The Big Picture - The 2026 Movie Auction Returns!

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

We’re back with the second part of our 2026 Movie Auction! Chris Ryan returns to look back at the results from the first auction (thus far), and then Chris, Sean, and Amanda bid against one another for some of their most anticipated movies coming out during the second half of the year. (0:00) Intro (1:17) ‘Werwulf’ trailer reaction (5:20) The 2026 Movie Auction returns Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Chris Ryan Producer: Jack Sanders Production Support: Lucas Cavanagh It’s on Prime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I'm Sean Fennessee. I'm Amanda Dobbins. And this is the Big Picture, a Conversation show about auctioning. Chris Ryan sits between us. It's a big bull over here. There's no auctioning that goes on here. Jack is like... The clock is back up on the display.

The clock will be up. We've done one auction this year. Got a hot lunch date back there? Like, who cares about the clock? You want to hear Jack doing the bidding, accepting the bids and really... time? It would be fun. Well, okay, maybe we'll explore that for 2027, but this is 2026. This is part two of our movie auction, and we're going to start selecting movies right after this. This episode of The Big Picture is presented by Amazon Prime. One of the best things about streaming

is that you never just pick a title, you pick a feeling. And Prime makes that easy. With great entertainment and fast shipping that brings the moment to life, Prime helps you experience the feeling you're craving. Shows you can't wait for and deliveries you don't wait for. One click away. From streaming to fast shipping, it's on Prime. Okay, we're back. Now, this is relevant to what we're going to discuss here on this auction episode since we're at the halfway mark of the year. But did anybody watch the Werewolf trailer? Yeah.

I watched part of it. And I knew we were going to talk about it. But it's a real, it's important to me to know when things are for me and when things are not for me and things are for you and meaningful to you. So. Delete your name from the episode right now or on the schedule for December 24th. But you know that that's... Should we reconvene you, me, and Rob? I think so.

Yeah. Monster trail. I think top five werewolf movies done deal. Sure. You know, like that episode writes itself. The film Robert Eggers' adaptation of the werewolf story. The trailer looks shockingly similar to the Nassfratu trailer. Yes.

Now, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Because that movie is a big hit, very well reviewed. But looks iterative. And as someone who did actually... both see Nosferatu and listen to your episode with Rob Mahoney, the villain of the big picture, three and a half years running. You guys walked out of it admiring but not enthusiastic. At very levels.

Yeah, there was a distance from Nosferatu. So to then remake a thing that you already felt at a remove from, I don't know. How are you feeling? Can I, I'll jump in and say, not to paraphrase myself from that podcast, but. But we discussed whether or not Eggers was Wes Andersoning, at least in terms of the perception of him as a filmmaker, that like he liked to work in these little dioramas. But I would say even in the marketing of his films,

perhaps is now leaning into a, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Kind of don't change it. Don't cure this wear man. Yeah. Don't let him be a demon. You guys want me to dig into another classic monster? I did.

Yeah. I noted on a text chain, though, which Chris is a part of this morning, that like it did feel to me like the witch, the lighthouse, and the northern was like a progression. Different kinds of movies, similar register, but some funnier than others, some in different time period,

some with different emotional construction. Nassfratu felt a little more like the witch. The werewolf looks a lot like Nassfratu. So, you know, it's just a trailer. We don't know. But Nassfratu was such a big hit that it does make sense to just try to run it back. Aaron Taylor Johnson is back.

He was one of the stars of Nostrata. Bratow. Willem Defoe, of course, is in it. He's in every movie that Eggers makes. I'm generally a big fan of Eggers. He's been on the show like nine times. Absolutely miserable every time he speaks to me. And I look forward to the film. Miserable because he doesn't want to be a part of the promotion process? No, because I'm just like, Rob, tell me, like, in your, in your heart, what are the thematic core elements of N Nost Pratio? And he's like, my job here was to like recreate, what is it, 15th century English or whatever he's doing? much like Wes Anderson where I think everybody is like looks like another fucking Wes Anderson movie and then five years later are like actually

this one had a lot of pathos it's like I wonder if that will start to happen for Eggers movies I think it's insightful yeah I think that's insightful the movies are obviously incredibly well made and beautiful in the sound design

and the score and the costumes production design everything he does in that respect is top top shelf he's doing his thing in like in his room with his toys and does it very well and then as you said

no Svrati did extremely well at the box office. So, like, if it's not broke, do not fix it. I get it. I just put that on the poster. And I shall see it for professional reasons. But, you know, is it? If you shant, you shant, you shant, you know.

So, yeah. You're channeling the werewolves English there. Yeah. Okay, nice. Wesh. Did you have to do Beowulf in old English? In old English. No, I don't remember.

I am. Middle English. Sorry, Middle English. Oh, my God. Please don't. The academics don't come from me. That's what you think is going to say response. Okay, I bring that up because I'm curious if we're we'll get picked up in this movie auction today.

We are, we can't, we want to look back at the slate? Do you want to address your outstanding concern? When is this episode coming out? July 2nd. Can I just say a trailer that I did think rocked? Yeah. Yeah. The weight?

Oh, Ethan Hawk. Yeah, the Ethan Hawk Russell Crow movie. Yeah, yeah, sure. I have a link to that film right now. like Treasurer's Here Madre. It was a Sundance film and got very nice reviews out of Sundance. So you're saying you like the idea of an adventure movie starring Ethan Hawke. Yeah.

Hard to believe. I mean, well, don't spoil what you may want to grab that one. You may want to acquire it. This brings up a really great point. Sean, I think you did a wonderful job adding triggers and like, you know, a different layer of texture to this auction this year. But nothing. I think you did.

How would you isolate that? How would you describe? the modulation and your tone of voice just there. Deep respect for a fellow podcaster. And friend. Sure. Yeah. I'll give him a kidney right now.

Fellow podcaster first, friend, second. Yeah. It did change the texture of the films that I'm considering drafting because I have things I need. I need. I got to do some stuff now. That is true. Do you have any general thoughts on the first half of the movie year and how you both grabbed films because we didn't grab too many movies that have come out already, which I find kind of fascinating.

I was an idiot. I think I could have, well, I think I could have chronologically broken the year up a lot more, but then I guess it's dependent on you two as well. Yeah. But I have a lot to, I still have a, like, I have three films that need to, like, perform basically in the second half the year. What do you think? Well, of my feelings or of the, I guess, I think I did okay.

And even the choices that I made that are sort of cringeworthy to myself and to myself, you know, identity are going to work out. For example, I got the Mandalorian and Grogo for $19. Is anyone happy with what happened there? No, but did it meet the box office threshold? It did. So I'm good. And now I can get a little frisky. Yeah.

There are upsides and downsides to that. If you've never listened to an auction episode before, welcome. This is an odd one to start with. I would encourage you to go back to January maybe and listen to the first one that we did. But we each attempt to acquire five titles. And we have $1,000 to spend on those five titles, which is an arbitrary number that makes a lot of sense when you really think about it. That's for the first half. And then the second half?

I don't know if I've yet to spend $1,000 correctly. Well, and the money does not roll over? Or did we decide last time that it could roll over? The money does not roll over. And that's notable. That's savings for taxpayers. Okay. That's right.

CR. Amanda spent $1,000 last January. I spent $1,000, and Chris somehow has $679 remaining, which will now be dispersed to the masses of this fine country. Happy birthday, guys. I'll explain those triggers really quickly first. And those are new. Just if people are... You did them last year, I think, as well.

Yeah. 20-25-ish is when they came on board. But if people are going to start the beginning of the auction history, things were... A lot looser, a lot crazier. You really, you soared so close to the sun. And it was beautiful. This is a format close to my heart. Yeah.

Because it's all speculative. And it's all about betting on the future. I'm gambling again. 30 seconds per bid, which we never abide by, but we'll try to do that today. Movies that were previously auctioned off last year are once again eligible for future auctions. So if you grabbed a movie last year, you can grab it again this year if it hasn't been yet taken. The category triggers are. at least two films from the total slate of 10 films across the whole year

must gross $100 million domestically. At least one film must receive at least two Oscar nominations, and at least one of your films must hit an 85 metacritics score. Now, that's very hard to do. Only 13 films released in 2025 did that. No more than two sequels on your slate. And that is where taking something like the Mandalorian and Grogu is a very strategic, choice with upsides and downsides. You're almost assured $100 million domestically, but then a

sequel is off the board for you. Now you've only got one left. So let's go through our slates from January quickly. Amanda, since you already teased one, why don't you go through yours? So I have June Part 3, which I paid $775. Sorry, I guess I forgot numbers for a minute there. That was my disclosure day happening. Project Hail Mary for $200. Thank you. Thanks. It was You know, that was late breaking, but thank you. The social reckoning for $1. Which means that you guys were just like you left me hanging. And that's fine.

I deserve it. Verity, $5 and Mandalorian and Grogo for $19. Okay. So so far you've hit, what, did you get any Metacritic? No, none of us have Metacritic yet. So you do yours and then we'll do through all the thresholds we've hit already. Oh, okay. I picked Wuthering Heights for $75 and also talked about my experiences.

romantically. You did. And how many land acknowledgments have you given since that podcast? Okay, I've forgotten. Just count it down for us. Let's go night by night.

Go to your journal. Once I have done one somewhere, like Southern California is blessed. Do you know what I mean? Oh. You're going regionally. I'm looking forward. I'm possibly going to Florida in September

and I can't wait to commune with my seminal brothers, you know? You've never spread your seed in that part of the land. Think really carefully. That's really good question. I think I actually have. No kidding. Yeah.

When was that? Florida. I was young. I was a young kid. Like six, seven? No, yeah. Jesus. He said young.

I was younger. I'm almost 50. Wow. Okay. Are you almost 50? Yeah. What are we doing for five? No one's paying attention to me.

A couple of like. A couple of ideas. Miami. The Raleigh Hotel. It's great time. London was in the mix For 5-0 Bacchanalian dance party is in the mix

Where would that take place? Los Angeles I thought we were doing London I'd like to go to London for my 50th Yeah I'd like to come too I'm like I'm trying to get side

to the point where he could fly I thought maybe like you were like Well I just hit three So or I guess I could get a babysitter Yeah we could talk it out Okay I think Knox would like it so much though You got him so much London stuff now

He knows all the He wants to go see Big Ben, you know? It's Amanda invited. You're the only person who invited. Just me and you. I got Wuthering Heights, Resident Evil I took for $72. Devil Wars prodded two for $26. The Adventures of Cliff Booth for $76.

And Disclosure Day for $72. I still have $679 million. I think your slate is fascinating. It was interesting. My slate is a bit more lopsided financially. I got the Odyssey for $9 million. $926. I won't be doing that

strategy again. I'll just let you know right now. Toy Story for $1. Narnie and the magician's nephew for $18, which has now been punted to 2027 by Netflix. And I read the whole book for nothing, you know? Yeah. Read the whole book. Because you think you're going to forget everything

by the time it comes out? Not ideal when you read it to a four-year-old and then you just got to sit in your hands for a year and wait. And 2027, like award season, 2027? No, it's like February. March. I'm getting nervous. I'm good. Yeah. No, it's, it's, that was kind of buried because everyone was like, oh, wow, it's getting a full

release and they're doing it. But yeah, it's, it's like early April. It's, the alarm bells are going off. The, the, we can talk about this more over the next nine months, I guess, but Alice watched the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe adaptation from the 2000s yesterday and enjoyed it, but it's weird. And the Narnium material, having read it, is very strange and obviously very Christian-coded. February 12th, 27 in theaters, April 2nd on Netflix for Easter weekend on Netflix. So you can celebrate as a part of your holy week. Yeah, well, we'll see where I'm at on my spiritual journey by then.

I got Digger for $5. Yeah. Interesting gamble. And Jack of Spades for $50 a movie that still does not yet have a release date. That's Joel Cohen. That's the Joel Cohen film film, which I suspect will be a fall film festival movie, but we just don't know about that. Now, you got Cliff Booth, which slid into that Greta Gerwig Narnia spot. Yeah. And it is opening on 1,000 EMAX screens, but I think only has a limited engagement.

Are you surprised there has not been a single whisper about like, man, it's really good? Cliff Booth? Yeah. It's been lock and key. I've not heard a single thing about it. Yeah. Okay. I think that's. Yeah. I mean, I would like to see it. I would like to know more. It seems like it's not going to be at the Venice Film Festival, even though Netflix has, yeah. Well, the next you say that. Was there a report? Yeah, the most recent reports are that it was, it's not on the list. And then, but the Denzel, Robert Pattinson.

Here comes the flood. Yes, here comes the flood will be one of the Netflix selections at Venice instead. But that movie is on the board. That's the movie I've been pointing to the most this year where I'm like, why is this movie going straight to Netflix? Five, is it five Pattinson's this year? I believe so And it'll be the drama The Odyssey

Dune Part 3 Primetime And here comes the flood Quite a year That's my killer Quite a year from the guy So threshold check-in sequel I've got one

Okay Which was Toy Story 5 Amanda's got two So you're capped out Yep Chris has got two You're capped out Now you took

Dune Part 3 And the Mandalayer and Grogo Both of which are going to cross the $100 million threshold. So you, wise choices on your part. If Dune Part 3 doesn't cross $100 million, domestically, we've got big problems.

CR, you've got Cliff Booth and Devil Wars Prada 2. Now, Devil Wars Prada 2, huge hit. Yeah. Cliff Booth, going to be tough to get to 100. It's going to be real tough. So Disclosure Day is currently at, I believe, $94.8 million domestic box office, and I would like to say this.

Yeah. I personally guarantee it's $100 million. If no one goes, to see Disclosure Day for the rest of its theatrical run, I will guarantee it. That will wipe me out. I am assuring you that that will wait me. But I don't understand. So are you going to go to a local AMC and donate $5 million on behalf of Disclosure Day? Is that something one can do? I don't know. I don't know. But like, did you know that Donald Trump could be president? Like, it's like, let's just try. And those are just similar acts, I would say, in terms of their

life-changing consequences. I am backstopping Disclosure Day is what I'm saying. So I am going to And then be operating as if it has crossed the, it's going to make six more million dollars, right? I believe so. Yeah, I think so. We didn't really get into where you are on the Alien podcast. On the, because Van signed up immediately. I don't know that he's heard it because he hasn't seen the film. Oh.

Oh, you haven't seen the film. Which I should probably do that for the box on. I was going to say. So that's $15. Yeah, there you go. We're getting there, Steve. Sean is considering rededicating his life to the study of alien interactions That is what was said

Okay What was said was in the event that this was revealed to be true Okay Which is one of the orienting ideas of the movie I said I would turn I would transform this show into a show about aliens The big picture Yes

And what would she want to do Well I was I was surprised by that Yeah I mean that's always the answer Do you think aliens like the beach not explored in Stevens Philberg's Disclosure Day Amni Tchamelon's aliens do not like the water Yeah

Right we know that But that's a different You know A race of aliens that we know Did they get in the water And War of the Worlds I can't remember Yeah because they're out on the boat

Oh yeah they're out on the ferry And then the ships come up from underneath the water That's a very upsetting scene Very traumatizing You're avoiding Disclosure Day why This is just fell right in the middle of a tremendous amount of travel and a tremendous amount of television for me

and I feel really bad about it, especially when I keep knocking out things like sheep detective. Did you like that? You know what? I found it quite pleasant to watch. It's great. Yeah. It wasn't unpleasant. Yeah, those rams. They were pretty funny. Yeah.

I feel bad, but I haven't seen it. I will. Which ram is more powerful? The ram that rams Jasper and Jackass Best than Last? the Rams from sheep detectives. I'm a thousand percent team jackass in terms of the usage of Rams in cinema in 20206. Yeah. With respect to sheep detectives, which is quite nice. But I guess my...

So wait, do you want to do your triggers of what you did or do you do the Mori? Well, for the $100 million threshold, you pointed out that you've already got one and you're about to get a second. Almost certainly, Disclosure Day will cross $100 million. Given the way the winds are blowing, I think Resident Evil has a shot. It's absolutely possible. Amanda has already got two on her slate because she also has Procto Tell Mary, which was a very smart pickup. And I've got one

right now, so I need to get one more choice three five soaring right past 100 million. I just did the math and you would need to see Disclosure Day 300,000 and 33 times in order to single-handedly get it over 300,000 and 33 times.

It's 3333333. If anybody back behind the glass would like to do the math on how much time that would take. Mm-hmm. I would love to know. How many hours? Yeah.

Okay. I think it'll be long dead. Yeah. I would guess before you could clock. You haven't seen Disclosure Day once. You're going to see it 25,000 times. Yeah. I wish you luck.

Here's the, here's the sticky wicket. None of us have unlocked the MetaCrips 85 score. This is always the hardest thing to do. However, I'm almost certainly going to get a hundred, million threshold with The Odyssey, which means we'll all have that. You guys don't have a sequel to play with, but I still have a sequel to play with, but that's actually fine because sequel is very rarely get that 85 threshold anyway. So we have a lot of open terrain here.

So I think what this could be is, what are you pumped about? What are you most excited about? Yeah, is that now that you're basically like, now we're in it for art. Mm-hmm. You know, and that's what this whole thing is about anyway. Many people are saying. Has anything gotten to 85 on Metacritic this year? Yes, but I don't know about any.

mainstream wide release. So like, did blue herring get 85? I would guess it did. I would guess it did. Let's look it up right now. You guys can vamp while I look this up. The other, the other complicating thing here is that a number of the films that are more likely to make it to 85 or above were a screen at the Cannes Film Festival, which means that they are ineligible for two of the three people on this draft. I'm going to talk through that as well.

You're going to need, you've got some shortcuts. You have to make good decisions. I'll give you a quick list of films that have all. already crossed it. And this is very helpful for you in terms of your bidding here. Once Upon a Time at Harlem is a documentary at Sundance that Amanda and I saw at Cannes, Blue Heron, in fact, has a 92 right now. You know, the next film with a 92 is Ross McElwey's remake. I don't know if you're familiar with him, documentarian who famously explores his own life through these particular frameworks. And I watched this movie this weekend and it is absolutely devastating. So I just want to recommend when it comes out in July that people check out, make. It's a beautiful, really, really sad movie. Teenage sex and death of Camp Measma, we've seen that, not eligible to us. Oh, but what is? That's sitting at 91 right now. Oh, good. That's a little bit of a red herring because it's not wide release, and I do think that that number on that movie, because that movie I think is going to be a little more divisive and we'll come

down a bit. Fatherland, we saw at Cannes, Pavl Paul Likowski's new movie. Silent Friend, which is a movie starring Tony Lung that came out in April, Sound of Falling, which was a Cannes 2025 film, Magellan, which came out earlier this year. Pompeii, Below the Clouds, Arland, Epic, the Elvis Presley movie, Blue Film, which I've not yet seen, My Father's Shadow, and coming in at number 15, The Furious. The Furious is sitting at 85, which I find to be fascinating. So 85 is a little trickier for us, because Amanda and I have seen so many movies

that we know are going to be critically acclaimed. For example, Fjord, or Paper Tiger. Sure. I've seen Joseph Eaton out of Sundance. So those are all off the table for us in addition to the ones we just mentioned. How do you feel about how much attention do you pay

to festival chatter? Because this is the first year really ever where I'm in and I get to be like, well, we saw the Cannes movies. I mean, it's bad for the auction. It's probably good for me. And I do pay attention to it because I think it's,

I'm kind of fascinated by like what's in it for the movies at this point because it just feels like I don't know. know if those festivals necessarily are making an impact outside of their bubble, but it does feel like if things go bad, it starts a moment, a snowball rolling downhill of Joker's a Turkey. Yeah. This is, this is, you know, so it feels like I, to Amanda's point about Cliff Booth's not going to

be at Venice, I don't know if it's going to be in New York or whatever, but like, why bother, you know, like, why not just be like. Yeah, one battle left or another and sinners skipped festivals altogether. And that certainly didn't hurt them in the Oscar race. Yeah. I was thinking last night as a, and this is a completely self-serving proposal, but like maybe they should think about it. Someone should buy artificial and take it to Venice. Why?

Why? Because all they have on their side now is noise. And this is not what you wanted to see. And like, and they have movie stars and they have a big premiere and this like, oh. I love this idea. I'm unfortunately a little cash poor right now. Yeah. Because I have a note against my holdings.

You're down 5.2 million, unfortunately, so you can't chip in on this. Now, let's try to unpack a little bit. Because you would like to see the film. I would like to see the film. On the Lido. Yes. Well, I'd like to see the film. I'm a fan of the work of Luca Guadino and also free speech.

And will you be as passionate about Jonah Hill's cut off being released? Good point. Where is that film? Sure. I would like to see that also. Okay. Just making sure. You know.

Both sides. How many of your pods are considered unreleased of that? Just one. Just one episode has never made it off the computer. I was on that one too. Yeah. We shan't speak of it again. Okay.

That's a little lore drop for you with no lore. Okay, so you want to see it in Venice or you want to see it in general, but Venice would be nice. I feel like it's a good launch pad. It would make noise. You know, it's a home base for him. Someone should do something like that. Yeah. But let's just play it out.

let's say for the sake of this conversation that the film is not strong and not received well critically. Right. And a distributor has paid $30 million or $50 million to take the movie off of Amazon's hands. And then the movie

that was very poorly at the festival. Right. To Chris's point, is that dramatically worse for it? Because that, it really, I think it wounded after the hunt getting a very poor reception in Venice last year.

I do think that's true. Though I think it also So, like, they knew ahead of time, like, it was not in competition, which is then you just shouldn't be going. You shouldn't do it. So I guess if Venice is not willing to put it in competition. But I think it's a win for everybody. And I do also think that unless the critics are going to be, I think critics will probably be softer to this movie, given the history and given the fact that it got pulled because of corporate reasons rather than any artistic reasons and would be willing to, forgive it faults that maybe they were not willing to forgive and after the hunt. Also, just for the

record, you know, after the hunt, they just left us out in the rain for an hour in a thunderstorm, which once again, I would encourage people to not do that if you want a positive critical reception. These things do matter. And also I liked what I saw in Venice. It was when I saw the end that I maxed out. It just seems like they don't have a lot of good options and that could be a funny one. And I do think that making a spectacle and leaning into this was like canceled from you and taken from you is the only way to get it off the ground. Okay. I agree. That's just my pitch. But you won't be contributing to the fund. I'm just stretched in right now. Understandable. Any other thoughts? I mean, you know, 85 is going to be

tough to hit, but you know, you know that there are some titles out there that are critically acclaimed. There's some pretty obvious layups there. And I also still will be auctioning from the heart. There's a couple of... That's beautiful. That no one is seen yet that I am still a big believer in and also for the sake of the auction would love to get them out in open competition.

Okay. I think it's safe to say that Amanda and I will already have the two Oscar nominations locked up between the Odyssey and Project Tail Mary and probably June Part 3 as well. I'm not sure if I can say the same yet for your sleep.

Do you think that Emily Blunt will be nominated for Disclosure Day? I think it's possible I would really like for it to happen. I think the movie has a very mixed reception. She does not have a mixed reception, but it is a June movie, and you got to consider that Universal

will probably be putting most of its energies behind the Odyssey when it comes to this sort of thing. I would encourage them to... I think people really like Emily Blund. It's very obvious that she is very liked within the industry. She's very like... She has fans. She's made not very many good movies in the last 10 years,

and it doesn't really matter. she's having a huge year because the devil wears product too is also massive. I think you'd be wise to, but it's not a guarantee. Did she get nominated for Smashing Machine? She did not. Yeah. But I do think also they can sit tight for a while, get through The Odyssey, and that's just a very classic put her back on the trail in October or November.

People love to see her. It is a really good performance. You know, and it could also, she could be in Best Actress. And Odyssey is probably going to have only supporting, actress nominations when you're thinking about it in terms of the way they're putting things together. So there's a lane. It's interesting. I mean, we're obviously, I already have the movie on my sleep, but we're having this conversation before having seen the Odyssey and hopefully we'll see it soon.

But I think that dictates a lot of the thresholds and a lot of the expectations for the rest of the year. I do not anticipate Cliff Booth being an Oscar movie. I don't anticipate Resident Evil getting the weapons bump. It seems far more gory, but who knows? Makeup. Oh, there you go, bro. makeup is in play. Do they have an intimacy

coordinator, Oscar? Can I get that for Wuthering Heights? Do you think they did a good job? I didn't see Wuthering Heights. Did you not? I just didn't. Yeah, I'm sorry. But I like, she was like, I don't think you'd like it that much.

I will see it by the time the end of the year. It's at home. On HBO Max. I like going to the movie theater. It's not that. What's like, anybody with you guys? Because it's written in a directed by a woman.

Is that the issue? No. No. No? I what if I zagged on weathering heights? What if I went back to it and I found something in it that's for me? That would be great. We welcome you with open arms.

I'll re-watch it. Okay. I'm real fenel. I'm trying to figure it out. We know. We've heard it. I like that it exists. What is she doing next?

Yeah. Something crazy, right? Yes. Oh my God. What is it? Emerald Fennell. What's she doing next? Transformers?

Honestly, I would like to see you deal with that. And I feel like they would have some pretty. close. Yeah, I mean, the Autobots and Decepticons, fucking. I would be really intrigued by that. Next movie. Did you find it? There were rumors of a basic instinct reboot, but she shot them down. Okay. I'm totally sure. Okay. Okay. Well, whatever she does, I'm sure it'll be warmly received with an open mind. Any thoughts before we get into the auction? No. You ready to do it? Yeah. Yeah. Do you have any procedural thoughts about how we've been doing these over the last four years? I honestly can't remember what, because they do, they've evolved.

And there are new kind of rules. And I didn't remember that we did the clock in January. We tried. There was a lot of like, oh, I'll bid $1 so that I can keep prattling on. Well, yeah, but that's part of the fun. These are always great to do when I haven't seen you over a weekend. So we haven't run through any of our stuff. You know what I mean?

No, I'm looking forward to that. I said to you guys off mic, it was a weekend of extremes. And I'm just, I'm glad to be back with my bros. Let's mix it up. Okay. How do we determine who goes first? Here we go. Shaking up the Dungeons and Dragons die. For the record, Chris Ryan would need to spend 92 years to get that disclosure day money.

You know what? That is producing. Thank you guys. Well done. Should this be what starts me down my wellness journey of prolonging my life? How is your wellness journey going? What's, what? But like, what are the focuses these days? This is this is why we auction. Chris Ryan is selecting first, Sean Fennessey second, Amanda third. Okay. So. Interesting. Do you want to think about what you're doing? want to tell me about your macros? I'm trying to live as healthily, but also as happily as I can.

It's important to have balance. So just kind of like a blue zone diet. I think one's hard about weightlifting is you have to be consistent with it. And I've been traveling a lot. Okay. And so being consistent with my lifting has been difficult. You don't go to the hotel gym? Well, I want to come to the hotel gym with me in Toronto. Oh, God. In some ways, I think that that would give me an incredible insight into who you are. We could do one of the videos together. Would I be spotting you? No, you would do it too.

You would also do it. Like exactly what you do? Yes, we would follow a video and then... You know, I'd like to see that happen. Anyway. Okay. Yeah, it's going okay. Okay.

But like you go to Chicago for three days and you're like, I'm dying. Yeah. Like, it's just, you leave the little, it's true, kale cocoon here. And you see how the other half lives, and you're like, God damn, these people are so much happier. But they're all dead at 64. I ate the entire loaf of bread.

That's true. My first film that I'm going to put up for auction, and I'm doing this because I want, I want to get everybody involved. Okay. What? Such an elegant communicator. Is Tony Gilroy's behemoth.

Okay. Okay. Which does not have a date as of yet. but he's going to Venice, right? Is it? Behemoth Venice Film Festival, let's see. It feels like a telly ride movie to me. I think it's going to be at festivals.

This stars Pedro Pascal and Will Arnett, who both replaced at various points, Oscar Isaac and David Harbor respectively, as well as Olivia Wilde. It's about a cellist who plays in orchestras for film soundtracks, for film scores. It's Tony Gilroy's first film theatrical feature that he's directing since the born

legacy, but I think also notably, obviously, Michael Clayton. It's his first work since Andor. And it feels like an incredibly personal and idiosyncratic expression of interest in the cinematic arts, but also like a guy at a crossroads. I'm really, really, really excited for it. The most notable thing to know about this is apparently nine composers worked on this film. I'm looking at that right now. Among them, James Newton, Howard, and Alan Silvestri, two of the more seasoned and accomplished composers. So let me ask you this, Sean, as I bid 30 bucks for this, I'm going to start with. Let me ask you this.

On the time, wow. When you get a best original score nomination, do you think having that many different people working on it makes it more complicated? Or do you think it's like a layup that this gets a non? $50. I think it depends on how good the movie is. I think if the movie doesn't work at all, then you don't want it to consider it very much. But if it's well reviewed,

and you've got all of these people that are so renowned, it makes it easier. And then they'll just cut that puppy into nine ways, right? I know that casting will be like a big deal when we get to this Oscars. $70. This is number two on my list. Oh. So if I could see the duel of the fates here. Could be.

75. I'll do 90. I could see this being like a nice, plank for them to be like, let's talk about what an amazing contribution composers have made to cinematic history and to Hollywood at the Oscars. But then you also have John Williams eligible in the same category. Good. And still alive. So you're going to give it to... Iron sharpens iron. Okay. That could be your second Oscar nomination.

What's going on in House of Dragon? 115. 115. 120. 130. 135. 140. Do you want to come to Venice? I won't be able to come to Venice. I'm sorry. What are you doing? What do you got going on that week? I'm potting with you while she's gone. We're talking about Resony Evil for five straight episodes.

No, no, you're doing on the... I'll be a tell you read. Yeah. But you are joining me for quite a long time in August when she goes away. Thank you for that. Let me have my own episode of the big picture. If you want one of those August episodes, you can take it. Straight to camera, straight to Jack. What are you going to do? Wuthering Heights. Reloful solo. 150. Honestly, if you want to grab an August release

And you want to put your arms around it And put the CR touch on it I would be delighted Isn't the dog stars perfect? Michael man But I'm back for that And listen, that's Ridley And that's my guy

Yeah, Jacob Allerty and Ridley He's very tall We're gonna have to rank every Ridley We've never done that before It would be fun if we ranked every Jacob Ballardy performance Did you watch any of you for you? No But the important parts got to me, you know.

Behemoth, I just, I'll be stunned if it's bad. Stunned. I know. There is like a little bit, duplicity exists, right? Yeah, but it's not, you know my duplicity. He's in the pocket for us. Go ahead. That's a movie that if you do it 10 times, the nine other times it's better than what we got.

That's my take. We've agreed on that because they were like, what movie do you want to? One of the mailback questions was like, what movie would you redo? Okay. And I was like, change nothing. Just try it again. You're right, that's your take. That's a great take.

200. 210. This is a Searchlight movie. Searchlight famously did not have a film nominated for Best Picture last year. 230. It broke a 14-year streak, I believe, for the studio. They're betting big on this. But as you say, the movie does not have a release date.

I believe production is completed. Yes. I saw that it screened. There was a test screening that received positive for feedback. 250. From whom? Where did I read that? No, who gave the positive feedback? The test screening audience.

Was Trump there? No, I think it was like, you know, a bunch of people in Kovina who got to see it. Okay. What's the number out right? 250. 250 for behemoth with an exclamation point. How do you feel about putting punctuation in a film title? I'm into it.

I think it's cool. Whatever happened at Baby Jane question mark. Well, certainly any film that's a question deserves a question mark. Not always. I mean, maybe Disclosure Day would have done even better if they had been like... How do you know directed by James L. Brooks does not feature a question. Right. And that worked out.

It's dangerous. Do you think L.O. McKay would have done better if they put an exclamation point at the end? Lohom K in tarot bang. You know, that would have been, that would have been something. That would have been a new move. Airplane, exclamation point. 260. 270.

Mama Mia, exclamation point. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. 285. Oklahoma, exclamation point. Not a good film. No, a really, really boring film. That thing you do, exclamation point.

That's a great one. 30 years this year also. I got to, yeah. Through watchables. Well, you listen. I know, you don't pitch things. We don't ask. You know, you don't mention it.

Yeah, we don't ask. You know, it's just keep your head down. You do the work. You hope that the sunshine is on you. Next time you're around, Bill, you should just hum that, that wonder song. Yeah. Just. I'm about to win.

The own years. Oh, 290. 300. Break a month. Are we going a little crazy for Behemath? This is a Tony Gilroy podcast, okay? You guys erased me from the Andor conversation because I haven't seen it yet. That's fine.

But. I'm sorry, I was watching movies for a movie podcast. Do you think you'll make time to watch all of Andor? At some point, I'd really like to. This movie also stars Ava Victor, Matthew Lillard, and Marguerite Televieve. And if you know who Marguerite de Leviev is, you know that's a special person. Cape Fear. On this podcast, we believe that Michael Clayton is an underrated legal thriller.

I think I did Michael. Did you ever have a sign like that? No, but we're. $3.15. 3.20. Was it in New York where one of the live shows, I drafted Michael Clayton and then did like the in, you know, in this house, we believe. And I guess it was New York where they don't have that many yard signs.

And people were like, what are you talking about? And then I had to explain to the entire crowd. So there's a thing with a yard signs. I like content. Is it a 320 or 350? It's 320. I'll do 3.35. If I'm able to book Tony Gilroy to appear on this podcast, do you have to be there with me?

No. I mean, Tony, Tony would you like to be there? I think that the Ringer podcast network presents like so many different opportunities to express different parts of themselves, you know? So like, for instance, Taylor Sheridan went on Bill's pod last night. How'd that feel? That's all great. I thought that was two leaders. talking about how they run organizations, you know?

And how would you describe their leadership styles? Different. No other adjectives? I think that Bill is a little bit more accessible than Taylor. Okay. From what I can gather? What's Bill's micro strategy these days? I think he walks in saunas.

Yeah, that's true. Doesn't eat. I do know about those. 350. The informant exclamation point. One of my favorites. Yeah. That's a great one.

375. 400. Do we think the titular behemoth is the man, or is it the composition? Is it the art form? I wonder if it's the thing that he is currently scoring, although I believe this goes to several different parts of his life, you know. Some phases in the storytelling. So I've heard. Edited by John Gilroy's brother.

You look at him closely so you can try to secure this one? Well, at a certain point, it's nut-cutting time, you know. Can you illuminate that metaphor for Amanda? I definitely need more about the human body after jackass. It's one of those things that's probably... I have it, I have it! 32! I would say for the record, we touched like 45 multiple times.

We touched 45 multiple times. Okay, I want, keep it running and go. 4-10. Let's go. I have it. I'll try and do nut cutting time before... It's a sports phrase, but it's not a sports phrase. Okay.

So I know it because... Why would you cut your nuts? Well put. I don't really know. It's like... Is that what of, that's not what a vasectomy is, right? It is. It is.

But no, you're cutting the vast deference in a vasectomy. That's like inside the nut, okay? Yeah, sorry that I know what's up. That's exactly right. Have you, have you, have you, some might say you cut nuts on a regular basis. That's one of your, one of your skills. 435. Is there such a thing as a nut tuck?

Sure, silence of the lambs. No, no, no, no, no. Like a plastic surgery procedure, 440. Oh, like it lifted? Yeah. To avoid a bad grandpa situation? Yeah. To avoid a bad grandpa situation.

Why are you looking at me like that? I don't know. I'm just tighten it up. Yeah, maybe you don't want it hanging around. Maybe it's getting in the way. Oh, I guess that's true. So that's not a thing that you guys are worried about. It's like bringing the yo-yo back.

Oh, like Robert Evans probably. Walk the dog and then roll it up. Yeah. 4.50. I was going to say Robert Evans. I was going to say Robert Evans seems like the kind of guy would have gotten a nut tuck. Get the nuts tug. Yeah.

May he rest in peace What do you know about shaft construction? It seems like very delicate skin penis shaft construction? I just said shaft construction I wasn't you extrapolated that out Okay because we're talking about

Plastic surgery on the genitalia. We are? Yeah. I thought we were talking about something else. I never answered your question. It's like when somebody performs in the clutch it's like hey man it's not coming time it's time for you to go

but I don't think it's an appropriate phrase and I would not use it in my personal life. 490. Just on this podcast. 500. 510. Is this the only movie that all three of us really want?

Here's the stupid part. Is it like I can back off and let you guys have it? And then I can just take much of stuff for a dollar. What we learned last time? Stay in the mix. Because there are no... There's no production stills.

There's no trailer for this movie. I feel like you're not hanging with me today. And I don't know why. I think her energy is throwing me off. But it's also like brilliant. Like I can't... It's like I feel like I'm getting tan, but I don't know why.

Like, you're just radiating today. Like, normally, like, normally you're riding with me. Is it like that time change? What time change? Like, we're later in the, is it because you're on your second podcast? Oh, no, no, no, no. You can't slow me down with at bats. I know.

At bats, I'm fine. Okay, interesting. Five-fifty. Five-60. Did you think that we're going to be up in the fives for behemoth for Tony Gilroy? I'm really glad you started here. This was good. You brought a good.

energy. It's a movie we're excited about. But I was saying there's no production still. There's no trailer. There's no release date. There's nothing. We don't know anything about this movie. That is what we do here on the action. We believe. You know? It's a movie by Tony Gilroy about the beauty of movie music. That's your shit. We don't know if that's what it's about. What do you think it's about? I don't know. Godzilla? The Cure for baldness. 565. That's what you put it is about. Oh, right. Okay. Sorry. Great idea. Great idea. Yeah. I was like, I took that person.

I'm sorry. Gotta go back and look at duplicity. That's the very powerful 570. Corporate product that the espionage is working over. Can we talk about Landon Donovan's hair changes?

I mean, I think he's going through. He's going through a journey with his hair. And he's documented it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got... Documented it? Yeah, he had like transplants that didn't take or plugs or something. And then this is a wig

that he's wearing. Okay, yeah, yeah. It looked like it. He documented. He's like, this is a wig. I need to do this. 575. To feel confident.

Good. That's good. Really? Yeah. Honestly, I respect it. I do too. Who gives a fuck anymore? 580. If that makes you feel better, just do it.

I agree. Not hurting anybody. Yeah. I like hats. I'll tell you what, he scored one of the most electrifying goals of all time. So he'll always have that. Against Algeria. I remember it vividly.

I was sitting at my desk while I was working at e-music. And everyone was pretending to work that day, and they were all watching. the game on their computers, and everyone collectively stood up and shouted. Yeah, these were like running out of our office. This is the United Nation. Clinsman sliding out of the office.

It was wonderful. Chris, you're... I'm gonna... I'm gonna do 590. Okay. Stay in it. I'm in it. Emotionally, I'm in it.

I just... This is between the two of you economically. I could honestly go up to 9.95, and then I can get a bunch of movies that you guys have already seen for like a dollar. Yeah. But that seems... You gotta get...

That, yeah. You could do that. You could do that. You could do that. So maybe we should make you do that. You can make me do it. I'll go to $5.95. As I say, this is... I go to $600. 600. Yeah. So what trigger do you think this is going to cross? Personal happiness, which, you know, is sort of... It's sort of... I was excited about Project Hill Mary and I liked it. I'm looking forward to June part three.

But like I said, like my self-respect when I look at this... I'm not, I wasn't painting entirely my picture. Yeah, you want to love your slate. I know what you mean. 6.15. My slate is some mess right now. Pedro Pascal.

Mm-hmm. I have some questions. Leading man? I have some questions. Fantastic for the First Steps was not it. That was not it. You will be in Doomsday. Was that his fault?

Because that character is just like, I'm too smart to live. I think there's an opportunity for a great Reed Richards and he's miscast. I think he's very miscast. And also he's, want to, he's the last girl. And he's the smartest guy in the world.

Yeah, but it's like, I'm too smart for my own. I, like, I can't. If you're so smart, figure out how to manage it. I relate to Reed Richards. Yeah. I bet you do. I, it's just the burden of, of greatness. Wouldn't you say?

Who just got this for 615 as we approached 40 seconds? Me? No one did. Okay. 620. 625. I think Amanda really wants it. What are you going to do with that? 650 best and final. 6.55.

We've done this before. It's too early to do best and final, my man. At 6.50, that's nothing. That's peanuts. Yeah. For Behavis, it's going to probably get like an 80 metacritic, not get nominated, and make $12 million. But there'll be lawn signs.

They're strewn throughout Los Angeles. You know how many selfies I'm going to take outside the premiere and send you like, it's me on Alito. So that's great. Me and him will be podcasting about Resident Evil. That's beautiful. Bays and blood. 660. I'm out.

665. I'm out. Sure you are. I rolled the ball down the hill. Remember when he was in Triple Frontier? That was great. Pedro? Yeah.

He was playing the fifth lead. Well, but the magic happened. Tim Simons recently watched Triple Frontier and then had the temerity to tell me that he didn't think it was good. I don't know whether he wanted that aired on a podcast. He's a brave man. And he goes with his own... Netflix's Tim Simon said that? I don't know.

Like, did I get him in trouble? It's at 665. I've got it. No, you don't. What do you mean? It would be really cool. See, the A? A is for 665.

I didn't know that that's what that was for. What is it? What did you think that was for? 670. I don't know. Can you read the A? Is this like a... I can read.

I'm able to read. He read the lion, the witch. the world. Listen, I was doing it. No, I'm read the magician's nephew. It was more of a checking in on the cliff and the eyesight, 675. Oh, you know, actually it hit me last week. Yeah, I know. I'm dead serious. I'm dead serious. I'm dead serious. I know. I'm asking you. I know your context change. Well, I don't know, but I looked down at a phone after getting out of a movie and I was like, oh no, it's over. No, it's done. Do you know we're on that? I have TV glasses, which are different than these glasses that I used to watch TV because I can't have my... Because the shit looks so

bad. Yeah. Yeah. Because the TV shows, they look terrible. So you got to put on special glasses to make them look better because they're TV because they suck. That's going to just a fucking stop buying DVDs if you keep talking like that, you know? You're only hurting yourself. I have to wear different glasses to watch television. I did actually get a separate prescription to wear over my contacts to help screens look better. Yeah, but then I didn't, 6.85. And they're just to make, I mean, they're effectively reading glasses that go.

with my contacts because I have famously incredibly bad vision. But then I actually need different most of the time when I'm reading. I'm not wearing my contacts. I'm wearing my glasses. So we didn't do it right. I got to start over. But the cliff is real. A for 685. So I'm just to be clear, I'm not there yet because I'm not 74. Yeah. I'm out. You're out? Okay. Well, it's you and me. Seven. Seven-15. I think, I feel like you want it more than me. And I love Tony Gilroy. Well, I just... I'm gonna tell Tony this when he's on the show. I'm gonna say, Chris sat here.

He would not understand anything about what just transposed. It doesn't matter, I'll explain the whole thing. He read every book there is about revolution and he would be like, what you guys are doing contributes nothing. If I have to spend the entire 37 minutes allotted from Tony Gilroy's publicist, explaining this movie auction, I will do it. And now I betrayed him? Yes.

Okay. If I can get to that bottom one. Congratulations to you. Thanks so much. Thank you. Behemeth. sold to Amanda Dobbins for $715. We should introduce a gavel.

I don't know why I didn't think of that. Can we get some sort of sonic effect? You should punch you in. Damn, son. I actually meant to talk to you, Chris, I need to record some stuff with you in the near future. Okay. You can get that going. Some drops.

Damn, son. Where'd you find behemoth? Okay. Damn, son, they replaced Oscar Isaac. Do you think sight unseen, it would have been better with us? Isaac over Pascal? I think Tony

knows best. Wow. Yeah. However that worked out. You just bent the knee even though you wouldn't take the film. What?

I've done the work, man. You have, you have. I've shattered from every sidewalk. Have you heard the good news about Andor? You have.

Okay, do I put it up next or Amanda? Sean is up next. So I assume you're not going to be nominating films that you can't bid on. That doesn't make much sense.

No, that's, verboten in this game. If you've seen the movie, you can't put the movie up for auction. Nor can you bid on it? I guess not, because you can't win it, right? So that takes some critical Oscar films off the board. I haven't seen, actually, at this time of the year, usually, I've seen at least a couple of the bigger releases. I haven't seen any of the bigger releases this year. I'm in the dark. So no toe dip screenings for me on any of this stuff. I'll tell you what I'm really excited about is primetime.

Of course. That's what I'm going to put up. Okay. Because I might need some more Oscar nominations. I'm quite curious about how this movie will be received. This is the feature fictional debut from Lance Oppenheim, Documentarian. And it is a, I guess it's a portrait of To Catch a Predator and Chris Hansen. The movie stars Robert Pattinson.

Sounds like it'll be the coup de grace in his year. Buzz is, best actor awaits him. this nomination? We don't know anything. We've just seen a one-minute teaser of this movie. That's it. A-24 movie coming out,

I guess, in the fall. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but can you start getting nominated for multiple films? Like, can Robert Pattinson just be nominated for, like, being good this year? No. I think you can be nominated in the same category twice.

That's what the rule is now. So, for example... So Robert Pattinson could get nominated for the Odyssey and the drama as supporting us. actor. Correct. That is the, that, I believe that was the rule change. You can check me on that, Amanda. Yes, actors may be nominated for multiple performances in the same category if those performances place in the top five votes. Which is something I'm not totally sure I realized

couldn't happen before, but that is true now. Is that now, does that nomination then only take one slot? No, takes two slots. Oh, so it's like, I mean, it's like a Soderberg directing thing. So it used to be allowed, or it has been allowed in directing, but I guess, which not allowed in acting. Was he nominated twice for Brockovich and traffic? Yeah. Okay. Interesting.

I'll bid 10 bucks for this movie. I don't know a lot about this movie. I know Lance a little bit. He's doing another voice. He's doing Chris Hansen, presumably. One of my favorite docs from last year was this movie Predators, which was a kind of of an investigation of what to catch a predator was. And it'll be interesting to see how this movie stacks up to it.

25. Oh. I'll say 35. Are you looking forward to this? Have you ever watched to catch a predator? I'm sure that I did at some point at an inappropriate age as a child when like the news magazines were big in our house. Yeah. They were always on.

Freaking me out. But I have not seen the documentary. I'm just, I'm an R-Pats fan forever and ever. Phoebe Bridgers is acting in this film. Is that a fact? According to the Wikipedia page. Damn, Phoebe. Is she? Merit Weaver's in this.

Yeah. Skylar Gazondo is in this. That's true. Big fan. Jimmy Olson. Just says that, yeah, Phoebe Bridgers. Okay. I mean. You know, let me have for 35 bucks.

$50. Sperm world. Spirm world. Also an incredible movie. What's sperm world? It's Lance. 50s. All of Lance Oppenheim's documentaries are worth your time.

I thought you were still talking about testicle plastic surgery. Left it vague on purpose. 65 There's part of me that thinks this is going to be at Telleride and there's part of me

that thinks this is going into that Marty we're not even announcing it for New York Central Festival and could premiere Yeah 824 Now has that spot

You think? I think so What else do they have Coming out in a New York studio That could be Dividing their attention Right

Not much No other Oscar jams I don't believe just taking all that getting ready for Eldon Ring You know when Eldon Ring is dated for? It better be November 17th,

2027. March 3rd, 2028. Imagine if I turned 50 and fucking Eldon Ring dropped. We just saw it 300,000 times. Yeah. I'll do 75.

Have you played Eldon Ring? No. But I have watched dudes play it. Say more. Go ahead. On video on Instagram. Okay.

So it's being served to you. As a live stream, like a It's funny people playing Eldon Ring and being like Holy shit. Like, you know, like... Damn, son. I misspoke about 824. You got two movies that they may be spending some time on.

One is Club Kid if they picked up. I can, which is also not eligible to us right now. Yeah. And also the debut, Jesse Eisenberg's musical. No, Backstreet Drive to me. Sorry that I'm trying to fucking help you. I wonder if Christopher like Club Kid. What happened here?

I like Club Kid. I am a Club Kid. Are you? Well, in a way. Yeah. I've been in the clubs. Okay. In these clubs in this film?

Was he at limelight and shit? Nope. No. It's before it's, it starts when you left New York. Well, so you're not of that time period. It's like queer dance clubs in circa 2013. I think Sean is. Yeah.

I got it. I got it for 75. Okay, great. I'm delighted to have this. I don't know if this is touching 85, but I do think it's, it's going to be, it's a movie I'm excited about. How come, how come the nickname a Mandalorian? hasn't really stuck. Because you're not...

How come I haven't taught your son that yet? It's a great question. He does know my name is Amanda. I know. I would say he's... Oh, no. Your name is Amanda. Amanda. That's, yeah.

I mean, you could do it. You can try. I think any time you ever speak on Star Wars going forward at the bottom cry on should just be like a mandolarian corner here. Hi. What happened with that movie sucking? It was real easy. That's another one that you haven't seen, right? Happily.

Really? And you said you would not see it. I stuck to my guns. We never talked about the like polite text that you sent me, like the Friday of Memorial Day weekend being like, hey, just we changed our travel plans. So I'm sorry. I'm not going to be able to come see Mandalorian and Grogu with your son. Yeah. And you knew that I was traveling and thus wasn't going to be pissed at you.

But, you know, you left us hanging there. I'm sorry. You know, I'm not a parent. I don't know what these things mean. I had a conversation with Alice yesterday at dinner. Yeah. We watched Ghostbusters over the weekend. The way you're talking, it's almost like the way you talk about when you have like a cool drink with a guy in the industry.

Yeah. I was talking with Alice about where Star Wars goes from here. She said something really interesting to me that is something I felt when we watched that movie, the Mandalorian Grogu. Because we watched Ghostbusters and she was like, that wasn't scary at all. That was so fun. And she was, you know, there's some scary stuff in. Ghostbusters. It's mostly comic, but

I don't know, the dogs and the librarian in the beginning is very scary. She loves tape up marshmallow. Did she like Slimer? Of course. When Slimer happened, she said that ghost is my favorite. Same. We all agree about slimer. He's a wonderful guy. Man or woman? Slimer? Do we know? I think

non-binary. Non-binary. Primarily interested in food. Right. That's right. Not a sexual being really at all. Yeah. I mean, you don't know. Like, Like, actoplasmic. Don't exclude slimer, you know?

From the sexual narrative? Yeah, exactly. Why are you being so sex-active about slimer? How would he do if he were dropped into the film The Invite? What role would he do with the menu? Yeah. He would slime. He would slime.

So we're talking about the movie. She loved it. She wants to watch Ghostbusters, too. She wants to watch more spooky movies. She knows dad like spooky movies. So we're talking about that. And Eileen is asking her, like, has a movie ever scared you? Or there's ever a time when you were upset watching a movie

because she's really been begging for jaws and we're trying to figure out what is the limit of something. And she was like Mandolary and Grogu, that was the time when I was most scared because there was the most violent stuff happening, the most fighting. And that was the thing. And I felt that watching the movie.

I was in this movie is really chaotic and intense and not kid-friendly, even though it's marketed directly at kids. And we talked about it a little bit on our episode. I was very nervous when we saw, the early footage because I was like my four-year-old knows about this movie and this seems like really you know just way too many blasters and or guns and you know yucky and he was just so you know smooth-brained about the experience that it turned out to be okay I don't think he remembers anything of it which is

depressing in its own way yeah but yeah I I found it pretty gnarly I did ask him what his favorite Star Wars film was and he said Mandalorian oh okay yeah when I had him rank them recently What was number two? I think it was like one of the sequels. I mean, he likes Phantom Menace. Yeah, I think it was, I think also I did this with Alice. The race. She was like, Rise of Skywalker as elite because she loves Ray.

Yeah. Yeah. Did you select a film yet? Not to cut off our wonderful boxation. Oh, no, no, no. So I'm going to do Wild Horse 9, 20 bucks. This is the new Martin McDonough, starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell. Now is your time, Chris Ryan.

50 bucks. Yeah. I'm eyeballing Bouchemmy's supporting actor in this. Intriguing. Been a while. We want that for him. We do. I have not had him on our screens consistently for a long time.

Love it. We just sang his praises on the domestic disturbance. We sure did. He's the movie. He's the best part of the movie. Where would we be without Ray? This is basically in Bruch set on Easter Island with Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich as hit men looking to upend government seemingly.

I'll do 60. And Steve Bishemi is their handoff. and this looks really fucking funny and a return to old school McDonough. I'll do 75. I feel like Banshees is way underrated. It is. And it was not late stage COVID. It would have a different reputation.

What was the release for that? Was that on screen? It was on HBO Max after like three weeks. Yeah. Because it was 2022, right? This is a real inside baseball. But I think I've said this to you guys in the past. I remember the performance of that episode being really big.

And I was like, that's weird. This is a small two-hander set on Ireland, but it was because everybody watched it at home at the same time. And that was such a unique thing that was happening in the movie culture. That's some Kerry Condon erasure. God bless her. And Barry Kogan, of course. There goes that dream.

What's wrong with the dream? No, that's what he says in the film. Oh, I thought you're like, the dream of Barry Kogan. No, that's my favorite moment. He's still writing it. He's opening his wrist to her, and he's saying, you know, could we ever... I don't quite understand what's going on. I know he's playing Ringo, and he seems like a lovely guy.

I don't know what happened where... He played Tommy Shelby's son In a movie and now is not doing it going forward Who? Barry Keoghian. Play Tommy Shelby and Peeky Blunders' son in the movie. We saw that. Yeah, I watched that. But now there's another show that's going to, I think,

Jamie Bell is taking over the part. Oh. Oh, it's just like a recasting? It just feels like very much like he is not. Paddington 3. In Batman 2. I don't think he is. Well, that's just, that's tough.

Could have been Tommy Shelby and Batman Joker and you're not? I'll be honest. I didn't really appreciate what. he was doing in Crime 101 either. Oh, I did. Yeah. Well, he didn't have much to do. I thought he was...

I thought he was doing way too much. Operating on a different wavelength from everybody. I think he needed to settle down a little bit. Are you going to let him have this? No, $110. Okay. It distracted me. McDone?

I love him. I love his work. I have such an uncomplicated relationship with his work. I think he is truly one of the great writers. Billboards? Billboards time to revisit? I'm a big fan. I really think it's good, and I think what it's accused of is a misunderstanding.

standing in the movie. And I know a lot of people disagree. Performance is great. I would encourage people to revisit the movie. It's really funny. It fell a little bit victim to the moment. I also really like seven psychopaths.

I do too. So I've heard that this movie is more like seven psychopaths than it is like banshees. That it is a little bit more of a hyper-violent, absurdist comedy than it is a sort of mournful treatise on relationships and friendship. Like, rouge or... They're moving the cursor around the clock in a way that suggests me that they want you to know.

You guys have microphones? Yeah. I have this film. I have this film. So here's a great procedural. Yeah, Chris has it. Here's a great procedural question. Who's manning the dock and who's man in the clock?

The tag team effort back here. I'm on the clock. Lucas is on the dock. That's beautiful. Wow. Clock dockers. That sounds like a Martin McDonough film. Are we Koreans return?

Are we doing the turn? Do I have another one? No, I guess we could. I thought we reset. Do we not reset? I honestly don't remember. I think we reset. I don't remember that. You say I also don't care.

You say bidders open with a new title in snake fashion. There you go. Stand corrected. Go for it. Okay. Stand corrected. It's international. So we each have a title right now.

That was in March and you guys said nothing. What do you want me to say on that day? I want you to be creative. I want you to figure, I know. I just want nothing to do with it. I want you to say I went to the AI conference instead of you. Which is a real thing that happened. Do you do not get the,

oh, so only the women got the AI Women's Month invites at Spotify. What are you talking about? We like to celebrate women's history months, which is, which is, yes, I'm not kidding.

In March, it's March, right? We got, like, we got invited to several, like, women and AI conferences.

But the men don't get invited to that. Wow. Why would I be invited to that? I'd like to meet some women in AI. You know what I mean? Trying to get like Paul Schrader. When you say that, You mean AI women?

Yeah, like I'd like to get 90 Sharon Stone to talk to me about, like, the Sixers. I'm still not understanding. You're saying you want a woman who's composed of AI. Yeah, like an AI named Sharon who's, like chatting with me. And she's just like, what do you think we should do with Ambide? I got to tell you, this can be done quite easily. I know. So what are you waiting for?

You should be charting this. Yeah, I was going to say, why are you giving that away for free? I think I have a big future in AI Okay How so? I just think I have a lot of ideas for it Okay What are your thoughts?

You decline this conference There are multiple conferences Just so you know Because it's a whole month So they were offering us lots of opportunities Is there a male voice That you would want in your life That could be generated by AI

No I would just I would want it to silence the other men You know what I mean It's just a little bit like I'm like I hear enough Right you want Skynet for male voices Just thank you But you wouldn't want Jacob Allerty to like Call you in the morning and be like I had Gelson's delivering your groceries

Um No I think that that I would feel uncomfortable How Zach doing? Yeah he's only got one arm You know if you ever want to talk about it Just let me now Why does he talk like

Paul Hogan He's Australian, right? That's all an AI. This is an AI. He's not interested in AI. He'd rather be at the beach, get Sunbird reading a novel. Jacob.

But wait until somebody backs up the brink's truck to his house and they're like, please be our AI voice consultant. Here's $85 million. Because that keeps happening. People are just like, absolutely, I'll take it. It's true, sure, yeah. I've been asking Amanda off Mike. Yes, how much money?

What it would cost to sell her soul to AI. At this point, I think it's bad. brand management. I think that you, because at this point, if you're taking the money, it's, then you're stuck to it. And I, like, obviously the tech. Is it stuck to AI or stuck to that price point? No, you're stuck to AI. And to like a specific generation of AI. This is the man who's $5 million in the whole thing. That's, that's turning. And obviously, I think the technology of like computers helping us and like computers doing math for us and whatever else they're doing with it is going to continue.

But I do sort of feel, I do feel that big AI is in a like kind of a bubble phase right now and they aren't figuring everything out. And if you're stuck and some, if like if it's pets.com, but it didn't really matter to like Matt Damon with crypto.com, right?

Didn't stick to him. That's true. Didn't stick to him. But it's where's your girl? Bree Larson? No, no, no. What's the, that's who you think of when someone says your girl?

Who's the meme that he was going to propose to? No, I thought she did a crypto ad. We just got a real insight into your mind. A hop to a girl. Hop to a girl. Hap to a girl. Haley Welch? That's good.

A lot just happened. Hold on. Slow down. Slow down. There's not even a film on the board right now. Also, I'll tell you want me to put one on? I will do the film that I'm mad. The only one thing that's making me mad about my vacation dates and of Oak Street.

Oh, yeah. 15 bucks. That's the only reason you're mad about. your vacation. I'm not mad about my vacation days. I'm going to have a fucking amazing time. Thanks for filling in. But that is one that was dated after. I thought those two weeks in August was were clear and that's that's the CR special. I would enjoy it. So yeah. So 15 bucks and a book street. Okay.

You, you suggested. Yeah. Your girl to Chris Ryan. He said Breed Larson. Now, I don't know why he didn't say Phoebe Riley. He didn't say. 25 bucks. Is that even an actress you care about? No, I thought she, because she's had like an interesting, like, $35. She's dipped her toe into a lot of pools over the last 10 years or so. 40? Since, you mean literally? No, she's like a YouTube content creator.

She did like mental. But then she stepped back, remember? $50. I'm really excited about this movie. 55. But she, like, she made an announcement that she was no longer, she was taking a break from Instagram and from creating. I know because Sean sent it to me.

So maybe you're the way. Yeah, I was going to say you have a rival. Just following the industry. If you told me. If you told me that Brie Larson was playing Hock Tua in the life of, I would believe it. Oh. You know, you could see it. Right.

So I have seen. Someone says your girl. Yeah. You think Brie Larson, we all think Hock Tua. What do you think that tells you about you? That obviously, like, I see myself differently than way everybody else sees me. Who would your girl be? It's your girl.

You think what? I think I would be associated, probably. most specifically with either chastain or Ann Hathaway. Yeah. Those are the two gals who I'm pretty consistently. I'm like, I like what they're up to. I like what they're doing. Right? Is that fair to say?

Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's what I would go with. Probably some others on the board. You know, they're really more my age. Unlike Hoctuah, you know, she's 27. But Brie Larson is in the general. 75. Okay.

You're squinting in a way that makes me nervous about your eyesight as well. Oh, I can't see anything. I just actually don't know what movie we're bidding on. Oh, I'm just trying to keep it going. The dinosaur movie? End of Oak Street. This is David Robert Mitchell's. Starring his girl Ann Hathaway.

I think this looks wonderful. And your guy. Delay is a little bit troubling. Although maybe they were trying to get the VFX dialed. I don't know what of our triggers it works for for me. It's hard for me to imagine making $100 million, but I've been wrong before. I agree. It's a little bit of a risky venture, $85.

I just love the idea of this movie existing. The episode that I want to do around this movie is Twilight Zone movies. I love to do. Twilight's own premises in movies. We're super high concept, extravagant, more than likely metaphorical, allegorical ideas. Maybe this isn't an allegory movie, but I suspect it is because it's from David Robert Mitchell,

who made It Follows, who made Under the Silver Lake. He works with big things. 95. Ewan McGregor, would you say like him as a leading man now? I'm putting him on the spot. What do you think, Amanda? I'm trying to think of what he's done. Sleep, he was the lead.

He did a season of Fargo where he played twins. He was good in that. He's really good in train spotting, too. I did not care for Obi-Wan Kenobi. Neither did I. I'll say $105. I'm stoked for this movie.

I hope it's good. 120. I need a movie. Got to get some movies. This also raises a point I made on the blank check Jurassic Park episode, which is if you go back and you look at the history of movies, especially movies since Jurassic Park. There are very few dinosaur movies.

I'm very curious to see if the dinosaurs in this film are drastically different than the drastic world rebirth movie. Like, where are we at? How shared is that dinosaur tech? I was watching, Alice asked to watch the Jurassic Park trailer. And we watched it. And I was just marveling, just watching the trailer again.

So magical. This is 32 years, 33 years ago. Yeah. 130. And it's still that combination of CGI and the practical, you know, the models that they built is so good. But they've not really iterated on it that much

in our dinosaur movies, right? I mean, can you name 10 dinosaur movies off top of your head made since 1990? No. That's because you guys don't remember any of the Jurassic movies besides Jurassic Park. Set those aside, name five. Set aside to the Jurassic movies.

Ask me a single question about Jurassic. Anything about Jurassic. Right. Okay. What is the current geopolitical status of the dinosaurs? 155.

In this franchise. Where are they living? They're stateless. They're stateless creatures. Are they not? I think that's right. Yeah. They're without nation.

Yeah. Without ambassadorship. Okay. Do you have commercial one make it through that movie or no political asylum? I know. These dinosaurs. Who's looking after them? No one.

I'll tell you why. 165. That's not true. Jonathan Bailey. I was actually never going to have something really serious. Jonathan Bailey. Oh, okay. I can't do it here.

No, it's actually like meaningful consequences in the world and I'm not going to make a joke about it. Okay. I, Jonathan Bailey, he cares about the dinosaurs. He died, right? No. No one dies. He was spontaneously combusts at the end of the movie. No one dies in the Jurassic world.

It's part of the problem with the movie. You guys love that movie. Doesn't Marhersla do battle with like a dinosaur with like a flare? They all because land air and sea, you know? Yeah, he survives. He survives at the end. real, like, should have killed Chewy by. in that movie.

Like, we got to bring them all back for the sequel. Well. What will a sequel of that movie happen? We're at 30 seconds. Yeah, it will. With Scarjo and Marhershla and Jonathan Bailey. Scarjo's doing 45 other franchises. She's fucking cooking.

Yeah. What's next one on the docket for her? Well, it's Ariaster, Batman, and Exorcist. Oh, man. That's fucking awesome. I'm sorry to say. She's the chosen one. That's... Why are you sorry to her about it? Because she's mixed, mixed on Scarjo. I admire her.

her and I like some of her films and sometimes I'm like is this acting. It would be great if she was still, it's like, if it was all print and Amanda just about Elizabeth Taylor. That's true. Her author photo was just like and it was like skeptical with a sea about Scarjo and it's just like one lady's opinion. Is it like, are we sure she's good? You know, let me have this one? Yeah. Yeah? No, 200. Oh, shoot. Well, was that it? Um, I think she's good. I think she's good. I think. I think sometimes she's not used the way I would. Wait, Ari Aster

Batman, Paper Tiger. And Exorcist. And that's the balance. That's the balance we're looking for. It is still from Exorcist today. And I was like... James Gray. Ari Aster superhero movie. And what's the other one that I'm forgetting? Exorcist. I hope that Exorcist movie is good. She plays Gilda Dent. Well, we don't know. Who is Gilda Dent? Harvey Dent's wife.

Oh, brother. Well, what are her powers? We're at 30 seconds again. The wife of the DA. She's the wife. Again? But I think she does... We gotta stop making Scarjo the wife.

She does some bad stuff or some mixed stuff. The thing you don't know is that this movie is not called the Batman 2, it's called Gilda Dent. It's a character piece about what happens

when your husband's face gets burned off. But starring Scarjo, that I would be into. Is she not named after the titular Gilda from the film Gilda? The Tichler Gilda?

I don't know. Okay. I don't know. 235. I want to clarify something quickly. Chris, you said you need to get some movies on the board. I know I have one.

Okay. I just want to make sure. Okay. Craymore. I'm sorry. We all have one movie. You don't have to get greedy. I know.

This is out of, I, this doesn't do anything for my triggers. I can tell. This is, it's not fun to see him, Randen like this. You know?

Yeah. It's like being at the zoo. We gotta start. Yeah. Getting that lighthouse up for pre Larson again. How do we get, how do we get back to that? I'm just,

I'm playing, I mean, I guess like, this is, this game is turning out the way you intended because you gave me rules that I'm following. Well, I liked how you played last time.

Now, you probably should have spent some more money, but your selections were interesting. Amanda and I were like, Dune, Odyssey, we were going big, and you were being more measured. I was the film knower. No, that wasn't what I said. You were the game knower. Yeah. You were the game knower.

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end of first. It's Sean. Yeah, it's your turn again. My brain is fried, guys. You have $690. How will you spend them? These are two of my most anticipated movies, so I'm really happy with what I've gotten so far, even though I don't know if they do really anything for me. Wild Horse Nine off the board. What's another movie that we're really anticipating? That you haven't seen.

There's one fun one that you could do. Hunger Games, Sunrise on Reefield. I'm fucking pumped for that. Okay, who's that in? I got one. Jesse Plymonds and Kieran Colkin. I mean, I do like Jesse Plymonds. I think that trailer's actually.

Yeah. Yeah. I just. Francis Lawrence. That first film in this reboot or the sequels, Interminable. Like, Rachel Zegler like, hey, yeah, no. That was the longest film.

The ballad of his songs and snakes. I watched that in a hotel room with my wife when we both felt like we were going back in time. Like, we were like, this is the fucking crazy longest movie we've ever seen. I like Rachel Ziegler a lot. I don't know why she was asked to perform Lumineer's songs for three hours. It was a really weird place. I also, despite the title being the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,

was not prepared for the level of performance and singing. Not a song burning. Yeah. This one does look cool. Yeah. That's not what I'm putting up. I'm putting up. Do it.

What was I going to put up? Whalefall. Good. See, that's when... $10. Yeah, there we go. 15. Let's go.

You know about whale fall? You're out on this? $85. If you just, you fucking... Listen. I invented whale fall. It's in the sea with Austin Abrams. They don't make whale fall without my fucking say,

I greenlit that movie. I green lit it. I was watching paper towns. I was watching Austin Abrams on Euphoria. Yeah. So I'm taking this one. This is your boys' movies. This film was based on a novel written

by Daniel Krauss who invented this story. You had nothing to do with green lighting the movie. It's all Melville. Let's go. Oh, interesting. Yeah? Well, have you read the book? In Melville?

Moby Dick. I read Moby Dick. Did you? Yeah. To completion? Yeah. Let's relax. You and Free Larsson?

I'll say $100. I, first of all, just 1-10. Just this whole show putting its arms around whale fall, we can't do better.

Yeah. We can't do better. 150. It's entirely possible that this movie is honestly unintelligible, that it is so dark that the whale's stomach

is not supporting. I think that you... What are you going to do if when he goes into the whale's stomach? Yeah. It's all flashbacks of his trunk. trauma on. I'll be really upset.

I will feel betrayed. 175. Because I do feel like I've put in a lot of work. There's actually, so in my, I have a very clear mental image and I'm like, I'm already priced out of this. So, but I'm really excited for this movie. I have a really clear

mental image in my mind of what it looks like inside the whale. Because you guys saw a little bit of footage. No, what we didn't see. We have not seen this. Drafted. Nobody's Yeah. It was not five. It was a few. No, but it's not based on I'm trying to figure out, like, what children's book or what illustration of, like, the book of Jonah or wherever the Jonas is? Well, I know, but there's, but it's a very, very specific image where it's a large, it's in brown inside the whale, and there's.

You're not thinking of Pinocchio? A small window? No, and then there's like a little stool. And then Jonah's in there. That is in this movie? No, that's what I'm my head. Oh, okay. You know, if I were storyboarding it, it's just like a play set. And it's like a little stool and it's all brown and then he's just hanging around.

But I don't actually know what happens inside the whale. Many compartments in a whale's stomach. September or October night? I think it's October 9th. What are we going to do when we're here with tears in our eyes talking about how whale fall is propelling Hollywood to New Heights? We're going to be like, we told you so. We told people there's a movie where a guy gets swallowed by a whale and the people said, yes, and the people said, I know you don't want to relive this too much, but the image of Larry David...

We're at 30 seconds. 235. The image of Larry David in game four of the NBA finals when Josh Hart misses the layout. I am done reliving this. Well, I'm not. Well, no, it's a negative moment. It's a negative moment. Josh Hart misses the layup on the breakaway in the fourth quarter. And there's a wide shot of Larry David in the front row and he starts to fall down. And he does the full...

And he's looking for someone to brace him while he's falling. 240. That was me when the whale falls. footage hit at CinemaCon. I was just like, I didn't know how much I needed this. Yeah. And I was during an otherwise fairly grim Disney presentation. Yes.

And it was before they brought R.D.J. who was making, who made Whale Faw is now writing the alien sequel. Very encouraging. Very encouraging. Ridley meddling. That's what they say. Ridley's meddling with the script. Ridley's meddling with the franchise is the word on the street. Is that Fettie Alvarez?

The word on the street on Romulus as well. And then, so Fetty left. And then it was going to be the evil dead burn guy was going to make it. He had, uh, he had 30 seconds again. 260. Yeah, there we go. Sorry. Uh, Sebastian. I give you power of attorney. If I get too deep in him. Okay. Thank you so much. We're back. Sebastian Vanichick. Yeah.

He was going to make it. And then that fell apart. And the word on the street. What did you say? What? I gave her power of attorney to bid for me while I talked to you about the future of bailing. Okay. No. That's not what I meant. 265. I'm maxed out. I don't have them clawed with me.

I can't talk to you about alien and bid on this fucking movie. You mean you don't agree with you? Sharon. I want Sharon Stone. Oh, Sharon. Excuse me. Yeah.

275. Do you like Sharon Stone's voice? What's wrong with it? Why do you have against women's voices? Nothing. I'm surrounded by them at all times. What? 280. What?

What is the voice you want to hear? 285. No, I want... I'm a Thompson? I mean, that is a nice voice, but I don't really, I don't want to hear. I want silence is what I want. You? Yeah, we had a, as I said, it was a, it was an up and down weekend.

It was a life lived at the extremes this weekend for me. And, and also for my husband. And so we were at dinner with the kids on... You guys were mountain climbing or something? What happened? No, we were just trying to live life. That's 290 Just keep your eye on it

Okay, well And so my four-year-old asked for some music At the dinner table on Saturday night And Zach was just like You know what, Knox? I need silence right now I just, I need a minute Did you say that?

He actually did And so he didn't play music I don't know if I'd have the hard to do it So that's where we are right now And then 30 minutes later I discovered wife repeller So now there's no more silence in our house Yep, just MJ Lenderman up and down

I love MJ Lunderman No one knows what wife Rappellar is. That story was told off mic. Sure. She posted about it. Yeah, I posted about it. The people know. I guess it was on Saturday night.

Maybe you were not looking at Instagram spending time with your family. Congratulations. We're at 30 seconds. Yeah. Common victory for me. You may take it. Oh, that's beautiful.

Don't really know what's it. If this hits, we're fucking not ready. It's going to 100 million will be like light work. And if it doesn't, it's just going to like $5 million. I think it's going to be hard for it to get to $100 million.

And Josh tomorrow is going to be like who the fuck greenlit this movie, you know? And why didn't you use AI to make it? Well, what's it going up against? That's a very busy time at the box office. Our October is really

emotionally involved. It really is. So it's actually October 16th is whale fall. Yeah. That it will be coming off of the social reckoning Other Mommy October 9th,

which is a very chaotic weekend for us. No, but read the whole, read start October 2nd. Digger and Verity come out in October 2nd. second. That's a lot. Colleen Hoover and Tom Cruz. Does other mommy feature farting? Did I read that correctly? The demon and other mommy

is flatulent? Where did you read this? No. Where are you? I don't know. This is late at night. And Bray Larson's spending your time. Do we find this? Other mommy. Ask Sharon. Okay, since you're not going to read it. Then October 9th, social

reckoning. Then the next episode is Fjord. Then whale fall and sense and sensibility. Other mommy flatuance. It's very... Don't forget about streetfire. Well, I was more talking about myself. And obviously I will see Street Fighter.

And that was the best of the video game presentation that we saw at Cinemacon. I was thinking about maybe trying to grab it here. But that, I just, I don't really know what I'm going to do with myself in October. I'm going to stay strong. I'm going to, you know, keep seeing the sun, keep doing my exercises, mindfulness, try to keep my eye on the ball. Mindfulness is something you practice? I would find that hard to believe.

I know a little bit about mindfulness. I learned a lot about it. And then I was like, that seems unnecessary. I'm just going to put everything in a box over here. You know, mindfulness is about silence. Yeah. Which is obviously not a cheap. Is it my turn?

It is. Yes, it is. And I have, what you might call it. And now we're starting to get into the like, well, I hate to do it to you guys, but. You got to grab one of them. Yeah. I'm going to go for paper tiger Okay. Okay. Because it's a personal...

It represents me personally As a East Coast guy Who loves a crime film and loves James Gray and loves Miles Teller and loves Adam Driver Love Scarlet Johansson. And I'll bid $5 for that out of respect to Paper Tiger But why not just bid a hundred? Well, why not bid one? You guys can't bid on it, right? That's true.

Well, $5 is actually more insulting than $1. $1, somebody looks at the board and they're like, oh, he ran out of money, but there was one movie left on the board. is like no one else bid on it. I don't know. I would encourage people... I would say bid $500. No, I'm going to bid $5 and we can talk about Paper Tiger though.

Yeah. Well, it's just a terrific movie. We loved it. We were there at the premiere. Scarlett Johansson was not, but they phased timed her during theia plus. Yeah. But I mean, listen, time zones are very complicated. Here's it all say.

One of the very best Adam Driver performances of all time and also the most Miles Teller has tried hard to be good in a film in about a decade. Like since when? When's the last time you think he did that? Spectacular now? I mean, that's my favorite milestone performance. Whiplash and spectacular now, that's an amazing... That was when I was like, oh, is this guy like John Void or something?

And maybe it was not that, ultimately. John Void. It's like a really sensitive but masculine presence on screen, you know? Not John Voight now. Not John Voigt, advising President Trump on how to save cinema. Is this guy trying to reshorre Hollywood production? No, John Void from Midnight Cowboy and coming home. How's Cajor's accent? Are you allowed to say that without breaking?

No, it's perfectly accurate. It is exactly what people from there sound like. Sure. It sounds like my grandmother. Do you think I would like to have it voice my AI agent? I don't think you'd enjoy that. Yeah. My AI companion.

As someone who was raised with those voices very closely. You don't know what I get excited by. You told us, Bree Larson. No, I didn't mean that. I just didn't know what she was talking about Yeah, five bucks I love James Gray It's gonna likely

Hit 85 I mean it's currently at 85 right Who knows? Who knows? It was very well reviewed by the French The European critics loved it The US critics thought it was his best in some time I would say the US pundits That we knew that we talked to at the festival

But it did not win any prizes it can Right. So I don't know what that means. Then the French newspapers were very upset about. They were. Le Mans said a masterpiece. What did Le Kippe say? Didn't catch up with that one.

I also don't read French. Le Kieb is the sports magazine. Yeah. We know. They said goal. What is the French word for goal? Goal. Is it?

I think so. Goal is pretty universal. Really? I mean, there might be a French word for goal, but I think when they score, they're like goal. Okay. Well, congrats on paper tiger. Damn, son. Damn son, you scored a goal.

So I get Paper Tiger. Yeah. But I can never tell. Like, is this podcast supposed to go on for like six hours? Or are we? Yeah. As you told me many moons ago, it's all one podcast. So now I have Wild Horse Nine and I have Paper Tiger and I have whaleful.

Yep. That's good. That's your ideal episode length. For this, as a host or as listening to a podcast? Oh, let's do both. Good question. I do find that something magical happens at the two-hour mark. Me too.

You know, so either a focused, you know, one to 115, maybe like a focus one plus then you have a good interview. Yep. And or two hours and things can get like really fresh. I will say. This is how we've been able to do it together for so long. Yeah. I agree with you. But every once in a while there are exceptions where it's where if you.

where if you and I just like have an hour and a half but like no real structure or nothing that we have to get done, then we can get to the two hour energy at about an hour and that's also beautiful. But that's where I'm trying to go. I wonder if that's going to get easier or harder as I get older. You mean the loopiness or the... Just conjuring that energy. Because you know, you used to say like five years ago, you'd be like, you guys like to go long. You like to be a more efficient podcast.

I'm more used to different rhythms. I mean, I'm more of a 55-minute to one hour and five-minute guy. And then what happens at one hour and five minutes? Well, usually I have to come to another podcast. A lot of scheduling. Use us. I like to be supportive of your project.

Where are you going after this? What show do you have to go do? Rogan? I know, I have to prepare for the beautiful pod. Oh. Yeah. There are many matches today. There are three. Four maybe.

Four, maybe. I think four. I have to nominate another film. Please do. I don't like doing this, but I do need to shore up my Oscar campaign. Okay. And so I will be nominating Fjord. Oh, wow. Sheesh.

Okay. There's two in a row that are ineligible for Amanda and I. I'm sorry. That's okay. But I wasn't really sure if I had, like, great confidence. Like, this Oscars is yet to coalesce for me to the extent that I pay attention to it. I would say to you. And I looked at, I looked at a dollar to mirror Sean's.

shots fired at Christian Manjou No The great Romanian filmmaker This movie I'm really curious

To see what happens With this Because I think it's gonna hit here And people are gonna be like masterpiece I could be wrong It was mixed at Cannes It did win the palm And the jury loved it

But it was very mixed It was And there was There were pushes towards Other films Minator La Bolanegra That people prefer to this movie because it is

in keeping with the kind of movie that he makes but I loved it and you liked it you liked it a lot I really liked it I think they will get an Oscar nomination They absolutely well They'll get two I think At least for the performances and then best picture I think so

This is a movie about a A couple of Norwegian woman and a Romanian man Who were living in Romania and Move to Norway to get a better life for their families, a Christian family who encounter some unusual, progressive structures in place in Norway around their family. And it becomes a real cultural clash,

literally a cultural clash. And Sebastian Stan and Renata Reinsva are both amazing in the movie. It's going to be a bit of a political time bomb, though. It's going to reveal, I think, a lot about how people feel about this kind of thing when it is released. I guess I don't want to say more than that. I'm very curious for your take as a thoughtful consumer of political content.

And a maker, one of the makers of JMO. That's true. It's a true JMO movie. Yeah. Good. Good. I think in similar ways that we were talking about

Scarjo doing, they write, I think, shout out to Sebastian Stan, who seems to have gotten the same memo and is like, I did all the Marvel movies. And those two people probably will be

ahead of the curve. as I wonder whether or not less and less Hollywood actors are interested in going through what Millie Alcock just went through. Yeah. And they're just like, is it really worth it to, if this doesn't go right,

I get blamed and if it goes well, like I'm locked into this for nine years. Elegant segue for my next nomination, which is Spider-Man brand new day. Okay. I'll put it on the board for five bucks. I don't know if you guys care about this. I don't know if it makes sense

even in the auction. in the aftermath of the Supergirl thing and the way that we talked about it and that I wrote about it and all that, it doesn't change the fact that I still remain very interested in Spider-Man movies. Do you think this will make more money than Odyssey and Dune?

In all likelihood, it should. I mean, based on what the subject matter is and how it's performed before. And Spider-Man is not really subject to the whims of Morbius and Supergirl. Spider-Man has always been successful. $15. Wait, what's on the board?

Spider-Man brand-new day? What do you need? What do you need? I'm sorry. I was focusing on what I need and like, you know, kind of trying to plot my strategy. But no, you start talking about Spider-Man, which I like. I had a great time at the one where they pointed each other, you know. No way home.

Sure. That was beautiful. And new director. Okay. Destin Daniel Creighton coming in, John Watts out. Justin Carriskey's writing. Mm-hmm. Doing a pass on the screenplay.

Tom Holland claiming control. telling Zach Barron that you learned a lot from the Odyssey, and that's what he, that energy he brought to a brand new day? Yeah, of course. Me too. I... Are you in the Odyssey? Wouldn't that be amazing if I showed up?

Are you Silla or Caribniz. You constantly tell Zach Barron that you've learned a lot from the Odyssey. Yeah. We're at 30 seconds. $25. Now, five years ago, if we were doing this exercise, this movie would be fought for. Now, we also... Do you either of you need box?

office? I do. I have, I could use some backup for disclosure day, but I was just doing this to like keep talking. But this is, this is a sequel. So he can't even have it. That's right. I shouldn't even be a lot to bid. Yeah. Congratulations to you. Wow. We should go back down to your $15. Wow. Wow. I mean, you have to ask yourself. Actually, you can't do it either because you have two sequels. That's right. Well, that's a steal. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Congratulations, Sean. I'm going to see this film. It turns out that you're doing well at the game whose rules you wrote. I would love to play a game that you create or you create I don't think you could play my games

Say more Okay so I could Have you ever seen a song movie So I do have some loopholes The way that Chris does Because I famously left can early and almost missed the palm Do you like one movie? I only have one film that I spent a lot of money on.

And there are some things waiting for me, hopefully, unless you want to get in the mix. But that doesn't seem that fun to do right now. So I'm going to have a little fun right now. And then if I got a circle back or I got to start Googling movies coming out in 2026, I will do that. So. Okay. This is a lot of preamble. Listen, I told you.

I was focused. That's why I wasn't listening to you talking about Spider-Man. Still ambling. Sorry, it's called vamping while I decide what to do. Still ambling. For $10, I'll do here comes the flood. Hmm. Okay.

What is the value of this film? Okay. Oh, great. Okay. Me liking it. Okay. And me having a great time. Me going to the cinema and saying, yes, they still make them.

They're like, well, I will because it's rumored to be premiering in Venice. Okay. So I will be at the Palais, the Palazzo, in this case, excuse me. I got to switch my internal settings from French to Italian. Yes, very easy for you. And I will be there. And it will be in a large screen and seats that are slightly too small for my liking. 30 seconds.

Keep it compact. But you don't have to. That's fine. This is a heist film directed by Fernando Morales, written by Simon Kinberg, Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson. Your girl, Daisy Edgar Jones. Is she playing an American in this film? Don't know they didn't consult me on the accent work. I think she doesn't find American accent.

Okay. This is 50. Nobody wants it? 10 bucks. Yeah, twisters was fine. There were multiple twisters. That's fine. I want to keep talking about this movie, though.

Okay. I agree with you completely that this is just a gobsmacking decision just to hide this away on Netflix. I feel like this is like a Denzel Washington, Robert Patton's and thriller. I'm going to keep being a brat about this publicly so that they put it in the theater. I don't understand. Why make the fucking movie? There's no way this movie costs less than $100 million. There's a 0% chance. It's a Denzel Washington movie.

So they had to buy out his quote and his back end. So this movie is expensive. I mean, this is also, this is a movie that spans the generations at Netflix, presumably, right? And the executives. I believe so. I don't know. We aren't totally sure, but one could assume that it was greenlit and structured. In the Scott Stuber era.

Yes, in a different era than the current. we don't care about spending money on movies. All I know is a bank situation. Always, which is always promising. Listen, I mean, it's also, I'm just interested. I want to see it.

And I said that I would try to spend some money for myself. Incidentally, the, did. Also, I had no movies and only $285. Is it Leachers Stahelsky is doing how to rob a bank? Leach, David Leach. That could either be, that will either be

among my favorite movies of the year or one among my least favorite. and there is no in between. Interesting. Because I care a lot about TikTok and I don't want them to, you know, bastardize it as a filmmaking. That's what you got your heart in.

I just think it could be like really corny or really good. Yeah, I agree with you. Here Comes the Flood is like a couple of other movies where there's no materials right now. We don't know when it's coming out. Maybe it's at Venice, maybe not. It feels like a very commercial place. So Venice seems like a weird place to put a movie like that.

I mean, I think it's just a genre movie. It's a, it's a, it's a. Yeah. Probably an elevated Denzel Washington programmer, right? I mean, with obviously the director of the City of God and the two popes and Friend of Marla is super accomplished. But I don't know. I'm very excited about it. You think it'll be better or worse than The Rip?

I'm hoping better. And that's said with love for The Rip, which I enjoyed very much. Not as much as Quentin Tarantino. Yeah, that's true. But, you know. You loved the film. I know. Loved it.

Wrote about it in Sight and Sound magazine. Extensively. Beautiful. Okay. So you've got here comes the flood. Oh, and then I have another one. We have another film to put up on the board. Chris has got four movies.

I've got three. You've got two. Other Mommy, 10 bucks. Okay, 20 bucks. On I and D.B, it says that the other mommy is flatulent. I mean, what's more haunting than that? I'm just saying it gives you an idea of the vibe of the film. Sure.

30 bucks. A Rob Savage movie. I'm a big fan. Rob Savage. I know you are. Jessica Chastain, a big fan. So Jessica Chastain ripping ass. throughout the film? Is that the idea?

A little girl who finds a demon in her closet that farts and it's like she calls it Other Mommy. I could be... That's not at all what it's about. That's not at all what it's about. The demon takes the corporeal form Other Mommy, 2026. Jessica Chastain. So the demon looks

just like... Bella, an 8-year-old girl living in a home with marital problems, confronts a flatulent entity that comes out of her closet that presence who she calls other Mommy becomes increasingly threatening to her and her family. $45. $50 because it looks just like her real mommy. Jessica Chastain.

Well, listen. We all have bodies. Are you all have bodies? Are you looking at fart.com? What are you reading? I am DVD. Look. That's interesting data.

That's not noted in the trailer. Yeah, there are no farts in the... You're done? You're walking away? I can go off the dome for less. Now that I fucking solve the internet. $55. Proof to you that the $60.

Dement farts. Did you not want to leave up the photos of Brie Larson? It's not cool. I don't objectify her. She's Ms. Marvel. Captain Marvel. You fucking pig. She's a captain.

That wasn't even an MS. That wasn't a MIS dot. That was a Miss. That was a Miss. That was a Miss. Browns, Ms. Marvel. Yeah. She actually does not, I was about

to spoil the bear. We're at 30 seconds. 65. Okay. I want to do that. $70? Do you want to do that? Spoil the bear. I was going to say something about the bear.

You know what I'm going to watch it. I was strongly encouraged by Brian Copplin last week. He was like, you have to watch season four. He's in the bear. Well, we were talking about because of that. Computer. Season five. Season five.

Yeah. Season six. I'm going to watch it. Yeah. I'm going to watch the agency, too. Do the agency rocks. I'm quite excited. Yeah.

I have to actually. I have to watch. I watched literally 30 Diane Keaton films that she made after 2008, so that's going to be an interesting week for me. Hall of Fame. That's going to be a tough one. Yeah. But I signed up as tribute for the late phase. 75.

The thing with Diane Keaton is, the run of movies from 1970 through 1987, I don't know if there's ever been a stronger stretch. It's honestly extraordinary, especially 70 through 81. And then something happens in 2000 where I'm like, what are these films? have not heard of this. What's the movie that changes it all that sends it in the wrong direction? What's the turning point? I'm not sure if there's like a break point.

I think she just, you know, older women, obviously, getting typecast, not getting the opportunities that they want. There's a lot of like, what's the Lily Tomlin Jane Fonda show, Grace and Frankie? Yeah. 90. There's a lot of things that just have like a Grace and Frankie vibe to them. I see.

You know? Mac and Rita. Yeah. I don't know. movie that came out in 2022. Never heard of it until yesterday. Mac and Rita. What's the movie we're bidding on?

Other mommy? Well, I did my work on this one. You don't want to get in on this? I don't feel like reporters. You have $574. Reporters shouldn't benefit from their reporting. And I reported on this phone. You read a log line

on a publicly available website. Yeah. CIA I do that. That's exactly what it does. 95. Why not? How much money do I have? I have. There's a lot of money on the board here.

$200. I'll let you have it for $100. I need to have some money left over so we can keep the game going here. Okay. Okay. So you put other mommy up. Yeah. That kicks it back to me.

I put, here comes the flood and other mommy. Okay. Spider-Man brand new day off the board. Oh, now it's back. I mean, what's the most desirable movie that's left on the slate right here? Onslaught. You know what Onslaught is? No.

Adam Wingard's return to James Cameron-esque filmmaking with Simon Barrett he's left behind Godzilla and King Kong and it's Adria Arjona playing like a super soldier killer Right

That's exactly right I hope it's good Okay is October coming out this year Jeremy Solnier's new film I think we would have heard And I think it would be slated for October Which would make it weird If it was just like out of nowhere

There's a Jeremy Salome movie There's some stuff, but I don't know if there's anything that really connects with all three of us, and those are usually the most interesting movies. Are you going to pick the Taika Waititi movie? Clara in the Sun. No, it looks absolutely horrible. There's a new Ishiguro book coming out next year. He fucking blacked out in the financial times.

They asked him about his obsession with train movies. He seems like the most delightful guy ever. What's the new one called? I'm just going to say... Miss Lambert steps aboard. board danger. Look at this. Wow.

An exquisite spy novel. A disarming and memorable caper in which not everything is quite as it seems. Wow. Right in your sweet spot. March 9th, 2027. Why are you yelling? I'm fucking psyched for the new issue girl novel. Like, I'm a hype woman, but only for literary fiction that meets my particularly interest.

This is tagged literary fiction and cozy mystery. Damn. when random house get at me. Damn, son. When that mystery gets so cozy. Would you leave him? Would you leave Sean if it was like, Amanda, you've just done such amazing work for the modern publishing?

We just want to prop you up as a literary fiction influencer. Would you abandon Sean? And you were just like, send me a galley! Why would this necessity leave me? I guess that's true. You can have it all. What I am doing. every day is having it all.

That's right. Many people are saying, I don't know how to have it all for this moment. So I'm going to put Clayface on the board. This is a personal project. You think that's beautiful? James Walkins.

I don't have to worry about that anymore because I have Spider-Man. I'm just asking if you think it's going to make $100 million. I don't think Supergirl's going to make $100. $100. I'm serious. It would be funny if Supergirl didn't make $100.

It would be fucked up if all the guys were like, but yes, Clayface. you know what you mean well yeah I mean where is the Clayface episode I'm looking at the schedule

where is it what happened it's oh it's not till the end of October it got moved I was confusing it with something else okay yeah it's October 23rd yeah it is I've got some ideas okay for the Clayface

James Watkins adapting the DC comics story of a Batman villain but taking a really hard horror strain on it. So we've been told. Yeah. We saw the trailer.

Yeah. Very good trailer. Christmas Day is the werewolf episode? And it's only me on the schedule right now. It's tough. That's the big release on Christmas Day right now. Unless you want to wait to cover Ebenezer, the Christmas Carol story starring Johnny Depp.

I remember when Johnny Depp came on stage at Cinemacon, that was so dark. Deranged. And people lost their minds. They loved it. Special bonus. Christmas episode the Roherom movie?

The War of the Roherom? Watch along. Oh, that would be fun. I couldn't get through that movie. The animated The animated movie? I thought there was a new one

that's not, is it also animated? No, you're talking about the hunt for Gowlam. That's the fucking hunt for Gowlum. And is that coming out this year? I think it's 28. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. And who just signed up to do that?

It's direct by Andy Circus. Yeah, but somebody just signed on for it. That was like, Hunt of Gollom movie. I think it's Golm. Collum signed on. He's participating. Okay. Hold on. It's been delayed till December 27

According to... Reddit for your information. Well, listen. I can't watch you browse. I'll say... I'll say... What do you want from it? What am I doing?

I don't even know where these search results are. How do you not have like instantaneously like here's the fucking... I have a haunted column movie because I don't let AI do the work for me. Claude, get the fuck out. You know? Gemini. No. bad branding.

$5 for Clayface? $10. I don't really need it, but... Don't you want it? I do. You've got $5.75 for me. I'll bid $100 then for Clayface. $105.

Man does not get involved. I'm going to let you... I'm honestly reading an Esquire roundup of what's everything we know about the hunt for Gallum. What's the latest? Who's hunting? Who's hunting? Who's hunting him?

December 17th, 2027. Okay, great. And what's happening here? What's the big, no, what's the big idea? This is incredible blogging. It will sit between the Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Ring with its main story. I don't know. I was reading ahead.

Do you understand that there's like a giant auto play video playing? And she's got like, what? A fucking like. What the fuck do you want me to do differently? It's just get a fucking ad blocker. Which one? And I'll, I will do it for you. It's like, it's like, it's like.

Like watching my parents surf the web. It's crazy. I don't really use the internet that much on this computer. I'm going to take this for 105. Yeah, do that. Yeah. Do that. It unfolds after Bilbo's 111th birthday party.

Bilbo Baggins. Yeah. And before, so happy birthday to him. And before he's so mad because like a video about Robin Williams is playing. Before the fellowship reaches the minds of Moria. Yeah, Moria. You do protein milk? We've got an ad for protein milk here.

Why aren't you able to pronounce any of the words in this story? Are you sure? Well, I don't know what is the room. What is this goal? That was me reading ahead and getting too excited. I'm a literal. What is the minds of Moria? That's where the dwarves live.

I'm like if I know what that is, I don't read this shit. But I would do a watch along with you. And you say you're a classics major. Meanwhile, Tolkien stands astride history. I've told you many times, though, that my Greek professor did like stop Greek one day and was like let's learn Elvish instead and started diagramming Elvish in the ways that it's based on Greek and Latin.

She was really cool. Shout out Margaret Graves. I don't remember anything about making sure that was her name. We've got a fascinating moment here. Now, I was right. I've got four movies. Chris has got four movies. Amanda's got three movies. She has the least amount of money left.

Chris and I have 580 and Chris has 574. Margaret Graver. Margaret Graves is an art historian. Yeah. You got to put a movie on the board. And if you get it, it's your last movie. If you don't get it,

then you could still have another chance to put another movie up. A lot of the movies that I wanted, I've either gotten or they've been taken. And I don't really want to do one where you guys can't bid or can't get involved, but I'm tempted. The last one I had on my long list is hope. Okay. Nah Hong Jin's new film.

I don't know What Do you feel like that Could be Best Foreign Film Oscar? No That's not a judgment on the film But I do not think it will be in the running

If it and if it is Then we are ushering in a wonderful new era Yes Then things are changing at the Oscars in exciting ways I can't nominate any sequels I I What am I gonna do here?

We had a lot of fun at the Hope premiere. Hope is a blast, and I think Hope is going to be even better when they start tweaking it up a little bit. Yep. Before its release. But it is a two-hour-and-40 bug hunt movie set in South Korea. That's true. Or maybe not in South Korea. Who knows where it's set?

They didn't tell me. That also features Michael Fastbender and Alicia Vikander and Taylor Russell, sort of, sort of all three of them. I mean, what about Werewolf? Not a sequel? What about werewolf? What about wherewolf? What do you know about werewolves? Like, what is your personal relationship with that mythology?

I think that the silver bullet technology is a bit much. That that's what it takes to kill them. Mm-hmm. I think that's a relatively recent. I think that's a cinematic invention. Oh. Not a, not a myth. Well, that's a literary idea.

Well, that's a great idea, Amanda. Okay. We're a wolf for $5. That was Sean's idea. Sean, thank you for fucking right here This guy's thinking about Brie Larson $5 for Werewolf

$15, okay I'm in, you know, whatever Why not? Why not? Like what you like, just let me go on vacation. $25? No, I'm not going to do it. Instead, I...

What are you holding out for? Don't you only have three movies? Yeah, but I have some other ideas here and I don't want, you guys would then saddle me with Werewolf and then I'm like, great. Now I got this Werewolf too responsible for, you know? $40. This is wherewolf.

How much? 40. 40 bucks. So, wherewolves aren't real and wolverines are. Yes. Okay. Well, we don't know about wherewolves. Do you feel like, like, tell me about your, how many wolverines have you seen life in your fucking life?

I just assumed that they're in the badger and beaver family, right? Yeah, sort of. Slightly more feral, slightly more dangerous, but not really. It's like a land seal is what. Guess what I did last night. Tell me. Not like a land seal. I protected a cat for the coyote.

What? Give me everything. Tell me the breakdown of the strategy. The coyotes in my name. would have gotten quite aggressive. $50. $55. And they come out like at dusk and they're really in the mix.

And there's a street near me that we affectionately refer to as cat street because there's a lot of cats. Okay. And there is a cat on that. Sue and Bree, who's talking this conversation? I call Scritches, but I don't know what its name is. And a coyote was like coming for it. And I said, stop. So you shall not pass.

Yeah. You shall not pass. 65 dollars that lord of the ring thing yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah uh yeah uh yeah he's he's standing before ballrog mm-hmm the ancient fire demon okay what are the tree people's names and and no but like jim and steams uh 75 okay 75 what would movie be betting on werewolf why can't we do a watch-along to one of the hobbit movies That's funny Mallory would probably assassinate you

I think if you did that That's fine That's why I was suggesting the Ruhirum But that's probably too bad I don't want to watch that I don't want to watch that Okay I mean look

I want to make more content About Lord of the Rings I'm just gonna say it out loud I just said it's a bill On the rewatchables last week I'm trying You know I think they're very special Those first three films

The Hobbit films I don't know what happened Something happened It isn't good The first three I'll say 80 bucks I'm fascinated by werewolf I hope it's good

I can't shake Chris's Wes Anderson insight But I'm one of those people who's like You're not seeing the Wes Anderson movie I know I know I know It's fine It wasn't an insult Wes Anderson is more excited

To talk to on podcasts though So that is one thing He was lovely To talk to on podcasts To you To you He was a great guest And he'd been somebody

I'd always wanted to talk to Um Rob Baker's a really nice guy It's not about that. It's more just that he's like, I'm clearly annoying him. Do you think it would be insane if in this auction we started opening it up to like

multiple years and we were like drafting like the next Scorsese movie and shit? Oh. Sheesh. Well, I, you know, like a 24- Sorry, I was reading about how this movie is going to feature early modern English so I wasn't listening. So what did you say about Scorsese?

Like what if we started bidding on things that were also 27, and like opening up the drafting. Well, okay. Is what happens at night? Going to be this year? Could that come out this year? It's finished. You never know.

It's a production. It's June 30th. And they say that it's a, it's like smaller in scope, right? Well. And who's putting that out? Apple? Apple. I don't know.

We're over 30 seconds. 85. Apple has two other films coming out. They have a Sean, what's her face? Coda? Sean Hater. Yes, being human. I was just, I was trying to get there.

Okay. Great. And Tenzing? What's that about? You don't know. That's what it's called. Yeah. T-E-N-Z-I-N-G.

Yeah. That's been on the docket for a long time. They have more movies than that coming out. Mayday is coming out with Ryan Reynolds. You know what we didn't do? And maybe we can revisit it when Amanda goes on vacation. Yep. Is Into the Grey.

You know, I haven't seen it. I think it's not that bad. That's a great place to start. We're at 30 seconds. Okay. 95. What, um, what's a, what's a, what, what, what's a, what, what, what, what's a, what, what, Is there a garbage nomenclature that we could

In the gray? Late Richie. Garbage Richie. What if we just did late Richie? I feel like we've done that about like five times. I'll do it again. Okay. I'll always do it with you.

If I need to revisit Guy Richie's the Covenant, I will revisit it. Wasn't there another one that came out this year that we didn't recognize? There was an Alan Richardson movie that came out last year. There's one coming out later this year, I think, called Wife and Dog. A hundred bucks. Okay. Wife and Dog. Yeah.

which is that's the name of your modern literary podcast wife and book 105 this is not a Guy Ritchie movie How much money does Sean have left? 580 More than you And how much money do I have left?

I believe 574 This is a normal way to spend it I just you know what it is I just I thought I would get more out of drafting things that you guys had seen and being like Nah ha Yeah it really doesn't it doesn't hit like It doesn't hit the same.

No, it's not, yeah, it's not as fun. $200. Oh, okay. Wow. I'm going to think about that for a minute. Wherewolf. Wait, what are you saving your money for? I don't know if I have a movie that's going to get it to 85.

Oh, and you don't think wherewolf will, you think that everyone will appreciate the technical achievements. Well, this is the problem is. Is he seen too many things? Yeah. It is the problem. Mm-hmm. What do you think Nosphorus Metacritic score is? 72.

What do you think? 74. I think it's probably right around there. 78. Yeah. We're at 30 seconds. I think you can take it. So we need just one movie with Metacritic over 85.

Mm-hmm. Okay. And I've got to figure out what that is. Okay. Now, is the Odyssey getting over 85? That's the thing we don't know. Yeah. I think so.

I don't know. I want to throw this out there. There's a chance for a backlash with The Odyssey. I'm not saying it's not going to do well. I'm not saying it's not going to be good. But there's a chance for a backlash. They tried already. Yeah, they tried to cancel it.

That was like a real anti-woke thing. Oh, you just think people are going to see it and be like, nah, try again? There's just so much hype. Snooze. Now, obviously, Oppenheimer defeated that fascinatingly. Like, that was a historical drama that he drove to 900. $80 million or whatever. That was amazing that that happened.

And this is not me wearing my like Nolan Hater hat. Like I'm actually just kind of curious culturally. I was just like this a week after six out of ten is like an interesting test for you of like I know you also want to be right. But you also want to, you know? No, it's it's more like if I'm considering can it get to 85. He's also now. It would be like critically as acclaimed. He would be on a what like eight year like undefeated run of.

of commercial and critical. I guess 10 it is looked at as like a misstep, but that was more COVID than anything. And we love tenant. Right now, Variety. Variety says these are the top 10 Oscar condenders. Okay. Michael.

Michael is literally lost. Wild Horse 9. The Social Reckoning. I don't believe that for a second. Project Hell Mary, The Odyssey, La Bolanegra, Fjord, Dune Part 3, Digger,

and the debut. I mean, that's, you know, past performance is no indication of future performance for a couple of those. But it's also, at this point in the year, we're always like there are five that we're sure of and five, we have no idea. And so that's, that seems like some decent guessing. Some of those will, some of those won't. This is a fascinating podcast. Do you think that it's better? Does he have a pick now?

Do I have, what's happening? I have a pick. Okay. Chris doesn't need to take another film. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but my question is, do I, do I take the debut? as my bid for a chance of 85, which is likely to be an Oscar movie.

Have you heard anybody you've seen it? Do you know any word on it? Nope. My gut tells me I'll see it at Tell You Ride. I have no confirmation on that, but that's where it feels like it'll premiere. Did you see Jesse Eisenberg very deftly handling social? He said, it's what Aaron Sorkin said.

And he was like, I do not want to be associated with that character as there's a minions poster behind them. Did you also see that Michael Mann went to the Minions Perver? I didn't. Did he review it? Michael Mann? Yeah. I don't even know where he would have put that.

I don't know. I think he took his family. That's cute. That's cute. That's cute. That's cute. I must be Minions fans. The other movie that I could take that I think he's going to get 85 is Wildwood.

Okay. Which is the animated movie that Travis Knight's second film of the year after the Masters of the Universe situation. Okay. I didn't realize this until I was in the bookstore. I knew that Wildwood was based on a book. I didn't realize it was written by Colin Malloy, the lead singer of the Decembris. And he wrote this one of your favorite bands. Not a band I love, but a dude.

door stopper novel. Okay. It's like a 500-page novel that I bought and I started reading to Alice last week. Very good. Maybe a little mature. I was going to say, it's a graphic novel.

It's a, you're just reading a 500-page novel. It's like Harry Potter, though. I mean, it's the same thing. Oh, I see. Okay, I didn't. It's sort of like, it's sort of Y.A. Okay.

Sort of in that like 8 to 14 range. And the movie looks amazing. I think it is the trailer of the year. I know you guys don't care about stop motion animation, trailer is just breathtaking. And I think it's going to be a great. I think it has a chance to be a great film.

Okay. I know you don't care. Well, do you think that people will hold Masters of the Universe and other things against Travis Knight critically? I don't think so. I don't think people even know who Travis Knight is, really? Don't you think the critics, though,

who are registered on Metacritic, no? I'm just trying to help you here. I'm not going to get in the mix with you on this and you have more money than me. I think they have a Bray Larson voice for a lot. You're trying to decide between why. Wildwood and the debut. Can't believe I'm in the position of defending animation critics being like, that's rude.

They don't use AI. Of course they know who Travis Knight is because he, you know, led the Halika for a long time and his directed animated features for sure. I don't know. There's got to be another movie out there. Like Clarissa, which was it, Cam, but we didn't see it as a movie I'm curious about. You mentioned Tenzing. Right now you're looking for 85. I'm 85 hunting.

I mean, what else is out there? When does your mother, your mother, your mother come out? It's in the fall. Haven't seen that yet either. That's, uh, Basam Tark. Yeah, it's basically the Maharshal Ali's film. Which I'm excited about.

Yeah. La Bolanegra is exactly the movie I would have taken if I were not at Cannes. You know, this is very boring, but I left. And so I have two canned titles in my back pocket that I'm going to do. Yeah. Although I don't think it's getting 85 either. No, but there's another one that I think will. and, you know, and away I go

as soon as you concluded. I'm trying to be supportive here for you, you know? I think that you should pick the debut. Because I'm team Eisenberg. Yeah. I'm also Team Eisenberg. Jesse, I want to see him continue to make films. Out of respect to Jesse Eisenberg,

I'll pay $100 for the debut. Okay. And then you just leave the other 480 on the table out of respect for Jesse Eisenberg also. That's right. Okay. We may need to eventually address the $1,000. Okay.

Why? Well, we didn't drive each other up enough on other films. I know. I know. That was the move. The triggers and the you guys going to Cannes. Next time, just don't go to Cannes. One of more exciting pod.

What are we going to do together in that time? You're going to go somewhere else. You don't care. We'll just stay home while you go. You go to Cannes. You know what was not auctioned? Even by you? What?

In either auctioned? Speaking of Kahn was her private hell, which you skipped and you still have not seen, like, where you're, you could, you could have come. You could have been there. I really didn't appreciate his disrespect to this film and it's actually like a sore spot. It's a little bit of a... Well, you could have bought it and you didn't. I think that it sounds like NWR really empowered those actresses to have creative equity in the movie. And I'm surprised that you dismissed it.

The film is now in my mind part of it. a 10 movies we missed episode that will air later in July. That's fucked up. Well, it's not good. I don't know what to say. I was with you on Copenhagen Cowboy. You could have been there

in Cannes leading the charge. You were aware. I could not have. Why not? I was, I went to Portland. Okay. And I also I'm on like 10 months. There was a third bedroom. You know? There was. You would have had to share a bathroom with not me, but

we could have made it happen. One thing I didn't mention on any of the Cannes podcast discussions was the size of the bathroom that I used. Not large. But you got the shower. Did you give in the option? Yeah. So I took the larger bedroom and then I took the bathroom with just the bathtub and the showerhead. So, yeah, so he actually got a shower.

Much nicer bathroom, though. Well, I'm sorry. We can rearrange it next time. You know, whatever. You could not have fit into the bathtub. I can fucking rent my own chateau. Okay. That's what I'm going to do.

That'd be dope. Okay. Okay. So you believe in her private hell, but you chose not to spend any money on it. It was beautiful tiling in that bathroom. I mean, there's plenty of films that I got, I X myself out of. Nobody took Avengers Doomsday. A lot about it. Nobody took. I mean, you guys couldn't take sequels. So there were not, there were not many opportunities to take that film.

You did the debut for $100. Oh, okay. I did. Shall I do mine very quickly? And then we can. Yeah, do yours. Yeah. So I've done the math. So for $88, I'm going to take Minotaur, directed by Andrei Zabashanov, which won the, what's the second one? The Grand Prix. The Grand Prix at Cannes. It's a remake of the unfaithful wife and then also unfaithful.

But set in the, against the backdrop of the Russian War, what? Andry Shamet signs new four-year deal to remain with the New York Knicks. Come on, baby. It's going to be such a hard come down for you. I can't wait to document it tirelessly. I'll never come down. We already won. And then for $87, La Bolinegras,

which is another film that I did not see it can because I went to celebrate my 10th wedding anniversary. Acquired by Netflix. And a sweeping... Penelope. Magisterial film. What a year for her so far? She has a very small role in the movie,

but unforgettable, as is Glenn Close, less memorable. Does she play a wife? No. She plays a literary historian. Much like myself. Yeah. Well, I think she's a bit more seasoned. I like La Bolinaigra. Yeah, you texted me afterwards and I'm like this.

It really knocked me out. And you said it wasn't perfect, but I was jealous. I was really upset that I missed both of those at Cannes. The generation's spanning. So. It takes place across three timelines in Spain. And it's a... Twice in the...

Is it based on a lords and thirties? No, it has a lot of Spanish poet history in it. And one of the timelines is sort of, not present day, but maybe 2017. And it's, you know, three different queer characters, three gay men over those periods of time

and how they intersect with the fascist. Oh, it's... It's based on like an unfinished Frederico Garcia-Lorca. That's what I was saying. Yeah. It's, it isn't like based on it.

Inspired by. Inspired by. Inspired. Yes, inspired by. Sorry. So would it have been eligible in the 2010 redraft? Oh, because of the parameters of that?

Sure. Yeah. It's all like a tangled, like chicken wire up here with the different rules that I've created for all these games. Yeah. And I'm doing my best. I know you guys are doing your best too

and I appreciate you playing along. I think we are doing our best. Can you, well, just create a game. Like, create one game. I think that my value, my value proposition is to be ready to play any game. But I don't come up with the games. But here's the thing. Will you create a game?

You want me to create a game? Yeah. I just asked you that. Well, there are many other games that could be played. I still think that what's... What kind of answer is? What? No, no, like...

You guys are such assholes. I thought what you want to say is you don't actually like playing the game very much. I love playing heads up. And I think heads up is very funny. Excuse me. I'm trying to. I know. I am visualizing.

I don't whatever happened today for you. I'm visualizing. Let's just restart. Let's see what heads up work as a podcast. I don't know. I mean, there's probably like a video way that you could set it up where the audience could see it. but the other people can't.

I think I'm pretty inspired. I'm inspired. I'm inspired and heads up. Okay. I guess that's the thing is how many people are actually listening versus people are actually watching. I don't know the answer to that question. Yeah. If what happens at night comes out,

we're going to feel stupid. We are. Yeah, but who can be blamed? I mean, like we're working with the best information we can here, right? I think we feel stupid a lot of the time when we look at our auction results six months later. It's very true. I think that's part of the expert.

size. Here are the films that I listed that went undrafted, okay? Un auctioned. Un auctioned. Avengers Doomsday you mentioned? Yeah. Tony. The Anthony Bourdain. Oh, man. Yeah. Johnson. Yeah. Biography.

Although, probably not going to hit a lot of the triggers. Probably not. But in terms of movies, I'd like to potentially have my slate. I mentioned Wildwood. We talked about Street Fighter. The Great Beyond from J.J. Abrams. Oh, yeah. We talked about Street Fighter. Did we talk about Street? We did. Amanda and I were

discussing it while you were, I don't know, jerking off or whatever. I thought that it was the... We were talking, you didn't listen. Oh, you were talking about on this podcast? Street Fighter, yeah, came up. Amanda said that was one of the better, so you can still do that. Video game trailers we saw. But I think you can still jerk off after you have a vasectomy.

It just doesn't have any of the stuff in it. And of course you can jerk off after you have a vasectomy. What are you talking about? Nobody would get a vasectomy. Can you jerk off after you get your nuts cut? That's not. But that's a metaphor. You're misunderstanding.

Yeah. It's a figure of speech for like Chris Paul. It's not cutting time. Are you going to step up? Yeah. You said you made a proclamation that you understood how these things work after Jackass 5. I said that I'm learning. And there are things that I do know and things I don't know.

You're the mother of sons. I know. That's what I'm saying. I do most of the time. I'm just like, hey, Zach, can you come check that? That look normal. You're going to have a crazy next 15 years. I know that.

It's going to destroy you. You have no idea what these boys are capable. As I think we learned, it is destroying me on a weekendly basis, okay? And now like, here I am, ready to Hank. And he's just like no selling me everywhere because I don't have the right ad blocker in stone. No, I'm not no selling. I think you need to start looking at us for what we are, which is your refuge. That's what I was trying.

It's right. And I was trying to suggest fun games and talk to you about your macros and your weightlifting. I'm just in a sensitive place with it because I'm just not sticking with it enough. I'm not consistent enough. Well, that's why I think you should come do something that's more portable with me in the hotel. You know, when you were saying you watched the Hunger Games ballad of song,

whatever in the hotel room? No. Do a soda method instead, buddy. Did you already find the spot in Toronto in which to do it? I do have several recommendations for Pilates, but you've already told me you're not open to a in class Pilates experience. So it's going to be. Do you want to come over and me in a Pilates class?

Do you want to come over in Google image search, Brie Larson? I'm going to. The laugh is terrible. Other films. So the great film is directed by JJ Abrams. That's Gracie Abrams's dad, in case you guys are wondering who he is. Your mother, your mother, your mother, you mentioned. Godzilla minus zero.

I thought about it. Sequel. Yeah. I'm pretty excited about that. We also saw some stuff from that. I didn't. I missed it. You missed that.

Because that's my set. Once again, once a trip, I fuck up my stuff. my alarm. And that because I don't, you're not like a, Zach wakes me up every day. Oh my God. Yeah, with coffee. And that's why I married him and not Jacob Alluree. But that's the only reason. It was 50-50. And Zach came in with the last second offer. Yeah, but so I, I always fuck up the alarm. I set up for like AM instead of PM or, you know, turn it. It's. There's her private hell and then there's a place in hell, which is Daisy Edgar Jones, Michelle Williams. Oh, that. Chloe Delmon's next movie, which is a Christmas release as well.

That looks fun. Sense and Sensibility. You got any thoughts on that? That is also Daisy Egger Jones. It is. Big year for her. Have you seen the 1995 Sentence and Sensibility? For sure.

Okay. I have. Good. I get them mixed up. Like a lot of the Austin's, I get a little mixed up. There's Emma. There's Pride and Prejudice. Keep going.

There are three more. Do you know those? Mansfield Park. Yeah. Yeah, two more. One's a place. North Ranger Abbey? Yeah.

And one more. And one more, which is a classic. Is it a woman's name? Mm-mm. Persuasion. Yes. There you go. Together, you did it, and I'm proud of you.

I never would have gotten North Ridge Abbey? North Ranger. North Ranger. Northanger, yeah. Yeah, I don't know that one. You caught up on the plot of Pride and Prejudice since we last spoke? No, no, probably not. Okay.

Pride and Prejudice is Mr. Darcy? Yeah, I know that one. Okay. And since its sensibility is... Eleanor and Marianne Dashwood? Sisters. And Mr. Willoughby. Yeah.

Jade Austin, could she come up with like a different plot? Doesn't it seem like she kind of ran the same one out there a couple times? Boy, I wonder if this gal should get married. What do you think? Let me ask my sister. The cinematic universe. I have a Pilates class to get to. Let's wrap this up.

Hext. Disney had a new feature? Sure. I think inspired by Jane Austen, right? Cool. Yeah. She loves witches. She's actually bad.

She and Austin's love witches. That was good. Some of the best stuff. Do you ever wish you out a sister? Do you think it would change me? I do. I do. Yeah.

What do you think's wrong with me? Fless masturbating, I think. Oh, God. The young people knew Oz Perkins' horror film. Also undrafted fatherland, we mentioned, teenage sex and death. Yeah. Yeah. We weren't.

Well, I regret it. I mean, look, I think I got distracted by. Clayface, we'll go through. I wanted to ask you guys briefly because I know you have a class and I have to attend to some personal matters. Does this make you guys looking at all these,

looking at our remaining films? Do you feel excited for the rest of the year? Can made it harder. To feel excited? Because it took a bunch of stuff off the table that I look forward to. I catch up on a lot of the Cannes movies historically to tell you right. So now I'm not going to have to watch any of those movies, which makes

conquering tell you right easier, but it makes the year a little bit less like, you know, like the secret agent was one of my favorite movies of last year. And I had to wait many months after that movie premiered at a festival to see it. And then I saw it and I was able to watch again. And I liked that. And maybe there'll be a ton of great stuff at the fall film festivals this year. I do think that there's a couple things that are kind of make or breaky on the year. Like Digger, a lot is riding on that movie. And it, if it's not, if we don't love it, or even if only one of us likes it, it makes it. It makes it a little, was fun to talk about. I think if Cliff Booth was coming out in theaters, that would make it feel a little bit different.

There's something as strangely, not anticlimactic, but I think it's like, it'll just feel like it's gone in a weekend, no matter what it is. Yeah, it's two weeks, but I know what you mean. Oh, it's two weeks. And is it going wide or is it just in select theaters? I think it's in a thousand IMAX screens. Okay. Well, which is an experiment that we'll probably spend a lot of time talking about on the show. But even cover, it's like, I guess you cover that the day it comes out, right? Because it's such a huge movie for all of us. And also holiday weekend of it all. Yeah. I'm excited. Me too. It's great.

I like it when movies come out. And I get to see them. I like it too. Okay. Chris, you went first. Why don't you do your slate? Can you scroll down a little bit? Thanks, bud.

I got Wild Horse 9 for $110. Whale Fall for $310. Papered Tiger for $5 and Fjord for $1. And I should note that I got those for so little because they have already been seen by two of my competitors. They'll definitely tell everyone on Instagram that. So I'll do that. I'll do a forward face.

I've never done a forward facing video. Okay. And I will do that for this. You want me to email James Gray just to give me a heads up. Yes. Okay. Yes. And then did you see that thing where Callum Turner was like James Gray kept me on the phone

for three hours? Yep. We're a wolf for $200. Yeah. Okay. I went second. So I'll go. I got primetime, the Robert Pattinson vehicle for $75.

The end of Oak Street for $235. somehow managed to get Spider-Man brand new day for five bucks, Clayface for $105, and the debut for $100. I have $480 remaining for my sleep. Well, that's just bad financial planning. I got Behemeth, the new Tony Gore-Roy movie, for $715. Here comes the flood for $10. Other Mommy for $100.

Minotaur for $88 and La Bolanegra for $87, I believe, because I only had. That is correct. Yeah. Okay. And I have nothing left. Who won? emotionally or financially. Who won the year?

Well, did you win? I mean, you have the Odyssey and Spider-Man, but... I know, but I don't know if I have an 85 on Medicare. Oh, you mean who won by the things. Yeah. Right, I've got my $100 million movies. I think I might have won.

Possibly. Where do you think you think Fjord will get your... Fjord will get an Oscar. I think Wild Horse 9 could get an Oscar. Where's your 85 coming from? Fjord? It could, but I don't know. It could get mad.

Yeah, people could get mad. What if it's whale fall? What if everyone's just like a lecture? The best thing ever is when a movie like that gets a highest critics for that. Well, if it's like the highest version of what it is, that actually can, you know, critics can meet the moment. We've really been selling whale fall on this podcast. I know. It better be the best fucking thing that ever happened.

I don't if I can promise that. Okay. Well, thank you both for playing another one of my own of my best. my games. I really appreciate you. I think you're both very special people. Sorry for no selling you. It's okay. I just got distracted by the pop-up ass. And just the whole not being able to jerk off after vasectomy. I was wondering what was wrong. No, I know. It was a really weird comment. I said that you could. I'm going to have a bad dream about that comment. It's getting your nuts cut. I don't think you'd be able to if your nuts were cut, right? We might say get your nuts cut four times going forward. Just you

saying it fewer times, please. It's super cut. Thank you to our producer, Jack Sanders. his work on this episode. Thank you to Lucas Kavanaugh. Manning the clock and the dock. Next up, the Diane Keaton Hall of Fame. Yeah. Okay. Not on that. I got to go watch a lot of movies. Yeah. Well, we have one week. I've done some of my work. Fortunately, my dear wife loves herself some Diane Keaton. So she's been riding shotgun with me while we power through some of these films. I wish you luck with years 2008 through 2025. I said I'd do it. Tracy taking the first No, Tracy's not doing this.

Oh, but you've already watched the other ones? Well, I mean, I've seen many Diane Keaton films and I really thought that I knew everything but, you know, I missed palms. So... That'd be cool if she had like a whole red box era that nobody knew about. She does. She kind of does. She has the

Elder Lady version of that. Love weddings and other disasters starring Diane Keaton, Jeremy Irons, Maggie Grace, Diego Benetton, and Andrew Batchel. Me either, but I'm... Before we go, what are your thoughts? thoughts on Woody Allen. Okay. Thanks for listening. We'll see you next time on the big picture. Spotify, it's Jay Shetty. Are you one of those media strategy people? Scrolling through spreadsheets, searching for an audience that pays twice as much attention to your ads than they do on social?

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