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Displaying all articles tagged:
Making The Sausage
making the sausage
Sept. 19, 2012
Polone: Why
Animal Practice
Is Animal Cruelty
There’s nothing funny about the way Crystal the monkey is used for laughs.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Sept. 12, 2012
Polone: The Main Reason TV Is Now Better Than Movies
The plague of unoriginal studio movies has its roots in Hollywood’s greenlight process.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Aug. 1, 2012
Apocalypse Nikki: Polone Challenges the Power of the Vengeful Finke
Are Hollywood execs right to be afraid of her? There’s only one way to find out.
By
Gavin Polone
July 25, 2012
Polone: Why Stars
Don’t
Matter — and Never Have
Our columnist takes the contrary position.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
July 19, 2012
Polone: Reality TV Isn’t Real, and Why Viewers Don’t Care
Producers won’t cop to it being staged, per se, but acknowledge that the players know all too well the drama that’s expected of them.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
July 11, 2012
Polone: Why Everyone in Hollywood Is Paying More for a Manager
Everyone used to be fine paying 10 percent for just an agent. Now they have to pay twice that to get the same career advice.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
May 30, 2012
Polone: The Perils of the Disgustingly Big Hollywood Ego
Many directors and showrunners think they can treat people like crap because they are a creative genius. Wrong.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
May 23, 2012
Polone: The Unglamorous, Punishing Hours of Working on a Hollywood Set
Twelve to sixteen hours are the daily norm, and that’s gotta stop.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
May 16, 2012
Polone: Why Sacha Baron Cohen Deserves the Nobel Prize
He sneaks political and social messages into outrageous comedy, tricking audiences into hearing them.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
May 9, 2012
Polone: The Folly of Having Focus Groups Judge TV Pilots
The fate of a show can be decided by three cranky, biased people complaining to a moderator.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
May 1, 2012
Polone: How I’d Fix Disney
He has a new development plan and some candidates to take the ousted Rich Ross’s place as chairman.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Apr. 25, 2012
Polone: Hollywood’s Most Important Phone Rule
The ones who last the longest on top are the ones who return calls.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Apr. 11, 2012
Polone: All TV Should Be More Like
Game of Thrones
It makes morally abhorrent behavior wildly entertaining through the power of great writing and acting.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Apr. 4, 2012
Polone: Who
Really
Determines the Fates of Aspiring Screenwriters?
Dreaming of a studio exec personally discovering your unique voice? Wake up.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Mar. 28, 2012
Polone: Why Key Lionsgate Execs Got Fired Just Before Their
Hunger Games
Blew Up
Were there better people for the jobs, or were they sacrificed to land the Summit acquisition?
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Mar. 21, 2012
Polone: Three Actors Reveal the Awkward Truth of Shooting Sex Scenes
“After we finished it was awkward and I was thinking,
Was his dick touching my leg, and where is my robe?
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Mar. 14, 2012
Polone: So How Much Do Hollywood Players Make?
Here’s what top agents, lawyers, and movie and TV execs can expect to pull in. Considering a new career now?
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Feb. 29, 2012
Polone: Four Star Screenwriters Talk About Rewrite Hell
“My emotional response [to being rewritten] is a mix of disgust and horror, no matter what side I’m on.”
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Feb. 22, 2012
Polone: The False Circular Logic Behind Hollywood’s Resistance to Black Entertainment
There are three reasons why there are so few African-American-centered movies and TV shows. Two are crap, one can be fixed.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Feb. 15, 2012
Polone: How Pilot Season Ensures That Great Actors Rarely Land the Right Shows
Get a glimpse into the exhausting and nonsensical schedule of one actress running around from network to network.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Feb. 8, 2012
Polone: It’s Been a Shameful Month for Animal Cruelty in Entertainment
Young chimps were pimped in a Super Bowl ad, endangered wolves were demonized in
The Grey
, and Joan Rivers was kibitzing in a fur coat.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Feb. 1, 2012
Polone: Why I Don’t Miss My Life As a Ruthless Agent
It was a gladiatorial, kill or be killed life of big money, but not good for the psyche.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Jan. 25, 2012
Polone: Why I’m for SOPA, and How the Entertainment Industry Blew It
Instead of just politicking Congress, the MPAA should have publicly debunked four Internet myths about the anti-piracy bill.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Jan. 23, 2012
Polone on the Great Oscar Farce
The awards aren’t just meaningless, they also work as a detriment to moviemaking.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Jan. 18, 2012
Polone: Why There Are No Sure-Thing Movie Stars Anymore, But Hollywood Pretends There Are
It’s about the movie, not the star, but the star provides deniability.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Jan. 11, 2012
Polone: What I’m Thinking When One of My New Shows Debuts
And how, after having done eleven shows, it’s different from what his first-time partner and young star are thinking.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Jan. 4, 2012
Polone: The Three Ways a Studio Can Screw Up Your Movie Release
Bad release dates and marketing can break a producer’s heart.
By
Gavin Polone
Dec. 21, 2011
Polone’s New Year’s Resolution: Kick the Dumb Reality-TV Habit
When he finds himself thinking way too much about the Kardashians, he realizes there is a problem.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Dec. 14, 2011
Polone: I’m Tired of Paying for Cable Channels I Never Watch
And if you don’t like sports but pay big cable bills, you should be irate, too.
By
Gavin Polone
Dec. 7, 2011
Polone’s Four-Step Plan for Saving NBC
Shows like
The Walking Dead
are beating many of the Peacock’s series, so why not swipe AMC’s game plan?
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Nov. 30, 2011
Polone: How
Shame
Gives Me Hope That Good Movies
Can
Be Made
This daring film does four things that 99 percent of all other movies are afraid to do.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Nov. 23, 2011
Polone: Stop the ‘You Stole My Movie Idea!’ Lawsuits
As someone sues him and Sony for allegedly stealing the idea for
Premium Rush
, he argues that wrongful cases would fade away if there was more risk for a plaintiff.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Nov. 16, 2011
Polone’s Hollywood Cost-Cutting Solution No. 2: Stop the Pricey Producer Deals
These super-producers get paid millions to bring projects to their home studio when those execs could get the projects anyway.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Nov. 9, 2011
Polone: Why Studios Need to Slash Extravagant Star Perk Packages
We have an actual star’s list of demands (private jet, nutritionist, hairstylist, etc.) that could be worth up to $2 million.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Nov. 2, 2011
Polone: What L.A. Should Learn From Paris About Making TV and Movies
While shooting his new TV show, Polone was shocked at what his French crews did … versus being told a single shot in Beverly Hills would cost $25,000. $25,000 to take one shot; in Paris
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Oct. 26, 2011
Polone: Why Taxpayers Get Screwed When Every State and Canada Fights to Lure Movie Shoots
The money spent by places other than California to lure movie shoots just never pays off.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Oct. 19, 2011
Polone: Why TV Networks Don’t Need to Worry About Netflix and Hulu’s Original Programming
Just hiring David Fincher or the ‘Arrested Development’ team doesn’t mean you know how to make a hit.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Oct. 12, 2011
Polone: Why the
Simpsons
Salary Standoff Was a Sign of the New Hollywood Economy
In these days of Occupy Wall Street, the voice actors who once had public opinion on their side now just seemed overpaid and underworked, leaving Fox to collect all the profits.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Oct. 5, 2011
Polone: Why Stars Act Crazy (and Why People Like Me Share the Blame)
“I’m as much of the problem as any of the other cogs in the machine — which is why I am able to keep working, I guess.”
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Sept. 28, 2011
Polone: Why TV Shouldn’t Be So Afraid of the Word
Fuck
’Two and a Half Men’ can be filthy, but has to stop at a word that is all over YouTube.
By
Gavin Polone
making the sausage
Sept. 21, 2011
Producer Gavin Polone on Why Remakes Are Killing the Movie Business
The ‘Zombieland’ and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ producer says pointless rehashes are the reason that the movie audience is shrinking dangerously.
By
Gavin Polone