deakins’ Blunt Words For the Industry
The married couple and ‘Team Deakins’ podcast hosts on the future of the cinematic experience
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Rushfield Lunch: Winnie Holzman’s Wish for a Less ‘Wicked’ World
The acclaimed film, TV and stage writer is ‘devastated’ that the hit musical’s depiction of a nation under despotism feels so ‘relevant’ to current headlines
Rushfield Lunch brings Richard Rushfield together with top executives and creators for a live and lively weekly video on burning topics and the culture of Hollywood.