Welcome to Crash Zoom, a podcast where we take a deep dive into film and entertainment industry news! Each week, join Rough Draft Atlanta Associate Editor Sammie Purcell and indie filmmaker Aaron Strand as they explore how things happening at the highest level trickle down and affect the independent artist.
Each week, we’ll be releasing two short episodes, one on Wednesday and one on Friday, and diving deep on two news stories.
This week’s Wednesday episode covers this year’s Venice Film Festival lineup.
This week’s Friday episode covers A24’s move into the theater space and the pause in Metrograph Pictures theatrical schedule.
Links in this episode:
- “South Park” $1.5 billion deal (Variety)
- UPDATE: Deadline later reported this new deal also replaced Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s existing deal with Paramount, which was supposed to run through 2027.
- Takeaways from the Venice lineup (IndieWire)
- Why did A24 buy an Off-Broadway theater? (New York Times)
- Metrograph Pictures pauses theatrical releases (IndieWire)
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