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This week we talk Geek Blurb at 4 years, we talk weird food going into the Holidays, Kevin gives his reaction to the first episode of Alex vs. Arod (HBO Max), Ray reviews the docuseries True Haunting (Netflix) and the Wicked: One Wonderful Night concert (Peacock), we give our reactions to Frankenstein (1931) & The Running Man (1987), we review the new films Caught Stealing and The Smashing Machine and finally this week we deep dive into the Warner Bros. potential buyout: which media company would benefit more in the age of streaming?
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Introduction to Podcast and Topics
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Keep blurring. Where we talk about it all. From superheroes to wrestlers. We stand tall. Ray and Kevin. The dynamic duo inside.
00:00:42
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Keep blurring.
Four-Year Anniversary Celebration
00:01:25
Speaker
Hey, what's happening? going on? Not much. i want you Did you realize that we are now in a four-year birthday for the podcast today?
00:01:35
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Actually, were recorded four years ago today. That's insane. Yes. um It's a little podcast I could.
00:01:47
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I just realized um we are doing show and tell today, are we not? Let's skip it because I don't even have anything either. I just remembered to. That's good because mine's in my vehicle. We'll do it. We'll do my live unboxing next week or I might just have it because I want to see what it looks like.
00:02:03
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Yeah, we do it next week. Have you opened it yet at all? You're waiting. You're waiting to unbox it. it's sitting in car. It just clicked. It just clicked. Yeah. So. Where we're going, we don't need roads. There's a little preview for you. But yeah, four years ago today, we recorded the first podcast, released it on November 8th, 2021.
00:02:21
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thousand and twenty one um And we are about three weeks away from our 200th episode. So that's kind of cool. We're going to do it. and I think believe it runs. i think that's going run into Thanksgiving week or something around there. But Yeah, a little podcast that could. Something that we just came up with.
00:02:38
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Started off as a blog 10, 15 years ago that I had one post for Man of Steel with a Man of Steel review for about 10 years. And Kevin's like, why don't we just do a podcast? And was like, all right, fine.
00:02:51
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Let's do it. And of course, I took charge and... Came together, put a logo together, and we everything's been history since then. so build it from Build it from a box of scraps into what it is today.
00:03:06
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Dozens of listeners. With enough hard work and dedication, you too can have six subs and about eight average listeners a week yeah after four years of hard work.
00:03:17
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Yeah. But we always said this wasn't for listeners. was for us to connect and keep connecting and talk about stuff. I mean, this is conversations that him and I have throughout the week. We just do it live on a podcast for everybody to hear our nonsense. but um And there is a lot of nonsense
Quirky Food Releases
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today. a lot of nostalgic things happened this week.
00:03:36
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A lot of things building up to the end of the month. We'll get into that. But first, a homegrown segment that we built throughout the years. A fat fuck segment.
00:03:59
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Got a couple of great ones today. um Do we though? Oreo coming out with a turkey dinner Thanksgiving dinner inspired set. um I believe it's 12 cookies and they're going two flavors each and it's all going to be inspired by a Thanksgiving dinner.
00:04:19
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um And the flavors are pumpkin pie, creamed corn, ah caramel apple pie, cranberry sauce, and right there, you're like, okay, those are sweet flavors, makes sense, you're having a sweet cookie.
00:04:32
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And then it just takes the car and decides to drive it right straight off the cliff with Thanksgiving turkey and stuffing and a sweet potato inspired flavor. um Yeah, these are on sale right now on the Oreo website.
00:04:46
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I believe $20 plus shipping. um And they haven't sold out because, I don't know, people don't seem to want them.
00:04:54
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I should get tin and bring it to Thanksgiving. And with everyone that's not eaten, which will probably be all of them, taste them on the episode the next week if there's any left. Yeah.
00:05:08
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Yeah, should. Yeah, there's only two flavors per box, so you only get 12. But, yeah. um Interesting. Another interesting thing. KFC releasing a Stranger Things-inspired menu. Wow.
00:05:21
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For the final season. A Stranger Things burger. Spicy Zinger chicken burger. With a bright red but bun. And a sweet and spicy new sauce.
00:05:32
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um They're going have that sauce. Drenched in the wings. and yeah And just the sandwich alone. And all that. so yeah That comes out sometime January 4th of next year. yeah But the big thing. That everybody is talking about this week. And the marketing on this is perfect. Because it's done by Jason Biggs. From American Pie.
00:05:51
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I'm not sure if I want to try it or not, but apple apple pie flavored Kraft macaroni and cheese. That sounds terrible. But just seeing Jason Biggs sitting next to an apple pie promoting this has been the best part of it.
00:06:04
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But that sounds it sounds god awful. But yeah, ah that's the food news for the week. um What we watched this week. Oh, I was going to ask you a breath about this. I'm glad that you have it on here. I just saw you added it.
00:06:17
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um Alex versus A-Rod. Yes. I did see that. was I saw him promoting and I saw A-Rod promoting it on today Today's Show or somewhere. Or maybe it was Alex or Reader. I can't remember who was or what was going on. but um Yeah, yeah so I see you watched the first episode.
00:06:36
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I did. it was it was very good. Very, very good. um I don't know how many episodes are in it. But at least
Documentaries on Netflix
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episode one was really good. it was on I think it came out yesterday.
00:06:48
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um But yeah, really good documentary so far. Yeah, there's a Red Sox documentary too I mentioned to you yesterday. It's on yeah ESPN Unlimited ESPN Plus whatever. um And it's it's basically a history of the Red Sox. It's called Believing...
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the Boston Red Sox, something like that, Believers. um And like Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Bill Burr, there's a whole bunch of celebrities on it talking about their fandom of the Red Sox, but three episodes tackling the history of the whole franchise from, i believe, when the curse started up until the curse broke and being a phdom fan during that time period, growing up a fan in Boston, in this area, um with all the losing that happened and all the curt curse nonsense and then it being broken.
00:07:31
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um But yeah, they you mentioned it to me off the pod. There are a lot of there aren a lot of documentaries being done about the Red Sox curse. I mean, it' ah it is a big deal. I mean, they did win after almost 100 years. It was 86 years ended up being.
00:07:45
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So it's it's a big deal, but it is being definitely beaten to death, as they say. but um I watched a documentary on Netflix, ended the Halloween week with a...
00:07:58
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and documentary called True Haunting done by um James Wan, who does The Conjuring, does Paranormal Activity, all that stuff. um He produced this as well.
00:08:10
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I believe it's five episodes and they take they take two two haunting topics and they do dramatic reenactments of them but with the people that were actually involved in the in the hauntings, whether you believe it or not.
00:08:22
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um But yeah, it's pretty good. About a half hour at each episode. It's on Netflix if you want to watch it. but yeah um And last night, I signed up for YouTube ah TV to watch the Wicked special, the Wicked live concert special. It was setting up the promotion tour for Wicked for Good, which comes out at the end of the month.
00:08:42
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um Pretty much the whole entire cast was there performing songs from the first movie, previewing stuff from the new movie. um yeah it was It was pretty good. It was a great production. i mean they had They had the money behind it to promote it. so yeah The universal money.
00:08:57
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I believe it's on Peacock now if you want to stream it. um and yeah We'll talk about that movie at the end of the month. um and Today on Netflix, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein came out.
00:09:09
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which we are not going to talk about now because we haven't watched it, but I'm going to watch it tonight. going watch it tonight and this weekend. Yep. And we're going to talk about it next week because we're both very, very hyped for it. um I love Guillermo del Toro. Every movie I've seen from him, from Hellboy, even before that, I think...
00:09:26
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came up but What did you do before Hellboy? There's a movie... and know P.N.' 's Lab i came came out after, but every movie after that I've liked. Lady in it Lady in the Water? that's the... water not do that long after hell boy Yeah, ah not Lady in the Water. It's the one that he got the Best Picture nominee. the Fish. want or The Fish yeah movie. Yeah, Lady in the Water. Wasn't that ah that's ah M. Night? M. Night, yeah. That's M. Night. um But going back, I mean, Frankenstein, 1931, Universal Monster. going watch this during Halloween, but figured, well, we're to be watching Frankenstein this weekend. I figured we'll talk about the 1931 Universal Monster movie, Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff.
00:10:10
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don't know if you've ever seen this. don't think you've seen any the Universal Monster movies, but about an hour... seen it long time ago. They're about an hour five minutes per movie, so they're short. They came out right during the beginning of when movies started to talk, so they're short form. But for what it is, you put yourself in your place in like...
00:10:33
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Innovative at the time, of course, but it's just campy to see a black and white movie nowadays. But um great acting, of course. The one line from this movie that is in AFI's 100 Best Lines of All Time is, It's alive!
00:10:47
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It's alive! So everybody knows that line from the Doctor. um But yeah, it's it's it's it is what it is. It's a basic story of Frankenstein, if you want to know what the story is. um And I did. it I mean, I already knew it, but I wanted to see this movie before going in this weekend.
00:11:01
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I know there was one done in the 90s, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I don't know who did that one. yeah I don't even know who was in that one. and I was going to look it up and I forgot, but maybe we'll talk about it next week. But um yeah, I cannot wait to watch Guillermo del Toro's this weekend.
00:11:16
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Very excited for it. um And I'm glad it's on Netflix. I kind of wish I did see it in a theater, but it'll be okay on on TV here tonight. So yeah, excited to talk about that next week. Um, and, uh, a movie setting up something and we're going to watch eventually came out in theaters today.
00:11:32
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um or is it next week? I can't know. think was today. Um, the running man starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. We're gonna talk about the first one. This one came out in 1987 directed by Paul Michael Glazer, who is Starsky from Starsky and hush. yeah He was, he directed this, um, stars Arnold,
00:11:51
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Jesse Ventura, Richard Dawson plays the guy who who's kind of hosting the game show. He also hosted MASH Game and Family Feud. um Yafit Kota, who is a black big black guy. You've seen him in Alien.
00:12:06
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He was a villain in Live and Let Die. was in Midnight Run. um yeah Football player Jim Brown, who did a lot of acting roles. Was he a good player? and Was he 50s, 60s player?
00:12:18
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Jim Brown? Yeah, he was one of the greatest players of all time. He was also the announcer in the first UFC doing color commentary. Oh, no shit. That's interesting. yeah Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac played himself in a post-apocalyptic world.
00:12:33
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um taught He actually talked about how music was kind of banned in this in this era, in this world. um And Woody what are from Psycho's in this, too. Yes. Quick cameo. yeah Notice that.
00:12:43
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um And the novel was written under Richard Bachman. who we didn't talk about last month talking about Stephen King, but that was his pseudonym in the eighty s And it didn't come out, I think, until a few years later.
00:12:55
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um Richard Bachman was the pseudonym of him. And he also did the Long Walk under that pseudonym. And there's a couple other movies. I can't remember which ones were done under the and under that name.
00:13:06
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Do you know the history of that name at all? What happened but in recent history? um he killed He killed off Richard Bachman. He had a death in real life.
00:13:18
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And his wife took over the writing duties. So now his wife is writing books. Stephen King is writing books under his wife's name. I can't remember her name, but there are books done by Richard Bachman's wife in in modern time now. um after he After he died. So that's kind of cool. um Stephen King is weird, but he does creative shit like that. It's kind of strange. but ah The movie itself, ah very much a movie of its time. Mid-80s movie.
00:13:45
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Arnold right at the peak of his popularity. um And it's a post-apocalyptic world set in the year of, the distant year of 2017, which 10 years ago. 2019, sorry.
00:13:57
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um or twenty nineteen sorry But Arnold is running from into this. he He runs away from this kind of slave camp and a in and a and he runs out and he runs away and he's caught.
00:14:14
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And he's put into this po post-apocalyptic series of games, kind of like the Hunger Games, um where you you try to beat everybody to survive and there's different...
00:14:25
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there's different layers you have to get through different levels. You have to get through to beat, beat the big boss. And if you get it to the very, very end, in his case, he gets his freedom. It's it's it for what it is.
00:14:37
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It's a decent idea, decent premise, of course, set in the set in the eighties time. So it's a little campy. Um, it's a very much Arnold being Arnold chewing on scenery, chewing on,
00:14:48
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on dialogue like kind of reminiscent of batman and robin um dialogue but um it's definitely arnold if you like arnold source nigger you're gonna love this movie um and he's promoting it heavily he's not he's not in the new one but he is on the hundred dollar bill in the new running man um and uh playing playing him in the new running man is glenn powell of course um Playing um the game show host is Coleman Domingo.
00:15:19
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um And yeah whole it's a whole it's done by Edgar Wright, who we both love. so Very excited to see the new one. But this one this one is ah is definitely a piece of its time. It's definitely an 80s, mid-80s Arnold movie.
00:15:31
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ah Reminiscent of everything he's did around that era. so yeah um And we watched two brand new movies we're going to talk about. um First one, I'm very excited to talk about.
00:15:43
Speaker
um is caught stealing caught stealing is an amazing movie uh for what it is i loved it great cast and down yeah very fun movie uh great cast from austin butler zoe kravitz matt smith who he's had a lot of bad roles since doctor who but he's had like you you mentioned um um House of Dragon, which I can play i could completely forget he's in that. Number one, he transforms into that character.
00:16:11
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and number two, that doesn't come out that often. So I always forget about it. He wasn't in the second season a lot. He didn't have much to do with that part of the story either. And you're telling me to just wait, cause there's a lot more to it. but yeah um The two Hasidic brothers, played by Vincent D'Onofrio and Liv Shriver, great.
00:16:32
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Bad Bunny, great in this. um What's her name? um I don't know her name. Of course, it's not on there. Yeah, Regina King, right, is her name.
00:16:43
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It's blocked off on here. She's great. She was also in the Watchmen thing that we watched a couple weeks ago, a couple months ago. um Yeah, know great movie. Four out of five for me. um definitely Definitely great to see a great action movie nowadays. yeah you't You don't see too many like this original movies. I guess it's based off a book, but...
00:17:01
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um One movie I wasn't too high on, i know i know you reviewed it a couple weeks ago, but um The Smashing Machine, starring The Rock, getting a lot of praise from his performance, but I thought watching it that it was very much just The Rock beating The Rock.
Discussion on The Rock's Movie and UFC
00:17:15
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um Didn't see much of it. I didn't know much about Mark Kerr. don't know much about that period of pride in UFC. um Was this really... It wasn't really a UFC story. It was mostly pride. There wasn't no UFC involvement. Yeah, I think that only showed... yeah He was in very early UFC, and then he went to pride where he made his, like, mark, I guess, after UFC.
00:17:35
Speaker
Okay. But, yeah, I mean, it's just that basically the story of him um and his relationship with with his wife, who's played by... Fuck, what's her name? From...
00:17:47
Speaker
Jim from The Office's wife in real life who was... God, can't remember her name. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. But you can see her on the poster there. um Overall, okay movie. three out of Three and a half out of five.
00:18:01
Speaker
um Nothing I'd go back and watch. Um...
00:18:06
Speaker
I do like the Safri guy, Benny Safri, Safri, whatever. And I know he i know he did and Uncut Gems, right? and I love that movie.
00:18:16
Speaker
Him and his brother did that. They did Good Times. with Good Times. You see i saw that. And he also was the villain in Happy Gilmore, which is weird. Because, I mean, he he did he did Uncut Gems with Adam Sandler, so it makes sense.
00:18:30
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But yeah, it was an okay movie. A lot of the hype, I think it was overhyped. I think The Rock overhyped it too online. Well, The Rock just always overhypes everything, so... Yeah, and he's talking he is talking about, we'll talk about it now because I saw it earlier, but he was talking about his time at WB and how he's kind of, i'm I'm done with that. I'm done with that role now. I'm all done with that. I forgot about it. It's out of my past. It's in my past now.
00:18:57
Speaker
So he's distancing himself from from the mess that he made over there too. Yeah. Um, that's it for what we watched
Warner Brothers Acquisition Speculation
00:19:03
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this week. But before we get into news, there's something that I've been wanting to talk about and I figure we'll talk about in a light week, um, is this WB bio.
00:19:11
Speaker
And there's a lot of speculation on what's going to happen here. And I, and I did, um come up with a list of who would benefit more in a buyout for Warner brothers. Um,
00:19:24
Speaker
um and there are a lot of companies that are coming out of the woodwork thinking hiring lawyers to maybe come and buy him out and there's one that came out yesterday we're going to talk about in a minute but um break it down one by one of who we think will have the more potential with the company um have more potential with the ip and actually being able to promote it and add it to their catalog and so on and so forth and a lot of it has to do with streaming rights too and How it's going to benefit a streaming a combined streaming service, possibly.
00:19:55
Speaker
But we'll start off with Apple. what would happen What would be their benefit the most would be developing a non-existent IP that they don't really have right now? um They have all their all own homeground home homegrown stuff on their app.
00:20:10
Speaker
um Other than that, there's nothing outside of the studio. And this would give them a catalog they've never had before. Plus, they have the money. um They have the money to to produce new things.
00:20:21
Speaker
um And they lost out to the the MGM deal with yeah with Amazon. So this would kind of be a nice way to break out of that and get something on their own. So yeah, they have nothing's come out about that.
00:20:34
Speaker
But Paramount is the big one. That was where this whole merger started from, this whole thing. um And with Paramount, the benefit would be a massive combined media app, which they've said that HBO Max and Paramount Plus would be merged into one.
00:20:48
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The IP of both companies would be merged. ah You got Paramount, CBS, you got and then you got HBO Max. ah The other thing, um Discovery could be separated. It could all be separated, too. They may not own Discovery after this, too. It all depends on what gets approved. but That's Paramount. Netflix.
00:21:07
Speaker
We mentioned last week that they hired a lawyer to try to kind up come up with an idea if Netflix would be the buyer. um As far as them, um they would benefit from a major push for theatrical, if they actually wanted to do that.
00:21:22
Speaker
um Netflix has kind of been known to not do that because they're more worried about the streaming. But it would be their foot in the door.
00:21:31
Speaker
I don't want Netflix to buy it. Yeah, because they don't I don't think they really know how to do the theatrical thing, and that's kind of scary, especially from Warner Brothers, which is the biggest theatrical thing right now. Did you see, I'm sure it's in the notes about the Krager movie.
00:21:44
Speaker
ah Which one? Um, after Weapons, Netflix wanted to make a movie with Craigor. No, I don't have it. And they all set to Okay, they were all set to go. and and they lost it because he wouldn't do it without Theatrical, and they refused to give him Theatrical, even though Weapons was such a success.
00:22:05
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and But you've heard that story not just with Craigor. You've heard that with a lot of creators yeah that worked with Netflix. They've done that a lot. Exactly. So that is scary. Yep. If they did buy Warner Brothers, would they bury The Theatrical? um that would be That would be weird. But they would have a major IP acquisition.
00:22:21
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um And they're known mostly for creating in-house. So that would be the big deal. um would would they Would they take advantage of having a theatrical window? Who knows?
00:22:32
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um The other one that nobody's talking about, because Disney is in so much debt from the Fox or merger, is Disney. um But if they added to Disney, what would they benefit? Adding to their already packed portfolio.
00:22:45
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um And it would become an IP juggernaut, probably bigger than any other company, um passed down to theme parks, merchandising, everything. And the app would be gigantic, a merged app.
00:22:56
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um And today, news came out last night that Comcast has joined the fight, and they've actually hired the same um lawyers that Netflix hired last week um to get into the process to explore bidding for it as well. So Comcast, NBC, Universal, who already have an impressive IP alone with their history,
00:23:15
Speaker
um Strengthening Peacock, which is kind of a lower app, making it bigger if they merged it with HBO Max. um And it would be huge. I mean, it would be huge for them. So I could see that happening. um Amazon, they have the money.
00:23:29
Speaker
Building a larger IP catalog. They have MGM, but they could use more. um Especially it would bring Lord of the Rings all into one studio because all the movies are more than Warner Brothers. um Bigger theatrical foot footprint because Amazon does not come out with a lot of theatrical. They're there too on the Prime schedule. Every movie comes out on Prime.
00:23:46
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um And they could get their foot in in the door to cable. um Amazon, mostly known for streaming with the Prime app. um HBO, a lot of these companies could benefit. I think Amazon would be the biggest benefit for cable because they don't have a cable footprint.
00:24:01
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um And the other one that nobody talks about is Sony Columbia Pictures. um Merging in the IP, Sony has a pretty decent catalog. um Strengthening the theatrical of Sony. Sony's already a pretty strong theatrical juggernaut.
00:24:16
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um And putting their foot in the door for cable as well. It would bring the studio to a higher level because Sony is mostly known for being a studio that's kind of a lower studio, um ah even though they're not as high as everybody else. But it would be ah it would be interesting to see if Sony merge or I don't think they have the money to. but why it's at the bottom of the list. But yeah, it's just an interesting time to see what would happen with Warner Brothers.
00:24:41
Speaker
Overall effects of this, mostly to the consumer, is less app confusion maybe. Maybe combining two apps will make things easier. However, ah more content in one app equals possibly higher jump price jumps, which would be ridiculous for us as a consumer. Because how high is too high for an app?
00:25:03
Speaker
yeah ESPN right now is the highest one, $29.99 a month for their yeah ESPN Unlimited. You get a deal with Disney Plus. But um how high is this going to go? or if Is it going to be to the point where one streaming app is going to be what what one subscription to cable was 10 years ago?
00:25:22
Speaker
Possibly, the way the out the the forecast is outlook is looking right now. um we definitely had it made during the pandemic when everything was $6.99 $4.99 apple tv started at $4.99 i think it's at $11.99 right now and that was only what five years ago it's kind of nuts and crazy but um paramount skydance i saw this article i want to talk about before we get into news um david l ellison who's in charge of paramount skydance is all all going forward with this merger with Warner Brothers, reportedly has a list of actors and filmmakers to never work with relating to the individual stance on Israel and all their political standings on Trump and everything else. yep
00:26:03
Speaker
A number of DC actors have openly been pro-Palestine, anti-Trump, um... A lot of directors have been, including James Gunn. Additionally, um they plan to skew their films to be more male and MAGA-centric, MAGA-aligned mostly, ah to be non-DEI, D-I-E, whatever you call it.
00:26:25
Speaker
um So, yeah, that's kind of scary, um especially getting into a new Warner Brothers, being James Gunn being known to be very outspoken about the the Trump administration and everything going on.
00:26:37
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So yeah um yeah, we're at a pro-mag, and also, we mentioned it before, there is a political thing here where trumpmp Trump is for this merger. Very much after everything, after winning the lawsuit against CBS for the Stephen Colbert stuff, Trump is for it.
00:26:54
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um Is there some sort of a pay like pay thing here? Who knows? We can speculate all day about it. We'll never know unless they do a full investigation, which probably won't happen, but...
00:27:06
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um Yeah, we'll continue talking about this. There's news every week coming out about potential buyers. um Zazov's talking about it all the time. ah Maybe in December there'll be more word on it. This could all be just talk to up the company's prop up the company's price.
00:27:22
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yeah The bidding war, the the price of this company could skyrocket, and then dividing it it up, which was the original idea, was just starting to divide it up into two companies. um Still could happen, but at a higher price point.
00:27:34
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So who knows? We'll have to wait and see. But until then, let's get into the news.
00:27:45
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And it's not just that, but let's trail around it.
00:27:50
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One big trailer to talk about this week, and that is the Michael trailer. um This trailer, for the minute that it was, was amazing. um Of course, the the movie, um the biopic um done by Fakwa, who directed Training Day. Is the one who directed Training Day? Training Day, yeah. yep um And it's all about Michael Jackson. who It looks like his whole entire life is what they're setting it up to be.
00:28:18
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um And there's still rumors of this movie turning into two movies. So I don't know if that's ever going to be the case. We're to hear more about it. Yeah, still have to film the entire second half. cause Oh, is that right? It was... They basically had it filmed, and then they realized that it's a story that legally they can't tell because of court cases.
00:28:38
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So I'm not sure if we're going to get that part. So I don't know where this is going to end, but yeah. So I would guess this would probably end around the eighty s like an eighty s I heard i heard that Around ah Bad or Thriller.
00:28:54
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ah Something like that is where they think it's going to end in that era. Interesting. um But, yeah, tells the story of Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson Biopic Trailer
00:29:03
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Comes out on April 24th. Looks really good. Miles Teller there playing his manager.
00:29:08
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um From what we see, this kid, he sounds just like Michael, talks just like Michael, sings just like Michael. So it could be we could be in for something special and in April. So I'm really hoping we we are.
00:29:21
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um Top of the box office last week, regretting you for the second week. 8.1 million. Still don't know what it is. Blackphone 2, number 2. And Chainsaw Man, the movie, Rezi Arc, the second week, was number 3 for 6 million.
00:29:38
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Still don't know what that is. um and News came out ah earlier in the week that Millie Bobby Brown reportedly filed harassment charges against Stranger Things star David Harbourn.
00:29:50
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um And then the I had this in the news articles to talk about this week, and then they went on the red carpet last night for Stranger Things season five and started hugging it up, kind of squashing that rumor. I wanted to bring that up that it had been squashed.
00:30:04
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I heard it was something about um his his ex-wife or ex-fiance had something to do with leaking something out. I don't know. Yeah, they had a dad ah that ah bad falling out but breakup. I guess she's saying he cheated on her. Yeah, the whole thing happened. What's her name? She's a singer. but um But yeah, ah very excited for that. Stranger Things in in full promotion too.
00:30:27
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That and Wicked both in full promotion right now um for the end of the month. um And today, Grammy nominations came out. I'll talk about the film part of it, and that's the only thing I saw this week, but... Grammy nominations for Best Film TV Score.
00:30:42
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We got Sinners. How to Train Your Dragon, which I haven't seen. Severance Season 2, music in that is great. um Wicked, of course, great. And The Wild Robot, which I hear is great. I have not seen that. But yeah, out of all those, Sinners... the Music in Sinners, if it doesn't win...
00:30:57
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um There's a travesty there. um i do And I love The Wicked, too. um Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande nominated for Best Pop Duo Group Performance for Defying Gravity.
00:31:11
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um And Sinners did win for best, five noms for best for the movies, best movie TV score, best song written for film times three, and best compilation soundtrack for a film or TV.
00:31:25
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And K-pop Demon Hunters was nominated for four Grammys for song of the year, remix recording, song written for television, pop duo, group performance. so yeah. uh, Grammys is usually end of January, February, around that, around that time.
00:31:39
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Um, speaking of K-pop Demon Hunters, uh, 2029 is the second one coming out on Netflix. Uh, that was announced this week. Um, and also announced this week, Godzilla minus one, two,
00:31:52
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which is actually called Godzilla Minus Zero is the official name. um We both love that movie. can We watched it last year, or you watched a year ago, year and a half ago, reviewed it on the podcast. it's I think it was a 5 out of 5. It was an amazing movie. Very, very good.
00:32:10
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um and and This is basically, i think minus 1 means one year before, so minus 0 would mean right when Godzilla makes his first real major attack on the world. So,
00:32:22
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um Yeah, very cool. They made that first movie with such a low budget, I'm wondering if they're going to keep that same point going in, but we'll have to wait and see. um Also announced this week, surprising everyone,
00:32:35
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Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reuniting for The Mummy 4. I actually went back and watched the first Mummy this week. actually I hadn't seen it in a while. I fucking love that movie. haven't either. yeah I got the 4 case and I haven't watched them yet. So I've only run those back.
00:32:49
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I bet you that would look great. I just watched the first movie this week for the first time probably in 7 8 years. And it's very good. It's Indiana Jones. It's just old, old arch our our arch archeological art archaeological archaeological Dig and all that stuff is really, really cool. Mixed with mummies and monsters, which is really cool.
00:33:10
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But they are reviving it. um Filmmakers Matt Olpin and Tyler Gillett are going to be in charge of it. They did the movie Radio Silence. I don't know what that is.
00:33:20
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um And, yeah. No, they also are Radio Silence. They are Radio Silence. Oh, okay. okay du scream that's yeah that's They Scream. They revived Scream. Their team name is Radio Silence. They did the Scream franchise revival, yeah.
00:33:36
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Okay. Yeah, I was going yeah. But yeah, i although the first one's great, um second one brought in the Scorpion King. The CGI was horrible. um Third one was bad because Rachel Weisz decided not to do it for obvious reasons.
00:33:52
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I think it was um Jet Li was the bad guy, or so one of those Asian actors. I saw it once. It was set in like ah over there in yeah in the middle in the Asian country somewhere. not sure, Japan, I guess, but...
00:34:07
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ah Yeah, not good. um But yeah, I'll have wait and see on that. The other thing that was announced this week, Gremlins 3, being directed by Chris Columbus. We've been talking about this for years. It's been on and off being rebooted, but they finally got Columbus back. Yep, two years from this month, coming out November 2027.
00:34:25
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Steven Silver is going to be an executive producer. So yeah. um And joining the cast of the Ty West Christmas Carol um alongside alongside Johnny Depp as Scrooge is going to be Tramiel Tillman, who is in Severance, and Ian McKellen.
00:34:42
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um Tillman will be playing the Ghost of Christmas Present. And Ian McKellen, who knows who's going to play, probably, um he's probably going playing, um I can't remember the guy's name, the friend of Ebenezer, who's the ghost in the beginning.
00:34:56
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cracky Crack it? crockett i can't remember his name. yeah Probably. That's my speculation. um I saw this today and wanted to talk about it. um There's a book coming out in August um about the making of Dogma, the whole story of the film.
00:35:11
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Um, Dogma is getting a big resurgence right now because Kevin Smith has the rights to the movie back. Um, he's doing a huge tour of the movie. Um, coming out in 4K, uh, download sometime probably during Christmas month. But, um, he's gonna have never before seen, love pictures and cast and crew interviews.
00:35:30
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Uh, talking about the making of the movie, which is my favorite Kevin Smith movie. Um, it's this is big, like, um... Not magnum opus, but there's a lot of stars in it, lot of story to it, a lot more potential to it, too. It's one of those movies that everybody wants to see a sequel to.
00:35:45
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um Alan Rickman, his role kind of broke out from Die Hard into this weird, cool, comedic, dramatic role, which was kind of neat. And, of course, he did Harry Potter after that. So, yeah, cannot wait to read that book.
00:35:59
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um Nintendo Switch 2. In just six months, has sold 10.36 million units, um becoming the biggest, I don't think it is yet, but it's continuing its run to be the biggest console release ever.
00:36:14
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um It's kind of crazy considering there isn't too many games for it outside of upgrades from Switch 1 games. Yeah, nothing, nothing, no big new Mario game, no big new Zelda game. I'm loving mine.
00:36:27
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Odyssey runs so much better. The Zelda games run so much better. oh yeah, I can imagine. I love, I love the console. um The new Donkey Kong game is awesome. Played a lot of that last night. It's just smashing a lot of stuff. It was kind of fun.
00:36:42
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Nice, nice. Yeah, I love my Switch too. <unk> What did I say? I saw that um PlayStation is going to be making their own version of a portable Switch like yeah console for PS6. It's going to be released around the same time. Microsoft has one right now. so Yeah, it makes sense. yeah that's It's the big thing. If you're going to emulate the biggest console, which is the Switch 2, I guess you're going to make your own portable version as well. Yeah.
00:37:07
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Announced yesterday, Grand Theft Auto 6, which was supposed to come out in May, got delayed another six months until November 19th of 2026. No surprise there.
00:37:18
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I think everybody kind of speculated this was going to happen. I think the rumor had been around for a while that this was going to happen. So no surprise there, but yeah, it is delayed. ah So a year from now, hopefully we'll have this game. Maybe holiday season of 2026, right around the time Avengers comes out, Doomsday. So we'll wait and see.
00:37:36
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um And the Marvel 1943 Rise of Hydra. This is the game set in 1943. When Captain America goes one-on-one with Black Panther, set in World War two It was supposed to come out sometime this year, the end of the year. It has been delayed as well to early 2026 in the winter, spring.
00:37:59
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So yeah, no no official date on that. um Let's get into some swag. Swag! Stuff we all get. Come on, son. you know that's right Got a brand new Lego set. Very first time they've done Star Trek.
00:38:15
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The USS Enterprise from, I believe, um the the next generation. With a whole bunch of minifigures as well. ah Very first time Star Trek has had a has had a figure. So that's for a Lego. So that's kind of cool.
00:38:30
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um Also coming out in Lego, this um from Spider-Man 3. um They're about 20 years too late. But they are coming out with a Sandman... venom and spider-man uh set uh one of those smaller sets that probably cost about 79 80 bucks but yeah you don't want to mention that um and speaking of marvel um nope not yet speaking of marvel um patrick stewart who is going to be in avengers doomsday uh the rumor is that that is going to be his last movie not just as professor x but that's going to be where he retires from film
00:39:03
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Patrick Stewart's Retirement Rumors
00:39:04
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acting. um No official word on that, but and as a rule it is a role that he has definitely um cemented as himself, as Professor and X, even even surpassing himself over James McAvoy. you did a great job playing Professor X, but everybody knows him.
00:39:23
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Everybody knows Patrick Stewart as Professor X. Even before the movie was cast, he was a fan cast all throughout the 90s. I remember way before the movie was made, I remember thinking, wow, he'd be a great Professor Xavier when I was into the cartoon, but...
00:39:36
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But yeah, that could be his final acting role. I'll have to wait and see. And finally in news, the first trailer for Avengers Doomsday um came out in Collider, came out a few other places, going to be played in front of Avatar, Fire, and Ash.
00:39:50
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Makes perfect sense. You're a year away from the movie. A quick teaser trailer would do a lot for this. It would do a lot for Marvel. um The other speculations, I mean, there's so many movies coming out during that whole first half 2026.
00:40:03
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You got Spider-Man also rumored be a trailer for that. Dune, Dune three, which is in production now, but they can put something together. The Odyssey, another one. on But yeah, and I think Michael was going to be played in front of that too. And that, when that came out this week. So there's a lot of potentials for some big movies coming out next year that could be played in front of Avengers.
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But um that's it for the show next week, this week, next week.
00:40:29
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um cannot wait to talk about it welcome to dairy episode three i love this show um what did you think of episode two i know we didn't you didn't talk about it um it was good it was very yeah very good like the show a lot ah me too it's got a very strange things vibes to it i yeah yeah but yeah and stephen king mean that's the one thing about it it's it's a great coming of age story for all these kids and they and they're attacking that again with a brand new cast of characters which is really really cool um And tonight we're going watch Frankenstein.
00:40:58
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Brand new posters for that came out this week. Going to talk about that. Cannot wait. It's on Netflix anybody wants to watch it. um Coming out on the 12th, so five days from now, is a movie called Playdate.
00:41:11
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This comes out on Amazon Prime for free. Going to watch because I love Alan Richson. um Paul Blart, Kevin James in this as well. Watch that. I'll talk about that next week.
00:41:22
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ah There's a documentary coming out on Netflix the same day called Being Eddie. That's the Eddie Murphy documentary. I'm going to try to watch that. I don't know if it's a movie or a series. Coming out in the theaters ah next week, Running Man. It comes out next week.
00:41:37
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And Now You See Me 3 comes out next week as well. We'll talk about those eventually. There was a big movie that came out today. i don't remember what it was. um Predator.
00:41:48
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Predator Badlands, yes. And I do want to see that as well, but um Yeah, that's it for the show. Thanks, everybody, for all the all the years of listening to this show.
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