The Sixth Sense (1999) and Pixels (2015)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Film History, Tv & Film

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a massive film that didn't cost too much, and a box office disappointment that did. 1999's The Sixth Sense would prove to be an absolute box office sensation: but heck. Disney wasn't happy about making it. The executive who gave the film the greenlight would ultimately lose his job, and Disney would sell off most distribution rights before it was released. But why? Pixels meanwhile was the last film in Adam Sandler's long-running deal with Sony Pictures, and was chosen only after the studio had turned one or two other Sandler projects down. On paper, combining classic videogame characters with a live action New York-set family feature seemed a good idea. But things did not go to plan. 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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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a non-spooky episode of the Film Stories podcast.
0:11.2	I see dead people, walking around like regular people. Come with me.
0:17.8	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:21.6	And movies, movies that had stories.
0:23.6	That the story just sucks a man.
0:25.6	This is just the beginning.
0:27.6	They're all the stories.
0:30.6	We would be honored if you join us.
0:34.6	Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew. I am Simon Brew, as always,
0:41.2	that's absolutely everything you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast though, well,
0:45.2	title gives it away. I'm here to talk off the stories of films and I tend to talk about making
0:49.6	of stories, development stories, release stories, marketing stories, stories of insane business decisions
0:55.0	that cost major multinational corporations, hundreds of millions of dollars, all those kinds of things, really.
1:01.0	The films I tend to cover in this podcast, they're more mainstream leaning than anything else.
1:06.0	They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree. I'm not here to do snark. I try not to punch down.
1:11.6	This podcast is very firmly a celebration of cinema, a recognition that it's really hard to get
1:16.3	films made and an appreciation that they do actually somehow manage to come out. Without further ado,
1:22.6	I'm going to crack straight on with the first of the two films I'm going to talk about in this
1:26.2	episode of film stories.
1:30.5	We're going back to a 1999 phenomenon.
1:34.0	Let me play you a bit of a clip from the trailer from it.
1:36.3	I'll come to the story, the other side of this.
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