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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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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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S2E7: “Dirty Laundry”
If you really want to know what’s happening on any film or TV set, the last people you should ask are the executives. We know nothing of value. We may have a pretty good fix on where the budget is, but we have no idea who’s sleeping with whom. Film and TV sets are emotionally…
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S2E7: Dirty Laundry
If you really want to know what’s happening on any film or TV set, the last people you should ask are the executives. We know nothing of value. We may have a pretty good fix on where the budget is, but we have no idea who’s sleeping with whom. Film and TV sets are emotionally…
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S2E6: “How NOT To Make A (Monster) Movie”
Welcome to our Halloween podcast – How NOT To Make A (Monster) Movie. One of the masters of movie make up special effects is our very good friend Todd Masters. We’re sure you remember Todd vividly from Season One of The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast. Todd became Tales From The Crypt’s permanent…
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S2E5: Steve de Souza Has Even MORE Of A Story
This episode picks up where E4 left off. And then it gets even more epic. This is a big episode in more ways than one.
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S2E4: “Steve de Souza Has A Story”
In this episode of “The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast”, we sit down with a master storyteller: writer/director/producer Steve de Souza. You may not know Steve’s name, but you definitely know his work: 48 Hrs, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Commando, Streetfighter, Judge Dredd, Beverly Hills Cop 2. Steve practically invented the modern…
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S2E3: Casting About With Victoria Burrows
In this episode of “The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast: Horror Stories From The Movie Making Trenches”, we sit down with one of the biggest casting directors in the business, Victoria Burrows. Or, as we prefer to put it, we go “Casting About With Victoria Burrows”. In season one of “The How NOT…
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S2E2: “What’s Funny Is…”
Turns out, what’s really funny is the paths we all took to show biz success.
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S2E1: THE Crypt Keeper Interview
In this episode, the four people responsible for creating and producing one of the world’s most iconic characters – “Tales From The Crypt’s” Crypt Keeper – discus how that happened. The cool part? We’ve never had this conversation together. Ever. It’s about time we did.
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Season 2 Promo: The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast
In season two, we expand the franchise. “Horror stories from across the movie-making trenches”. More painful personal stories of movie-making craft turning into crap.
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The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast: Promo #2
“The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast” is an object lesson in what happens when you do things for all the wrong reasons. Spoiler alert: nothing good. It’s the outrageous, true story about what happens when craft turns to crap.
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Episode 10: Can We Talk Sequel?
I’ll close season one as a solo act with a few remaining “horror stories from the show business trenches”. I’ll tell more of those stories in Season 2! In this episode: a makeup special effects near disaster with actor Tim Curry playing three parts; how to tell an Oscar-nominated composer (Michael Kamen) you’re not happy…
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Episode 9: Joel Directs!
As you’ve probably gained from listening to this podcast, working for Joel Silver was an adventure. So, if you like stories about Joel, you’re gonna love this episode. The Joel Silver Fan Club In this one, we tell the story of the time our boss, Joel Silver, directed an episode of HBO’s “Tales From The…
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Episode 8: The Martini
The classic Martini is simple. Elegant. Ice cold gin or vodka with a whisper of vermouth. It’s the perfect end of the day cocktail. This episode will feature another kind of cocktail – a lively conversation wherein the Dads From The Crypt will interview Tales From The Crypt. Dads From The Crypt First, let me…
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Episode 7: Tales About “Tales”
Get a bunch of people together who worked on a project and they’ll have stories. That’s what this one is – backstage stories from “Tales From The Crypt”. How to describe the experience of making “Tales From The Crypt“… It was unique, for starters! Back in the 1990’s when we made Crypt, the feature world…
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Episode 6: “The Cutting Room Floor”
The Cutting Room Floor is legendary in Hollywood. Whole careers have happened there. In fact, there’s a whole weird history in Hollywood of scenes and actors who famously never made “the cut”. Kevin Costner, for instance, was entirely cut out of “The Big Chill“. He plays Alex – the guy who’s funeral all the other…
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Episode 5: “Endings Are Never Pretty”
As the production of “Bordello Of Blood” stumbled 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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Episode 4: “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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Episode 3: “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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Episode 2: How NOT To Cast A Movie
In a horror movie, the lead’s important but the villain is more important than anything.
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Episode 1: Sausage Making, Hollywood Style
“The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast” is a jaw-droppingly absurd story of Hollywood excess. Outsized egos run amok while the movie’s creative team slowly succumbing to the kind of madness only Hollywood can produce.
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Episode 7: Some Tales About “Tales”
How to describe the experience of making “Tales From The Crypt” for HBO… It was unique, for starters. Back in the 1990’s when we made Crypt, the TV world and the feature film world intersected very little. “Tales” was an exception to that Rule. We all had a feeling – as we made “Tales” that…
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Episode 6: The Cutting Room Floor
One of the cool things about podcasting is how granular you can get in the storytelling. Whatever the reasons I couldn’t or didn’t use this content in the story, I’m delighted that I can use it here. So many great stories, so little time in which to tell them all.
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Episode 5: “Endings Are Never Pretty”
How a movie starts is really important. How it ends though – how it sends its audience out into the night – is really, really important. The script for “Bordello Of Blood” had a perfectly acceptable ending. The Hollywood sausage-making process that put Bordello on the screen however had no ending. Put in horror movie…
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Episode 4: “Special Effects”
Nothing is more important to a horror movie than its makeup special effects. Ironically, we live and die by the quality, the craftsmanship, the authenticity and the sheer OMG-ness of how well we re-create the illusion of gore. That’s where this episode begins: we’ve realized that our local makeup special effects team – talented and…
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Episode 3: “Welcome To Vancouver/Can We Go Home Yet?”
There’s something inherently hopeful about starting a feature film or TV show. A team of strangers comes together to make something they all believe in. And then there’s “Bordello Of Blood”. Where a team of strangers got together – and simply got “stranger” with each other. In Episode 3, we settle in for the long…
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Preview: “When Coming Attractions ‘Kill’!”
“Bordello Of Blood” – even 30 years after it’s tortured making – stands as an object lesson in what happens when you do things for all the wrong reasons. Spoiler Alert: Nothing Good!