THR – The Story Department https://www.thestorydepartment.com Story. Screenplay. Sale. Wed, 15 Jul 2015 06:02:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thestorydepartment.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-fav-32x32.png THR – The Story Department https://www.thestorydepartment.com 32 32 2808072 [Video]: THR Producer Roundtable https://www.thestorydepartment.com/video-3/ https://www.thestorydepartment.com/video-3/#respond Wed, 15 Jul 2015 02:31:40 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=33524 Read more]]> ‘Everything that could go wrong was going wrong, I was sort of dead man walking in Hollywood, like, yeah that guy’s getting fired… and on the other hand, everything about the movie was great… the only decision I ever really made was to say ‘keep going.’ That our only hope of coming out alive was to make a great movie… we never cut back a penny on the quality of the movie.’

Producers are both revered and maligned in the industry – described as both facilitators and gatekeepers, enablers and note-givers. But they’re some of the hardest working people on the team, navigating the money and the politics that makes everything else possible.

The Hollywood Reporter sits down with six top awards season filmmakers — Peter Chernin, Eric Fellner, John Lesher (Birdman), Marc Platt, Cathleen Sutherland (Boyhood) and Emma Thomas (Interstellar).

If you liked this, check out more videos about screenwriting or filmmaking. And if you know of a great video on Screenwriting, let us know in the comments. Thanks!

Oh, and if you have some more time, and would like to learn more about Pete Docter, check out this one hour video!

]]> https://www.thestorydepartment.com/video-3/feed/ 0 33524