Today on The Colin &amp; Samir Show we sit down with Markiplier and YouTube&#x27;s Tim Katz, live from the Fox Studios lot in front of 650 creators at Press Publish LA: The Hollywood Creator Summit.<br>After more than 15 years building one of YouTube&#x27;s most personal channels, Markiplier put Hollywood on notice with Iron Lung, the horror film he financed, wrote, directed, and starred in. The film pulled in close to $52 million in theaters and is now on YouTube. We get into why he treated a feature film like a YouTube video, what he learned leading a hundred-person crew, why he stays his own harshest critic, and how he sees this collision of YouTube and Hollywood playing out for creators.<br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Markiplier Breaks Down His $50M Movie Live

The Colin and Samir Show

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**Podcast:** The Colin and Samir Show

## Participants

- **Colin** (None)
- **Samir** (None)
- **Markiplier** (None)
- **Tim Katz** (YouTube)

## Transcript

[SPEAKER_00] Our guest today is Markiplier, better known as Markiplier. We sat down with him and YouTube's Tim Katz at the Fox Studios lot in Los Angeles in front of over 650 creators during our event, Press Publish LA, The Hollywood Creator Summit. We threw this event because we are at a true convergence moment right now between YouTube and Hollywood, and we couldn't think of a better person to sit down with than Markiplier. He's a YouTuber in the truest sense who uploaded his first video to the platform over 15 years ago, but more recently he made headlines after self-financing, directing, and starring

[SPEAKER_00] in his indie horror film, Iron Lung. The success of the film turned heads in Hollywood and it marked the beginning of a new era for creators. We get into what this moment on YouTube means, what it takes to go from YouTuber to filmmaker, and what the future of Hollywood may look like now that creators are getting involved. Before we get into the conversation, I just want to say a big thank you to YouTube for coming in as a title sponsor for Press Publish LA. We've been on YouTube for 16 years, so having them back this event and believe in what we're building was truly

[SPEAKER_00] a full circle moment. They brought out a ton of their team members to help answer questions from creators. They had sessions about the future of YouTube, and they helped us surprise everyone in the room with Markiplier.

[SPEAKER_04] Mark, you've been on YouTube for a very long time. You recently made a movie. Yes. Iron Lung.

[SPEAKER_02] Yes.

[SPEAKER_04] A lot of chatter in this town about that movie.

[SPEAKER_02] Good chatter?

[SPEAKER_04] I think so, right? Can you talk to us a bit about the decision to make a movie after 15 years on YouTube? That feels overwhelming to me. Although I'm someone who has always wanted to make a movie, I feel like my comfort is in making YouTube videos. How do you jump from making videos on YouTube to making a feature film?

[SPEAKER_02] You probably start by taking smaller steps. There's this barrier, right? A movie. It's very special. It's prestigious. And they're right. They're right, even if I'm kind of mocking that right there. But if I'm going to be taken seriously in one way or another, I have to make a movie at some point that appears in theaters. I knew that.

[SPEAKER_02] I don't do much strategy, but that's probably the first part where I was just like, okay, if I want to make bigger things in the future, I have to at least make a movie so they can be presented on an even playing field from everyone else's productions and they could take me seriously as an artist. Because I had made YouTube originals before that. I had two with Heist and Space with Markiplier. And those were big. One was nominated for an Emmy. I lost.

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