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Opening Weekend: EP-6: "The Iron Giant" – Allison Abbate (Producer)

Some movies are loved by the people who make them and by the people who sell them, and they're still tough to open. Jim Fredrick, who ran the marketing on The Iron Giant

Gerry Rich: "No Plan B"

Gerry Rich started planning his escape to Hollywood from a basement desk in the Midwest at age ten, and he went on to run marketing at Miramax, MGM, Paramount and Amazon

Opening Weekend: EP-5: "The 30-Mile-an-Hour Read: Selling Movies with Key Art" – Bryan Allen

Opening Weekend: Selling Hollywood with Jim Fredrick continues on the TG&TG feed. This week Jim sits down with longtime friend and colleague Bryan Allen, the poster des

Opening Weekend: EP-4: "The Assignment of a Lifetime" – Jim Fredrick

Opening Weekend: Selling Hollywood with Jim Fredrick continues on the TG&TG feed. This week Jim rides solo, revisiting the campaign he calls "the assignment of a lifeti

Opening Weekend: EP-3: "The Glass Ceiling Breaker" - Barbara Glazer

Opening Weekend: Selling Hollywood with Jim Fredrick continues on the TG&TG feed. Barbara Glazer was one of our very first guests on this podcast, back in 2019. She's a

A Trailer Park Tribute, Chapter 2: "No Brilliant Jerks"

Trailer Park's doors are closed, but the tribute rolls on. Chapter 2 picks up as the shop outgrows Cahuenga, settles into the Santa Monica Boulevard building and then Iva

Opening Weekend: EP-2: "The Mogul" – Alan Horn (Studio President)

Opening Weekend: Selling Hollywood with Jim Fredrick continues on the TG&TG feed. A soap marketer who'd never set foot in Los Angeles became the most successful studio

Opening Weekend: EP-1 "The Shawshank Redemption" – Liz Glotzer (Producer)

We're proud to introduce Opening Weekend: Selling Hollywood with Jim Fredrick, starting with episode one right here on TG&TG! The most beloved movie on IMDb was, on ope

Chris Daniel: SVP Global Creative Marketing at LionsGate (Best of)

It was so cool to get to hang out with Chris Daniel, the Senior Vice President of Global Creative Marketing at LionsGate. Prior to LionsGate, Chris led 360 marketing camp

A Trailer Park Tribute: "We Had No Business Starting a Company"

Trailer Park's theatrical division has closed its doors, so we gathered five of the people who were there at the very beginning. Tim Nett, Jim Hale, Ann Mugglebee, Mike S

No Trade Mag, No History Book. Logan Gruidl Is Fixing That.

Logan Gruidl is Senior Producer at Picture Head and the founder of The Trailer Brief, a bi-weekly newsletter covering trailer craft, industry news, and the campaigns shap

Monica Brady | Co-Founder & Exec. Producer, Golden Trailer Awards

Monica Brady has spent 26 years doing something that didn't exist when she started: honoring the people who make movie trailers. Co-founded with her sister Evelyn on a bo

Kris McDonald: Cutting Trailers. Mentoring the Next Gen. Behind the Trailer.

Kris McDonald is a Creative Director and Senior Editor at XAV, and the founder of Behind the Trailer — a free educational platform dedicated to helping aspiring trailer e

Stav Ozdoba on Indie Filmmaking, Editing, and Building Rubber Sole Creative

Before founding Rubber Sole Creative, Stav Ozdoba came to the U.S. with one goal: become a filmmaker. Within months, he was in meetings to direct a feature. Not long afte

Benj Thall: From Child Actor to Editor, Creative Director, Screenwriter

Before Benj Thall was cutting trailers at some of the most influential shops in the business, he was a working child actor starring in Disney's Homeward Bound films along

From Staples Center to The Shop: Jordan Hayman on Building a Career Without a Roadmap

Jordan Hayman has sat in almost every seat in this industry. Jumbotron editor for the Lakers during their championship run. Creative executive at Alkemi, working indie th

Lauren Zoller, Lead Editor at X/AV

What does it sound like when a trailer editor thinks in rhythm, builds in silence, and treats every scene break like a musical beat? Lead editor Lauren Zoller of X/AV t

Eric Ladd on Brining Bleeding Edge Design to Hollywood's Trailer Industry

What happens when a technology-minded New Yorker stumbles into Hollywood and ends up reshaping how the industry makes trailers, title sequences, and motion graphics for t

Kazadi Katambwa on From Runner to Hollywood Creative Executive

What does it take to break into the trailer business, survive the agency grind, and help shape campaigns for some of the biggest films of the last two decades? This wee

Debi Struzan & Dana Flowers-Mitchell on Trust, Taste, and Why the Big Idea Still Matters

What do trailers, legendary movie posters, streaming era strategy, and a deep love for theatrical storytelling have in common? This week on Trailer Geeks & Teaser Gods,