{"id":533543,"date":"2026-06-13T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/533543\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:23:10","slug":"seth-rogen-knows-the-secret-to-marriage-and-being-rich-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/533543\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen Knows the Secret to Marriage \u2014 and Being Rich in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow! <\/strong>And I remember the people at my company being like, \u201cWhy are we meeting with a 16-year-old?\u201d And I was like, \u201cTrust me, this kid is very talented.\u201d Ever since our phones had cameras on them, that has become my default advice to people. And now with Blender and visual effects, you can make a thing literally on a laptop that when I was growing up would have cost you tens of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

Hollywood always seems to be in the middle of an angsty crisis. Variety <\/strong>called what just happened<\/a><\/strong> with these two YouTubers a \u201ctectonic shift in Hollywood that sent shock waves through the industry.\u201d<\/strong> [Rogen laughs]<\/p>\n

Is that overstating it? Because I guess what I think is so alluring to executives is that YouTubers, as you just mentioned, have cheap technology that they can use to get millions of eyeballs. They can workshop an idea and then have a built-in audience. So I guess it takes the guesswork out of selling tickets? <\/strong>I don\u2019t know if online engagement necessarily translates into ticket sales. But to the first part of your question, I think it\u2019s overstating that it\u2019s a \u201ctectonic shift\u201d if your assumption is that these shifts don\u2019t happen constantly in Hollywood. That\u2019s something me and Evan talk about a lot. I always think of that line in \u201cNetwork\u201d where Robert Duvall is like, It\u2019s a volatile industry, and the investors are like, Why are we financially invested in a volatile industry? I think by definition it is a volatile industry. The one defining feature of Hollywood from my experience is that every few years there\u2019s a tectonic shift. Thank god it\u2019s not really my job to be overly invested in these trends. I\u2019m able to keep my head down, and we\u2019re aware of them, and we\u2019ll ride the waves if it fits in with our own creative ambitions.<\/p>\n

To me, it\u2019s not that shocking that something like this happened. There\u2019s a whole generation of people who have access to essentially professional filmmaking equipment for a price that, again, when I was young was completely unobtainable. They\u2019re making their own stuff, and studios are making tons of money off of it, which is not that different from when Lonely Island and those guys made YouTube videos and people hired them, or when the \u201cBroad City\u201d girls made their show on YouTube and people hired them, or Nathan Fielder.<\/p>\n

Just as an aside, what makes a good pitch? <\/strong>I think a good pitch is short. If the idea is genuinely good, the pitch is easy. The quintessential pitch I\u2019m used to hearing is from a nervous comedy writer who has terrible people skills. When someone comes in too slick and flashy, I get a little suspicious. But I\u2019m just looking for the idea. I know myself, I\u2019ve had so many ideas that are so hard to pitch. I remember trying to pitch \u201cPineapple Express,\u201d and them just looking at us like we were insane. When we pitched \u201cThe Studio,\u201d our only thought was to way overdeliver. What makes it easy for these people whose entire job is, like, risk mitigation to say yes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wow! And I remember the people at my company being like, \u201cWhy are we meeting with a 16-year-old?\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[203912,229572,229574,229576,152491,434,229570,197459,18316,229575,18,117,190443,229578,229587,3695,229579,19,17,36003,229573,229582,229583,32203,203913,327,229580,229581,229577,229585,229571,36552,37336,5704,229586,1238,229584],"class_list":["post-533543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors-and-actresses","tag-apatow","tag-barker","tag-byrne","tag-catherine","tag-celebrities","tag-comedy-and-humor","tag-content-type-personal-profile","tag-cruz","tag-curry","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-evan","tag-franco","tag-freaks-and-geeks-tv-program","tag-friendship","tag-goldberg","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james","tag-judd","tag-kane","tag-lauren-miller","tag-marijuana","tag-marriages","tag-movies","tag-ohara","tag-parsons","tag-penelope","tag-platonic-tv-program","tag-point-grey-pictures-inc","tag-rogen","tag-rose","tag-seth","tag-superbad-movie","tag-television","tag-the-studio-tv-program"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}