Crash Zoom: Venice Film Festival and indie distributor news

Welcome to Crash Zoom a podcast where we take a deep dive into film and entertainment industry news Each week join Rough Draft Atlanta Associate Editor Sammie Purcell and indie filmmaker Aaron Strand as they explore how things happening at the highest level trickle down and affect the independent artist Each week we ll be releasing two short episodes one on Wednesday and one on Friday and diving deep on two news stories This week s Wednesday episode covers this year s Venice Film Festival lineup This week s Friday episode covers A s move into the theater space and the pause in Metrograph Pictures theatrical schedule Links in this episode South Park billion deal Variety UPDATE Deadline later informed this new deal also replaced Trey Parker and Matt Stone s existing deal with Paramount which was supposed to run through Takeaways from the Venice lineup IndieWire Why did A buy an Off-Broadway theater New York Times Metrograph Pictures pauses theatrical releases IndieWire You can check out Sammie s work on Rough Draft Atlanta and subscribe to her weekly newsletter Scene here You can check out Aaron s work here strandedonstage withdrawalfilm behindtheslatepod Email us at crashzoompod gmail com and follow us on Instagram and TikTok crashzoompodcast You can listen to Crash Zoom wherever you get your podcasts The post Crash Zoom Venice Film Festival and indie distributor news appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta