In "The Studio," Seth Rogen stars as Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of embattled Continental Studios. As movies struggle to stay alive and relevant, Matt and his core team of infighting executives battle their own insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films. With their power suits masking their neverending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting, and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe. As someone who eats, sleeps, and breathes movies, it's the job Matt's been pursuing his whole life, and it may very well destroy him.
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00:00and I'm gonna be honest.
00:06Being the head of Continental is the only job I've ever wanted.
00:09I'm honoured, obviously, to be one of the people that gets to choose, you know,
00:11which movies get made and which ones don't.
00:13That's huge.
00:15And I got into all this because, you know, I love movies,
00:18but now I have this fear that my job is to ruin them.
00:25The job is a meat grinder.
00:29Prestige films and box office hits, those are not mutually exclusive.
00:34We can do both and we will do both.
00:37Matt, I get it. You want to make great art and make a billion dollars doing it.
00:41Well, guess what? That never happens.
00:43And you're gonna screw everything up trying to make it happen.
00:45If it was up to me, we'd be focusing on making the next Rosemary's Baby or Annie Hall
00:50or some great film that wasn't directed by a pervert.
00:52Turns out perverts make great movies.
00:54They really do.
00:56Well, I love, okay? There's zero margin for error on this shot.
00:59Action, please.
01:00Greta, yo, I actually want to talk to you about awards season.
01:02Just make sure you keep your winter clear.
01:04Okay, Matt.
01:08Cut!
01:12This job is just so much harder than I thought it was gonna be.
01:15Matt!
01:16What up, Matt?
01:17Everyone wants something from me and I can't give it to them.
01:19If you guys are actually open to doing something different, I have a lot of ideas.
01:22We love new ideas.
01:23Just not too new because we got a pretty tight formula that we gotta hit.
01:26I wouldn't say it's a formula so much as a structure that we 100% know works
01:30so we're gonna do it over and over again.
01:33Fine is not good enough.
01:34This is racist.
01:35You want to bring down the studio?
01:36Why didn't you shut this party down, Matt?
01:38Why do you keep lying?
01:39What is wrong with you?
01:42The job makes you stressed and panicked and miserable.
01:46But when it all comes together, you make a good movie.
01:53It's good forever.
01:59Well, you're gonna get us all fired.