Director Eli Roth Will Kill You On-Screen for $1 Million

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Matt is joined by director Eli Roth to discuss his new, all-encompassing horror media company the Horror Section, which allows horror lovers to “own” a portion of the company and share in the profits. They get into why Eli is so passionate about this idea, how the model actually works, and why the unrated horror genre is the perfect fit for a venture like this (02:41). Matt finishes the show with an opening weekend box office prediction for the Rami Malek action flick ‘The Amateur’ (26:04). To learn more about Eli Roth’s company, click here. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Eli Roth Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.2	Let's go!
0:36.6	It is Wednesday, April 9th.
0:39.5	To many around town, the traditional movie business has become kind of a slow-moving car crash.
0:45.5	Lots of people are trying lots of different business models to try to make it work,
0:49.0	and one of those models gaining in popularity is the crowdfunding model.
0:53.3	There are different variations on this. It's not
0:55.2	exactly new, but basically it's where fans or a group of regular investors are invited to
1:00.2	support a company or even a particular film and, quote, own a slice of it, meaning participate
1:06.3	in the upside if it's a hit. Angel Studios got a lot of attention for this model with Sound of Freedom,
1:11.6	the hit film about human trafficking a couple years back, that whole pay-it-forward strategy.
1:16.3	Robert Rodriguez recently launched a version of this model for low-budget action films,
1:20.2	and now Eli Roth is doing a slightly different version for horror, although he says it's not
1:25.2	crowdfunding. We'll get into why. If you're a horror fan,
1:28.4	Roth is a very familiar name to you. He's directed everything from Cabin Fever to Hostel to
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