Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s critically acclaimed Hollywood satire The Studio pulled again the velvet rope to let viewers inside high-profile business occasions just like the Golden Globes and CinemaCon. Hours after the Apple TV+ sequence tied the report for essentially the most Emmy Award nominations for a comedy sequence, Rogen confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the staff had zeroed in on different glitzy affairs to function episode backdrops for the upcoming second season that’s at present being formed.
Although he remained mum on specifics, Rogen’s shock look at this 12 months’s Venice Movie Competition all however confirmed that the Lido may determine prominently into Matt Remick’s subsequent adventures.
Rogen turned up at Monday night time’s anticipated world premiere of Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne Johnson as early UFC icon Mark Kerr reverse Emily Blunt. Although he tried to mix in with the black-tie clad attendees whereas hanging towards a wall of photographers, Rogen was noticed by press, together with THR, as he and Safdie chatted it up and took turns snapping photographs of each other. In actual fact, Rogen stored his digicam shut all all through the night time by taking a great deal of photographs on the purple carpet and studiously documenting the wild standing ovation that went on for quarter-hour.
Following the world premiere, Rogen joined Safdie, Johnson, Blunt, Kerr, Smashing Machine producers and A24 executives for a glamorous post-premiere reception on the lush Moro Venezia inside Palazzo Franchetti within the San Marco neighborhood. Inside, Rogen confirmed to THR that he’s certainly on the island to scout places and do analysis for The Studio.
“It’s so stunning right here,” he mentioned by a terrace bar in between fielding selfie requests from adoring Italian followers. “However I’ve a headache simply considering of all of the logistics we’ve got to determine to shoot right here.”
Rogen on the purple carpet at The Smashing Machine in the course of the Venice Movie Competition on Sept. 1, 2025.
(Photograph by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Pictures)
Rogen stars within the sequence as incessantly beleaguered studio boss Matt Remick who’s attempting to take care of his perch and construct a legacy in an IP-dominated business. The present featured a who’s who of Hollywood stars, a lot of whom additionally landed Emmy nods, amongst them Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Bryan Cranston, Kathryn Hahn, Catherine O’Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Zoë Kravitz, Anthony Mackie and Dave Franco. One of many causes the present appealed to business insiders and critics alike was the best way it satirized such occasions because the Globes and CinemaCon.
A glamorous movie pageant like Venice, with its tradition of pomp and circumstance and prolonged standing ovations (together with the heated on-line debates surrounding whether or not the instances imply a lot past the world premieres), appear ripe for a dishy take from Rogen, Goldberg and The Studio’s writers’ room. Rogen will definitely have loads of photographic proof to tug from for inspiration.
