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Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 559
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Male
Location: USA
YouTube: 216.0k subscribers
Instagram: 82 followers
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Host
Chris Nichols - Filmmaking and computer-graphics host and interviewer focused on visual effects, production technology, and the changing craft of cinema.
Daniel Thron - Filmmaking and computer-graphics host and interviewer covering visual effects, filmmaking craft, and emerging production technologies.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Doug Trumbull - His Career In Visual Effects And Filmmaking, Joining 2001: A Space Odyssey, Motion-perception Research, Showscan, MAGI, High-frame-rate And Stereo Cinema, And Film-projection Technology.
Hnedel Maximore - Previsualization, Spatial Design, The Production Of Spider-man Noir, Simultaneous Color And Black-and-white Capture, Integrating Stunt And VFX Teams, And Improving The Timing Of VFX Involvement In Production.
Recent Topics
Episodes
Disclosure Day and The Secret Weirdness of Steven Spielberg | Episode 557
July 20, 2026
Steven Spielberg is the most famous filmmaker alive, which is exactly why almost nobody actually understands him. Chris and Daniel use Disclosure Day, Spielberg's new alien chase thriller with Emily Blunt, to argue that the "safe, mainstream" reputation is a decades-long misdirection: underneath the crowd-pleasing surface is a genuinely weird, deeply personal artist who has been smuggling strange, uncomfortable ideas inside blockbuster packaging since at least Close Encounters. They trace it ...
A24, DeepMind, and the "No CGI" Marketing Lie Everyone's Tired Of | Episode 556
July 13, 2026
A24 announced a $75 million research partnership with Google DeepMind and framed it as R&D for production tools, not a content deal. Nobody cared about the distinction. Chris, Daniel, and James Blevins spend the first half of this Rough Cut on why that announcement landed like a betrayal anyway, then pull the same thread through the Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merger, Mark Ruffalo's New York Times op-ed on quiet industry retaliation, and what it means that four studios now c...
He Cold-Called Kubrick's Secret Number | Doug Trumbull | Episode 555
July 06, 2026
Doug Trumbull spent fifty years trying to convince Hollywood that the way movies are projected is fundamentally broken, and most of the industry never listened. The visual effects supervisor behind 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and the director of Silent Running and Brainstorm, Trumbull passed away in 2022. This conversation originally aired in July 2020, before a lot of you were listening, and it's one of the fulle...
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