Paranormal Activity (2007) and Cocoon (1985)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, two films that hit much bigger than expected - each of which changed a lot in post-production. Horror hit Paranormal Activity actually first debuted on screen in 2007. But it'd be two years before it got a full wide release in cinemas, and by then the ending would have undergone changes (and a planned remake abandoned). 20th Century Fox was having doubts about 1985's Cocoon, meanwhile, to the point where Robert Zemeckis was fired as its director (making Back To The Future instead!). In came Ron Howard though, and changes would get underway... Stories of both are told in this episode. Find Simon on Twitter at @simonbrew, and the podcast can be found at @filmstoriespod. Support this podcast: www.patreon.com/simonbrew. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.1	oh my message if it's not a ghost what is it
0:39.1	ah it's me. I'm Simon Brew.
0:41.9	I'm the editor of Film Stories Magazine, and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.
0:49.3	Come with me.
0:51.5	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes and movies movies that had stories
0:57.0	that the story just sucks a man this is just the beginning
1:02.0	we would be honored if you join us
1:09.0	hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew. As always,
1:14.9	that's absolutely all you need to know about me. The name of the podcast though, well, the title gives it
1:19.2	away. I'm here to talk of the stories of film and I tend to talk about development stories, production
1:24.2	stories, release stories, marketing stories, post-production stories, all those
1:28.0	ingredients that go to make the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know
1:32.8	and sometimes love. Now the films I tend to cover in this podcast, have more of a mainstream
1:37.1	leaning to them than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree.
1:41.7	I try not to do snark. I try not to punch down. This podcast is a celebration of cinema
1:46.0	and it is an appreciation of just how hard it is to make a film
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