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The Industry

The Industry is a podcast that takes a closer look at some of the lesser known (and perhaps intentionally) forgotten stories of movie history. Insane productions, scandalous lawsuits, victories from the jaws of defeat, and the occasional crime are the order of the day in this Industry. Each story is explored with experts who know or with the people who were there. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

tv & film film history

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26:16

The Linguini Incident

The Industry ·

2025/02/20

The making of the quirky heist comedy The Linguini Incident is not a pleasant memory for writer-director Richard Shepard. Yes, he had a great cast including David Bowie and Rosana Arquette. He also was under funded and overwhelmed and eventually lost final cut. However, the sting of this failure never fully left him and thirty years later he set out to correct it. Shepard and Linguini Incident co-star Eszter Balint help tell this story of a missed opportunity and what it means to reclaim your

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3:14

Closing Night Returns

The Industry ·

2025/02/15

Season 2 of Closing Night is finally here—the theater history podcast that takes you behind the curtain to uncover stories about famous and forgotten Broadway show that closed too soon. While season 1 focused on musicals that came and went from the Marquis Theatre, this season host Patrick Oliver Jones is tackling a whole new kind of theatrical heartbreak: shows that never actually opened on Broadway.These are the productions that fizzled out during out-of-town tryouts or preview performances,

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26:29

History Daily - The Suppression of Citizen Kane

The Industry ·

2024/06/07

Presenting an episode from Noiser and Airship's podcast History Daily.OnHistory Daily, they do history, daily. Every weekday, Lindsay Graham (American Scandal,American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in history. This episode is about our favorite kind of history, film history.The day is May 1, 1941. Orson Welles’ revolutionary debut “Citizen Kane” premieres in New York after a bitter battle to suppress the film.Learn more about

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2:29

Introducing Stories My Brother Used To Tell

The Industry ·

2024/06/01

Something different from the creator of The Industry is coming soon. Here's a short preview of Stories My Brother Used To Tell.My older brother Eric would often tell stories of his misspent youth at family gatherings. Seemingly always about a car or girl or both, these ridiculous stories seemed almost impossible to believe. Now, after years of pestering, I've gotten him to share a few of those stories in a new podcast.Subscribe wherever you're subscribed to The Industry or use this link: Stories My

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30:09

Strike It All

The Industry ·

2023/12/12

In 1982 British filmmakerJames Scott had made an Academy Award winning adaptation of a Graham Greene novella. Adapting another Greene novella, this time as a feature length film, seemed like a natural progression of things. He had Greene's blessing to take his novella Loser Takes All and turn into a film that would feature stage star Robert Lindsay and Molly Ringwald. He had every element in place. Almost. The only thing left was getting American distribution. And that was found when a deal was

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37:20

Elaine's Mayhem

The Industry ·

2023/11/28

Elaine May will always be best known for her comedy with Mike Nichols and her screenwriting skills. However, as a director May is an uncompromising force who seemingly would do whatever it takes to get her vision on the screen. This episode looks at the great lengths May went to in order to get Mikey and Nicky, a lifelong passion project made, and what that lack of compromise cost her.Author Patrick Cooper, director of photography/cameraman Jack Cooperman, and an unnamed crewmember help tell this

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29:44

Blake Edwards Strikes Again

The Industry ·

2023/11/14

The death of actor Peter Sellers in 1980 also seemed like the death of the Pink Panther film series. Instead, director Blake Edwards decided it was a new beginning. A beginning of numerous lawsuits, several flops, and one unseen television pilot. Author John LeMay and actor Charlie Schlatter help tell the story of what happened when Blake Edwards kept trying to keep the Panther on the hunt. SourcesBooksLeMay, John. Trailing the Pink Panther Films: An Unauthorized Guide to the Pink Panther Series

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44:07

Alan Dean Foster

The Industry ·

2023/10/31

Alan Dean Foster is an accomplished author in his own right, but in this episode of The Industry, he shares his process of writing movie novelizations and some of the more interesting novelizations he's done. From Star Wars, Alien, The Thing, The Black Hole, and even a very special episode of Maude, Alan shares many of his experiences in this unique writing world. LinksDan Delgado on Twitter and BlueskyVisit Alan Dean Foster's websiteAlan Dean Foster's Memoir of his novelization work Hosted on

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37:00

Novelizations 101

The Industry ·

2023/10/17

Back in the 1970s and 80s if you walked into a bookstore you would undoubtedly had seen whatever the newest movie was in theaters sitting on a display in book form. The movie novelization is a world unto itself. We take a look at what it takes to adapt a movie to a novel, why the differences can be interesting, and get into why they exist in the first place. With insight from novelization experts Alan Dean Foster and Tim Waggoner, podcast host Paxton Holley, and filmmaker Whit Stillman, the rare

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37:49

Unmade Hitchcock

The Industry ·

2023/10/03

By the 1960's director Alfred Hitchcock was at the absolute height of his powers. He had reached the point where he could make any movie he wanted. Yet as the decade rolled on. Hitchcock seemingly had project after project he had developed not blossom into a feature film. What was keeping Hitchcock from making the movies he really wanted to make? We attempt to answer this question with help from HitchCon's Joel Gunz and author Shawn Levy.Links:Listen to Lew Wasserman's story on Glitter and Might:

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31:46

Two (More) From History Daily

The Industry ·

2023/09/26

Presenting two episodes from Noiser and Airship's podcast History Daily. OnHistory Daily, they do history, daily. Every weekday, Lindsay Graham (American Scandal,American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in history. First up it’s. The First Flight of the Wright Brothers:December 17, 1903. Orville and Wilbur Wright achieve the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight in history.Then it's The Spruce Goose Takes

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33:43

The Lost Picture Show: How Peter Bogdanovich's Final...

The Industry ·

2023/09/19

Peter Bogdanovich'sfinal film, She's Funny That Way, came and went and barely anyone seemed to notice. However, it wasn't the movie he reallymade. What Peter actually filmed was a black and white screwball comedy called Squirrels to the Nuts. What happened is a typical story. The movie didn't test well and the studio changed the film completely, and no surprise the studio version bombed anyway. The original version? That was believed lost to history.Or so we thought.A few years later, James Kenney

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1:03

Season 5 Trailer

The Industry ·

2023/08/21

A new season of The Industry with Dan Delgado is coming soon. More stories of overlooked film history. This season features a lost and found director's cut, the show going on and on without it's star, the biggest director in Hollywood consistantly not getting his movies made, and the joys of movie novelizations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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3:45

Introducing Closing Night

The Industry ·

2023/07/17

Step into the captivating world of Broadway musicals with Closing Night, a new narrative theater history podcast. In Season 1, we explore the magical musicals that graced the stage of the Marquis Theatre, beginning with the controversial demolitions that birthed its legacy. Join us as we chronicle the rich history of some remarkable shows at one of Broadway's youngest venues, unveiling their untold stories through rare audio clips and behind-the-scenes insights as well as interviews with industry

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35:48

A Not So New Hope (Updated)

The Industry ·

2022/12/15

There's a new autobiographical period movie that's recently been released about a young kid who is so fascinated by the movies he makes his own films at home, and eventually has a successfulHollywood career. No, I'm not talking about The Fabelmans.Patrick Read Johnson'snewly released 5-25-77 may seem like an attempt to cash in The Fabelmans buzz, but his films productionpredates the new Spielberg film by well over a decade.The Industry first covered 5-25-77 backin 2019 when Johnson thought he was on

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52:03

Presenting How I Got Greenlit

The Industry ·

2022/10/04

The Industry presents How I Got Greenlit, a new podcast hosted by the Creator of HBO’s Project Greenlight Alex Keledjian and Emmy Award Winning Producer Ryan Gibson, exploring how our favorite films got made and how they made our favorite filmmakers.This episode is part one of their two part conversation with screenwriter Chap Taylor. Chap Taylor has written screenplays and television pilots for all of the major Hollywood studios. He's worked for such producers as Brian Grazer, Scott Rudin, Irwin

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32:18

Two From History Daily

The Industry ·

2022/06/29

The Industry is proud to present back-to-back episodes of one the best history podcasts around: History Daily. On History Daily, they do history, daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous event that happened ‘on this day’ in history.Whether it’s to remember the tragedy of December 7th, 1941, the day “that will live in infamy,” or to celebrate that 20th day in July, 1969, when mankind reached the moon, History

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44:33

Two Princes: Part Two

The Industry ·

2022/04/01

After Paramount Pictures' 1974 version of The Little Prince seemingly vanished into thin air, it would be decades before another big screen version would come around.That version would be fully animated, with a voice cast that included Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Paul Rudd, Benicio Del Toro, James Franco, Ricky Gervais, Paul Giamatti and Marion Cotillard. But Paramount abruptly abandoned plans to release the film, and in this episode, The Little Prince director Mark Osborne explains what he thinks

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1:02:10

Two Princes: Part One

The Industry ·

2022/03/16

Joseph Tandet was a lawyer who was not in The Industry. But when the opportunity arose to own the rights to The Little Prince, he took it.He wound up as a producer on a big-budget movie adaptation. The 1974 version of The Little Prince had everything going for it, including Gene Wilder, musical numbers by Lerner & Loewe, Bob Fosse dancing, and Stanley Donen in what should have been his element. But something went wrong between the page and the screen.Several years after Tandet's movie of The

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29:11

The Greatest Cartoon Almost Made

The Industry ·

2022/01/29

At the height of his career, Richard Williams was hailed as the next Walt Disney. He wanted to prove that animation was high art, not just something to sell toys and cereal. So he spent three decades working on a single film called The Thief and The Cobbler, which was going to be extraordinary. But he made a deal with a movie studio that he couldn't keep. This episode of Imaginary Worlds features Garrett Gilchrist, Kevin Schreck, Neil Boyle and Greg Duffell discuss whether Hollywood or Williams's

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