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Episode Summary
This week, the crew dives headfirst into CinemaCon chaos with Marvel rumors, DC madness, and enough multiverse speculation to make your brain reboot in Infinity Vision™. From Spider-Noir plotting World War II, to Avengers: Doomsday potentially breaking reality (and our sanity), we unpack it all—plus DC going FULL horror with Clayface (seriously… nightmare fuel). Also: we invent "DoomsDune," question Sony's life choices, and emotionally prepare for Marvel to tease us… again.
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⏱️ Timestamps & Topics
- 00:00 – Warning + chaotic intro
- 02:40 – CinemaCon kickoff + what's coming
- 04:00 – Spider-Noir Season 2 already?!
- 06:45 – Wild Spider-Man rumors (Hulk vs Spidey??)
- 10:00 – Avengers: Endgame returns with new footage
- 14:30 – Miles Morales drama (thanks, Sony 🙃)
- 17:20 – Cassie Lang returns + Young Avengers talk
- 20:00 – Avengers: Doomsday MASSIVE twist rumors
- 22:15 – Trailer breakdown: Doom vs Thor 🔥
- 27:00 – Marvel Comic-Con takeover plans
- 32:30 – DC News Begins
- 33:30 – Batman Part II casting chaos
- 37:00 – Clayface = full horror mode 😱
- 42:20 – Superman vs Lex (chess match mind games)
- 47:45 – Project Hail Mary success
- 49:50 – Elden Ring movie incoming
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🔑 Key Takeaways
- Marvel is stacking releases like a boss rush level
- Avengers: Doomsday might rival Endgame hype
- Infinity Vision = IMAX's new rival (shots fired 👀)
- Sony still holding Miles Morales hostage
- DC is DONE playing safe—hello horror genre
- Clayface might be the scariest comic movie yet
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💬 Quotes
- "Cinnamon Con sounds delicious."
- "Presented in INFINITY VISION… forever."
- "Sony being difficult? Never…"
- "That movie's gonna mess people up."
- "We're not dipping into horror… we're diving in."
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Let's let's get into all the Marvel stuff that's out there.
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It's straight from Jay Jonah. I love the way of interest for
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these. All right, so this is this is my
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segment. Should we expect Noir?
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The first season of Spider Noir hasn't even landed yet, but the
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creative team is already looking ahead and the future sounds a
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lot bigger, darker and more dangerous.
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Throw in a Oren Muziel. That's how you pronounce that,
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is thinking beyond the streets of 1930s New York and hinting at
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a potential second season could could throw the gritty Marvel
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hero straight into the trial moral of World War 2.
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Spider Noir dropped views in a 1933 New York City, a place
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drowning in crime, corruption and economic hardship.
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Yeah. What do we think here?
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It's crazy that they're really talking about a season 2.
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I know that's, I mean, I guess it means they're confident, but.
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Still, Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm excited for the show.
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I kind of still want to see what what they're going to do with
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it, you know? Yeah.
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No, I'm, I'm curious. I'm curious.
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I, you know, honestly though, I think because it's Amazon and
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you know, it's also a Sony property, I think they're going
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to go all in on this and like, hey, we got to make at least 2,
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three seasons out of this to make it worth our while.
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I think they're going to find a way to ramp up the story and,
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and get us. I don't know if we're going to
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get to World War 2 because that's, you know, years and
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years later, but a. Little ways off, but yeah, no,
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I'm, I'm, I'm curious. No, because I, I, I think, you
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know, I, I like the kind of the projects where they're doing
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kind of a take on something where it's like, hey, we're
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taking something familiar from comics or from whatever and
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throwing it into a new setting. I think that's, that's really
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interesting. So I'm I'm curious about the
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show and I'm curious how that is.
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Yeah. Curious how that's working
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You're. Like a month away from like
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everything, like gonna start hitting back-to-back to
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back-to-back. Right, right, right.
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Yeah, exactly. So it's.
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Yeah, they're gonna be pretty crazy the rest of the year here.
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Yeah. So.
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It's so I think the way it's gonna lay out, if I, if I
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remember rightly, it's Daredevil is playing right now.
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It ends the Punisher one shot comes out and then a week later
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it's Spider Noir. And then that runs up until I
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don't know how long, but then we're right into the middle of
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like movie blockbuster summer blockbuster season.
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And then it's everything dropping all at once, including
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Spider Man Brand new day. So it's like this ramp up of all
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kinds of just nerd, nerd, nerd stuff.
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Yeah, mad stuff. Speaking of Spider Man.
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Speaking of Spider Man, that's my secret.
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My tingle is always tingling. A new rumor has started making
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the rounds that adds a pretty unexpected wrinkle to the story,
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one that pulls in the Hulk, the Punisher, and even a major X-Men
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connection. The rumor from of course,
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Leaker. My time to shine.
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Hello, claims quote. Jean Grey will take control of
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the Hulk and she'll turn them into Grey Hulk.
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And that's not all. Apparently she'll then make him
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fight spider man and punish her. So yeah, so sounds ridiculous.
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It does sound ridiculous, but you know, for a way to get the
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major 3 in the movie to fight each other, that kind of sense,
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you know? And it puts a little edge on on
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Jean Grey and the X-Men, like, are they good?
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Are they bad? Maybe we need to be wrangling
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them up, Who knows? But if they have that much power
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to take over the Hulk, maybe we need to make sure that they're
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not running amok, yeah. So, so, yeah.
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So, so story wise, Spider Man Brand New Day picks up four
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years after the event of Spider Man New Way, No Way Home with
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Peter Parker completely on his own.
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If you'll remember, you know, everybody's memory was wiped by
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that spell. And so, yeah, so I mean, you
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know, you, I, I'm not sure about this one.
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I think it's it's an interesting idea, but yeah, I'm still not
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entirely convinced. Jean Grace in this movie.
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So. You know, I've heard so many
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rumors. It could, it's such like a up in
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the air. But because that rumor has been
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so persistent, just like the Hulk's going to be in this
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movie, The Punisher is going to be in this movie.
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I think she's going to be in this movie.
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Yeah, well, we know. Again, we know Sadie Singh is in
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there. I just don't know if he's
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playing Jean Grey or not. I mean, again, I I could see it.
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I'd be, I'd be happy for anything with Sadie's Inc in it,
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honestly. But.
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It might even It might even be one of those things where they
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don't even say her name. It could be that and they could
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just kind of, you know, tease what's what's actually going on
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there. Yeah, exactly.
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Like at the very end, she like is on the final shot of her on
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screen and you just hear this. That would be cool.
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Yeah. Nobody's gone.
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Or we can start doing. I love this idea.
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We do kind of a like a Nick Fury thing, but it's whoever's doing
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Professor X and like, he comes in at the end.
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He's like, I'm putting together, you know, I, I have a school or
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whatever, whatever it is. To me, my X-Men.
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Right. So yeah, you know, like I, I, I
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know in the first turn of the first class or like second Gen.
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comic or whatever where he would, he went around and talked
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to people. That would be interesting if we
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had something like that. Anyway, I'm not really sure how
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to transition this, but Spider Man Brand New Day hits theaters
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on July 31st of 2020. Sixth.
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Oh, and for the record, I don't think we said that.
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Spider Noir premieres on May 27th on Prime Video, so.
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Mm, hmm. Yeah.
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So again, like what we were talking about about two months
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apart and that's like I think, yeah, I think.
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About anymore has a period of yeah yeah no all right so let's
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move on. Sometimes the end isn't always
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the end. Avengers end game is returning
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to the big screen but this isn't just a standard re release.
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There's something new, they can do it during the Walt and his
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few studios. During the Walt Disney Studios
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presentation at Cinemacon, Joe Russo and Anthony Russo revealed
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that this September 2520 fifth re release will include brand
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new footage added to the already epic 3 hour film.
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There's also a technical upgrade both in game, and Doomsday will
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be presented in Infinity Vision. Infinity.
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Which sounds like something from from one division, so you know,
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it'd be cool. So yeah, So what do we think
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here? I mean, it's, you know, they're
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re releasing it, they're adding new stuff to it.
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I honestly, I feel a little sense of nostalgia, like I
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definitely want to go see this in theaters.
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I mean, yes, I'm watching it like every other day here at
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home, but I still want to go see the new footage, see it on the
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big screen. You know, I maybe I, I'll, I'll
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convince young Phil to be like, let's rent out a theater and
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grab everybody we know. And that's.
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The other thing, Let's grab everybody.
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We'll yeah. Yeah, so we did that before when
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I think it was end game, End Game or Infinity or when one of
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them came out, we did a big watch along with with a bunch of
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different people. We we've got some who was it?
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Toy Fusion? We got Toy Fusion involved.
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And so like we rented out the entire theater and then
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everybody bought tickets ahead of time.
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We gave out goodie bags full of stuff, you know, from Toy Fusion
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and some other other friends of the shows.
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So it was fun, but it was nice to be like all together, you
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know, just hooting and hollering and yelling at the screen
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together, sometimes crying at the screen.
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Together, yeah. No, we should do that at at a
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for, for doomsday. That'd be cool.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm into it.
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I'm into it so. But so, yeah, so there's there's
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lots of stuff. So yeah.
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So we have the Infinity Vision thing.
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So it's a new premium large format certification.
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That's what Infinity Vision is, yeah.
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Designed to push theatrical presentation to another level.
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The idea? Assemble bigger screens, sharper
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visuals and more immersive sound, all working together to
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deliver the kind of experience that Marvel movies are built
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for. And apparently these
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certification isn't just marketing gloves, much as it
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sounds like it is. It's tied to real upgrades
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across theaters worldwide, with more than 75 locations in the US
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and over 300 globally already meeting these standards.
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These auditoriums are equipped with massive screens, laser
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protection for brighter and clear images, and high end audio
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systems that aim to fully surround the audience.
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Doomsday, of course. Adventures Doomsday is set to
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open the same day as Dune Part 3, which will have an exclusive
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IMAX run for three weeks. Thanks for being fought with
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IMAX cameras. Because it's it's Dune, so of
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course. So that's the key.
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I think that's what's going on is that Marvel, Disney is like
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the, I'm sure they wanted IMAX screens, but IMAX said, hey, you
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didn't shoot your movie in IMAX, Dune did.
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So we're going to show Dune even though you guys are opening the
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same week. I think this is Disney's way of
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saying screw you IMAX. We're going to take your model
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and bring it to every other theater and just take, take that
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over. So you are not in control.
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We want to be in control. Screw you.
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I, I, I do, but we, we need to move on.
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But before we do, I have a prediction.
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You know how we had the, the, I don't remember how long it was
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like two or three years ago, we had Barbie and Oppenheimer
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coming out at the same time, right, right.
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I'm predicting that we're going to have a similar thing with
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Doom Part 3 and Doomsday, and it will be called Doomsday.
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Doomsday I doomsday love the name it.
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Will be called doomsday. That is my prediction.
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Put it down. They're already calling it
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doomsday. There's a difference though,
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because Barbie was not fighting for the IMAX screen.
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Exactly. Yeah, no, that, that is a good
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point. So yeah, there is even more of
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a. So there's tension.
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It's not like, hey, we can coexist and everybody can come
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to. Right.
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No, it's it's. It's worth fighting.
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It's good. All right.
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So, yeah. So Avengers End Game in Infinity
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Vision were released in the theaters September 25th of 2026.
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All right, all right, so no spider left behind.
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Wait. A new rumor has surfaced over a
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year and a half ahead of the release of Avengers Secret Wars.
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The film, which will be the follow up to this year's
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Avengers Doomsday, hasn't had a lot revealed about it yet, as
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Doomsday will hopefully have plenty of its own twists and
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turns and surprises in store. So what can be said about the
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second film of the returning Bruso brothers?
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Well, a new rumor claims that despite rumors that Miles
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Morales could be introduced to take over Spider Man in the
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upcoming film, we won't be seeing him.
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Test after all on 2 tests. Studios head Kevin Feige
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previously gave an update regarding the potential
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appearance of Miles in the MCU, saying he has been lobbying to
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bring the character to live to the live action big screen, but
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has repeatedly been told no by Sony.
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Interesting. What do we think?
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Sony being difficult. I think it's Sony being
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difficult, but it, I don't know, I, I don't think, I just don't
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think the timing's right. I, I do want to get Miles
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Morales into the MCU somehow, or into the Sony spider verse
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somehow. Spunk.
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There's just so much happening within Doomsday and Secret Wars.
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I don't know if we can just shoehorn Miles in.
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Yeah, it is. It is a little bit like, yeah, I
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I don't know, I feel like we need more with Tom Holland to
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like justify, especially if there if he's going to replace
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Tom Holland, right, Like we need maybe another trilogy or
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something and then we'll we'll talk about it.
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But I think, you know, kind of like trickling little hints in
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and then introducing him fully at some point would be good.
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So I'm, I'm OK if we don't see him for a little bit.
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Yeah, I mean. I think it's, I think it's
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necessary. It's something that we need at
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some point, like we definitely need Miles Morales in the
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universe. And as of right now, you know,
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again, I think the smartest way to do it would be to allow the
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spider verse movies to be the background and not have to
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reintroduce him, just introduce him in live action.
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Yeah, no, no, I agree and kind of, yeah, you can just fold in
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all of that, right? I think we're going to see a lot
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of differences from, because, you know, we're ramping up to
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Secret Wars and like the Hickman version of Secret Wars, I think
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we're going to see some major differences, especially Miles
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Morales. Maybe it's going to be Tobey
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Maguire, Spider man instead. We shall see.
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But I think we haven't been talking about it because
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Doomsday has been such a big deal and we don't know what's
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happening in Doomsday. I think once we get to Secret
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Wars, it's going to be completely different than what
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we're expecting from Secret Wars from the Hickman comic line.
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Yeah, yeah. Pretty cool.
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All right, so. Yeah.
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So will any Spider Man make it into or out of Avengers Secret
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Wars? We'll find out.
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We'll find out. All right, so there's room for
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one more chair, especially if it's Ant sized.
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Avengers Doomsday has officially locked in the return of
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Catherine Newton, who has confirmed she's stepping back
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into the role of Cassie Lang following her debut at Ant Man
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and the Wasp Quadromania. She made the announcement in a
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pretty fun, very marvelly way. Newton, who recently appeared in
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Ready or Not to Here I Come, took to Instagram to reveal who
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returned. Instead of a simple post, she
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showed off a miniature director's chair with her name
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on it, playing into Marvel's ongoing cast reveal theme.
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It was a clever little tease that instantly got fans talking.
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So yeah, what do we think about this?
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I like it. I think that's that's funny.
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Well, especially because they did that for Paul Rudd's
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character too. Yeah, no, it's cute.
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They did this. They did this small little.
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Little chair, that's fun. It's yeah, I I do feel like the
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theory could be smaller, honestly.
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But you know, that's that's just me.
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Well, it caught me thinking like it it yeah, it's smaller because
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she's, you know, playing Ant Man's daughter kind of thing.
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But I'm like, what if this is how they trickle in more
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character announcements over the next few months?
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Yeah, just people. They Yeah, you'll make
00:18:27
Instagram. Posts of people unboxing and
00:18:30
it's. I I wouldn't be surprised.
00:18:31
I think it's a it's a decent mark and hanger.
00:18:34
But yeah, I mean, she was, she was fine in, in Quantum Mania
00:18:36
and you know, it, it like you know, it, it wasn't exactly the
00:18:41
best movie, but it was it was fine.
00:18:43
It was good. I liked her.
00:18:44
I think she was good. So yeah, I'm but I this is, you
00:18:48
know, not too surprising. I think we kind of expected for
00:18:51
her to be in there somewhere, but yeah.
00:18:54
And it keeps the door open for what if it's going to be Young
00:18:59
Avengers or what if it's going to be the Champions?
00:19:01
Yeah. She's right there.
00:19:04
Yes, and of course, presented in Infinity Vision, Doomsday is set
00:19:08
to hit theaters on December 18th of 2026.
00:19:11
Is that the name of the episode presented in Infinity Vision?
00:19:13
Is that what? We're doing.
00:19:14
It should be. Yeah.
00:19:15
It should be, yeah. Write it down.
00:19:18
All right, Speaking of doomsday, this movie isn't doomed.
00:19:24
A new report is making the rounds claiming the upcoming
00:19:26
Marvel event film is hiding a major twist that hits late in
00:19:30
the second act and completely reshapes everything that
00:19:32
follows. It's the kind of moment designed
00:19:34
to send audiences into full on shock.
00:19:37
According to insider Alex Perez from The Cosmic Circus, fans
00:19:40
have already pieced together a good chunk of the movie's
00:19:42
opening in middle sections. So yeah, So from Perez, most
00:19:47
people have gotten the first two acts right.
00:19:48
So far, no one seems to agree on the third act, though, which I
00:19:52
hope doesn't leak because the ending of Act 2 makes me think
00:19:55
the movie's over. And then it comes in with bait
00:19:57
and switch. The lead your jaw on the floor,
00:19:59
and then you realize there's an hour of movie left.
00:20:02
So yeah. So that was El Quez.
00:20:06
So. Yeah.
00:20:06
What what what do we think about this?
00:20:08
I mean, but yeah. So I'm going to say I, I kind of
00:20:12
already know what's going to happen through a source.
00:20:14
And I'm because, you know, I'm very much a, you know, I don't
00:20:19
care about spoilers, guys. So I was like, yeah, dude.
00:20:21
Are you trying to say you're an industry insider all of a
00:20:24
sudden? Not that kind of industry
00:20:25
insider, but I know somebody who is and, and I, I, I found out
00:20:31
some information and I'm, I'm just going to say yes.
00:20:37
It is going to mess with people really, really badly.
00:20:40
And I cannot wait for people to to see it.
00:20:43
I was thinking about. This and I was wondering like I
00:20:45
wonder if we get to the Earth's smashing together in in this
00:20:52
movie with an hour left and then the the third act is them kind
00:20:56
of piercing it together, which it's kind of like the the
00:21:00
prologue to Secret Wars type of thing.
00:21:02
Right, right, right. So I think it was.
00:21:04
Going to be that. Yeah.
00:21:07
I mean it's. Going to be.
00:21:08
Can neither confirm nor deny that.
00:21:09
No, I mean, it's going to be interesting to see kind of like
00:21:12
what direction it does go in again, every, every, every
00:21:16
inside source that I have is is is, I mean, I always have to
00:21:21
treat it as hearsay no matter what, even though, no matter how
00:21:23
close the source is. But I mean, like, if, if it's,
00:21:29
if it's what I think it's going to be, it's, it's, it's going to
00:21:33
be like mind blowing. But I mean, I'm excited for
00:21:38
either way, whether it what, what I learned is what's going
00:21:41
to happen or not. I'm, I'm excited for it.
00:21:43
I, I want to watch this movie. It is all the test screenings
00:21:48
are all saying that it is the best thing since end game.
00:21:51
They they're saying that it's end game level.
00:21:53
Yeah, they they were saying it's the best Marvel movie yet,
00:21:56
which, All right, great. Yeah, that again, that makes me
00:22:01
excited for it. So yeah.
00:22:04
So no, that's cool. So of course, did we mention
00:22:07
adventures? Doomsday hits theaters on
00:22:09
December 18th of 2026 in Infinity Vision.
00:22:12
Infinity Vision. But I think that was the like
00:22:19
Ultron version of Vision and and what if I think he was Infinity
00:22:22
Vision? I think he was actually.
00:22:24
Yeah. All right.
00:22:26
Well, let's run it down. Well, Marvel just debuted the
00:22:30
first full trailer for Avengers Doomsday at Cinemacon.
00:22:33
We saw Kevin Feige, the Russo Brothers, Chris Evans, and of
00:22:35
course Robert Downey Junior on the Cinemacon stage to show off
00:22:39
what RDJ called 321. The trailer of.
00:22:43
Doom. I'm having fun.
00:22:48
That's good. All right, so we're going to
00:22:50
just go through it. Here we go.
00:22:52
The footage kicks off with some narration that comes straight
00:22:54
from Doctor Doom, setting the tone with a looming threat.
00:22:57
Something is coming, something we may not be able to deter.
00:23:01
That line frames Doom in a really interesting way.
00:23:04
Instead of a straightforward villain, he feels more like
00:23:06
someone trying to stop an inevitable collapse.
00:23:09
Then there's the big epic moment.
00:23:11
Doom goes head to The God of Thunder goes full on attack mode
00:23:17
with Stormbreaker in hand as he jumps in the air looking to
00:23:20
bring his weapon down on Doom's head using his full Frank, and
00:23:23
when it lands Doom just catches it with two fingers.
00:23:26
No strain, no effort, just stops it.
00:23:29
Ultimately, Thor has learned. Go for the head.
00:23:33
Then Thor delivers what's described as the emotional core
00:23:35
of the trailer with this monologue.
00:23:37
I have fought with many warriors in my time.
00:23:40
They were far stronger than any of us combined, and they died.
00:23:43
They died facing enemies and threats that scared me far less
00:23:46
than this one. Everything that we sacrificed
00:23:48
will be for nothing if we do not stand together.
00:23:51
If you return, you will return as brothers and sisters.
00:23:55
But mark my words, we're going to need a miracle.
00:23:59
The trailer also teases some wild matchups and returns,
00:24:02
including hints of Avengers Classroom with X-Men Gambit
00:24:04
fighting Shanxi and Yelena Bilova facing off against
00:24:07
Mystique disguised as herself. There's even a glimpse of Steve
00:24:11
Rogers holding near meal near again.
00:24:13
Meal, meal, meal. So yeah, that's apparently the
00:24:19
the first full trailer. So what do you think?
00:24:20
I know that's that's what came from Cinemacon, Yeah.
00:24:23
And I've heard pretty much the exact same thing from a bunch of
00:24:27
different sources that were at Cinemacon.
00:24:31
And it's pretty much this. The only thing I don't see on
00:24:33
here is that we get a shot of Captain America and Thor, like
00:24:38
reuniting. So that was I heard that was
00:24:41
pretty cool. But yeah, I'm interested.
00:24:45
This is pretty cool. Like Gambit versus Shang Chi?
00:24:49
I'm in. Yeah, like kidding me.
00:24:50
That sounds like it would be amazing.
00:24:52
I just the, the, the level of martial arts prowess between the
00:24:55
two of them. One guy is an actual martial
00:24:57
artist. The other guy is really good at
00:24:59
stage fighting. So I mean, and I mean the stage
00:25:02
fights that he did because he did a lot of his own stunts in
00:25:04
Deadpool Wolverine. Like I, I, I want to see that
00:25:07
level of, of just amazing choreography and fighting
00:25:12
between him and Shang Chi That'd be so dope.
00:25:14
Be awesome. And, you know, if we kind of
00:25:17
look at this and kind of start reading in between, it kind of
00:25:20
starts to paint that picture of it's going to be, you know, the
00:25:25
X-Men universe versus Earth 616 somehow, you know, and maybe,
00:25:31
but somehow Doom's like, there in the middle of it, but not
00:25:35
necessarily as the villain. I don't know, 'cause I I also
00:25:40
heard that it's Captain or Steve Rogers on the Fantastic Four
00:25:47
ship with Doom. Interesting.
00:25:51
Yeah. It's it's it is very
00:25:53
interesting. A lot of it especially like
00:25:55
between the theories and everything that's kind of about
00:25:57
it and what not. Again, it's going to blow
00:26:00
everybody's minds. It's going to be so good man,
00:26:03
and I'm excited to see everything play out on screen.
00:26:05
You too all. Right.
00:26:06
So of course Avengers Dreams, they presented in Infinity
00:26:08
Business Storm Breaks in the theaters on December 18th of
00:26:12
2026. That's cute.
00:26:14
It's good. Infinity Vision.
00:26:17
Infinity Vision, it's going to get really bad in a second here.
00:26:21
Oh God, we're moving on. Maybe we'll get the vision in
00:26:24
Infinity Vision, so we get the vision for for Marvel Movie's
00:26:28
future. I need this as a sound bite.
00:26:34
Just just just. Marvel Studios is caring up for
00:26:41
a big return to San Diego Comic Con Marvel and and Hall Hitch
00:26:45
isn't just a panel, it's an event.
00:26:47
In the past, we've seen announcements of Iron Man, the
00:26:50
the original Avengers lineup, a surprise screening of Deadpool
00:26:52
and Wolverine, and the moment Robert Downey Junior was
00:26:55
announced to be the MC US Doctor Doom.
00:26:57
But now, according to The Wrap, lovely Studios is going all in.
00:27:01
The studio is expected to have a strong presence on the show
00:27:06
floor, and we claim it's traditional Saturday night Hall
00:27:09
H panel on July 25th. On top of that, they'll also
00:27:13
appear at the D-23 Expo just weeks later in August.
00:27:17
So now fans are asking. So now fans are asking if we
00:27:21
have to wait until San Diego Comic Con for the first fold of
00:27:25
Andrew's Doomsday trailer. Alternatively, there's also a
00:27:28
timing angle with Disney's summer lineup.
00:27:31
It wouldn't be surprising if Marvel attaches the first
00:27:33
trailer to the Mandalu and Grogu towards the end of May.
00:27:36
That would give the studio momentum head again to Comic Con
00:27:38
instead of holding everything back.
00:27:41
So yeah, there's there's a lot more here, but what do we think
00:27:43
so far? I you know, I was thinking, I'm
00:27:47
like, they're going to hold this until because they showed they,
00:27:50
they called it a trailer of Doom, but not the trailer, you
00:27:55
know, so. That a teaser.
00:27:57
A teaser, It could be just for Cinema Con and we don't see that
00:28:01
version of a trailer, you know for the public now, once you
00:28:06
read that line about Mandalorian and Grogu, just like what they
00:28:09
did for Avatar Fire and Ash and how they did the the four
00:28:13
different teasers in front. Of it makes sense, right?
00:28:17
I think they're going to do that.
00:28:18
I so I don't. I don't think we're going to
00:28:20
have to wait until Comic Con for the trailer itself.
00:28:25
I think we're going to get it during the Mando and Grogu
00:28:29
premieres. Maybe it comes out a couple
00:28:32
weeks later, who knows, Because I also think Star Wars needs
00:28:36
that push, that little bit of excitement.
00:28:40
Yeah, no, I think it's good. It gets good exposure and things
00:28:43
too. Phil I.
00:28:45
Mean, I think if anything, there may be more of a tease before
00:28:50
they drop the trailer. I think they're, or maybe Disney
00:28:53
is known for doing, hey, here's a teaser for the teaser for the
00:28:56
trailer, you know, and I mean, they've already done teasers for
00:29:01
the teaser and now they're going to give us another teaser that
00:29:04
probably ties all of those together in order to get that
00:29:08
ready for the trailer. So that way they can give you
00:29:11
something in front of Star Wars, but then at the same time
00:29:15
they're not giving you everything and then they're
00:29:16
giving you everything at Comic Con.
00:29:19
It's too much teasing honestly. Yeah.
00:29:20
But The thing is, is the, the, the, the long term strategy that
00:29:23
they do with things like this, especially with the movie that
00:29:26
has as much hype as Doomsday is, is going to have, they are going
00:29:29
to stretch it out and put more and more.
00:29:32
They're, they're more and more nothing out there 'cause the
00:29:35
other thing that that Disney and Marvel are really good at is
00:29:38
giving you a trailer where you think so much is happening, but
00:29:41
it's nothing. It is not even.
00:29:43
Giving you. No, no, they they're very, very
00:29:45
good about that. I I was mostly making a joke,
00:29:47
but yeah. I'm not going to sit online for
00:29:50
a live stream while they roll out chairs every 15 minutes for
00:29:56
like 8 hours at a time. I'm not going to do that, even
00:29:58
though I've already done that, but I'm just do it.
00:30:00
Again, I'm not. Going to do it again and then he
00:30:02
does it again for Secret Wars. So I mean like.
00:30:04
We're putting together, we'll get to do it again.
00:30:06
Fucking cigarettes. Shit.
00:30:07
Anyway. All right, So what else?
00:30:10
So Doomsday probably won't be the only thing Marvel brings to
00:30:12
the table. The time and current call of
00:30:15
Cara. I cannot, cannot speak.
00:30:17
Do do. We call this presented in
00:30:19
Infinity vision or do we call it she do can't speak.
00:30:23
Maybe both honestly can't be presented in Infinity Vision.
00:30:28
The timing of Comic Con puts it just one week ahead of Spiderman
00:30:31
Brand New Day hitting theaters, so there's almost no chance that
00:30:34
movie doesn't get some kind of spotlight.
00:30:36
Will Tom Holland return to the STCC stage?
00:30:40
Marvel could also carve out time for its Disney Plus slate,
00:30:43
including Vision Quest, new seasons of X-Men 97, Eyes of
00:30:46
Wakanda and Marvel Zombies. Oh yeah, I forgot.
00:30:49
About that there's there's a bunch of stuff coming out this
00:30:52
year I. Also forgot that Spider Man was
00:30:54
happening right there. So I mean, they may actually be
00:30:56
saving the full trailer for San Diego Comic Con so that it runs
00:30:59
in before Spider Man. Well, I think what did they do
00:31:03
for Deadpool and Wolverine? Like it came out like the same
00:31:07
weekend or something like that. And I think they did a special
00:31:12
like Comic Con viewing of Deadpool, Wolverine at SDCCI.
00:31:17
Bet they're going to do the same thing for Spider Man.
00:31:19
And maybe they're going to have TomTom Holland come out 'cause I
00:31:22
don't think he's been to a Comic Con since like he first got
00:31:25
introduced as Spider Man. I mean, we, well, I mean, we
00:31:29
know Tom Holland's just going to spoil the whole movie, so, you
00:31:31
know. Part of the problem is like, OK,
00:31:34
we can't have Tom Holland, we can't have Mark Ruffalo because
00:31:39
they just tend to spoil everything.
00:31:42
They're just, they're just locked in Kevin Feige's closet
00:31:45
right now. Like OK, like.
00:31:47
No, no spoilers. It's almost I'm Tom.
00:31:50
Share it, Tom. Stop it, Tom.
00:31:52
And Diane says hi. Tom.
00:31:56
Mark, stop. So San Diego Comic Con 26 will
00:32:02
be held from July 20, July 23rd to July 26th.
00:32:07
And knowing Marvel, it'll probably be held in Infinity
00:32:11
Vision. Infinity Vision.
00:32:14
I'm done with that. The jokes, the the, the joke was
00:32:17
all the first time we said it. So that'll all right.
00:32:20
I'm going to. Keep this going.
00:32:24
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I just realized I did all that and looked up at the thing and I
00:33:09
did not add watching the Watchtower back in.
00:33:11
So we're just going to jump into watching the Watchtower.
00:33:14
Hey, do that volume or do that mic thing again because it got
00:33:18
weird. Yeah, the mic, once you hit the
00:33:21
sound, sound bite. It yeah, you it like greased a
00:33:26
lot worse. So you guys can't hear me at all
00:33:28
anymore? Or now we can.
00:33:29
Hear you? Yeah, Now you're good.
00:33:31
OK, OK, there we go. Well.
00:33:34
Yeah, watching Watchtower. Let's jump into watching The
00:33:36
Watchtower here. Has Tywin just been Harvey Dent
00:33:40
this entire time? Not again.
00:33:46
According to Deadline, Charles Dance is in talks to join The
00:33:49
Batman Part 2, stepping into the ever expanding world that Robert
00:33:53
Pattinson and director Matt Reeves are building.
00:33:55
According to the sources, Dances Dance would most likely play
00:34:00
Charles Dent, the father of Harvey Dent, Gotham's District
00:34:04
Attorney. Presented in Infinity Vision.
00:34:09
That puts him right at the center of the family that comic
00:34:12
fans know doesn't exactly have a smooth future.
00:34:16
Harvey Dent is said to be played by Sebastian Stan, with Scarlett
00:34:19
Johansson reportedly taking on the role of Dent's wife.
00:34:22
Nothing has been officially confirmed yet in DC Studios
00:34:25
hasn't commented, but the pieces are lining up in pretty
00:34:29
interesting ways. DC Studios has had a rough time
00:34:33
casting this role. They've already gone through
00:34:35
actors like Stellan Skarsgard, Viggo Mortensen, Robert De Niro,
00:34:38
and Daniel Craig. So what are what are your guys
00:34:41
thoughts on this? Do you guys think that Tywin
00:34:43
Lannister is going to make a good Charles Dent?
00:34:48
Go ahead. Yeah, I don't like I could see
00:34:51
it. I mean, I honestly haven't seen
00:34:53
him in much else. Well, yeah, I, I, I think he's I
00:34:58
think he's got the the gravitas, the bravado.
00:35:00
I mean, I yeah, I think, I think we good.
00:35:04
So I'm I'm I'm curious. You know, every actor that
00:35:09
they've, you know, said that has been attached to this role has
00:35:13
been an amazing choice in including Charles Dance.
00:35:17
Just, you know, put somebody in that role already.
00:35:21
Like, why do we keep getting all these like, rumors and people
00:35:24
turning things down? It kind of hurts the film, you
00:35:27
know? I think part of what's going on
00:35:30
is a lot of these actors are like, this role is probably
00:35:33
going to be like very, very, very like, like just
00:35:37
psychologically taxing and. I think they're.
00:35:41
Just like, you know, a lot of these actors are like, I, I
00:35:43
don't wanna, I don't wanna do this one.
00:35:45
I don't wanna deal with this. But you get someone like Charles
00:35:48
Dance, who has already played a very psychologically taxing
00:35:51
character. I think these are and he played
00:35:55
a psychologically taxing character for a long time, given
00:35:58
that he yeah, yeah, he played Tywin Lannister, which is a
00:36:01
character that that, you know, he go, he deals with and goes
00:36:05
through a lot. So I.
00:36:07
Not just the character, but a father figure.
00:36:10
Right, right. I think that this, the way that
00:36:12
they're going to portray Charles Dent is going to be very
00:36:15
similar. And I think Charles Dance is
00:36:17
probably a good fit for it. They're probably just kind of
00:36:19
approaching him now and saying, hey, you know, do you think you
00:36:23
hate your you're you're our our fifth, our fifth choice.
00:36:28
But you know, do you want to take a stab at this character?
00:36:35
And again, if anybody, Charles Dance is someone who could who
00:36:39
could embody this character extremely well.
00:36:41
Yeah. No, you could.
00:36:42
Yeah, you could definitely do it.
00:36:44
So. I'm I'm I'm I'm.
00:36:46
I like the choice. I agree.
00:36:48
I agree. So we can go ahead and move on
00:36:52
here jumping into next thing because I guess they're not
00:36:57
they're not playing around anymore.
00:36:59
When is The Batman coming out? Oh, sorry.
00:37:01
The Batman is gearing up to begin production in the spring
00:37:04
with a theatrical release set for October 1st, 2027 brought to
00:37:09
you in In Infinity Vision. Actually, no, it's not.
00:37:14
Oh, OK. All right.
00:37:18
Right. So yeah, I, I guess they're just
00:37:20
not playing around anymore. No, yeah, no, no, dad puns, OK.
00:37:26
I wrote it so it's not fine anymore.
00:37:29
During the Warner Brothers presentation at of Cinema Con
00:37:32
2026, we saw the first glimpses at DC Studios Clayface.
00:37:37
Clayface centers on one of Gotham's more unsettling vision
00:37:40
vision villains. I can't speak like you.
00:37:43
A shapeshifter whose story leans hard into body horror.
00:37:46
The tone has been likened to something out of a Cronenberg
00:37:50
nightmare rather than a traditional superhero romp.
00:37:55
Oh, that sounds scary. This sounds like something This
00:37:57
sounds like something that that that graveyard would absolutely
00:38:00
love. And he's probably going to tear
00:38:02
it apart and hate it, but I mean, still.
00:38:05
So James Watkins is directing the film, working from a
00:38:08
screenplay by Mike Flanagan, which I this makes me even more
00:38:11
excited for it. And Jose Amini rising star Tom
00:38:16
Reese Harris plays Matt Hagan. So they are going with Matt
00:38:20
Hagan on this. An actor whose life collapses
00:38:23
after his face is disfigured, Matt Hagan is shown in a
00:38:27
hospital bed with his face wrapped, his skin red and
00:38:29
damaged, and his expression filled with pain and shock.
00:38:34
The future cuts go ahead. I was just saying that's that's
00:38:37
awful. I mean, but, but again, it kind
00:38:40
of it it, it kind of roundabout. It explains the way what like
00:38:45
what Clayface actually goes through in a way that's more
00:38:49
like realistic, which makes it more scary.
00:38:53
The footage cuts, cuts between his present condition and
00:38:56
flashes of who he was before, while his body begins changing
00:39:00
in grotesque ways, like his skin melting.
00:39:04
It's going to look like a wax man It's disgusting.
00:39:07
Reports describe scenes of his lips sticking together, shadowy
00:39:11
images of his body forming weapon like hands, terrified
00:39:15
people screaming and a final disturbing moment where he wipes
00:39:18
away his own face in a bathtub. Oh my God, this sounds amazing
00:39:21
and scary. The footage also made clear this
00:39:25
is not being played as a standard superhero movie.
00:39:28
Thank you Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers presented
00:39:30
Clayface as a horror driven DC film with early reactions
00:39:34
calling it violent, unnerving, and heavily focused on physical
00:39:38
transformation and psychological torment.
00:39:41
So Marvel tried their hand at horror with Doctor Strange and I
00:39:48
mean, you know, they had horror elements.
00:39:50
DC is going all in. Yeah.
00:39:54
Yeah, Marvel, we're going full horror on this.
00:39:57
Marvel had like a couple jump scares here and there, but yeah,
00:40:00
DC is like, no, we're going to take the gloves off.
00:40:03
We're we're going to get a little dirty with this.
00:40:05
Yeah, so I, I mean that that seems like this is the kind of
00:40:10
the direction that a lot of fans have been waiting for.
00:40:12
Yeah. Now they're looking for a real
00:40:14
horror film and I believe that they face.
00:40:17
And honestly? Like.
00:40:18
Body horror movies tend to do pretty well right now It's and I
00:40:23
think they're very relatable, is that it's weird to say that, but
00:40:29
relevant. Because because you're dealing
00:40:31
with the human condition in comparison to like how people
00:40:36
react to changes in their bodies.
00:40:39
So I mean, it is something that is somewhat relatable.
00:40:41
Yeah. Makes it scary.
00:40:43
Clayface, the DC Studios dip into horror genre gets it.
00:40:47
The actual release, October 23rd, 2026, that's this year,
00:40:52
guys. It's just in time for Halloween
00:40:56
Perfect. And it will not be an Infinity
00:40:58
Vision. Oh.
00:41:00
We're not ending this joke. No, I, I, I accepted my fate
00:41:05
now. Yeah, as you should.
00:41:06
You should be accepting your fate on this because.
00:41:11
It's it's like Teresa's all over again.
00:41:14
Do not hate on Teresa's, boy. You may not believe in Teresa's,
00:41:21
but Teresa's believes in you. #Teresa saves.
00:41:26
Hashtag Teresa saves what they say in the chat.
00:41:30
Just right now, DC just going everywhere at once feels like
00:41:34
the. Best thing ever, Yeah.
00:41:37
And again, I'm, I'm so excited for that.
00:41:40
I'm so excited to hear that they're actually going to lean
00:41:43
into like actual horror and not kind of like dip their toes and
00:41:47
like, oh, this is horror adjacent, right?
00:41:51
You know, like they're actually going to do some horror, which
00:41:53
makes it that much more fun. Yeah, and it probably helps that
00:41:57
James Gunn has dipped his hand into a little bit of horror.
00:42:00
Well, he's. In horror.
00:42:01
So I mean, like, it makes a lot of sense, yeah.
00:42:03
So it's probably like he's like, yeah, let's get into it.
00:42:06
Like he's like, this is something I want to see as a
00:42:09
fan, so somebody go make this. Yeah, he's like, if we're going
00:42:11
to do horror, we're doing horror.
00:42:12
We're not doing this little half ass grabby shit like we're
00:42:15
doing. We're going horror.
00:42:17
Yeah. Right, so let's jump.
00:42:19
Into. This.
00:42:20
Let's jump. Yeah, I know, right?
00:42:21
Let's jump into this last DC story here.
00:42:25
Truth, justice and action. Action Comics.
00:42:30
Action Comics James Gunn just confirmed that cameras are
00:42:35
rolling on Man of Tomorrow, the follow up to Superman.
00:42:38
And along with that announcement came a simple but intriguing
00:42:41
first set photo. It doesn't show any characters,
00:42:44
explosions, or costumes, but it might be hinting at something
00:42:48
even more interesting. Gun share the update with a
00:42:51
short message from the set of Man of Tomorrow.
00:42:54
Shooting now, But the image itself has sparked a wave of
00:42:58
speculation. So sitting on the table is a
00:43:00
chess board placed next to a visitor's badge tied to the van.
00:43:04
Cool. Department of Corrections.
00:43:07
That little detail suggests that Lex Luthor is behind bars when
00:43:11
the story kicks off. But the real question is who is
00:43:15
sitting across from him? So a Superman himself, you know,
00:43:20
might he be paying Luther a visit?
00:43:23
That kind of that kind of face off has roots in the comics,
00:43:27
including Superman, son of Carlisle annual #1, which
00:43:30
featured a similar setup between the two characters.
00:43:33
So I don't know what are you, what are your guys thoughts on
00:43:37
kind of the image itself with the chess board, with the pieces
00:43:40
and and and the badge? I think this, you know what this
00:43:45
reminds me of? It reminds me of Charles Xavier
00:43:49
visiting Magneto while Magneto's in prison, you know, and it's,
00:43:54
and it's that like, hey, we're adversaries, but we have to find
00:43:59
a common ground. And I think this is the start of
00:44:02
them trying to find the common ground.
00:44:04
No, it's cool. I mean, I, Yeah, I love the idea
00:44:07
of it. I love it.
00:44:07
Yeah, because we have both the comic panel and the actual set
00:44:11
photo here. Yeah.
00:44:13
It's a really, it's a really cool idea.
00:44:16
Like it's yeah, it's a really good like, I kind of hope that's
00:44:19
the opening to it. Is it just them playing chess
00:44:23
and and talking? And it's like having this, you
00:44:25
know, this fight, but it's a mental fight and it's very, you
00:44:29
know, throwing things back and forth at each other in in
00:44:33
verbally. It's.
00:44:34
Yeah, it's cool. I love that kind of thing in in
00:44:36
film. I mean, people pray a lot in
00:44:39
just expressions and walking and all that.
00:44:42
Right. It's very much the matching of
00:44:44
wits between Clark and and Lex. And I mean, you know, Lex is a
00:44:52
highly intelligent person. But I mean, what I love about
00:44:57
this, what I love about what James Gunn has done with this
00:45:00
universe is he he relies heavily on the comics.
00:45:03
He's not someone who shies away from, you know, kind of their
00:45:08
mannerisms in the comics. And it it also shows that not
00:45:13
only is Superman, you know, this moral, like highly moral person
00:45:18
and he's someone who is, you know, the the ultimate strength
00:45:23
in, in all of comics, but he's also intelligent.
00:45:26
Like a lot of people kind of like put it past him and like,
00:45:29
try to make it seem like, Oh yeah, now he's just a big, dumb
00:45:32
strong guy. Well, he's not.
00:45:33
He's highly intelligent, highly strategic, you know, like they,
00:45:38
they, they say that Superman, he's the, the level of
00:45:43
intelligence that he has is that he can come up with anywhere
00:45:48
between 50 to 100 strategic possibilities in a moment while
00:45:53
he's fighting you. So that way you can figure out
00:45:56
what is the best strategy to use.
00:45:58
So that way I have the least amount of collateral.
00:46:01
Yeah, it's no, it's, it's good. And that's, you know, yeah,
00:46:04
because strength is nothing without tactics, without
00:46:07
strategy, without intelligence. Right, right.
00:46:10
And that's, that's one of the things in the comics and it's
00:46:13
like, you know, him playing chess with Lex Luthor.
00:46:16
And, and I hope they do it like he does it in the comics where
00:46:20
he's playing chess with Lex, but he's letting Lex win in order to
00:46:24
save his ego, right? Because Superman could have beat
00:46:28
him in like 3 moves. Yeah.
00:46:31
You know, like, I hope they go that route and like, don't
00:46:35
explain it until later that, you know, I, I hope it, it starts
00:46:41
off where, you know, Clark has been seeing Lex in jail over the
00:46:47
course of like a year, right? And he visits him on a regular
00:46:50
basis and they play chess and they have conversations.
00:46:53
Lex is still adversarial. So Lex is still like, I'm better
00:46:56
than you. And when I get out of here, I am
00:46:59
going to find a way to stop you. And, you know, 'cause he thinks
00:47:02
he's the good guy, right? But, but Superman is literally
00:47:06
just kind of like stringing him along in order to kind of like,
00:47:10
yeah, I want you to be the best version of yourself.
00:47:13
And if that means that you, you know, I, I, I can let you win in
00:47:18
order to make you think that you're better than you are, then
00:47:21
because, because Clark is that guy.
00:47:22
So yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm excited to kind of see how how James
00:47:28
Gunn plays this game. Yeah.
00:47:32
Cool. Is that our last DC story?
00:47:34
That was our last DC story, yeah.
00:47:35
Last DC story. So let's let's let's get going
00:47:39
on to the next segment here. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time
00:47:42
for the news. Whoo, that's all.
00:47:48
Right. For more news, trailers, and
00:47:50
reactions, check out the Distance Nerdington post on
00:47:52
Facebook. Let us know what you're nerding
00:47:54
out on. All right, let me dive into
00:47:57
this. Ryland is never coming home, is
00:48:00
he? The sci-fi spectacle of Project
00:48:03
Hail Mary isn't heading to streaming anytime soon.
00:48:07
Co director Christopher Miller announced that Cinemacon,
00:48:12
Amazon, MGM is extending the film's theatrical run, keeping
00:48:17
it locked onto the big screens for the foreseeable future.
00:48:20
The message is pretty clear. If you want to see Ryan Gosling
00:48:23
team up with Rocky, you'll need to grab a theater seat.
00:48:28
The gamble to keep it all it theatrical is paying off.
00:48:32
Since its March release, Project Hail Mary has pulled in over
00:48:36
$517 million worldwide, quickly turning into one of the year's
00:48:42
biggest hits. It's a It's a really good movie.
00:48:46
Despite the author of the original book kind of being an
00:48:49
idiot right now, it's a it's a really good movie.
00:48:52
I enjoyed it I. Haven't seen it.
00:48:54
Yeah, it's amazing movie. I haven't seen it yet.
00:48:57
It's amazing. Well worth the watch man.
00:49:00
I think you could probably actually well you might be able
00:49:02
to take chemo to go see that. I don't know if he if he would
00:49:04
keep keep his attention the entire time.
00:49:06
If he likes like science and and and some science fiction stuff,
00:49:10
he might like it. It's it's it's.
00:49:12
Really. Yeah, it is a fairly slow movie,
00:49:14
but yeah, it's but it. There's a lot of like science
00:49:17
explainers and kind of like, you know, going through like the
00:49:20
like the actual science of things.
00:49:22
And it's like if, if, if he likes the Martian or something,
00:49:25
it's it's that same kind of energy.
00:49:27
So yeah. Really well done, really good
00:49:30
movie. There are some funny scenes with
00:49:33
more so like the interactions. Yeah, it's good.
00:49:36
Yeah. I want, I want to go see it as
00:49:38
well. Yeah.
00:49:40
At home, you know. What I mean?
00:49:43
More popcorn for me. James, maybe we go on a mandate,
00:49:46
bro. There you go, mandate it up.
00:49:48
Yeah. I mandate the mandate.
00:49:51
Seconds away from making that joke.
00:49:54
OK, moving on, Tarnished. It's time for a new adventure.
00:49:58
Alex Garland's A 24 Elden Ring movie is starting to come
00:50:04
together. Built on the foundation laid by
00:50:07
Demon Souls and expanded through the titles like Dark Souls,
00:50:11
Bloodborne and Sakura, the Elden Ring's game drops players into
00:50:16
the hauntingly beautiful Lands Between.
00:50:20
Producing are Peter Rice, Andrew MacDonald and Alan Reich
00:50:25
alongside Vince Geraldis and George RR Martin.
00:50:31
Interesting, Martin played a key role in shaping the original
00:50:35
games lore, working with Hiritaka Mizazaki.
00:50:41
Miyazaki. I got it.
00:50:45
I nailed it. A 24 confirms that Elden Ring
00:50:49
will begin filming this spring, with a theatrical release set
00:50:53
for March 3rd, 2028, so 2, two years away.
00:50:58
Cool. No, I'm I'm, I'm curious about
00:51:00
this. I have not played it.
00:51:01
I probably should. I'd probably enjoy it, but it's
00:51:05
yeah, no, it sounds cool. I always take more more original
00:51:08
fantasy stuff. Have you played any souls games?
00:51:10
Like did you? Play.
00:51:11
I have not. I need to, I, I again, I feel
00:51:13
like I'd enjoy them. I know they're very, very
00:51:15
difficult and I would probably break my computer a couple of
00:51:17
times, but I would. Say you need to preface yourself
00:51:21
like you need to prepare yourself by at least playing
00:51:23
Dark Souls. I'm planning to yeah.
00:51:26
Those games are so hard. These are games like they,
00:51:30
they're bringing back like old school video game styles where
00:51:33
like Dark Souls, if you die once, it starts you over from
00:51:36
the beginning of the game. Like yeah, you, you, you need to
00:51:39
be prepared for what you're doing with this, at least this
00:51:41
game that gives you like checkpoints and what not, but
00:51:43
like. That's fucking mean, man.
00:51:44
Yeah. Because it's meant to be
00:51:46
difficult. It's meant to be hard.
00:51:48
The boss fights are ridiculously hard, there's a lot of body
00:51:52
horror, there's a lot of like weird demonic monster stuff.
00:51:57
It's they're good games in general, right?
00:52:00
Did you play the Jedi Survivor games?
00:52:05
Yes I am. I am going through Jedi Survivor
00:52:08
right now. So think the difficulty of those
00:52:11
games but with like, you know, eldritch horror.
00:52:14
OK, I'm in. Yeah.
00:52:17
And then Elden Ring in itself. Basically it was a Dark Souls
00:52:22
game where George RR Martin wrote all the lore for it.
00:52:26
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm I was aware of that.
00:52:28
Yeah. And I think.
00:52:30
George RR because. I mean.
00:52:33
Finish writing things. Well, again, we talked.
00:52:36
We. Talked people do anything but
00:52:37
write wins the winner we. Talked.
00:52:39
We talked about it last week. Supposedly, he turned in a draft
00:52:41
of wins, the winner in January. Supposedly I'm I'm not going to
00:52:45
believe it until until I I have it and I'm reading it.
00:52:47
But yeah, well, I mean, if anything, if he if he turned in
00:52:50
a draft in January, the announcement wouldn't be until
00:52:52
like maybe Comic Con and the book won't come out until
00:52:55
December. So because they still have to
00:52:57
like, you know, print and. Everything makes sense this
00:52:58
winter. Yeah.
00:53:01
All right, let's move on. Some news from the Ooze.
00:53:06
Fans already knew Shredder was coming into play after the
00:53:10
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem post credits
00:53:13
tease, but now there's another major threat entering the mix.
00:53:17
At Cinema Con 2026, Paramount Pictures shared a bit more with
00:53:22
producers Seth Rogen. James Weaver and Evan Goldberg
00:53:27
shared a video message confirming that Krang will be
00:53:30
joining Shredder in the sequel. I always like Krang.
00:53:36
I don't know why so I'm I'm. Saying you've got to do like the
00:53:40
old school voice search. Like what are the turtles doing?
00:53:45
Let's add that to your resume. There you go.
00:53:49
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem 2 is scheduled for
00:53:53
theatrical release August 13th, 2027.
00:53:57
Very cool. I'm excited if Krang, I, I, I
00:53:59
want to see that version of Krang, the one that from Mutant
00:54:02
Mayhem. Like Krang, Yeah.
00:54:04
Like Shredders got to be like, you know, kind of like scary
00:54:07
looking, but like Krang, like a giant brain inside of a robot
00:54:12
torso. Like I, I want to see what
00:54:14
they're going to do with him. You want to do the voice one
00:54:17
more time? I'll catch you again, Turtle.
00:54:23
It's like he's drowning. That's what he sounds like.
00:54:26
It's it's so weird when when you hear Crane talking.
00:54:29
I love it, I love it, okay, I feel the need, the need for more
00:54:36
speed again. More, more speed again.
00:54:40
Okay, that's Cinemacon. Paramount Pictures Co head Josh
00:54:44
Greenstein gave an update. Top Gun 3 is officially in
00:54:48
development with a script well underway, reuniting Tom Cruise
00:54:52
and Jerry Bruckheimer. Top Gun Maverick was a massive
00:54:56
hit at the box office in 2022, earning 1.5 billion globally.
00:55:03
I I'm in, I'm totally in. I know Jerry Bruckheimer has
00:55:07
been talking about is it this is it, is it Pirates of the
00:55:11
Caribbean? I'm so happy it's Top Gun.
00:55:14
I still want Pirates, but I'm glad Top Gun is moving forward
00:55:17
and we don't have to wait like 40 years for it.
00:55:21
Now we're going to get. Taken down because copyright
00:55:28
infringement. Yeah, I'm copywriting like the
00:55:30
the the theme. We will let you know when more
00:55:34
plot details request a flyby. In Infinity vision, no, I'm
00:55:38
sorry that that's. Infinity.
00:55:41
No, no, Infinity Vision. We're going back to the Last
00:55:44
Rainforest. Fern Gully The Last Rainforest
00:55:47
is about to go grow back as Amazon MGM Studios gears up to
00:55:52
bring the classic back as a live action film.
00:55:58
OK. The 1992 film Fern Gully had and
00:56:02
surprising sharp environmental message wrapped in a colorful
00:56:06
fantasy world. A lot of fans feel like James
00:56:09
Gunn's Avatar franchise. James Cameron.
00:56:13
Oh, sorry. James Gunn.
00:56:15
Cameron's James Cameron's Avatar franchise was inspired by the
00:56:20
movie as it carries many of the same themes.
00:56:23
Interesting. So why are we going to get a
00:56:24
live action Fern Gully if you already had a live action
00:56:28
avatar? Because it's different.
00:56:30
Because. Cause fairies.
00:56:33
These ones have wings. OK, got it.
00:56:34
Yeah, Right now there's no casting announced, and plenty of
00:56:37
details are still under wraps. I don't think we need this as a
00:56:41
live action movie. I'm sorry, I don't.
00:56:42
Think we do either, but I mean, you know, they're going to do
00:56:45
whatever they think makes the money, so.
00:56:46
I mean, re release the movie. I'd be fine with that.
00:56:50
Yeah, right. Like re release it for a newer
00:56:53
generation, put it in theaters, advertise it or like like you,
00:56:58
you restore like do do like a full HD restoration of it.
00:57:03
And let's not take away from the amazing performances that were
00:57:09
in that movie, no. No, no, no, see, they're going
00:57:11
to do a live action remake because they think they're just
00:57:13
remaking something that will get them more, you know, more money.
00:57:16
So they're not going to make anything new.
00:57:18
They're just going to make, you know, the same thing over and
00:57:20
over. Again, no, I, I mean, again,
00:57:22
I'm, I'm all for doing live action remakes if it makes sense
00:57:28
for like certain things, right, But I mean, like, I, I feel like
00:57:33
leaving it the way it was like like Robin Williams and Tim
00:57:36
Curry had some of the best performances in in that film.
00:57:40
Yeah. Right.
00:57:41
Like Tim Curry has some of the best songs in there.
00:57:45
Robin Williams is absolutely hilarious, you know, So I mean,
00:57:49
I, I love Fern Gully. Fern Gully was a movie that I
00:57:52
watched a lot as a kid. I don't think we need a live
00:57:55
action Ferngilly because like the fairies are the only things
00:57:58
that make sense. Baddie's going to be really
00:58:00
weird. If they try to do baddie as like
00:58:02
a a live action thing. I feel like they're going to go.
00:58:05
You have to kind of go over CG to do Hexus.
00:58:07
Yeah. And then again it it's just
00:58:10
Avatar again. You're right.
00:58:12
Yeah, so I. So it's so interesting watching
00:58:15
like like kind of bigger fantasy or sci-fi that are getting
00:58:21
remade into live action because half of it's already like it
00:58:25
seems like animation or just CGI like I was.
00:58:28
Right, because there's so much. Yeah.
00:58:29
We. We really.
00:58:30
Like visual effects going into it, It's like, yeah.
00:58:32
We we watch stitch, you know, Lilo and stitch the live action
00:58:36
one the other day and I was watching like the 1st 15 minutes
00:58:39
of it. I'm like, this just feels like
00:58:41
the animated version because it's all aliens, you know?
00:58:44
So I'm just like, what are we doing here?
00:58:46
Why are we? Calling this live action, you
00:58:48
know. Because because they want to do
00:58:49
like, you know, oh, we want to get into the realism of it, but
00:58:52
it's like, do we need that for Fern Gully?
00:58:56
You're going to have like really big bugs and.
00:58:58
Right. Like, like, part of the point is
00:59:00
that it's a little surreal. Yeah, there, there is a lot of
00:59:04
suspend suspending of of disbelief.
00:59:07
And if they try to add more of a human element to it, because,
00:59:11
yeah, I mean, you have the the one kid that's a logger that
00:59:14
gets shrunk down and he's like among the fairies and why not?
00:59:19
But it's like, oh, Tone Loke did have a banger of a song.
00:59:23
Easy money. I agree.
00:59:25
Tone Loke as the as a lizard. That's good.
00:59:30
Good call back. Oh.
00:59:31
Was it a human? Delicious and nutritious.
00:59:34
Tastes just like. Chicken and of course,
00:59:36
unfortunately foreign garlic will not be presented in
00:59:38
Infinity Vision. I hope it's not.
00:59:40
I hope it's not we. We don't need that Infinity
00:59:42
vision. All right, Tim, go ahead.
00:59:44
Enough, enough with the sequels on the remix cuz this is the
00:59:48
news 1 Spaceballs 2 is happening and the first footage was shown
00:59:54
at Cinemacon along with the confirmation of its on brand
00:59:58
title Spaceballs The new one. The footage kicked off with a
01:00:02
message from Dark Helmet himself before shifting into something
01:00:06
unexpected. Instead of a traditional
01:00:09
trailer, the presentation played out like a documentary about how
01:00:13
the sequel somehow got approved in the 1st place.
01:00:17
I don't want to say that. Yeah.
01:00:19
Oh, no, they they've been putting like little snippets out
01:00:21
on online, specifically go to Mel Brooks's like social media
01:00:28
and they've been putting out like little like videos and and
01:00:31
reels of like documentary style of him talking about it.
01:00:34
Like there's one where he's explaining how they came up with
01:00:37
the name and he was like, yeah, originally we were going to call
01:00:39
it a space balls to the hunt for money.
01:00:42
Well, you know, it's been 40 years and we never got the
01:00:45
money, so the new one makes more sense because it's the new one.
01:00:50
He's like, I found the money, Yeah.
01:00:51
That's what he said. He goes.
01:00:53
I found the money. It was in my basement.
01:00:55
I. Mean it's like the money.
01:00:58
Right. So it's like the money.
01:01:00
Yeah, I, I, I, I love the way that they've been like kind of
01:01:03
doing all of this. I, I just, yeah, I'm this, this.
01:01:08
I'm more excited. I'm still ready for this.
01:01:09
Yeah. Yeah, that's gonna be good.
01:01:11
All right, Spaceballs, the new one will be in theaters April
01:01:16
23rd, 20270. Whoa.
01:01:19
OK, so you're away all? Right.
01:01:20
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool.
01:01:22
I think there's still many editing on it so.
01:01:24
Yeah, All right, My last one, I Am The Ghost Who Walks.
01:01:28
The Phantom is officially being developed as a live action
01:01:33
series, with filmmaker Reginald Hudlund leading the charge.
01:01:37
The Phantom isn't just another masked vigilante.
01:01:40
Created by Lee Falk, the character first appeared nearly
01:01:44
90 years ago and is widely recognized as the first costume
01:01:49
superhero. Long before Batman or Iron Man
01:01:52
suited up, there was the Ghost Who Walks, a jungle protector
01:01:57
whose legend is built on legacy, myth and generations of crime
01:02:01
fighting. No date when the Phantom
01:02:03
returns. See this is cool.
01:02:06
Yeah, this is what we should be doing for adaptations than we
01:02:09
makes is digging this shit up. This is cool.
01:02:10
Somebody called Billy Zane, get him back out there.
01:02:13
I hope that they bring Billy Zane back at least for some kind
01:02:16
of cameo. Right.
01:02:18
Because Billy Zane played the original version of the of of
01:02:20
the Phantom when they originally did a live action Phantom.
01:02:24
Let him be like the villain of the first you know, or one of
01:02:27
the episodes. That would be cool too, like
01:02:29
just to have him be like a villain.
01:02:32
I heard that Reginald Hudlin is, is looking to kind of update
01:02:37
what it is because like, you know, there's a lot of white
01:02:40
saviour in the Phantom. It's like a white guy goes to
01:02:43
the jungle and tries to protect a bunch of Africans and the, the
01:02:47
rumors are that they're going to change certain aspects of it or
01:02:54
this would I, I know this would really piss off a lot of people
01:02:56
who don't know the phantom but don't understand it either.
01:02:59
They're saying that they may turn the phantom, they, they may
01:03:02
race ban the phantom, make him black because it makes more
01:03:05
sense for that character and where he is.
01:03:10
And a lot of people, you know, there, there are a lot of people
01:03:12
who get upset with that. Well, you know what?
01:03:14
Those people that deserve to get upset.
01:03:16
And they really should. They should be upset about that.
01:03:20
They should be upset and they should go like go scream in
01:03:22
their basements where they normally.
01:03:24
Go cry in the corner, that's fine.
01:03:25
Right, but any any, any adaptation, any version of the
01:03:30
Phantom, The Phantom is such a fun character.
01:03:33
You know, friend of the show Badass Zane needs to show friend
01:03:38
of the show Aaron. You know, our, our our buddy.
01:03:46
What, what, what? There's like 17 errands that we
01:03:49
know. Yeah, we're gonna we.
01:03:51
Well, we're gonna. I was saying what is he going by
01:03:52
now, man? He's he's 'cause he's talking
01:03:54
about fours. Are you talking about fours?
01:03:56
What's what's fours going on by now?
01:03:58
I think he's actually going by his real name now, Yeah, But
01:04:01
yeah, 4. That errand.
01:04:02
Yeah, Fours. His first voice acting gig was
01:04:07
for a fan Phantom video game remake.
01:04:10
Nice. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember
01:04:12
that. Yeah.
01:04:12
Yeah. That's cool.
01:04:14
So pretty. Pretty.
01:04:15
Yeah. It's a good heaven though.
01:04:17
I know, right? That would be kind of cool.
01:04:19
Like, you know, you have him come in because he because he
01:04:21
voiced characters in that game. Yeah, I like him.
01:04:25
Pretty cool. All right, that was my last
01:04:27
story. Should do.
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So yeah, I have the news. The name's Ray.
01:05:05
Lana Del Rey Singer Lana Del Rey has released a music video that
01:05:09
plays the theme song for the first up for the upcoming video
01:05:12
game Double O 7 First Light in collaboration with five time
01:05:17
Bond film composer David Arnold. The singer provides her
01:05:21
signature sultry vocals for the official title song for the game
01:05:25
from IO Interactive at Amazon MGM Studios.
01:05:28
So yeah, so we have some more here.
01:05:31
So the video game is a fully original reimagined origin story
01:05:35
of James Bond. According to the announcement,
01:05:38
it presents a bold new take with a reimagined origin story
01:05:42
following a 26 year old James Bond at the very beginning of
01:05:45
his journey into the world of espionage.
01:05:47
And apparently, Del Rey is not the only singer tied to this
01:05:51
project. Lenny Kravitz stars as the new
01:05:54
Bond villain of Balma Balma. Something like that.
01:05:59
Opposite Patrick Gibson's young 007.
01:06:02
The cast also includes the younger Burford.
01:06:05
Burford, Buford, it's not going well.
01:06:09
As M Lenny James as mentor John Greenway, Kira Lester as
01:06:14
Moneypenny, Aleister McKenzie as Hugh.
01:06:16
Do you have a tan as doctor? Between the tan and Nomi Nakai
01:06:21
as Miss Ross? I don't know if I'm pronounce
01:06:23
any of those names correctly, but you you get the idea.
01:06:26
So yeah, it's going to be a 007 video game.
01:06:28
What are we doing? I like that.
01:06:31
That's cool. It shows that they're like
01:06:33
taking it seriously. It's not just like, hey, let's
01:06:35
throw out a Bond game. Let's give it an actual Bond
01:06:40
song, you know, like it's like it's a big budget piece.
01:06:43
I'm into it. I like.
01:06:44
It, I wonder if this will be like, like the Indiana Jones
01:06:47
game want to be like a first person kind of kind of thing.
01:06:52
Oh, that could be cool. Yeah.
01:06:55
I I don't really know what IO Interactive has done before, but
01:07:00
yeah, it's yeah. Oh, they did the they did the
01:07:04
Hitman games. Oh, OK, OK.
01:07:06
So it's, it's OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:07:08
So it's that kind of thing. So I'm, I'm excited for this.
01:07:11
I, I mean, I could do third, third person, which is fine.
01:07:14
First person kind of brings us back to the, the Goldeneye games
01:07:19
and whatnot. Yeah.
01:07:21
But I mean, like, I want this 100% to be story driven.
01:07:25
I want it to be kind of, we've been talking a little bit about,
01:07:29
you know, what I want out of if they're going to go and do young
01:07:32
bond, you know, I want a young, you know, before he was a Double
01:07:38
O agent kind of thing where, you know, it it it talks about kind
01:07:43
of like his time as a secret agent moving up into getting
01:07:47
into assassination so that he could become a Double O agent.
01:07:50
Yeah. I also want to see him
01:07:51
interacting with like Double O 6 or Double O 5 and, you know,
01:07:54
just kind of getting into why he wanted to be a Double O agent.
01:07:57
Want to see that inspiration? I agree, I like it.
01:08:01
All right, so yeah, so double O 7 first light.
01:08:04
I was initially slated for a March 27th release, but that is
01:08:07
lifted. That is I'm I'm honest, I'm I'm
01:08:11
doing great tonight, but that was shifted to May 27th.
01:08:15
I hope I'm going to be able to get to this next room.
01:08:16
So I'm excited about this. This is where the fire and blood
01:08:20
began. At Cinema Con, Warner Brothers
01:08:23
revealed the working title for the Game of Thrones movie as
01:08:28
part of the Studios 2027 and Beyond panel.
01:08:32
The project is currently called Game of Thrones.
01:08:35
Aegon's Conquest. This is the story that shaped
01:08:39
everything fans have watched unfold across Game of Thrones
01:08:42
and it's spinoffs. Of course.
01:08:43
Book song, Rise, Fire. The film will center on Aegon
01:08:47
the first Targaryen, the original conqueror, the original
01:08:50
Valyrian conqueror of Westeros. Aegon's story is the foundation
01:08:54
of it all. If you don't know, he was the
01:08:57
guy who united the Fractured Kingdom's Westeros Under 1
01:09:00
banner. He forged the Iron Throne from
01:09:02
the Malted Swords, visited enemies and ruled alongside as
01:09:05
this arrives cause Targaryens, Visenya and Uranus.
01:09:10
It's a tale of conquest, fire and domination and it's the
01:09:14
perfect story for a massive cinematic treatment.
01:09:18
I am ecstatic about this. The script is being handled by
01:09:23
Beau Willimon, the mind behind House of Cards and a writer on
01:09:26
Andor. This.
01:09:29
This sounds incredible man. Going to have so much political
01:09:31
intrigue. I'm so ready for this.
01:09:34
Because if we're getting Aegon the Conqueror, you're going to
01:09:37
get the politics behind Aegon being a conqueror, yeah.
01:09:42
But again, this is my my thing is, can they tell a Game of
01:09:48
Thrones story this big in 2 1/2 hours?
01:09:52
Yeah, that is the question or three hours is it'll probably
01:09:55
be. Yeah, maybe it's three hours.
01:09:57
OK, fine. But.
01:09:58
But still, yeah, there, there is a lot to get through.
01:10:00
It is several years, the story takes place.
01:10:03
And so I'm like, I don't know if they're just going to do like
01:10:05
the first part of it or they're going to do kind of like montage
01:10:09
it or, or what are we doing? Like, yeah, I, I, I don't know.
01:10:12
I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes like a trilogy or
01:10:14
something. I see that I could see now
01:10:17
you're now. We could do a thing like like
01:10:19
Dune did, where it's like, oh, it's going to be a Dune movie or
01:10:22
whatever and we see it. It's, you know, Game of Thrones
01:10:24
Agon Conquest Part 1 or something, right?
01:10:27
You know, I, I, I 100% believe that that's going to be the case
01:10:31
or it's going to be something that's leading into another
01:10:33
show. That that's the big pilot for
01:10:37
Aegon's Conquest. Right.
01:10:38
It's one of those things where it's like we need a movie budget
01:10:41
in order to tell this story, right?
01:10:44
Like, and it's going to it's going to go to the first major
01:10:48
battle and then they're going to tell the rest in a series.
01:10:51
Yeah. And that's just that would be
01:10:52
the smart way to go that because that that's going to force
01:10:55
people to be like, oh, hey, we're going to have this Game of
01:10:57
Thrones movie. It's going to make a fucking
01:11:00
shit ton of money. And that's going to drive people
01:11:03
to go and get HBO Max, to go and watch the.
01:11:06
Following show exactly, I do wonder, and this is this is just
01:11:09
me being a nerd, I do wonder if we're going to see the Doom of
01:11:12
Valyria like live action. Yeah.
01:11:16
Yeah. And again, I don't think that
01:11:18
would be in just this movie. Again, I think that either
01:11:21
there's a series or it's going to be a series of movies.
01:11:24
And that's something that happens later on.
01:11:26
The Doom of Valeria is such a massive thing that happens
01:11:31
because you start, I mean, you know, you, you, you get this
01:11:34
like fall of Valeria and now you have just so many Valerians that
01:11:39
are left, so many Valerian families that are left.
01:11:43
And by the time Game of Thrones, the, you know, Song of Fire and
01:11:46
Ice is around, the only Valerian family that's still alive is the
01:11:48
Targaryens. Right.
01:11:50
And maybe the Danes, but that's a whole different thing.
01:11:54
So that's a whole. Time I mean, there's there's
01:11:56
still some I. Mean.
01:11:59
Technically there's still some dark flames out there, but I
01:12:01
mean, like, yeah, you know, they're not.
01:12:02
Probably still some Valerians honestly, but yeah.
01:12:05
They're they're, they're not like at that point, they're not
01:12:08
full blooded. Right, exactly.
01:12:11
They've all married. Yeah.
01:12:12
So it's yeah, we're going to kind of see the beginning of
01:12:16
because we're seeing kind of the middle portion in half the
01:12:20
dragon. And so kind of getting the
01:12:22
beginning. No, it's it's cool.
01:12:24
I'm I'm very, very excited about this.
01:12:27
You know what I love? Is should do.
01:12:30
If you like, go back, take a look at the story and then see
01:12:35
if you could break it into three parts like a trilogy and be
01:12:38
like, this is what I think they're going to do for the
01:12:42
first movie, second, third movie.
01:12:44
It'll cover these beats, these major events sort of thing.
01:12:47
That'd be kind of cool to. Yeah, and.
01:12:52
Then we can predict it and then we can put it on Koushi.
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01:13:03
No, we're not. Fuck Kelsey.
01:13:06
All right, so the Game of Thrones feature film Aegon's
01:13:09
Conquest, is in development for a 2027 or probably later
01:13:14
release. Yeah.
01:13:16
Speaking of fantasy, get ready for another helping of potatoes.
01:13:21
Potatoes. Potatoes.
01:13:24
Boil a mask and stick them in a Stew.
01:13:26
There's a new journey. There's a new journey back to
01:13:28
Middle Earth on the horizon that sounds like a familiar face
01:13:31
might just be leading the way. Warner Brothers is developing
01:13:35
Lord of the Rings Shadow of the Past, a film that digs into a
01:13:38
previously unexplored corner of Tolkien's story but also moving
01:13:42
the timeline forward. Word is that friend of the show
01:13:44
Sean Astin is expected to return as Sam Wise Gamgi, my favorite
01:13:50
character from Lord of the Rings.
01:13:53
The project has sparked a mix of excitement and hesitation across
01:13:56
the fan base. As with anything Lord of the
01:13:58
Rings these days, instead of retelling what we've already
01:14:01
seen, this film pulls some sections of the Fellowship that
01:14:04
didn't make it into the film trilogy.
01:14:06
Specifically, it covers chapters 3 through What's that So 7
01:14:13
meaning that we'll finally see, or sorry, 8.
01:14:15
That's 8, meaning we'll finally see characters and moments that
01:14:18
was skipped before, including Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, and the
01:14:22
Erie Barrow Whites. We do have a.
01:14:25
We have a synopsis here. OK, I'm ready.
01:14:27
We have ready. Boil a masham, stick them in a
01:14:30
stewopsis. Don't forget extra lumba spread
01:14:32
synopsis. Boil a masham, stick them in the
01:14:35
stewopsis, don't forget extra lumba spread synopsis.
01:14:38
Boil a masham, stick them in the stewopsis.
01:14:39
Don't forget extra. LAMBA spread synopsis.
01:14:44
The official log line reads 14 years after the passing of
01:14:47
Frodo, Sam, Mary and Pippen set out to retrace the first steps
01:14:50
of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam's daughter
01:14:53
Eleanor has discovered a long buried secret and is determined
01:14:56
to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before
01:14:59
it even began. Interesting.
01:15:02
Are we in the middle of a Middle Earth revival?
01:15:05
Oh God, how? Many How many projects are we we
01:15:09
talking about here with Lord of the?
01:15:10
Rings, can you like take pieces out of the trilogy?
01:15:15
That's what I'm wondering, because we're getting a show.
01:15:17
That's the hunt for Gollum. That's a part that's like a part
01:15:21
of the trilogy that was not in there.
01:15:23
We're getting this movie, which is like here.
01:15:26
It's just shit. We didn't put in the trilogy.
01:15:28
It's like here's Tom Bombadil. It's like how much can we just
01:15:32
but just go do a Silmarillion show at this?
01:15:38
Point here's. Marion Pippon on a Tuesday.
01:15:41
Good, good. I don't know.
01:15:43
That's, that's good. I'm just saying a lot of the
01:15:44
stuff that's really coming to fruition is like, we're just
01:15:46
gonna keep taking little pieces out of, you know?
01:15:50
Yeah, They, they. Really should tell a
01:15:53
Simmarillion like a something that that that is.
01:15:56
Cool like other franchise basically in there 'cause it's
01:16:01
this massive story in the first stage, it's got a lot more
01:16:05
magicky stuff. It's all about elves, it's all
01:16:06
about the sun girls. It's like it's, it's a cool
01:16:09
story and it's the creation you could open with the creation of
01:16:11
the world. Like it's it's a fucking cool
01:16:13
story and I don't know why we haven't done anything with it
01:16:15
yet. The the other thing is what I,
01:16:17
what I kind of want at this point, because they kind of
01:16:20
Warner Brothers games gave up on it, but there was Shadow of War,
01:16:26
yeah. And Shadow of Mordor was the
01:16:27
first game. Shadow of War was like, and they
01:16:29
kind of never finished it. And it's like, I want, I want
01:16:32
that. I want them to finish that story
01:16:35
between Talian and Caleb Rimbor. I mean, cause like this, this
01:16:38
story takes place in between the, it takes place in between
01:16:48
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
01:16:50
And it's about a man who combines with the Wraith in
01:16:57
order to try and essentially take down Mordor and fails.
01:17:03
And I, I kind of want to, I want to, I, I want that the, the
01:17:06
ending of that story. Shadow of Sauron or whatever.
01:17:10
Shadow of Sauron would be perfect because the whole thing
01:17:13
is, you know, it's it's how in the end of the story, it's
01:17:17
Sauron is assimilating killer Brimbor again, right?
01:17:22
And if you know the Cimarron, if you know the old stories, Killer
01:17:26
Brimbor is the elf that forged the rings.
01:17:30
Yeah. So it's like, you know, and and
01:17:33
he basically essentially Sauron took a piece of his own soul in
01:17:39
order to save him from dying so that he could, like, use him
01:17:43
more. And Killer Brimbor essentially
01:17:45
went off on his own. Yeah, right.
01:17:47
But he also gets like, amnesia. And that's the point of the
01:17:50
game, is he gets amnesia and he's just like, well, I know I
01:17:53
exist for something and I should probably just kill all these
01:17:57
fucking orcs. Yeah.
01:18:00
Is that a good thing to do? Yeah, that's fun.
01:18:03
But you know, I, I know there's the Simmarillion, but like,
01:18:07
maybe they're trying to get these actors back and a little
01:18:10
bit of nostalgia. No, that's that's definitely.
01:18:14
Think it's too old for for these roles.
01:18:17
Yeah, I mean, there's, there's kind of, yeah, there's there's
01:18:19
like the more optimistic kick. There's a cynical take on it.
01:18:22
So yeah, it's, I don't know, I, I'm, I'm morbidly curious.
01:18:27
I guess I'll, I'll say that. So all right, well let's move on
01:18:31
to something I'm a little bit more confident in.
01:18:35
More like Swole of the Hut. There's a lot to unpack from the
01:18:38
1st 18 minutes of The Mandalorian Grogu that was just
01:18:41
screened at Cinemacon. And it isn't just the action.
01:18:44
Well, the footage delivered exactly what fans wanted from a
01:18:47
big screen Star Wars adventure. It also introduced something the
01:18:50
franchise has never done before in a theatrical release, opening
01:18:53
credits. And those credits might have
01:18:55
tipped Lucasfilm's hand in a pretty unexpected way.
01:18:59
So Star Wars has always leaned on its iconic opening crawl and
01:19:02
jumped straight into the story. Dropping traditional credits
01:19:05
into the mix changes the rhythm, and in this case, it may have
01:19:08
revealed more than intended. When the credits roll, Pedro
01:19:11
Pascal assisted Force, of course, it isn't surprising.
01:19:14
You know he's the Mandalorian. What stands out is who comes
01:19:18
next. Sitting in the second spot is
01:19:20
Jeremy Allen White, known for the bear, who voices Rod of the
01:19:23
Hut. After that, Brendan Wayne and
01:19:25
Latif Crowder are listed as Mando's on site counterparts.
01:19:29
Interesting. That placement raises eyebrows
01:19:32
because Rod of the Hut didn't seem like a major player at
01:19:35
first based on what's run early in the film in Jar and is tasked
01:19:38
with recruiting Rada from captivity.
01:19:40
With rescuing Rada from captivity to gain Intel from the
01:19:42
Hut Cartel about a New Republic target named Coin.
01:19:46
Feels like a mission set up, something that kicks off the
01:19:48
largest story. Mandalorian, a force sensitive
01:19:51
kid, a formidable fighter and a Hut teaming up.
01:19:53
Now that could be a good time. So yeah, what do we think?
01:19:59
More More rod of the Hut, More muscular Hut.
01:20:03
This so before I felt like, OK, we're wasting Jeremy Allen White
01:20:09
in making him Rod of the Hut, but if he's going to be a main
01:20:13
character in this movie, if he's not just going to be a side
01:20:15
character and we're getting a lot of Rod of the Hut.
01:20:19
A lot of rata. Yeah, and and now that I've seen
01:20:22
Rata the Hut, you know, I'm, I'm not, I'm not upset with this
01:20:29
anymore. I I actually think that this is
01:20:31
probably spot on casting. Yeah.
01:20:34
Yeah, this. What this tells me is that it's
01:20:38
not a one and done deal with Rod of the Hut and Jeremy Allen
01:20:43
White. I think there's more planned
01:20:45
down the road whether he's in the series, whether he's, you
01:20:51
know, in something else in the future.
01:20:53
But I don't think this is going to be a one and done for Rod of
01:20:57
the Hut. Because we got this jacked ass
01:21:00
slug now. So I mean like.
01:21:03
But also, I think it's kind of cool that they gave flowers to
01:21:08
the body double S of the Mandalorian, you know?
01:21:11
Yeah. Brendan Wayne and Latif Crowder.
01:21:14
Yeah. I think that's pretty cool that
01:21:16
they get almost top billing like they're right there.
01:21:19
That's that's pretty cool. And that's amazing, because name
01:21:23
an action actor that gets that kind of billing.
01:21:26
Yeah, exactly. It doesn't exist.
01:21:27
There's no other movie where you seen the action actor get that
01:21:30
kind of billing. Yeah.
01:21:33
Except for one person. Specifically, one person.
01:21:36
Jackie Chan. Right, of course.
01:21:39
Yeah, but he's transcended right from the.
01:21:42
Action, But I mean, he's an action actor.
01:21:44
He he he's bread and butter as he's an action actor.
01:21:46
He just now he does regular acting and he's a star.
01:21:49
He's a leading man, but I mean, he from, I mean, to to to now he
01:21:56
is first and foremost an action actor.
01:21:58
Yeah, this is this is interesting.
01:21:59
By the way, shout out to Santa Maria Comic Con.
01:22:02
I think Brendan Wayne and Latif Crowder are going to both be at
01:22:05
Santa Maria Comic Con. Nice, nice, nice.
01:22:09
Cool. All right, Yeah.
01:22:10
I mean, I'm. I'm really excited for this.
01:22:13
Yeah. So the mainland Grogu jetpacks
01:22:15
in the theaters on May 22nd, 2026.
01:22:19
All right, so and then I'm going to, you know, I'm doing the
01:22:21
trend. Of course, it's not Phil's at
01:22:23
all. It's it's, it's mine now.
01:22:24
So no, I'm kidding. He'll go.
01:22:27
You done He's. Not even ready.
01:22:32
I'm done. He's not even ready.
01:22:33
You might as well just. Do it.
01:22:34
Yeah, I know, right. Let's go ahead.
01:22:35
Let's go ahead and read it. All right.
01:22:37
Well, ladies and gentlemen, let's jump into this.
01:22:39
It's time to get into. Oh, the schedule.
01:22:43
Oh, there we go. There we go, There we go.
01:22:57
He's so excited. He's just like, yeah, yeah, look
01:23:00
at that. Look at that.
01:23:02
Break out the soapbox, ladies and gentlemen, because I'm going
01:23:04
to get on a big one tonight. The theatrical experience has
01:23:08
taken its fair share of hits over the last few years, and now
01:23:11
one of Hollywood's most outspoken studio heads is
01:23:14
pushing for a reset. Way Do I agree with you, man?
01:23:20
During Sony's presentation at Cinema Con, Tom Rothman stepped
01:23:23
on stage and delivered a pretty direct message to theater owners
01:23:27
about what needs to change if the industry wants to stay
01:23:30
healthy long term. Rothman, who leads the Sony
01:23:34
Pictures Motion Picture group. There's so many pictures in that
01:23:37
Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group didn't sugarcoat the
01:23:40
reality that attendance still hasn't bounced back to where it
01:23:44
was before the pandemic. But admissions are clearly down
01:23:48
for pre COVID and we all have urgent work to do.
01:23:52
For our part, that means delivering a variety of great
01:23:56
films to all kinds of audiences. But you, my friends, have an
01:24:00
urgent part to play. He got into he got into
01:24:04
specifics, laying out three areas theaters need to rethink,
01:24:07
starting with something every movie goer has complained about
01:24:11
at some point. Get rid of the endless
01:24:13
advertisement and substantially shorten the the long pre show
01:24:19
that some, not all of you have. Get off the ad track.
01:24:23
And three, affordability. Did I say 2 here?
01:24:27
I don't feel like I said a two. Two, get off the ad track.
01:24:32
Get off the AD track 22. Get off the AD track, OK?
01:24:38
Yeah, that's fine. That's, that's fine.
01:24:42
And three, affordability is by far the hardest.
01:24:45
Going to the movies must become affordable again, all right?
01:24:51
The The crowd responded with light applause.
01:24:53
Of course, all the theater goers like that's how we make our
01:24:56
money, which feels about right considering he was basically
01:24:59
telling them to rethink part of their business model.
01:25:03
Between ticket prices, endless ads and dragged out pre shows,
01:25:07
it feels less like a night out and more like a test of
01:25:09
patience, especially especially when you're paying $25 for
01:25:16
popcorn and a soda. Do you agree with Tom Rothman?
01:25:21
So how do you how do you guys feel about the movie going going
01:25:23
experience right now? James, I know you go to a lot of
01:25:25
films because you're kids. Yeah, you should do.
01:25:28
I'm not sure how many movies you see on a regular basis because.
01:25:30
Not on a regular basis, but I fucking watch.
01:25:32
Movies, But I mean how how what what are your guys thoughts on
01:25:37
the experience right now and how do you guys see it can.
01:25:40
Be improved, I'm not going to have as much say.
01:25:41
So, James, we're going to go first.
01:25:43
Well, I agree with a ton of what Tom Rothman said because like,
01:25:51
concession prices are crazy. It's so expensive for us to go
01:25:56
to the movie theaters like a soda to share, a popcorn to
01:26:01
share. The kids want Slurpees,
01:26:04
something like that. That's like $100 just right
01:26:08
there. Plus the ticket prices.
01:26:11
It's a lot. It's a lot.
01:26:13
And then depending on where we go, if we have to pay for
01:26:15
parking, that kind of sucks too. So it's a lot.
01:26:19
And I totally agree with this. I don't know if him just saying
01:26:24
this is the solution because, you know, this could be them
01:26:29
doing more ads at the beginning of the movie, which sucks for
01:26:32
the movie over, which sucks for the movie industry because they
01:26:38
want to pump more viewings of the movies into the theaters.
01:26:43
But like, where else are they going to get revenue?
01:26:45
I think that's the thing. It's like, how do they
01:26:47
supplement that revenue stream that they need to keep the
01:26:51
theater open to keep it going? So I don't have an answer, but I
01:26:56
do agree. Like there are too many ads.
01:26:58
There are, you know, concessions are way too overpriced.
01:27:03
That's what I think it was $11.00 for a Slurpee times 3 for
01:27:08
me. You know, it's like, that is
01:27:10
crazy. Yeah, it's, you know, yeah, we
01:27:14
shouldn't be, it shouldn't be fair prices at at movie
01:27:16
theaters, not. Not even just fair prices, like,
01:27:20
I mean, it should be somewhere where again, it it should be
01:27:24
something that you can, like James was saying, you, you want
01:27:27
to go to the movies on a Sunday with your family.
01:27:29
You want to go and watch a movie, get some snacks and not
01:27:31
feel like you're, you're spending a month's rent on, on,
01:27:35
on a film. You know, like you, you want to
01:27:38
be able to go to OK, it, it honestly, if you lower the
01:27:41
ticket prices, that brings people back into the door,
01:27:46
right? You lower ticket prices, the
01:27:47
more people that you have coming in the door, the more films that
01:27:52
you know, film that you have coming in.
01:27:54
You know, you're, I, I get they're trying to counteract
01:27:58
the, the decline in people coming to film, come and see
01:28:01
movies. But if you, you know, if, if the
01:28:04
studios are going to start increasing quality on their
01:28:07
films, where people are going to want to go out and watch the
01:28:10
movies, which they have been and you lower the ticket prices,
01:28:13
more people are going to go out and watch movies right now.
01:28:17
Nobody wants to. And, and the other thing is, I
01:28:20
guess the other thing that counters theaters and this is
01:28:22
something that's something else they need to figure out is when
01:28:25
things are going to streaming really fast.
01:28:27
People are just saying, I'm not going to go to the movie.
01:28:29
I don't care about the experience.
01:28:31
I'm going to wait until it's streaming.
01:28:34
And you tend to do that. Plus on top of that, if
01:28:38
concessions is what you guys make, your is your bread and
01:28:41
butter if that's what makes you your money.
01:28:43
Or popcorn butter. Right, right.
01:28:45
That's, I mean, depending on where you go, because you can
01:28:48
get a hot dog that has bread and butter.
01:28:50
I, I don't know, I'm just making that up.
01:28:51
But I mean, like, you know, they're, they're bringing things
01:28:53
back. Like why am I going to go to the
01:28:56
movie theater and get a Slurpee for $11.00 when I can go to, you
01:29:02
know, 7-11 and get one for $1.50?
01:29:04
You know, they're still cheap if you go to 711, you know, or I'm
01:29:08
going to go to you know why? Why get popcorn for again, it's
01:29:16
it's all the snacks. You literally go to the dollar
01:29:19
store and get a big aspect, but you know, bag of popcorn.
01:29:22
Yeah. You know, like a lot of the
01:29:24
snacks that they have, Yeah, you guys are bringing in more
01:29:26
premium snacks. They're bringing in like Pizza
01:29:28
Hut and they're bringing in Nathan's and they're bringing in
01:29:30
like, like higher end brands. But at the same time, if I go to
01:29:35
Pizza Hut, I'm paying twice as much to get it at the theater
01:29:38
because it's at the theater and it's not even the right way.
01:29:42
Yeah, it's like what, you know, Yeah.
01:29:46
It's, you know, I, I think I, I, I agree with, with everything
01:29:49
you're saying. You know, I, I think, yeah,
01:29:52
paradoxically, bringing ticket prices down and just having more
01:29:57
movies would, would do it would probably supplement everything.
01:30:03
Yeah. Like I went to see, go see
01:30:04
Project Hail Mary with much of my friends.
01:30:05
And I had to obviously pay for my ticket.
01:30:07
And it's like, look, it's 20 bucks for that.
01:30:09
It was like 10 bucks for some popcorn.
01:30:11
It was like $5 for a bottle of water.
01:30:13
It's it's stupid, right? It's really, really stupid.
01:30:17
I hate going to, I hate going to the movies where it feels like
01:30:20
I'm going to a concert and paying like right.
01:30:22
Exactly. For things I don't like, I don't
01:30:25
like that feeling. Yeah.
01:30:27
You know, and it's like, I, I get it, they're, they're trying
01:30:30
to put in new attractions. But when you continuously raise
01:30:34
the prices because you're trying to make up for the lack of
01:30:38
people coming in, you know, it's like, OK, well, if we inflate
01:30:42
our prices, then, you know, the little amounts of people we have
01:30:46
coming in, we can make more money overall because, you know,
01:30:50
they're the, the people who are coming in are buying
01:30:52
concessions, right? But if you are lowering,
01:30:55
lowering your ticket prices, if you're lowering the concession
01:30:57
prices, you're making everything affordable.
01:31:00
You're making it to a point of, you know what, Even if it's like
01:31:06
a little bit more expensive than what it would be at, at, at, at
01:31:09
a place that you go to, like you're paying somewhat of a
01:31:12
premium on, on the convenience of those things.
01:31:15
I'd be more willing to pay for it if it wasn't that much
01:31:18
difference in cost. But like, right.
01:31:21
But like when it costs $15.00 to get a personal pan pizza that I
01:31:25
can get for $10 at Pizza Hut, Great man.
01:31:29
It's. Like what the hell?
01:31:30
Also like what? Eric is saying here, too, that
01:31:33
Eric went up a good point. Well, yeah, it is.
01:31:37
It is Hollywood's job to make movies worth going to.
01:31:39
And that is, Yeah, that is true as well.
01:31:42
Yeah, but I also like what easy money saying is that lower the
01:31:45
IMAX or XD prices? Because I want to go experience
01:31:49
IMAX or XD as well, but I can't justify paying that much money
01:31:55
plus popcorn plus soda plus, you know, whatever.
01:31:58
You're actively pushing people away from the theater so it's
01:32:01
makes you less money. Especially the the premium
01:32:04
things like an IMAX or an XD, it's like I yeah, exactly
01:32:07
specifically look to avoid those because it's a, it's a premium
01:32:11
price. Yeah.
01:32:14
Yeah. I mean, what, what the theaters
01:32:16
need to start doing is looking at what's going to bring volume
01:32:20
back versus just trying to capitalize on the little bit of
01:32:25
people that are there, you know? Yeah.
01:32:28
Project Hail Mary was very good. Eric.
01:32:29
I, I, I absolutely love that movie.
01:32:32
Very, very good. Real quick about Project Hail
01:32:34
Mary, which is interesting because that is an Amazon MGM
01:32:38
Studios movie, right? But they made the decision to
01:32:43
keep it in theaters for a longer time instead of bringing it over
01:32:48
to Amazon. As we talked about earlier,
01:32:49
yeah. So they care about theaters,
01:32:51
they care about like showing their their work in the best
01:32:55
possible light because they want people to see this on the big
01:32:58
screen. Right.
01:32:59
If I mean, if there's any company that's out there that is
01:33:03
kind of pushing for the theater pushes and everything like that,
01:33:06
it's a company that owns a streaming service in Amazon, you
01:33:09
know what I mean? Like they literally own a
01:33:11
streaming service and they are making a point of putting movies
01:33:15
in theaters and giving theaters opportunities.
01:33:18
Like again, he man's coming out. That's another Amazon movie, You
01:33:23
know what I mean? Weirdly enough, we were talking
01:33:26
about Fern Gully, but that's Fern Gully is literally a, a
01:33:30
the, the Amazon MGM is the one that's coming up with that, you
01:33:34
know, and, and their TV shows again, they're, they're
01:33:39
capitalizing on like, OK, hey, we have a really good TV shows.
01:33:42
You know, I, I just caught up on the boys and invincible today
01:33:47
and it's like they're amazing. You know, they're for all of the
01:33:52
crap we give Amazon, Amazon does they they put out really good
01:33:56
product. Yeah.
01:33:58
You know, and The thing is, is that, you know, they're also
01:34:02
trying to revitalize the, the, the, the movie going experience
01:34:07
and people going to the movies. The theaters need to to kind of
01:34:12
like pick up on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:34:16
Maybe Jeff Bezos needs to buy a movie theater chain or two.
01:34:20
No that see that's not the solution like.
01:34:23
A whole Whole Foods or something next to.
01:34:25
Jeff Bezos, not the solution. Jeff Bezos buys a movie theater
01:34:28
chain just so he can put penis rockets.
01:34:31
I was about to say, it's going to look like his Dick.
01:34:33
This is what This is what we've learned.
01:34:36
But if ticket prices are down, would I mean.
01:34:39
If ticket prices are down, does it matter if the theater looks
01:34:41
like a Dick? Yeah.
01:34:44
I'm OK with that. Popcorn buckets are in the shape
01:34:47
of a penis. The the popcorn comes out of the
01:34:50
pee hole. Just don't get too much butter.
01:34:52
Oh God. I'm going to I'm going to want a
01:34:55
large popcorn, extra butter. You got it.
01:35:00
How do you do? You guys have any ideas?
01:35:03
So I, I agree with whatever Tom Rothman said.
01:35:06
And it's kind of interesting having somebody from a movie
01:35:09
theater company says saying like, hey, go fix, we're doing
01:35:14
our part. Go fix your theater, you know,
01:35:17
programming and, and how you run your operations, fix your
01:35:20
business. Do you have any solutions or
01:35:24
ideas for solutions where a theater, not necessarily the
01:35:28
movie industry, but a theater could avoid the things that
01:35:32
they're talking about, like the too too long of a ads in front
01:35:36
of a a movie, high concession prices.
01:35:41
I think you kind of touched on it with lowering ticket prices
01:35:44
and getting more people in the door you're.
01:35:46
Describing. AMC to AT right now, like AMC is
01:35:50
probably, you know, they're, they're probably the biggest
01:35:53
chain out of all out of all of them that are out there.
01:35:55
But they're like the most egregious out of all this
01:35:57
because, you know, AMC made this whole big commitment that
01:36:02
they're going to be putting more ads in order to get more money
01:36:06
and they are going to be raising concession prices and they are
01:36:09
raising ticket prices. And, and it's kind of like, you
01:36:13
know, they're, they're kind of in this, this, this kind of like
01:36:17
bubble where it's but if people want to go to movies in certain
01:36:21
cities that were in what choice do they have?
01:36:23
Like Brentwood, the only theater you can really go to is the AMC,
01:36:26
right? The the one nearby us is, is an
01:36:29
AMC and that's kind of our only choice for the surrounding area,
01:36:32
yeah. Like for for us, it's Cinemark
01:36:34
in, in Regal, right? And it's like, you know, I go
01:36:37
to, I go to Cinemark now because my, my birthday gift lately has
01:36:42
been Jackie gets me a bunch of movie tickets, right?
01:36:45
And so I used the tickets to go to AMC and AMC honestly has my
01:36:49
favorite snacks, but it's, it's expensive.
01:36:53
And it's like, you know, I have to treat going to the movies
01:36:56
like it's an event rather than just something that I, I, I just
01:37:00
go and do. Yeah.
01:37:02
You know, like I, I have to pick and choose what movies I'm going
01:37:06
to go see instead of just saying like how it used to be pre
01:37:09
pandemic, I was going to the movies like every week and just
01:37:12
saying what what movies are out. OK, that one's interesting.
01:37:14
Let's go see that. And I was watching more movies
01:37:16
back then. Now it's like, OK, well, which
01:37:19
ones am I holding out for? You know what I mean?
01:37:23
Yeah. And then and and Eric's right
01:37:24
here. Yeah, it's, it's prices.
01:37:26
It's really, it's lower prices on everything.
01:37:29
You're going to get more people and more people will offset
01:37:32
whatever losses you'd be making. It really is very, very simple.
01:37:36
Right, right. And I think that's exactly what
01:37:39
it is, is how are the prices. Exactly.
01:37:42
Also welcome to this is turning ASMR. He doesn't understand that
01:37:46
reference. Yeah, I, you know, I was
01:37:49
thinking of like maybe the advertisers as advertisers, like
01:37:53
Co-op something like instead of only playing ads before movies,
01:37:58
like put that branding somewhere else, you know, like put it on
01:38:03
the popcorn buckets or something like that.
01:38:04
Or, or, you know, put it on the theater itself.
01:38:07
But I don't know, I think lowering just.
01:38:11
Get a Just get like a big projector.
01:38:13
Put it on the outside of the building.
01:38:15
But I think I think it's right. It's like if you lower the
01:38:18
prices, that's the best way to get more people in the door and
01:38:22
they may be willing to pay extra money for those concessions.
01:38:27
Sure. I don't know.
01:38:29
Or the concessions prices don't seem so high because it's like,
01:38:32
well, I got in for a good price. Easy money is just pulling
01:38:36
things right out of my head, he said.
01:38:38
Go back to three trailers. No more Maria Menounos pre show.
01:38:44
Look. I love Maria Menounos.
01:38:46
OK, She she has, she's she's, she has great podcasts.
01:38:49
She's a wrestling fan. She's a wrestling fan.
01:38:51
For the longest time, she had Marvel movie news and DC movie
01:38:57
news, and they got bought out by popcorn talk.
01:38:59
And then popcorn talk shut them down.
01:39:01
But I mean, like, you know, Maria Menounos has her place,
01:39:06
but I don't need her in front of every movie.
01:39:10
Her place is not in front of every single movie, right?
01:39:13
Right. That's not where her place.
01:39:14
And then ease up on the theater company commercials.
01:39:17
Yeah, I mean, go back to what it used to be where it was like
01:39:21
the, hey, turn off your phone IMAX experience.
01:39:26
And then, you know, buy snacks instead of, you know, these
01:39:29
overly produced, you know, hey, join our movie.
01:39:34
Report feels good in a place like this.
01:39:37
Well, in our movie. But also but also keep trivia
01:39:40
because it's the only time I get to look smart in front of my
01:39:44
kids is when they start throwing up trivia.
01:39:46
Hey, James, we're going to come on on Friday.
01:39:48
We're doing a Jeopardy. There you go.
01:39:51
I mean, Nuvie is fine, but we don't need like the all right,
01:39:55
that's the end of Nuvie. This like like one minute ad
01:39:59
with Maria Menounos about Nuvie and it's like, I get it, that's
01:40:01
your company, but you don't have to.
01:40:04
Like you don't have to advertise right now.
01:40:05
Like it's, it's fine. Yeah, it's it's.
01:40:08
Agreed. Agreed.
01:40:09
Well, Tom Rothman, I hope, I hope your words do not fall on
01:40:14
deaf ears. All right, Well, we've, we've
01:40:16
solved all the world's problems in the last 20 minutes and so,
01:40:20
yeah. Yeah, because nothing else is
01:40:22
going on in the. World, Right, right, right.
01:40:23
Of course. No, no, that's that's the the
01:40:25
biggest problem in the world. That would be.
01:40:28
That would be amazing. That would be a great world.
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01:40:53
He he made a parody movie called Tube E Movie and he's going to
01:41:00
be coming on to talk about his film.
01:41:03
It's it's a parody of of basically like how everybody's
01:41:09
making Toby movies, which is funny because graveyard makes
01:41:14
Toby movies. So this is.
01:41:15
Going to be great. We're going.
01:41:18
To be having a nice conversation with Will Adams this week.
01:41:21
And then Fridays it's game night.
01:41:24
We we're playing some kind of game at some point this Friday,
01:41:28
we will be playing Jeb Nerdy. Should you got a Jeb Nerdy set
01:41:32
up for everybody? That's right.
01:41:35
But we have been playing the great con.
01:41:36
If you're into D&D, come and check that out and and see
01:41:40
everybody collectively get together to piss you off It's
01:41:44
great. It's, it's chaos.
01:41:45
It's well, I mean that's most games that I, I, I've hosted,
01:41:48
honestly. So is is everybody getting
01:41:51
together to collect? Great because.
01:41:52
Because Frank from Geek Freaks has been playing and he's been
01:41:55
like keeping us on track so. It's he's the reason it's, it's
01:41:58
very, very fun. Yeah, yeah.
01:42:00
And by the way, for for the Great Con, the D&D game, you can
01:42:05
watch it. There's a playlist, right?
01:42:07
That we there is a playlist. I will get in when my plug will
01:42:10
login into that more so as well. Speaking of, can I your
01:42:13
pluggables? Yeah, give us your pluggables,
01:42:15
Sir. Yeah, fair enough.
01:42:17
All right. So, yeah.
01:42:18
So I am at SHD Studios everywhere for my music is at
01:42:25
SHD Music. SHD Music.
01:42:28
I talk about lore, royal building, writing, pretty much
01:42:30
everything else. Yeah.
01:42:32
So if you want edited Vods of the great Con that have been cut
01:42:36
down and I, you know, add music and sound and and all that fun
01:42:41
stuff. They're on my channel.
01:42:43
They are on should do studios, the channel SHD Studios.
01:42:48
Go go watch those. They're good.
01:42:50
They will be coming out every Wednesday for the next few
01:42:52
weeks, so go watch them. I like it there we.
01:42:56
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So that is it from us before I have James take us home.
01:43:32
Bruce, Buddy, go to sleep. Go to sleep.
01:43:35
It's time to go to bed. Time to go to bed, Buddy.
01:43:37
So it's it's night, night time, go to the sleep.
01:43:42
Thanks and keep nerding together.
01:43:44
All right, we'll see you next time.
01:43:46
We will see everybody this Thursday for for Will Adams.
01:43:51
Let's have some fun and we'll catch everybody later.
01:43:53
Bye bye. Deuces.
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