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Hurricane Katrina. The War on Terror. They were just some of the tumultuous events to occur during the George W. Bush years—a period of drastic change, for both America and Hollywood. Featuring all-new interviews with filmmakers like Oliver Stone, Adam McKay, and Tony Gilroy, Mission Accomplished examines the key events of the early 2000s, and dives into the making of the era’s biggest films, including Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men, and Anchorman. (CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO FIRST EPISODE.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3f6c219772aea537740105/8ad1099a-c851-41a7-ab16-07e1cbdc098d/hollywood-hack-31.jpg PODCASTS - THE HOLLYWOOD HACK (2024) In the fall of 2014, hackers broke into the computer servers at Sony Pictures. Over the next few months, they’d leak hundreds of thousands of top-secret documents. The resulting fallout would cause an international incident, upend countless lives, and change Hollywood forever. 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