JOSIE AND THE PODCATS - EPISODE #5: RELEASE

Everything is seemingly in line for Josie And The Pussycats to become a box-office hit but instead … it bombs. Immediately “dead on arrival”, we speak to writers and directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont about that crushing opening weekend but it finds fans in Rachael Leigh Cook, Letters To Cleo’s Kay Hanley, Bif Naked, Alanna Bennett and … Bono?

Josie and the Podcats is hosted, researched and written by best-selling author, screenwriter and journalist Maria Lewis. She can be found on Twitter @MovieMazz https://twitter.com/moviemazz and marialewis.com.au The show is produced by film critic and podcast/producer behind One Heat Minute and All The Presidents Minutes Blake Howard. He can be found on Twitter @OneBlakeMinute https://twitter.com/OneBlakeMinute and graffitiwithpunctuation.com

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Amandah Wilkinson of Bossy Love and Edwin Organ are responsible for our jerkin theme song, with Bossy Love’s new album Me + U out now: www.bossylove.com and Edwin online at edwinorgan.com

Tim Hanley is the author of several non-fiction books, including Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine and the upcoming Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale. He’s on Twitter at @Tim_Hanley https://twitter.com/timhanley01 and his books can be found here: www.amazon.com/Tim-Hanley/

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