Rushfield Lunch
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Matt Stoller: Paramount Has a 60% Chance of Losing WBD
The monopoly expert who predicted the states’ challenge on why mounting legal and financing risks could kill the deal
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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
Latest Rushfield Lunch stories
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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’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Franklin Leonard
‘This town seems allergic to innovation,’ The Black List founder tells me. ‘But that can be a good thing’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Parvati Shallow
The ‘Survivor’ champ and author tells me: ‘I was doing really well, but internally, I was a mess. I didn’t have a real connection to my heart’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Claire Zulkey on the Kids’ Screen Time Debate
Says the Evil Witches writer: ‘We reserve the right to take it away, usually for the younger child if he’s being a dick’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Ted Gioia on What the Media Doesn’t Understand
The cultural critic tells me how the Substack revolution will impact legacy media. When ‘you’re dealing directly with your audience, the rules all change’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Talking Young Hollywood with Tepper
How to convince someone to leave the doom scroll and come to the TV show
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The Rushfield Lunch: Tom Segura & Jeremy Konner on the State of Comedy
I sat down with the ‘Bad Thoughts’ creator and exec producer to talk pushing boundaries and social media
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The Rushfield Lunch: Sonny Bunch on Critics & the State of Studio Films
I sit down with The Bulwark’s culture editor to talk reviews, the Rotten Tomatoes problem and his Letterboxd 4
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The Rushfield Lunch: Ben Dreyfuss on the Left’s Failings, Social Media & Drudge
I sit down with the incisive cultural commentator to figure out the great question of our age: ‘What the hell is wrong with everybody?’
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The Rushfield Lunch: Gen X Culture, ‘Catastrophe’ with Meghan Daum
I sit down with one of the voices of her generation to figure out its fate, with a lot of fun digressions along the way
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.