Rushfield Lunch
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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
Latest Rushfield Lunch stories
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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
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Rushfield Lunch: What ‘Good, Smart People’ Are Doing to Survive the Industry Roller Coaster
Creatives in entertainment have to ‘work to make things better ourselves,’ comedy writer Jay Kogen tells me: ‘Nobody’s coming to save you’
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Mike De Luca & Pam Abdy on Making Box Office History in the Face of ‘Surreal’ Criticism
The Warner Bros. bosses are wrapping the greatest year of hits in Hollywood and explain how they did it: ‘I refuse to believe we are in the end times’
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Rushfield Lunch: Kristen Stewart on the ‘Crock of Sh—’ Fed Female Directors
The actress makes an excellent feature directorial debut with ‘The Chronology of Water’ and sounds off on fake ‘brownie points’ & more
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.