Rushfield Lunch
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Chris Aronson Has a Stark Warning for the Theatrical Business
The former Paramount distribution executive on the power of premium experiences and flexible pricing
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The Woman Who Helped Bring Australian Comedy to the U.S.
Princess Pictures founder Laura Waters on her work with Chris Lilley and why being the tallest poppy isn’t always smart
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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
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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’
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.