Seth Rogen is looking out Hollywood…by way of satire.
The actor co-created sequence “The Studio,” which parodies the internal workings of Hollywood; Rogen additionally writes, directs, and government produces the Apple TV+ present, which is able to make its world premiere Opening Evening on the 2025 SXSW Movie & TV Competition.
Rogen performs fictional studio government Matt Remick, who’s the newly appointed head of the embattled Continental Studios. The official synopsis reads: “As films wrestle to remain alive and related, Matt and his core group of infighting executives battle their very own insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven company overlords within the ever-elusive pursuit of creating nice movies. With their energy fits masking their neverending sense of panic, each get together, set go to, casting choice, advertising and marketing assembly, and award present presents them with a chance for glittering success or career-ending disaster. As somebody who eats, sleeps, and breathes films, it’s the job Matt’s been pursuing his entire life, and it could very properly destroy him.”
Rogen and his Emmy Award-nominated associate Evan Goldberg co-created the sequence with multi-Emmy Award winners Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory and Frida Perez. The present boasts a formidable ensemble forged and cameos. Catherine O’Hara, Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz, and Chase Sui Wonders are sequence regulars, with Bryan Cranston, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, and Dewayne Perkins billed as main recurring visitor stars.
Rogen admitted to Esquire that starring in “The Studio” really made him extra empathetic to real-life executives, a few of which served as inspiration for characters.
“It made me perceive and be extra sympathetic in some ways to studio folks, but in addition in some methods, a lot much less sympathetic as a result of I see now they might additionally simply do the fitting factor,” Rogen mentioned. “Like, a factor they are saying rather a lot in Hollywood is, ‘It’s present enterprise, there’s a cause they name it present enterprise as a result of it’s equal elements present and enterprise.’ And studio executives actually are the inflection level between the present and the enterprise and between artwork and commerce. They’re virtually every day put able the place they’ve to decide on between enabling and inspiring some daring artistic act or being [in a] self-preservation [mode] and mitigating their dangers of issues going improper, which normally makes them suppose that they need to discourage daring acts of creativity. I feel the nice studio government encourages it. Dangerous ones are extra self-preservation.”
He added of sure similarities between real-life Hollywood titans and their onscreen counterparts, “Sure, I’m very apprehensive that real-life folks will acknowledge themselves within the present. We’ve already proven the present to some those who have impressed among the moments and storylines of the episodes. Persons are principally flattered.”
Notice: Apparently Cranston’s character’s trend decisions are primarily based on WBD CEO David Zaslav…
“The Studio” is a Lionsgate Tv sequence, with Level Gray Photos’ James Weaver, Alex McAtee, and Josh Fagen serving as government producers alongside co-creators Rogen and Goldberg.
“The Studio” premieres March 26 with the primary two episodes, adopted by one episode each Wednesday by Might 21, on Apple TV+. Take a look at the trailer under.