Speaker 1: But yes, and yeah, if anyone watches live, story can't
go live today just the way things with work were
that I couldn't take a take my usual break or
time for in the middle in the certain day, and
I didn't know what was gonna be happening. And as
I said, this week already, it's gonna be a little
crazy because I'm off my day job Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
And you might ask, like, oh, why is trust hold
to the second one up in the air. You don't know,
because that it's because Nutcracker. It's Nutcracker Week topless every
year my daughter does that. We're doing again because also
last you hear the Twins, but she's doing Nutcracker and
it's bigger this time because she's in the first and
second act. She's a mouse and a sugar plum. So
the scheduling is just always all over and some of
these things are like, yeah, it's done at four, but
it could be four thirty five. Like it's a bunch
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My intention is to do that, but I just have
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I'm also watching the Twins because Emily's gone, so who knows,
but I hope everyone's doing well. So yeah, this one's
not live. So today we're just talking more about Paramont
and Paramount Paramount and Netflix and Warner Brothers. Obviously for
the next little bit that's probably gonna come up quite
a bit, So I'm I apologize if you don't if
you're not interested that conversation, but obviously it is a
big deal. I we'll talk a little bit, but the
box office, we'll talk about, you know, Mike sending questions
to ask about Golden Globes. So I didn't have it there,
but I will because the Globes, you know, it's not
that I don't think they're not prestigious in a way.
It's just like I don't think with the voting bodies
because it's like what sixty to seventy people versus the auscars,
which is this huge amount. Like I think it's a
it's always fun to have a ward shows, right, like
we do Golden Key's like that's fun and the Golden
Globe Show is actually fun most time. It's fun to
get all those personalities and movie TV together. I just
don't think it's actually when people uses as an indicator
of all this is winning that I don't think it
is because the voting bodies. I don't think it is
because and I guess I can start there. I don't
think it is because of the drama and comedy breakdown, right,
And that's the problem where it's like lots of times
we'll have in the season, right for I won't even
say specifics this year because that's a longer cast, but
like with the male male or female i'll say acting
category specifically or even movies right because I can't remember
what it was lash But always seems like there's tons
of times or scenarios where we've been through right where it's, oh,
these are the two head haun shows, right, but one's
a drama, one's a comedy, and then they just win
and you're like, well, we'll still wait till the Oscars
to find out, right, Like it doesn't really pull much
as far as like which way they're going to be
going too, so I think, yeah, I don't know. I
just we'll see what happens. I guess the globes let
me bring up quickly, and I won't talk about TV.
As I've said before, I'm very behind them TV. My
I'm spelling it wrong here. I'm very behind on TV.
I want to catch up on some of just the
past couple of years shows like Succession. I've always wanted
to watch it, never have watched it, right, So I
want to catch up on those. But the problem is
that I've just been watching some of the old shows,
like right now I'm watching six Feet Under right, So
we will see. Just give me the nominations already. My god,
I put twenty twenty five nominations and it's giving me
the award shows in the next year. It's like, I
know they are the twenty six nominations, but at least
our years are in the same. I don't know, that's
your nominations. I'm going to the Golden Gldes website. I
hope it's good enough. Okay, this is actually nice layout,
so kudos theem good layout. So I'm just gonna give
you the film top level ones. That's all I'm doing
right now. Okay, so Mike, here you go, and I
will also because I don't want to forget detail. So
as I said, again, talk about Paramount Netflix, Netflix, Netflix,
some of the fall out everything like that. Excuse me
if for detail? He asked, Uh, the Patroon question last
time I forgot. Yes, if I saw the Martin Scorsese doc,
and I have not yet, it is on Apple. I
just recently got Apple because I think my mom she's
decided she's keeping it, so she said, oh, here it is,
So I'm like, okay, cool. I think there's a time
where I didn't have subscribe and I was gonna because
I will watch Plaribus. That's the other thing. So I
am trying to make my way through now the next
couple of weeks, especially because the last week of December,
I'm gonna be at my mother in law's and I
won't have access to TV for watching my stuff because
a lot of families staying there. So it's like I'm
not watching any Radar oscar Baits, I'm not watching Die
My Love there with possible family walk in it. Right, So, uh,
the next couple of weeks I'm gonna be catching up
a lot on the twenty twenty five stuff. So today
I was just recently watching J Kelly, only about thirty
minutes in, really enjoying it so far. I love Colooney,
I love Sandler so uh, and the No Bombacks work
is usually good, so I will I don't know if
I'm gonna walk. I think detail I'm gonna watch that
probably in January. Because I do rank documentaries in my
my list, but not as much. I'm trying to spruce
up my twenty twenty five lists and knock off someone's
that I want to, and documentaries are rarely unless it's
a five out of five, like a perfect I don't
really write them on letterboxes. It's just it's hard to quantify.
I used to, but there are times to say, I
don't know how you because there's just so much that
goes into it, right, as far as like personal bias
and what you like, because it just feels like the
Martinscus says he doc no matter what I'm gonna like, enjoyment,
Leve will probably just be a five. Right. But at
the same time, I've had dogs like that before where
it's like, oh, this is probably I guaranteed five, right
when I watch it. Oh man, they kind of missed
the ball there, so I don't know. We'll see what happens. Uh,
But yeah, I do plan on watching that, probably more
next year though, but maybe i'll have it ranked for
my even though I think it's like a series, I
don't know if it's a movie. But yeah, Mike asks
some of my quick thoughts on the globes here, so
I'll give them before we get through their stuff. So
Best Motion Picture Drama pretty much again all the stuff
we've heard before. And that's the thing where I think
the Globes maybe used to be in an online world.
The kickoff four Awards season, I'm like, oh, these are
the contenders. Now we're now with the Critics' Choice Awards,
and which I don't think matters well either, But I mean,
like so many different award shows, you kind of get
a sense of what the nominations are right up around
this time. So it's like with the Globes coming here,
there's not much just a surprise, and then later on
it's just kind of almost like the winners are signified too, right,
because then you get to a lot of the voting
bodies with the DGA and the WGA and like the
Actors Guild Award or whatever it may be. I'm think
of botching all their name, right, but like SAG like
I think it's the Actors Award, Like you start to
see them vote and you kind of go okay, how
they'd vote in the awards. Obviously the oscars are a
bunch of peal together, but even then they have a
flow system as well as far as I don't like
the ranking. And also, as we talked about last year,
lots of reports going to appeal not watching anything like not
watching it all. So it's just it's big in the industry.
But obviously there's you know, it's just for fun. I
don't get heated up like other people do about it nowadays.
Maybe I did it u too, but you know, so
best Drama frickettstein Ham Knit. It was just an accent
and mill value sinners and the Secret Agent, which I've
heard a lot of the Secret Agent good things. I'm
interested to catch at some point, but it kind of
came out of nowhere. I feel like it's funny when
I woke up this morning discussing film, because I wake
up that's my news, right. I have the notifications on
for them. I scrolled through and they had typo they
put Sinners was winning for Best Comedy or Musical, And
you can see the discord. I'm like, are you fucking
kidding me? Like, I get there's music in there in comedy,
but this is Don't get me wrong, The Globes always
have some comedy in there where it's like this doesn't
really belong. But that was to me an agree, just
one where I was like, really, but no, that that
all kind of tracks out of these ones, I think,
because I guess you could get up to ten nominations, right,
I feel like the ones from here that are kind
of does everything but Frankenstein, because they do six here, right,
So I would love to see Frankenstein get the Best
Picture No. On the oscars. I love Frankenstein, but I
don't know if it's gonna get that far. But we'll see.
Let's see Best Motion Picture Musical Comedy, Blue Moon, Bogonia,
Marie Supreme, no other Choice, Noel vag and one battle
after another like that where one battle for another has
a lot of calmedy in it, So I can see
how they go that route. But still there's definitely a drama.
But you know, I could see how they try to
to me, that's more comedic than Sinners, you know, But
these are the ones I think Blue Moon, I don't
think we'll make it to the Best Picture, Marty Supreme,
I think will know the choice has a shot. The
Novelle One, I don't think so. And then Bogonia I
don't think so as well either. For the Best Picture,
there's a chance. I think it'll get those acting noms,
but I don't know if we'll get it here. Best
Motion Picture Animated Arco, Demon Slayer, Elio, look ad for Eleo,
Cape Up, Demon Hunters, Dutobia two and Little Emila or
the character of Rain okay, sound like a desk stranding character, Yeah,
I imagine. And I'll do predictions here quickly because like
I don't think i'll talk about the globes much other
than the winners after later, but probably kay Pop will
take that Best Motion Picture. Not English. I don't have
enough to say there. Cinemal value, Hey is that fully
non English? I didn't know as el Fanning actually, because
I know Stellin has like he has non English roles
and also the main actors I didn't know El Fanning
possibly that, So I'll have to wait and see it.
But I can't comment on that one because I've not
seen at them. Best performance by a female actor, that's
what it's called a female actor in motion picture. Hey,
let's see Eve Victor for Sorry Baby, Jennifer Larrence Die,
I love, Jesse Buckley and Hannat Who's gonna win them all?
Julia Roberts after the Hunt, check at Weekly, check at
last newscast for I stumblout after the Hunt. That was
a tough watch. Rennette Rensvey. I think it's how you
see the name. She's from Cinemal Value, which I still
want to watch her movie Worst Person in the World.
And then Tessa Thompson for head Out, which is, as
my friend Liam says, that kind of feels like it's
filling out the six, you know, filling out the category.
I've not seen it. It could deserve it. I just
feel like I've not heard enough praise there. Best male
performance by UH Motion Picture of Drama Dwayne Johnson, Jeremy
all and White for Spring Screen, Joel Eergerton for Trained Dreams,
Michael B. Jordan for Sinners, and Oscariser for Frankenstegn and
Wagner MoU Off for a secret Agent. I don't think
Oscariser would get in there for Franken Sein, but I
like it here and again like that. So the two
people that are probably debated the most, I would say
are Timmy and I feel like the debate's going away
right because I think the next one in here would
be Michael B. I don't think he's gonna win it
for sinners. I would love him too, but I don't
think he's gonna win it for sinners. But I imagine Michael
B would win it here. Best Performance by Female Actor
in a Motion Picture of Musical Comedy Mats Seifred for
ann Lee Chasing Fidney for one, batt for Another, Cynthia
Reva for Wicked for Good, Amstone for Bagonia, Kate Hudson
for Songs on Blue, and then Rose Burn. If I
had legs to kick you, that one's a tougher one
because I feel like there's a lot of people you
won't seeing oscars, like I don't think you'll see Cynthia there.
That's where Mike or anybody if you put stock in
the globes Wicked not even being in the best musical
not good, you know, and that's why I still feel
like Miken's thinking you have all on it, but I
would pizza bet Mike or Anie Bee. I don't think
a re or I don't think a Reel is getting
the best actress non for sure, and I don't which
is good for her. I think it's like the first
person to be nominated for the same character with her
and Grande, so that's great for Globes history. But I
still don't think Grande is winning that Oscar. I think
just the film is not strong enough. It feels similar
to Dwayne Johnson's Smash Machine. I'm not saying she's not
gonna get a Gnomri on it because I feel like
supporting is not super stack, but I don't think that
wins happening. Best performance by a male actor in most
Picture of Comedy is Eth the Hawk and Blue Moon
George Clooney and j Kelly Jesse Plumbs going yet good
for him because I like him and that even though
they use a picture from Kinds of Kindness, Lee bung
hoone for no Other Choices, Leo for One Battle of
Another and Timmy Right, And I guess that's another one
too where I guess people have talked about. That was
what I was not thinking is people have talked about
Leo possibly Getnet. I still don't see that. Even though
I don't think it's at the realm possibility, I think
there is a chance I've said this before, that one
bat after another because it's political, ways could really be
like a big sweep, like it could win like almost everything, right,
But I think Timmy should get that. Best performance by
feel actor and supporting role, Ammy Madigan Weapons Good for
Her or grud named Wicked for Good, El Fanning and
Cinemal Value, Emily blund and Smash Machine igna is Dottie
Lillis in Cinemal Value, which I've heard lots of big
things about. In Tiana Taylor, One Baffle for another Globes,
I can kind of go a bunch of ways. That's
why the Globes, I don't know what the winners and everything.
And then best supporting male in a motion picture blah
blah blah, Adam Sandler, j Kelly, which I really like there,
but heasa to tour One battle for another, Jake Bloriing Frankenstein,
Paul Maskell and Hamnett, Sean Pennon in One Bout for
another and Stone Stars ceminal value. To me, it's just
a question of with the the male actor, It's all
I think. And I've not seen all performances, so I
have to uh. But so far I've seen out of
these ones, the four out of the six. Uh. I
just to me it's Sean Penn's award. I'll wait until
I see siml Value and Hamnett. It's just a question
of are they gonna go that route politically because he
is like a with especially with the Oscars too. He's
very much headbutts with them, right, But the good to
him before. I do think he is the best out
of the bunch, and I think to me it's like
a should be a lock. And if he does that,
he ties the record with Jack and Meryl Streep, which
would be interesting because it feels like he disappears for
one and then comes back and then just rocks, you know,
mister river milk. And now this I hope. My two
things are I hope a Lord he gets into the
Oscar ones because I think he deserves it. And it's
gonna be interesting to see a Benizio and Sean Penn
both making the Oscars because I know there's tons of
people that think Beniso has a great he does have
a great performance, but has that winning performance. I don't.
I don't personally think that, but obviously that could split votes, right,
so that's kind of tough. And then the last one
I'll cover here is Best Director Chloe Jiao for Hamnitt,
Toro Fel Frankenstein, Jafar pan Any forra It was just
an accident croa Tim tree R. So I'm sorry. I'm
butchering both his last name similar value, Paul Tamers Anderson
for One Battle after Another and Ryan Cougler for Sinners.
As you guys know, I'm gonna have boring takes. I think,
even if I don't think the one Battle after Another
sweep is for sure locked in, I still think best
Picture and Best Director of Locked for Pta. I think
it's reminds me a lot of Marty Scorsese, and I
don't even think like I love One Battle after Another.
I didn't give it like a perfect score, but I
think it's a good winner. Like honestly, if I'm over
the two of them, I would give it to Sinners
and Ryan Cougler, but I think it just has that
momentum of PTA's making one that's very politically charged, very timely,
and I think it's very similar to Martin Departed, where
he has lots of great things, and I disagree, but
a lot of people in some camp feel, oh, this
was the thank you Award for Marty right, and you
know Depart's the lower tier in his filmography. I don't
feel that way. I get people's points to it, but
I love Departed. Also, I have a very personal bias
tie to it as far as my upcoming of filmmaking.
But still as I've grown older, it's not been a
thing where I've watched films before that I loved that
I first saw and then when I watched them like
you know what that was just because I was a
newbie to film and or my chase, my taste of
change right where it departed. I still watch and things
phenomenal so and I same thing one about after another.
I'm still after the Christmas season, I got to get
back to my Pta watch along because I was trying
to finish all his movies that I've not seen or
just rewatch them that I haven't seen a long time.
But I don't look at one battof for another as
like a oh, it's a thank you war like you
knew it beat Sinners. I'm like, oh, it's some oscars
are definitely just a career oscar, right, I think this
is a combo of that, so we'll see. But yeah,
so getting into stuff, I'm gonna kind of put these
two together. As far as the fallout hang, I just
need to put I need to put my links up here.
But yeah, so of Sue and go back. On the newscast,
it was myself, Taylor, and Kirkling for an official GV episode,
and we talked about the whole Netflix thing, right because
that broke during the cast, which was tons of fun
to break that all down and everything like that. So
that happened, right, and we talked about, well, it looks
like Netflix is buying them. In the morning, it was
statements galore, statements galore, interviews even everybody, but like even
we got fucking emails from Netflix being like, we've bought
Warner Brothers. We can't wait for the future. Yeah, yeah,
dah Right, they were taking a big victory lap for
something that is technically not even happened about it. So
for the interesting thing is Paramount apparently had made this
offer before, but the board to turn it down. So
now what they're going to be doing is a hostile bid.
They expect to hear back by the end of the month.
Warner Brothers said they'll be taking ten days to think
about it. Right. The hostile bid is an offer for
one hundred and eight billion dollars. Netflix was eighty two billion,
so roughly about eighteen billion dollars more. Paramout wants to
buy all Warner Brothers, including the TV businesses. So obviously
with Netflix, they just wanted the tea like they they
didn't want the Discovery stuff right as far as like
the news and the channels like A T and T
and TBS, but Paramount wants everything, and they said Netflix
is offers in fear and provides uncertain value. And they
have this whole list on their website as far as
they're listen all these reasons why Netflix is not a
good like buyer because obviously they want to win it, right,
they want to do all these things as far as oh,
we're gonna do thirty movies plus or forty movies plus
theatrically one of the Netflix wants and that's the same
thing we didn't talk about. We gave all the scenarios, right,
but Netflix had made those statements as far as what
they're actually planning on doing. They said like, yeah, we're
we're gonna erase things theatrical, but it's gonna be a
shorter window, and they use a lot of buzzwords. But
what the consumer want, right, and what's there what's best
for the people the viewers, which is pretty much just saying, hey, uh,
the people at home really they like Netflix and they
and don't get me wrong, right, we've talked about these
for different generations. Tons of people know in theaters and
technically we've said it before that they get more money
from subscription and you could pay a Netflix scrip and
you know, get months weeks worth of content on Netflix
for the same price as again one movie. Right, for me,
it's not that's not applicable because I like the experience,
the speakers, the sound, especially the great movie. That's how
I want to see it, right, But different generation, different time,
things are already changing, right, the whole the window cycling.
It's like we see movies all the time that are
in the theaters for seventeen days or a month that
already on vod right, so that happens. It's it's not
like a big shake up, but obviously with the theater people,
and that's where everybody and of course I get it right,
I'm in the world where the DGA and the WGA
want to meet when Netflix, as the deal happens, to
talk about all these circumstances. Even though they can't really
do anything right, they can't really block it. To my knowledge,
if I'm wrong, please write me up. But from what
I've seen and read so far, it's kind of like
the last time with the strikes or the AI. It's like,
unless you got any contracts, you can say all this stuff,
but the students are still gonna do it right. And
I know which I get. People go, well, if the
DJ's man, they tell all these people, hey, you know,
don't work with Netflix. Okay, sure, granted that could happen.
And let's say they put their feet down and they go,
you know what, I'm not gonna work with Netflix. So
I think for me, there's always go people that will
work for a Netflix. Right, there's always gonna people. There's
people like Tarantino that aren't in the WGA. I'm sure
there's people that are high profile that I'm not thinking
of right now that aren't in the DGA. And even
that Netflix like gets things from foreign markets. They got
big reality shows like Love Is Blind or whatnot or
this squod game challenge show. Right, So it's like, I
get why you'd want to do that, but I don't
think it's like the biggest It's a threat, but it's
not the biggest threat. But that's what Paramount's trying to do.
They're trying to give them bandwagon, like zee, look at
all these people, like they're not happy with it. You
shouldn't be happy with it either. I think the thing is, though,
that who they're gonna have to appeal to is the
you know, is the people that like just money. Like
they like just money, right, They want people that just
want to have the better dollar not And that's the thing. Like,
that's what I'm trying to say is sorry, I lost
my train of thought. Is the shareholder the person that's
looking after the DJ and the integrity of film and
on the biggest screen and all that stuff. I don't know.
I don't think there because I imagine most shareholders are
in there for money purposes. And with this, it's an
eighteen million dollar or eighteen billion dollars more you're getting more, right,
and especially because and I can't remember, I think we
talked about this before where I think Zazov still wants
to be on the board or have some control of
HBO or Warner Brothers whatever, and I don't think the
paramount deal includes it. I think there was one bit
initially that did, but I think they've kind of taken
that away. I might be wrong. I try to look,
and I didn't have enough time, so I apologize, but
that because I'm trying to think of a situation where
they give this to the board and zas off and
they go, no, we don't want that. We're gonna go
with the lesser option with Netflix, and then okay, we're
gonna do the hostile bit and go to the shareholders.
To me, it's like, for what we've heard about Zazof,
if it's more money, doesn't make much sense of why
he wouldn't just agree right around this was, Hey, he's
probably gonna flip this like real estate. So if he's
doing that, why wouldn't he go for the money. And
that's where oh, we probably want some a bit more
control and everything, right, So with this aspect, if it's
just down the money and you don't care about the
sanctity of film and all this stuff, why do you
not just go with that? Right? Like that? That's my
point of view, right. So the main point is, and
we talked about is in the newscast, we talked about, Okay,
they've bought it, what are all the scenarios? But we said, one,
we don't know what's gonna happen. This deal might not
even go through, and there might be chances to outbid them,
And that's what we're seeing here now, right, So we'll
have to see what's happening. If there was the control factor.
I don't know if this was just a because I thought, okay,
what if there's a they accepted Netflix and that's way
to get Paramount to play more, right, And that's like
a smart move by zas Off. But it's like if
that deal was already there and they're not. They already
turned down this initial deal, right. So and again we
don't even know. Maybe Netflix wouldn't be you know, agreed upon,
maybe it would be blocked. We don't know, but at
least we do know what we talked about two things
where we know Netflix and intentions where they want to
keep as of right now, HBO Max Separate and this thing,
this is all the stuff now right. I talked about
this before. We're just a couple of months ago. I
think it was Ted Sarando's or somebody in Netflix. I
think it was Ted Budd said, hey, we got no
interest in buying Warner Brothers. And who are the people
that on Friday bought Warner Bros? Right or Thursday Night? Right?
So that's why all this stuff with both Paramount and Netflix,
of all, we're gonna ensure this, We're gonna ensure that
it's all window dressing until we get the deal. Same
thing as this. Right, there was the rumor about the
Saudi Arabia stuff, and Paramount was that that's unfounded, that's
not true. Don't worry. It's just us, just the Ellison family.
But then today with the filing, it's like an SEC filing.
It came out the people. There's a bunch of people,
but also the main ones are the Elson family, some
Saudi Arabia and then Jared Kushner, who's Donald Trump's son
in law. Right, So it's like it it does these
people are gonna lie just to get this deal. Done
for the sanctity. And that's why I bring up the
WGA and the DJA, which is it's great you can
do this and fight, and I hope you do, and
I hope you make great claims, and I want theaters
to live. And same thing with Paramount. Right, our biggest
fear of a lot of people are it's a meme
going around where it's that classic a guy he's on
a road and he's looking at two buildings or two
castles and they're both scary, dark and lightning, ones like
straight to streaming and ones like Saudi Arabia, you know,
Maga views and everything like that. And that's where we're
both of them. Right. Netflix could be saying, hey, our
planet is to keep these in theaters. It's gonna be short,
but we're always gonna have theaters. And maybe they aren't lying,
but maybe they are. Same thing with Paramount. Maybe you
know this whole Rush Hour fourth thing, and you know
the Taylor Sheridan story, all this stuff about the right
wing stuff. Maybe there's a few situations of like overly
white right wing stuff, but that's not gonna happen with
a Batman or your bigger stuff. Right, they're gonna just go, Hey,
we want to appeal to all consumers, not just one
side or the other. Right, And maybe that's true, maybe
that's all true, but we we don't know, right, there's
no good way. I think we've all agreed that WB
just wouldn't sell and would say that way, but that's
that's not what's happening. They're going one way, so both
ways have a pro or a con. And now we
talked about the Netflix stuff in the fallout, and that's
where we talked about on the newscast. If okay, let's
see if the other shoe drops, and they did. Now
it's not a situation where hey, Netflix got in paramount,
want you know what, we're done with this. We don't
want to move on or maybe we drove out Netflix
price so fuck them. It is no, they still want
they still want to get to it. So it's gonna
be this evolving situation. And that's where I said, I
apologize to people that maybe don't like this, because in
April the company Warner Us is officially splitting, right, so
they might not even do any of these bids, might
go through all this trust fund stuff or anti trust stuff,
and it no deal. Might be reached and then we'll
be back here in April. So it could be a
thing that's just evolving and taking a long time. Obviously,
same thing even if Netflix just got it, they could
have been denied and then move back to square one. Right,
So this is the update where we will do updates
and talk about news, but it's not always going to
be like the main headline of news, their main headline
of trust told you, so don't worry because I've seen
that even with the show I listened to, like, oh
this again, and for me, it's still a massively big thing. Right,
And if Netflix just bought them, I definitely would have
had some update stories, but not the main store. But
now with Paramount trying to do the hostile bid, it
is okay if there is another portion of this, and
we'll have to see where it goes. And it's we've
said this before where it's not good either way, right.
I think there's preferences to Paramount having it. I think
there's preferences to Netflix having it. I aw like, obviously
I leaned one NOI in Netflix because to me, I said,
the lesser of two evils, right, still both evil in
the scenario. I think there's some things where people know
where la politically. And I've always said before I friends
on the right eye, people that have right views that
I'm close with. I have right views. But there's a
difference between the right side and the left side and
the the like kind of the uh ah god, I'm
forgetting the term they use it both with like oh
it's like the alt left and the alt right right like.
And that's where I feel like there is some signs
of the Elson's in paramount that stuff where it's like,
oh man, what's gonna happen with some of this content
is gonna get too much on a certain side, right,
It's gonna be not a great time as a consumer, right, So,
And I don't know. And same thing. It's the other
thing where worth paramount that gets this there's a list
of all the stuff they would own, and it's like,
is that a good thing to have all these people
owning these things? We talked about with Disney, Fox, we
talked about that with one of our brothers and Netflix.
It's no way you can slice it. But it doesn't
matter because we can't do anything. We're just a little
pissants in this situation, just watching a bunch of billionaires
fight over a toy, right, And it just comes down
to us far as hoping what's gonna happen? Because I
hope that we can get quality content that is you know, off,
so you can have content that's left or right. But
is it all these contents of ip's and brands we
like that are gonna turn it? Like I said, is
Batman gonna be after? You know a certain group of
people don't necessarily want that, so but yeah, we'll see
not not great times overall, but again also stuff that
that's where it's just like the Netflix thing, it's gonna
be We're gonna be talking about that for or sorry.
It's just like the Disney Fox and we looked at it.
It took almost two years for that purchase to go through, right,
And like like even now it's funny because I had
this quote here Where was it that Surrando said? I
can't remember? But now it's going like, oh, we we
we're you know, we're committed to this. We're pretty confident
it's going to be going through. And then even now
it's what was this quote here? Now Ted's arounds now
says they will keep one of our theatrical monitule, largely
saying once they buy a STO, when this deal closes,
we are in the theatrical business. We're going to do it.
We didn't buy this company to destroy that value, right,
And again, I guess they're trying to do that where
it is trying to give in so you can secure
the deal. I do understand, but it's just a question
of like I said, I don't think the w GA
or DJ have any They have some power, but I
don't think anything that could really stop Netflix. And I
don't know if maybe maybe I'm wrong, Maybe there are
a bunch of shareholders that care that way, right, and
maybe it's a situation too where they want to still
be shareholders going to the you know, the Netflix pod
and they think it could be successful. I don't. It's
gonna be a bunch of stuff that's happening. But yeah,
we'll see for the next few years, see what's gonna
happen and continue on. But to end us off here,
let's see here bring out the box office for this weekend.
So du I don't know why, all right, I guess
it keeps doing that. I searched the twenty twenty five
boxes so many times every time I search the box
office Mojo, it comes that. But the latest weekend, so
five Nights of Friday's interesting, I'll just give the top five.
Here are a little bit top five, at least top six.
Five Nights Friday's debuted with six hundred and thirty or no, no, no, no,
sixty three million domestic. I'll see how it did international.
But obviously this is the first time that it did
a just purely theatrical. It was lower than the first one.
I guess it can start with that weird story for
five Nights of Fridays where I the tracking was like
a thirty to forty million, so it did about twenty
three million, you know, even more than that over, So
that's great. But then it's also lower than the first one,
which you think is kind of odd because the first
one had the VOD right, so you think this people
will come out. I still think it will do enough
to justify a third one. I think it's a situation
that they make them pretty cheap if we checked the
last time. So yeah, it's gonna be interesting how it
does over the next few weeks. With kids out of
school that has a big kid audience based so kind
of a mixed bag there for results, will these Utopia
three making forty three million, that is close to a billion.
I think people did have it projected to make a
billion this weekend and it's not. I think it's like
eighty million away, So that's coming. So again that's true projections.
You can only take them so far. But that is coming.
So we'll see what happens there. And then what was
the other one? Uh so this is another one too
where we have wicked going on at sixteen min and
I kind of noticed this last week, but I didn't
talk about this where right now it's at four forty
where obviously it's gonna make a lot more money throughout
the Christmas holiday. But I'm pretty confident now. I said before,
I think we'll finish about the same. If I had
to pick, it would be over. I still think I'm
saying it's gonna finish about the same, but I'm not
as confident that it's gonna it's gonna pull as much
to get over. Now we're four forty, and the other
one is let me just confirm. I think it's like
seven fifty, right or something. So uh and Mike, you'd
probably know Also you're not live, and that's why this
episode is going a lot quicker because when I'm live,
got questions and ideas. But like, so seven fifty eight
and I don't know what was sitting at the third
weekend or whatnot, but seven fifty eight and right now
it's for forty so pretty much to make another three
hundred million. It's not I don't see that happening, but
it's definitely getting harder to look at that offset. Christmas
sales are happening soon. Not sales, but you know what
I mean, like just tickets. You got this weekend, nothing
massive about this weekend, so you go kind of gout
one more to make that money, and then you get Avatar,
So for that weekend it sucks up all the money,
and then you still have Christmas, and then you still
have Boxing Day, New Year's and a couple weekends after
that when it's slow. Right, I am interested because I
do recall that they put Wicked on vod T be
there for Christmas, right because they want people families to
watch it. So that's same thing too. It's like if
they put that there, that might cut some of it.
So if it ends up either meaning the same or
being lower. It's what I send my review to me.
It's just a same thing. Like, I don't I think
he talked about it on I don't know if he did,
like Taylor saw it for the what you've been watching
a segment or no, no, sorry, I don't know what
I said. I don't think he talked about it. He
didn't see it for that segment. He and I talked
about separately, and even he was on my band wing Whork.
He the first one he gave a five star, right
he I was surprised I liked the first one. He
was uber surprised they liked it and liked it to
that degree. He was the same as me, like, okay,
not you know, not my big cup of tea. I
can't remember what mister Field gave WI good for good
on letter box. I'll pull up there. But I just
feel like everybody from my sister to my kids, to Taylor,
everybody that's not in that hardcore kind of wicked community,
it feels like it's a step down, right, And I
know even Mike It told me about that that's the
second play. A lot of people have that feelings. But
that's where even for a movie, though, It's different because
you can do a movie and like, let's say Wicked one, right,
I think it was uber successful because the word of mouth.
But you can have a great opening or great success
and the movie has a bad third act or tapers
off because people are already there. Right. It's tough when
it's like, oh, it's a whole part two. When you
get that all part one's a lot better kind of
feeling going on, I think that deters people, right. I
think if you get the part two is better, you
gotta see how closes out. But then you know, to me,
as I said, I could watched Wicked part one and
be just kind of happy word ends right, and Taylor
Taylor gave it the He gave it three point five
out of five, and I gave it two point five
out of five. So again you can see kind of
the drops from just our side, right. Obviously no one
else has seen it. And that's how that's how my
like letter box is other than i'd say, Mike in April,
everybody that because I kind of looked everyone that had
you know, a certain score for the first one. It's
quite a few points down from for the or sorry
for the second one. So I think it's just what
I talked about once I saw it, and sometimes and
I can get stuff wrong all the time, right, I
said this with a flash that was a big one
where I saw I thought, oh, this is a crowd pleaser.
I think this will have a good word of mouth,
and it didn't. Right, But usually I feel like I'm
pretty good after I've seen the movie before. I have
no idea what's gonna happen nowadays with the box office, right,
I can kind of a guesstimation, but uh, the box
office is wild nowadays, right, But with this, it just
kind of felt like how I felt and then just
how the other people want once. It's tough because like
I live in a situation where I talk to less
people than ever in my real life. Right before it
was I used to go see movies a bunch of people.
I was in my uh in the warehouse when I
didn't work at home, I had I went out a
lot more right where now I leave my house the
leased them out. And even then the people seeing movies
are you know, even Emily like she doesn't seem as
much because we don't have a sitter all the time.
For twins just et cetera. Right, I feel like people
in my life aren't seeing movies as much. Back to
our Netflix paramount discussion, it's a situation where Okay, the
few people that I have talk to Taylor or who's
he's a podcast in my person, but still like Taylor,
my sister, like my kids, when you get that vibe,
it's I will be surprised if it doesn't hit the
same nurse. To me, that is a a disappointment. Right.
It seems that it was very front loaded, much like
what happened with the MCU after I'd say around that
ant Man quame time, because I remember it was this
thing where the tracking was a bit lower, some of
people were worried, and that opening weekend came out and
broke some records for like February this and that, and
even myself was, hey, like I don't like this movie,
but the MSU still here, right, And then that second
week and came and was gone win away, right. And
that's where I feel we've seen movies are getting more
and more front loaded. For that same discussion, where it's
the thing of like I don't like it, but it's
not just a Netflix thing, right, It's like an even
going back to the paramount thing where then saying oh,
we'll release thirty movies a year doesn't mean all those
thirty movies are gonna carry that way and do those numbers, right.
It's it's very picky and choosing, and that's where I
think people even then, if there was anybody like last
year that watched VOD Wicked that came out, I think that.
Let me just get the date there, right, Wicked vo d.
Let's see if I can get the not vodka. I
didn't know I'm making Wicked vodka. Let's see. Of course
it's not gonna give me Google AI gives me all
this information I don't need, like here's the budget, here's that.
That's not I'm asking, that's all masks. Okay, So the
Wi Get Part one was released on VOD December thirty first, Okay,
so it was after Chrispito was New Year, and I
remember it did fantastic, right, I remember they're boosting all
these sales. And let me just see release state of Wicked. Right,
that came out November twenty first, so about a month, right,
a month at a couple of days week whatever. So
here's the thing where if there's anybody that saw even
liked it. Right, they saw Wicked Part one and then
that was great. But I'm saying the people at home, right,
they saw at home and thought it was great. Oh,
I'd like to see the second one. Right, And even
if they're thinking about I might see in theaters if
that buzz goes around of hey, you know, it's not
as as the first one, and people go, you know what,
it only came out in VOD like a month after,
I can wait, right, and I know more people that
like that saw it and we're happy to do that,
like wait or not see it right where I know
less people like myself that were surprised. That's where it's
you get that front loaded thing again, right, That's where
I think it's already. All the theaters would have to
kind of go, okay, we're going to not theater story.
All these shoos would have to go okay, we're gonna
decide not to release these movies like all the meuse
and say, you know that forty five day window, We're
not gonna do it. We're gonna get back to the
three months. You're gonna have to wait X, Y and Z.
And as we saw a Thunderbolt that I know people
made that joke of like it kind of under it didn't.
It underperformed even opening weekend. Well, guess it'll be on
Disney Plus in a month, And it really wasn't. It
took like over three months to get there. But people
have that idea when the movie is when HBO, Max
Dain and Date in me they did the whole Disney
or anime I think it was Disney or Pixar anime
movies were theaters and the Disney Plus like they made
people think that. And now even if they're like, oh,
forty five day window, thirty day window, people won't care
because now we've also seen movies that bomb. They're just
on there in seventeen days. Soon, we'll be fourteen. Soon,
we'll be a week later. So that's the thing where
it's just like all the theaters would have to in
unison agree and eat shit for a while to retrain
the audience go oh, it's not gonna come on this time.
But you know that's the problem there is you have
things like Netflix, Apple, Amazon other streaming services where before
it was all I have to wait, I better go
see where all I have to wait? But I also
have a backlog of fucking sixteen shows that are movies
I can watch. I'll do this and just get to it, right,
that's the thing, And that's I think with Wicked shows
that a very front loaded and if you don't have
that hutzpah, if you don't have that, that word'm out where.
You gotta see in theaters, you gotta see right away,
you do kind of you tread water right or even
z Utopia has a I don't think it has a mussy,
but I think people are like, oh, it sounds good
as a sequel, but it's still a really good time
right where I think Wicked has more of all. This
is a little underwhelming to the First World, which I had, right,
but we'll go back to the weekend box office I
think it was. And now you see Me don't want
nice and I don't three point five million what's that
at now? Two oh nine? That's a good little hole
for the now you See Me franchise after all this time,
and then the kill the whole bloody fair, which I'm
gonna be seeing tonight. Can't wait. Three point two five
billion or million billion, maybe Tarantino will never retire. That's
pretty good, So there you go for a re release.
I think that's re release four and a half hour
movie Radar pretty good. Then Prayer bad Lands at one
seventy seven? What did they? I think that's the thing
where it's like, that's the highest grossing you know, let's
see where. I'm just trying to find the budget of
this where. Okay, let's just go to Wikipedia. The Google
AI search is not doing well for me today. Let's
see here. Budget was one oh five, box off one
hundred and seventy seven. Feels like they're just gonna be
kind of breaking even on that where and that's PG
thirteen where and wasn't Alien wrong? And was still like
three hundred million something like that? Yeah, three hundred and
fifty so almost like a like almost two hundred n
I guess that, Yeah, almost two hundred million more shows
the Alien franchise, even at Radar sols a bit more cachet, right,
So yeah, interesting times, interesting times with everything that's happened
with Pare on Netflix, every everything that's happened with the
box office. We love to see what Avatar does because
that's kind of still tracking a little lower, but I
never bet against it. It's tracking. I think it said
like a ninety tow one hundred million for a Chinese opening,
So we're China opening, so right in that ballpark is Utopia.
At the international audience is still fucking with the Navy
and the Blue people, so we'll have to see. But yeah,
that's that's all I got today, a little bit of
a shorter episode because yeah, usually when I'm alive, there's
some questions and go off some different topics or some
more topics. And had to record a little earlier, so
apologist for a shorter one. But I think we hit
everything right. We don't. That's the thing. Yeah, I like
to talk. I like the babble, but if it doesn't
have to be an hour long, if there's not an
hour long enough there for a dress told you sometimes
this nice to have a short, sweet one. And you're
gonna get a lot of content from us this week.
I mean Kurkling on Weekly Geek. We got trailers, we
got some Avengers rumors. That's some fun stuff going on there.
You have four, you have three rumors which sound like
doc shit. But we'll see all about execution. But the
initial storyline is not not Jones and for those so
we'll see this week, we're recording a Deadly Night Silent
Night retrospective. That'll be fun. We got Brendan butter tum
about our Spotify wrapped curricular may or may not be
trying a Christmas pickle. We'll see. We got video Game
Awards breakdown, maybe a super cooling Avengers trailer breakdown, nice out,
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So hope you enjoy that. But yes, that's it for
this week. We'll see, or well that's it for now.
We'll see. If it's just for this week, I will
update you, and I promise when you hear from you
next it'll not be boring.