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Meredith Salenger talks about fighting for justice, making peace, mediating, falling in love over text, growing up in Malibu, being picked to be a star by John Houston, being a good stepmother, having a dentist dad, Patton Oswalt, Natty Gann, sunsets, and wolves. Bio: Meredith Salenger is an actress, writer, producer from Malibu, CA who began her professional acting career at the age of 10, playing an orphan in 1982's “Annie,” directed by John Huston. She is perhaps best known for her starring role performances in “The Journey of Natty Gann” with John Cusack, “Dream a little Dream,” and “A Night in Life of Jimmy Reardon” opposite River Phoenix. Meredith graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degree in psychology, before resuming her focus on acting to star in “H.U.D” with Steve Carell, and “Chicks” from the writers of “Seinfeld.”  Her varied additional credits from film and television include the likes of “Will & Grace,” “Anger Management,” “24,” “Dawson's Creek,” “Grey's Anatomy,” “Daredevil,” “Damages,” David Kelley's “Lake Placid” and John Carpenter's “Village of the Damned.” You can also hear her voiceover work in a trio of “Star Wars” vehicles – “The Clone Wars,” “Rebels,” and “The Force Awakens,” along with such projects as “The Secret Life of Pets 2,”  “My Little Pony,” “Teen Titans Go! to the Movies,” “Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!,” “Robot Chicken,” “Lego DC Super Hero Girls,” and Marvel's latest, “M.O.D.O.K” on Hulu.  She is currently in development for an animated show with her writing and producing partner, Matt Boren, and also  produces and hosts a hilarious podcast with her husband, Patton Oswalt, called “Did you get my text?”Her most recent film “the prank”starring Rita Moreno is streaming now and she has a soon to be released dark comedy called “I hate myself and want to die.”

Monday, July 25, 2022 "I choose to believe that 30 minutes ago your house looked like the house I just left." Ammon's back with three movies he had never seen before! He took suggestions from loved ones! I think we feel bad we didn't talk about that hostage scene in RoboCop where one of the guy's demands is a car with really lousy gas mileage. "They miss him SO many times, and RoboCop is NOT fast." 0:00 -- Intro3:05 -- The Amityville Horror32:08 -- RoboCop1.00:57 -- Tully1.29:50 -- Commercial contact break1.32:52 -- Awards and rankings2.24:44 -- Future business2.30:25 -- Outro and outtakes Hey! Be sure to watch Jeremiah Johnson, The Journey of Natty Gann, and Grizzly Man for next time!Hey! Leave us a voicemail at (801) 896-4542!Hey! We're on Spotify now!Hey! Mr. Bloot!Hey! Read the Ebert The Amityville Horror review!Hey! Todd Nukem!Hey! Chet Tapp!Hey! Michel Foucault on Wikipedia!Hey! Here's a bit more depth on that Foucault guy!Hey! Judith Butler on Wikipedia!Hey! Hear the Blank Check about RoboCop!Hey! Flying pig!Hey! Armus!Hey! Hear the You're Wrong About podcast about Amityville!Hey! Subscribe in iTunes!Hey! Check out the Facebook page and vote on the next category!Hey! Check out Jon's YM&T Letterboxd list!Hey! Check out Roy's YM&T Letterboxd list!Hey! Email us at yoursminetheirspodcast@gmail.com! Send new topics! Send new theme songs!

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Jeremy Kagan, Acclaimed Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Author & Educator About Harvey's guest: Today's guest, Jeremy Kagan, is a highly acclaimed director, screenwriter, producer, author and educator, whose feature film credits include “Scott Joplin”, “Heroes”, “The Big Fix”, “The Chosen”, which won 3 Jury Prizes at prestigious international film festivals, “The Sting 2”, “The Journey of Natty Gann”, which was the first American film to win a Gold Prize at the Moscow Film Festival, “Golda's Balcony”, and the exceptionally powerful and compelling movie entitled “SHOT”, which is a must-see film about gun violence in America.   Some of my favourite of his TV movies are “Katherine”, “Courage”, “Descending Angel”, “Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8”, which won an ACE Award for Best Dramatic Special, “Roswell: The UFO Cover-Up”, which got a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best TV movie, “Color of Justice”, “Bobbie's Girl”, and “Crown Heights”, which earned him the Directors Guild of America Robert B. Aldrich Achievement Award, and a nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children's Programs, AND for which he won an NAACP Image Award AND the Humanitas Award for "affirming the dignity of every person".   He also produced and directed the internationally acclaimed 10 part TV series entitled, “The ACLU Freedom Files”, which won a Special Recognition Award at the Washington Independent Film Festival.   In addition, he's directed dozens of TV shows including “Columbo”, “Picket Fences”, “Chicago Hope”, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing, “Ally McBeal”, “Family Law”, “The West Wing”, for which the Online Film and Television Association nominated him for Best Direction of a Drama Series,  AND he directed the pilot for “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”.  This man's contributions to the film industry have been monumental.   He created the Change Making Media Lab, which fosters positive social and environmental change by producing award-winning films dealing with pressing social issues.  He served as the Artistic Director of Robert Redford's Sundance Lab.  And he's been on the National Board of the Directors Guild, where he is Chairperson of its Special Projects, providing members with educational, cultural and technological information.  Our guest is also an accomplished author.  His books entitled, “Directors Close Up”, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 contain fascinating interviews with renowned film directors.  He also wrote a mesmerizing and inspirational book about his near-death experience, called “My Death: A Personal Guidebook”.   And he's written an interactive eTextbook called “Keys to Directing”. He's a Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and he's taught master classes on filmmaking throughout the world.  He's a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Television Academy, The Writers Guild, and The Directors Guild.   For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/ To see more about Jeremy Kagan, go to:https://www.facebook.com/jeremypkagan/https://www.instagram.com/jeremypkagan/https://twitter.com/ainsof #JeremyKagan  #harveybrownstoneinterviews

This week we are talking all about the live-action film The Journey of Natty Gann. First, we talk about what new ride we want to see at the Disneyland parks and what land we want to see it in. Then we break down how we both loved this movie and how well all the pieces came together. Join us as we travel across the country as Natty searches for her father. 

This week, we finish our three part episode on the 1980s distribution company Vestron Pictures. ----more---- The movies discussed on this week's episode are: The Adventures of a Gnome Named Gnorm (1990, Stan Winston) Big Man on Campus (1989, Jeremy Paul Kagan) Dream a Little Dream (1989, Marc Rocco) Earth Girls Are Easy (1989, Julien Temple) Far From Home (1989, Meiert Avis) Paperhouse (1989, Bernard Rose) Parents (1989, Bob Balaban) The Rainbow (1989, Ken Russell) Wonderland (1989, Philip Saville)   TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   At the end of the previous episode, Vestron Pictures was starting to experience the turbulence a number of independent distributors faced when they had a successful film too soon out of the gate, and the direction of the company seemingly changes to go chasing more waterfalls instead of sticking to the rivers and the lakes they were used to.   Welcome to Part Three of our miniseries.   As we enter 1989, Vestron is seriously in trouble. More money has gone out then has come back in. It seems that they needed one more hit to keep going for a while longer. But if you were to look at their release schedule for the year, which included a pickup from the recently bankrupt DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, there wasn't really anything that felt like it could be a Dirty Dancing-like break out, except for maybe the pickup from the recently bankrupt DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group.    But we'll get there in a moment.   Their first film from 1989 is a certifiable cult film if there ever was one, but the problem with this label is that the film tagged as so was not a success upon its initial theatrical release. Bob Balaban, the beloved character actor who had been regularly seen on screen since his memorable debut in Midnight Cowboy twenty years earlier, would make his directorial debut with the black comedy horror film Parents.   Bryan Madorsky stars as Michael Laemle, a ten year old boy living in the California suburbs in the 1950s, who starts to suspect mom and dad, played by Mary Beth Hurt and Randy Quaid, might be cannibals. It's a strange but fun little movie, and even Ken Russell would compare it favorably over David Lynch's Blue Velvet during one contemporary interview, but sadly, it would take far more time for the film to find its audience than Vestron could afford.   Opening in 94 theatres on January 27th, the $3m Parents could not overcome a series of negative reviews from critics, and it would only gross $278k in its first three days. Vestron would not strike any additional prints of the film, and would cycle the ones they did have around the country for several months, but after four months, the film could only attract $870k in box office receipts. But it would become something of a cult hit on video later in the year.   In 1992, British filmmaker Bernard Rose would make his American directing debut with an all-time banger, Candyman. But he wouldn't gotten Candyman if it wasn't for his 1989 film Paperhouse, an inventive story about a young girl whose drawings seem to manifest into reality. British actor Ben Cross from Chariots of Fire and American actress Glenne Headly from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels plays the young girl's parents.   Outside of Gene Siskel, who would give the film a thumbs down on his movie review show with Roger Ebert despite acknowledging Rose's talent as a filmmaker and being fascinated by the first two-thirds of the movie, the critical consensus was extraordinary. But it appears Siskel may have never actually written a review of the film for the Chicago Tribune, as the film still has a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But the film would only earn $6,700 from its single screen playdate at the Carnegie Hall Cinemas when it opened on February 17th, and the film would get little support from Vestron after that. More single playdates in major cities that added up to a $241k box office tally after fourteen weeks in release.   Marc Rocco's Dream a Little Dream would be the third film in The Two Coreys Cinematic Universe. Corey Feldman plays a high school student who, through one of the strangest plot twists in the whole body switching genre, finds himself switching places with two time Academy Award-winner Jason Robards, playing a professor who is looking for immortality through entering a meditative alpha state. Meredith Salinger and Piper Laurie also find themselves switching bodies as well, while Corey Haim plays the goofball best friend with not a whole lot to do. The supporting cast also includes veteran character actors Harry Dean Stanton and Alex Rocco, the latter who agreed to do the film because it was directed by his son.   When the film opened on March 3rd, it would be Vestron's second widest release, opening on more than 1,000 theatres. But just like the previous year's License to Drive, the pairing of Corey Haim and Corey Feldman did not set the box office on fire, opening in fifth place with $2.57m in ticket sales, compared to the #1 film of the week, the Morgan Freeman drama Lean on Me, which would gross twice as much as Dream a Little Dream while playing in 125 fewer theatres. In its second week, the film would lose 56 theatres and 52% of its opening weekend audience, falling all the way to 13th place with a gross of only $1.25m. By week three, the movie would move to dollar houses, and trudge along for several more months, until it closed in the middle of summer with only $5.55m in the till.   In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer/director Jeremy Paul Kagan had directed and occasionally written several big ticket movies, including the 1977 Henry Winkler drama Heroes, which also starred Sally Field and, in his first post-Star Wars movie, Harrison Ford, and the 1985 Meredith Salinger/John Cusack adventure film The Journey of Natty Gann. Which makes his Natty Gann follow up, Big Man on Campus, such a head scratcher.   A modern adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Big Man on Campus was written by Allan Katz, who had been working in television for nearly twenty years writing for and producing shows like All in the Family, Sanford and Son, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and MASH. Katz would also star in the movie as the titular hunchback, even though he had never once acted on any of his shows. But at least he had a good cast supporting him, including Gerrit Graham, Melora Hardin, Jessica Harper, Tom Skerritt, and Cindy Williams.   I can only find one playdate for the film ever, in Los Angeles at the American Cinematheque in March 1989, so while this mostly qualifies as a direct to video release, I feel compelled to at least give it a token mention here.   Have you ever heard of a movie called The Fruit Machine? Of course you haven't, because that's a horrible name for a movie, no matter what it's about. When Vestron acquired this British drama about young gay men who go on the run after they witness a murder, the first thing they did was change the title to Wonderland. Not that Wonderland gives you any more of an idea of what the movie is about than The Fruit Machine. But, whatever.   Today, the movie has two things going for it. One, an early role for Robbie Coltrane, playing a transvestite who operates a nightclub for gay men and transvestites called, you guessed it, The Fruit Machine. Second, the musical score was written by Hans Zimmer, in one of his earliest film jobs. Ironically, Wonderland would be the the third movie scored by Hans Zimmer to be released by Vestron in a four month period, after Burning Secret and Paperhouse.   Wonderland would open at the Quad Cinemas in New York City on April 28th, to poor reviews but a decent $11,500 opening weekend. But the film would not be able to maintain much of an audience, and after five weeks, Wonderland was out of the Quad Cinemas, never to play another theatre in America, with just $50k in the till.   Ken Russell's third and final film in his contract with Vestron was The Rainbow, an adaptation of a 1915 novel by D.H. Lawrence, whose 1920 novel Women in Love had been adapted by Russell in 1969. Glenda Jackson, who had won the Academy Award for her role in Women in Love, here plays the mother of the character she played in the other film. Here, she co-stars with Sammi Davis as Ursala, the younger sister of Jackson's Women in Love character, who finds herself attracted to Anton, a young man in town, as well as her gym teacher Winifred.   As one would expect from Ken Russell, the supporting cast is top notch, including future Eighth Doctor Paul McGann, regular Russell collaborator Christopher Gable, and Blowup star David Hemmings. The film would open at the Paris Theatre in New York City on May 5th, where it would gross a very good $22k, spurred on by great reviews from most of the city's major critics, several of which noted the film to be Russell's best in a number of years. So it would be sad that the film would end up being the lowest grossing of the three films he'd make with Vestron, only earning a total of $444k after three months in mostly single playdates in major markets.   In 1985, Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum would work together on a forgettable horror comedy film called Transylvania 6-5000, whose name was a pun on a popular 1940 song recorded by Glenn Miller. In 1986, the pair would work together again in David Cronenberg's amazing remake of the cheesy 1950s horror film The Fly. In late 1987, shortly after the pair married, they would work together for a third time, on another comedy, and on a movie that was this time based on an actual song.    Earth Girls Are Easy was the name of a song that appeared on comedian Julie Brown's 1984 EP Goddess in Progress, and was originally developed as a movie at Warner Brothers Studio. The studio would get cold feet when Absolute Beginners, the big British musical directed by music video director Julien Temple, failed big time everywhere in the world except for the UK. Temple was slated to direct Earth Girls Are Easy, and Brown, as the co-writer and co-star of the film, was committed to the filmmaker, even if it meant Warners putting the film into turnaround.   Which they did, in 1986.   It would take nearly a year to get the project back on track, after being rejected by every other major studio and production company in Hollywood, until the French banking giant Credit Lyonnais agree to finance the film, provided they could cut the budget from $14m to $10m, and if the filmmakers could make a distribution deal with the bank's preferred distributor, the then newly-formed DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group.   The film, about a manicurist in Los Angeles who helps three aliens blend into human culture after they accidentally crash land their spaceship into her pool, would begin production in Los Angeles in October 1987. Davis played the manicurist, and Goldblum one of the aliens, alongside Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey, while the remaining cast would include a number of great comedic actors like MASH's Larry Linville, Michael McKean, Rick Overton, and Charles Rocket, as well as Los Angeles media personality Angelyne as basically herself.   While the film was nearing completion in early 1988, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group would go out of business, leaving Credit Lyonnais in need of a new distributor for their investment. But after Temple turned in his first cut of the film, Credit Lyonnais would send Temple back into his editing bay, where he and his team would spend nearly another five months  winnowing out various scenes and completely excising a big and expensive musical number based on one of the other songs on Brown's 1984 EP, I Like ‘Em Big and Stupid, because it just didn't work for the film. Additional scenes would be shot, and the budget would end up being $11m.    The film would have its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September 1988, and attract attention from a number of distributors including MGM/UA, New World Pictures and Twentieth Century-Fox, but Vestron would end up putting in the winning bid.   The film would originally be set for a February 1989 release, but would get delayed until May 12th. When it finally opened on 317 screens in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philly, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington DC, the film would gross $893k, putting in twelfth place for the weekend, but its per screen average would be the fourth best amongst the films in the top twenty. The film would fall one place in its second week,  losing 35% of its opening weekend audience, grossing $577k. The film would slowly hemorrhage theatres and box office until the plug was pulled in mid-July with only $3.9m in tickets sold.   The sole lasting legacy of the film is that Damon Wayans enjoyed working so much with Jim Carrey that when Damon's brother Kenan Ivory Wayans was putting together a new comedy television show together thanks to the success of his movie I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, Damon would get his brother to give Carrey a chance. In Living Color would make Carrey and the Wayans Brothers stars, and would change the course of comedy. So there's that…   In late June, the Lightning Pictures imprint would release their first movie in nearly two years, Far From Home. The film starred the then-fourteen year old Drew Barrymore as a young girl traveling cross country with her father, who get stuck in a small desert town in Nevada on their way to back to Los Angeles, who must deal with some very strange characters in the trailer park they're staying in, as they slowly discover nothing is as it's supposed to be. Matt Frewer, Max Headroom himself, plays the dad, who must protect his daughter while he figures out how to get the hell out of town alive.   Truth be told, the movie sucks, and it's really creepy in how it sexualizes Barrymore, but there's one hell of a great supporting cast doing their best to keep the joint from totally stinking the place up. Richard Masur, Academy Award nominee Susan Tyrell, Anthony Rapp from Adventures in Babysitting, Jennifer Tilly, and beloved character actor Dick Miller. When Vestron opened the film in four theatres in third-tier regions on June 30th, it was little surprise the film got some very bad notices, although one unnamed reviewer for Variety felt the need to note that Barrymore, who again was only fourteen at the time, had “a baby face, dreamy eyes and a playboy model's body.” The film would gross just $3,763 in its first and only weekend in theatres.   But that wasn't even the worst news of the week for Vestron.   On the same day as they opened Far From Home, Vestron had been informed by Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles that the $100 million line of credit the company had with them was being terminated. 140 of the approximately 300 Vestron staff members, mostly from the Los Angeles office, were let go, including the President of Production, the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Distribution, and the Vice President of Publicity and Promotion. While Vestron Video would continue for a while, in large part thanks to a $15.7m payoff during a dispute over home video ownership rights to the 1986 Best Picture winner Platoon, the theatrical distribution unit was effectively dead. Some movies, including the Fred Savage/Howie Mandel comedy Little Monsters, the Harry Dean Stanton-led comedy Twister, and the Kathryn Bigelow-directed action thriller Blue Steel with Jamie Lee Curtis, would be sold off to other companies, but the titles left behind would see their planned theatrical releases cancelled and eventually be released direct to video.   Thanks to some of the legacy titles in their video catalog, including Dirty Dancing, Vestron would be able to stave off the inevitable, but in January 1991, the company would file for bankruptcy, their final film being the Stan Winston-directed fantasy buddy comedy The Adventures of a Gnome named Gnorm. Filmed in 1988 as Upward, the film featured Anthony Michael Hall as an Los Angeles Police Detective who has to team up with a gnome, a puppet created by Winston, the effects wizard who also directed the film, to solve a murder. For Winston, it was deja vu all over again, as his previous directorial effort, Pumpkinhead, found itself in limbo for a while when its distributor, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, filed for bankruptcy in 1987 before they could release that film.   In bankruptcy court, Live Entertainment, partially owned by 1990s mega movie production company Carolco Pictures, would purchase all of Vestron's assets for $24m. Live used the assets as collateral to secure a line of credit from industry friendly banks, so they could start their own production and distribution company, of which their only moment of note was helping to finance Reservoir Dogs when no one else would.   Eventually, Live Entertainment would be sold off to Bain Capital, a private investment firm co-founded by Mitt Romney, in 1997, and they would rebrand Live as Artisan Entertainment. Artisan today is best known as the little independent distributor of The Blair Witch Project, but they also would enter into an agreement with Marvel Comics to make movies for 15 of their characters, including Ant-Man, Black Panther, Deadpool, Iron Fist, Longshot, Morbius, Mort the Dead Teenager, and the Power Pack.   Artisan would produce two movies based on Marvel characters, Man-Thing and The Punisher, although neither of those films would be released by Artisan. Artisan would declare bankruptcy in 2003, and Marvel would be one of the companies to place a bid for them. Lionsgate would end up becoming the winning bidder for Artisan's assets, which is how the vast majority of Vestron titles are now owned by a company that didn't even exist when Vestron closed shop.   Today, Lionsgate is the owner of the assets of a number of the companies we've spoken about on this podcast in the past, and will be talking about in the future, including Crown International, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, Embassy Pictures, and New World Pictures. And it's also a major reason why so many of the movies we discuss in these episodes looking back at past companies are completely unknown today. As big as Lionsgate is, with nearly $3.6 billion in revenue in 2022, they aren't going to be able to keep up with the chain of ownership for every movies from every company they've purchased, and they're not going to put the money in to the movies that are barely remembered today. The Film Foundation, the non-profit organization co-founded by Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, which is dedicated to film preservation, estimates the average cost to do a photochemical restoration of a color feature with sound to between $80,000 to $450,000 dollars, not including the cost of a 2k or 4k digital scan. I'm going to have a link in the show notes on our website at The80sMoviePodcast.com to a November 2018 article from the Science History Institute about the process of restoring films. It's not a long read, but it's a fascinating read. I hope you'll check it out.   So there you have it, the end of the line for Vestron Pictures, and many of the movies they helped to make and distribute, most of which you cannot find today in any form.   Thank you for listening.   We'll talk again next week when Episode 105, on the 1985 teen comedy O.C. and Stiggs, directed by Robert Altman, will be discussed.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

This week, we finish our three part episode on the 1980s distribution company Vestron Pictures. ----more---- The movies discussed on this week's episode are: The Adventures of a Gnome Named Gnorm (1990, Stan Winston) Big Man on Campus (1989, Jeremy Paul Kagan) Dream a Little Dream (1989, Marc Rocco) Earth Girls Are Easy (1989, Julien Temple) Far From Home (1989, Meiert Avis) Paperhouse (1989, Bernard Rose) Parents (1989, Bob Balaban) The Rainbow (1989, Ken Russell) Wonderland (1989, Philip Saville)   TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   At the end of the previous episode, Vestron Pictures was starting to experience the turbulence a number of independent distributors faced when they had a successful film too soon out of the gate, and the direction of the company seemingly changes to go chasing more waterfalls instead of sticking to the rivers and the lakes they were used to.   Welcome to Part Three of our miniseries.   As we enter 1989, Vestron is seriously in trouble. More money has gone out then has come back in. It seems that they needed one more hit to keep going for a while longer. But if you were to look at their release schedule for the year, which included a pickup from the recently bankrupt DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, there wasn't really anything that felt like it could be a Dirty Dancing-like break out, except for maybe the pickup from the recently bankrupt DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group.    But we'll get there in a moment.   Their first film from 1989 is a certifiable cult film if there ever was one, but the problem with this label is that the film tagged as so was not a success upon its initial theatrical release. Bob Balaban, the beloved character actor who had been regularly seen on screen since his memorable debut in Midnight Cowboy twenty years earlier, would make his directorial debut with the black comedy horror film Parents.   Bryan Madorsky stars as Michael Laemle, a ten year old boy living in the California suburbs in the 1950s, who starts to suspect mom and dad, played by Mary Beth Hurt and Randy Quaid, might be cannibals. It's a strange but fun little movie, and even Ken Russell would compare it favorably over David Lynch's Blue Velvet during one contemporary interview, but sadly, it would take far more time for the film to find its audience than Vestron could afford.   Opening in 94 theatres on January 27th, the $3m Parents could not overcome a series of negative reviews from critics, and it would only gross $278k in its first three days. Vestron would not strike any additional prints of the film, and would cycle the ones they did have around the country for several months, but after four months, the film could only attract $870k in box office receipts. But it would become something of a cult hit on video later in the year.   In 1992, British filmmaker Bernard Rose would make his American directing debut with an all-time banger, Candyman. But he wouldn't gotten Candyman if it wasn't for his 1989 film Paperhouse, an inventive story about a young girl whose drawings seem to manifest into reality. British actor Ben Cross from Chariots of Fire and American actress Glenne Headly from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels plays the young girl's parents.   Outside of Gene Siskel, who would give the film a thumbs down on his movie review show with Roger Ebert despite acknowledging Rose's talent as a filmmaker and being fascinated by the first two-thirds of the movie, the critical consensus was extraordinary. But it appears Siskel may have never actually written a review of the film for the Chicago Tribune, as the film still has a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But the film would only earn $6,700 from its single screen playdate at the Carnegie Hall Cinemas when it opened on February 17th, and the film would get little support from Vestron after that. More single playdates in major cities that added up to a $241k box office tally after fourteen weeks in release.   Marc Rocco's Dream a Little Dream would be the third film in The Two Coreys Cinematic Universe. Corey Feldman plays a high school student who, through one of the strangest plot twists in the whole body switching genre, finds himself switching places with two time Academy Award-winner Jason Robards, playing a professor who is looking for immortality through entering a meditative alpha state. Meredith Salinger and Piper Laurie also find themselves switching bodies as well, while Corey Haim plays the goofball best friend with not a whole lot to do. The supporting cast also includes veteran character actors Harry Dean Stanton and Alex Rocco, the latter who agreed to do the film because it was directed by his son.   When the film opened on March 3rd, it would be Vestron's second widest release, opening on more than 1,000 theatres. But just like the previous year's License to Drive, the pairing of Corey Haim and Corey Feldman did not set the box office on fire, opening in fifth place with $2.57m in ticket sales, compared to the #1 film of the week, the Morgan Freeman drama Lean on Me, which would gross twice as much as Dream a Little Dream while playing in 125 fewer theatres. In its second week, the film would lose 56 theatres and 52% of its opening weekend audience, falling all the way to 13th place with a gross of only $1.25m. By week three, the movie would move to dollar houses, and trudge along for several more months, until it closed in the middle of summer with only $5.55m in the till.   In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer/director Jeremy Paul Kagan had directed and occasionally written several big ticket movies, including the 1977 Henry Winkler drama Heroes, which also starred Sally Field and, in his first post-Star Wars movie, Harrison Ford, and the 1985 Meredith Salinger/John Cusack adventure film The Journey of Natty Gann. Which makes his Natty Gann follow up, Big Man on Campus, such a head scratcher.   A modern adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Big Man on Campus was written by Allan Katz, who had been working in television for nearly twenty years writing for and producing shows like All in the Family, Sanford and Son, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and MASH. Katz would also star in the movie as the titular hunchback, even though he had never once acted on any of his shows. But at least he had a good cast supporting him, including Gerrit Graham, Melora Hardin, Jessica Harper, Tom Skerritt, and Cindy Williams.   I can only find one playdate for the film ever, in Los Angeles at the American Cinematheque in March 1989, so while this mostly qualifies as a direct to video release, I feel compelled to at least give it a token mention here.   Have you ever heard of a movie called The Fruit Machine? Of course you haven't, because that's a horrible name for a movie, no matter what it's about. When Vestron acquired this British drama about young gay men who go on the run after they witness a murder, the first thing they did was change the title to Wonderland. Not that Wonderland gives you any more of an idea of what the movie is about than The Fruit Machine. But, whatever.   Today, the movie has two things going for it. One, an early role for Robbie Coltrane, playing a transvestite who operates a nightclub for gay men and transvestites called, you guessed it, The Fruit Machine. Second, the musical score was written by Hans Zimmer, in one of his earliest film jobs. Ironically, Wonderland would be the the third movie scored by Hans Zimmer to be released by Vestron in a four month period, after Burning Secret and Paperhouse.   Wonderland would open at the Quad Cinemas in New York City on April 28th, to poor reviews but a decent $11,500 opening weekend. But the film would not be able to maintain much of an audience, and after five weeks, Wonderland was out of the Quad Cinemas, never to play another theatre in America, with just $50k in the till.   Ken Russell's third and final film in his contract with Vestron was The Rainbow, an adaptation of a 1915 novel by D.H. Lawrence, whose 1920 novel Women in Love had been adapted by Russell in 1969. Glenda Jackson, who had won the Academy Award for her role in Women in Love, here plays the mother of the character she played in the other film. Here, she co-stars with Sammi Davis as Ursala, the younger sister of Jackson's Women in Love character, who finds herself attracted to Anton, a young man in town, as well as her gym teacher Winifred.   As one would expect from Ken Russell, the supporting cast is top notch, including future Eighth Doctor Paul McGann, regular Russell collaborator Christopher Gable, and Blowup star David Hemmings. The film would open at the Paris Theatre in New York City on May 5th, where it would gross a very good $22k, spurred on by great reviews from most of the city's major critics, several of which noted the film to be Russell's best in a number of years. So it would be sad that the film would end up being the lowest grossing of the three films he'd make with Vestron, only earning a total of $444k after three months in mostly single playdates in major markets.   In 1985, Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum would work together on a forgettable horror comedy film called Transylvania 6-5000, whose name was a pun on a popular 1940 song recorded by Glenn Miller. In 1986, the pair would work together again in David Cronenberg's amazing remake of the cheesy 1950s horror film The Fly. In late 1987, shortly after the pair married, they would work together for a third time, on another comedy, and on a movie that was this time based on an actual song.    Earth Girls Are Easy was the name of a song that appeared on comedian Julie Brown's 1984 EP Goddess in Progress, and was originally developed as a movie at Warner Brothers Studio. The studio would get cold feet when Absolute Beginners, the big British musical directed by music video director Julien Temple, failed big time everywhere in the world except for the UK. Temple was slated to direct Earth Girls Are Easy, and Brown, as the co-writer and co-star of the film, was committed to the filmmaker, even if it meant Warners putting the film into turnaround.   Which they did, in 1986.   It would take nearly a year to get the project back on track, after being rejected by every other major studio and production company in Hollywood, until the French banking giant Credit Lyonnais agree to finance the film, provided they could cut the budget from $14m to $10m, and if the filmmakers could make a distribution deal with the bank's preferred distributor, the then newly-formed DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group.   The film, about a manicurist in Los Angeles who helps three aliens blend into human culture after they accidentally crash land their spaceship into her pool, would begin production in Los Angeles in October 1987. Davis played the manicurist, and Goldblum one of the aliens, alongside Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey, while the remaining cast would include a number of great comedic actors like MASH's Larry Linville, Michael McKean, Rick Overton, and Charles Rocket, as well as Los Angeles media personality Angelyne as basically herself.   While the film was nearing completion in early 1988, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group would go out of business, leaving Credit Lyonnais in need of a new distributor for their investment. But after Temple turned in his first cut of the film, Credit Lyonnais would send Temple back into his editing bay, where he and his team would spend nearly another five months  winnowing out various scenes and completely excising a big and expensive musical number based on one of the other songs on Brown's 1984 EP, I Like ‘Em Big and Stupid, because it just didn't work for the film. Additional scenes would be shot, and the budget would end up being $11m.    The film would have its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September 1988, and attract attention from a number of distributors including MGM/UA, New World Pictures and Twentieth Century-Fox, but Vestron would end up putting in the winning bid.   The film would originally be set for a February 1989 release, but would get delayed until May 12th. When it finally opened on 317 screens in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philly, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington DC, the film would gross $893k, putting in twelfth place for the weekend, but its per screen average would be the fourth best amongst the films in the top twenty. The film would fall one place in its second week,  losing 35% of its opening weekend audience, grossing $577k. The film would slowly hemorrhage theatres and box office until the plug was pulled in mid-July with only $3.9m in tickets sold.   The sole lasting legacy of the film is that Damon Wayans enjoyed working so much with Jim Carrey that when Damon's brother Kenan Ivory Wayans was putting together a new comedy television show together thanks to the success of his movie I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, Damon would get his brother to give Carrey a chance. In Living Color would make Carrey and the Wayans Brothers stars, and would change the course of comedy. So there's that…   In late June, the Lightning Pictures imprint would release their first movie in nearly two years, Far From Home. The film starred the then-fourteen year old Drew Barrymore as a young girl traveling cross country with her father, who get stuck in a small desert town in Nevada on their way to back to Los Angeles, who must deal with some very strange characters in the trailer park they're staying in, as they slowly discover nothing is as it's supposed to be. Matt Frewer, Max Headroom himself, plays the dad, who must protect his daughter while he figures out how to get the hell out of town alive.   Truth be told, the movie sucks, and it's really creepy in how it sexualizes Barrymore, but there's one hell of a great supporting cast doing their best to keep the joint from totally stinking the place up. Richard Masur, Academy Award nominee Susan Tyrell, Anthony Rapp from Adventures in Babysitting, Jennifer Tilly, and beloved character actor Dick Miller. When Vestron opened the film in four theatres in third-tier regions on June 30th, it was little surprise the film got some very bad notices, although one unnamed reviewer for Variety felt the need to note that Barrymore, who again was only fourteen at the time, had “a baby face, dreamy eyes and a playboy model's body.” The film would gross just $3,763 in its first and only weekend in theatres.   But that wasn't even the worst news of the week for Vestron.   On the same day as they opened Far From Home, Vestron had been informed by Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles that the $100 million line of credit the company had with them was being terminated. 140 of the approximately 300 Vestron staff members, mostly from the Los Angeles office, were let go, including the President of Production, the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Distribution, and the Vice President of Publicity and Promotion. While Vestron Video would continue for a while, in large part thanks to a $15.7m payoff during a dispute over home video ownership rights to the 1986 Best Picture winner Platoon, the theatrical distribution unit was effectively dead. Some movies, including the Fred Savage/Howie Mandel comedy Little Monsters, the Harry Dean Stanton-led comedy Twister, and the Kathryn Bigelow-directed action thriller Blue Steel with Jamie Lee Curtis, would be sold off to other companies, but the titles left behind would see their planned theatrical releases cancelled and eventually be released direct to video.   Thanks to some of the legacy titles in their video catalog, including Dirty Dancing, Vestron would be able to stave off the inevitable, but in January 1991, the company would file for bankruptcy, their final film being the Stan Winston-directed fantasy buddy comedy The Adventures of a Gnome named Gnorm. Filmed in 1988 as Upward, the film featured Anthony Michael Hall as an Los Angeles Police Detective who has to team up with a gnome, a puppet created by Winston, the effects wizard who also directed the film, to solve a murder. For Winston, it was deja vu all over again, as his previous directorial effort, Pumpkinhead, found itself in limbo for a while when its distributor, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, filed for bankruptcy in 1987 before they could release that film.   In bankruptcy court, Live Entertainment, partially owned by 1990s mega movie production company Carolco Pictures, would purchase all of Vestron's assets for $24m. Live used the assets as collateral to secure a line of credit from industry friendly banks, so they could start their own production and distribution company, of which their only moment of note was helping to finance Reservoir Dogs when no one else would.   Eventually, Live Entertainment would be sold off to Bain Capital, a private investment firm co-founded by Mitt Romney, in 1997, and they would rebrand Live as Artisan Entertainment. Artisan today is best known as the little independent distributor of The Blair Witch Project, but they also would enter into an agreement with Marvel Comics to make movies for 15 of their characters, including Ant-Man, Black Panther, Deadpool, Iron Fist, Longshot, Morbius, Mort the Dead Teenager, and the Power Pack.   Artisan would produce two movies based on Marvel characters, Man-Thing and The Punisher, although neither of those films would be released by Artisan. Artisan would declare bankruptcy in 2003, and Marvel would be one of the companies to place a bid for them. Lionsgate would end up becoming the winning bidder for Artisan's assets, which is how the vast majority of Vestron titles are now owned by a company that didn't even exist when Vestron closed shop.   Today, Lionsgate is the owner of the assets of a number of the companies we've spoken about on this podcast in the past, and will be talking about in the future, including Crown International, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, Embassy Pictures, and New World Pictures. And it's also a major reason why so many of the movies we discuss in these episodes looking back at past companies are completely unknown today. As big as Lionsgate is, with nearly $3.6 billion in revenue in 2022, they aren't going to be able to keep up with the chain of ownership for every movies from every company they've purchased, and they're not going to put the money in to the movies that are barely remembered today. The Film Foundation, the non-profit organization co-founded by Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, which is dedicated to film preservation, estimates the average cost to do a photochemical restoration of a color feature with sound to between $80,000 to $450,000 dollars, not including the cost of a 2k or 4k digital scan. I'm going to have a link in the show notes on our website at The80sMoviePodcast.com to a November 2018 article from the Science History Institute about the process of restoring films. It's not a long read, but it's a fascinating read. I hope you'll check it out.   So there you have it, the end of the line for Vestron Pictures, and many of the movies they helped to make and distribute, most of which you cannot find today in any form.   Thank you for listening.   We'll talk again next week when Episode 105, on the 1985 teen comedy O.C. and Stiggs, directed by Robert Altman, will be discussed.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

Nick recommends Wild America, the comedic tale of three brothers as they travel America filming a wildlife documentary. Then, Taylor recommends The Journey of Natty Gann, a Disney movie about a girl in 1933, who hitchhikes across the country with a wolf. __________ Taylor Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Writer Nick Zaccario…Host, Director, Producer, Editor

"It's not like Out of Africa where it's a beautiful film to watch and I want to kill myself while I'm watching it."We break solitary man in the wilderness rule number one by allowing three of us in the conversation (all indoors as well). It's okay because it turns out solitary men and women in movies are hardly solitary at all. Hey Ammon's back with us!0:00 -- Intro4:58 -- Jeremiah Johnson41:33 -- The Journey of Natty Gann1.03:14 -- Grizzly Man1.29:30 -- Commercial contact break1.31:12 -- Awards and rankings2.17:00 -- Non-linear future business2.22:47 -- Outro and outtakesHey! Be sure to watch Citizen Ruth, Maria Full of Grace, and Barfi for next time!Hey! Leave us a voicemail at (801) 896-4542!Hey! We're on Spotify now!Hey! Who is the boss?Hey! The The "Dogs of Lust"!Hey! The The the one with the piano!Hey! Subscribe in iTunes!Hey! Check out the Facebook page and vote on the next category!Hey! Check out Jon's YM&T Letterboxd list!Hey! Check out Roy's YM&T Letterboxd list!Hey! Email us at yoursminetheirspodcast@gmail.com! Send new topics! Send new theme songs!Download this episode right here!

"I choose to believe that 30 minutes ago your house looked like the house I just left."Ammon's back with three movies he had never seen before! He took suggestions from loved ones! I think we feel bad we didn't talk about that hostage scene in RoboCop where one of the guy's demands is a car with really lousy gas mileage."They miss him SO many times, and RoboCop is NOT fast."0:00 -- Intro3:05 -- The Amityville Horror32:08 -- RoboCop1.00:57 -- Tully1.29:50 -- Commercial contact break1.32:52 -- Awards and rankings2.24:44 -- Future business2.30:25 -- Outro and outtakesHey! Be sure to watch Jeremiah Johnson, The Journey of Natty Gann, and Grizzly Man for next time!Hey! Leave us a voicemail at (801) 896-4542!Hey! We're on Spotify now!Hey! Mr. Bloot!Hey! Read the Ebert The Amityville Horror review!Hey! Todd Nukem!Hey! Chet Tapp!Hey! Here's a Wikipedia article that's maybe about one of the philosophers Ammon mentioned!Hey! Hear the Blank Check about RoboCop!Hey! Flying pig!Hey! Armus!Hey! Subscribe in iTunes!Hey! Check out the Facebook page and vote on the next category!Hey! Check out Jon's YM&T Letterboxd list!Hey! Check out Roy's YM&T Letterboxd list!Hey! Email us at yoursminetheirspodcast@gmail.com! Send new topics! Send new theme songs!Download this episode right here!

Xan Sprouse & Charles Skaggs pay tribute to the passing of Kenneth Welsh and continue their retrospective of Twin Peaks Actors in Other Films by discussing The Journey of Natty Gann, the 1985 adventure film directed by Jeremy Kagan, starring Ray Wise as Sol Gann, Meredith Salenger as Natty Gann, John Cusack as Harry, and Lainie Kazan as Connie! Find Us Here: Twitter: @GhostwoodCast @CharlesSkaggs @udanax19 Facebook: Facebook.com/GhostwoodPodcast Email: GhostwoodPodcast@gmail.com Listen and subscribe to us in Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!

What do M.O.D.O.K., Ratatouille, and The Journey of Natty Gann all have in common? The power couple Patton Oswalt and Meredith Salenger, of course! They join Ryan and Lorraine to talk about some deep cut Marvel characters and about their hilarious podcast Did You Get My Text?. We also have some huge new comics announcements following last week's Star Wars Celebration, with Star Wars: The High Republic and Star Wars: Yoda.And we're kicking off Pride month strong with the Marvel's Voices: Iceman #1 Infinity Comic, plus of course the beautiful Pride collection on shopDisney.com! News – 00:49Interview w/ Patton Oswalt & Meredith Salenger – 12:11Community – 39:14 

It all started in 1979…Meredith Salenger felt seen by the sweet-but-feisty Carrie (aka “Frog”) in SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT. And Field's starring role in NORMA RAE called to her long before she got involved in political fundraising and activism. An actor with a decades-long career, and now the co-host of the podcast 'Did You Get My Text?' with husband Patton Oswald, she shares how she's still inspired by these roles of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.Then,  one quick thing about the 1987 Frankie & Annette film BACK TO THE BEACH. Yes, really.***with Jordan Crucchiola and Meredith Salenger

In our second episode featuring Jeremy Kagan, we discuss the matter of trust in social impact art-making, and in the community writ large, particularly these days. We also talk about these issues as they relate to Jeremy's film Crown Heights, which deals with the violence and hatred that erupted between the black and the Orthodox Jewish Hasidic communities in Brooklyn in 1991. BIOJeremy Kagan is a director/writer/producer of feature films and television. His credits include the box-office hits https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076138?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Heroes) (1977), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077233?ref_=nmbio_mbio (The Big Fix) (1978) and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082175?ref_=nmbio_mbio (The Chosen) (1981). His https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089385?ref_=nmbio_mbio (The Journey of Natty Gann) (1985) was the first US film to win a Gold Prize at the Moscow Film Festival. Other directing credits include https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092780?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8) (1987) (winning the ACE Award for Best Dramatic Special) and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111021?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Roswell) (1994), which he produced and directed and which was nominated for a Golden Globe. In 1996, his episode of https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108724?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Chicago Hope) (1994) won him an Emmy for Outstanding Direction of a Dramatic Series. One of his segments of https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103512?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Picket Fences) (1992) was listed by TV critics among the top 100 television episodes. His recent work includes en episode of https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Steven Spielberg)'s Emmy-winning anthology _"Taken" (2002/I) (mini)_ and numerous episodes of such hit series as https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200276?ref_=nmbio_mbio (The West Wing) (1999) and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285370?ref_=nmbio_mbio (The Guardian) (2001).  His https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317179?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Bobbie's Girl) (2002) was the highest rated film on Showtime 2003 and his movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387955?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Crown Heights) (2004), which he produced and directed, won the Humanitas Award for "affirming the dignity" of every person and was nominated for a Directors Guild Award in 2004. Mr. Kagan is a graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote his thesis on https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001178?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Sergei M. Eisenstein), has a Masters from NYU and was in the first group of Fellows at the American Film Institute. He is a tenured full professor at USC, where he is in charge of the directing track, and has served as the Artistic Director of https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000602?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Robert Redford)'s Sundance Institute. He is on the National Board of the Directors Guild and is Chairperson of its Special Projects Committee and author of the book "Directors Close Up" and was presented the 2004 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000736?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Robert Aldrich) Award for "extraordinary service to the guild.” Notable Mentions: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387955/ (Crown Heights, Movie):  (Story) After the Crown Heights riots, an orthodox Rabbi and a community activist help two youths--one a Hasidic Jew, the other African-American--form a hip-hop group to heal their neighborhood.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Heights_riot#Death_of_Gavin_Cato (Gavin Cato): Riots between Crown Heights' Jewish and black communities erupted on Aug. 19, 1991 after two black children were hit by a station wagon that was part of a motorcade for a Jewish rabbi. Gavin Cato, 7, died instantly, and his 7-year-old cousin, Angela Cato, was severely injured.  https://www.aaronzigman.com/ (Aaron Zigman): is an award-winning composer who has scored more than 60 major Hollywood films and influenced...

In this episode we visit with storied Hollywood director Jeremy Kagan, whose career has proved that yes, the power of story on the big screen, the small screen, and the community screen can be both entertaining and help change hearts and minds for the better. BIOJeremy Kagan is a director/writer/producer of feature films and television. His credits include the box-office hits https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076138?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Heroes) (1977), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077233?ref_=nmbio_mbio (The Big Fix) (1978) and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082175?ref_=nmbio_mbio (The Chosen) (1981). His https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089385?ref_=nmbio_mbio (The Journey of Natty Gann) (1985) was the first US film to win a Gold Prize at the Moscow Film Festival. Other directing credits include https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092780?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8) (1987) (winning the ACE Award for Best Dramatic Special) and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111021?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Roswell) (1994), which he produced and directed and which was nominated for a Golden Globe. In 1996, his episode of https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108724?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Chicago Hope) (1994) won him an Emmy for Outstanding Direction of a Dramatic Series. One of his segments of https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103512?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Picket Fences) (1992) was listed by TV critics among the top 100 television episodes. His recent work includes en episode of https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Steven Spielberg)'s Emmy-winning anthology _"Taken" (2002/I) (mini)_ and numerous episodes of such hit series as https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200276?ref_=nmbio_mbio (The West Wing) (1999) and https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285370?ref_=nmbio_mbio (The Guardian) (2001).  His https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317179?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Bobbie's Girl) (2002) was the highest rated film on Showtime 2003 and his movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387955?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Crown Heights) (2004), which he produced and directed, won the Humanitas Award for "affirming the dignity" of every person and was nominated for a Directors Guild Award in 2004. Mr. Kagan is a graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote his thesis on https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001178?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Sergei M. Eisenstein), has a Masters from NYU and was in the first group of Fellows at the American Film Institute. He is a tenured full professor at USC, where he is in charge of the directing track, and has served as the Artistic Director of https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000602?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Robert Redford)'s Sundance Institute. He is on the National Board of the Directors Guild and is Chairperson of its Special Projects Committee and author of the book "Directors Close Up" and was presented the 2004 https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000736?ref_=nmbio_mbio (Robert Aldrich) Award for "extraordinary service to the guild.” NOTABLE MENTIONShttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code (The Hays Code): The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-censorship (self-censorship) of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States (United States) from 1934 to 1968. It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_H._Hays (Will H. Hays), president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) from 1922 to 1945.  https://www.aclu.org/other/freedom-files (ACLU Freedom Files): The Freedom Files, Directed by Jeremy Kagan that premiered in 2005 with a 10-part television series featuring real clients and the attorneys who represent them, as well as well-known...

Y'all know that our hosts are all big fans of Jed. You know, the dog performer from classics such as The Journey of Natty Gann and White Fang? So it's sad to say that his final performance was in the...let's say lackluster Disney sequel WHITE FANG 2: MYTH OF THE WHITE WOLF. The most we can say about it is that at least it looks like a relatively easy time for ol' Jed, cause despite being the title character, the good boy ain't really even in this one all that much. And Alfred Molina aside, what they replaced him with isn't anything to write home about.

Rip Girls (April 22, 2000)IMDB WikipediaDirected by Joyce Chopra FIRST WOMAN DIRECTOR OF A DCOMWritten by Jeanne Rosenberg (Journey of Natty Gann, Black Stallion, White Fang) Starring:Camilla Belle – Sydney Miller Dwier Brown – Ben Miller (Field of Dreams)Stacie Hess – Gia (only thing ever)Brian Stark – KonaJeanne Mori – MaliaLauren Sinclair – Elizabeth MillerKeone Young – Bo (Character actor: Alias, Deadwood, NCIS + Voice Actor: Star Wars, Avatar)Kanoa Chung – KaiMeleana White – MeleJoy Magelssen – LaneaVaroa Tiki – Hawaiian GrandmotherRory Togo – WillieAlbert Belz – JamesJane Hall – ArleneSynopsis: A 13-year-old learns to surf while visiting Hawaii for the first time to see a plantation she inherited ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Episode Notes Subject: The Journey of Natty Gann Guest: Phil Rood This week, Phil joins us to talk this 1980's live action Disney film. Talking points include John Cusack's choices, wasted story lines, and much more. Support us! Join our discord! Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Find out more at http://hitmeonemoretime.com This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Jennifer Geraghty joins Larry and Andie for a look at this underrated Disney gem - a coming of age female protagonist set against the antagonizing backdrop of the Great Depression.

On today's episode, the siblings talk Disney's THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN, including depression-era Chicago, The Last of the NattiGans, plus Meredith Salenger and John Cusack as hobo royalty. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening and your support of OR WHATEVER MOVIES. Our 38th bonus episode! Be a Movie Friend and get access to our discussion about THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OR WHATEVER MOVIES is an entertainment podcast hosted by real-life brother and sister duo, Wesley and Iris Ichishita. Each episode is a quick, no-holds-barred discussion of a movie, television show or video. On today’s episode, the siblings talk Disney’s THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN, including depression-era Chicago, The Last of the NattiGans, plus Meredith Salenger and John Cusack as hobo royalty. Contains spoilers. Thank you for listening and your support of OR WHATEVER MOVIES.

This week, the gang survives two run-in's before welcoming Bryce Lord, from the Helen Bader Institute for Non-Profit Management, for a conversation on the role of arts and culture organizations in the broader non-profit landscape in Milwaukee and beyond. Mac and David welcome Lindsay to the gang and a special someone drops by to wish Mac a happy birthday (00:17), Bryce joins and shares his origin story (9:25), Taking stock of arts organizations in the context of the non-profit world and measuring impact (17:51), Technology and the arts coming out of the pandemic (30:25), What makes Milwaukee unique and exciting (44:59), Arts and Culture Czar reign (47:34), Outro Easter Egg and shout out to Dan (55:18) Listen and subscribe: https://nonprofitsandjava.com/ (Non-Profits and Java) Audio Transitions: "Green Eggs and Ham," Wes Tank Ephemera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leaqKfAB12o (The Journey of Natty Gann) https://www.cameo.com/v/60257f8dd55545001d00a040?fbclid=IwAR3NOT1Jj1xFI9NG9O-2NhYIvBGunlvO3ldwZ69Ue11kVna7He7ILE_RJYs (Barry Horowitz wishes Mac a happy birthday and shouts out Milwaukee and the Bucks) https://bleacherreport.com/articles/751382-cvc-20-barry-horowitz-is-the-greatest-jobber-in-wwe-history (Barry Horowitz: The Greatest Jobber in WWE History) Support this podcast

This week, the gang survives two run-in's before welcoming Bryce Lord, from the Helen Bader Institute for Non-Profit Management, for a conversation on the role of arts and culture organizations in the broader non-profit landscape in Milwaukee and beyond. Mac and David welcome Lindsay to the gang and a special someone drops by to wish Mac a happy birthday (00:17), Bryce joins and shares his origin story (9:25), Taking stock of arts organizations in the context of the non-profit world and measuring impact (17:51), Technology and the arts coming out of the pandemic (30:25), What makes Milwaukee unique and exciting (44:59), Arts and Culture Czar reign (47:34), Outro Easter Egg and shout out to Dan (55:18) Listen and subscribe: https://nonprofitsandjava.com/ (Non-Profits and Java) Audio Transitions: "Green Eggs and Ham," Wes Tank Ephemera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leaqKfAB12o (The Journey of Natty Gann) https://www.cameo.com/v/60257f8dd55545001d00a040?fbclid=IwAR3NOT1Jj1xFI9NG9O-2NhYIvBGunlvO3ldwZ69Ue11kVna7He7ILE_RJYs (Barry Horowitz wishes Mac a happy birthday and shouts out Milwaukee and the Bucks) https://bleacherreport.com/articles/751382-cvc-20-barry-horowitz-is-the-greatest-jobber-in-wwe-history (Barry Horowitz: The Greatest Jobber in WWE History) Support this podcast

You're old news, Pacino and De Niro in Heat. Step aside, DiCaprio and Pitt in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It's time to let the big dogs out - or rather, the big dog and big bear. Because Disney's WHITE FANG features the long-awaited and still-to-be-topped pairing of esteemed animal actors Jed the wolfdog (who we last saw journeying with Natty Gann) and Bart the Bear. Oh, and Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke is there too, for whatever that's worth.

This week, "The Journey of Natty Gann" celebrates its 35th anniversary. This 1985 period piece seems to escaped us for all this time. Why is this movie forgotten about? Is the subject matter too heavy? Does this even feel like a Disney movie? All of this and more this week on Monoreel Radio.

On the September 18, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler.   Opening Banter: Jacob is out sick.   At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing:Peter went to Top Golf in Las Vegas. What we’ve been Reading:Hoai-Tran re-read The Tombs of Atuan. Ben read If Beale Street Could Talk. What we’ve been Watching:Peter watched The King of Staten Island, and The Magic of Disney’s Animal Kingdom and Teenage Bountyhunters on Netflix. Brad watched Class Action Park, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, and The Social Dilemma Hoai-Tran watched I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Lovers Rock, and Death Becomes Her. Chris watched Beetlejuice and Fargo season 4. Ben watched The Princess Bride Live Read, The Journey of Natty Gann, Jimi Hendrix, and Unpregnant. What we’ve been Eating:Peter loves Poultrygram. Brad tried Dunkin Donuts Cereals, Biscoff Sandwich Cookies and Ice Cream, Mountain Dew Voodew, McDonald’s Spicy McNuggets, Wendy’s Pretzel Bacon Pub Cheeseburger What we’ve been Playing:Brad played Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2, unlocked all the fighters in Smash Bros. Ultimate Peter played The Sims: Star Wars Journey to Batuu. Watch the livestream.   Other Articles Mentioned:     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 iTunes, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS).  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 iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word!  Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo.

It's a new one to both of us--the 1985 adventure film following Meredith Salenger's Natty Gann (not to be confused with Meredith Salenger's Natalie Gann from Race to Witch Mountain!) as she meets up with a very young John Cusack, an amazing wolf/dog, and SO MUCH MORE traveling through the 1935 U.S. to catch back up with her dad. We loved this one almost as much as you'll love hearing us talk about it! I'm so, so sorry for the opening joke. 

This Week in Film, join Nick & Midwest Matt as they discuss Ma (2019), Open Water 2: Adrift (2006), Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), & The Journey of Natty Gann (1985). Please Enjoy/Share/Subscribe/Rate/Review our show! Don't miss the latest podcast: http://thisweekinfilm.libsyn.com/ Check out the website: http://www.thisweekinfilm.com Find Us On Social: | Patreon | facebook | | Instagram | Letterboxd | | Twitter | YouTube | Website | Where You Can Listen to the Show: | acast | BeyondPod | Blubrry | | Castbox | GooglePlay | iTunes| | LibSyn | Luminary | Overcast | | PlayerFm| Pocket Casts | Podchaser | | Radio Public | Soundcloud | Spotify | | Spreaker | Stitcher | TuneIn | #podcast, #podcasting, #podernfamily, #podcasts, #filmpod, #film, #movies, #thisweek, #moviepodcast, #movie, #Ma, #OpenWater2, #Adrift, #PoltergeistII, #TheOtherSide, #poltergeist, #TheJourneyOfNattyGann,

This week, the Society discusses the 1985 Disney adventure "The Journey of Natty Gann," directed by Jeremy Kagan and starring Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise, and Jed as "wolf". Leave your union meetings behind and come hop a train and eat some trash with us as we discuss this 1930's period piece!Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @medfieldfilm for the latest updates.

Well, you asked for it. The old crew is back together. Dylan isn't happy about it, but here it is. Forced to watch The Journey Of Natty Gann (1985), Tyler Cartwright and Adam Hales join us as we reveal the underpinnings of a movie with literally no value whatsoever. Yes, there's a lumber angle. Yes, there's a labor angle. Don't let Lucas tell you otherwise. You'll be so delighted listening to this.

It's Jamie's birthday so she gets to pick the film! Doug raves about the dog in this film acting circles around John Cusack while Jamie basically admits this movie is just Annie with 95% more Newsis caps. Take a journey with us as we discuss Robocop, Fame, Michael Vick, livin' that hobo life and most important, a girl with a giant locket! Be sure to provide a rating and review of the show wherever you get it! https://www.goodtimesgreatmovies.com Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/goodtimesgreatmovies Merch on TeePublic: https://www.teepublic.com/user/gtgmcast Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GTGMcast And on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodtimesgreatmoviespodcast Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/goodtimesgreatmovies

We're going from Natty Gann to Natty Bumppo this week as we talk the news of the nerd and take aim at the original Hawkeye for a discussion of the '90s classic "The Last of the Mohicans"! Then, we suit up to explore the continuing Age of En-Reeves-enment by burning the John Wick franchise at both ends!*big spoilers for Johns Wick 1-3 and The Last of the Mohicans*Kicking and guns!!!Check out the new show on the JET Network, Virtual Theater!http://www.twitter.com/virtualtheaterxCelebrate guilty pleasure movies with Kal on Craft Disservices!http://www.craftdisservices.comYell at us on Facebook and Twitter and on our Discord!http://www.facebook.com/justenoughtropehttp://www.twitter.com/justenoughtropehttps://discord.gg/UeytGNPFollow our live stream adventures on YouTube!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv_yQ1TlPULKRSrlZa6JgtA/videosBuy us an expensive drink on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/justenoughtrope

Greig McRitchie fue uno de los más importantes colaboradores como orquestador de compositores de la talla de Basil Poledouris, Jerry Fielding, James Horner, Randy Edelman y, en su última etapa, John Barry. En el programa le rindo un más que merecido homenaje con los siguientes scores: Chato el apache, El gran miércoles, El lago azul, Conan el bárbaro, Natty Gann, Willow, Bailando con lobos, Habana, Poli de guardería, Hook, Dragón,la vida de Bruce Lee, Starship Troopers.

Greig McRitchie fue uno de los más importantes colaboradores como orquestador de compositores de la talla de Basil Poledouris, Jerry Fielding, James Horner, Randy Edelman y, en su última etapa, John Barry. En el programa le rindo un más que merecido homenaje con los siguientes scores: Chato el apache, El gran miércoles, El lago azul, Conan el bárbaro, Natty Gann, Willow, Bailando con lobos, Habana, Poli de guardería, Hook, Dragón,la vida de Bruce Lee, Starship Troopers.

In this episode we review Gene and Roger’s reviews of Better Off Dead, The Journey of Natty Gann, and Commando.

杰里米·卡根 Jeremy Kagan抉择 The Chosen (1981)骗中骗2 The Sting II (1983)参考：骗中骗 The Sting (1973)狼女传奇 The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)

A journey of two thousand miles starts with one step...onto a train. This week we talk about the Suite Life of Zack and Cody, sheet rope window escapes, what your wallet says about you and more! Follow along at wishpodcast.com

Gilbert invites his partner Anna to revisit a classic from her childhood and the Disney library; The Journey of Natty Gann.  Who knew John Cusack was in this movie from 1985?

Jon & Caitlin discuss 'I Feel Pretty', 'Iron Will', 'The Journey of Natty Gann', and 'My Family/Mi Familia'

Steve Cooper talks with director Jeremy Kagan. Jeremy is an internationally recognized director/writer/producer of feature films and television and a tenured professor. Some of his feature credits include the box-office hits Heroes, the political thriller The Big Fix, The Chosen and The Journey of Natty Gann. Among his many television shows are Katherine: The Making of an American Revolution and HBO's Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8. His film Roswell, The UFO Conspiracy garnered a Golden Globe nomination and he directed the pilot for the hit series Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman. Some other TV directing credits include The Guardian, The Handler, Boomtown, The West Wing, Resurrection Blvd. and Ally McBeal. His current movie, Shot starring Noah Wyle has been receiving critical acclaim.  

In episode #8 we discuss our second Terry Gilliam movie: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Raoul Duke and his Samoan attorney Dr. Gonzo embark on a drug-filled trip through Las Vegas. Based on the story by Hunter S. Thompson, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. SHOWNOTES Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Criterion Collection Directed by Terry Gilliam (who also directed Brazil which we discussed in episode #4). Terry Gilliam also directed the movie Twelve Monkeys Based on the Novel by Hunter S. Thompson which itself began as a two-part series in Rolling Stone magazine Notable Cast: Johnny Depp also appeared in: The Rum Diary (not Rum Punch) - was another movie based on a Hunter S. Thompson novel Pirates of The Caribbean (where he based his character on Keith Richards) Mortdecai Benny and Joon Benicio Del Toro Tobey Maguire Tobey was made up in a similar manner to Chris Elliott (who appeared in There’s Something About Mary and Groundhog Day) Also starred in The Cider House Rules with Charlize Theron Cameron Diaz Christopher Meloni Gary Busey also appeared in Rookie of The Year Flea (from the Red Hot Chili Peppers) Penn Jillette Verne Troyer Mark Harmon Katherine Helmond (appeared in Who’s The Boss and Brazil) David Brisbin (appeared in Hey Dude on Nickelodeon) Christina Ricci Raiders of the Lost Ark was originally rated PG The Royal Tenenbaums was rated R (which we discussed in episode #6) Powder (produced by Disney) was rated PG-13 The Journey of Natty Gann was rated PG (even though it featured dog fighting) The Hangover was another drug-filled Las Vegas based movie Vegas Vacation also featured some sketchy Las Vegas casinos Adaptation was another movie based on a writer (Charlie Kaufman) Music: White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again - Bob Dylan Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Hollyridge Strings (Originally by The Beatles) Viva Las Vegas - The Dead Kennedys One Toke Over The Line video from the Lawrence Welk Show. (Originally by Brewer & Shipley) Justified (FX television series) was based on the short story Fire In The Hole by Elmore Leonard The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas

Professor Jeremy Kagan is a director, writer, and producer of feature films and television shows. His films include Heroes, The Big Fix, The Chosen and The Journey of Natty Gann.He has also directed popular television series including The West Wing and Chicago Hope, for which he received a Primetime Directing Emmy® award, and he directed and produced the ten-part series, Freedom Files and has just finished principle photography on the dramatic movie SHOT about gun violence in America.Jeremy Kagan has served as the Artistic Director of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and is Chairperson of Special Projects for the Directors Guild of America, which provides educational, cultural and technological information and events for its 15,000 members.He has taught master seminars on filmmaking in France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Lebanon and Vietnam.  But why he is on www.wedontdieradio.com today it to talk about his near death experience which led him to write and illustrate with 200 paintings his ebook, published by Balboa, called "MY DEATH: A Personal Guidebook.”This is an absolutely INCREDIBLE episode from a wise and caring man. You will be left delighted I assure you!www.theneardeathandlifeofjeremykagan.com

Show of hands, D Lovers, how many of you have seen Disney's THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN? Our guess is not that many. This week on We Want The D, Vicky, Nolan and Jill will guide you through this epic journey, much like Natty's own stalwart wolf companion helped guide her from the depression-era streets of Chicago to the wilds of Washington. Also like Natty's adventure, though, we may get a little sidetracked by the epic tree stunts, disturbingly realistic dog fighting, hobo sex cults, and above all else a young John Cusack. We sincerely hope  that you enjoy this episode every bit as much as we enjoyed this forgotten classic.

After a disastrous botched recording yesterday, MMIS is back with The Journey of Natty Gann, a surprisingly violent Disney live action romp that is not about an intrepid girl reporter! Ali turns in an admirable performance, given that she was furious to have to do this twice. Jon refuses to sing Spider-Wolf again. The Journey of Natty Gann was directed by Jeremy Kagan, and stars Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise, Lainie Kazan, Scatman Crothers, and Jed the Wolf-Dog. Screenplay by Clifford Odets and Jack London.* *(This might be a lie)

Retta ("Parks and Recreation") and Meredith Salenger ("The Journey of Natty Gann") talk with Cole and Vanessa about movie theater mix-ups, Anne Hathaway vs. Oprah, Beyonce's Superbowl Extravaganza, Burger King Japan's Pumpkin Burger, the indignant mute, Hollywood Heights, frumpy characters, Moesha, being taft-hartley'd, Duke and Harvard, TV show live tweeting, Girls, dirty sounding ballplayers, Magic Mike routines, rom-com cat fights, "vom bombers," and Meredith's uncanny knack for "star-making." Leave your answer to the firsts question (the first time you had an allergic reaction to something) on our website for a chance to win a Parks and Recreation Season 4 DVD signed by Retta and a Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon DVD signed by Meredith! Nice!

Part two finds returning guests Tony Hale ("Arrested Development"), Rob Paulsen ("Animaniacs"), Meredith Salenger ("The Journey of Natty Gann"), Paul F. Tompkins (The Pod F. Tompkast) and James Urbaniak ("The Venture Brothers") locked with Cole and Vanessa in conversation about all the horrible things 2011 threw at us-with each of them sharing their personal Worst [...]

Returning guests Tony Hale ("Arrested Development"), Rob Paulsen ("Animaniacs"), Meredith Salenger ("The Journey of Natty Gann"), Paul F. Tompkins (The Pod F. Tompkast) and James Urbaniak ("The Venture Brothers") join Cole and Vanessa for part one of this special look back at the year that was 2011. Wine and conversation flow freely as each guest [...]

Meredith Salenger ("The Journey of Natty Gann," "Dream a Little Dream") joins Cole and Vanessa to talk about twitter stalking, Brett Ratner, suing Kim Kardashian, The Muppets, kissing John Cusack, hanging with Harry Dean Stanton, virgin daiquiris, fan sites, Melancholia, Corey Feldman's MJ moves, working with a wolf, Seth Myers' unheralded extra work, River Phoenix, [...]