Today on the pod, Will Zooms in from his dank Glendale pad and Matt Skypes on from New York to trade off their top 5 first time watches of the year. No 2025 releases allowed. It's good fun and even better recommendations! But sorry for the audio quality. We'll be back at Friday Beers HQ next week.

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It's time to do what we've been waiting all year to, give a thoughtful and nuanced review of The Rock's new movie, Red One. This doesn't take long. So we spend the rest of our time talking all things Christmas movies. Our favorites, the different types, and the future of the genre. Finally, we PITCH some of our own (49:03). This is an episode not to miss. Truly a pod of good tidings and great joy.

Would you look at that…it’s Pitchmas season once again. But this time…it’s SEQUELS. First a quick I Love LA recap. Then we dig into fake sequels to real Christmas movies (11:35). This is an episode to listen to with the family. And tell them to subscribe while you’re at it.

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Today on the pod we pitch to The Worst Person In The World. The Norwegian actress who took our breath away with a single lung bone. The next big thing. RENATE REINSVE! But first...we rip a quick I Love LA episode 5 recap (00:00) and Will repents for his Cyber Monday Blu-Ray sins (5:59). Then we discuss Renate's reunion with writer/director Joachim Trier and their new movie, SENTIMENTAL VALUE (11:05). One of the year's best. We also dissect her unique presence compared to American film actors (23:24). Finally, we PITCH next year's best for Renate Reinsve's inevitable Hollywood starring role (47:52). It's a fun one. A NICHE one. A pod not to miss.

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Set your ovens to 450 and baste that turkey cause we’re recommending thanksgiving movies today on Elevator Pitch. We’ve got recs for ANY situation you might find yourself in. With family you love. With family you hate. New family. Old family. Found Family. Or just all alone with a pizza and a blu-ray player. Then we jump into the fake movies. Yup. We PITCH two fake thanksgiving movies that topple all the others. A perfect travel pod. We promise!

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It's finally time to get complicated, trap parents, decide what women want, father the bride, find out if something's gotta give, go on holiday, and f*cking INTERN. But most importantly, it's time to PITCH fake movies to the one and only bard of bespoke...Nancy Meyers. Today we're joined by writer Cori Root and comedian Graham Byrne to talk Nancy like no pod ever has. Okay fine we spend some time talking interiors...but so much else! Then we lock in some premiere pitches for Nancy to jump into because it's been TOO DAMN LONG SINCE WE'VE GOT OUR FIX NANCY. I CAN'T KEEP REWATCHING HOME AGAN.Nancy Chat (00:00)Ranking her movies from most to least complicated (33:02)The Interiors (47:45)The Pitches (58:08)

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It's time for Elevator Pitch to REWATCH once again. That's right. Watch Party is back. And we're talking about a movie everyone on earth has seen 47 times on FX... Just Go With It. So much to discuss. Swardson's surgically enhanced dong. Brooklyn Decker's short lived film career. Aniston. Kidman. Griffin Gluck??? And of course, the star of it all... Kevin Nealon. Kidding. It's Adam Sandler. We talk a whole bunch about Sandler.

Today on Elevator Pitch, we're chopping it up about your favorite character actor's favorite character actor. Diilon Panther. Known rival of Lil Bow Wow. Meth dealer. Civil War PATRIOT? Utah statesman. And now...star of a movie called Begonia. It's Jesse Plemons! First we chat about our favorite Plemons. LIKE MIKE. CIVIL WAR. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS. JUNGLE CRUISE??? The highs and the even highers. Then we have one of our world famous pitch conversations, crafting two new vehicles for the phenom himself (35:12).

Will is BACK from Croatia, and we knew there was only one star to pitch fake movies to this week. The late great Pinterest interior designer, racket ball player, playwright, mafia wife, and first wife...Diane Keaton. We remember the film icon and discuss how her emergence in 70s Hollywood classics informed her absurdly good 90s run, capped by a favorite of ours...Something's Gotta Give. Then we PITCH fake flick Keaton should've made hot off SGG, in the year 2003 (46:58).MEMES AND CLIPS:https://www.instagram.com/theelevatorpitchpod/https://www.tiktok.com/@elevatorpitchpod

It's time for Elevator Pitch to REWATCH. That's right. Matt is joined by Caleb Saad (Hug Your Bros) to rewatch Damien Chazelle's 2016 film La La Land starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Then, get this...they're gonna talk about it. I know. Incredibly original podcasting. Tune in to find out if we can pull it off.

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Pitching is back on Elevator Pitch and and oh my god...it's Paul Thomas Anderson week. We become the first podcast in history to chat about his new movie ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER starring Leo, Benicio, Teyana Taylor, and introducing Chase Infiniti. Then we pitch (50:52) to the master of Masters, the hitmaker of dressmakers, the Orson Wells of porn, the mayor of Magnolia Boulevard, the guy who...directed There Will Be Blood. It's one of the greats. We're nervous, but we've got some pitches for him. So tune in.

It's been too long. Sorta forgot how to write these blurbs (and optimize them for seo purposes). But WE'RE BACK. Will catches us up on his month of filming another movie and Matt takes us through his world travels. Then... we don't pitch. Instead, it's a catch up of every single movie we watched and didn't get to chat about...including WEAPONS, THE NAKED GUN, and LAWRENCE LAMONTS'S ONE OF THEM DAYS. Two friends reuniting through the power of content creation. It doesn't get better than this.

Here's the deal...Elevator Pitch is gonna go on a little break. Why? Well we both just gotta buy a one way train ticket, performativity read Joan Didion, and stare out the damn window till we figure out who we really are. That's right. It's summer vacation. Time for us to TRAVEL. Will's heading off to do a movie and Matt's literally doing that first thing so we decided to chat travel movies...Well Will and Tanner chat travel movies before Matt comes off the top rope with a pitch (44:08). He can't be there live unfortunately. Treadstone is on his tails. And even worse...SCOTTY DOESN'T KNOW.

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We're taking this elevator to New Mexico for a pitch session and convo all about a true cinematic sicko...Ari Aster. But we can't do it alone. We're joined by stand up comedian and known Aster skeptic Noah Marger to chat about the auteur of the abominable and his new immunocompromised film EDDINGTON. What worked? What didn't? Did Tanner play one of the Antifa militants? Did Tanner play all of them? These answers and more. Only on Ari Aster's Elevator Pitch.

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Oh my lord...this elevator found its way to Metropolis. That's right. It's time to talk Superman. Was it good? Was it fine? And most importantly, what should its star DAVID CORENSWET do next? Because we think he is a star! So is Hoult! And Brosnahan! And Bradley---Actually I'll let you get there yourself. In the meantime, we've cranked up the thermostat and turned the mics on. Let's SWET.

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The mics are on, the raptors are out of the cage and even worse...Tanner is back into the elevator. We're also joined by Matt's roommate, Sigma Chi Brother 4 Life, and known Reddit paleontologist Noah Paradise to chat about all things Jurassic Park. We start with the newest instillation, Jurassic World: Rebirth before finding our way back to the original three (19:18). Goldblum. Raptors. Michael Chrichton. Nick Van Owen. Nothing's off the table. We lick the damn bowl clean. Then we toss out some other lab disasters. What makes for a good science gone wrong movie? Let's find out. We're gonna pitch our own (49:19).

We finally saw F1 so it's time to box for a quick two hour pod and change the pitch oil. But first, shall we chat about the blockbuster hit and its star? Why not. After all it's none other than thief/hotel manager, fight club entrepreneur, old man baby, Oakland A's GM, stunt double, forgotten silent film-era star, fake Italian film star, spy gamer, and personal trainer...Brad Pitt. So up top is our F1 chat. What works and what...almost works. Then we go full Pitt. Lot's of Oceans Twelve. Some Moneyball. Maybe a little Allied if you're lucky (38:57). Then we have our first pitch conversation (1:23:27). We'll explain all that. It's different. It's fun. IT'S PITT.

It’s time again for Tanner to call the shots. He had once simple request. Pitch fake movies to the pride of Long Island, Alec Baldwin. We thought it’d be best to take this one to 1997, smack in the middle of his go at leading man status. The Hunt for Red October. The Getaway. Malice. The MF Edge. Who was this guy anyway??? (1:02:43) But first, a few pieces of movie news. We just gotta talk Denis Villenueve returning to Earth for James Bond (unless he goes Moonraker) and Sorkin’s Social Network Part II. It’s a loaded episode. Billy and Stevie Baldwin would be proud of it.