This week Burke speaks with Ty DeMartino, longtime writer, director, and playwright, about the current state of the film industry and how events like artificial reality and the writer's strike may affect the future.

Ty has written celebrated films like Tulsa and The Pledge and has been involved in the writing process in Hollywood for years.

With being so involved in the film industry he gives his box office predictions along with his take on the WGA writer's strike.

There's also an important discussion about the saturation of certain big franchises in Hollywood. How many Marvel or Fast and the Furious films can they make before people get tired of it?

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