‘The Studio’ is the defining portrait of modern Hollywood

NEW YORK — The studio head has historically been seen as a fearsome and all-powerful figure, capable of ending a career with the snap of a finger or changing lives with an impulsive greenlight. Studio heads, too, must tolerate conversations with people who haven’t been to the movies in ages, but who loved “The Bear.” In a recent interview, Rogen and Goldberg, the longtime writing, producing and directing duo behind “Superbad,” “Pineapple Express” and “This Is the End,” said “The Studio” isn’t quite a Hollywood postmortem, no matter how much Cranston’s performance in the helter-skelter CinemaCon-set finale verges toward “Weekend at Bernie’s” territory. This show captures that craziness very, very well.” Exposing inside Hollywood drama, again “The Studio” isn’t the first time Rogen and Goldberg have had a role in revealing the inner workings of a Hollywood studio. “One of the biggest misconceptions people seem to have with Hollywood is that it’s run by people who only care about money and don’t at all care about film,” Rogen says. Those scenes — the doctors are the ones who love “The Bear” — unfold with Remick claiming that what he does matters, even if that includes a movie that sounds not too dissimilar in vulgarity to his and Goldberg’s R-rated animated comedy “Sausage Party.” “What’s funny about Hollywood is how people have imbued every moment with life-altering stakes that could last forever,” says Rogen.