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Podcast #304 - No More Red Envelopes
Airdate: 18 May 2023

- Netflix is cracking down on paid password sharing
- AMC+ with ads is coming
- Disney+ removing more content
- End of the red envelopes: Netflix is shutting down its DVD-by-mail business
- Redbox is looking to buy Netflix's DVD business
- Founder of PlutoTV thinks that the era of free TVs is here
- Super Mario Bros. crosses $1B globally
- Freaky Friday sequel in the works
- There is no better edit of Rogue One, says Tony Gilroy
- Willem Dafoe joins Beetlejuice 2 cast
- Ta-Nehisi Coates' Superman movie can be part of "Elseworlds" branch
- Chicken Run sequel in the works; new image released
- Rumor: Dodgeball sequel in the works
- Another Street Fighter movie is in the works
- Transformers One cast and details revealed
- Trailer: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
- Avatar The Last Airbender movie coming in October 2025
- David Zaslav says there will be no direct-to-streaming movies
- Ghostbusters sequel returning to NYC
- Kraven the Hunter will be Sony's first R-rated Marvel movie
- Sony launches CinemaCon with Bad Boys 4, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Disney removes dozens of series from Disney+ and Hulu including Willow
- Brianna Hildebrand and Shioli Kutsuna to return for Deadpool 3
- Schwarzenegger returns in Breakout
- Stallone returns for Cliffhanger sequel
- Killers of the Flower Moon locked in at 3 hours, 26 minutes
- Babylon 5 animated movie is coming
- Raiders of the Lost Ark to get a limited theatrical re-release
- Trailer: Dune: Part Two
- Obituary: Harry Belefonte, 96
- Rumor: Eddie Murphy might make a new Pink Panther movie
- Trailer: The Flash
- James Gunn made 600 versions of GotG 3 for various types of cinemas
- Teaser: A Haunting in Venice
- Teaser: Wish
- Trailer: Meg 2: The Trench
- Trailer: Haunted Mansion
- 11th Fast movie to be directed by Louis Leterrier
- Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey sequel secures global deals
- Bambi slasher adaptation also sells wide
- Harrison Ford gets honorary Cannes Palm D'Or


Podcast #303 - Recovery Mode
Airdate: 15 Apr 2023

- Google now has over 800 free TV channels on Google TV
- HBO Max is rebranded to just Max
- Disney+ ad-supported tier finally available on Roku
- YouTube TV price jumps to $73
- Sony's new 3D display does not require glasses
- Super Mario Bros opens to a massive $375M globally
- Super Mario Bros tops $500M and becomes the highest grossing release of 2023 so far
- The biggest box office bombs of 2022
- Trailer: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
- Paddington in Peru to begin filming in July
- Fantastic Four gets a new writer
- John Wick spinoff Ballerina to be released in Summer 2024
- Obituary: Lance Reddick
- Dreamworks' 3D rendering software Moonray is now open source
- The Room to be remade in green screen for charity
- James Gunn will direct his Superman: Legacy
- A24 to re-release Stop Making Sense after 4K restore
- Return to Silent Hill to begin filming next month
- Rumor: Apple plans a $1B theatrical push for its movies
- Apple sets Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon for fall theatrical release
- Five Nights At Freddy's goes day and date theatrical and Peacock
- Warner shifts multiple release dates
- Trailer: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- New Star Wars movies in the works
- Teaser: The Marvels
- Shrek 5 teased by Illumination
- Cineworld/Regal reach agreement to exit Chapter 11
- Jon M. Chu to direct Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Morena Baccarin and Stefan Kapicic to return for Deadpool 3
- Trailer: Blue Beetle
- Live-action Moana is in the works
- Apple and Sony set Thanksgiving for Napoleon
- Trailer: Elemental
- Carl's Date, Pixar's Up short film, will show before Elemental
- Sealed Rocky VHS trilogy sells for over $50K


Podcast #302 - Oscars Roundup
Airdate: 15 Mar 2023

- Paramount+ subscription rates are increasing
- LG announces prices and availability of 2023 OLED TVs
- Walmart is coming out with a new Chromecast competitor
- Avatar: The Way of Water gets a streaming release
- Disney releases dozens of discs for its 100th anniversary
- Superman: 5-Film Collection coming to Ultra HD in April
- Puss In Boost: The Last Wish crosses $400M globally
- Creed III becomes the first sports-related movie to cross $100M on opening weekend
- Ant Man 3 suffers huge 69.7% drop in second weekend
- Everything Everywhere All At Once is most-awarded movie ever
- Oscar scorecard
- Complete list of Oscar 2023 winners and nominees
- Michelle Yeoh is first Asian Best Actress winner
- Ruth E. Carter makes history with Best Costume Design win
- Oscar snubs
- TMNT movie cast unveiled
- Kevin Feige gives an update on Star Wars
- Bob Iger says they're being "very careful" of Star Wars movie development
- Hellboy: The Crooked Man details released
- Bad projection is ruining the movie experience
- Alec Baldwin no longer facing 5 years in prison
- Obituary: Chaim Topol, 87
- Obituary: Raquel Welch, 82
- Obituary: Tom Sizemore, 61
- Obituary: Walter Mirisch, 101
- Rumor: Quentin Tarantino prepares his final film
- Trailer: The Flash
- Tom Holland to star in movie about Fred Astaire
- Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 to release in September
- Live-action How To Train Your Dragon is in the works
- The Marvels pushed out of the summer
- Super Mario Bros. movie opens a few days earlier
- Wicked movie bumped up a month
- Spider-Man 4 is in the works with Tom Holland
- Rumor: Jenny Ortega is circling Beetlejuice 2
- New LOTR movies are in the works
- Sales at the last Blockbuster surge after viral ad


Podcast #301 - Crackdowns Begin
Airdate: 11 Feb 2023

- Netflix begins cracking down on password sharing in new markets
- Netflix is open to a free, ad-supported tier
- Plex now has more streaming users than server users
- Bond movies shift from Amazon Prime to MGM+
- Avatar 2 now at number 3 box office of all time
- Over $1 billion of Avatar 2's box office has been from 3D showings
- Puss In Boots: The Last Wish crosses $300M
- AMC Theatres unveils plans to charge different prices based on seating
- Elijah Wood blasts AMC's new seat pricing
- Rumor: I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel in the works
- Gladiator sequel set for Thanksgiving 2024
- Frozen, Toy Story, Zootopia sequels are in the works
- Constantine sequel still planned in DC reworks
- Tron 3 moving ahead with Jared Leto
- M3GAN sequel set for 2025
- Regal parent Cineworld has plans to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Metallica to debut new album theatrically
- New Tomb Raider film in the works
- Trailer: The Boogeyman
- Children of the Corn remake hitting theaters March 8
- Fantastic Four starts filming in early 2024
- Complete list of Oscar 2023 Nominations
- Female directors shut out again
- Ireland earns first International Feature nomination for The Quiet Girl
- Angela Basset earns first MCU Oscar nomination for acting
- Michelle Yeoh becomes the first self-identified Asian Best Actress nominee
- Madonna biopic is dead
- Amazon to release Ben Affleck/Matt Damon Air theatrically
- Michael Jackson biopic in the works
- Michael Jackson's nephew to portray him in biopic
- Trailer: Shazam: Fury of the Gods
- Will Smith and Martin Lawrence to return for fourth Bad Boys
- Trailer: Fast X
- De-aged Harrison Ford is actual, old footage
- Batman II and Superman: Legacy get release dates
- DC says they "didn't fire" Henry Cavill and discuss fate of other DC actors
- Charges filed against Alec Baldwin and armorer for Rust shooting
- Bambi is getting a horror movie


Podcast #300 - CES 2023 Roundup
Airdate: 15 Jan 2023

- Sony TVs are a no-show at CES
- QD-OLED TV sets looking to be even brighter
- LG announces a new wireless OLED TV
- Displace shows a TV that sticks to almost any wall or window
- Samba TV and TCL announce a new, disturbing partnership
- Roku to launch its own TV line
- Sharp to enter U.S. market with Roku "OLED Reference Design" TVs
- Samsung upgrades their Freestyle projector
- Samsung unveils 8K short-throw projector, The Premiere
- Samsung announces new OLED TV models
- Vestel to launch first "Powered by TiVO" TVs in Europe
- Leica launches its first 4K laser UST projector
- Samsung shrinks its microLED TV down to 76 inches
- Hisense mini-LED TVs drop to less than $500
- JBL Bar 1300 has 15 audio channels
- Samsung unveils its new soundbar lineup
- TCL CSOT show of its latest displays, including glasses-free 3D
- Asus launches a glasses-free 3D laptop
- AWOL Vision Vanish is a disappearing 120" laser TV - and it supports 3D
- Scented home theater platform debuts at CES
- Magnetar's Blu-ray player supports just about everything except HD-DVD
- Audio-Technica to re-release its Sound Burger turntable
- HBO Max removes 256 Looney Tunes cartoons...
- ...then raises prices
- Avatar 2 crosses $1.9B globally
- M3GAN sequel apparently in development
- Disney dominates 2022 with $4.9B at the global box office
- New Superman is in the works without Henry Cavill
- Henry Cavill moves on to Warhammer 40K
- Black Adam is not part of DC's new rework
- Rumor: Donald Glover to star in and produce movie based on Hypno-Hustler
- God of War series is a go at Amazon
- Trailer: History of the World Part II coming to Hulu
- New iteration of MoviePass expands to nine cities
- Twister sequel set for summer 2024
- Behind-the-scenes look at huge stunt in upcoming Mission Impossible
- Judge rules that deceptive movie trailers can trigger lawsuits
- Trailer: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
- Rumor: Passion of the Christ sequel to start shooting in mid-2023
- Assassin's Creed series loses its showrunner
- Read the screenplay for The Batman
- Winnie-the-Pooh prequel in the works
- The Wandering Earth 2 to ghet a limited North American release
- Tim Miller tackles Borderlands reshoots
- List of Golden Globes winners
- When Harry Met Sally, Hairspray among list to enter National Film Registry
- Watch Ke Huy Quan's heartfelt speech for Golden Globes win


Podcast #299 - Another Ending
Airdate: 13 Dec 2022

- Disney+ launches ad-supported subscription option
- Sling TV gets a price hike
- Netflix is cracking down on password sharing next year
- Missing In Action series coming to Blu-ray after almost 40 years
- Disney's Strange World is get to lose almost $150 million
- Halloween Ends crosses $100M globally
- Trailer: The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- The Flash moves up a week
- Trailer: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Rumor: Keanu Reeves in talks to join John Wick spinoff Ballerina
- Shawn Levy promises that Deadpool 3 will still be gritty and R-rated
- Rumor: Shawn Levy in talks to direct a Star Wars movie
- Dates set for Spongebob and Aang Avatar movies
- Christopher Nolan uses the first-ever black-and-white IMAX film
- Spielberg says that streaming companies threw filmmaker friends "under the bus"
- Obituary: Kevin Conroy, 66
- Obituary: Irene Cara, 63
- Obituary: Kirstie Alley, 71
- Female-led Pirates of the Caribbean is dead
- New Singaporean tech could bring cinema-quality sound or outdoor venues
- Michelle Yeoh joins Wicked
- New Princess Diaries movie in the works
- Trailer: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Trailer: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
- Rumor: Massive shake-up at DC results in Wonder Woman 3 being cancelled
- James Gunn (somewhat) clarifies new DC plan
- Patty Jenkins gives update on Wonder Woman 3 and Rogue Squadron
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel get its director
- Teaser: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
- ToeJam & Earl movie in the works
- Anime hit Suzume gets U.S. theatrical date
- Shin Ultraman coming to U.S. in January in both subbed and dubbed formats


Podcast #298 - Quest Successful
Airdate: 8 Nov 2022

- New Doctor Who will be on Disney+
- Netflix ad-supported tier has launched
- Netflix appears to back off theatrical ambitions
- Rumor: Star Wars movie in the works by Damon Lindelof
- One Thousand And One Nights reimagining in the works at Disney
- The Joy Luck Club sequel in the works
- Rumor: Sony is working on a new Barbarella movie
- Dune: Part Two shifts to November 2023
- Amsterdam set to lose $100M
- Obituary: Angela Lansbury, 96
- Obituary: Lenny Lipton, 82
- Obituary: Robbie Coltrane, 72
- House Party remake moves to January
- Rumor: New Naked Gun with Liam Neeson in the works
- Blade paused during search for new director
- Several Marvel movies are delayed
- Henry Caveill returns as Superman
- Trailer: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
- Rumor: Venom 3 gets Kelly Marcel as director
- Rumor: Twisters set to start filming in spring
- New Godzilla coming from Toho
- Harrison Ford enters the Marvel Universe as General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross
- Trailer: Creed III
- Conjuring 4 in the works
- Trailer: Avatar: The Way of Water
- Low-budget Winnie-The-Pooh slasher to get a theatrical release
- Shelley Duvall returns to the screen in The Forest Hills
- The practical flying scenes of Top Gun: Maverick


Podcast #297 - COVID Positive
Airdate: 6 Oct 2022

Please support me in my Quest to Conquer Cancer!

(Sorry about the very late show notes. The past two weeks have been super busy.)
- Epix is renaming itself to MGM+
- Lionsgate streaming to become (you guessed it) Lionsgate+
- Disney clarifies future for Disney+ and Hulu
- Support Abbott and Costello Show, Season 2 restoration
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture is "finally complete"
- James Cameron backs up one of my reasons why 3D failed (again)
- Jurassic World Dominion crosses $1B worldwide
- As suspected, Regal parent Cinemaworld files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Blade loses its director
- Next Star Trek movie removed from the schedule
- Trailer: Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever
- Sony picks up the movie rights to Tarzan
- Deadpool 3 arrives in September 2024
- James Earl Jones retires as Darth Vader's voice; signs off on A.I.
- New Cloverfield movie in the works
- Final Destination 6 gets directors
- Russia boycotts 2023 Oscars
- Expect $3 Movie Ticket Day to happen again
- New American Pie movie in the works
- Rumor: Armor Wars goes from Disney+ mini series to theatrical movie
- Constantine sequel set at WB
- FNAF movie gets a director
- New take on Nosferatu in the works
- Sam Raimi to direct remake of Magic
- Beverly Hills Cop originals to reprise their roles
- Secret Babylon 5 project in the works featuring the original cast
- Obituary: Jean-Luc Godard, 91
- Obituary: Henry Silva, 95
- Obituary: Louise Fletcher, 88
- Woody Allen is retiring after his next movie
- Woody Allen is NOT retiring after his next movie
- Magic Mike sequel moves from HBO Max to theatrical release
- Orlando Bloom joins Gran Turismo
- Several new release dates and moves for Sony
- Knives Out sequel will go theatrical to 600 theaters
- Disney sets new release dates and pulls other dates
- Next Planet of the Apes movie is in the works
- Susan Sarandon says Blue Beetle will be in Spanish with subtitles
- Veteran VFX supervisor explains what happened with Scorpion King CGI


Podcast #296 - Back from the Dead
Airdate: 5 Sep 2022

- UHD TVs might get a big price drop soon
- LG touts using the screen as speakers, but it's not a new idea
- $90 million Batgirl movie had been axed and cannot be shown
- Batgirl screenings to be provided to cast and crew
- To avoid residuals, WB Discovery pulls 200 Sesame Street episodes
- In effort to purge $3B in costs, WBD loses $20B in market cap
- Price hikes for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+
- Reset your Plex password if you haven't already
- Halloween Ends going day-and-date theatrically and on Peacock
- Universal crosses the $3B mark at the international box office
- Top Gun: Maverick crosses $1.4B mark globally
- Patton Oswalt suggests that Eternals 2 is on the way
- Rumor: Rocky spinoff Drago set for MGM
- Max Headroom series reboot in the works at AMC Networks
- WB shifts a number of release dates
- Garfield set for winter 2024
- Joker: Folie À Deux to be released in Fall 2024
- Rumor: Zazie Beetz to return for Joker
- Kung Fu Panda 4 coming in 2024
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 coming Christmas 2024
- New Saw movie coming in 2023
- Live-action Pac-Man movie is in the works .... seriously
- Rumor: Working Girl reboot in the works
- Stahelski wants Ghosts of Tsushima to be in Japanese with a Japanese cast
- MoviePass returns from the dead
- Obituary: Anne Heche, 53
- Obituary: Wolfgang Petersen, 81
- Obituary: Olivia Newton-John, 73
- Ferris Bueller spinoff in the works ... no, not kidding
- Matt Damon explains why they really don't make 'em like they used to
- Cineworld considers Chapter 11 Backruptcy (UPDATE: they did it)
- New Fantastic Four movie director in talks
- Star Trek movie loses its director ... to Fantastic Four
- Winnie the Pooh gets gory in public domain
- Ellen Burstyn agrees to return to The Exorcist to help new actors


Podcast #295 - Hailing Frequencies Closed
Airdate: 2 Aug 2022

- Sony is removing access to some purchased movies in Germany and Austria
- Netflix is still testing anti-password sharing
- Netflix will launch advertising tier in 2023
- Deadpool and Logan are the first R-rated movies on Disney+
- TVs are too good now
- Optimal TV viewing distance calculator
- Rise of Gru becomes the first animated pic to cross $300M (domestic) during COVID
- Ben Affleck retruning as Batman for Aquaman sequel
- SDCC: Marvel's Phase 6 includes Avengers: Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars
- SDCC: Danial Cretton to direct Kang Dynasty
- SDCC: Gamora will return in GotG 3
- SDCC: Fantastic Four arriving in fall 2024
- SDCC: Blade to be released in November 2023
- SDCC: Captain America: New World Order to be released in May 2024
- MCU Phase 6 Timeline
- John Wick 4 begins filming
- Sneak Peek: John Wick 4
- Trailer: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
- Teaser: Wakanda Forever
- Sneak Peek: Black Adam
- Trailer: Shazam: Fury of the Gods
- Julius Onah to direct Captain America 4
- E.T. and Jaws are coming to IMAX, but Jaws is returning in 3D
- Obituary: L.Q. Jones, 94
- Obituary: James Caan, 82
- Obituary: David Warner, 80
- Obituary: Paul Sorvino, 83
- Obituary: Nichelle Nichols, 89
- Rumor: Mortal Kombat sequel moving forward
- Tomb Raider movie rights are up for grabs, sparking a frenzy
- Trailer: Dungeous & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
- Accusations of fake accounts fueled the Justice League Snyder Cut...
- ...but the math doesn't really add up to much
- Sony moves Madame Web to Fall 2023
- Production on Dune: Part 2 has begun
- Lilo & Stitch live-action hybrid finds a director
- Michael Flatley's long-delayed Blackbird gets a trailer and UK release date
- Trailer: Halloween Ends
- Jamie Lee Curtis pokes fun at Marvel and greenscreen
- Nintendo buys animation studio for TV/movie production
- Salem's Lot moved to Spring 2023
- Clerks 3 gets a release date and trailer
- Stranger Things brothers want to release a pan-and-scan version (seriously!)
- Marvel goes stupidly tone-deaf with $25M Infinity Gauntlet to let fans "connect to the brand"
- Paul Rudd proves that he's a real-life superhero


Podcast #294 - Reinventing Bond
Airdate: 2 July 2022

- Microsoft is bringing Xbox Game Pass to some smart TVs
- HDMI cables will soon be able to provide limited power to devices
- 3D Blu-ray of Treasure of the Four Crowns to be released
- 3D Blu-ray of I, The Jury to be released
- Top Gun: Maverick earns $900M globally
- Sonic The Hedgehog 2 earns $400M globally
- Fantastic Beasts 3 crashes domestically
- Jurassic World Dominion might signal a return to 3D with 25% box office
- Remastered Titanic is coming back for Valentine's Day 2023
- Deadpool 3 writer claims that Deadpool will still be Deadpool
- New Godzilla/Kong movie set for 2024
- Three Avatar: The Last Airbender movies are set
- Joker sequel gets the green light
- Rumor: Lady Gaga in talks to join Joker sequel
- Live action Hercules set at Disney
- Dirty Dancing sequel is set for 2024
- James Bond is being "reinvented"
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel set for December 2023
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 starts production
- Trailer: Black Adam
- Rumor: Thunderbolts movie gets a director
- Duke Nukem movie in the works
- Spider-Man: No Way Home - The More Fun Stuff Version comes to theaters in September
- Paddington 3 gets a director
- Paramount is making a new Smurfs movie
- Sony making a Gran Turismo movie
- Taika Waititi wants his Star Wars movie to go in new directions with new characters
- X-Wing model from original 1977 movie goes for $2.3M at auction


Podcast #293 - 3D Isn't Dead Yet
Airdate: 4 June 2022

- Bwana Devil restored and will released on 3D Blu-ray
- Spider-Man: No Way Home getting a region 2 (LOCKED!!!) 3D Blu-ray release
- Top Gun 2 sets a record $156M domestic opening
- Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness crosses $800M worldwide
- Tom Cruise refused to allow day-and-date streaming release of Top Gun 2
- Cinemark is also looking at dynamic pricing and Netflix theatrical runs
- Avatar 2 causes a new push for theatrical 3D
- Teaser: Avatar: The Way of Water
- Deadpool 3 writers claim that Deadpool will still be Deadpool
- Teaser: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, Part One
- Disney copyright protections are targeted as punishment for being "woke"
- The Omen prequel gets its director
- Dirty Dancing sequel announced
- Godzilla vs Kong sequel gets its first casting
- Law Abiding Citizen sequel in pre-production
- Trailer: Thor: Love and Thunder
- The Toxic Avenger gets its R rating
- Obituary: Ray Liotta, 67
- Obituary: Fred Ward, 79
- Obituary: Colin Cantwell, 90
- Trailer: Three Thousand Years of Longing
- Spinal Tap II is in the works
- Rust producers claim they will still finish the movie
- Uwe Boll plans to return to filmmaking
- The Last Voyage of the Demeter moves to late summer 2023
- Rumor: Wonder Twins movie shut down
- Indiana Jones 5 will be released in June 2023
- Horizon: Zero Dawn in early development at Netflix
- Tenet finds its way to the Playdate


Podcast #292 - Dumb TVs Wanted
Airdate: 4 May 2022

- Netflix to launch cheaper, ad-supported version
- Lionsgate will stream exclusively on Roku Channel
- Captain Obvious: Smart TV ownership rises to 76% of TV households
- Streaming viewers feel overwhelmed by too many choices
- US Netflix account owners won't have to pay for sharing - yet
- Vizio to push ads even during live TV broadcasts
- IMDb TV renamed to Freevee (not kidding)
- Sonic 2 breaks record for video game adaptations w/ $71M debut
- The Batman passes $700M at the global box office
- The Batman also has massive first week viewership on HBO Max
- AMC Theaters to install laser projectors on 3,500 US screens
- Hunger Games prequel to be released in November 2023
- Mission Impossible 7 titled Dead Reckoning - Part 1
- Marvel teases "major" 3D movie experiences are on the way
- Avatar 2 will be titled The Way of Water
- Venom 3 teased during Sony's Cinemacon reel
- Another Ghostbusters movie is in the works
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse footage and sequel titles revealed
- Olivia Wilde gets her own on-stage surprise at CinemaCon: child support papers
- Kevin Costner working on new western Horizon
- Rumor: Streets of Rage film in the works
- Jason Momoa to star in Minecraft movie
- The Batman sequel set; Robert Pattinson and Matt Reeves to return
- Margot Robbie's Barbie arrives in Summer 2023
- Wicked to be split into two movies
- Super Mario Bros. movie heads to April 2023
- Puss In Boots: The Last Wish moved to Christmas
- Ant-Man and The Marvels swap release dates
- Fantastic Four movie loses Jon Watts as director
- Rumor: Vin Diesel blamed for Justin Lin Fast 10 departure
- Rumor: Justin Lin had multiple issues leading up to Fast 10 departure
- Ezra Miller arrested in Hawai'i .... again
- Final Rust report shows "willful and serious" safety violations
- Will Smith banned from Oscars for a decade
- Rumor: Amazon leads the bidding on Voltron live-action film
- Paramount+ to launch in UK in June
- Bill Skarsgard to star in The Crow reboot
- Jim Carrey is "fairly serious" about retiring
- Christopher Lloyd, Rachel Leigh Cook to star in Spirit Halloween movie
- Obituary: Gilbert Gottfried dies at 67
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture restored Director's Edition hits theaters
- White Men Can't Jump reboot in the works
- Blue Sky Studios gives Scrat a proper, final farewell


Podcast #291 - Slap
Airdate: 30 Mar 2022

- Disney+ coming to South Africa and other countries
- Disney+ is getting an ad-supported version later this year
- Anastasia removal from Disney+ was not related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- Spider-Man: No Way Home is going to Starz first
- Netflix is testing a $2.99 fee to share accounts
- Apple pulls ability to rent, purchase, or subscribe on Android devices
- Roku update helps to make dialog easier to hear
- LG launches new 2K short-throw projectors
- Samsung announces the first new OLED TVs in a decade
- Spider-Man: No Way Home is the third movie to cross $800M domestically
- The Batman crosses $500M globally
- Will Smith could face suspension or expulsion over Oscars slap
- SAG-AFTRA condemns Will Smith slap...
- ...as does AMPAS
- Will Smith apologizes to Chris Rock
- Full list of Oscar winners
- The Batman deleted Joker scene
- Bruce Willis retires from acting due to aphasia diagnosis
- Sharon Stone to play the villain in Blue Beetle
- Live action Voltron movie ignites a bidding war
- New organization looks to save lost movies
- Paramount sets dates for Scream sequel and others
- WB moves a number of movie dates including The Flash, Aquaman, Wonka, and Shazam
- AMC is charging more for tentpole movies
- Trailer: Top Gun: Maverick
- Obituary: William Hurt
- Obituary: Alan Ladd Jr.
- Jason Momoa is the villain in Fast and Furious 10
- I Am Legend sequel in the works
- New Alien movie in the works for Hulu
- Shawn Levy in talks to direct Deadpool 3
- Rumor: Watchmen showrunner Damon Lindelof developing Star Wars movie
- Christopher Lloyd joins Mandalorian season 3
- Newly remastered 4K Star Trek: The Motion Picture premieres on First Contact Day
- Retrospective: Beauty and the Beast and its unprecedented Oscar run
- Collector's edition + vinyl of Escape from New York
- Amazon closes its $8.5B deal to acquire MGM
- Trailer: Puss In Boots: The Last Wish
- CD sales are up for the first time in 20 years
- Jamie Lee Curtis will officiate her daughter's wedding in World of Warcraft cosplay


Podcast #290 - As The World Falls Down
Airdate: 26 Feb 2022

- All Netflix-produced Marvel shows removed from Netflix
- HBO Max is launching in 15 more European markets
- Disney+ will launch in 42 more countries this summer
- Expect Disney+ prices to go up after September
- Amazon Prime prices are going up
- Sony celebrates Uncharted as a "new hit movie franchise"
- Spider-Man bests Avatar domestically
- European movie ticket sales were up by 28% in 2021
- Netflix to make film adaptation of game franchise Bioshock
- New Star Trek movie will be in the Kelvin timeline
- Rumor: New Star Trek announcement came as a surprise to its stars
- More details come out about Tarantino's Star Trek film
- A Quiet Place III to be released in 2025
- SpongeBob is getting a new theatrical film
- Seth Rogen's TMNT movie is coming in 2023
- LOTR anime movie to be released in 2024
- LOTR and The Hobbit film and gaming rights are up for sale
- Obituary: Ivan Reitman, 75
- Obituary: Douglas Trumbull, 79
- Trailer: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Trailer: Jurassic World Dominion
- Trailer: Nope
- Teaser: Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
- Renfield slated for 2023
- Disney's Haunted Mansion set for 2023 release
- Rumor: James Mangold will direct a Buster Keaton biopic
- Tom Holland clarifies that talks about a return as Spider-Man are simply "conversations"
- Masters of the Universe movie ends up at Netflix
- Jason Momoa in talks to join Fast and Furious 10
- New Line moving forward with Mortal Kombat sequel
- Downton Abbey sequel shifts to summer
- Despicable Me 4 set for 2024
- MoviePass cofounder is planning a relaunch for this year
- MoviePass claims to have driven up to 20% for some movies
- Trailer: Firestarter
- Multiple Smurfs movies are in the works
- Rosamund Pike to star in Rich Flu
- Sony Pictures quarterly profits surge to $1.3B
- Scream sequel moving forward
- Full list of Oscar nominations
- Oscars' live telecast meets backlash after removing categories from live show


Podcast #289 - Thank You For Being A Friend
Airdate: 28 Jan 2022

- CES: TCL gets new TV glasses
- CES: Sharp introduces new Roku TVs
- CES: TCL's new 98-inch TV is available right now
- CES: Hisense has ULED TVs that run Google TV
- CES: Hisense announces new projectors
- CES: Samsung 2022 TVs get 144 Hz and (unfortunately) an NFT marketplace
- CES: Samsung changes the home screen and announces a remote that charges by WiFi energy
- CES: Sony announces world's first QD-OLED TV to be available later this year
- CES: Sony's new OLED 4K TV supports variable refresh rates for modern consoles
- CES: Sony's PlayStation VR2 features eye tracking and 4K screens
- CES: LG announces its smallest and largest OLED TVs ever
- CES: ViewSonic announces new LED smart projectors
- CES: Anker announces a new portable 4K projector
- CES: Samsung's really small Freestyle portable projector turns your wall into a smart TV
- CES: JVC's new "entry-level" projectors support 3D .... but there's a catch
- CES: "Filmmaker Mode" goes into its next development phase
- New Alder Lake Intel CPUs cannot play UHD Blu-rays
- Netflix raises prices on all plans
- Marvel's Eternals will available on 3D Blu-ray ... in Japan
- Dune (2021) is now available on 3D Blu-ray, courtesy of Warner Archive
- Spider-Man keeps climbing up the all-time global box office list
- Matrix: Resurrections died domestically after four weeks
- The 355 struggles due to Omicron
- 2021 box office ends with $4.45 billion
- Ontario temporarily shuts down movie theaters due to Omicron
- Star Trek: Picard production paused after more than 50 test positive for COVID
- Rumor: Third season of The Mandalorian reportedly paused due to COVID
- Morbius pushed to April
- Mission Impossible 7 and 8 are delayed
- Universal postpones the U.K. release of Cyrano
- Pixar's Turning Red now pushed out of theaters to Disney+
- Daniel Radcliffe to portray Weird Al in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
- Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power announced at Amazon
- The Wrath of Khan will return to theaters for its 40th anniversary
- Rumor: Live-action The Aristocats is in the works
- Obituray: Singer and actor Meat Loaf dies at 74
- Obituary: Acting legend Sidney Poitier, first Black man to win Best Actor Oscar, dies at 94
- Obituary: Director Peter Bogdanovich dies at 82
- Obituary: TV legend Betty White dies at 99
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone team up with Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free for new comedy
- Denzel Washington is getting ready for Equalizer 3
- Screenplay available for Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Screenplay available for Dune (2021)
- Screenplay available for The House of Gucci
- Screenplay available for West Side Story (2021)
- Screenplay available for Raya and the Last Dragon
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to resume production
- The Batman running time (without credits) is 2 hours and 47 minutes
- Wallace & Gromit are coming back
- A Christmas Story sequel is set for HBO Max
- New Battlestar Galactica movie will exist in a shared TV universe
- Ron Howard's Thirteen Lives pushed to awards season after MGM's best test scores ever
- Video game franchise Fallout to become a TV series at Amazon


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