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Stephen Cyrus Sepher is an award-winning filmmaker and storyteller exploring creativity, resilience, and power through The Conversation Podcast.
Artist Confidence is his series devoted to helping creators and entrepreneurs build a stronger mindset and bring their ideas to life. Executive Series expands the conversation by examining influence, ambition, and the people shaping our world.
Elevating creativity. Understanding power.
In association with Element 8 Ventures.
Credits include Bus 657 released as Heist starring Robert De Niro, Deadlock starring Bruce Willis, the award-winning Wages of Sin, and others.
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The Two Studios of the Future: Megan and David Ellison’s Divergent Roads Through Hollywood
By Stephen Cyrus Sepher
Hollywood loves a dynasty.
But rarely do its heirs split the atom of the business so cleanly with one chasing permanence through power, the other through art. David and Megan Ellison, the children of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, have become mirror images in motion with two executives chasing the same idea from opposite directions: legacy.
The Heir Who Wanted to Fly
David Ellison began in the cockpit — literally.
A licensed pilot, he was drawn to the thrill of machinery and motion before he was drawn to storytelling. His first on-screen role, in Flyboys (2006), wasn’t about performance. It was about perspective and understanding how systems, speed, and coordination create spectacle.
In 2006 he founded Skydance Media, and over the next decade engineered one of the most muscular portfolios in modern Hollywood: Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Top Gun: Maverick, Star Trek Into Darkness, World War Z.
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Who Controls the Screenplay Controls the Room
By Stephen Cyrus Sepher
The first thing David Boxerbaum says isn’t a flex in the Conversation Podcast. It’s a thesis. You’re nothing without the screenplay. In a town that worships packaging, algorithms, and celebrity rosters, that line lands like a reminder from a different era. The page is still the power source. Everything else is leverage built around it.
“Who controls the screenplay controls everything,” he says.
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The Gatekeepers of the Golden Age: Lindsay Sloane and the New Math of Storytelling
By Stephen Cyrus Sepher
Imagine a writer sitting in a one-bedroom apartment somewhere in Los Angeles, polishing a pilot script that no algorithm could predict. It’s raw, emotional, a story about people rather than IP. Across town, in a sleek conference room at Amazon MGM Studios, Lindsay Sloane scans through the next wave of scripted projects, prestige dramas, re-imagined classics, adaptations with proven audiences. Two storytellers, two worlds, both chasing the same thing: a spark.
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The Future of Coffee: Why Starbucks Can’t Keep Up with Gen Z
How a generation raised on drive-throughs and dopamine is brewing a new kind of culture.
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Walk into a Starbucks today and you’ll see what happens when success starts to feel tired. Everything works. Everything runs on time. But it feels more like an assembly line than an experience.
Beyond the glass windows and steady stream of espresso machines, a new kind of coffee culture is taking shape. It’s louder, faster, and built for the scroll. Teenagers film their drinks before they taste them. The music is part of the flavor. The car is the café.
And Starbucks, the global symbol of coffee culture, is no longer the center of that world.
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“Which billionaire changed the world the most?”
• Steve Jobs
• Elon Musk
• Jeff Bezos
• Warren Buffett
#money #dollars #technology
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It began quietly, with a book. Not a pitch meeting or a studio deal, but a simple act of curiosity. Martin Scorsese was reading Ariana Harwicz’s novel Matate, Amor, a fever dream about motherhood, isolation, and desire. The story was too raw to ignore. He finished it and sent it to Jennifer Lawrence with a note that said she might find something inside it. She did.
That moment became the origin of Die, My Love, a film that would later divide critics and audiences, receive a nine-minute standing ovation at Cannes, and remind the industry what courage still looks like on screen.
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