The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood
Sonny Bunch hosts The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, a new podcast featuring interviews with folks who have their finger on the pulse of the entertainment industry during this dynamic—and difficult—time.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 249
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Clayton Childress Explains How Taste and Status Reinforce Each Other
On this week’s episode, Sonny talks to Clayton Childress, an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Sociology of University of Toronto who studies taste, decision, and meaning making in the creation, pr…
00:37:37 |
Thu 05 Aug 2021
Ray Subers on Polling Moviegoers
On this episode of The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, Sonny talks to Ray Subers, a vice president at NRG, which has helped Hollywood studios with polling about movies for decades. Currently, NRG’s most i…
00:34:23 |
Thu 29 Jul 2021
John Mass on the Future of Content
This week Sonny is joined by John Mass, Executive Vice President of Content Partners, LLC, to talk about the business of acquiring intellectual property and figuring out how to make the business side…
00:32:15 |
Thu 22 Jul 2021
Ryan Faughnder on How Valuable You Are (to Streaming Companies)
This week on The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, Sonny talks to the Los Angeles Times’s Ryan Faughnder about arr-poo (that is, RPU, or revenue per user) and how such calculations figure into the value of …
00:33:14 |
Thu 15 Jul 2021
Richard Rushfield on the Latest Hollywood News
On this week’s episode we ask a very important question of The Ankler’s Richard Rushfield: Is Vin Diesel a star? Really, what does it mean to be a star these days anyway? How are the streaming wars s…
00:31:47 |
Fri 09 Jul 2021
James White on Restoring Movies for Arrow Films
This week, Sonny talks to James White, the Head of Restoration at Arrow Films. On this episode, we dive into the tricky nature of rescuing older films and getting them ready for appreciation on Blu-r…
00:52:59 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
Summer Reading!
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch is joined by Bulwark contributor Bill Ryan and Turner Classic Movie writer Greg Ferrara to talk about some of their favorite film books. This episode was inspired …
01:01:08 |
Thu 17 Jun 2021
Jonathan Taplin on Working With Dylan, Scorsese, and the Rolling Stones
(Note: This is a two-episode week since apparently I did not upload this episode to Apple last week. But if you're listening via the Substack, you would've gotten it fine! The lesson, as always: sign…
00:44:06 |
Thu 10 Jun 2021
James Emanuel Shapiro on Cannes and the Business of Film Festivals
On this week’s episode, James Emanuel Shapiro returns to the show to talk about the return of Cannes and what it’s like to be on the business side of a film festival. We all know about the great prem…
00:36:10 |
Thu 10 Jun 2021
Frank Pallotta on the MGM/Amazon Deal, F9 in China, and the Summer Movie Season
CNN Media Reporter Frank Pallotta returns to the show to talk about a huge week in movie business news. Amazon has acquired MGM (and half of James Bond) for $8.45 billion. Summer movie season has kic…
00:31:40 |
Thu 27 May 2021
Eddie Muller on TCM, Film Noir, and the HFPA's Charitable Work
This week Sonny is joined by Eddie Muller, the host of TCM’s “Noir Alley” and the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation. We discussed the Foundation’s reliance on the Golden Globes for th…
00:34:40 |
Thu 20 May 2021
Jon Finkel on 1996's sports movies and athletes on sports cinema
This week Sonny is joined by Jon Finkel, author of 1996: A Biography: Reliving the Legend-Packed, Dynasty-Stacked, Most Iconic Sports Year Ever. This is a movie podcast, not a sports podcast, so I un…
00:32:19 |
Thu 13 May 2021
Jesse Nelson of Diabolik DVD Discusses the Boutique Blu-ray Biz
This week Sonny is pleased to be joined by Jesse Nelson, the co-owner of Diabolik DVD and Cauldron Films. Diabolik is one of the best places to pick up boutique Blu-ray discs from outlets like Vinega…
00:40:24 |
Thu 06 May 2021
Chris Fenton on China, the Oscars, and the MCU
Chris Fenton, author of Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Business, returns to the show to talk about China’s influence on Hollywood, and vi…
00:30:20 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
Nicholas Jarecki on 'Crisis,' Opioids, Releasing a Movie During COVID, and Armie Hammer
Nicholas Jarecki—the writer and director of the opioid crisis thriller Crisis—talks to Sonny about the making and casting of Crisis, the evolving international market for feature films, and the diffi…
00:50:47 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Megan Ganz on 'Mythic Quest' and Comedies in the Covid Age
This week Sonny is joined by Megan Ganz, an executive producer and creator of Mythic Quest, AppleTV+’s workplace comedy about life at the studio behind an MMORPG. Megan has worked on a number of grea…
00:28:14 |
Fri 16 Apr 2021
Richard Rushfield on Scott Rudin, Bad Boss, and More!
The show’s first ever guest, Richard Rushfield, returns to the program to discuss all sorts of stuff. Super-Producer Scott Rudin: bad boss, or something worse? What went down with Ray Fisher and Warn…
00:40:55 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
David Thomson on His 'History of Movie Directors'
On this week’s episode, Sonny talks to David Thomson about his new book, A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors. The book is a look at the evolution of the very idea of a “director,” from …
00:39:17 |
Thu 01 Apr 2021
Sean O'Connell on the Grassroots Efforts to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Snyder Cut week at the Bulwark wraps up with Sean O’Connell, author of Release the Snyder Cut: The Crazy True Story Behind the Fight that Saved Zack Snyder’s Justice League. We talk about his new boo…
00:44:53 |
Fri 26 Mar 2021
Tom Shone on Christopher Nolan
This week, Sonny is joined by Tom Shone, film critic for the Sunday Times, to talk about his recent book The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan. The book is a m…
00:54:54 |
Thu 18 Mar 2021
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