THE BLURB: Oscars-Schmoscars! It may be Academy Awards time in the rest of Hollywood, but here at The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast, we’re celebrating The HACK-CADEMY A-WEIRDS instead! It’s our bad-attitude approach to a business fast going down the creative toilet. As a matter of fact, GIL ADLER (producer of studio tentpole movies like SUPERMAN RETURNS, VALKYRIE and CONSTANTINE) is a VOTING MEMBER of THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES. So, Gil will tell us how at least part of the Academy is thinking!

But, before we get down to Oscars business, we have some catching up to do – and some more bitching and moaning about the entertainment business (such as it is).

Gil will take you behind the curtains to explain – as he does to a baffled friend – how exactly movies get made (or teeter toward getting made). There’s no formula. No how-to guide. As Gil explains from 50 years of experience, every single creative project is its own kind of monster.

Gil’s close on a couple of great feature film projects. He’ll take you deep inside the game and the gamesmanship. Want to know what exactly a movie producer does? Gil delivers (another) MASTER CLASS.

We also talk about our good friend, the late CHRISTOPHER REEVES, Gil’s relationship with him and the new documentary about Chris and the accident that altered the course of his life.

And we’ll celebrate the fact that (on the day we recorded this – February 14 – it was GIL’S BIRTHDAY!

At last we’ll get to this year’s NOMINATIONS. How is Gil going to vote (he hasn’t yet, but he’s about to!)? What, you think we’d ruin the ending for you?

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