The Studio (2025) s01e10 Episode Script

1
[Dave] Yo! Dave Franco here.
Hi! I'm a little fucked up
but I'm gonna do my best
to recap the last episode
because a lot of shit's gone down.
So the gang is pumped to be
in Vegas for CinemaCon,
which is like a-a-a big convention
where the studios present
their movies and shit, when suddenly
Griffin tells Matt that Continental is
gonna be bought by fucking Amazon
and they're gonna lose their jobs, man.
But if they fucking crush the presentation
they can stop the sale
and save their jobs.
Matt throws a wicked party
where Zoë Kravitz and the gang
do way too many shrooms,
especially Griffin who's so fucked up
it's fucking scary, man.
So they got to sober him up
before the presentation
but they lose his ass at the casino.
And if anyone finds him all fucked up,
especially entertainment journalist
Matt Belloni,
they'll be fucking fucked.
Patty ends up finding him.
B-B-But she doesn't know
about the sale to Amazon
so she calls Belloni
to come see Griffin all messed up
so she can get revenge on him
for firing her.
Now, listen, I gotta hit the tables
and win tons of fucking money
'cause I can count cards and shit
from those magic movies I was in.
So enjoy the fucking episode! Vegas, baby!
[Griffin grunting]
- [vocalizing]
- [Patty] Ooh! Aren't we sexy?
- Look over here. Play to camera.
- Wow.
- Look at you. You're kinda hot.
- [Patty] Hi.
- Patty, meet Aphrodite. Aphrodite, Patty.
- Yeah.
Get to know each other.
Maybe we could do a threesome.
- [Patty laughs] Could do.
- [laughs]
Wouldn't you like that?
- Foreplay! Yeah!
- Foreplay. Don't forget the foreplay.
- [Griffin groans]
- [Matt] Hey!
- Patty, have you seen Griffin?
- Hi.
- [Sal] Oh!
- [Maya] Oh, my God.
- [all clamoring]
- [Matt] He's fucking eating her out!
- Jesus! Get him out of there.
- [Sal] Shit!
No! Leave him in there!
- Um, girl, what?
- Patty, are you insane?
We need him in there for the presentation.
Don't touch him!
Belloni's on his way here.
Belloni? But I just got rid of that guy.
Why is he coming here now?
What are you doing, Patty?
- Get him the fuck down from there!
- Help me!
- Help us!
- [Maya] Okay. You stay dry.
- Fuck, Patty, why did you do this?
- We don't need him.
Look at him. He looks like
my niece at Coachella,
but he's the devil.
He fired me and he ruined my life.
I thought you said you were happier.
I am. But that doesn't mean
he didn't try to ruin my life.
Look, Patty.
If Belloni sees this, we are fucked.
You don't understand! They are trying
to sell Continental to Amazon.
- [clamoring, screaming]
- Sell Continental?
Yes.
- To Amazon?
- Yes!
- They're gonna MGM us?
- Yes!
So all of Continental will become
a branch of a tech company?
Exactly. Exactly!
That's why me and Griffin and everyone
have been freaking out so much.
If this presentation doesn't go perfectly
and we don't project anything
other than the best fathomable
predictions for next year,
I will be the last studio head
in the history of Continental.
- I didn't know that. I wanted…
- [panting]
- Matty, I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
I'm sorry.
You know I love you way more
than I can ever hate Griffin.
You heard Matty!
Get him the fuck outta there!
We're trying!
- [Quinn] Is he breathing?
- [Sal] He's kinda breathing.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
If we don't get outta this CinemaCon
without killing somebody,
it's gonna be a fucking miracle.
We gotta get him back to the room
and get him ready.
[all] How?
That hotel is filled with people
who want us to fucking fail.
What are we gonna do?
Carry him around like a fucking corpse?
Yes! Like a corpse!
We Weekend at Bernie's him.
It's a terrible movie,
but the conceit is genius.
- Fuck my tits. That's fire!
- Yeah!
Wait. That actually is a really good idea.
You're not seriously considering
we puppet his limp carcass
across a casino floor?
Time for some movie magic.
- [Sal] Yeah.
- [Quinn] Fuck yes.
[Sal] Bro, you gotta walk faster.
I'm walking as fast
as I possibly can right now.
Okay, I'm gonna go to his room.
I'm gonna get his bag.
- Great. Meet us in the suite.
- Yeah.
Oh, my God. I'm so high.
I can't believe we're doing this.
- Party people! [shouts, laughs]
- Hey, Davey!
Hey, what's up?
You-You still going strong, man?
- Fuck yeah, bitch!
- Great!
I just won, like, 50K at poker.
I took it off these dudes
who were so pissed.
- Awesome. Great.
- That's them! These are the guys!
- [Sal] Oh, no.
- You see how sad they looked?
- Yeah, they looked mad.
- I'm sorry.
- All right. I'm gonna smoke a jay…
- [Matt] Nice.
…and I'll see you at the presentation.
Also, whoever that dude is,
he looks straight-up dead!
[Sal, Matt] Fuck!
- [Matt] Shit! Keep going.
- [Sal] He keeps touching my fucking ear.
- Matt, Matt, Matt effing Belloni.
- Oh, my God. Help us.
- [Sal] Oh, no, no, no.
- Help us, Patty. Patty, help us.
- [Belloni] Hey, guys.
- Hi.
- Hey!
- Patty, how are you?
Oh, Matt Belloni!
Hollywood's trusted teller of truths.
Speaking of truths, got any news for me?
Uh, got to be a back out there
in need of a stabbing.
Ooh, you're wicked.
No, just your average
uneventful CinemaCon.
- [Matt] Yeah.
- [all laugh]
Actually, now that I've got you,
I'm hearing some rumblings
about a possible sale of Continental.
- Mm-mmm. No.
- Seriously, you believe that?
That's just other studios planting stories
to distract from
Matt's forthcoming triumph.
- Right, Matty?
- Got a big year coming up, you know.
- [groaning]
- [Sal laughs]
That is my uncle Ronaldo Saperstein.
- Yeah.
- He owns three theaters in Long Island.
And he's really drunk
'cause he lost at craps.
- Yeah.
- Oh, I hear you, Ronaldo.
Blackjack cleaned me out too.
- [Matt] Yeah. All right.
- [Sal] Belloni, you're number one.
We'll see you at the… See you later!
See you in the hall.
Good luck with the presentation.
Can't wait to see what
Griffin Mill does up there.
- He's gonna… he's gonna kill it!
- Okay, bye.
What happened? He looks terrible.
Yeah, no fucking shit.
How are things going with Zoë Kravitz?
She's been in with hair and makeup,
but she's still super high
and acting strangely.
- [Griffin groaning]
- Great.
We gotta focus on this guy for now.
- Hi, sir. Can I get you water?
- Hey, hey, hey.
- Coffee? Anything?
- I sort of… Uh… I'll just… [stammers]
- I don't know what he's saying.
- He's too fucked up to make any sense.
Open the bathroom doors.
We gotta clean him off.
Get him changed and shit.
This guy's gotta be on stage soon.
[Sal] Ah, he stinks, man.
[Matt] Oh, God Almighty. Here.
- Get him in here.
- I'll try.
- [Griffin] Here we… here we go.
- [Sal groans] Yeah. Yeah.
Great. Quick. Wash him off.
- [overlapping chatter]
- Take… Undress him.
- [Sal] I'm trying.
- Get him undressed.
[sighs]
- I got his bag. Here we go.
- [Matt] Fantastic.
[panting]
Yo! Sal, we got his clothes.
You got a fresh turtleneck?
- Yeah, we got a… There's a…
- Yeah. Got it.
- …there's a fucking… What is this?
- What is that?
- It's a dickey or some shit.
- It looks like a bra.
- Okay. What else do we need?
- Clean underwear.
- [Maya] Okay. That's debatable.
- Ugh.
- Why did you smell it?
- [Quinn] It was instinctual.
- S-Sal, are you okay in there?
- No, I'm not, Patty.
I'm having to stuff my boss's dick
inside his Speedo,
and it's taking forever
'cause it's freaking huge.
- Of course it is.
- I knew he had a big dick.
He walks like that.
- [Sal] He's good. We're coming.
- Okay.
- [Maya] Here he comes.
- And one, two, three.
[all clamoring, cheering]
[Sal] Clap for him.
[Maya] Wow. Look at him.
[Quinn] Beautiful.
- His legs are kinda wonky.
- Get him to the couch.
- Get him over to the couch.
- Please cover his nipples.
[Quinn] Is that a waist trainer?
[Matt] Aw, you look very good. Very good.
You're a big boy.
[Maya] I like your little strut.
- Get him on the couch.
- Oh, there we go.
- Get his pants on. Pants on.
- [Maya] Please!
Yes. Okay. Tuck those nipples in. Okay.
Okay, you guys seem
like you have this under control.
We're gonna go check on
Zoë Kravitz in here.
Matty, you gotta pull the rip cord
on this madness.
- I cannot pull the rip cord. No.
- You're not putting him on stage.
It's too late. We announced him.
We can't show signs of weakness. We can't!
We're doubling down.
[pants] I don't wanna open this door.
No. 'Cause look, it's… [stammers]
Is… Matt, is this high?
- What is going on in here?
- She won't come down.
She says it's too high.
It's so far away. They won't show me.
I don't know what to tell you, Zoë.
It's not that high!
Can you show me?
- Because this is crazy.
- Oh, for the love of God.
Zoë, darling.
- Zo Zo, can you see this shoe?
- Yes, wow. Yes.
Well, that nightstand
is only four shoes high.
Four shoes high?
[laughing] What are you even saying?
All right. You guys seem to
have this under control.
I'll leave you at it.
Let me know when
you've figured all that out.
- Maya. Hey, what's happening?
- [panting]
- You're so fucking hot right now.
- [panting] Oh.
[both moaning]
[Sal] Oh, come on.
I thought you guys
didn't do this shit anymore.
- We don't. We're not doing anything.
- Ugh, you perv.
She's off the nightstand,
but now she's under the bed.
But they think they can
finish her under there.
Great. Fantastic. Perfect.
I'll fucking take it.
We got his pants on
but he is passed out again.
- Which is bad.
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- Get that stench out. The lips--
- Holy shit.
Oh, fuck. We gotta sober him up somehow.
Oh, oh, oh, oh! Cocaine up his nose.
- Does that actually work?
- Oh, it worked in the movie Flight.
Where Denzel Washington
did all that cocaine
and then he testified in front of the FAA!
Are we gonna Flight his ass
right into the presentation?
- This will work!
- Yes!
Yes, whatever. Just don't Old Yeller him.
Okay. First of all, cover that nipple
'cause I've really had enough of it.
I need his mouth closed,
otherwise he'll blow.
- You ready? One, two--
- [Maya] Ooh! Shove it up there!
- [Matt] Shove it in there, baby.
- [Griffin sniffing]
- [Maya] Oh, oh, oh! [gasps]
- [breathes deeply]
[panting] Matthew.
- Yeah!
- The presentation?
- [Quinn chuckles]
- How did it go?
It hasn't happened yet,
but it's about to, sir!
- Let's do this!
- [all cheering, clamoring]
- Oh, yeah!
- [Matt] The engines are revving, sir.
Hey, look!
May I present CIA assassin,
vampire killer, queen of the night…
- Queen of the night.
- …Agent Blackwing.
[cheering]
[Maya] Yeah! Queen!
I am Blackwing.
Yes, you are.
I'm Blackwing?
- Yes.
- Then where's Zoë?
You're also Zoë.
Where's Zoë?
[overlapping chatter, clamoring]
- [Tyler] Look alive, people.
- [screaming]
The presentation starts in…
What the fuck is going on here?
- Where's Zoë?
- [clamoring]
Oh, no.
Ooh. Okay, Zoë.
- Do you want water or something?
- "Do you want water or something?"
- That's what I'm asking you.
- "That's what I'm asking you."
- Why's everybody on drugs but me?
- "Why is everybody on drugs but me?"
- Grab her some water, man.
- We've got this. We've fucking got this.
- It's too quiet though. Cue the intro.
- [grunts] Start the intro music.
- Ah! Nick Stoller in the house.
- Whoo!
Hey, guys. I tweaked some lines
for the Kool-Aid presentation.
I wanted to… Uh, whoa. Is Griffin okay?
Yeah, he's good. Look at him.
He's doing fantastic.
Are… Oh, sh… Are you guys okay?
- We all have food poisoning. It's fine.
- We're good.
Stoller, why don't you go wait
offstage over there
and I'll cue you when it's time. Okay?
I think I'm gonna take a step back
and maybe not do this presentation.
Let me tell you something
right fucking now.
You walk and I swear on my fucking balls
Kool-Aid 2 will be directed
by motherfucking Shawn Levy.
Uh, sorry. Just tell me when you need me.
- Attaboy.
- Cool.
Okay. Where's Davey Franco?
- He's on right now. He's on right now!
- Davey?
- What's up?
- Fuck, man. Are you okay?
- No.
- Fuck. What happened, man?
Dude, those dudes I took all that money
off of, they beat the shit out of me.
Why?
'Cause they thought I was cheating
with fucking magic.
- Were you?
- Oh, yeah!
Jesus.
What the fuck are we gonna do right now?
What? [chuckles] I got this.
Roll the music.
You know, I'm-I'm not a producer
on Alphabet City,
but just as a human,
I think we should stop this.
Honey, you need to just go to
an urgent care. Okay? We got it.
- He's bleeding from the side of his head.
- I said I got this. Roll the music.
- Roll the music! We have no choice.
- Okay. Fuck me.
Just fucking roll it. We got… We gotta go.
You good?
- Oh, too good, baby.
- You got this? Okay.
- Looking forward to see what you do.
- [Dave exhaling sharply]
[audience cheering, whistling]
I'm Jimmy DeFelippe.
Yeah, I've been through some stuff.
Nothing I can't handle.
You can shoot me, you can stab me,
you can beat the living crap out of me.
I keep coming back for more
'cause I got a job to do.
I run rackets in New York City.
Not the whole city.
Other families, they got their own turf.
Me and my crew,
we run a part of town where you better
mind your p's and your q's.
We run Alphabet City!
[audience cheering]
["Baby I've Got It" playing on speakers]
Holy fucking shit. Dude, you did it!
That was amazing!
- How did you do that? That was--
- I need an ambulance.
- Oh, Jesus Christ. Oh, God Almighty.
- Oh, oh, oh.
- Take him. Take him.
- Oh, Tyler. Tyler, get him help.
- Help him.
- [Tyler] I'm not the goddamn help.
- Zoë, honey. Okay.
- [Dave shrieks] My spleen!
- You're on in one minute.
- "You're on in one minute."
- [Mitch] Zoë.
- "You're on in one minute."
- Break a leg, love.
- "Zoë. Break a leg, love."
[both] Zoë, the press is insane.
This is gonna be great.
You just gotta go out there
and read the teleprompter
for 20 seconds then we're home free.
We don't have to do that anymore
because it doesn't matter.
- It does very much matter.
- [Maya] It matters.
No. Nothing… It doesn't matter.
We're skin sausages.
No, it's okay. It's okay.
We're skin sausages.
- Zoë, do you feel okay?
- Skin sausages. "You feel okay?"
- What is wrong with you?
- "What is wrong with you?"
- What the fuck is going on here?
- "What the fuck is going on?"
- [Maya] Oh, God.
- She's fine.
- She's experiencing ego death.
- She's fucking what?
- What the fuck did you do to my client?
- Okay, okay.
- This is gonna sound worse than it is…
- "It is."
- …but I accidentally drugged her.
- "Drugged her."
- With what?
- It was an old-school Hollywood buffet.
- Exactly. That is a thing.
- That's a thing? That's not a thing.
- Oh, it's a thing.
- Look, it's just shrooms, okay?
Which she's done many times.
- Just not this many before.
- "Just shrooms."
- This is the final fucking straw!
- Final fucking straw!
There's no way she's going out there high.
Okay, it's time to roll the Black…
the Blackwing presentation.
- We gotta do it right now.
- But put Silver Lake first.
- [sighs] Fine.
- Patty,
can you get out there and just
stretch a little bit? Please vamp.
I on… I only work with teleprompters.
Look. I just really need you
to get out there
and-and stretch the time out a little bit.
Please help me.
- Help me.
- [Maya] Help him.
- Yes. Yes.
- Great, thank you.
- You've got it, you badass bitch!
- You got this.
- You're great on your feet, just riff.
- Go fucking take it.
- Take it. It's yours.
- You know, vamp.
- You got it. You got it. You got this.
- [Patty clears throat]
- Thank you, Patty.
- [audience cheering, whistling]
Oh. [chuckles]
Hello, CinemaCon. [exhales sharply]
My name is Patty Leigh
and I am a proud lover of movie theaters!
- [audience cheering]
- Oh, yeah.
No matter how many movies you've seen,
you never forget that first one, do you?
Oh, no. I remember mine.
My first movie was…
well, I know it was the… it was the one
that made me wanna make movies, okay?
I was… I was just seven or eight,
and my mother was having
one of her spells.
Wow. She could cry.
And my father grabbed
my little brother and me and said…
[through clenched teeth]
…"Let's get the hell out of this house."
And within an hour,
we were sitting in this magic building,
looking up at that gigantic,
gorgeous face of…
You know who I mean. I th…
I believe it was her first movie.
- [audience member] Mary Pickford.
- What? Mary Pickford?
How old would that make me? I just…
- Please, I…
- Here's the deal.
You are one of the biggest stars
on the planet.
Your name is Zoë Kravitz.
You are gonna walk out on that stage
and read the teleprompter
with the grace and ferocity
of a goddamn fucking lion!
- [Gabby roars]
- [Matt, Zoë] You are Zoë Kravitz!
- [Matt] We need more time.
- We gotta go! We gotta go!
We need a second!
But I'm not sure
it was a children's movie.
There was an awful lot of drinking
in the movie.
Okay, okay.
You guys, we gotta… She can't do this.
I can't watch her anymore.
We gotta… We gotta run. We gotta… Okay.
Please get the teleprompter
going for Silver Lake.
- Fine. Just…
- Yes, Silver Lake.
Finally, the tele-fucking-prompter.
Thank you. Okay. Here we go.
- This is a sure thing.
- [audience applauds]
The year is 1968, Los Angeles.
The country is changing,
but not fast enough.
Two women are drawn to each other
while society attempts to pull them apart.
I proudly present, for your first look,
Sarah Polley's elegant The Silver Lake.
[audience cheering]
Remick. Remick. Lee Remick!
Days of Wine and… Thank you.
- Thank you. You nailed it, Patty.
- Keep it rolling. We gotta go.
We're firing up the Blackwing trailer now.
Fire up whatever the fuck you want.
I am taking my client
back to her hotel room.
- End of story.
- No. Look, I told Zoë
that she does not have to do anything
that she doesn't wanna do
and she is excited
about doing this briefing.
- She is. You gotta show up.
- You're a manipulative prick.
- Where is Zoë?
- She's fine. She's around here somewhere.
- Where is she? Where the fuck is she now?
- It's fine. Zoë? Zoë! Zoë?
- Zoë?
- Holy shit.
She hunts vampires by night.
A ruthless killer with a lust for justice
and the CIA's most secretive
and deadly weapon.
An assassin who works in the shadows
to keep the torch of freedom lit.
The one thing the kings
of the underworld fear most
is the queen of the night…
- Blackwing!
- [audience cheering]
I'm Zoë Kravitz,
and I'm thrilled to be bringing
the iconic role of Blackwing to life
from the pages of the best-selling
book series to your cinemas!
[audience cheering]
But as excited as I know you all are
about Blackwing,
it's time for the main event.
Here to talk about Continental's
tentpole film of 2026
is the auteur-director behind Kool-Aid,
Nick Stoller!
[funky music playing on speakers]
Hello, everyone.
I'm writer-director Nick Stoller…
- [all clamoring]
- Thank you, guys.
- [whispers] I'm going pee-pee.
- [Mitch] I'm sorry?
- [Sal] That's fucking disgusting.
- [Maya] Oh, no.
[Matt] All right. Uh, you guys got this.
- [Maya] That's on you.
- Good job.
[softly] All right, Mr. Mill.
We are on the homestretch now.
All you gotta do is walk out to that stage
and read that teleprompter
- and we are good. Okay?
- Oh, I'm so ready, Matthew! [chuckles]
- Great!
- [Sal chuckling] Yeah, baby!
- Oh, goddamn it!
- Oh, no, shit!
- My legs are assholes!
- [Patty sighs]
I'm sorry, Matthew.
What about more cocaine?
- That could help.
- No!
Let's just wheel him out there.
That will pose a lot of questions
we don't have the answers to.
Okay. I know what to do with Griffin.
Okay?
You get on stage. I've got you.
- Just go out there.
- [Sal] Matt, you got it.
You got it. We'll cover you.
- We believe in you, Matt. Go!
- Yes, we all believe in you.
You can do it.
You're a Black Jewish queen.
You're Zoë Kravitz.
- [Maya] Okay, okay. Oh, my God.
- Yuck.
Matty, have I told you
what a great studio head you've become?
- No.
- Well, I just did.
- [whispers] Go kill 'em.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- [Nick] …becomes their only hope
and she'll show the audience that
she isn't just capable of
breaking through walls,
she can break through ceilings!
- [upbeat music playing on speakers]
- [audience cheering]
[Matt] Great job.
Nick Stoller, everybody!
[music fades]
As you've just seen,
Continental Studios has one of
the strongest slates of the entire year.
Between our prestige films,
our newest action franchise,
and our family summer tentpole,
we have something this year in theaters
for absolutely everybody.
- [audience cheering]
- [sighs]
Look, I know we're, uh… [chuckles]
…technically here
to celebrate the movies, but, um,
the truth is, there is no movies without,
you know, the people who make them.
A-And that's why I…
I just wanna take a moment
to talk about my friends.
You know what,
why don't you guys come out here?
Quinn, Patty, Maya, Sal, Tyler, Petra.
All of you, get out here, guys.
- [audience cheering]
- [Matt] Get out here.
[chuckles]
Let's hear it for them.
- [cheering continues]
- These guys are the best.
Honestly. I used to think this studio
was the absolute most important thing
in my entire life.
But you all are the absolute most
important things in my entire life.
All of you are. Okay? And I love you.
- I love you all. Thank you.
- [audience cheering]
- Thank you. Thank you for everything.
- You're welcome.
Okay? Thank you.
- Oh. Okay.
- [Quinn] Oh, wow.
Thank you, Patty.
Thank you for everything.
Tyler, you rule. You're the man.
I don't say enough nice things to you,
Petra. You're great.
All right.
And with that… [chuckles]
…please join me in welcoming…
- [drumroll playing]
- …Comworld CEO and our fearless leader,
Griffin Mill!
[audience cheering]
- Holy shit!
- [Sal] Oh, my God!
- [Griffin shouts]
- [all clamoring]
- [Matt] Oh, fucking shit!
- [audience gasping, clamoring]
- Oh, shit! Shit.
- [groans]
- [laughs]
- [Maya, softly] Patty.
Oh, you're right. I'm sorry. It's awful.
[cackling]
- [cord whirs]
- Oh, wow.
- [audience gasping]
- Griffin Mill, everybody!
[audience cheering]
What a trouper. Am I right? [chuckles]
- [pants]
- [cheering stops]
Movies…
[stammers, groans]
Movies…
[stammers]
[sighs]
[whispers] Are…
Movies…
Movies!
[audience] Movies!
[both] Movies!
[audience] Movies!
[executives] Movies!
[all chanting] Movies! Movies! Movies!
Movies! Movies! Movies! Movies!
Movies! Movies! Movies! Movies! Movies!
- Movies! Movies…
- [audience cheering, clapping along]
Movies! Movies…
["There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow"
playing]
[chanting continues]
Yeah!
[music continues]