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All That Jazz
Bob Fosse (inferred)
“which I will recommend to everyone to watch if they haven't seen it”
“there's a movie called All That Jazz, which I will recommend to everyone to watch if they haven't seen it, with Roy Scheider and Jessica Lange”— David Maisel
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Stranger Things
Netflix (inferred)
“I thought it was executed extremely well... that's a really smart combination”
“Stranger Things, because they were tapping into all of these hot-button passions from decades ago. But at layering on top of that, novel storylines.”— Tim Ferriss
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert Heinlein
“The book I recommend to people the most is Stranger In A Strange Land”
“The book I recommend to people the most is Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.”— David Maisel
The guest's own work
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Fosse
David Maisel (inferred)
“he bought a Broadway company and I was able to produce a show called Fosse and exercise my first direct creative project, this Broadway show, which did very well”— David Maisel
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Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical
“For people who want to check it out, personalitymusical.com. That's the story of Lloyd Price. And if you don't know that name, you should know the name.”— Tim Ferriss
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Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
David Maisel (inferred)
“I also produced the Spider-Man musical on Broadway, which famously lost like 50 or 60 million.”— David Maisel
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Iron Man
Marvel Studios (inferred)
“Iron Man came back and Kevin and I were both really excited about Iron Man, as was Avi Arad who was still at the studio.”— David Maisel
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The Incredible Hulk
Marvel Studios (inferred)
“that's why the first Hulk movie was made in 2008, because by making one film, we got the rights back for Hulk in perpetuity”— David Maisel
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Iron Man 2
Marvel Studios (inferred)
“I will greenlight Iron Man 2 if everyone around this table commit to making it so we can release it May 2nd, 2010”— David Maisel
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Thor
Marvel Studios (inferred)
“Natalie Portman I was introduced to by Leo DiCaprio. We wanted Natalie to be in Thor.”— David Maisel
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Star Wars
Lucasfilm (inferred)
“Star Wars was a huge impact. The idea of crafting mega cultural movies, to me, as a creative producer, as a business producer combined, was really exciting.”— David Maisel
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The Flash
DC (inferred)
“I'm excited to see the new Flash movie that's coming out.”— David Maisel
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Cabaret
Bob Fosse (inferred)
“He also was a great film director. He won the Academy Award for best picture, I think for Cabaret.”— David Maisel
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The Apprentice
“Trump said something about he had a TV show starting soon, which turned out to be The Apprentice, and he was excited about that.”— David Maisel
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X-Men
20th Century Fox (inferred)
“I watched as the first X-Men movie came out, Spider-Man, of course, right? And the stock had sort of stopped at a $200 million valuation.”— David Maisel
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Spider-Man
Sony (inferred)
“So Spider-Man was famously licensed to Sony. Sony would make the decision when there's a movie, how much they're going to spend”— David Maisel
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Hulk
Universal (inferred)
“they had done the first Hulk movie with Ang Lee, which was critically well received, but not box office-wise.”— David Maisel
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Swingers
Jon Favreau (inferred)
“at the time he was a lot more known for Swingers and for those types of films.”— David Maisel
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Zathura
Jon Favreau (inferred)
“And he was just coming off of Zathura and we knew — we felt like we knew how to do the comic book part of things”— David Maisel
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Batman Begins
Warner Bros. (inferred)
“I mean, Batman that year was 230 million. And so that allowed us to have some action, but not a lot.”— David Maisel
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Avengers: Endgame
Marvel Studios (inferred)
“This was after Avengers: Endgame in 2019. David, the movie was a terrific accomplishment, and we know that it all started with you”— David Maisel
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Avatar
James Cameron (inferred)
“James Cameron with Avatar has probably done the best since Marvel came out with big cultural moments.”— David Maisel
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MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
Joanna Robinson (inferred)
“the same author of that article is writing a book that's coming out on the history of Marvel Studios, coming out in November. Joanna Robinson”— David Maisel
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