Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods

01:12:44

Gerry Rich: "No Plan B"

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/10/07

Gerry Rich started planning his escape to Hollywood from a basement desk in the Midwest at age ten, and he went on to run marketing at Miramax, MGM, Paramount and Amazon MGM Studios. Now he's written it all down in Chasing Hollywood: A Marketing Chief's Lessons on Breaking Through, and he joins Corey to talk about the letters, the screamers, the twist nobody gave away, and why culture beats contracts. In this episode: Letters, not asks. As a college student, Gerry wrote to the studio marketing

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40:59

Opening Weekend: EP-5: "The 30-Mile-an-Hour Read:...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/10/01

Opening Weekend: Selling Hollywood with Jim Fredrick continues on the TG&TG feed. This week Jim sits down with longtime friend and colleague Bryan Allen, the poster designer and former Paramount creative executive behind The Truman Show mosaic one-sheet. From cutting type by hand in the '80s to the thumb-stopping digital age, Bryan breaks down how a single still image helps a movie find its audience. Takeaways: The 30-mile-an-hour read. Tony Seiniger's rule that a poster has to land at a glance,

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18:44

Opening Weekend: EP-4: "The Assignment of a Lifetime"...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/09/16

Opening Weekend: Selling Hollywood with Jim Fredrick continues on the TG&TG feed. This week Jim rides solo, revisiting the campaign he calls "the assignment of a lifetime": Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. As senior vice president of creative advertising at Warner Brothers, he traces the campaign from an illustrated owl poster with no actors in sight to a $90 million opening weekend that turned one film into a franchise. Takeaways: The call upstairs. A 1999 meeting with his boss turns into

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49:35

Opening Weekend: EP-3: "The Glass Ceiling Breaker" -...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/08/26

Opening Weekend: Selling Hollywood with Jim Fredrick continues on the TG&TG feed. Barbara Glazer was one of our very first guests on this podcast, back in 2019. She's also one of the industry's true glass-ceiling breakers: co-founder of The Ant Farm, and the creative leader behind campaigns for Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Kill Bill among hundreds of others. She sits down with Jim Fredrick to trace a career that started by accident on a Moviola upright and ended up reshaping who

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01:12:06

A Trailer Park Tribute, Chapter 2: "No Brilliant Jerks"

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/08/18

Trailer Park's doors are closed, but the tribute rolls on. Chapter 2 picks up as the shop outgrows Cahuenga, settles into the Santa Monica Boulevard building and then Ivar, and finally lands the industry rock star it had been courting for two years. Tim Nett, Benedict Coulter, Brett Winn, Ellie Speare, Charlotte Honess, and Charlie Austin trace how a scrappy comedy house grew into a full-service powerhouse without losing what made it fun. Part reunion, part masterclass in the culture that kept

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43:05

Opening Weekend: EP-2: "The Mogul" – Alan Horn...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/08/12

Opening Weekend: Selling Hollywood with Jim Fredrick continues on the TG&TG feed. A soap marketer who'd never set foot in Los Angeles became the most successful studio head in movie history. Alan Horn ran Warner Brothers and then Disney, greenlighting Harry Potter, The Dark Knight, and the modern Marvel and Star Wars era. He sits down with Jim Fredrick to trace a 60-year career built on serendipity, and to talk honestly about what selling a movie takes now. Takeaways: Hired because he was perfect

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34:13

Opening Weekend: EP-1 "The Shawshank Redemption" –...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/07/29

We're proud to introduce Opening Weekend: Selling Hollywood with Jim Fredrick, starting with episode one right here on TG&TG! The most beloved movie on IMDb was, on opening weekend, a flop. Jim Fredrick, who cut the original trailer at Castle Rock, reunites with producer Liz Glotzer to unpack how The Shawshank Redemption got left at the box office and found its audience anyway. Takeaways: The title took the blame. Trimming Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption down to The Shawshank Redemption

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01:45:36

Chris Daniel: SVP Global Creative Marketing at...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/07/15

It was so cool to get to hang out with Chris Daniel, the Senior Vice President of Global Creative Marketing at LionsGate. Prior to LionsGate, Chris led 360 marketing campaigns on some of Netflix's biggest films such as Red Notice, Glass Onion, Dayshift, To All The Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, Dolemite Is My Name, and Over The Moon. Previously, he edited and produced trailers, digital-social, and brand campaigns at AV Squad where he was a part of a ton of award-winning work. Chris came up through the

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01:23:17

A Trailer Park Tribute: "We Had No Business Starting...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/06/25

Trailer Park's theatrical division has closed its doors, so we gathered five of the people who were there at the very beginning. Tim Nett, Jim Hale, Ann Mugglebee, Mike Southerly, and Tommy Gargotta trace the company from a single rented edit bay on Cahuenga to a sign you could spot from miles away. Part origin story, part reunion, and a fitting tribute to where it all started. In this episode: One rented room, one Avid. The whole thing began when Tim rented a single bay from commercial editor

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01:19:19

No Trade Mag, No History Book. Logan Gruidl Is Fixing...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/06/03

Logan Gruidl is Senior Producer at Picture Head and the founder of The Trailer Brief, a bi-weekly newsletter covering trailer craft, industry news, and the campaigns shaping entertainment advertising. After coming up as an AE at Outpost and Grandson, Logan built his finishing expertise at Picturehead while quietly becoming one of the industry's most thoughtful new voices. Key Takeaways: The finishing side of the industry is poorly understood even by people in it. Logan breaks down how color,

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01:11:31

Monica Brady | Co-Founder & Exec. Producer, Golden...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/05/20

Monica Brady has spent 26 years doing something that didn't exist when she started: honoring the people who make movie trailers. Co-founded with her sister Evelyn on a boat to Fort Sumter in 1999, the Golden Trailer Awards grew from a scrappy DGA screening room show (running on two Avids, fingers crossed) into the industry's premier celebration of trailer craft. In this episode, Monica traces the full arc of the GTAs, from a pre-broadband era when trailer editors were essentially invisible, to a

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01:24:34

Kris McDonald: Cutting Trailers. Mentoring the Next...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/05/12

Kris McDonald is a Creative Director and Senior Editor at XAV, and the founder of Behind the Trailer — a free educational platform dedicated to helping aspiring trailer editors break into the business and level up their craft. He came up through Open Road and Trailer Park before landing at XAV (which was Project X at the time), where he's built a career cutting campaigns for major studio and streaming titles including The Chosen, The Big Cigar, and Deepwater Horizon. In this episode, Kris traces

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01:05:37

Stav Ozdoba on Indie Filmmaking, Editing, and...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/04/29

Before founding Rubber Sole Creative, Stav Ozdoba came to the U.S. with one goal: become a filmmaker. Within months, he was in meetings to direct a feature. Not long after, he learned just how brutal that path could be. What followed wasn't a straight line. It was a pivot. From indie films to editing weddings. From teaching himself Final Cut to landing at Sony. From cutting sizzles and promos to leading teams and eventually building his own creative shop from the ground up. In this episode, Corey

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01:27:37

Benj Thall: From Child Actor to Editor, Creative...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/04/14

Before Benj Thall was cutting trailers at some of the most influential shops in the business, he was a working child actor starring in Disney's Homeward Bound films alongside legends like Leslie Nielsen and Ned Beatty. That early life on film sets didn't just give him screen credits — it gave him a love for every corner of the craft that eventually led him behind the camera, through film school at USC, and into the edit bay. In this episode, Corey and Benj trace a career that spans Global

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01:10:19

From Staples Center to The Shop: Jordan Hayman on...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/03/25

Jordan Hayman has sat in almost every seat in this industry. Jumbotron editor for the Lakers during their championship run. Creative executive at Alkemi, working indie theatrical. Client-side at Lifetime under the legendary Bob and Lew. Broadcast division builder at AV Squad. And now, founder of The Shop, the boutique he always knew he'd build from the moment he was running packages around town for Tony Seiniger as a high schooler. This one goes deep on the career, the grind, and the decisions

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01:20:25

Lauren Zoller, Lead Editor at X/AV

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/03/11

What does it sound like when a trailer editor thinks in rhythm, builds in silence, and treats every scene break like a musical beat? Lead editor Lauren Zoller of X/AV traces her path from a Chapman BFA to a Lionsgate internship, through Ignition (where she shadowed some of the greats) and nearly nine years at Mocean before landing at X/AV in 2021. She's become one of the most versatile editors in streaming, cutting The Punisher and Tulsa King alongside Peaky Blinders, DTF: St. Louis, and Poker

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01:10:00

Eric Ladd on Brining Bleeding Edge Design to...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/02/25

What happens when a technology-minded New Yorker stumbles into Hollywood and ends up reshaping how the industry makes trailers, title sequences, and motion graphics for the next three decades? This week, Eric Ladd joins the show to talk about his winding path from floppy disk drives and Bank of America to running Novocom, building Pittard Sullivan into a global powerhouse, and founding Picture Mill, one of the most influential design and motion graphics companies in entertainment marketing

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01:28:27

Kazadi Katambwa on From Runner to Hollywood Creative...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/02/11

What does it take to break into the trailer business, survive the agency grind, and help shape campaigns for some of the biggest films of the last two decades? This week on Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods, we sit down with Creative Director, Producer and Creative Executive Kazadi Katambwa to discuss craft, career, and creative instinct. Kazadi walks through his journey from film-loving college student in the Midwest to runner at Wiser Post, to assistant editor at Intralink, and eventually to cutting

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01:15:37

Debi Struzan & Dana Flowers-Mitchell on Trust, Taste,...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/01/27

What do trailers, legendary movie posters, streaming era strategy, and a deep love for theatrical storytelling have in common? This week on Trailer Geeks & Teaser Gods, Corey is joined by Debi Struzan and Dana Flowers-Mitchell for a deeply personal conversation about careers shaped by creativity, collaboration, and conviction. From Debi's early days at Seiniger Advertising and her connection to the iconic Drew Struzan legacy, to Dana's journey from agency producer to studio and streaming

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01:26:51

Best Of — Robert Walker (Buddha Jones): Craft,...

Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods ·

2026/01/05

What does it mean to truly feel a trailer—and how do you translate that feeling into something that moves an audience? In this Best Of Trailer Geeks & Teaser Gods episode, Corey Nathan revisits his wide-ranging, deeply personal conversation with Robert Walker, one of the most influential and respected trailer editors working today. From his early experiments with cassette-tape collages and experimental music to shaping iconic campaigns at Intralink and Buddha Jones, Robert shares how a lifelong

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