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S2E15: “Best Bits”
For a lot of people, 2022 was an outright annus horribilus. One to forget. That wasn’t the case for us here at the How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast. For starters, we came into being this year. That was a good thing (all things considered). We found a growing audience – that’s been even…
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Bonus Episode: “Is “Die Hard” A Christmas Movie?
Tis the season to ask this essential question: Is “Die Hard” a Christmas movie?
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S2E14: “Post Mortem” (Featuring Chelsea Rebecca & Jason Stein)
The body’s on the slab now. Let’s do the post mortem. This past Saturday, our little Podcast held a benefit for the Motion Picture Home – the MPTF. They’re a great organization that takes care of film folk in need. We performed a live table read of “Dead Easy“. That’s the “Crypt” film we never…
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The LIVE DEAD EASY Table Read For Charity!
Coming Saturday, December 17 AT NOON PACIFIC TIME! The Charity – The Motion Picture Home (the MPTF). They’re a great organization that takes care of film and TV people in need. Our Stellar Cast: SEAN ASTIN JAKE BUSEY TIA CARRERE BRETT CULLEN JOHN KASSIR CHELSEA REBECCA LESLIE ZEMECKIS To Make Your Donation (it’s how you’ll…
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S2E13: “(James) Bonding With Peter Iliff”
Peter Iliff‘s passion for movies started with James Bond. He was six and his dad took him to see “Goldfinger” on the day it opened. They watched it twice. Now, it may seem strange – a dad taking his six year old to see a Bond film – but, strangely, something happened there in that…
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S2E12: “Buried Bodies”
A great Hollywood assistant is someone who knows where all the bodies are buried because THEY helped bury em.
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The “DEAD EASY” LIVE Table Read For The Motion Picture Home Promo
Please join us on Saturday, December 17 at NOON PACIFIC TIME for a very special charity event! We’re going to do a table read of “Dead Easy” – the script for the second Tales From The Crypt feature that never was. Long rumored, and now, finally, found! We’re doing this for the Motion Picture Home…
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S2E11: “An Unexpected Journey”
Doing this podcast has been the ultimate unexpected journey. It all started when when the Dads From The Crypt interviewed me for an episode of their podcast. The moment Jason Stein – one of the dads – told me the group’s franchise – reviewing Crypt episodes and giving parenting advice – they had me. And…
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S2E11: “An Unexpected Journey”
Doing this podcast has been the ultimate unexpected journey. It all started when the Dads From The Crypt interviewed me for an episode of their podcast. The moment Jason Stein – one of the dads – told me the group’s franchise – reviewing Crypt episodes and giving parenting advice – they had me. And I…
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The “DEAD EASY” Table Read For Charity
Please join us – that’s Alan Katz & Gil Adler – as we host a TABLE READ FOR CHARITY! The Charity: The Motion Picture Home (the MPTF). They help film folk in need. The Read: The second “Tales From The Crypt” movie that never was (we made “Bordello Of Blood” instead) – “DEAD EASY”. Over…
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S2E10: “Hanging Out W Alan & Gil”
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S2E10: “Hanging Out W Alan & Gil”
Pull up a chair (if you’re not already sitting)! Gil & Alan are sitting down for a hang out!
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The “Dead Easy” LIVE Table Read For Charity
Please join us on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, at NOON PACIFIC TIIME for a “TABLE READ FOR CHARITY”! In the first season of the How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast, we told the tortured story of making “Bordello of Blood” – a movie none of us wanted to make. Our hearts were still invested in…
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“Can You Believe Taye Diggs?” – VIDEO VERSION
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“Bill Sadler Is A Really Nice Guy” – VIDEO VERSION
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How NOT To Make A (Monster) Movie – VIDEO VERSION
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Steve DeSouza Has Even MORE Of A Story Tell – VIDEO VERSION
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“Steve DeSouza Has A Story To Tell” VIDEO VERSION
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S2E9: “Can You Believe Taye Diggs?”
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S2E8: “Bill Sadler Is A Really Nice Guy”
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S2E5: “Steve DeSouza Has Even MORE Of A Story”
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S2E4: “Steve DeSouza Has A Story”
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S2E3: “Casting About With Victoria Burrows”
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S2E1: “THE Crypt Keeper Interview”
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S1E10: “Can We Talk Sequel?”
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S1E9: “Joel Directs!”
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S1E8: “The Martini”
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S1E7: “Tales About Tales”
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S1E6: “The Cutting Room Floor”
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S1E5: “Endings Are Never Pretty”
As the production of “Bordello Of Blood” headed toward its climax, we knew we’d leave Vancouver with an unfinished movie in hand. That was ironic because our unfinished movie had finished one relationship (between Sly Stallone and Angie Everhart) and was on its way to finishing another – the decade-long creative one between Alan Katz…
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S1E4: “Special Effects”
In a horror movie, makeup special effects are everything. Get them wrong and your audience will hate you. It’s just how the horror business is: no guts, no glory. If Freddy Krueger had looked like 1953’s “Robot Monster” (with a gorilla body and a deep sea diver helmet head – with antennas), the whole “Nightmare…
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S1E3: “Welcome To Vancouver/Can We Go Home Yet?
This episode also could be called “Location, Location, Location!” Where you shoot your movie makes a huge difference. One surefire way to turn craftsmanship into crap is to shoot somewhere you have no organic reason to be. For “Bordello of Blood”, that location was Vancouver. Like the script for “Dead Easy”, “Bordello of Blood” took…
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S1E2: “How Not To Cast A Movie”
In movies and theater and TV shows – in anything that hires actors – casting is the most important creative decision the director will make. Even where a director puts the camera will make no difference if the actors working the other side of the camera are wrong for their roles. Casting can be so…
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S1E1 Sausage Making, Hollywood Style
Fade In The “How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast” tells the story of Hollywood sausage making but from the sausage’s POV. It’s a story of outsized egos, misused power, wasted money and utter foolishness. Of bad behavior and even worse behavior. Of grown ups acting like inmates running the asylum. Of bullshit winning the…
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S1E3: Welcome To Vancouver/Can We Go Home Yet?
This episode also could be called “Location, Location, Location!” Where you shoot your movie makes a huge difference. One surefire way to turn craftsmanship into crap is to shoot somewhere you have no organic reason to be. For “Bordello of Blood”, that location was Vancouver. Like the script for “Dead Easy”, “Bordello of Blood” took…
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The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast S1E2 “How Not To Cast A Movie”
In movies and theater and TV shows – in anything that hires actors – casting is the most important creative decision the director will make. Even where a director puts the camera will make no difference if the actors working the other side of the camera are wrong for their roles. Casting can be so…
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The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast S1E1: “Sausage-Making, Hollywood Style”
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Can You Believe Taye Diggs???
The short answer is YES! You absolutely can believe Taye Diggs and that’s the whole point of this episode! We ask the question “What makes an actor ‘believable’?” And, the actor we’re using for demonstration purposes in this episode is the terrific Taye Diggs who, it just so happens, Gil (Adler) has cast twice. The…
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S2E8: Bill Sadler Is A Really Nice Guy
This conversation feels like a pair of comfortable slippers. It’s that warm and familiar.
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S2E8: Bill Sadler Is A Really Nice Guy
This conversation feels like a pair of comfortable slippers. It’s that warm and familiar.
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When filmmaking nuts & bolts go nuts