Seth Rogen on Choosing His Hollywood Battles and Why Movies Will Never Go Away: ‘People Still Go to Museums!’
21.05.2024 - 22:53
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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Seth Rogen has gotten into TV in a big way: As star and EP of Apple TV+’s “Platonic,” exec producer of Prime Video’s “The Boys” franchise, animated series like “Invincible” and “Sausage Party: Foodtopia,” and his upcoming Hollywood satire “The Studio,” also for Apple. But he’s still bullish on film as well. “I think people still like movies,” he tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast.
“Last year, lots of movies did very well. I think if movies were going go away, they would have a long time ago.” Rogen is passionate about this point. “Paintings are still around.
People still go to museums! There’s things flashier or more ‘interesting’ than then oil on canvas, but people still flock from all over the world, enough to keep museums open. Not a ton of people have to like movies to keep movies going. It’s always been a very small percentage of the population that actually goes and sees movies.” What Rogen does see, and what “The Studio” will address, is the terror he’s seeing in the industry these days.
“It’s about people who are really struggling to find their way in this environment,” he says. “I would say, the most common trait we see among people who work on the executive side of things is sheer panic. A true sense that at any moment, it could all come crashing down for them personally.
Because it’s 100% true. We’ve seen it, we’ve seen people come and go. We pitch shows to people, this show we pitched it to a place and, like literally, between the time we pitched it, and the next day, the person we pitched to was fired.” As for TV? “We’ve always been somewhat agnostic to who was giving us the money,” he says.