Hello everybody and welcome back to another patron episode of 80s all over and and I'm joined by my friend Drew McGettie.

That is my actual legal name.

It is.

And we are here to do an audio commentary slash 90 minute discussion for a film that is near and dear to both of our hearts.

Drew, why don't you do

the honors? I'm very excited. Today, we are doing the Dead Zone by David Cronenberg. And if you

have the film, Scott's going to tell you how to sync it up. Yeah, right now we have the film paused

on the Paramount screen. It says Paramount, Gulf Western. And when I count down from three,

you're just going to hit play, and we're going to go from there. So three, two, one, play.

All right. Yeah, I'm excited. Drew, what do you know about Paramount pictures, Drew? Talk about

Paramount. Paramount was at this point that now talk talk about Dino D'Larentus, Drew.

Talk about him.

So Dino D'Lerentus was at this point.

Now the dead zone.

Let's talk about him.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Where do we start, Drew?

Where do we want to start?

Well, I think we should start with Dino D.Larentus. Because at this point, he was trying to figure out how to make the jump from being thought of as kind of a schlock producer who had had some big budget junk into actually a producer who's going to build a long-term sustainable body of work.

And Dino D'Lorentis Productions was up and running, and I think he was really

trying to carve out a new reputation for himself. And part of that was in reaching out for better

material and in hiring better people. And, you know, you can't knock Dino for his hustle. And I know

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