603 - Billion Dollar Advice
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig welcome Akela Cooper (M3GAN, Malignant) to help offer guidance to billionaires looking to put their money in the safest place they can: the film and television industry. The trio looks at the upsides of investing in productions, which business models already exist and what we can learn from the independent television studios of the past.
We also chart Akela’s career from USC student through to this year’s hit film M3GAN. We then answer listener questions on planting easter eggs and nameless characters.
In our bonus segment for premium members, Akela tells us about her experience in two different studio training programs and whether they’re useful for new writers.
Links:
- Akela Cooper on IMDb and Instagram
- Paramount Writers Mentoring Program(formerly CBS Writers Mentoring Program)
- Warner Bros. Television Workshop
- M3GAN Dance Scene
- Episode 122: “Young Billionaires Guide to Hollywood”
- Ben Affleck And Matt Damon Launch Production Company With RedBird Capital’s Gerry Cardinale by Bruce Haring for Variety
- Warner Bros. Discovery In Talks To License HBO Original Series To Netflix by Peter White for Deadline
- The Carsey-Werner Company on Wikipedia
- Чёрный Ворон (Black Raven) – Chernobyl OST
- Evolution Keeps Making Crabs, And Nobody Knows Why by Clare Watson for Science Alert
- Welcome to Wrexham on FX and Hulu
- Arnold on Netflix
- The Last Action Heroes by Nick de Semlyen
- Commando: The Musical
- Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt!
- Check out the Inneresting Newsletter
- Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription or treat yourself to a premium subscription!
- Craig Mazin on Instagram
- John August on Twitter
- John on Instagram
- John on Mastodon
- Outro by Nora Beyer (send us yours!)
- Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and edited by Matthew Chilelli. Our intern is Halley Lamberson.
Email us at ask@johnaugust.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John heads up that today's episode has just a little bit of swearing in it |
| 0:06.6 | Hello, and welcome my name is John August |
| 0:10.0 | My name is Greg Mason and this is episode 603 of script notes a podcast about screaming outing at things that are interesting to screenwriters |
| 0:18.1 | Craig you and I both know that it's never been easy to be extraordinarily wealthy in America |
| 0:23.6 | You've been up a lot of the railroads you're called a robber baron |
| 0:26.6 | From a few hostile takeover some public companies |
| 0:29.2 | Bankrupt them after laying off thousands of workers and somehow you're the bad guy |
| 0:33.6 | I know it's not a share it is but into many split-in-airs |
| 0:36.8 | I think maybe have it even worse because they could drive it on Twitter for |
| 0:40.2 | buying Twitter and ruining Twitter |
| 0:42.5 | Work is to finally learn how to capsize their yachts today |
| 0:46.3 | I thought maybe we could offer some guidance for the billionaires and other folks who are looking for a safe and |
| 0:51.5 | Tranquil place to put their money which is the film and television industry right? |
| 0:56.1 | Yeah, so this episode is for the dreamers the builders the doers the absurdly rich |
| 1:00.4 | It's also a history lesson the way things used to work and could maybe work again with independent studios making things for distributors |
| 1:06.9 | Tell us looking to all of this we have a very very special guest Craig |
| 1:11.2 | Kelly Cooper fantastic. Hi, hey, I'm the writer. Hey, hey, I can't remember you are a writer for film a TV |
| 1:18.4 | Credit include Malignant Star Trek Strangely Worlds |
| 1:21.4 | Luke Cage and the break out hit Megan. That's pronounced me and three again |
| 1:26.4 | Three guys the three again. That is my three again if if I know one thing in this world |
| 1:32.0 | It's that that movie would have done even better |
| 1:35.5 | Had it been pronounced mithrigan |
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