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‘Pizza Movie’ Filmmakers BriTANick Took a Page Out of the ‘Marty Supreme’ Playbook to Promote Their Hulu Release

The Hollywood Reporter·Brian Davids·about 2 months ago
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Logo text [This story contains spoilers for Pizza Movie .] Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney , the creative duo known as BriTANick , are keenly aware that a movie called Pizza Movie is not the most compelling title for their now well-received feature directorial debut. The former SNL writers hemmed and hawed over what to name their “stoner comedy for theater kids” starring Stranger Things ’ Gaten Matarazzo , until the internal working title of Untitled Pizza Movie officially became Pizza Movie .  It’s weirdly on-brand for the Atlanta natives and NYU classmates considering they also struggled to name their sketch comedy partnership two decades ago. They settled on the fusion of Brian, Nick and the word Titanic. (If you’re a devout reader of my byline, then you might recognize Nick from one of the 21st century’s most remarkably honest images .) The title only endeared itself to Kocher and McElhaney when they wrote a joke about it that pays off in the most unexpected way.…

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