The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast

Mar 04 2025 50 ep. 62 mins 116
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Now in our THIRD SEASON, we're still telling the stories that made us Entertainment Weekly's BEST FILM PODCAST OF 2022! The creative team behind HBO's monolithic TALES FROM THE CRYPT trade stories from THE MOVIE MAKING TRENCHES with fellow film makers about how exactly movies and TV shows get made. And especially what happens when film making craft unexpectedly turns to crap.

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S4E8: Colman DeKay Knows EVERYBODY!

Mar 04 2025 62 mins  
So – why do I say my friend Colman DeKay knows everybody? Because, as you’ll hear, HE KNOWS EVERYBODY! And, he’s so used to knowing everybody that he doesn’t even realize that he knows everybody. As you’ll also hear, Colman doesn’t drop names. But names – ones you recognize cos lots and lots of people […]

S4E7: Field Of Dreams

Feb 25 2025 60 mins  
If ever there was a metaphorical “field of dreams”, it’s Hollywood. And, in order to get anywhere near that field of dreams, you’re gonna need either an agent, a manager or a producer. Hey – what if you could get all three in one person! In this episode I chat with JEFF FIELD – the […]

S4E6: Oscars Shmoscars – It’s The Hack-Cademy A-Weirds!

Feb 18 2025 49 mins  
Oscars-Schmoscars! It may be Academy Awards time in the rest of Hollywood, but here at The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast, we’re celebrating The HACK-CADEMY A-WEIRDS instead! It’s our bad-attitude approach to a business fast going down the creative toilet. As a matter of fact, GIL ADLER (producer of studio tentpole movies like […]

S4E5: Endings Are NEVER Pretty

Feb 11 2025 63 mins  
This episode is part five of the BORDELLO OF BLOOD SAGA. The story will still make sense if you haven’t heard the first four episodes, but you really do owe it to yourself to listen if you haven’t. Either way, you’ll agree: endings are NEVER pretty. Ever, ever EVER! As the production of “Bordello Of […]

S4E4 Not So Special Effects

Feb 04 2025 36 mins  
THE BLURB: What do SYLVESTER STALLONE, JOEL SILVER, DENNIS MILLER, ERIKA ELENIAK and ANGIE EVERHART have in common? They all contributed to making Bordello Of Blood a horrible, soul crushing experience. As things go from bad to worse, our local makeup special effects team wonders how to make blood, the whole cast and crew turn […]

S4E3: Location, Location, Location

Jan 28 2025 51 mins  
THE BLURB: Location, location, LOCATION!!! Where you shoot your movie or TV show makes a huge difference. One surefire way to turn all your craftsmanship into pure crap is to shoot your movie or TV show somewhere it has no organic reason to shoot. For “Bordello of Blood“, that location was Vancouver, BC. Show Notes […]

S4E2: How NOT To CAST A Movie

Jan 21 2025 31 mins  
Show Notes In this episode – part two of our five part retelling of the Bordello Of Blood saga – we’ll get into how and why we cast Bordello the way that we did. Spoiler alert – it was sheer fucking stupidity. But, hey – the story of Bordello’s tortured making earned this story a […]

S4E1: How NOT To Make A Movie

Jan 14 2025 41 mins  
SHOW NOTES Time flies when you’re having fun and, it turns out, especially when you do it while podcasting. As this podcast enters its fourth season – and fourth year in existence – I do it looking both backwards and forwards. The backwards part has to do with our origin story – the story we […]

S3E55: NOT Lost In Translation

Jan 07 2025 50 mins  
When human beings began criss-crossing the globe, they took more than just strange and exotic products with them from place to place. They took stories, too. And despite sometimes vast cultural differences, very very often, those stories translated perfectly well. Different cultures might appreciate stories differently or for different reasons, but the essence of those […]

S3E54 Princes & Thieves: The Art Of Being A Hollywood Agent

Dec 31 2024 46 mins  
Making a return visit to the podcast is my very good friend – and former agent – NICK MECHANIC. If you enjoyed Nick’s first visit, you’ll love his second. And if you haven’t met Nick yet, prepare to be blown away by the INSIDE LOOK you’re about to get into the film and TV business. […]