The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
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  • January 3, 2023

    S2E16: Car Ride To Hell

    Welcome to our first new episode of 2023! We’re dropping a Joel Silver story we’ve been threatening to tell since we started this podcast last year. The Car Ride To Hell! How do we know it ended up in Hell? Well, for starters, Donald Trump makes an appearance – two actually! Here’s the setting. As…

  • December 28, 2022

    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…

  • December 28, 2022

    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…

  • December 22, 2022

    Bonus Episode: “Is “Die Hard” A Christmas Movie?

    Tis the season to ask this essential question: Is “Die Hard” a Christmas movie?

  • December 22, 2022

    Bonus Episode: “Is “Die Hard” A Christmas Movie?

    Tis the season to ask this essential question: Is “Die Hard” a Christmas movie?

  • December 20, 2022

    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…

  • December 20, 2022

    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…

  • December 15, 2022

    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…

  • December 13, 2022

    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…

  • December 13, 2022

    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…

  • December 7, 2022

    The LIVE Table Read For Charity

    Please join us & THE CRYPT KEEPER at NOON PACIFIC TIME on SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 for a LIVE TABLE READ FOR CHARITY! Some movie projects become legend without ever getting made. “Tales From The Crypt Presents Dead Easy” is one of them. We’ll be reading “DEAD EASY” – the “Tales From The Crypt” feature film…

  • December 6, 2022

    S2E12: “Buried Bodies”

    Wanna know how to break into the move and TV biz? Know where all the bodies are buried. In order to do that, you have to be in on the burying process. If you’re not leading the body-burying op, you must be assisting. In Hollywood, those people – the ones willing to bury the bodies…

  • December 6, 2022

    S2E12: “Buried Bodies”

    S2E12: “Buried Bodies”

    A great Hollywood assistant is someone who knows where all the bodies are buried because THEY helped bury em.

  • December 3, 2022

    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…

  • November 29, 2022

    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…

  • November 29, 2022

    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…

  • November 26, 2022

    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…

  • November 23, 2022

    S2E10: “Hanging Out W Alan & Gil”

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  • November 22, 2022

    S2E10: “Hanging Out W Alan & Gil”

    In this episode, Gil and I invite you to hang out with us and shoot the shit. But – before we forget (and while we have your attention) – please join us Saturday December 17 at NOON Pacific time for a “TABLE READ FOR CHARITY”. The MOTION PICTURE HOME (run by the Motion Picture Television…

  • November 22, 2022

    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!

  • November 22, 2022

    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…

  • November 22, 2022

    “Can You Believe Taye Diggs?” – VIDEO VERSION

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  • November 22, 2022

    “Bill Sadler Is A Really Nice Guy” – VIDEO VERSION

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  • November 21, 2022

    How NOT To Make A (Monster) Movie – VIDEO VERSION

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  • November 21, 2022

    Steve DeSouza Has Even MORE Of A Story Tell – VIDEO VERSION

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  • November 21, 2022

    “Steve DeSouza Has A Story To Tell” VIDEO VERSION

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  • November 21, 2022

    S2E9: “Can You Believe Taye Diggs?”

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  • November 21, 2022

    S2E8: “Bill Sadler Is A Really Nice Guy”

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  • November 21, 2022

    S2E5: “Steve DeSouza Has Even MORE Of A Story”

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  • November 21, 2022

    S2E4: “Steve DeSouza Has A Story”

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  • November 21, 2022

    S2E3: “Casting About With Victoria Burrows”

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  • November 20, 2022

    S2E1: “THE Crypt Keeper Interview”

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  • November 20, 2022

    S1E10: “Can We Talk Sequel?”

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  • November 20, 2022

    S1E9: “Joel Directs!”

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  • November 20, 2022

    S1E8: “The Martini”

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  • November 20, 2022

    S1E7: “Tales About Tales”

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  • November 20, 2022

    S1E6: “The Cutting Room Floor”

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  • November 20, 2022

    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…

  • November 20, 2022

    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…

  • November 20, 2022

    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…

  • November 20, 2022

    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…

  • November 20, 2022

    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…

  • November 20, 2022

    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…

  • November 20, 2022

    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…

  • November 20, 2022

    The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast S1E1: “Sausage-Making, Hollywood Style”

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  • November 15, 2022

    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…

  • November 15, 2022

    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…

  • November 8, 2022

    S2E8: Bill Sadler Is A Really Nice Guy

    S2E8: Bill Sadler Is A Really Nice Guy

    This conversation feels like a pair of comfortable slippers. It’s that warm and familiar.

  • November 8, 2022

    S2E8: Bill Sadler Is A Really Nice Guy

    S2E8: Bill Sadler Is A Really Nice Guy

    This conversation feels like a pair of comfortable slippers. It’s that warm and familiar.

  • November 2, 2022

    “Dirty Laundry” – VIDEO VERSION

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