Starting this week, our online movie show “For Your Consideration” will become the official podcast / online show of Collider.Com and I’m very excited about it.

So here’s some backstory. As many of you know I have a background in podcasting. As a matter of fact I was podcasting before people even called it podcasting. When I was running things over at The Movie Blog, I started the very first movie podcast… a podcast that eventually won us the “Podcast of the Year” awards at the annual Weblog Awards (beating out my all time favorite podcast “This Week In Tech” aka TWIT).

So early in 2011 I had an idea for a new podcast… it wasn’t for any particular website but was really just an excuse for Dennis Tzeng, Jon “Soul Video” Green and I to do together. Between Dennis and I we had all the gear and tech know-how to put together a fairly good and simple show and we all loved talking movies. We brought our friend Roth Cornet on and started doing FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

The idea was always in the back of my head that IF we enjoyed doing the show and IF we were happy with the quality and IF we were getting positive feedback from the community that watched it, I’d see if one of the major film sites would want to partner up and have FYC become their podcast.

This is where Steve “Frosty” Weintraub of Collider.Com enters the picture.

Steve and I have casually known each other for a couple of years, bumping into each other from time to time at various screenings or press junkets. Then a few months back I was tasked by AMC to find 3 contestants for an AMC STUBS movie blogger contest, 1 in New York, 1 in Chicago and 1 in Los Angeles. I gave a few webmasters in LA a call to see if any of their staff would want to participate in the contest, and Steve said “Staff!?!?! I’ll do it myself!”. With Steve as our LA contestant he and I had a chance to chat on a few more occasions.

Steve has the “gift of gab” and I always enjoyed talking movies with him whenever we had the chance. I eventually started thinking about asking him if he’d like to come on our FYC podcast. That’s when it dawned on me that his site, Collider.Com, didn’t have a podcast of their own… and at the same time I had been feeling like it was time to take FYC to the “next level”. Seemed like a good fit to me.

Long story short… I called Steve and threw the idea by him of having FYC become Collider’s podcast, and he told me that he’d already been thinking the exact same thing. It’s a seemingly perfect fit, and after talking about it for a couple of weeks we finally decided to move ahead with it… starting this Friday!

So there you have it. This Friday our first new episode of FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION will appear on Collider.Com

The show will still be viewable and sponsored by Dennis’ ThinkHero.Com, on our FYC Facebook page and even here on my own site, the podcast subscriptions will all still work, the core cast of myself, Dennis, Soul and Roth are all staying the same with the semi-regular addition of Steve.

Myself, Steve and the rest of the crew are all excited about this partnership and can’t wait to get started. We hope you’ll all check out the show and join us for the ride.

Cheers!