Imagine this guy, right? He's probably a real guy.
He's a movies guy, and he's relatively well-known inside the movie industry. Not an actor or filmmaker, just someone who's adjacent to some media businesses which are adjacent to film. Not a critic or a commentator, just like, a guy who knows a guy at Butterkist and might be able to get a sponsorship.
It's good for his business if he appears to be friends with Tarantino, and he idolises Spielberg, but his main function is brokering licencing deals between Dreamworks and Cineworld, or something, so he puts on an annual dinner show for Hollywood people. They pay him for an opportunity to shoot their shot at other Hollywood people, and he MC's a little, in between. He's not very good at it, but it makes him feel like he's part of something cultural, and not just, like, a marketing chump.
That could be true. He could well be a real person. But I wouldn't fucking know. I've never heard of him, and nor should I, because I'm not involved, and even though the movie industry is clearly quite insane, it's not so far up its own hype-hole as to frantically, fanatically celebrate industry messaging and make a circus out of what should be B2B hospitality.
So who the fuck is Geoff Keighley?
