Rushfield Lunch
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James Ellroy’s L.A. Is Dead — But Not The Crimes: ‘It Feels Un-Glamorized’
‘I can’t believe how it’s changed,’ the legendary author tells me in a wide-ranging chat about his newest, essential novel
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Latest Rushfield Lunch stories
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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
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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
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.