Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the film stories podcast.

Now I have to confess, I struggle sometimes to explain this podcast to people listening for the first time.

So I've enlisted Sean Penn. Sean, how would you describe it?

A profound life experience.

Come with me.

And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

And movies. Movies that had stories.

That the story just sucks a man.

This is just the beginning.

There are stories. We would beoured if you would join us.

Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.

I am Simon Brew.

As always, that's absolutely everything you need to know about me.

The aim of the podcast though, well, the title gives it away.

I'm here to talk

off the stories of film and I tend to talk about development stories, production stories,

marketing stories, release stories, all the bits and bobs really that go to make the films that

we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes love. The films I tend

to cover in this podcast, they're more mainstream leaning than anything, they're films I tend to cover in this podcast, they're more mainstream-leaning than anything, they're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not to do snark,

I try not to punch down. Instead, I try to celebrate the fact that films are made, or in this

case, oddly enough, that a film wasn't made, but I still primarily celebrating that films are made.

It's really difficult to get them made. I kind of want to

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