Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), with co-writer and director Gil Kenan

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In a special episode of the Film Stories podcast, director and co-writer Gil Kenan joins to talk about his latest movie, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. He tells Simon about being one of four people to direct a Ghostbusters movie, and the one moment where it hit him how monumental that was. Plus, how filming got underway one year before release, the practicalities of puppets, and some of the career challenges that led to this moment too. Plus, reflections on Kenan's own story, and what got him to this point in time... Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is now in cinemas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.5	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome
0:35.5	to a very special episode of the film stories podcast come with me
0:41.9	and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes and movies movies that had stories that the story
0:50.0	just sucks a man this This is just the beginning.
0:58.7	We would be honoured if you would join us.
1:05.0	Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.
1:06.2	I am Simon Brew.
1:08.9	As always, it's absolutely everything you need to know about me.
1:11.8	The Nibit podcast, though, well, it's given away in the title.
1:13.8	I'm here to talk up the stories of film.
1:18.0	I tend to talk about production stories, marketing stories, release stories, distribution stories,
1:22.6	all those ingredients, really, that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love.
1:25.4	Just that, the films that we know and sometimes love.
1:27.8	The films I tend to cover on this podcast,
1:31.4	well, they lead more towards the mainstream than anything else. Their films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not to do snark. I try not to punch down. This podcast
1:36.1	is a celebration of cinema and a real appreciation that somehow, somehow films managed to get
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