ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Film Stories with Simon Brew is a podcast that looks to dig into the stories behind popular movies.From troubled productions, to rights issues, to difficulties with release to films nearly falling apart, the podcast will be looking at the stories that don't always seem apparent when watching a movie!
The podcast is hosted by Simon Brew, the founder of Den Of Geek. Support the podcast at www.patreon.com/simonbrew. Thank you!
The podcast is hosted by Simon Brew, the founder of Den Of Geek. Support the podcast at www.patreon.com/simonbrew. Thank you!
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 4 days
Average audio length:
55 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United Kingdom
495 episodes
since July 15, 2019
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~29.92% of listeners are from Ireland.
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IE
29.92%
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US
27.39%
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GB
23.66%
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SG
4.82%
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KE
4.53%
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BE
2.29%
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CA
1.83%
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DE
1.14%
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AU
0.80%
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NL
0.57%
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SV
0.51%
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NO
0.40%
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FR
0.40%
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IN
0.22%
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SE
0.11%
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IT
0.11%
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IQ
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LV
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FI
0.11%
Others
0.97%
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
The sale of Shane Black's The Last Boy Scout screenplay for a then-eyewatering $1.75m (and that wasn't even the highest bid!) set Hollywood alight. It also virtually guaranteed at the time that the film would get made.
When it did? The reunion of Bruce Willis and Joel Silver seemed like a good ide…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In a special episode of Film Stories, writer/director Brian Duffield chats to Simon about his brand new movie, Whalefall. Well, not just that. The pair also natter about The Muppets, about working in a clothing factory, just what happened with Jane Got A Gun, the story of Guillermo del Toro and Ste…
Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin joins Simon for an elongated chat about The Social Reckoning, Facebook, compromised reviewers, and how the pair would overhaul the James Bond saga.
Plus! There's chatter about old film magazines, about making stories based on true people, plus Aaron Sorkin chats too about…
In a huge episode of Film Stories, Simon digs into the story of Daniel Craig's second adventure as James Bond, Quantum Of Solace. Originally set to come out just 18 months or so after 2006's Casino Royale, the speedy turnaround saw one director leave, a writer's strike curtail the script. Daniel Cr…
Peter M Hoffman has had a very, very storied career. From working with Alexander Salkind on the original Superman movies, through to Cannon Films and Carolco, it was his tax specialism that saw him rise to prominence in Hollywood.
But his story took one hell of a turn, as he discusses in this spec…
The road to The Inbetweeners Movie was a fairly swift one. Even while the hit British TV comedy was bringing in big ratings for E4, its creators - Iain Morris and Damon Beesley - were filing away ideas for an eventual movie.
When the opportunity came, time was not on its side: filming had to begun…
In a special episode of Film Stories, Simon Brew turns to his attentention to the Apple TV show Slow Horses, which has just returned for its sixth season. The man directing season 6, as he did season 4, is Adam Randall.
He chats to Simon about landing the Slow Horses job, making the first film fo…
James Cameron knew as he pitched Titanic to 20th Century Fox that it wasn't likely to be as commercial a film as the one he'd just done, True Lies. The budget was set to be lower, the release date was initially set for just a year after the start of filming, and there was to be no song.
What happe…
Two different creatives share their film stories in this special episode of the podcast!
First up, Oscar-winner Susanne Bier talked to Simon the day after the Practical Magic 2 premiere in London. The pair natter about the the film, about the set build, and what Susanne is up to next.
And then pr…
1989's Parenthood started life on a long haul flight. Director Ron Howard would tell of how 'testing' it was to do such a journey with kids in tow, and soon, he realised there was a film in it. But it'd be a movie where he, producer Brian Grazer, and writers Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, would en…
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