Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael De Luca

Did De Luca and Abdy CHEESE UP Henry Cavill's SUPERMAN Return? Time to breakdown some of the things said in the Deadline article where they interviewed the Warner bros. Film Department CEOs.

Sam Neilloween culminates with John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness! Ben, Greg, and Ray discuss the goofy eldritch hijinks of Sam Neill's trip to northern New England. Directed by John Carpenter, written by Michael De Luca, and starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston.

In this episode - we are finally at the end of the journey we started in October last year - we are talking about Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare from 1991.    Except no we're not there is one more after this.   Screenplay by Michael De Luca.  Directed By Rachel Talalay. Starring Lisa Zane as Maggie/Katherine with Yaphet Kotto as Doc and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger.   Find the movie in your region via Just Watch   Weird Kid Video is hosted by Keean Murrell-Snape, Kira Jade Oppitz and Brodie McDonald.  Each sold separately.   New full-length episodes every two weeks with Homework Club in between. Don't follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok & Youtube at @weirdkidvideo This podcast was recorded on Dharawal Country.

Did you Know FX Dubbed Shogun So You can Look at Your Phone AND Watch the Show? This week on the podcast, Brian and Darryl discuss the new FX Mini-Series Shogun (and why mini-series are important to the TV and streaming landscape). Episode Index Intro: 0:07 The Art of the Mini-Series: 8:04 Shogun: 31:36 The Art of the Mini-Series: The 25 best TV miniseries of all time https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/the_25_best_tv_miniseries_of_all_time_030124/s1__33231407#slide_4 Shogun (FX) Out of 10 Seppuku is Not the Way to Gos Darryl: 8/10 Brian: 7/10 Summary: Shogun is a historical fiction novel set in feudal Japan. It tells the story of John Blackthorne, a risk-taking English sailor shipwrecked in Japan. Thrust into a completely alien culture, Blackthorne clashes with the ambitious Lord Toranaga, a powerful daimyo with his own political rivals to contend with. Caught in the middle is Lady Mariko, a skilled samurai woman with a tarnished family history. All three must navigate a web of intrigue, loyalty, and cultural differences to find their place in this tumultuous world. Main Cast: – Hiroyuki Sanada (Lord Yoshii Toranaga): A powerful and cunning lord, Toranaga is locked in a political battle for dominance. You might recognize Sanada from his roles in “John Wick: Chapter 4” and “The Last Samurai.” – Cosmo Jarvis (John Blackthorne): A resourceful English sailor who shipwrecked in Japan. Blackthorne struggles to adapt to the strict Japanese way of life. Jarvis has starred in films like “Persuasion.” – Anna Sawai (Toda Mariko): A strong-willed samurai woman caught between her duty to her family and her attraction to Blackthorne. Sawai is a rising star in Japanese cinema. Supporting Cast: – Tadanobu Asano (Kashigi Yabushige): A rival lord and antagonist to Toranaga. Asano is a veteran Japanese actor known for his work in the “Thor” franchise. – Takehiro Hira (Ishido Kazunari): A skilled swordsman and ally of Toranaga. – Tokuma Nishioka (Toda Hiromatsu): Mariko’s father, caught in the political turmoil. – Other notable cast members include Nestor Carbonell, Tommy Bastow, Shinnosuke Abe, Yoriko Dōguchi, Yuki Kura, and Hiroto Kanai. Crew: – Executive Producers: Justin Marks, Rachel Kondo, Michaela Clavell, Edward L. McDonnell, Michael De Luca, Andrew Macdonald, and Allon Reich. – Creator: Justin Marks based on the novel by James Clavell. Episodes: Episode 1 Title: Anjin Directed by: Jonathan van Tulleken Written by: Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks Date Aired: February 27, 2024 Summary: In 1600, a lone Dutch trading ship, Erasmus, arrives on the coast of Japan with a starving crew. John Blackthorne, the ship’s English navigator, is taken prisoner by samurai warriors. The episode introduces the political landscape with five regents vying for power and the religious tensions between the Catholic Church and the Protestant Blackthorne. Blackthorne is brought to Osaka Castle, where he meets Lord Toranaga and Lady Toda Mariko. Episode 2 Title: Servants of Two Masters Directed by: Jonathan van Tulleken Written by: Rachel Kondo & Justin Marks Date Aired: February 27, 2024 Summary: The episode delves deeper into the power struggle. We learn about Toranaga’s precarious position among the regents and the secret ambitions of the Portuguese. Blackthorne becomes a pawn in the game as Toranaga uses him to sow discord among his rivals. Blackthorne also encounters the Jesuit priest Domingo who reveals the Catholic agenda in Japan. Blackthorne is saved from execution by Yabushige and provides Toranaga with intel about the Portuguese and Spanish plans for Japan. The episode ends with an assassination attempt on Toranaga, highlighting the dangers he faces. Episode 3 Title: Tomorrow is Tomorrow Directed by: Charlotte Brändström Written by: Shannon Goss Date Aired: March 5, 2024 Summary: Toranaga outsmarts Ishido by sending his wife in disguise with Blackthorne. The episode showcases the political maneuvering and the lengths Toranaga goes to in his quest for power. Blackthorne’s quick thinking saves the caravan from Ishido’s forces. Toranaga deals with the Portuguese to escape Osaka and secure passage on their Black Ship. The episode ends with Blackthorne joining Toranaga on the ship, marking a turning point in their relationship. Infamous Shirts for Naked Bodies… You’ll feel “shirty” when you buy our gear from the Flying Pork Apparel Co. Contact Us The Infamous Podcast can be found wherever podcasts are found on the Interwebs, feel free to subscribe and follow along on social media. 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Pop Art Painter Jamie Roxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) welcomes Francesca De Luca, SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles-based actress to the Show!  (Click to go there) ● FB: @FrancescaDeLucaActress ● IG: @francescatheactor ● LT: @FrancescaDeLuca ● IMDB: www.imdb.com/name/nm1395817 Francesca is of Italian descent and was raised by her mother Stella and grandfather Michael De Luca. Her London stage debut formally began playing the lead in Romeo and Juliet. While touring in A Midsummer Night's Dream in which she played Titania, Francesca was approached to audition for the upcoming movie Orpheus and Eurydice. She was cast as the sorceress Agleoniki where she starred alongside legendary actor Oliver Reed, filming in Athens, Greece. Recently she starred in the psychological thriller Storage which premiered at the 2022 Academy Qualifying, LA Shorts International Film Festival. Storage has gone on to win the Grand Prize at the Silicon Beach Film Festival as well as numerous other festivals. For her role in Storage, Francesca took home the award of Best Ensemble Cast at the Seattle Film Festival and Idyllwild Film Festival.  Francesca starts off 2024 with a Green card and can now work for the major US Film and TV Studios. She has already been cast in three films set for production in 2024!  ● Media Inquiries: Repped by CSP Management and Linda McCalister Talent LA.

In a strategic partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery, Tom Cruise has signed a deal to develop and produce a mix of film franchises and original projects. Unlike an exclusive arrangement, Cruise retains the flexibility to collaborate with other studios, leveraging his global appeal to potentially spawn sequels. This move is part of Warner Bros. Discovery's initiative to revitalize the studio, following Cruise's box office success with Top Gun: Maverick. Co-CEOs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy express excitement about bringing Cruise back to Warner Bros., aiming to harness his cinematic prowess in rebuilding the studio's legacy. Cruise, who has a long-standing relationship with Warner Bros., looks forward to contributing to the theatrical experience with this new collaboration.

In this episode in the Weird Kid TV Corner, welcome to prime-time - we are talking about Freddy's Nightmares - A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series (1988) - Episode One: No More Mr Nice Guy.   This week the role of Brodie is played by Adam Bridges.   Produced by Gil Adler. This episode was written by Michael De Luca, Rhet Topham and David Erhman. Directed by Tobe Hooper. Yes, that Tobe Hooper.    Find the movie in your region via Just Watch Weird Kid Video is hosted by Keean Murrell-Snape, Kira Jade Oppitz and Brodie McDonald.  Each sold separately. New episodes every two weeks with Homework in between. Don't follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok & Youtube at @weirdkidvideo This podcast was recorded on Dharawal Country.

Recommended by Greg:"Threshold is a controversial episode, and in rewatch, I can see all the reasons NOT to like it. But also, it's such a corny episode, and the premise drives it forward a lot until we get to what I love most:Threshold is a monster movie. It's like the original Universal monster movies Frankenstein, The Fly, Wolfman, Dracula and movies I watched with my brother as a kid. The section with Tom transforming is my favorite parts. The resolution and end? Yeah, it's silly. But the middle half where it's straight up monster movie stuff just brings a smile to my face. "Threshold first aired on January 29, 1996, story by Michael De Luca, teleplay by Brannon Braga, and directed by Alexander SingerThe Joy of Trek is hosted by Khaki & Kay, with editing & production by Chief Engineer Greg and music by Fox Amoore (Bandcamp | Bluesky)Send us your recommendations, or support us on Patreon.Find us at joyoftrek.com | Bluesky | Instagram

WoHos!This week we look at two films that involve writers. Both have killer soundtracks. IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS has great effects. BURNING has great cinematography. IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS has a sweet runtime, BURNING has a Korean cinema-length runtime. Both have excellent performances and fun themes.Shout out to our WoHos in various area codes!Our last episode was downloaded in: US, Canada, Germany, and Czechia in some cool-sounding cities like: Humble, Ashburn, Montpelier, Sacramento, and Frankfurt. If you would like a specific shout out, please get in touch!RIP Branwen Jones, beloved companion of Mac's 2007-2023. Send some loving thoughts or loving posts to instagram.com/macaritaville.

In episode 1513, Jack and Miles are joined by TV writer, producer, comedian, Alison Lieby, to discuss… My Pillow Guy Has Entered the FIND OUT Phase, BIG Masculinity is KING Right Now in Politics, The Orb - Is a Concert Venue Brought To Us By James Dolan, The Barbenheimer Phenomenon, Explained and more! My Pillow Guy Has Entered the FIND OUT Phase BIG Masculinity is KING Right Now in Politics The Orb - Is a Concert Venue Brought To Us By James Dolan The Barbenheimer Phenomenon, Explained Barbenheimer Barbie Heimer Shirt BARBENHEIMER EXPLAINED: YES, PEOPLE REALLY ARE MAKING OPPENHEIMER & BARBIE A DOUBLE FEATURE WB Wants Christopher Nolan Back, Pays Over $1 Million Bonus To Win Back Director Christopher Nolan Rips HBO Max as “Worst Streaming Service,” Denounces Warner Bros.' Plan Can Warner Bros. Restore Its Movie Glory? Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy Want Christopher Nolan Back, Will Prioritize Theatrical and Take More Big Swings Christopher Nolan isn't happy 'Barbie' will premiere the same weekend as his film, 'Oppenheimer,' sources say LISTEN: Things Don't Always Go The Way You Plan by FlumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Akiva Goldsman has returned his production company Weed Road to Warner Bros, in a multi-year first-look deal. Goldsman previously worked at Warner Bros for two decades and will reunite with studio heads Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy. Two of his initial projects will be a sequel to “I Am Legend” with Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan, and a sequel to “Constantine” with Keanu Reeves. Goldsman's focus will be on IP that can play on a global scale theatrically. Goldsman's TV deal was previously with MGM, but he is now a free agent as he completes “The Crowded Room” for Apple TV+ and works on “Strange New Worlds” and the final season of “Picard.”

Listening Post Alpha, Spirit Box, channeled communications, communications channeled through radio waves/tech, backwards masking, backwards masking linked to Crowley, backwards masking as reversal of natural order, ALW Cipher system, Allen Greenfield, Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, CCRU, hyperstition, Twin Peaks, channeled communications from Twin Peaks universe, David Lynch, Hellier, Penny Royal, In the Mouth of Madness, Under the Silver Lake, Michael De Luca, the blurring of fiction and magick, Rosicrucianism, ultra-terrestrials, Jupiter, Saturn Great Conjunction, Philip K. Dick, reality-shifting, cut-up methods, surrealism, "Esquit Corpse," Black Dahlia, Serpent Mounds, Native American earthworks, theurgy, angelic communications, angel magick, Watchers, Damien Echols, collective crossing of the abyss, escaping the Black Lodge/Black Iron PrisonMusic by: Keith Allen DennisMusic | Keith Allen Dennis (bandcamp.com) Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the December 9, 2022 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film editor Ben Pearson to discuss the latest film and tv news, including big shakeups at DC Movies and an Election sequel. In The News: (og Erin) Reese Witherspoon To Return For Election Sequel Tracy Flick Can't Win At Paramount + (og Vespe): Jason Momoa Could Be Lobo And Other Big Changes Coming To The New DC UniverseGunn's tweets Gunn and Safran supposedly want a completely fresh slate, which means a final curtain call on the Zack Snyder era of DC. The upcoming "Flashpoint" film is allegedly the last time we'll see the Zack Snyder version of your favorite heroes in cameo form Wonder Woman 3 Will Not Be Moving ForwardPatty Jenkins' Departure From Wonder Woman 3 Sounds Rather ThornyThe Wrap alleges that Wonder Woman 3 was not a direct cancelation by the studio but that director and co-writer Patty Jenkins declined to rewrite her treatment, effectively walking off the project. According to their sources, the treatment for Wonder Woman 3 was given not only to DC Studios co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran but Warner Bros. executives Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy. While all four figures believed the treatment needed edits, Gunn and Safran were apparently not involved in the final decision whatsoever — De Luca, Abdy, and Jenkins reportedly had a heated discussion about the treatment, with the latter standing firm on her vision for the character, and the trio unable to compromise,  The insider source told the trade that Jenkins "doesn't want to allow" Gunn or Safran "a seat at the table," while also claiming that Jenkins believed that De Luca and Abdy "didn't understand her" or Wonder Woman. I'm skeptical. Of course, Jenkins supposedly walked off Thor 2 and Rogue Squadron due to creative disagreements. So the film might not be canceled after all but Patty Jenkins won't be making the movie. Henry Cavill is not likely to return for his own "Superman" movieAppearance in Black Adam, announcing Superman is back and Cavill leaving Witcher after season 3 Black Adam is not getting any sequelsweird box office stories Jason Momoa's Aquaman will have his last big screen hoorah in the upcoming sequel "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom." Shocker? Momoa could star in a Lobo movieEric Vespe describes Lobo as a galactic bounty hunter who looks like Rob Zombie got melded with Arnold Schwarzenegger and the entire band KISS in full makeup and costume. He's a hardcore, kind of punk anti-hero, and Momoa is just about the most perfect actor to play that part. Thoughts on Momoa in a Lobo movie Matt Reeves  "Batman" films and the Joker sequel seem to still be in the works   All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today's show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.  You can subscribe to /Film Daily on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS).  And please subscribe to our newsletter! Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts, tell your friends and spread the word!  Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo.

Episode Notes S3E35 - Join as we dive into the mind of actress Francesca DeLuca. She'll take us on a journey that we'll never forget. Francesca was born in London England and is of Italian descent. Brought up by her mother Stella and grandfather Michael De Luca she developed a love of acting and felt at home expressing herself on the stage. When she took to the stage in a school play relishing the challenge of playing the lead role, a German hunchbacked owner of a lunatic asylum who goes crazy at the end of the play, she realized she had found her calling. Soon after she took to the London stage playing roles such as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Carla in Kennedys Children. Film beckoned and Francesca was cast alongside Oliver Reed in the movie 'Orpheus and Eurydice' playing the evil sorceress Agleoniki. Since moving to Los Angeles to continue her acting career in mid 2014 , Francesca's career has sharply taken off . She auditioned for Francis Ford Coppola, the celebrated film director himself and was cast in his newest film project Distant Vision. Amongst other projects she also played Margot Fonteyn in the Tribeca hit Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent which had a successful run in movie theaters across the States and Canada , achieving rave reviews and 81percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Francesca is Increasingly in demand with several film and television projects already in the pipeline including Midnight Daughter, Domestic Terrror, Cafe Mnemosyne and Duck World. Please contact her manager Mark Myers of Citizen Skull Productions Management for further details. This episode is sponsored by Deadly Grounds Coffee "Its good to get a little Deadly" https://deadlygroundscoffee.com ————————————————— Check out Toking with the Dead Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhL5FyW_j4 Check out Toking with the Dead Episode 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaUai58ua6o Buy awesome Merchandise! https://www.stilltoking.com/ https://teespring.com/stores/still-toking-with ————————————— Follow our guest https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1395817/ https://www.instagram.com/francescatheactor/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/FrancescaDeLucaActress/ ————————————————— Follow Still Toking With and their friends! https://smartpa.ge/5zv1 https://thedorkeningpodcastnetwork.com/ ————————————— Produced by Leo Pond and The Dorkening Podcast Network https://TheDorkening.com Facebook.com/TheDorkening Youtube.com/TheDorkening Twitter.com/TheDorkening Dead Dork Radio https://live365.com/station/Dead-Dork-Radio-a68071 Check out Green Matters: https://www.facebook.com/GreenMattersMiddleboro/ Find out more at https://still-toking-with.pinecast.co Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/still-toking-with/f8432813-edb0-4bae-a152-f58eda55f660 This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Lived any good books lately?In the Mouth of Madness is a 1994 American supernatural horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter and written by Michael De Luca. It stars Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston. Neill stars as John Trent, an insurance investigator who visits a small town while looking into the disappearance of a successful author of horror novels, and begins to question his sanity as the lines between reality and fiction seem to blur. Informally, the film is the third installment in what Carpenter refers to as his "Apocalypse Trilogy", preceded by The Thing (1982) and Prince of Darkness (1987).00:00 Intro05:40 Horror News19:06 What We've Been Watching34:17 Film Review1:52:22 Name Game1:56:33 Film Rating2:00:40 OutroPodcast - https://podlink.to/horrorhangout​​​Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/horrorhangoutFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/hawkandcleaverTwitter - https://twitter.com/horror_hangout_Website - http://www.hawkandcleaver.com​​​Ben - https://twitter.com/ben_errington​​​Andy - https://twitter.com/AndyCTWritesAudio credit - Taj Eastonhttp://tajeaston.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thehorrorhangout. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pop Art Painter Jamie Roxx (www.JamieRoxx.us) welcomes Francesca De Luca; Actress (Storage | Short | Psychological Thriller) to the Show!    (Click to go there) ● FB: @FrancescaDeLucaActress ● IG: @francescatheactor   Storage ● FB: @colincostellosstorage ● IG: @colin_francis_costello "Storage" is a short psychological thriller about a woman and a high school cheerleader trapped in a storage facility. ✔ Storage is at LA Shorts on 28th 5.30pm. ( Block 41)  Francesca was born in London England and is of Italian descent. Brought up by her mother Stella and grandfather Michael De Luca she developed a love of acting and felt at home expressing herself on the stage and film. ● Media Inquiries: October Coast www.octobercoastpr.com

This episode of the Superman Confidential podcast takes a look at the latest reports on Superman's movie future, Zack Snyder's Justice League movie finally releasing digitally, a Super Sons animated movie, and more. Variety article on the future of DC Films with recent changes Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy will have a role in […]

Welcome to Cinema Debate's #BuiltDifferent stream. Every Sunday, join The Farooqi Bros as they discuss the biggest topics of the week, fun behind the scenes insights, and more. Today’s topics: -Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy will replace Toby Emmerich and lead Warner Bros' film division. Zaslav Launching DC Film as own Vertical-DC Insiders suggest…

I have no words for describe this week's watch-a-long movie "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" other then this movie craps all over and completely removes any scariness that Freddy had left and turns him into a cartoon clown.  What should have been Freddy's big send off movie turned out to be the biggest pile of crap in the whole franchise. Instead of letting Freddy ride off in to that final dream on high, this movie leaves Freddy slinking away with his tail between his legs. We will forever curse the names of Rachel Talalay and Michael De Luca. Thank God Wes Craven came back to make "A New Nightmare" as a true and proper send off for one of horror's biggest icons.

Recorded live for the Campfire Tales Winter 2021 edition, the girls take turns telling each other an episode from horror TV. Ket tells Kim about episode one of Freddy's Nightmare called “No More Mr. Nice Guy” starring dear ole' Robert Englund, himself. Kim tells Ket about an episode of The Hammer House of Horror called “The Silent Scream” starring Daddy Cox and Peter Cushing.  As always, most importantly, we'll learn if the girls will live or die in this live episode! Dir Tobe Hooper Writers Wes Craven, Michael De Luca, David Ehrman  Dir. Alan Gibson Writer Francis Essex Listen to season 1 of our new horror trivia pod! KIM AND KET'S SURVIVE THE CELLAR link.chtbl.com/kkstc New episodes every other Monday     KKSAM Facebook Discussion Group!! "Sammies Stay Alive... Maybe" www.facebook.com/groups/kksampodcast   Get acquainted with all things KIM & KET at www.kimandketstayalive.com  Chat with the girls at kksampodcast@gmail.com Peep the girls on Instagram:  @kksampodcast Twit the girls on Twitter:  @kksampodcast Book the face of the girls on Facebook:  @kksampodcast Wear the shirts of the girls from the MERCH Store:  kimandketstayalivemaybe.threadless.com Support the girls on PATREON at:  www.patreon.com/kimandketstayalivemaybe Ok we'll see ourselves out. Thanks for listening! xo and #StayAlive, K&K       Proud members of the Dread Podcast Network

In this episode, Aric and Marisa spotlight the one and only Los Angeles with six films that capture the spirit of the city. They attempt to define Los Angeles by its different subcultures and districts while considering the influence of the film industry on its exterior reputation.The films discussed include John Singleton's stunning directorial debut BOYZ N THE HOOD (1991), Steve Martin's hilarious farce of Los Angeles daily life, L.A. STORY (1991), Patricia Cardoso's REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES (2001), the east Los Angeles coming of age story led by America Ferrera, Sofia Coppola's portrait of celebrity malaise, SOMEWHERE (2010), Agnès Varda's MUR MURS (1983), the expatriate director's examination of Los Angeles Murals and their artists, and UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (2018), the paranoid thriller investigating intertwined Los Angeles conspiracies. Please consider supporting this show through our Patreon!Keep up with us on Instagram and Twitter: @filmchatterpod.Check out the films mentioned in this episode on our Letterboxd.Thanks for tuning in!Powered and distributed by Simplecast

Episode 240: The Crew's taking a road trip to Hobb's End while watching John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. It's the first theatrically released John Carpenter horror film of the 90's. And the film lives up to the hype. Sam Neill stars as an insurance investigator, who may be a fictional character in a horror writer's new novel. The Crew discusses. If you like our music intro, head over to Soundcloud and hear more amazing music from aquariusweapon. Aquariusweapon can also be found on YouTube. Contact: themoviecrewe@gmail.com

His name is firmly etched in the footballing landscape - especially when ‘transfer season’ rolls around. That's because Jean-Marc Bosman’s legal action created the ‘Bosman Ruling’ and single-handedly revolutionized modern football.Michael De Luca tells the fascinating story of an unassuming player who dug in his heels, and changed football forever in the process.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/footy-talks-weekly. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“I cannot pontificate about it, but by the time I'm done, I will have done one movie, and it's all the movies I want.People say, you know, "I like your Spanish movies more than I like your English-language movies because they are not as personal", and I go "Fuck, you're wrong!" Hellboy is as personal to me as Pan's Labyrinth. They're tonally different, and yes, of course you can like one more than the other – the other one may seem banal or whatever it is that you don't like. But it really is part of the same movie. You make one movie. Hitchcock did one movie, all his life.” —Guillermo del Toro, Twitch Film, January 15, 2013 Ok, passengers! First off, if you don’t know who Guermillo Del Toro is, press pause on this show, smack yourself in the mouth and then go watch Pan’s Labrynth, Hellboy or even Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and then come back to finish. Go on… git! We’ll wait! Del Toro was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, the son of Guadalupe Gómez and Federico del Toro Torres, an automotive entrepreneur. Both of whom are of Spanish descent. He was raised in a strict Catholic household. Del Toro studied at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Cinematográficos, at the University of Guadalajara. Having a taste for the macabre at an early age, del Toro decorated his family home with decidedly spooky elements. Del Toro loves monsters. . He claims that monsters used to crowd into his room at night, and he made a pact with them: If they let him go to the washroom, he’d be their friend for life. It worked, and del Toro says, “To this day, monsters are the thing I love most.” Del Toro liked monsters so much as a child that his Catholic grandmother, fearing for his soul, performed a real-life exorcism on him, and when that didn’t work, she actually performed a second one. Del Toro considers himself a book-person first and foremost, and there were two books that shaped his universe as a child. One was an encyclopedia of health (which led to an obsession with anatomy), and the other an encyclopedia of art. When del Toro was about eight years old, he began experimenting with his father's Super 8 camera, making short films with Planet of the Apes toys and other objects. One short focused on a "serial killer potato" with ambitions of world domination; it murdered del Toro's mother and brothers before stepping outside and being crushed by a car.  Del Toro made about 10 short films before his first feature, including one titled Matilde, but only the last two, Doña Lupe and Geometria, have been made available.  He wrote four episodes and directed five episodes of the cult series La Hora Marcada, along with other Mexican filmmakers such as Emmanuel Lubezki and Alfonso Cuarón.Del Toro got his first big break when he made Cronos in 1993.The movie, about the effects of a device that confers immortality, won nine Ariel Awards from the Mexican Academy of Film—including best picture, best director, best screenplay, and best original story—and also received the International Critics’ Week grand prize at the Cannes film festival.  Del Toro studied special effects and make-up with special-effects artist Dick Smith. Dick Smith had been a huge influence on del Toro throughout his life. He bought Smith’s make-up kit when The Exorcist came out in 1973, and applied for his make-up course in New York in 1987.  He spent 10 years as a special-effects make-up designer and formed his own company, Necropia. He also co-founded the Guadalajara International Film Festival. Later in his directing career, he formed his own production company, the Tequila Gang. In 1997, at the age of 33, Guillermo was given a $30 million budget from Miramax Films to shoot another film, Mimic. After turning in a draft of his screenplay for Mimic to Miramax, the studio was not happy with how little was explained about the creatures at the centre of the story, and decided to commission a number of rewrites. One of these drafts was written by none other than Steven Soderbergh, but almost none of his work ended up in the film. Del Toro is not a fan of second unit work, and for his director’s cut of Mimic he managed to excise the majority of the second unit footage. Robert Rodriguez was one of the second unit directors on the film. Mimic was a very troubled production, and del Toro claims that his experience butting heads with studio execs at Miramax was actually more traumatic than his father’s kidnapping( which we'll discuss in a bit): “What was happening to me and the movie was far more illogical than kidnapping, which is brutal, but at least there are rules.” He was ultimately unhappy with the way Miramax had treated him during production, which led to his friend James Cameron almost coming to blows with Miramax co-founder and owner Harvey Weinstein during the 70th Academy Awards. In 2001 Del toro made The Devil's backbone. The Devil’s Backbone, was produced by renowned Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar. Almodovar afforded del Toro a level of creative freedom that he’d never experienced up to that point, and the eternally grateful del Toro has tried to pay this gesture forward as a producer for many directors’ films. The film was an international co-production between Spain and Mexico. Del Toro wrote the first draft before writing his debut film Cronos. This "very different" version was set in the Mexican Revolution and focused not on a child's ghost but a "Christ with three arms". According to del Toro, and as drawn in his notebooks, there were many iterations of the story, some of which included antagonists who were a "doddering ... old man with a needle," a "desiccated" ghost with black eyes as a caretaker (instead of the living Jacinto who terrorizes the orphans), and "beings who are red from head to foot." As to motivation for the villain, according to the actor who portrayed him (Eduardo Noriega), Jacinto "suffered a lot when he was a child at this orphanage. Somebody probably treated him wickedly: this is his heritage. And then there is the brutalizing effect of the War." Noriega further notes that "What Guillermo did was to write a biography of Jacinto (which went into Jacinto's parents, what they did in life, and more) and gave it to me." DDT Studios in Barcelona created the final version of the crying ghost (victim and avenger) Santi, with his temple that resembled cracked, aged porcelain. The response was overwhelmingly positive, though it did not receive the critical success that Pan's Labyrinth would in 2006. Del Toro considers The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth to be companion pieces, and claims that they reveal “symmetries and reflections” if watched together. His next film was on 2002, Blade 2. directed by Guillermo Del Toro and written by David S. Goyer, it is a sequel to the first film and the second part of the Blade film series, followed by Blade: Trinity. Guillermo del Toro was hired to direct Blade II by New Line production president Michael De Luca after Stephen Norrington turned down the offer to direct the sequel. Del Toro chose not to alter the script too much from the ideas created by Goyer and Snipes. "I wanted the movie to have a feeling of both a comic book and Japanese animation", said the director. "I resurrected those sources and viewed them again. I dissected most of the dailies from the first movie; I literally grabbed about four boxes of tapes and one by one saw every single tape from beginning to end until I perfectly understood where the language of the first film came from. I studied the style of the first one and I think Norrington used a tremendous narrative style. His work is very elegant". Blade II was released on March 22, 2002. This was during a period of the year (months March and April) considered to be a bad time for sequels to be released. Despite this, the film became the highest-grossing film of the Blade series, making $80 million in the United States and $150 million worldwide.  Hellboy is a 2004 supernatural superhero film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro from a story by Del Toro and Peter Briggs. It is based on the Dark Horse Comics graphic novel Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola. Del Toro and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola envisioned the film as a Ray Harryhausen film. The film was shopped and rejected by various studios for years due to studios disliking the title, script, and the fact that Perlman was cast as Hellboy.[7][8] Del Toro invited Harryhausen to teach the film's animators what made his effects techniques unique but he declined, feeling that modern films were too violent. While writing the script, Del Toro researched occult Nazi philosophies and used them as a reference for the film's opening scene. In an early version of the script, the gyroscope portal was described being made out of rails that formed into pentagrams, hexagrams, and inverted stars to illustrate the film's magic and occult elements. Del Toro chose to alter the origin from the comic to give main characters interconnected origins. Aside from working with Perlman before, Del Toro chose him for the title role because he felt Perlman can deliver subtlety and nuance with makeup.[23] Del Toro assigned his real life friend, Santiago Segura, to play the train driver who assaults Hellboy. The film was shot 6 days a week for 130 days, Mondays through Saturdays without a second unit. Sundays were reserved for editing.  Del Toro noted that the film could have commenced filming in 1998, however, the film had difficulty finding a committed studio due to the stigma Hollywood associated superhero and comic book films with, at the time. The action scenes were staged after Harryhausen films with little to no camera movement using wide shots. The cemetery sequence was filmed in a real cemetery in Prague. Pan's labyrinth is a  2006 dark fantasy film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is  a Spanish-Mexican co-production. Del Toro stated that he considers the story to be a parable, influenced by fairy tales, and that it addresses and continues themes related to his earlier film The Devil's Backbone, to which Pan's Labyrinth is a spiritual successor, according to del Toro in his director's DVD commentary. The idea for Pan's Labyrinth came from Guillermo del Toro's notebooks, which he says are filled with "doodles, ideas, drawings and plot bits". He had been keeping these notebooks for twenty years. At one point during production, he left the notebook in a taxi in London and was distraught, but the cabbie returned it to him two days later. Though he originally wrote a story about a pregnant woman who falls in love with a faun,[12] Sergi López said that del Toro described the final version of the plot a year and a half before filming. Lopez said that "for two hours and a half he explained to me all the movie, but with all the details, it was incredible, and when he finished I said, 'You have a script?' He said, 'No, nothing is written'". López agreed to act in the movie and received the script one year later; he said that "it was exactly the same, it was incredible. In his little head he had all the history with a lot of little detail, a lot of characters, like now when you look at the movie, it was exactly what he had in his head".  Del Toro got the idea of the faun from childhood experiences with "lucid dreaming". He stated on The Charlie Rose Show that every midnight, he would wake up, and a faun would gradually step out from behind the grandfather's clock. Originally, the faun was supposed to be a classic half-man, half-goat faun fraught with beauty. But in the end, the faun was altered into a goat-faced creature almost completely made out of earth, moss, vines, and tree bark. Some of the  works he drew on for inspiration include Lewis Carroll's Alice books, Jorge Luis Borges' Ficciones, Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan and The White People, Lord Dunsany's The Blessing of Pan, Algernon Blackwood's Pan's Garden and Francisco Goya's works. In 2004, del Toro said: "Pan is an original story. Some of my favourite writers (Borges, Blackwood, Machen, Dunsany) have explored the figure of the god Pan and the symbol of the labyrinth. These are things that I find very compelling and I am trying to mix them and play with them." It was also influenced by the illustrations of Arthur Rackham.There are differing ideas about the film's religious influences. Del Toro himself has said that he considers Pan's Labyrinth "a truly profane film, a layman's riff on Catholic dogma", but that his friend Alejandro González Iñárritu described it as "a truly Catholic film". Del Toro's explanation is "once a Catholic, always a Catholic," however he also admits that the Pale Man's preference for children rather than the feast in front of him is intended as a criticism of the Catholic Church. Additionally, the priest's words during the torture scene were taken as a direct quote from a priest who offered communion to political prisoners during the Spanish Civil War: "Remember my sons, you should confess what you know because God doesn't care what happens to your bodies; He already saved your souls." Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 American superhero film based on the fictional character Hellboy created by Mike Mignola. The film was written and directed by  del Toro and is a sequel to the 2004 film Hellboy, which del Toro also directed. Ron Perlman reprises his starring role as the eponymous character. Hellboy II: The Golden Army was released by Universal Pictures.The director sought to create a film trilogy with the first sequel anticipated for release in 2006. Revolution Studios planned to produce the film and distribute it through a deal with Columbia Pictures, but by 2006, their distribution deal wasn't renewed and Revolution began refocusing on exploiting their film library. In August 2006, Universal Pictures acquired the project with the intent to finance and distribute the sequel, which was newly scheduled to be released in summer of 2008. Production was scheduled to begin in April 2007 in Etyek, Hungary (near Budapest) and London, England. del Toro explored several concepts for the sequel, initially planning to recreate the classic versions of Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolf Man. He and comic book creator Mike Mignola also spent a few days adapting the Almost Colossus story, featuring Roger the Homunculus. They then found it easier to create an original story based on folklore, because del Toro was planning Pan's Labyrinth, and Mignola's comics were becoming increasingly based on mythology. Later, del Toro pitched a premise to Revolution Studios that involved four Titans from the four corners of Earth—Wind, Water, Fire, and Earth—before he replaced the Titans with a Golden Army. Mignola described the theme of the sequel, "The focus is more on the folklore and fairy tale aspect of Hellboy. It's not Nazis, machines and mad scientists but the old gods and characters who have been kind of shoved out of our world." Pacific Rim is a 2013 science-fiction monster film directed by del Toro. In February 2006, it was reported that Guillermo del Toro would direct Travis Beacham's fantasy screenplay, Killing on Carnival Row, but the project never materialized.[48] Beacham conceived Pacific Rim the following year. While walking on the beach near Santa Monica Pier, the screenwriter imagined a giant robot and a giant monster fighting to the death. "They just sort of materialized out of the fog, these vast, godlike things." He later conceived the idea that each robot had two pilots, asking "what happens when one of those people dies?" Deciding this would be "a story about loss, moving on after loss, and dealing with survivor's guilt", Beacham commenced writing the film. On May 28, 2010, it was reported that Legendary Pictures had purchased Beacham's detailed 25-page film treatment, now titled Pacific Rim. On July 28, 2010, it was reported that del Toro would next direct an adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness for Universal Studios, with James Cameron producing.[51] When del Toro met with Legendary Pictures to discuss the possibility of collaborating with them on a film, he was intrigued by Beacham's treatment—still a "very small pitch" at this point. Del Toro struck a deal with Legendary: while directing At the Mountains of Madness, he would produce and co-write Pacific Rim; because of the films' conflicting production schedules, he would direct Pacific Rim only if At the Mountains of Madness were cancelled. Tom Cruise was attached to star in the Lovecraft adaptation. On March 7, 2011, it was reported that Universal would not proceed with At the Mountains of Madness because del Toro was unwilling to compromise on the $150 million budget and R rating. The director later reflected, "When it happened, this has never happened to me, but I actually cried that weekend a lot. I don't want to sound like a puny soul, but I really was devastated. I was weeping for the movie." The project collapsed on a Friday, and del Toro signed to direct Pacific Rim the following Monday. Del Toro spent a year working with Beacham on the screenplay, and is credited as co-writer. He introduced ideas he had always wished to see in the genre, such as a Kaiju birth and a Kaiju attack seen from a child's perspective. The film was shot using Red Epic cameras.[65] At first Guillermo del Toro decided not to shoot or convert the film to 3D, as the effect would not work due to the sheer size of the film's robots and monsters, explaining I didn't want to make the movie 3D because when you have things that big ... the thing that happens naturally, you're looking at two buildings lets say at 300 feet [away], if you move there is no parallax. They're so big that, in 3D, you barely notice anything no matter how fast you move ... To force the 3D effects for robots and monsters that are supposed to be big you are making their [perspective] miniaturized, making them human scale. It was later announced that the film would be converted to 3D, with the conversion taking 40 weeks longer than most. Del Toro said: "What can I tell you? I changed my mind. I'm not running for office. I can do a Romney."  Del Toro envisioned Pacific Rim as an earnest, colorful adventure story, with an "incredibly airy and light feel", in contrast to the "super-brooding, super-dark, cynical summer movie". The director focused on "big, beautiful, sophisticated visuals" and action that would satisfy an adult audience, but has stated his "real hope" is to introduce the Kaiju and mecha genres to a generation of children. While the film draws heavily on these genres, it avoids direct references to previous works. Del Toro intended to create something original but "madly in love" with its influences, instilled with "epic beauty" and "operatic grandeur". The film was to honor the Kaiju and mecha genres while creating an original stand-alone film, something "conscious of the heritage, but not a pastiche or an homage or a greatest hits of everything". The director made a point of starting from scratch, without emulating or referencing any previous examples of those genres. He cautioned his designers not to turn to films like Gamera, Godzilla, or The War of the Gargantuas for inspiration, stating: "I didn't want to be postmodern, or referential, or just belong to a genre. I really wanted to create something new, something madly in love with those things. I tried to bring epic beauty to it, and drama and operatic grandeur." Crimson Peak is a 2015 gothic romance film directed by  del Toro and written by del Toro and Matthew Robbins. The story, set in Victorian era England, follows an aspiring author who travels to a remote Gothic mansion in the English hills with her new husband and his sister. There, she must decipher the mystery behind the ghostly visions that haunt her new home. Del Toro and Robbins wrote the original spec script after the release of Pan's Labyrinth in 2006. It was sold quietly to Donna Langley at Universal. Del Toro planned to direct the film, but postponed the project to make Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and then again to work on The Hobbit films. Langley suggested that del Toro produce the film for another director, but he could not find one he deemed suitable. While directing Pacific Rim, del Toro developed a good working relationship with Legendary Pictures' Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni, who asked what he wanted to do next. Del Toro sent them his screenplays for a film adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness, a Western adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo, and Crimson Peak. The producers deemed the last of these "the best project for us, just the right size". Universal allowed del Toro to move the project to Legendary, with the caveat that they could put up money for a stake in the film. Del Toro called the film a "ghost story and gothic romance". He has described it as "a very set-oriented, classical but at the same time modern take on the ghost story", and said that it would allow him to play with the genres' conventions while subverting their rules. He stated, "I think people are getting used to horror subjects done as found footage or B-value budgets. I wanted this to feel like a throwback." Del Toro wanted the film to honor the "grand dames" of the haunted house genre, namely Robert Wise's The Haunting and Jack Clayton's The Innocents. The director intended to make a large-scale horror film in the tradition of those he grew up watching, such as The Omen, The Exorcist, and The Shining. He cited the latter as "another Mount Everest of the haunted house movie", praising the high production values and Stanley Kubrick's control over the large sets. British playwright Lucinda Coxon was enlisted to rewrite the script with del Toro, in hopes of bringing it a "proper degree of perversity and intelligence", but she is not credited on the finished film. The Shape of Water is a 2017 romantic fantasy drama film directed del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. Set in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1962, the story follows a mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature. Filming took place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, between August and November 2016.  The idea for The Shape of Water formed during del Toro's breakfast with Daniel Kraus in 2011, with whom he later co-wrote the novel Trollhunters. It shows similarities to the 2015 short film The Space Between Us. It was also primarily inspired by del Toro's childhood memories of seeing Creature from the Black Lagoon and wanting to see the Gill-man and Kay Lawrence (played by Julie Adams) succeed in their romance. When del Toro was in talks with Universal to direct a remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon, he tried pitching a version focused more on the creature's perspective, where the Creature ended up together with the female lead, but the studio executives rejected the concept. Del Toro set the film during the 1960s Cold War era to counteract today's heightened tensions: "if I say once upon a time in 1962, it becomes a fairy tale for troubled times. People can lower their guard a little bit more and listen to the story and listen to the characters and talk about the issues, rather than the circumstances of the issues".  In an interview with IndieWire about the film, del Toro said: This movie is a healing movie for me. ... For nine movies I rephrased the fears of my childhood, the dreams of my childhood, and this is the first time I speak as an adult, about something that worries me as an adult. I speak about trust, otherness, sex, love, where we're going. These are not concerns that I had when I was nine or seven." The Shape of Water grossed $63.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $131.4 million in other countries, for a total of $195.2 million. The film had received a universally favorable response from critics and audiences.  Pinocchio is an upcoming stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film co-written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on Gris Grimly’s design from his 2002 edition of the 1883 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It was written from a screenplay by del Toro, Gris Grimly, Patrick McHale and Matthew Robbins and a story by del Toro and Robbins. The film marks the animated feature film directorial debut of Guillermo del Toro. In 2008, Guillermo del Toro announced that his next project, a darker adaptation of the Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, was in development. He has called Pinocchio his passion project, stating that: "no art form has influenced my life and my work more than animation and no single character in history has had as deep of a personal connection to me as Pinocchio", and "I've wanted to make this movie for as long as I can remember". On February 17, 2011, it was announced that Gris Grimly and Mark Gustafson would co-direct a stop motion animated Pinocchio film written by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins based by Grimly's designs, with del Toro producing along with The Jim Henson Company and Pathé. On May 17, 2012, del Toro took over for Grimly. On February 2012, Del Toro released some concept arts with the designs of Pinocchio, Geppetto, the Talking Cricket, Mangiafuoco and the Fox and the Cat. On July 30, 2012, it was announced that the film would be produced and animated by ShadowMachine. On January 23, 2017, Patrick McHale was announced to co-write the script with del Toro. On August 31, 2017, del Toro told IndieWire and at the 74th Venice International Film Festival that the film need a budget increase of $35 million more dollars or it would be cancelled. On November 8, 2017, he reported that the project was not happening, because no studios were willing to finance it.[9] At one point, Matthew Robbins considered making the movie as a 2D-animated film with French artist Joann Sfar to bring the costs down, but del Toro eventually decided that it had to be stop-motion, even if the higher budget made it harder get greenlighted. However, on October 22, 2018, it was announced that the film had been revived, with Netflix acquiring it.  So that's his  film history as a director let's get into some other aspects of his life!!He was married to Lorenza Newton, cousin of Mexican singer Guadalupe Pineda. They have two children. He started dating Lorenza when both were studying at the Instituto de Ciencias in Guadalajara. Del Toro and Newton separated in early 2017, and divorced in September of the same year. He maintains residences in Toronto and Los Angeles, and returns to Guadalajara every six weeks to visit his family. He also owns two houses devoted exclusively to his collection of books, poster artwork and other belongings pertaining to his work. He explains, "As a kid, I dreamed of having a house with secret passages and a room where it rained 24 hours a day. The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7." Politics EditIn a 2007 interview, del Toro described his political position as "a little too liberal". He pointed out that the villains in most of his films, such as the industrialist in Cronos, the Nazis in Hellboy, and the Francoists in Pan's Labyrinth, are united by the common attribute of authoritarianism. "I hate structure. I'm completely anti-structural in terms of believing in institutions. I hate them. I hate any institutionalised social, religious, or economic holding." Religion EditDel Toro was raised Roman Catholic. In a 2009 interview with Charlie Rose, he described his upbringing as excessively "morbid," saying, "I mercifully lapsed as a Catholic ... but as Buñuel used to say, 'I'm an atheist, thank God.'" Though insisting that he is spiritually "not with Buñuel" and that "once a Catholic, always a Catholic, in a way." He concluded, "I believe in Man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world." He has also responded to the observation that he views his art as his religion by saying, "It is. To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously." Nevertheless, he became a "raging atheist" after seeing a pile of human fetuses while volunteering at a Mexican hospital. He has claimed to be horrified by the way the Catholic Church complied with Francoist Spain, down to having a character in his film quote what actual priests would say to Republican faction members in concentration camps.[66] Upon discovering the religious beliefs of C.S. Lewis, Del Toro has stated that he no longer feels comfortable enjoying his work, despite having done so beforehand. He describes Lewis as "too Catholic" for him, despite the fact that Lewis was never a Catholic. However, Del Toro isn't entirely disparaging of Catholicism, and his background continues to influence his work. While discussing The Shape of Water, Del Toro discussed the Catholic influence on the film, stating, "A very Catholic notion is the humble force, or the force of humility, that gets revealed as a god-like figure toward the end. It's also used in fairy tales. In fairy tales, in fact, there is an entire strand of tales that would be encompassed by the title 'The Magical Fish.' And [it's] not exactly a secret that a fish is a Christian symbol." In the same interview, he still maintained that he does not believe in an afterlife, stating "I don't think there is life beyond death, I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn't do. And that moment of clarity gives you either peace or the most tremendous fear, because you finally have no cover, and you finally realize exactly who you are." In 2010, del Toro revealed that he was a fan of video games, describing them as "the comic books of our time" and "a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia". He has stated that he considers Ico and Shadow of the Colossus to be masterpieces. He has cited Gadget Invention, Travel, & Adventure, Cosmology of Kyoto, Asteroids and Galaga as his favorite games. Del Toro's favorite film monsters are Frankenstein's monster, the Alien, Gill-man, Godzilla, and the Thing. Frankenstein in particular has a special meaning for him, in both film and literature, as he claims he has a "Frankenstein fetish to a degree that is unhealthy", and that it's "the most important book of my life, so you know if I get to it, whenever I get to it, it will be the right way". He has Brazil, Nosferatu, Freaks and Bram Stoker's Dracula listed among his favourite films. Del Toro is also highly interested in Victorian culture. He said: "I have a room of my library at home called 'The Dickens room'. It has every work by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and many other Victorian novelists, plus hundreds of works about Victorian London and its customs, etiquette, architecture. I'm a Jack the Ripper aficionado, too. My museum-slash-home has a huge amount of Ripperology in it". Father's 1997 kidnapping EditAround 1997, del Toro's father, Federico del Toro Torres, was kidnapped in Guadalajara. Del Toro's family had to pay twice the amount originally asked for as a ransom; immediately after learning of the kidnapping, fellow filmmaker James Cameron, a friend of Del Toro since they met during the production of 1993's Cronos, withdrew over $1 million in cash from his bank account and gave it to Del Toro to help pay the ransom. After the ransom was paid, Federico was released, having spent 72 days kidnapped; the culprits were never apprehended, and the money of both Cameron and Del Toro's family was never recovered. The event prompted del Toro, his parents, and his siblings to move abroad. In a 2008 interview with Time magazine, he said this about the kidnapping of his father: "Every day, every week, something happens that reminds me that I am in involuntary exile [from my country]." Del Toro has directed a wide variety of films, from comic book adaptations (Blade II, Hellboy) to historical fantasy and horror films, two of which are set in Spain in the context of the Spanish Civil War under the authoritarian rule of Francisco Franco. These two films, The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, are among his most critically acclaimed works. They share similar settings, protagonists and themes with the 1973 Spanish film The Spirit of the Beehive, widely considered to be the finest Spanish film of the 1970s. Del Toro views the horror genre as inherently political, explaining, "Much like fairy tales, there are two facets of horror. One is pro-institution, which is the most reprehensible type of fairy tale: Don't wander into the woods, and always obey your parents. The other type of fairy tale is completely anarchic and antiestablishment." He is close friends with two other prominent and critically praised Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu. The three often influence each other's directorial decisions, and have been interviewed together by Charlie Rose. Cuarón was one of the producers of Pan's Labyrinth, while Iñárritu assisted in editing the film. The three filmmakers, referred to as the "Three Amigos" founded the production company Cha Cha Cha Films, whose first release was 2008's Rudo y Cursi. Del Toro has also contributed to the web series Trailers from Hell. In April 2008, del Toro was hired by Peter Jackson to direct the live-action film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. On May 30, 2010, del Toro left the project due to extended delays brought on by MGM's financial troubles. Although he did not direct the films, he is credited as co-writer in An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of the Five Armies. On December 1, 2008, del Toro expressed interest in a stop-motion remake to Roald Dahl's novel The Witches, collaborating with Alfonso Cuarón. On June 19, 2018 it was announced that Del Toro and Cuarón would instead be attached as Executive Producers on the remake with Robert Zemeckis helming the project as Director and Screenwriter. On June 2, 2009, del Toro's first novel, The Strain, was released. It is the first part of an apocalyptic vampire trilogy co-authored by del Toro and Chuck Hogan. The second volume, The Fall, was released on September 21, 2010. The final installment, The Night Eternal, followed in October 2011. Del Toro cites writings of Antoine Augustin Calmet, Montague Summers and Bernhardt J. Hurwood among his favourites in the non-literary form about vampires. On December 9, 2010, del Toro launched Mirada Studios with his long-time cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, director Mathew Cullen and executive producer Javier Jimenez. Mirada was formed in Los Angeles, California to be a collaborative space where they and other filmmakers can work with Mirada's artists to create and produce projects that span digital production and content for film, television, advertising, interactive and other media. Mirada launched as a sister company to production company Motion Theory. Del Toro directed Pacific Rim, a science fiction film based on a screenplay by del Toro and Travis Beacham. In the film, giant monsters rise from the Pacific Ocean and attack major cities, leading humans to retaliate with gigantic mecha suits called Jaegers. Del Toro commented, "This is my most un-modest film, this has everything. The scale is enormous and I'm just a big kid having fun." The film was released on July 12, 2013 and grossed $411 million at the box office. Del Toro directed "Night Zero", the pilot episode of The Strain, a vampire horror television series based on the novel trilogy of the same name by del Toro and Chuck Hogan. FX has commissioned the pilot episode, which del Toro scripted with Hogan and was filmed in Toronto in September 2013. FX ordered a thirteen-episode first season for the series on November 19, 2013, and series premiered on July 13, 2014. After The Strain's pilot episode, del Toro directed Crimson Peak, a gothic horror film he co-wrote with Matthew Robbins and Lucinda Cox. Del Toro has described the film as "a very set-oriented, classical but at the same time modern take on the ghost story", citing The Omen, The Exorcist and The Shining as influences. Del Toro also stated, "I think people are getting used to horror subjects done as found footage or B-value budgets. I wanted this to feel like a throwback." Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, and Charlie Hunnam starred in the film. Production began February 2014 in Toronto, with an April 2015 release date initially planned. The studio later pushed the date back to October 2015, to coincide with the Halloween season. He was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Del Toro directed the Cold War drama film The Shape of Water, starring Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, and Michael Shannon. Filming began on August 15, 2016 in Toronto, and wrapped twelve weeks later. On August 31, 2017, the film premiered in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival, where it was awarded the Golden Lion for best film, making Del Toro the first Mexican director to win the award. The film became a critical and commercial success and would go on to win multiple accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture, with del Toro winning the Academy Award for Best Director. Del Toro collaborated with Japanese video game designer Hideo Kojima to produce P.T., a video game intended to be a "playable trailer" for the ninth Silent Hill game, which was cancelled. The demo was also removed from the PlayStation Network. At the D23 Expo in 2009, his Double Dare You production company and Disney announced a production deal for a line of darker animated films. The label was announced with one original animated project, Trollhunters. However, del Toro moved his deal to DreamWorks in late 2010. From 2016 to 2018, Trollhunters was released to great acclaim on Netflix and "is tracking to be its most-watched kids original ever". In 2017, Del Toro had an exhibition of work at the Minneapolis Institute of Art titled Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters, featuring his collection of paintings, drawings, maquettes, artifacts, and concept film art. The exhibition ran from March 5, 2017, to May 28, 2017. In 2019, del Toro appeared in Hideo Kojima's video game Death Stranding, providing his likeness for the character Deadman. Upcoming projects EditIn 2008, del Toro announced Pinocchio, a dark stop-motion film based on the Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, co-directed by Adam Parrish King, with The Jim Henson Company as production company, and music by Nick Cave. The project had been in development for over a decade. The pre-production was begun by the studio ShadowMachine. In 2017, del Toro announced that Patrick McHale is co-writing the script of the film. In the same year, del Toro revealed at the 74th Venice International Film Festival that the film will be reimagined during the rise of Benito Mussolini, and that he would need $35 million to make it. In November 2017, it was reported that del Toro had cancelled the project because no studios were willing to finance it. In October 2018, it was announced that the film had been revived, with Netflix backing the project. Netflix had previously collaborated with del Toro on Trollhunters. Many of the same details of the project remain the same, but with Mark Gustafson now co-directing rather than Adam Parrish King. In December 2017, Searchlight Pictures announced that del Toro would direct a new adaptation of the 1946 novel Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham, the screenplay of which he co-wrote with Kim Morgan. In 2019, it was reported that Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette and Rooney Mara had closed deals to star in the film, which went into production in January 2020. https://aznmodern.com/2017/10/10/13-facts-guillermo-del-toro-may-not-know/ https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/all-guillermo-del-toro-movies-ranked-by-tomatometer/ The Midnight Train Podcast is sponsored by VOUDOUX VODKA.www.voudoux.com Ace’s Depothttp://www.aces-depot.com BECOME A PRODUCER!http://www.patreon.com/themidnighttrainpodcast Find The Midnight Train Podcast:www.themidnighttrainpodcast.comwww.facebook.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.twitter.com/themidnighttrainpcwww.instagram.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.discord.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.tiktok.com/themidnighttrainp And wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Subscribe to our official YouTube channel:OUR YOUTUBE

Join us for our review of the 1991 Slasher Film, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. Directed and written by Rachel Talalay with screenplay by Michael De Luca.

In this episode we travel back to Springwood Ohio with 1991's Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. This film was Rachel Talalay, written by Rachel Talalay and Michael De Luca, and stars Robert Englund, Lisa Zane, Breckin Meyer, and Yaphet Kotto. We also announce the 4 films that were randomly chosen for Listener's Choice Months! Thank you to everyone that sent in a request. They were all great! If you enjoy the show, give us a subscribe/rating/review and of course, tell your friends! We have some sweet merch for sale over at : www.teepublic.com/user/we-are-horr…or-movie-podcast Visit us at wearehorrifiedpodcast.com

On the 50th episode of the Slice By Slice podcast, Jesse and Josh conclude their dive into the Nightmare On Elm Street Franchise with Freddy's Dead and Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Recorded on 10/11/2020.IntroHoly Shit, Fede Alvarez listened to his episode and liked it!Corrections, News, and AnnouncementsWhat We WatchedFilm DiscussionsFreddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare  (1991)Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)Outro

Christopher Knowles, Secret Sun, Penny Royal, Nathan Paul Issac, Darin West, H.P. Lovecraft, cybernetics, Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, Ccru, John Carpenter, In the Mouth of Madness, Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Grant, Michael Bertiaux, Peter Levenda, Bate Cabal, Simon Necronomicon, Hellier, Somerset, Kentucky, New Mexico, Lovecraft Country, New Hampshire, Ohio, Cincinnati, Epstein, Cracker, sexual abuse, minors, Alice Bailey, Sir William Wiseman, Harry Houdini, British intelligence, Roswell, UFOs, atomic bomb, Paypal Mafia, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, strange gods of the elites, Moe Dalitz, Las Vegas, New Line Cinema, Michael De Luca

From Austin Powers to Memento to Alice in Wonderland to The Oscars - Head of Jennifer Todd Pictures, JENNIFER TODD, shares how she and her sister Suzanne found and developed a huge variety of hit films over the last 20 years!!

Analog Jones finishes their 90's comic book month with a bang! Listen to us break down a crime-plagued future in Judge Dredd (1995) starring the LAW himself, Sylvester Stalone.  Judge Dredd (1995) Quick FactsDirected by Danny CannonProduced by Edward R. Pressman, Charles Lippincott, and Beau E. L. MarksScreenplay by William Wisher, Jr, and Steven E. de SouzaStory by Michael De Luca and Willliam Wisher, JrBased on Judge Dredd by John Wagner and Carlos EzquerraStarringSylvester Stallone as Judge Joseph DreddArmand Assante as Rico DreddRob Schneider as Herman "Fergie" FergussonDiane Lane as Judge Barbara HersheyMax von Sydow as Chief Justice FargoProduction companies: Hollywood Pictures, Cinergi Pictures, Edward R. Pressman Film CorporationDistributed by Buena Vista Pictures and Cinergi ProductionsRelease Date: June 30, 1995Budget: $90 millionBox Office: $113.5 million How to find Analog JonesDiscuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, Podbean, and Youtube! Email us at analogjonestof@gmail.com with any comments or questions!

In the Mouth of Madness. Join Donovan and Rick as they delve into the cosmic horrors of In the Mouth of Madness. We promise to stay sane. Sutter Cane wrote it that way.

Remember John Carpenter? Yeah, the guy who did Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York, They Live, Big Trouble in Little China, and about a bajillion other iconic films? Well, the 90s were not totally bereft of awesomeness from ol' JC. This movie is a sleeper hit, though it was a serious box office failure. Written by Michael De Luca, who was the producer on basically every New Line Cinema film you've ever even mildly enjoyed from The Mask to Dark City. He was also the EP behind Last Man Standing, which was Bruce Willis' attempt to star in a remake of Yojimbo (though Clint Eastwood's effort was markedly better). This film is ideal for the horror reader as it pays homage to two legends: HP Lovecraft and Stephen King. The film surrounds a publisher seeking a status on their famed writer, Sutter Cane, desperate to get his manuscript on his next book. Cane's writing style seems to mimic that of HP Lovecraft, dealing with cosmic horrors and ancient gods like Cthulhu. The writer's mythos and pop culture impact seems to be modeled after King, who has basically been at the forefront of horror literature through five decades. The film stars Sam Neill, fresh off his romp with Steven Spielberg and those dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (Fun Fact: The CG dinosaurs in that film are only onscreen for six minutes and the practical effects dinos are only onscreen for 14 minutes). The effects on this film are predominantly practical and are unfairly overlooked. Special effects were by ILM, with KNB Effects doing the practical effects. One of the creatures, "Monster Mass," was 18" wide and 18" long, requiring multiple puppeteers, but only ever appears in the background of one shot. There are some interesting narrative tricks in the film, blurring the lines between fantasy and reality and time itself. As people try to flee Sutter Cane's fictional town of Hobb's End (akin to King's Castle Rock), they find themselves trapped on a carousel. This week's "Hidden Track" is At the Mouth of Madness by The Cult Sounds. Their music can be found here: https://thecultsounds.bandcamp.com/ ; https://www.facebook.com/cultsoundsofficial/ If you ever have feedback or recommendations on future episodes, please let us know at slasherspod@gmail.com. You can always find us on our social media: Instagram, Twitter, Slasher App: @slasherspod Facebook: /slasherspod Reddit: u/slasherspod https://www.youtube.com/c/slasherspodcast Theme song is I wanna Die by Mini Meltdowns. https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ZAk6lUDsaJj8EAhrhzZnh ; https://minimeltdowns.bandcamp.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/slasherspod/support

 Time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! Bob Iger steps down from Disney, Wolverine MCU rumors, CW tries the Lost Boys one more time, & MORE! Catch up on all the nerdy headlines in TV and Movies, Tuesdays and Fridays. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content daily.  TV/StreamingLost BoysCW has cast their NEW Lost Boys pilot episode. We are now getting Brandon Cook, Lincoln Younes, and Ruby Cruz as Michael, Benjamin, and Elise (originally named Star), respectively. Parts originally played by Jason Patric, Keifer Sutherland, and Jamie Cruz, respectively.https://deadline.com/2020/02/the-lost-boys-branden-cook-lincoln-younes-ruby-cruz-cast-star-the-cw-reboot-pilots-1202869422/ NetflixJust signed with SIX Japanese creators in an effort to expand their anime offerings.Clamp, the female manga collective that was responsible for the “Cardcaptor Sakura” franchise. Another is with Mari Yamazaki, whose “Thermae Romae” manga was turned into two hit live-action films.Also including Shin Kibayashi (The Kindaichi Case Files), Yasuo Ohtagaki (Mobile Suit Gundam: Thunderbolt), Otsuichi (Goth), and Tow Ubukata (Mardock Scramble)https://variety.com/2020/digital/asia/netflix-deals-six-anime-creators-in-japan-1203516250/ Day of the DeadSyfy has ordered to series 10 episodes of a Day of the Dead series. Not Dia de los Muertos… George Romero’s horror classic.https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/day-of-the-dead-series-syfy-1203518798/ MoviesBob IgerDisney head stepped down on Tuesday AFTER I had already gone to post!Iger will accept the role of Executive Chairman, for the next year in order to ease the transition to Bob Chapek, former chairman of Disney Parks. Indiana Jones 5Stephen Spielberg has stepped down as director. Preferring to be a “very hands-on” producer, and passing the Indiana Jones whip to a new director. That new director? If Disney has their way, it will be James Mangold.https://variety.com/2020/film/news/steven-spielberg-indiana-jones-5-james-mangold-harrison-ford-1203515698/ Rumor MillWolverineNew rumors pin Henry Cavil’s new comic book role as being Wolverine in Captain Marvel 2. Will THIS be how the Rock gets to battle Cavil? Namor V Wolverine 2024!Shang-ChiA NEW rumor says that we might be getting mutants in the MCU even sooner. Wiz Kid is said to be making an appearance in Shang-Chi.Battlestar GalacticaIt sounds like it will be a MOVIE and not a series… though this one sounds like a reboot, and before we heard that it wasn’t. Rumors is rumors I guess. Set to produce, is STILL apparently Red Sparrow and Constantine director Francis Lawrence. Fifty Shades Freed producer Michael De Luca was attached as well and rounding out the list was Lisa Joy, one of the creators of the hit HBO series WestWorld.Star WarsCharles Soule’s novel, Light of the Jedi, will not only be the first book from Project Luminous (or The High Republic), but is now being rumored to be the basis for the first movie in the Post (pre?) Skywalker era. With none other than Jodi Whittaker in the lead role as Avar Kriss, who adorns the cover of the book.The MummyUniversal is rumored to be remaking the Brenden Frasier movie with Ryan Gosling in the starring role… why???Falcon and the Winter SoldierNew Serum in the series? This time there is mind control in the juice, and Sam Wilson and Bucky Barns will be declining the role of Cap.You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

What is it about Sam Neill going crazy? He’s just that good at it. John Carpenter picked the right guy for this week’s film, another lovely decent into well, madness; but this time with a fun meta spin! Not to mention some amazing creature design. “In The Mouth Of Madness” earned a “buy” from Ryan and a “rent” from Tim. Things get appropriately nutty in our discussion real fast, so we hope to leave you asking yourself: “Do you read Sutter Cane?” Where we watched: Amazon Rental RecommenDEADtions: Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Gamecube game) / Botched Up Bodies (TV show) In The Mouth Of Madness (1994) Directed by John Carpenter Written by Michael De Luca

Asian Jon returns for a special look back at all the comic book movies released in theatres during the year 2019. How many of these movies did Asian Jon actually see this year? How many of these movies are actually any good? Which cinematic depiction of comic book characters comes out on top? Full SPOILERS for all comic book movies that were released this year. If you haven't seen any of these movies, there will be spoilers. Music and audio from "Alita: Battle Angel" is the property of Tom Holkenborg, James Cameron, Jon Landau, 20th Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment, and TSG Entertainment. Music and audio from "Avengers: Endgame" and "Captain Marvel" are the property of Alan Silvestri, Pinar Toprack, Kevin Feige, and Marvel Studios. Music and audio from "Dark Phoenix" is the property of Hans Zimmer, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Laura Shuler-Donner, 20th Century Fox, The Donners' Company, TSG Entertainment, and Marvel Entertainment. Music and audio from "Dragon Ball Super: Broly" is the property of Norihito Sumitomo, Akira Toriyama, Toei Animation, and Funimation. Music and audio from "Glass (2019)" is the property of West Dylan Thordson, M. Night Shyamalan, Jason Blum, Marc Bienstock, Ashwin Rajan, Blinding Edge Pictures, and Blumhouse Productions. Music and audio from "Hellboy (2019)" is the property of Benjamin Wallfisch, Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Mike Richardson, Philip Westgren, Carl Hampe, Matt O'Toole, Les Weldon, Yariv Lerner, Summit Entertainment, Millennium Media, Lawrence Gordon Productions, Dark Horse Entertainment, Nu Boyana, and Campbell Grobman Films. Music and audio from "Joker (2019)" is the property of Hildur Guenadottir, Todd Phillips, Bradley Cooper, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Films, Joint Effort, Bron Creative, and Village Roadshow Pictures. Music and audio from "The Kitchen (2019)" is the property of Bryce Dessner, Michael De Luca, Marcus Viscidi, New Line Cinema, Bron Creative, and Michael De Luca Productions. Music and audio from "Men in Black: International" is the property of Danny Elfman, Chris Bacon, Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Columbia Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Parkes + Macdonald, Tencent Pictures, and Image Nation. Music and audio from "One Piece: Stampede" is the property of Kohei Tanaka, Hiroki Koyama, Eiichiro Oda, Toei Animation, and Funimation. Music and audio from "Reign of the Supermen" is the property of Frederik Wiedmann, James Tucker, Warner Bros. Animation, and DC Entertainment. Music and audio from "Shazam!" is the property of Benjamin Wallfisch, Peter Safran, New Line Cinema, DC Films, The Safran Company, Mad Ghost Productions, and Seven Buck Productions. Music and audio from "Spider-Man: Far From Home" is the property of Michael Giacchino, Kevin Feige, Amy Pascal, Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Pascal Pictures. The intro and outro music was created by Rob Koechl and Jeremy Eckert. We thank them for their generous support of this podcast. Check out our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/batjarpodcast. Invite your friends to like our page! You can contact us at @thebatcookiejar on Twitter or you can send an e-mail to batjarpodcast@gmail.com.

  New "Kahnversations" Podcast with Actor Taylor Zakhar Perez!   In this episode of "Kahnversations," we interview Taylor Zakhar Perez. Taylor Zakhar Perez just wrapped Netflix’s sequel to the #1 most watched film of 2018, THE KISSING BOOTH, starring opposite Emmy Nominated actress Joey King.  Zakhar Perez was born in South Chicago. He began his journey in opera houses performing musical theatre at an early age which untimely lead him to pursue his film and television career.  After moving to Los Angeles, he booked his first role guest-starring role opposite Emily Osment and Amy Carrero in “Young and Hungry”, NBC/Sony’s forever-in-contention pilot “Cruel Intentions” with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Peter Gallagher followed, and then starred in Michael De Luca’s limited series “Embeds”. After more appearances on CBS’s “Code Black”, YoutubeRed’s “12 Deadly Days”, and ABC’s “Scandal” he joined the cast of the international phenomenon “The Kissing Booth” which will release in 2020. You can download or subscribe to our podcast for FREE by clicking below. If you like “Kahnversations,” please leave a rating or review on our iTunes page!     There are so many inspiring podcasts with fabulous stars out there. But their careers feel light years away from ours, don’t they? Wouldn’t it be great to hear from the guy who just booked his first pilot? Or the kid finally doing a studio pic after a bunch of low budget indies? Or the woman who’s been a series regular a few times but is only now becoming a name? What about the guy who’s been on a show for years and you know his face but what’shisnameagain? Or that actress who is now a freakin’ showrunner???? How’d THEY do it, right? How did they transition from relative obscurity, bartending and bottle service, to buying that house in Brentwood? We’re producing “Kahnversations,” a podcast that provides access to THOSE people -- your immediate predecessors -- so that you can learn from them while their battle scars are still fresh. In “Kahnversations,” our own Ryan Bailey interviews some of Lesly Kahn & Company’s working actors, directors, and writers in order to learn how they got started in Hollywood, the challenges and hurdles they faced, and how they overcame the odds. (They also dish out some crazy stories!) Listen in and enjoy as these entertainers speak candidly about their paths, processes, and experiences. You might even hear a bit about how Lesly and the Kahnstitute have influenced and shaped their careers.

Looking for an example of a movie based on a comic book that isn't about a superhero? The recently released crime drama "The Kitchen" is a great example.  Does the film carry over elements of comic book storytelling despite it's less conventional story? Does the film adapt the eight issue mini-series in a faithful way? Or does it improve on the source material? To avoid SPOILERS for "The Kitchen", skip over 40:27-58:35 of the episode. Music and audio from "The Kitchen (2019)" is the property of Bryce Dessner, Michael De Luca, Marcus Viscidi, New Line Cinema, Bron Creative, and Michael De Luca Productions. The intro and outro music was created by Cackles and Jeremy Eckert. We thank them for their generous support of this podcast. Check out our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/batjarpodcast. Invite your friends to like our page! You can contact us at @thebatcookiejar on Twitter or you can send an e-mail to batjarpodcast@gmail.com.

Syndicated Nightmares takes a deep dive into an episode of Freddy’s Nightmares - a horror anthology tv show from the late 1980’s based off the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. Syndicated Nightmares is part of the It's All Been Done Network. Dave and Michelle are joined by special guest Blake Best, co-author of Behind the Screams: The Dream Master Revealed, and they are covering the episode 1x11, Do Dreams Bleed that aired January 7, 1989. Written by Michael De Luca, and directed by Dwight Little. This podcast episode contains spoilers of the show and film series, and makes reference to: A Nightmare On Elm Street; A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master; Freddy's Dead; and; Robert Englund

Welcome to Syndicated Nightmares, where every Wednesday hosts Dave Berman and Michelle Hanson take a deep dive into an episode of Freddy’s Nightmares - a horror anthology tv show from the late 1980’s based off the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. Syndicated Nightmares is part of the It's All Been Done Network. Today we’re covering the episode 1x07, Saturday Night Special that aired November 12, 1988. Written by Jeff Freilich and Michael De Luca, and directed by Ken Wiederhorn. This podcast episode contains spoilers of the show and film series, and males reference to: A Nightmare On Elm Street; Nancy Thompson; Heather Langenkamp; A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master; Alice Johnson; Wes Craven's New Nightmare; Mick Strawn, and; Robert Englund Please check out Seat42F.com hosted by It's All Been Done

Get ready to evolve to the next level as we cross the barrier to reach "Threshold"!New York Times best-selling author Alan Gratz returns to the show to examine an episode of Star Trek: Voyager that sets a new low for the franchise. When Tom Paris dares to break the warp barrier, he finds himself forever altered. Now, as he struggles to remain himself, the crew's ideas of what's possible and what's acceptable collide!We do our level best to drag this Emmy-winning episode back from the halls of shame as we examine what makes an episode of Star Trek truly "bad". Along the way, we discuss the missed storytelling opportunities of Voyager, Tom Paris as THE white guy of the show, the Hudsuckerian rise of Michael De Luca, the constraints of streaming TV and the freedom of fan films, and the unsung little person actors on the show!We also talk about banned books, the first Trek depiction of a virginity loss, mind grapes, some toy talk, why piloting means having a high WPM in the future, Kal CORRECTLY predicts the Georgiou show, Alan predicts the Lower Decks show, Worf killing a kid via football, and #AllSalamandersMatter!If you want me at my Best of Both Worlds, take me at my Threshold!Follow Alan on Twitter and on his website!https://www.twitter.com/AlanGratzhttp://www.alangratz.comGet Alan's new book, Grenade, on Amazon!https://amzn.to/2qWid5BGet our Trek T-shirts, including our Janeway shirt, on Teepublic!https://www.teepublic.com/user/justenoughtropeHear our live episode with Melinda Snodgrass from CONvergence 2018!https://www.patreon.com/posts/20122260Evolve with us on Facebook and Twitter!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodBuy us a pizza on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2

Welcome to Syndicated Nightmares, where every Wednesday hosts Dave Berman and Michelle Hanson take a deep dive into an episode of Freddy’s Nightmares - a horror anthology tv show from the late 1980’s based off the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. Syndicated Nightmares is part of the It's All Been Done Network. Today we’re covering the episode1x05, Judy Miller, Come On Down that aired November 5, 1988. Written by Jack Temchin and Michael De Luca, and directed by Tom DeLuca. This podcast episode contains spoilers of the show and film series, and makes reference to: A Nightmare On Elm Street; A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors; A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master; Heather Langenkamp; Robert Englund; Mick Strawn; The X-Files, and; The Twilight Zone  Please check out It's All Been Trekked hosted by It's All Been Done Radio Hour

Get ready to evolve to the next level as we cross the barrier to reach "Threshold"!New York Times best-selling author Alan Gratz returns to the show to examine an episode of Star Trek: Voyager that sets a new low for the franchise. When Tom Paris dares to break the warp barrier, he finds himself forever altered. Now, as he struggles to remain himself, the crew's ideas of what's possible and what's acceptable collide!We do our level best to drag this Emmy-winning episode back from the halls of shame as we examine what makes an episode of Star Trek truly "bad". Along the way, we discuss the missed storytelling opportunities of Voyager, Tom Paris as THE white guy of the show, the Hudsuckerian rise of Michael De Luca, the constraints of streaming TV and the freedom of fan films, and the unsung little person actors on the show!We also talk about banned books, the first Trek depiction of a virginity loss, mind grapes, some toy talk, why piloting means having a high WPM in the future, Kal CORRECTLY predicts the Georgiou show, Alan predicts the Lower Decks show, Worf killing a kid via football, and #AllSalamandersMatter!If you want me at my Best of Both Worlds, take me at my Threshold!Follow Alan on Twitter and on his website!https://www.twitter.com/AlanGratzhttp://www.alangratz.comGet Alan's new book, Grenade, on Amazon!https://amzn.to/2qWid5BGet our Trek T-shirts, including our Janeway shirt, on Teepublic!https://www.teepublic.com/user/justenoughtropeHear our live episode with Melinda Snodgrass from CONvergence 2018!https://www.patreon.com/posts/20122260Evolve with us on Facebook and Twitter!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodBuy us a pizza on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2

Welcome to Syndicated Nightmares, where every Wednesday hosts Dave Berman and Michelle Hanson take a deep dive into an episode of Freddy’s Nightmares - a horror anthology tv show from the late 1980’s based off the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. Syndicated Nightmares is part of the It's All Been Done Radio Hour Network. Today we’re covering the episode1x02, It's a Miserable Life that aired October 15, 1988. Written by Michael De Luca and Paul Rosselli, and directed by Tom McLoughlin. This podcast episode contains spoilers of the show and film series, and makes reference to: A Nightmare On Elm Street 3-5, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Friday the 13th, Lar Park-Wilson, Dylan McKay (90210), Heather Langenkamp, Are You Afraid of the Dark.  Please check out Squatch Smashers hosted by It's All Been Done Radio Hour

Welcome to Syndicated Nightmares, where every Wednesday hosts Dave Berman and Michelle Hanson take a deep dive into an episode of Freddy’s Nightmares - a horror anthology tv show from the late 1980’s based off the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series. Syndicated Nightmares is part of the It's All Been Done Radio Hour Network. Today we’re covering the pilot episode, No More Mr. Nice Guy that aired October 8, 1988. Written by Rhet Topham, Michael De Luca, and David Erhman, and directed by Tobe Hooper. This podcast episode contains spoilers of the show and film series, and makes reference to: the Innovation comics, A Nightmare On Elm Street 1, 3-4, Freddy's Dead, New Nightmare, Elm Street fan films, Friday the 13th, Mick Strawn, Tobe Hooper, Poltergeist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alice Cooper, and Kevin Yager.  Please check out Marianne's Macabre Review hosted by It's All Been Done Radio Hour    

In Theaters, Friday September 21, 2018The Sisters BrothersIt is 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly) are both brothers and assassins, boys grown to men in a savage and hostile world. They have blood on their hands: that of criminals, that of innocents...and they know no state of existence other than being gunmen. The older of the two, introspective Eli (Reilly) rides hard with his younger sibling yet dares to dream of a normal life. The younger of the two, hard-drinking Charlie (Phoenix) has taken charge with gusto as lead man on the duo's assignments. Each increasingly questions, and quibbles with, the other's methods.The Sisters brothers find themselves on a journey through the Northwest, bringing them to the mountains of Oregon, a dangerous brothel in the small town of Mayfield, and eventually, the Gold Rush land of California - a journey that will test the deadly family ties that bind. But, can it also be the path to rediscovering what remains of their humanity?Starring: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Riz AhmedDirected by: Jacques AudiardProduced by: Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, Michael De Luca, Allison Dickey, John C. ReillyDistributed by: Annapurna PicturesRuntime: 121 minutes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Oscar nominated producer behind Captain Phillips, The Social Network, Moneyball and The 50 Shades Franchise - Mike Deluca - sits down with his buddy Todd Garner to talk about the troubles and triumphs of his career. Get 15 percent OFF your first pair of underwear and FREE shipping when you go to MeUndies.com/PRODUCERS Go to GETQUIP.COM/PRODUCERS right now to get you r first refill pack FREE with a QUIP electric toothbrush!

- Did you know that one in four Canadians is a family caregiver? Canada Cares Founder Caroline Tapp-McDougall tells us about some interesting stats relating to health risks when it comes to caregiving, and an event celebrating family caregivers from coast-to-coast. Canada Cares and the Alzheimer Society of Toronto presents: Jukebox Beatles Tribute Band - Enter to win 2 tickets here: http://www.whatshesaidradio.com/what-she-said/contest-canada-cares-and-the-alzheimer-society-of-toronto-presents-jukebox-beatles-tribute-band - Award winning author Adrienne Kress​ on her book being adapted into a Disney film ​by Michael​ ​De​ ​Luca. Get 'The Explorers:​ ​The​ ​Door​ ​in​ ​the​ ​Alley​’ here: http://www.adriennekress.com - Movie/TV reviews with film critic Anne Brodie - http://www.twitter.com/annebrodie - Pay with #Masterpass for a fast, simple & secure online checkout! Listen to Lena​ tells us more - https://masterpass.com/en-ca/ - Stephanie Ray on her Toronto-based e-commerce retailer Grayes​ that is providing women with trendy workwear essentials, all of which is designed, cut and sewn in factories in the Greater Toronto Area. Learn more: http://www.grayes.com - Singer/songwriter Melissa Bel​ performs 'Big Boys Don't Cry' in our LIVE #StudioSessions - get the track here: http://melissa-bel.com SUBSCRIBE to What She Said and watch interviews & more: http://www.youtube.com/WhatSheSaidTalk Miss a show? Stream & download full shows for free on iTunes: http://www.apple.co/1U700c0 Follow us on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram: @WhatSheSaidTalk Website: http://www.whatshesaidtalk.com What She Said! with Christine Bentley & Kate Wheeler airs Saturday and Sunday at 10-11PM ET on Jewel 88.5 Toronto. Listen LIVE on the APP: http://www.streamdb5web.securenetsystems.net/v5/CKDX

MY CINEMA LIFE is a new short documentary series from the creators of The Script Podcast produced by David Negrin & Zoe Alexander, Written & Hosted by Michael De Luca. (1943 – 2017) SAM SHEPARD NYT Obituary - Sam Shepard, Actor and Pulitzer-Winning Playwright, Is Dead at 73 Sam Shepard in PICTURES

In an exclusive interview with The Business, Oscars producer Michael De Luca remembers the night that culminated with the biggest flub in Academy Awards show history. De Luca tells us what happened in the moments following that epic blunder and what he thinks should have happened instead.