‘Sing Sing’ Is One of the Best Things You’ll See This Year. ‘It Ends With Us’ Is … Not. (Our 700th Episode!)

The Big Picture

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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In their 700th Episode, Sean and Amanda discuss the news that the Brad Pitt and George Clooney vehicle ‘Wolfs’ will have a one-week limited theatrical release before moving to streaming, then talk about a slightly deranged combination of films this week (0:45). First up, they dive into ‘Sing Sing,’ a deeply moving prison drama starring Colman Domingo about a small group of prisoners attempting to stage a theatrical production (11:53). Then, they transition to the bizarre and controversial Colleen Hoover adaptation ‘It Ends With Us,’ starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni (28:11). Finally, Sean is joined by ‘Sing Sing’ director Greg Kwedar to discuss how this extraordinary film came together, casting formerly incarcerated actors, the unusual rollout of the film, and more (1:08:45). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Producer: Sasha Ashall Engineers: Aleya Zenieris and Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the fall of 2014 a group of hackers pulled off the biggest Hollywood
0:04.2	heist of all time. They broke into computer servers belonging to Sony pictures and
0:08.7	released hundreds of thousands of top secret documents. The attack would cause an international
0:14.0	incident, upend thousands of lives, and change the movie industry forever.
0:18.4	From Spotify and the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Brian Raftering, and this is the Hollywood Hack.
0:25.0	Listen on the Big Picture Feed, starting August 19th. I'm Sean Fennese and this is the big picture a conversation show about the end of us all.
0:42.0	Today on the show we will talk about Singh,
0:44.5	the new drama starring Coleman de bingo.
0:46.6	We'll also talk about another drama.
0:48.8	It ends with us, which is the Colleen Hoover adaptation
0:51.3	starring Blake Lively, which. Several dramas in one.
0:53.6	So it's going to be a dramatic episode.
0:55.4	That's all I can say.
0:56.6	Later in the show I have a conversation with Greg Quidar
0:58.6	who is the director and co-writer of Sing Sing.
1:01.3	Terrific movie, great conversation.
1:02.8	I hope you will stick around for my chat with him, but first, today is the 700th episode of the
1:06.6	big picture, did you know that?
1:07.6	I did because you put it in the spreadsheet.
1:09.6	Okay.
1:10.6	Do you have like a separate spreadsheet that's just counting?
1:13.2	Well, I haven't I have an archive of every episode.
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