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The Projection Booth Podcast

Special Report: Adam Leipzig on MediaU

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaker Adam Leipzig discusses a fraction of his long, illustrious career from his early days at Disney to producing films like Titus and The Associate to March of the Penguins and A Plastic Ocean and his latest venture as the CEO of MediaU.

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0:00.0

Hold your ears, folks.

0:06.8

It's showtime.

0:08.6

People pay good money to see this movie.

0:10.9

When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.

0:17.3

Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.

0:20.0

Shut it off.

0:25.6

Turn it off.

0:26.6

Turn it off.

0:31.6

Hey folks. Welcome to a special episode of the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White.

0:44.5

On this episode, I'm talking with producer Adam Leipzig, all about his career. Well,

0:50.5

highlights from it because he's had one heck of a career and he's still going strong.

0:56.8

It was great talking with him and I hope that you enjoyed this interview.

1:00.8

How did you start in the business?

1:02.2

You've had such an incredible career.

1:04.6

I've always wanted to do something for audiences from my earliest recollection.

1:13.6

I started wanting to be in theater and then actually was in theater. After I left college, I became part of the company that was then called the

1:20.3

Los Angeles Actress Theater, now known as the Los Angeles Theater Center. I was one of the

1:25.3

people who built the Los Angeles Theater Center and had a great seven-year run. In theater, I produced more than 300 plays, shows, music events, poetry events, dance events, performance art events. Back at the time when performance art was a thing called performance art. And at a certain point,

1:46.5

I just wanted to work for larger audiences. So in effect, I walked across the street into movie

1:52.9

studio land, landed a job at Disney Studios, and thereby hangs a tale. Tell me about your

1:59.6

involvement with the Olympics.

2:02.3

I was reading a little bit about that.

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