Hollywood Hotline - Week of April 18, 2025
Howdy Hotliners, If you haven’t seen A MINECRAFT MOVIE yet might I suggest a double-feature this Easter Sunday of A MINECRAFT MOVIE and SINNERS?...
Hollywood Hotlline - Week of April 11, 2025
Howdy Hotliners, Apologies for missing the last few newsletters. I was busy jumping through three job interview hoops one week (didn’t get it), then working...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of March 14, 2025
Howdy Hotliners, It’s currently raining here in Los Angeles, which makes me want to watch rainy day films like THE GOONIES (1985) or JURASSIC PARK (1993). It...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of March 7, 2024
Howdy Hotliners, I didn’t win my Oscar pool (they’re gonna break my thumbs!). I totally bet wrong on THE BRUTALIST winning every category that ANORA won....
Hollywood Hotline - Week of February 27, 2025
Howdy Hotliners, RIP Gene Hackman (1930-2025), and his wife of 30+ years, Betsy Arakawa, both of whom were found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of February 21, 2025
Howdy Hotliners, I can feel spring just around the corner. I find myself wearing shorts again during the daylight hours. Going to enjoy as much of this sunny...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of February 14, 2025
Happy Valentine’s Day Hotliners! My little heart-shaped love mints with heartfelt messages printed on them to you all. Hope Cupid’s arrow has found you or is...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of February 6, 2025
Howdy Hotliners, Marvel Studios put out the latest FANTASTIC FOUR posters, which was made by Midjourney AI, and when people pointed it out, Marvel denied...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of January 30, 2025
Howdy Hotliners, Quentin Tarantino stopped by the Sundance Film Festival this week to talk about himself and how great he is and mentioned he was writing a...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of January 23, 2025
Howdy Hotliners, Our country is on fire. Literally. In my state of California as I sit and type this, there’s no less than [checks updates]: six fires in my...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of January 16, 2025
Holy Smokeo Hotliners, What a year so far. Today, we lost a true icon, David Lynch (1946-2025). Last week, we lost the Pacific Palisades and Altadena to...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of December 20, 2024
Happy Holidays Hotliners! Hope you’re all primed and ready for the remaining days of the year. I know I’m not! LOL. Currently sitting on the loveseat in...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of December 12, 2024
Howdy Hotliners, Welp, LG is discontinuing manufacturing Blu-ray players, which just feels ominous, ya know? Like in the not-too-distant-future, instead of...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of December 5, 2024
Howdy Hotliners, Hope y’all had a wonderful Thanksgiving last Thursday. I myself re-watched PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987) for the 28th time on...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of November 22, 2024
Howdy Hotliners, It’s Barbenheimer 2.0 this weekend with GLADIATOR II (2024) and WICKED (2024) going sword-to-broom in what I’m calling GladiWicked II! Woo-...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of November 14, 2024
Howdy Hotliners, Sir Ridely Scott has got GLADIATOR II (2024) coming out next week but has already announced that he’s working with GLADIATOR II star Paul...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of November 7, 2024
Howdy Hotliners, What a long week. Year. Decade. Who’s ready for some fun Hollywood news? Where originality and risk-taking reign supreme when it comes to...
Hollyween Hotline - Week of October 31, 2024
Happy Halloween Hotliners! What are we all dressing up as tonight? I saw some pretty great photos on Instagram of my friends and family’s kids dressing up....
Hollywood Hotline - Week of October 24, 2024
Howdy Hotliners! Sorry I missed the past two Thursday’s (10/17/24 + 10/10/24) newsletters! I was working on an AppleTV+ comedy series and then on another...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of October 3, 2024
Howdy Hotliners! Three time Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis (MY LEFT FOOT 1989, THERE WILL BE BLOOD 2007, LINCOLN 2013) is back, showbiz baby! He...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of September 26, 2024
Howdy Hotliners! Circa 1994-95, I was in 7th-8th grade in Santa Cruz, California, surfing and boogie boarding my balls off, listening to whatever music Scott...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of September 19, 2024
Howdy Hotliners! It’s finally cooled off here in L.A., thank God. Love that the first day of Fall falls on the 22nd this year, which is the day my late...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of September 12, 2024
Howdy Hotliners! Sorry I missed last Thursday’s (9/5/24) newsletter! I was crewing on a commercial shoot in 116° weather way out in the deep north Valley....
Hollywood Hotline - Week of August 29, 2024
Howdy Hotliners! Oscar-winning director, Alejandro G. Iñàrritu (Best Director THE REVENANT 2015, Best Original Screenplay, BIRDMAN 2014, Best Director...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of August 22, 2024
Howdy Hotliners! You only get one chance to make a first impression. And director Francis Ford Coppola’s genius marketing team learned that the hard way when...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of August 15, 2024
Howdy Hotliners! JOKER (2019) star Joaquin Phoenix pulled a real-life joker move by bringing a project to a producer and director telling them he wanted to...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of August 8, 2024
Howdy Hotliners! Welp, two big sales in the past five years have done no favors for legacy studio, Warner Bros. (where I got my start as a VIP Studio Tour...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of August 1, 2024
Howdy Hotliners! Fresh off his OPPENHEIMER (2023) Best Supporting Actor Oscar win, Robert Downey Jr, in keeping with the Faustian deal he made back when he...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of July 25, 2024
Howdy Hotliners! DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (2024) is about to open this weekend and break box office records even though it looks like Superbowl commercial but...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of July 18, 2024
Howdy Hotliners! Happy 25th Anniversary to the late Stanley Kubrick’s final film, (with that legendary final line ;) EYES WIDE SHUT, released on July 15,...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of July 11, 2024
Howdy Hotliners, Hope y’all had a wonderful 4th of July holiday/long weekend! I had originally planned on sending a Hotline newsletter out on the morning of...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of June 27, 2024
Howdy Hotliners, IATSE Reaches Tentative Deal with the Studios! [Homer Simpson sick with food poisoning]: “DUFF GARDENS, HURRAH!” And here I was just reading...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of June 20, 2024
Howdy Hotliners, RIP actor Donald Sutherland (1935-2024) who passed away today at age 88 in his home, after a long undisclosed illness. Never had the tension...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of June 13, 2024
Howdy Hotliners, Summer is just around the corner (June 20 - Sept. 22), if not already here. And the summer movie season is slow. Not a whole lot going on...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of June 6, 2024
Howdy Hotliners, It’s come to my attention that I was referring to my subscriber(s) as “Hollyweirdos” when my newsletter, is in fact, not called “Hollywood...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of May 30, 2024
Howdy Hollyweridos, Been kind of a slow week here in Hollyweird. Woke up Tuesday morning first day back from the three-day weekend to another doom-and-gloom...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of May 23, 2024
Howdy Hollyweridos, Sorry I missed last Thursday’s (5/16/24) newsletter! I was out of town for a family gathering and didn’t have my laptop with me. I did...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of May 9, 2024
Howdy Hollyweridos, Welcome again to my third ever newsletter! So far, I have only one subscriber. Woo-hoo! Hope they love this week’s choice primo story...
Hollywood Hotline - Week of May 2, 2024
Howdy Hollyweridos, Welcome back to my second ever newsletter! Not sure anyone got my first ever newsletter but that’s OK! Every forest fire starts with a...
Hollywood Hotline - First Ever Newsletter!
Howdy Hollyweridos, Welcome to my first ever Hollywood newsletter! (Don Ameche seeing ‘Harry’s’ bigfeet): “YAHH-HOOOO!” I’ll be bookmarking select industry...