The making of the quirky heist comedy The Linguini Incident is not a pleasant memory for writer-director Richard Shepard. Yes, he had a great cast including David Bowie and Rosana Arquette. He also was under funded and overwhelmed and eventually lost final cut. However, the sting of this failure never fully left him and thirty years later he set out to correct it. Shepard and Linguini Incident co-star Eszter Balint help tell this story of a missed opportunity and what it means to reclaim your pa...
Feb 20, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Season 2 of Closing Night is finally here—the theater history podcast that takes you behind the curtain to uncover stories about famous and forgotten Broadway show that closed too soon. While season 1 focused on musicals that came and went from the Marquis Theatre, this season host Patrick Oliver Jones is tackling a whole new kind of theatrical heartbreak: shows that never actually opened on Broadway. These are the productions that fizzled out during out-of-town tryouts or preview performances, ...
Feb 15, 2025•3 min
Presenting an episode from Noiser and Airship's podcast History Daily. On History Daily, they do history, daily. Every weekday, Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in history. This episode is about our favorite kind of history, film history. The day is May 1, 1941. Orson Welles’ revolutionary debut “Citizen Kane” premieres in New York after a bitter battle to suppress the film. Learn more abo...
Jun 07, 2024•26 min
Something different from the creator of The Industry is coming soon. Here's a short preview of Stories My Brother Used To Tell. My older brother Eric would often tell stories of his misspent youth at family gatherings. Seemingly always about a car or girl or both, these ridiculous stories seemed almost impossible to believe. Now, after years of pestering, I've gotten him to share a few of those stories in a new podcast. Subscribe wherever you're subscribed to The Industry or use this link: Stori...
Jun 01, 2024•2 min
In 1982 British filmmakerJames Scott had made an Academy Award winning adaptation of a Graham Greene novella. Adapting another Greene novella, this time as a feature length film, seemed like a natural progression of things. He had Greene's blessing to take his novella Loser Takes All and turn into a film that would feature stage star Robert Lindsay and Molly Ringwald. He had every element in place. Almost. The only thing left was getting American distribution. And that was found when a deal was ...
Dec 14, 2023•30 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Elaine May will always be best known for her comedy with Mike Nichols and her screenwriting skills. However, as a director May is an uncompromising force who seemingly would do whatever it takes to get her vision on the screen. This episode looks at the great lengths May went to in order to get Mikey and Nicky, a lifelong passion project made, and what that lack of compromise cost her. Author Patrick Cooper, director of photography/cameraman Jack Cooperman, and an unnamed crewmember help tell th...
Nov 28, 2023•37 min•Season 5Ep. 6
The death of actor Peter Sellers in 1980 also seemed like the death of the Pink Panther film series. Instead, director Blake Edwards decided it was a new beginning. A beginning of numerous lawsuits, several flops, and one unseen television pilot. Author John LeMay and actor Charlie Schlatter help tell the story of what happened when Blake Edwards kept trying to keep the Panther on the hunt. Sources Books LeMay, John. Trailing the Pink Panther Films: An Unauthorized Guide to the Pink Panther Seri...
Nov 14, 2023•30 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Alan Dean Foster is an accomplished author in his own right, but in this episode of The Industry, he shares his process of writing movie novelizations and some of the more interesting novelizations he's done. From Star Wars, Alien, The Thing, The Black Hole, and even a very special episode of Maude, Alan shares many of his experiences in this unique writing world. Links Dan Delgado on Twitter and Bluesky Visit Alan Dean Foster's website Alan Dean Foster's Memoir of his novelization work Hosted o...
Oct 31, 2023•44 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Back in the 1970s and 80s if you walked into a bookstore you would undoubtedly had seen whatever the newest movie was in theaters sitting on a display in book form. The movie novelization is a world unto itself. We take a look at what it takes to adapt a movie to a novel, why the differences can be interesting, and get into why they exist in the first place. With insight from novelization experts Alan Dean Foster and Tim Waggoner, podcast host Paxton Holley, and filmmaker Whit Stillman, the rare...
Oct 17, 2023•37 min•Season 5Ep. 3
By the 1960's director Alfred Hitchcock was at the absolute height of his powers. He had reached the point where he could make any movie he wanted. Yet as the decade rolled on. Hitchcock seemingly had project after project he had developed not blossom into a feature film. What was keeping Hitchcock from making the movies he really wanted to make? We attempt to answer this question with help from HitchCon's Joel Gunz and author Shawn Levy. Links: Listen to Lew Wasserman's story on Glitter and Mig...
Oct 03, 2023•38 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Presenting two episodes from Noiser and Airship's podcast History Daily. On History Daily, they do history, daily. Every weekday, Lindsay Graham (American Scandal, American History Tellers) takes you back in time to explore a momentous moment that happened ‘on this day’ in history. First up it’s. The First Flight of the Wright Brothers: December 17, 1903. Orville and Wilbur Wright achieve the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight in history. Then it's The Spruce Goose Takes Fli...
Sep 26, 2023•32 min
Peter Bogdanovich's final film, She's Funny That Way , came and went and barely anyone seemed to notice. However, it wasn't the movie he really made. What Peter actually filmed was a black and white screwball comedy called Squirrels to the Nuts . What happened is a typical story. The movie didn't test well and the studio changed the film completely, and no surprise the studio version bombed anyway. The original version? That was believed lost to history. Or so we thought. A few years later, Jame...
Sep 19, 2023•34 min•Season 5Ep. 1
A new season of The Industry with Dan Delgado is coming soon. More stories of overlooked film history. This season features a lost and found director's cut, the show going on and on without it's star, the biggest director in Hollywood consistantly not getting his movies made, and the joys of movie novelizations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 21, 2023•1 min
Step into the captivating world of Broadway musicals with Closing Night, a new narrative theater history podcast. In Season 1, we explore the magical musicals that graced the stage of the Marquis Theatre, beginning with the controversial demolitions that birthed its legacy. Join us as we chronicle the rich history of some remarkable shows at one of Broadway's youngest venues, unveiling their untold stories through rare audio clips and behind-the-scenes insights as well as interviews with industr...
Jul 17, 2023•4 min
There's a new autobiographical period movie that's recently been released about a young kid who is so fascinated by the movies he makes his own films at home, and eventually has a successful Hollywood career. No, I'm not talking about The Fabelmans . Patrick Read Johnson's newly released 5-25-77 may seem like an attempt to cash in The Fabelmans buzz, but his films production predates the new Spielberg film by well over a decade. The Industry first covered 5-25-77 back in 2019 when Johnson though...
Dec 15, 2022•36 min
The Industry presents How I Got Greenlit, a new podcast hosted by the Creator of HBO’s Project Greenlight Alex Keledjian and Emmy Award Winning Producer Ryan Gibson, exploring how our favorite films got made and how they made our favorite filmmakers. This episode is part one of their two part conversation with screenwriter Chap Taylor. Chap Taylor has written screenplays and television pilots for all of the major Hollywood studios. He's worked for such producers as Brian Grazer, Scott Rudin, Irw...
Oct 04, 2022•52 min
The Industry is proud to present back-to-back episodes of one the best history podcasts around: History Daily. On History Daily , they do history, daily. Every weekday, host Lindsay Graham ( American Scandal, American History Tellers ) takes you back in time to explore a momentous event that happened ‘on this day’ in history. Whether it’s to remember the tragedy of December 7th, 1941, the day “that will live in infamy,” or to celebrate that 20th day in July, 1969, when mankind reached the moon, ...
Jun 29, 2022•32 min
After Paramount Pictures' 1974 version of The Little Prince seemingly vanished into thin air, it would be decades before another big screen version would come around. That version would be fully animated, with a voice cast that included Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Paul Rudd, Benicio Del Toro, James Franco, Ricky Gervais, Paul Giamatti and Marion Cotillard. But Paramount abruptly abandoned plans to release the film, and in this episode, The Little Prince director Mark Osborne explains what he t...
Apr 01, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Joseph Tandet was a lawyer who was not in The Industry. But when the opportunity arose to own the rights to The Little Prince , he took it. He wound up as a producer on a big-budget movie adaptation. The 1974 version of The Little Prince had everything going for it, including Gene Wilder, musical numbers by Lerner & Loewe, Bob Fosse dancing, and Stanley Donen in what should have been his element. But something went wrong between the page and the screen. Several years after Tandet's movie of ...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 7
At the height of his career, Richard Williams was hailed as the next Walt Disney. He wanted to prove that animation was high art, not just something to sell toys and cereal. So he spent three decades working on a single film called The Thief and The Cobbler, which was going to be extraordinary. But he made a deal with a movie studio that he couldn't keep. This episode of Imaginary Worlds features Garrett Gilchrist , Kevin Schreck , Neil Boyle and Greg Duffell discuss whether Hollywood or William...
Jan 29, 2022•29 min
How did they make a movie out of Super Mario Bros, and why did it not really resemble the game it was based on? This episode tells the story of how Super Mario Bros went down, and how an alternate cut was found, restored — and released online this year. SMB screenwriter Parker Bennett, along with the curators of the Super Mario Bros archive, Ryan Hoss and Steven Applebaum, help tell this story of a maligned, misguided movie that now has cult status and genuine love. We also recount the time Denn...
Dec 15, 2021•42 min•Season 4Ep. 6
The 1983 horror movie Grizzly II: Revenge boasts a cast that includes George Clooney, Laura Dern, and Charlie Sheen. But it may never have been released if not for Hungarian producer Suzanne C. Nagy, who finally made it available to audiences after 37 years. On the latest episode of The Industry , host Dan Delgado interviews Nagy, the original producer of Grizzly II: Revenge. A sequel to the popular 1976 film Grizzly, which cashed in on the post- Jaws killer animal craze, Grizzly II: Revenge fol...
Nov 04, 2021•38 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Like many Superman fans, British actor Aaron Price grew up believing a man could fly — thanks to the spectacular 1978 Richard Donner film starring Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel. But a decade after that film, Superman IV arrived to challenge fans' faith with a rough, budget-challenged story that pitted Supes against Nuclear Man, a forgettable villain created vis-a-vis the Cold War arms race. Still, Price believes the film is redeemable — and in this special bonus episode of The Industry ,...
Sep 30, 2021•16 min
Preston Sturges was so desperate to direct that he sold one of his scripts for $10 — then persuaded silent film and talkie star Harold Lloyd to star. This is a story that includes Howard Hughes, a secret tunnel to the Chateau Marmont, and some very funny insights by Sturges' son, Tom Sturges. It also notes the amusing similarities between 1947's The Sin of Harold Diddlebock , which has some interesting parallels with Todd Phillips massive 2009 hit The Hangover . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
Sep 09, 2021•45 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Dan Delgado is the host of The Industry , where he focuses each episode on lesser-known or forgotten movie history. He tells stories of Hollywood's weirdest decisions — and has a special place in his heart for the industry heroes who tried, and usually failed, to make something great. On this special crossover episode of MovieMaker and The Industry, Dan talks about his VHS-shaped 1980s childhood, and how it led him to create the curious world of The Industry . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...
Aug 21, 2021•30 min
At the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, the impresarios of Cannon Films — best known for movies like Superman IV and Over the Top — showed up on the scene in matching tracksuits, with a grand vision. They announced their slate of movies for the next year or so. And while the majors were being lazy with their 15 or so movies a year, Cannon's announcement was for a jaw-dropping 60 films. Sixty! Many of the films got made. But plenty of them didn't. The movies were to star Al Pacino, John Travolta, Walte...
Aug 01, 2021•40 min•Season 4Ep. 3
In the 1970s, in an attempt to thaw the Cold War, the U.S. and USSR decided to co-produce a film: Cinematic detente! The United States would provide big Hollywood stars like Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda and Cicely Tyson. They would be directed by the legendary George Cukor. The Soviet Union agreed to provide the crew, equipment, locations, and of course some ballet dancers. Then it all fell apart, because of course it did. Also, be sure to check out the We Know Jack Show Podcast ! Sources for th...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 2
When Bruce Lee died on June 20, 1973, Hollywood and Hong Kong scrambled to replace him, creating a misbegotten genre called "Bruceploitation." But Bruce Lee was, of course, irreplaceable. On the latest episode of The Industry , Dan Delgado details the rise of Bruce Lee — and the foolish, quixotic attempts to find any actor who could match him in terms of fighting prowess, charm and charisma. All together now: Good luck with that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 28, 2021•35 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Roar is the story of a family — including Tippi Hedren and real-life daughter Melanie Griffith — stalked by lions and tigers on an African nature preserve. When it was finally released in the United States in 2015 — nearly 40 years after it began its five-year, accident-filled shoot — savvy distribution company Drafhouse Films used the tagline, "No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Film. Seventy Cast and Crew Members Were." Have we mentioned that Roar was intended as a family comedy? Hos...
Feb 23, 2021•43 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Nicholas Ray is a legendary director known for his emotional, incredibly influential output in the 1950s. From Humphrey Bogart's best performance with In A Lonely Place to James Dean's iconic turn in Rebel Without A Cause , Nicholas Ray was responsible for some of film's greatest moments. As Jean-Luc Godard explained, "Cinema is Nicholas Ray." But Ray's demons of drinking, gambling, and drug abuse helped lead him on a destructive course. With no one willing to hire him anymore, he took a job tea...
Jan 13, 2021•59 min•Season 3Ep. 8
