Blank Check — Patreon: Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free)

Published 2023-11-19; 2:35:13 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims, Ben Hosley. Guests: Sean Fennessey.

Subject films: Mank (2020).

On the transcript: No speaker labels; transcription of names is poor and the cold open is a sung bit. Timestamps are sparse near jokes and overlap, so some at values lead the line by a few seconds.

Films that came up

subject (1)

Mank

passing (90)

Natural Born Killers · Men Don't Leave · The Killer · Judas and the Black Messiah · The Trial of the Chicago 7 · Sound of Metal · The Son · Hillbilly Elegy · Da 5 Bloods · I'm Thinking of Ending Things · News of the World · Tenet · Blank Check · Saw (franchise) · Ma Rainey's Black Bottom · Gone Girl · Seven Miles of Bad Road (HBO, shelved) · Steve Jobs · World War Z · Mindhunter · Love, Death & Robots · Heavy Metal · The Creator · The Magnificent Ambersons · Transformers (animated movie) · Heart of Darkness (Welles, unmade) · The Battle Over Citizen Kane · Ed Wood · Richard Linklater's Orson Welles movie (title not said) · The Bodyguard · Volcano · L.A. Story · Temple Grandin · Threads · Forrest Gump (never named; 'Gump money') · Killers of the Flower Moon · Seven · Roma · Slumberland · Velvet Buzzsaw · Roman J. Israel, Esq. · The Holdovers · Oppenheimer · American Fiction · Winning Time · The Godfather · Your Show of Shows · Possessor · Downton Abbey: A New Era · Maestro · Blonde · Nightmare Alley · Frankenstein (the pitch inside Mank) · Wonder Woman · The Sopranos · House of Cards · The Terminator · Avatar · True Grit · Leaving Las Vegas · The Hangover · The Way Back · The Hunt · Onward · The Invisible Man · Emma. · Birds of Prey · Sonic the Hedgehog · Minari · The Good Shepherd · The Irishman · CODA · Saltburn · The Empty Man · Freaky · We Have a Ghost · Happy Death Day · Scream 7 · Family Stone · Let Him Go · The War with Grandpa · Come Play · The Marksman · An Honest Thief · Retribution · Blacklight · Guardians of the Galaxy · Toy Story · The New Mutants · Ammonite

compared (10)

Nomadland · Promising Young Woman · The Father · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Citizen Kane · RKO 281 · The Social Network · The Offer · Babylon · The Lost Weekend

anecdote (11)

Saw X · Utopia (HBO, unmade) · Videosyncrasy (unmade) · Cleopatra (unmade) · Strangers on a Train (Fincher/Flynn remake, unmade) · World War Z 2 (unmade) · Rendezvous with Rama (unmade) · 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Disney, unmade) · Alien 3 · Nebraska · Rin Tin Tin films

dismissed (1)

Tuesdays with Morrie

Claims (37)

  1. people (casting-director crush): Arliss Howard → Men Don't Leave. Laray Mayfield told David she has had a crush on Arliss Howard since Men Don't Leave.
    “She cited this movie that he's in as like a romantic lead, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:03:12 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. industry (Oscar season 2020): Mank → Nomadland. Nomadland and Mank are both nominees in the pandemic Oscar year.
    “Nomadland certainly fell into that trap, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:05:01 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (unmade remake): Strangers on a Train (Fincher/Flynn remake, unmade) → David Fincher. Fincher and Gillian Flynn were going to remake Strangers on a Train as a loose springboard.
    “He and Jillian Flynn were going to remake strangers on a train.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:26:02 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (heir): Alfred Hitchcock → David Fincher. Sean says Fincher has been a reasonable heir to Hitchcock, so a Hitchcock remake bores him.
    “he's been doing a great job of being a reasonable heir to Hitchcock”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:26:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (unrealized idea): Heavy Metal → Love, Death & Robots. Love, Death & Robots is framed as Fincher finally doing the omnibus he wanted with Heavy Metal.
    “I mean, that sort of is him finding a way to do what he always wanted to do with heavy metal”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:28:22 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (rebuttal): Pauline Kael → Peter Bogdanovich. Bogdanovich wrote a big rebuttal essay to Kael's Raising Kane.
    “Peter McDanovich famously wrote a big rebuttal essay.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:38:45 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (subject): William Randolph Hearst → Citizen Kane. Mankiewicz's script was a thinly veiled attack on his friend Hearst.
    “I'm going to make fun of my my pal, Jordan, you know, William Randall first.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:39:21 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (adapting lived experience): Herman Mankiewicz → Citizen Kane. Sean says Citizen Kane is Welles adapting an experience Herman Mankiewicz had inside the Hearst circle.
    “so in a way, this is him adapting an experience that Herman Mankowitz had”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:41:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  9. what-if (what-if): Orson Welles → Heart of Darkness (Welles, unmade). Welles was going to do Heart of Darkness instead of Kane.
    “he was going to do Hearts of Darkness, Heart of Darkness, instead of Kane”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:41:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (rebuttal): Pauline Kael → Robert Carringer. Carringer's book is recommended as the definitive text debunking Kael's Raising Kane.
    “That's the book that is like the definitive text that debunks Kale's book”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:42:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (documentary then drama): The Battle Over Citizen Kane → RKO 281. David says the documentary was then remade, and he watched both; he means RKO 281.
    “Battle over Citizen Kane is also the excellent documentary that then was remake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:42:18 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (Orson Welles portrayals): Vincent D'Onofrio → Ed Wood. D'Onofrio's Welles in Ed Wood is called the best Orson Welles.
    “I mean, to me, like, Vincent DiNofrio in Ed Wood with Pinky and the Brain Boys is the best Orson Wells.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:43:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (script rewrite): Jack Fincher → Eric Roth. The speaker says Roth rewrote Jack Fincher's script into the version that was made, adding nuance.
    “he came in and put a lot more nuance into it, I think.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:46:43 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. people (script rewritten by the director): Eric Roth → Killers of the Flower Moon. Roth's strict adaptation was torn up and rewritten by Scorsese himself, which Griffin compares to Mank.
    “It's like Scorsese Adam come in, he writes this script.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:47:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. lineage (script origin): Jack Fincher → Mank. Fincher's father wrote the original Mank script, which David set aside until years later.
    “I'm handed this script that my dad wrote about all powerful directors ruining storytelling”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:48:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (how Mank got made): Mank → Mindhunter. When Netflix could not afford a third Mindhunter season, Fincher pulled Mank off the shelf.
    “Netflix is kind of like we kind of can't make a 3rd season of this, it's too expensive.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:55:17 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  17. unmapped (business): Netflix → Mank. Fincher's Netflix deal and the end of the anything-you-want era are the context for Mank.
    “And this is kind of the end of the period of Netflix being like, anything you want.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:55:27 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (history as Shakespeare): The Social Network → Mank. Sorkin's Social Network uses Zuckerberg like Shakespeare riffs on kings, as the Mank makers use film history.
    “I think, like, uh, the Finchers and Eric Roth and old men are all doing the same thing here”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:02:33 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. unmapped (behind-the-scenes drama): The Offer → Mank. The Offer, like Mank, makes the writers and directors of a classic into putzes; the gap between Mank and Kane is much closer.
    “The offer does a similar thing where it makes Coppola and Puzo both out to be putzes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:08:00 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  20. craft (tone): Citizen Kane → Mank. Like Citizen Kane, Mank has a complicated relationship to its lead; Mank mirrors the attitude of the man himself.
    “Yeah, as much as Citizen Kane, the movie has a very complicated relationship to its lead character.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:10:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. people (shared crew): Erik Messerschmidt → David Fincher. Messerschmidt shot Mindhunter and then Mank, his first Fincher feature.
    “It's the 1st time he's working with Venture film wise.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:12:44 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. lineage (visual influence): Citizen Kane → Mank. Messerschmidt told the interviewer he wanted low, deep-focus photography evoking Citizen Kane, not noir.
    “He's like, no, I want to do it low to the ground, lots of deep focus, evoking citizen Kane.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:13:08 · David Sims (0.80 sure it was them)
  23. people (same writer-director question): Mank → The Social Network. Griffin says Mank is a talkie without the entertaining dialogue of The Social Network.
    “It's a talkie movie, but a talking movie without having the kind of like wildly entertaining dialogue of a social network.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:14:55 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. people (shared actor): Tuppence Middleton → Possessor. Tuppence Middleton was in Possessor and Mank, then Downton Abbey 2.
    “Instead, it's like, she was in possessor and mank.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:17:34 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. unmapped (Netflix black and white): Mank → Roma. Netflix is where you go for a script nobody else wants and for a black and white movie: Roma, Mank, Blonde, Maestro.
    “Not only is Netflix the place you go to for your script that nobody else wants to buy, but it's where you go and you want to make your black and white movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:18:33 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  26. unmapped (black and white): Mank → Nebraska. Studios' old resistance to black and white (TV, VHS, foreign sales) shown by Nebraska's regrade for Paramount.
    “Especially when so much of Studios opposition to black and white movies was it doesn't play on TV.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:18:42 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  27. craft (score style): Bernard Herrmann → Trent Reznor. Reznor and Ross wrote a 1940s-style old-school score using period instruments.
    “this like 40s style old school Edward Herman score”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:23:06 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  28. craft (score pastiche): Max Steiner → Trent Reznor. Reznor and Ross's score is called a self-conscious recreation of 1940s scoring, as if doing Max Steiner or Miklos Rozsa.
    “It's obviously like a self-conscious recreation of something, but to just be like, yeah, I'm doing Max Steiner.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:23:22 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  29. unmapped (same story): RKO 281 → Mank. Watched back to back; RKO 281 makes Mank a pain and writing an active process, where Mank makes it passive.
    “Whereas whether correct or not, RKO 281 makes it more of an active process.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:31:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. people (Mank casting parallels): RKO 281 → Mank. Malkovich plays Mank in RKO 281, Schreiber Welles, Cromwell Hearst; Oldman, Burke, Dance in the Fincher film.
    “Cromwell plays him in the RKO movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:34:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  31. unmapped (rosebud theory): RKO 281 → Mank. David asks whether Mank's denial of the Rosebud explanation answers RKO 281; Sean says it is a really popular theory instead.
    “Do you think that's just directly responding to a 20-year-old HBO TV movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:42:23 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  32. unmapped (self-portrait): The Curious Case of Benjamin Button → Mank. The speaker reads Fincher as both the scumbag who made Seven and the sincere artist who made Benjamin Button, which is Mank.
    “he made Ben Benjamin Button, you know, like that he is, he's Mank”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:45:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. unmapped (Netflix as MGM): Mank → David Fincher. Fincher thinks of Netflix as rebels throwing stones at the old castle, then peak MGM; Mayer's line about selling what we own fits.
    “And he thinks that Netflix are like the rebels throwing stones at the old castle, and then within 10 years, it's like, oh, Netflix is now peak MGM.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:50:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  34. unmapped (Hollywood scum): Babylon → Mank. Both films treat the decision-makers of old Hollywood as scum who exploit creative people.
    “I think that both of those movies are about the people who are effectively in decision making roles in Hollywood are scum.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:53:14 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  35. craft (visual echo): The Lost Weekend → Mank. The election-night drunk sequence in Mank is called self-consciously reminiscent of The Lost Weekend.
    “almost self-consciously reminiscent of the last the lost weekend”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:03:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. unmapped (drunk movies): The Lost Weekend → Leaving Las Vegas. Speakers list drunk-protagonist films: Leaving Las Vegas, The Way Back, the Hangover trilogy.
    “There aren't enough movies these days about guys who get hammered drunk.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:04:11 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  37. unmapped (professional drunk): The Way Back → Mank. The Way Back is praised for the business of getting drunk, like Mank; called a 1970s Robert Duvall-style movie.
    “I think it's excellent and also like way too traditional to have made sense in 2020 to anybody.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:05:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Fun items (26)

  1. fun, about Arliss Howard: Casting director Laray Mayfield told David she has had a crush on Arliss Howard since Men Don't Leave.
    “David, I've had like a crush on Arliss Howard, basically, since like the 90s.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:03:05 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Saw X: A Mexican 10-year-old soccer-playing sidekick for Jigsaw; the final shot is hilarious.
    “He has a Mexican 10-year-old soccer playing sidekick in that movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:15:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Videosyncrasy: Fincher's HBO series about the rise of the music video industry shot several episodes before the plug was pulled.
    “Videosyncrasy, which was his series about the rise of the music video industry.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:23:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about World War Z 2: Fincher nearly made World War Z 2 as a way to get money to play around and do what he wanted.
    “he was using that as a way to get the money to play around and do what the fuck he wanted.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:27:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Fincher wanted a blockbuster as dark as Empire Strikes Back; Disney would only greenlight it with Brad Pitt or a peer.
    “I wanted to see if there was a way to make a blockbuster that's that dark.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:29:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Jack Fincher: Rock Hudson was once interested in a spec script Jack Fincher wrote in the 60s.
    “apparently Rock Hudson was interested once in a spec script he wrote, but it fizzled out.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:45:27 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Eric Roth: Running joke: a man arrives every five minutes with a bag of Gump money for Eric Roth.
    “Every 5 minutes in Eric's Roth life, and a man appears with a bag filled with gump money and just hands it over.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:47:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Mank: The Mank 1998 version had Kevin Spacey and Jodie Foster lined up; Polygram balked at black and white.
    “He had Kevin Spacey and Jodie Foster lined up for the lead roles in 1998.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:54:33 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Gary Oldman: Casting director Laray Mayfield: Herman was 'beat to shit', so Oldman's age doesn't matter.
    “But then she says, but look, Herman was beat to shit.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:58:16 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about The Offer: The Paramount+ series was called the winning time of movie shows; the speakers watched all 10 hours.
    “The offer was kind of the winning time of movie shows, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:06:20 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Messerschmidt: He refused to shoot noir: low to the ground, lots of deep focus, evoking Citizen Kane.
    “I don't want to do a noir movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:12:53 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Fincher quote: Fincher: no faster way to transport you to the 30s than black and white.
    “My way of thinking is there's no faster way to transport you to the 30s than using black and white.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:16:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Nebraska: Alexander Payne shot Nebraska in color then regraded it; Paramount had the contractual option to sell the color version.
    “And they shot that movie in full color.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:18:59 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Mank sound: Sound mixer Ren Klyce projected the film in a scoring room at Skywalker and recorded the echo back into the mix.
    “they would like project the movie and set up microphones and record the echo and then mix it into the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:22:27 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Mank score: Each musician recorded their part at home during COVID with a mic they were sent; Reznor and Ross assembled it.
    “each, um, uh, musician individually recorded their part in their house with a microphone they were sent”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:22:48 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross: David's interview: Reznor opens as 'This is Trent Reznor', Atticus is the fun one in London.
    “Trent Resner's like, hello, this is Trent Resner.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:23:51 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Sorkin: Griffin's pitch: in 40 years, a movie about Fincher hiring Sorkin to take down Zuckerberg, with Sorkin on meth rocks.
    “The film about Fincher hiring Sorkin to take down Zuckerberg.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:26:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Rin Tin Tin: Punished with a Rin Tin Tin picture, Mank turned in a script about a dog frightened by a mouse and a burning house.
    “he turned in a script that began with a dog frightened by a mouse and had the climax of a house on fire”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:35:46 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Kane (WWE): WWE's Kane started as a Christmas creature in a candy cane-striped costume.
    “was a Christmas themed monster called the Christmas creature”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:39:44 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Fincher: Fincher's rule: human beings mostly use words to lie.
    “human beings mostly use words to lie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:49:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Mank: Fincher on credit: the distilled version of importance, 'a 10 pound bushel of amoebas'.
    “he calls it credit is, um, the distilled version of importance.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:55:12 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Dakin Matthews: The True Grit line, 'He loves to pull the cork', is Ben's favorite scene.
    “He loves to pull the cork.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:59:27 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Oscars: Sean's pitch: a countdown from tenth place at the Best Picture announcement.
    “I want to know what came in 10th place.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:10:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Netflix: Every other streamer won a series award before Netflix; Apple won Best Picture before it did.
    “Is that basically every other streaming company won a series award before Netflix.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Come Play: The original title was Dick Cheese; in France it was Sticky Fingers.
    “the original title of the film was Dick Cheese”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:20:43 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Ammonite: A poster pull quote read 'Get out of here', from David himself.
    “Get out of here, says David Sims of the Atlantic.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:24:22 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

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