DreamWorks Pictures

This person says it's not new.

I worked on a bunch of Disney, Nickelodeon, DreamWorks shows when I was working in Canada.

The tax credits are too appealing.

Unions are only starting to gain traction.

Wow, really? Yeah.

So, I mean, it's a more expensive movie, right? But these movies don't make like Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks, whatever, Sony animation money.

And it's really honestly kind of sad.

So this is really kind of a passion project of Travis Knight and I think of Phil Knight as well.

On this episode, we have the highly influential Steven Puri.

Stephen is a former Hollywood studio executive who rose to the ranks of executive vice president at DreamWorks and vice president at 20th Century Fox, where he oversaw major franchises including Die Hard and Wolverine.

His Hollywood career also spans blockbuster productions including Independence Day, Transformers, and Star Trek.

From Oscar-winning visual effects to the executive suites behind some of Hollywood's biggest franchises, Stephen has seen firsthand what it takes to turn ambitious ideas into reality.

I'll say this.

In the evolution, when I...

When I was at DreamWorks, that was the early 2000s, and then at Fox was into the 2010s.

Some of the biggest changes I saw, and this was very frustrating to the studios, was there was a time, maybe you're old enough, but I definitely am old enough to remember, when you were going out with a girl on a Friday night, and the option was go to dinner and a movie.

You said it, you said it.

So I worked at both Disney and DreamWorks and worked on some great movies, but I've never worked at a better place than Cinesite Studios for the last 12 years.

It's been my dream, Paul.

Be that the dream that you can achieve.

They basically, like...

So the two production chiefs of DreamWorks watched this in January 2001.

And I think, what, probably by the end of the year, Mulholland...

When did Mulholland actually drop?

So, like...

And I'm not even talking, like, Pixar or DreamWorks.

I'm talking fucking straight Mickey Mouse shit.

So, this is the thing.

Michael, who is seeking control of his masters and escaped from his eighth album deal, loses the case and is ordered to pay court costs for both sides.

In 1995, Virgin and Dreamworks SKG buy his contract from Sony and Michael resumes his music career with the album Older.

the following year this is of course the iconic moment that george michael on the video fast love had a pair of sony headphones on but it said phony on the headphones pretty cool 10 years on it's 2002 and an entire episode of the late show with david letterman is dedicated to warren zeven who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer he plays three songs his last performance chats candidly with the host and offers his sage advice Enjoy every sandwich.

Thank you for the music, Warren.

Michael was seeking control of his masters and was trying to escape his eight-album deal, but he lost the case and was ordered to pay court costs for both sides.

In 1995, Virgin and DreamWorks SKG bought his contract from Sony, and Michael resumed his music career with the album Older the following year.

He later returned to the Sony label.

In 1997, the U.S. Senate passed a bill to close the loophole in the 1909 Copyright Act.