The Studio, the latest series of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, is a funny satire of Hollywood and a love supplied letter to its rich history. When Rogen's character - the head of the studio named Matt Remik - visits work every day, he listens to a tourist guide on how the lottery is a temple of film magic. It is a feeling he wants to believe, but he is still disappointed with the system and feels like his job is more like a tomb. Indeed, Matt hates his studio's insistence on creating billions of dollars for Kool Aid's characters to the detriment of original art, though he still has to respond to one man: Griffin Mill (Brian Cranston).

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Griffin is a billionaire studio who is just motivated by profit, so much that he is happy to bury Swanong Martin Scorsese's project for the Jonohstown cult. After all, a film driven by authors for people "Drinking aid in Cole" and the striking lives can interfere with the studio's exalted ambitions to create a family blockbuster for "Cole Aid Mann and his friends" and that is not happening.

That said, Griffin is an interesting character that covers what the "studio" is about its core. He represents a very modern, commercially obsessed Hollywood system on which the show is entertaining. However, his name is a homage to the Prestige Studio Cinema that Rogen's character longs for Tinsel Town to come back - and Robert Altman fans will receive the reference.

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Director Robert Altman's "player" and screenwriter Michael Tolkien is one of Best movies for making movies. Similar to the "studio", it is satire that highlights the more frustrating sides of Hollywood, but it can still boast a lot of Loveubeub and Ection Business when it is at best. Moreover, the film features a Hollywood CEO named Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins).

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The image of Brian Cranston in "Studio" is a clear knot of Altman's classic film, but not the only one. The series of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg also adopt the continuous shot approach at times, inspired by the initial scene in Altman's satire. During the conversation with IndiewireRogen explained that the "player" - and that shot in particular - inspired his show:

"If you are doing something about Hollywood, do something technically difficult, claims your position as someone who has the right to talk about these things." The player "does it. He does one of the hardest things you can do, and now he will have fun with the movies for the next two hours. But he clearly does from the position of someone who understands someone who understands every complexity and challenge of the film."

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The Studio is as technically impressive as it is funny, making it ideal respect for Altman's film. Furthermore, Rogen and Goldberg seem to share some of the frustrations of the late director of the battle between art and trade in Biz.

New episodes at the premiere of "Studio" Wednesday on Apple TV+.