Rushfield Lunch
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‘Heated Rivalry’ and Hollywood Risk with Bell Media’s Sean Cohan
As season two approaches, he joins to talk how the hockey romance happened and the streaming wars up north
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Hollywood & Tech Try Getting Along
My chat with Kenneth Williams, the man hoping to bridge the gap between the industry and AI
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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
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Rushfield Lunch: Franklin Leonard on the ‘Inevitable’ WBD Sale & Why He Has Hope
‘I’m very much a pessimist by nature and an optimist by practice,’ The Black List founder and CEO tells me
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Rushfield Lunch: Delia Cai Tries to Explain Today’s Internet to a Gen Xer
An indispensable conversation with Deez Links’ writer about being young online — and what Hollywood can learn from the youths
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Jane Fonda’s Free Speech Warning: ‘They Come for One of Us, They Come for All of Us’
The Hollywood legend speaks for the first time about the Committee for the First Amendment relaunch on Rushfield Lunch
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Rushfield Lunch: Garry Kasparov Sounds the Hollywood Alarm
Don’t relax about Kimmel, warns the Russian dissident, as ‘evil doesn’t die’ and comes back ‘the moment we lose our vigilance’
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The Rushfield Lunch: First, They Came for Kimmel, with Jonathan V. Last
The Bulwark editor paints a bleak picture after Trump’s latest encroachment on Hollywood: ‘Do not surrender in advance’
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🎬 The Rushfield Lunch: Why Awards Actually Matter with Christopher Rosen
I talked to Ankler Media’s own deputy editor about Dwayne Johnson, Netflix & his early bet on Oscar contenders
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The Rushfield Lunch: Nicholas Stoller & Francesca Delbanco
The ‘Platonic’ co-creators on comedy, theatrical and how they write: ‘We’re both hard on the material’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Lauren Greenfield
The ‘Social Studies’ creator and director says teens would ditch social media if they had the choice and are ‘nostalgic for the ’90s’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Joshuah Bearman
The writer/producer, whose work spawned ‘Argo’, has now written an account of Altadena and what was lost
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The Rushfield Lunch: Priyanka Mattoo
The author and former WME and UTA agent explains how writing gigs have become a more glamorous factory job: ‘The optics of it have changed’
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.