Bonus Interview with Bill Mechanic

Blockbuster

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Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Bonus Interview. BLOCKBUSTER series creator Matt Schrader asks producer Bill Mechanic, former head of 20th Century Fox Motion Pictures, about the PCP incident in Nova Scotia, and the face-to-face confrontation in James Cameron's trailer that nearly shut down Titanic. This award-winning 10-part original miniseries stars Ross Marquand (The Walking Dead, Avengers: Endgame) as up-and-coming writer-director James Cameron, and tells the story of how he fought through decades of personal struggles and career setbacks to assemble the most expensive and grueling movie production of all-time, Titanic, that nearly sank two film studios. If you enjoyed BLOCKBUSTER, please consider a small donation to help the creators continue making this series at http://GetBlockbuster.com/support and receive bonus perks, and your name in the credits! Facebook: http://facebook.com/BlockbusterPod Twitter: http://twitter.com/Blockbuster_Pod Instagram: http://instagram.com/blockbusterpod Follow series creator @MattSchrader on Twitter 🏆 BLOCKBUSTER is now an award-winning podcast! Winner of Adweek's Creative Podcast of the Year, two NYF Radio Awards, and Webby Awards Honoree for Best Miniseries. Thanks in advance for sharing BLOCKBUSTER with a friend! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Matt Traitor and this is a special bonus interview episode of Blockbuster.
0:09.2	With me today is Bill Mechanic, one of the most legendary film producers of all time.
0:13.9	The head of moatch in pictures at 20th Century Fox from 1994 to 2000.
0:19.8	You heard him in the series and he led Fox to become the number one studio and worldwide
0:24.4	box office revenue, movies like Speed, Die Hard with the Vengeance, Independence Day, Mulan
0:29.4	Rouge, Brave Hearts, Star Wars, Episode 1, The Phantom Menace, few small movies there.
0:34.8	And of course, went on to produce Hacksaw Ridge since, but we're here to talk about Titanic.
0:40.5	And Bill Mechanic, thank you so much for giving us some of your time.
0:43.5	Not a problem.
0:44.5	Happy to do it.
0:45.5	Titanic, is that the most tense moments of your entire career?
0:49.8	Certainly, it's got to be one of the tougher movies to have made or overseen and we had
0:55.6	all sorts of obviously problems and the budget ballooning and going way over schedule,
1:05.2	whatever the schedule is supposed to be.
1:06.8	So it was in the town, Hollywood loves to bury its living.
1:13.6	So as you know, you're facing all sorts of things, as long as still trying to manage
1:22.3	studio and a picture at the same time.
1:24.3	There's a lot of those pressures I want to get to in specifically one moment and being
1:28.6	in a position of reporters, journalists, writers, bloggers, gossipers, all calling you and
1:36.3	saying, hey, we need a comment on this thing, which has got to be one of the worst situations
1:41.1	probably to be in as an executive.
1:43.4	But I want to ask you first about the model for a blockbuster because was there a clear
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