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The Machinery of "No": Five Things We Learned About Why Projects Stall

How a cache of rejection letters became a podcast about failure, closure, and what's still in the drawer.

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Mar 02, 2026
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Thanks Ted for the Takeover time. Our podcast Films Not Made launched today and we’re here to share insights from pre-recording a stockpile of episodes over the past two months with guests including Michael Tully, Loren Hammonds, Effie Brown, Robert Edwards, Joe Maggio, Heidi Ewing, Anne Hubbell, Dan Mirvish, Conrad Vernon, Tom Hall, Kent Osborne, Harla…

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From analog rejection to digital resurrection. Hollywood's biggest 'what ifs' brought back to life.
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