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Hollywood Is Broken. Let’s Start a Movie Studio.

Plus, director Chris Nash joins to talk about his latest movie, ‘In a Violent Nature’

By Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, and Chris Ryan
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With no new movies hitting the box office this weekend, Sean and Amanda are instead building their own fantasy movie studio from scratch—directors, stars, writers, IP, studio locations, and more (1:00). Later in the show, Chris Ryan joins to help explain the uniqueness of In a Violent Nature (1:22:00), before Sean is joined by the director of the film, Chris Nash, to discuss making it (1:34:00).

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Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins
Guests: Chris Ryan and Chris Nash
Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner

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