Hollywood New Jersey

EP002: We Fired Our Friends (and ramble about Fantastic Four & Happy Gilmore 2


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Welcome back to Hollywood, New Jersey — the only podcast bold enough to try and fund a $1 million indie Christmas horror Comedy movie without actually having the money yet… but with plenty of opinions, old scripts, and emotional damage.

This week:

  • We fire Coop and Manny (don’t worry, they’ll be back… probably)

  • We accidentally attend a film networking event full of drunk strangers and no money

  • We review Fantastic Four: The First Steps and ask the big questions like:

    • Why does Galactus walk like a sleepy Godzilla?

    • Can a superhero baby save cinema?

    • And... what even is a character arc?

Plus:

  • Behind-the-scenes updates on our current script rewrite (still rewriting it)

  • The slow, painful path to funding our movie

  • Pitching our genius new slasher villain: Pizza Face

  • Our thoughts on Happy Gilmore 2, which may or may not have murdered our inner child

Through it all, we hold ourselves accountable as indie filmmakers in a state slowly being devoured by Hollywood East and corporate content. But we’re still here, still doing, still arguing — and still dreaming.

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Hollywood New JerseyBy Gorilla Ocho Films, LLC