THE HOLLYWOOD PODCAST

Proudly celebrating 20 spectacular years in the community, The Grove’s annual tree lighting ceremony returned this past Sunday in partnership with CBS for the taping of its annual holiday special, the “24TH ANNUAL A HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS AT THE GROVE” hosted by Gloria Estefan. The special will feature performances by artists including Estefan, Andy Grammer, Little Big Town, DavidFoster and Kathari...

For this week's episode, Max is chatting with actress Mena Suvari, who we all know and love from her past work such as Six Feet Under, American Horror Story,  the American Pie franchise and American Beauty, the latter for which earned her a SAG Award and BAFTA nomination for Supporting Actress. Also joining Mena is director Kevin Lewis who most recently directed Willy’s Wonderland with Nicola...

Production designer Kathrin Eder - whose past credits include Big Time Adolescence, The Night House, and Three Months - discusses her work in the Hulu original film Hellraiser, a reboot of the popular horror franchise.

Putting an end to our 29 year-long wait, screenwriter Jen D'Angelo is responsible for penning the script for Hocus Pocus 2, the much anticipated sequel to the classic Halloween film. In her interview, Jen chats about how Disney asked her to write a script for a potential sequel, her own obsession with Hocus Pocus during her upbringing, and working with the iconic actresses Bette Midler, Kathy Naji...

Emmy-nominated hair/makeup department heads Jaime Leigh McIntosh and Tina Roesler Kerwin share what it was like physically transforming Ana de Armas into the iconic Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik/Netflix’s BLONDE. Kerwin's previous credits include The Mask, Boogie Nights, The Wedding Singer, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, Spanglish, Fun with Dick and Jane, He’s Just Not That Into You, A Christmas C...

Adapted from Oscar-winning filmmaker Dustin Lance Black’s 2019 memoir “Mama’s Boy: A Story from our Americas,” MAMA’S BOY centers around the upbringing of the “Milk” screenwriter. Traveling back to the places where he grew up, Black explores his childhood roots, gay identity and close relationship with his mother, who overcame childhood polio, abusive marriages and Mormon dogma, while becoming Bla...

Academy Award nominated screenwriter and director Peter Hedges is out with his latest film THE SAME STORM, which takes place during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, giving an intimate look into the lives of twenty-four characters as they journey through the spring and summer of 2020. The film is released in select theatres October 14th. Hedges previous directing credits include Ben is Back...

Emmy- and DGA-winning director/writer Walter Hill returns to his Western roots with the new film DEAD FOR A DOLLAR, starring Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Benjamin Bratt, Rachel Brosnahan, and Warren Burke. The film is about a veteran bounty hunter named Max Borlund who is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens – a sworn enemy he sent to prison years bef...

The Youth Governor centers on California's long-standing Youth in Government program where, in the halls of the state's capitol building, 4,000 teenagers run a fully functioning government complete with legislators, party bosses, and elections. Over four months, three candidates emerge in the race for the 72nd Youth Governor. With their peers watching their every word, these young candidates put t...

The face of a new generation of aspirational adventurers and natural history filmmakers, 29-year-old National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory takes viewers on epic and nail-biting journeys that push into the most spectacular and secretive corners of our wild world! Armed with leading-edge film technology, the Disney+ original series EPIC ADVENTURES WITH BERTIE GREGORY, from National Geographic,...

Nicole Galovski is the showrunner, executive producer, and a director of the new Disney+ hybrid docuseries "Growing Up". Created by Brie Larson and Galovski's company Culture House, “Growing Up” explores the challenges, triumphs, and complexities of adolescence through ten compelling coming-of-age stories. The series uses narrative, experimental, and documentary filmmaking to follow one young pers...

Four time Emmy-nominated cinematographer Mark Doering-Powell discusses his work on the Freeform series Grown-ish . Nominated for Outstanding Cinematography For A Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour) at this year's Emmys, Doering-Powell was also nominated for his work in Grown-ish last year - the series' first-even Emmy nomination! Doering-Powell also shares what it was like reuniting with Grown-ish cr...

Emmy-winning television director, writer and producer Greg Garcia is behind some of network television's most successful shows. From My Name is Earl to Raising Hope , Garcia has been on staple of network comedy series. Now, he is out with his latest comedy series Sprung , now streaming on Freevee.  Sprung tells the story of Jack (Garret Dillahunt) who, after spending nearly three decades in p...

Coming to the end of it's nearly year-long North American tour, the Broadway show "The Prom" is now in Los Angeles performing at the Ahmanson Theatre until September 11!  Emily Borromeo, who plays Angie Dickinson, has previously performed on Broadway and as part of the National Tour of School of Rock . TV credits include serving as host of Sunny Side Up , a preschool series (Emmy nom.; Sprout...

Cinematographer Anka Malatynska discusses her latest project, the newest spin-off series of the Pretty Little Liars franchise titled Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin , now streaming on HBOMax. In this interview, Malatynska shared how she created a different visual language for this series compared to the original series, how her previous work on I Know What You Did Last Summer helped inform her w...

THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES is a breathtakingly expansive, six-part portrait written and directed by Andrew Rossi which chronicles the life of Andy Warhol from the intimate vantage point of the artist’s own posthumously published diaries. Beginning with his childhood in Pittsburgh, the series traces Warhol’s almost unbelievably diverse journey, fluidly moving between mediums and through eras as an art...

Claudia Castello is the editor of Hulu's new original film PREY which serves as a prequel to the popular PREDATOR franchise. A frequent collaborator with director Ryan Coogler, Castello's past credits include FRUITVALE STATION, CREED, and BLACK PANTHER.

Emile Hirsch is best known for his breakthrough performance in  Into the Wild , directed by Sean Penn, which received worldwide acclaim, garnering him a SAG Award nomination.  Emile can be seen in Quentin Tarantino’s  Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood  opposite Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Brad Pitt, as well as the action comedy  The Comeback Trai...

Rickey Minor is an Emmy-winning music director, composer and record producer. He was the musical director and bandleader on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 2010 to 2014. He also served as music director for numerous tours of superstars including Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera, Ray Charles, Alicia Keys and Beyoncé. Some of the television productions Minor has worked on as a music director...

Johnnie Burn is the supervising sound editor, sound deisgner, and re-recording mixer on the new Jordan Peele science fiction horror NOPE, while Nicholas Monsour served as the editor. Together, they shared how the collaborated with each other and with Peele to create the cinematic spectacle of the summer. Nicholas, who also edited Peele's last film “US,” discussed how was able to meet demands of th...

Faye (Dale Dickey) is a lone traveler biding her time fishing, birding and stargazing at a rural Colorado campground as she awaits the arrival of Lito (Wes Studi), a figure from her past who is navigating his own tentative and nomadic journey across the rugged West. Like the country music that has traditionally channeled the heartbreak and resilience of Americans in search of themselves and others...

Kevin Bacon plays Owen Whistler in this slasher horror film set at an LGBTQIA+ conversion camp. Several queer campers, led by iron-willed Jordan (Theo Germaine) and Alexandria (Quei Tann), join Whistler for a week of programming intended to “help them find a new sense of freedom”. As the camp’s methods become increasingly more psychologically unsettling, the campers must work together to protect t...

The political campaign documentary A RUN FOR MORE is about a corporate executive, political campaigner, military spouse, and proud Latinx daughter of immigrants, Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe, who decides to campaign as the first trans woman to run for city council in her hometown of San Antonio, Texas, facing a different kind of challenge—and this time it’s personal. Filmed over the course of three year...

As part of the 40th anniversary of Outfest, artist, actor and filmmaker Lio Mehiel (WeCrashed, Apple+) presented a three-part pop-up art presentation titled Ancient Futures at the Directors Guild of America in West Hollywood, from July 14 - 24 to highlight trans bodies. The exhibition celebrates trans beauty, expressed through a single-channel video installation,...

ALL MAN: THE INTERNATIONAL MALE STORY is a journey across three decades of the International Male catalog's lasting impact on fashion, masculinity, and gay rights. With revenues at its peak of $120 million and circulation of over 3 million, the catalog successfully appealed to both gay and straight audiences, and helped transform conservative notions of American masculinity towards a more car...