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
Sundance at 40
Very excited to have James Emanuel Shapiro, President of U.S. distribution at XYZ Films, back on the show with a recap of all the action at Cannes and a discussion about the state of the film festiva…
00:42:04 |
Sat 27 Jan 2024
How 'The Family Plan' Became a Hit for Apple
This week, I’m re-joined by David Coggeshall to talk The Family Plan, AppleTV+’s high-concept action-comedy about a dad, Mark Wahlberg, who has to take his family on the run when his past life as a h…
00:43:01 |
Sat 13 Jan 2024
What's Next in 'The Streaming Wars'
This week, I’m joined by Brandon Katz to talk about Parrot Analytics’s new report on the state of streaming and why the “winner take all” theory of the so-called streaming wars was always a little bi…
00:45:27 |
Sat 06 Jan 2024
Francis Ford Coppola, Visionary
This week I’m joined by Sam Wasson to discuss his new book The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story, which chronicles the making of Apocalypse Now and the rise and fall of Coppola’s revolut…
00:41:59 |
Sat 23 Dec 2023
Whit Stillman on 'Metropolitan,' a Christmas Movie
This week I’m thrilled to be joined by Whit Stillman, the director of, among other features, The Last Days of Disco, Barcelona, and Love and Friendship. He’s on the show today to discuss Metropolitan…
00:43:28 |
Sat 16 Dec 2023
The Year in the Box Office
On this week’s episode, Scott Mendelson returns to the show to discuss how 2023 shook out at the box office, why niche films and niche audiences became more important than ever to movie theaters, and…
00:57:59 |
Sat 09 Dec 2023
From Nicolas Coppola to Nicolas Cage
This week I’m joined by Zach Schonfeld to discuss his new book, How Coppola Became Cage. Zach’s look at the early years of Nicolas Cage’s career is deeply researched, featuring interviews with direct…
00:39:02 |
Sat 02 Dec 2023
Charlie Chaplin's Life in Exile
This week, I’m rejoined by Scott Eyman, author of Charlie Chaplin Vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided. We discussed the great silent star’s exile from America, how the press and the gov…
00:48:20 |
Sat 25 Nov 2023
Why You Can Finally Watch 'Moonlighting' on Streaming
This week I’m joined by Glenn Gordon Caron, the creator and showrunner of Moonlighting, to talk about that series’s long-awaited arrival on streaming. We discussed the show’s creation, the discovery …
01:03:54 |
Sat 18 Nov 2023
Stopping Piracy Before It Starts
This week I’m joined by Terri Davies. Terri heads up the Motion Picture Association’s Trusted Partners Network, which helps studios and other partners develop best practices for avoiding leaks of fil…
00:33:14 |
Sat 11 Nov 2023
How What We Watch Defines Us
This week I’m joined by Walt Hickey, the author of You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything. Among the many topics discussed on this show: the surprisingly durable effect of Warner…
00:46:53 |
Sat 04 Nov 2023
Zoey Ashe's Life in the (Future) Panopticon
This week I’m rejoined by Jason Pargin to discuss his new novel, Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia, and the ways in which the futuristic panopticon he envisions for Zoey and the other citizens of T…
00:51:58 |
Sat 28 Oct 2023
How Siskel and Ebert Got Their Thumbs
I’m joined by Matt Singer this week, author of Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel and Ebert Changed Movies Forever. The book, out this Tuesday, is a wide-ranging look at the myriad ways in which Roger Eber…
00:40:29 |
Sat 21 Oct 2023
How 'Airplane!' Changed Comedy Forever
This week, I’m thrilled to be joined by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker to discuss their new oral history, Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! In this episode we dis…
00:31:53 |
Sat 07 Oct 2023
What the Writers Gained By Striking
This week I’m joined by Elaine Low of The Ankler and its Strikegeist newsletter to talk about the end of the WGA strike and what the writers won, from performance-based residuals on streaming origina…
00:31:49 |
Sat 30 Sep 2023
The Lines that Define our Lives
Before we get started: apologies for the downgrade in my audio quality about 10 minutes into this episode. My computer, unappreciative of the coffee I spilled on it earlier in the week, decided to r…
00:40:43 |
Sat 23 Sep 2023
Fantasy Culture and the Flight from Reality
This week I’m rejoined by Jonathan Taplin, author of The End of Reality: How 4 Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto, to discuss the ways in which popular cultu…
00:47:39 |
Sat 16 Sep 2023
Data Transparency Is a Double-Edged Sword
This week I talk to Ben Dreyfuss, formerly in charge of audience acquisition at Mother Jones and currently the author of the Calm Down Substack, about the promise and the peril of complete data trans…
00:49:22 |
Sat 09 Sep 2023
Erotic Thrillers: Unsung Heroes of Home Video
Anthony Penta, director of 'We Kill for Love,' on the history—and present—of an unfairly denigrated genre.
00:54:15 |
Sat 02 Sep 2023
The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Warner
This week I’m joined by Chris Yogerst to discuss The Warner Brothers, his fascinating new look at the life of Jack, Harry, Sam, and Albert Warner, who collectively formed the Warner Bros. studio. Fro…
00:52:41 |
Sat 26 Aug 2023
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