“The Studio,” Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s latest collection, is a hilarious satire of Hollywood and a love letter to its wealthy historical past. When Rogen’s character — a studio chief named Matt Remick — visits work day by day, he overhears a tour information speak about how the lot is a temple of film magic. It is a sentiment he desires to consider in, but he is disillusioned with the system and appears like his office is extra like a tomb. Certainly, Matt hates his studio’s insistence on creating billion-dollar franchises about Kool Help characters on the expense of real artwork, though he nonetheless has to reply to 1 man: Griffin Mill (Bryan Cranston).
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Griffin is a billionaire studio overlord who’s solely motivated by revenue, a lot in order that he is completely happy to bury a swansong Martin Scorsese venture concerning the Jonestown cult. In spite of everything, an auteur-driven film about individuals “consuming the Kool Help” and taking their very own lives would possibly intrude with the studio’s lofty ambitions to create a household blockbuster about Kool Help Man and his buddies, and that is not taking place.
That stated, Griffin is an attention-grabbing character who encapsulates what “The Studio” is all about at its core. He very a lot represents the modern, commercially obsessed Hollywood system the present pokes enjoyable at. Nevertheless, his title is an homage to the status studio cinema that Rogen’s character longs for Tinsel City to return to — and Robert Altman followers will get the reference.
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Griffin Mill is a personality in The Participant
Director Robert Altman and screenwriter Michael Tolkin’s “The Participant” is among the finest films about making films. Much like “The Studio,” it is a satire that highlights the extra irritating sides of Hollywood, however nonetheless boasts loads of love and affection for the enterprise when it is at its finest. What’s extra, the movie encompasses a Hollywood government named Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins).
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Bryan Cranston’s character in “The Studio” is a transparent nod to Altman’s traditional movie, however it is not the one one. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s collection additionally adopts the continual shot strategy at instances, impressed by the opening scene in Altman’s satire. Throughout a dialog with IndieWire, Rogen defined that “The Participant” — and that one shot particularly — impressed their very own present:
“Should you’re making one thing about Hollywood, to do one thing technically troublesome asserts your place as somebody who has any proper to be talking about these items. ‘The Participant’ does that. He is doing one of many hardest issues you are able to do, and now he is gonna go make enjoyable of films for the following two hours. However he is clearly doing it from the place of somebody who understands each intricacy and problem of filmmaking.”
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“The Studio” is as technically spectacular as it’s hilarious, making it the best homage to Altman’s movie. Moreover, plainly Rogen and Goldberg share a number of the late filmmaker’s frustrations concerning the battle between artwork and commerce within the film biz.
New episodes of “The Studio” premiere Wednesdays on Apple TV+.
