Hollywood Uncorked Podcast

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Sinopse

Movie producer Ben Haber, restaurateur Scott Kay & screenwriter Tom Mullen share wine and swap stories with guests from the world of entertainment.

Episódios

  • Executive Hillary Turner & Sauternes

    13/07/2022 Duração: 01h42min

    Hillary Turner has worked on both sides of entertainment’s digital divide, having served as an executive at Disney in its traditional studio days and at streaming behemoth Netflix. She joins Tom, Ben and guest co-host Josh Shader for a fascinating conversation about how networks are using new levels of data in their programming decisions, her experience working on shows like Cobra Kai, Julie & The Phantoms, and Liv and Maddie, and a childhood spent on sets with her father, Joel Zwick, as he directed classic sitcoms like Full House, Family Matters, and Perfect Strangers.

  • Producer & Executive Daniel Schnider & Napa Merlot

    09/06/2022 Duração: 01h41min

    Daniel Schnider joins the podcast to discuss his many career hyphens, from serving as a producer on the hit movie Straight Outta Compton to his current position as an executive at Univision. As he and the guys break out three bottles of Napa Merlot, Daniel spins yarns from his diverse career, including how a handy bit of entrepreneurship landed him at the world’s largest Spanish-language programmer and how he ended up as the producing partner for Dr. Dre.

  • TV Writer Aury Wallington & Sancerre

    11/05/2022 Duração: 01h28min

    Hollywood Uncorked celebrates its 100th episode by welcoming screenwriter Aury Wallington, showrunner of the hit Netflix animated series Spirit Riding Free. Wallington shares tales from the writing trenches on shows like Heroes and Veronica Mars, how she landed her first writing credit on Sex & The City, and how her career started by running off to New Orleans to be a poet. Meanwhile, TV director Kabir Akhtar returns to help Aury, Tom and Ben drink their way through three affordable, but delicious bottles of Sancerre.

  • Calvert Studios Owner Bill Reider & Super Tuscan

    06/04/2022 Duração: 01h42min

    Calvert Studios has hosted countless Hollywood productions over the past several decades – from The Client List and Melrose Place to the original Beverly Hills: 90210. In this episode, Calvert Studios owner Bill Reider stops by to talk about the economics and challenges of running an active TV/film studio, and the future of production in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, he and guest co-host Ava Jamshidi help Ben & Tom drink through three affordable, yet amazing bottles of Super Tuscan.

  • Manager Allard Cantor & Chianti

    16/03/2022 Duração: 01h30min

    In the mid-2000s, Allard Cantor was in his mid-30s and had a successful sales career in New York – with season tickets to every NYC sports team and $16 million in sales during his biggest year. But unfulfilled and wanting to try his hand in Hollywood, Cantor walked away from all of it and enrolled in film school at AFI. Now with his own management company – and having recently served as a producer on Judas and the Black Messiah – Cantor stops by Hollywood Uncorked to discuss his journey from corporate America to entertainment while helping Ben, Tom and guest co-host Arvind Ethan David drink through four affordable bottles of Chianti.

  • TV Director Kabir Akhtar & Washington State Cabernet

    01/03/2022 Duração: 01h26min

    After winning an Emmy for editing the pilot of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Kabir Akhtar has gone on to become a prominent TV comedy director, helming shows like Superstore, Young Sheldon and The Sex Lives of College Girls, which he also produces. Kabir stops by Hollywood Uncorked’s first episode since the start of the pandemic to get into three bottles of Washington State Cabernet while discussing the keys to successful TV directing, why he left a career editing reality TV to enter the scripted world, and the time he made national headlines in college by pranking MTV News. Screenwriter Tamara Chestna sits in to guest co-host.

  • Screenwriter Richard Smith & Nero d’Avola

    16/04/2020 Duração: 01h32min

    Want to remember what life was like pre-COVID? Tune into this episode (recorded in early March) with screenwriter Richard Smith as the Hollywood Uncorked panel engages in forbidden activity like sitting face-to-face, sharing several bottles of Italian Nero d’Avola, and wantonly leaving the house. Along the way they talk about Smith’s screenwriting career, which got off to an auspicious start when his very first film project, Leonard, went from British short to premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. This was followed by his feature-length writing debut, Trauma, starring Colin Firth, as well as Smith’s latest project, The Garden of Evening Mists, based on the acclaimed Malaysian novel and currently rolling out across HBO platforms in Asia.

  • Storied Media Group’s Sara Moskowitz & Rioja

    05/03/2020 Duração: 01h54min

    In an industry where intellectual property is everything, Sara Moskowitz is sitting on a mountain of it as a VP at Storied Media Group, which represents dozens of top publishers around the world, including The Washington Post. Moskowitz stops by this episode to help taste three bottles of Rioja while discussing Storied Media’s dual role as content broker and producer (Amazon’s Modern Love), how newspapers and magazines are bolstering their bottom lines with TV & film projects, and how her job at SMG all started with an internship for founder Todd Hoffman while he was an agent at ICM. Producer Arvind Ethan David sits in as guest co-host.

  • Comedian Zane Lamprey & Ribera del Duero

    13/02/2020 Duração: 01h59min

    In the world of drinking-based entertainment, there is one man who reigns as the unquestioned king: Zane Lamprey, whose alcohol-driven travel cable shows Three Sheets and Drinking Made Easy pretty much invented the genre itself. Lamprey joins this truly hilarious episode to help drink through three bottles of Ribera del Duero from Spain as he regales the panel with tales of his favorite filmed drinking adventures from around the world, his new beer podcast Crafts-n-Crafts, and his infamous on-air drinking tour of Tom’s college town of Missoula, Montana.

  • Screenwriter/Author Adam Jay Epstein & Paso Robles Wines

    08/01/2020 Duração: 01h38min

    What’s the best way to backstop a career in the notoriously topsy-turvy world of screenwriting? Adam Jay Epstein (Not Another Teen Movie, Extreme Movie) does it with his “night job” of authoring best-selling fantasy and sci-fi books for the middle grades. While helping the panel drink through three bottles of wine from California’s fast-growing Paso Robles region, Epstein talks about the process and economics of creating book franchises like The Familiars, Starbounders and Snared, his love of executing on big ideas, and the time the his Revenge of the Nerds remake totally fell apart after four weeks of shooting.

  • Manager John Beach & Corner Store Wines

    04/12/2019 Duração: 01h34min

    John Beach has made a niche for himself in Hollywood by getting early access to books and connecting them to writers and producers for film and TV adaptation. With guest host Mike Cohen sitting in, Beach spends this episode talking about what he looks for in a book that might be right for the screen and his well-hidden past as a movie poster model for films like Grosse Pointe Blank and White Squall. Meanwhile, the panel dives into three surprisingly delicious (and decidedly random) wines from the corner store nearby after Tom forgot to pick up the wines they planned on drinking for the night.

  • Production Executive Winsor Yuan & Croatian Wines

    20/11/2019 Duração: 01h33min

    What’s it like when your boss is a writer, director and producer? Winsor Yuan stops by to describe his day-to-day running the development slate for multi-hyphenate Jared Stern, who has written the likes of Wreck-It Ralph, The Lego Batman Movie and The Internship, and is showrunning Green Eggs & Ham for Netflix. Meanwhile, Tom’s brother Tim Mullen and his wife Cindy sit in and ply the Hollywood Uncorked panel with a collection of stunningly good Plavac wines from Croatia that they picked up on their recent honeymoon.

  • Cougar Town Co-Creator Kevin Biegel & Dolcetto

    06/11/2019 Duração: 01h39min

    Cougar Town began as a joke between co-creators Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel: Could you actually make a show with a name that bad? Well, they did just that—with the resulting show running for six seasons and more than 100 episodes on ABC and TBS. Biegel joins the Hollywood Uncorked panel and the week’s guest host, screenwriter Karen McCullah (Legally Blonde), to talk all things Cougar Town while appropriately helping swig back three bottles of Dolcetto. Along the way, Biegel chats about getting his start on Scrubs, the pain and joy of his short-lived sitcom Enlisted, and how writing for TV has changed in his decade-plus in entertainment.

  • Producer Matt Gross & Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

    18/10/2019 Duração: 01h45min

    Veteran producer Matt Gross boasts credits across all genres and platforms, from movies like Fired Up and Across the Universe to TV projects like Sons of Liberty, Dirty Sexy Money and Day Break. Fortunately for the Hollywood Uncorked panel, Matt is almost as passionate about wine as he is about entertainment—especially about the wines in this episode, Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley. Joined by guest co-host and producer of the new Creepshow series Brian Witten, Gross talks about his transition from movies to television, what makes a good producer, and gets honest about the most disappointing thing that ever happened to him in Hollywood.

  • Screenwriter Brian Duffield & Oregon Pinot Noir

    11/09/2019 Duração: 01h19min

    Brian Duffield has made a name as one of the most versatile screenwriters in Hollywood—from making waves at age 23 with his first comedy spec Your Bridesmaid Is A Bitch to writing the McG-directed Netflix thriller The Babysitter to co-writing Insurgent, the uber-successful second installment of the Divergent franchise. As he joins the panel and guest co-host Arvind Ethan David to drink through three perfect-for-fall bottles of Oregon Pinot Noir, Brian talks about the emotional rollercoaster that is writing in Hollywood, the horrible day job at Lucky Jeans he got to quit after selling his first script, and the infamously plagued production of his first produced screenplay, the Natalie Portman-starrer Jane Got A Gun.

  • Novelist Tommy Wallach & Unique Blends

    21/08/2019 Duração: 01h24min

    It wasn’t enough for author Tommy Wallach to simply write the New York Times-bestseller We All Looked Up. He also had to go and record an entire album of original music to go with it. Turns out, music and writing are just two of Wallach’s many talents, which also include devising the popular escape room, Lab Rat, which was recently named the 8th best escape room in the world. In this episode, Hollywood Uncorked honors Wallach with three bottles of blends as unique as he is, while guest co-host Arvind Ethan David joins in a discussion of how Wallach got his start in writing, the painful process of getting a novel to the screen, and the ever-evolving nature of interactive storytelling.

  • Miramax Exec Michael Lachance & Napa Chardonnay

    07/08/2019 Duração: 01h31min

    As a veteran exec in the animation divisions at Dreamworks and Sony, Michael Lachance has conceived and developed some of the most iconic animated movies of the past two decades—from helping concept Shrek 2 as his first project out of college to pitching Jeffrey Katzenberg the title and idea for Kung Fu Panda. In this episode, Michael helps the guys taste through three bottles of Napa Valley Chardonnay while discussing his approach to overseeing the new family & animation division of Miramax, how he generates his countless roster of movie ideas, and what it was like trying to keep up with Katzenberg’s epic executive schedule—including his legendary Sunday meetings at his house.

  • 3Pas Studios Executive Carlos Aguirre & Argentinean Malbec

    25/07/2019 Duração: 01h19min

    While 3Pas Studios has risen to become a top Hollywood producer of TV and movies oriented toward Latino audiences, VP Carlos Aguirre says its mandate is really no different than any other production company: find amazing material and bring it to the screen. In this episode, Carlos details his journey from journalism to mainstream studios like Paramount and Fox Television—and finally to his current role in the feature division of Eugenio Derbez’s production company. While sampling three truly unique examples of Malbec from Argentina, Carlos discusses whether Hollywood is really getting better at bringing diverse voices to the screen, the future for multicultural entertainment, and how his Hollywood career began with a chance phone call from Fox after they found his resume on Monster.com.

  • Film Executive Naia Cucukov & Langhe

    10/07/2019 Duração: 01h13min

    As the EVP of Development and Production at Walden Media, Naia Cucukov has touched a string of the company’s family-oriented releases, from A Dog’s Purpose to Steven Spielberg’s The BFG to the surprise 2017 hit Wonder, which went on to gross more than $300 million. In this episode, Naia helps the panel with their continuing exploration of the Nebbiolo-based wines of Italy’s Piedmont area by knocking back three bottles of Langhe. Along the way, she discusses what she looks for when scouring for potential film properties, the unique place that Walden holds in the entertainment industry as a true production company-studio hybrid, and the immense pressure of adapting beloved family titles for the screen.

  • Family Guy Co-Executive Producer Kirker Butler & Barbaresco

    26/06/2019 Duração: 01h18min

    Has there ever been a joke so offensive that Fox’s Family Guy didn’t want to touch it? We get the answer to that question and many more as we sit down with one of the show’s longest-tenured writers and its co-executive producer, Kirker Butler. With three bottles of 2015 Barbaresco providing our highest-rated wine night ever, Kirker talks about how he originally caught the attention of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane with a sample script for the show, his stint going to The Cleveland Show (and back), and how his path to one of the most incendiary shows on television included working as a radio preacher in Kentucky.

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