The Kristian Harloff Show - The Flash synopsis reveals new details about what the plot is!

Episode Date: March 6, 2023

The Flash will be releasing in June! WB released a new synopsis giving us a little more information about the plot. Will Ezra Miller return if this movie is a hit. There is a new TMNT animated movie trailer, good or bad? Creed 3 scores the biggest opening in the franchises history, part 4 coming and should Sly come back? Ant-Man is in the decline, what can be done to help it? Join Kristian Harloff on today's solo Big Thing! #MCU #marvel #DC #Batman #Theflash #DC ATHLETIC GREENS: http://www.athleticgreens.com/bigthing THANK YOU TO CARBON HEALTH: http://www.carbonhealth.com Become a Patron!: https://www.patreon.com/TheBigThingShow OUR MERCH STORE IS LIVE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-big-thing-kh-channel?ref_id=27393 FOLLOW KRISTIAN + FIND HIM ON CAMEO https://cameo.com/kristianharloff https://twitter.com/kristianharloff https://facebook.com/harloff https://instagram.com/kristianharloff AMAZON WISHLIST: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1KPH42T0TP0PG?ref=cm_sw_em_r_un_un_djbxgIW5ZQMMg SCHMOEDOWN ARCHIVE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMovieTriviaSchmoedownArchives Ask Kristian questions for next time! https://facebook.com/harloff Become a Patreon of the Schmoedown: http://patreon.com/schmoedown OTHER GREAT CONTENT: REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT368qY7sfE0nKE4c04CqGvu TV REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT1LU-t2Z9AD5UJDiWW4pS_E STAR WARS SHOW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT0XmfpbblkF9PY7uO2qhbN6 THE BIG THING PODCAST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT3KAwbzDsv6mdR-gwUiydQg

What's going on, everybody? Shorter episode of the big thing today, but nonetheless, an episode of the big thing today. And there's some stuff to talk about for sure. Creed 3 annihilates at the box office has one of the biggest openings, if not the biggest opening for the franchise in general, making over 100 million worldwide. Deer Devil and Penguins start shooting. The Incredible Hulk might actually be coming back to the MCU, or as far as Marvel ownership goes, I should say. Like, what you're talking about?

He's always been there. The actual ownership for a solo movie could. be coming as well as Namor if this percentage of the Hulu deal goes through. We'll talk about that a little bit. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has a new teaser trailer. The Flash, there was a synopsis that came out, give you a couple more details about the plot itself. And, you know, that and more on the show today. So if you're brand new to the show, never been here before, show a little bit of class,

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And there's some shows on there right now, S-E-N and Brett and Kate, but those shows probably getting revamped. Because I think the stream-yard show is going the way of the dinosaur, as far as we're concerned, on our network. It's just not as connected. I'm not going to say there won't be stream-yard interviews and stream-yard conversations with patrons and things of that nature, obviously. But the full show, I just don't think you get the same type of juice you do with people in studio.

So we're kind of looking at some new things to do. And one of the things I started trying to do, I started doing a live stream on the other channel for just a conversation about really whatever. And yesterday's, I talked about the Chris Rock special for a while. Check that out if you go over there. But it's like an interaction show and we're going to be renaming that show. And it's like it's kind of a crazy clubhouse experience with the subscribers and people who want to watch it and just it's like chaos like for example today we're doing one with me and

roxy and finstock and that happened because i don't call it the the schmobot over there called it the robot fuckface and we have them over there and it's more it's more like a peewey's playhouse thing and someone decided they wanted finstock to co-host the show so that's what's happening it's going to be myself and finstock and roxy someone also said hey can you add roxy as well it's great so three of us are doing one today at 1.30 on the christina harleff and french channel so if you want to join the chaos head on over there. Well, actually, the funny thing is this, this might come out afterwards, though. I don't know.

There's a lot of stuff coming out on this channel. The John Wick out of the theater reaction that I shot, I can finally release it. That comes out today at 3 p.m. on this channel, so I want to make sure. I don't know what I'm going to do yet. And how I'm going to, maybe you see this first, maybe you don't. I don't know. I just don't know, guys. But I do know there was a lot of, a lot of stuff happened to the box office.

I'll tell you that. Creed 3. 100 million global debut punch, says Dark Horizons, the G-Man himself, Garth Franklin. Creed 3 not only took the best domestic opening for the entire Rocky franchise, but it delivered a big punch in the overseas markets. The Michael B. Jordan directed film combines anime influences, definitely on boxing scenes, mixed with their franchises, more familiar beats of masculine melodrama and training montages. The result was the domestic best opening weekend of 58.6 million.

It also went international, 41.8 overseas, living a war. worldwide opening of 100.4. Made on a production budget of $75 million, the film looks like it'll profit fairly easily and certainly looks to surpass the first two Creed films, which had a total worldwide gross of $173 million and $214 million, respectively over their entire runs. So, meanwhile, by the way, Ant Man and the Wasp fell another 62%

only making $12.4 million. We did a whole conversation, by the way, myself and Winston and Coy for Caps and Cows, this past week of whether or not the MCU is in trouble and should kind of move around. I know it's still going to make like 500 million. It's not, it maybe will break even, maybe with all the marketing costs and everything too. But with, and I know that Thor Love and Thunder made money. I know that Black Panther Wakanda forever made money.

I know that all these movies made money. That's not the conversation we had. We meant as far as like Marvel would put out a movie and people are like critically, financially, boom, boom, boom, boom, what's now? What's next? What's next? Now people are just kind of like, eh, last one was okay. That's fine. That show is all right. So we had a whole full conversation on that. And then I don't think people listen, though, when they're watching shows, I don't think people listen. Because when they stand by it, when I saw Ant Man and the Lost Quantum Mania, I think it's an entertaining movie. I like the science fiction side that they went to. I think that I liked it better than the second one, to be honest with you, because it's more my style.

but I said coming out of it, I don't think everybody's going to love this movie. I think it's going to be pretty divisive. I think that the, and they definitely rely too much on CGI. It gets super chaotic and crazy at the end of it. Never changed my stance once. Not once.

Stand by that. Said it when I got out of the theater. Set it in the review. Set it in, said it when I talked to people, said it when I was on stage with Campia and Alba. Same stance. Do I think it's a great movie?

No, do I think it's a good movie? Did I enjoy it? I did. And I liked watching it. And I think there's a lot of stuff inside of it. It reminds me a Star Wars movie. Some guy goes, oh it's amazing all it changes his opinion

changes his opinion once every real starts hating it nope said the same thing about it say the same thing now I would rather watch that movie a thousand times over than Thor Love and Thunder would rather watch that movie a thousand times over than Dr. Strange don't know if you agree or not you probably don't it doesn't matter same stance just listen it's all you got to do just listen and it's the same thing you don't have to agree with me you can absolutely disagree and I hope that you have the same

same way you have conversations about why you don't like it and I and I heard a a lot of those things and I heard a lot of and I said as much when I came out I don't think a lot of people are going to like this one but I enjoyed it I liked watching it. Stand by it. Same thing, same thoughts, but it doesn't change the fact that there's a lot of problems going on at Marvel right now and they need to change it. They need to get it from just people going

as entertaining, I enjoyed it to that was awesome. That was great, what's next, how are they going to move it? Because that's not the consensus with everyone else and that's a conversation that we had for quite a while on Capes and Cal's big thing. So if you have a chance check that out but it does not do well does not do well

Creed 3 takes it takes the what was the what was the second though we mean well the third week Ant Man was it number two I'm not sure but it doesn't matter

just as the film doesn't have appear to have the legs uh... Antman that is and the marketplace to become wait the film doesn't appear to have legs and with the marketplace about to become saturated it may end up one of the softest grossing Marvel films a long time definitely. Cocaine beer

dipped just 54% in the second weekend to further 11 million domestic total 41.2 million and a further 10 million overseas. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. It's a movie like that. It plays with the right budget. All face a fully packed release slate over the next few weeks, scream 65, Shazam, John Wick Chapter 4, Dungeons and Dragons and all that, Super Mario. Yeah, so, I mean, Creed 3, I don't know yet what I'm going to title this episode yet, but one of the things I kind of tinkered with was Michael B. Jordan's already been talking about making Creed 4.

He really brought that up. He said that he was going to do it. He said he's going to have that. And then I had a chance to talk to some of the people who were like, well, we never really confirmed that yet. Michael B. Jordan has said that a couple times, but we haven't just confirmed. We haven't confirmed it yet. But it seems like now they're definitely going to confirm it with a strong opening like this. it's going to happen.

And there are reports, which I believe, that Michael B. Jordan held out until the last second that he could get Sly for a cameo. He tried his hardest. I do not, and I've been emphasizing this every time I talked about Crete, I do not think that any of this sly drama has anything, regardless of what Frank Stallone says. I think that Michael B. Jordan has nothing to do with this.

I think that he definitely wanted to try to get Sly in it. I think that he definitely tried to want to do. try to, you know, mend those fences. And I think that it's all, it's this beef with Erne Winkler that Michael B. Jordan has no control over because that's a business deal that the two of those guys made years and years and years and years ago before Michael B. Jordan was even a thought in the world. And I think, I think it's a problem. However, I do think because Michael B. Jordan has made different deals,

I think that he's going to be able to find a way to get Sly to come back to do with the fourth movie. I think you got to. I liked that Adonis Creed stood on his own, and it was his own story, and he didn't, it didn't need to rely on Rocky, and it certainly proved, that's going to be the, that's going to be the comments. Well, why does he need it? Sly, he just had the best opening of all time outside of it. Why do you need him? Because you can have the, the, even a bigger opening on the next one, if you get him back, because of the story that's happening and because of everything that happened in the drama and how public it, people like, people like drama, but people also like when, when things are, you know, mended, if done well.

And I think, and now I don't know if Irwin Winkler and Sly are ever going to see eye to eye, ever. But I think Coogler, and I think Michael B. Jordan can make it happen because there are times in Crete, I mean, you didn't need Rocky for this story. I mean, you didn't. But there are times that you just feel like he would have been there. And again, I don't want to spoil anything yet, but you just feel like he would have been there. there's a particular moment in general that if you saw the movie you know what I'm talking about you're like yeah Rocky would have been there for that and then it seemed like they they couldn't kind of and again not michael be Jordan i think it was a winkler call

um there's just times that his presence could have been felt a little bit more and even in the trailer they there was a thing that they mentioned him in a press conference and it's not in there i remember in the trailer there was a cut out of rocky in the gym it's not there so i think that's probably a winkler move anyway, but nonetheless, made a lot of money, did really well, and deserved to do well, it's a good movie. And I think that that's the, I think we're going to start to see. I think that Marvel's also getting a bad rap where you've got to understand what they, what they also did. You know, Spielberg's comments to Tom Cruise recently where he said,

you saved Hollywood's ass. Everyone took that as a slight against Marvel. What do you think Marvel was doing? What do you think Marvel was doing? They were saved in the, theaters ask in a certain aspect 100% absolutely shung chi and and um and and dr strange and all these movies that came out during the pandemic uh i mean spave the son a Sony movie but spider man superhero movies absolutely Batman the Batman for DC um absolutely kept the theaters

alive. There's no doubt about it. There's no doubt about it. Spielberg's but you can't sustain on one thing always. You just can't. You can't sustain on it. Because not everybody, and especially if there is a decline in people's interest in seeing Marvel, you can't end comic book movies. You can't sustain that for theater. Top Gun

was something outside of the realm completely. And it made over, what, $1.4 billion or whatever it made. That was the Spielberg was trying to say. Spilger saying, you save Hollywood's S because it brought in, it's something else. It's not just the same formula that is getting people in. It's something else. But, you know, anyway, I think that movies like John Wick, which is tracking pretty good, scream, March is a, I've been using this word a lot, but it's like a soup of a whole bunch of

different genres. And that's a lot because a lot of stuff got pushed from 2022 into 2022 into 2023. But man, March is solid. I mean, like my reaction, my out of the theater reaction for John Wick will be up today. So you can check out my thoughts, my initial thoughts on that. I'll just say, I think that movie's going to do very well. Shazam not tracking really well because of all the stuff I think with DC and a lot of other things. We'll see how that does. Scream, I think, will do really well. especially the hype already for the six ones coming out. And I'm not a big scream.

I mean, I love the first movie. And I'm not like, you know, Perry Nemeroff and Jeff Snyder and everyone who's just like diehard. But I will tell you that this trailer for the most recent one looked pretty damn good. Looks really good. I'm excited to see it. And then Dungeons and Dragons, I'm curious about, I'm really curious about that one. But March is just stacked. And then you have, you also got TV with the Last of Us coming up.

You got one more episode left of The Last of Us. And then keeping it into the Pedro Pascall Camp, you got the Mandalorian. Episode two is fantastic of the Mandalorian. So good. I can't wait for you guys to see it. It's so good. That comes out on Wednesday. So, all right.

Next story. All right, this one's interesting because if you've been following the movie news a lot, especially if you follow the superhero movie news. And you know that the Hulk, even know they can use him in the MCU, they can't give him his own standalone movie. And the same is for Namor. That just is part of the deal that kind of came down. But this is from Dark Horizons again.

They say Citigroup analyst Jason Bazanette floated the possibility that Disney could secure the rights to the Marvel characters held by Comcasts, such as Hulk and Namor as part of a sale of its 67% stake in Hulu. According to the rap, the Wall Street analyst has a buy listing. on Disney shares and says the studio most recent results left him thinking it would look to shed Hulu. This has been a rumor that's been going around for a bit, though, that then, I mean, I think Iger even said it on one of his calls. He's not opposed to selling Hulu. The analysts wrote that they believe the company is less interested in a mass marketing DTC offering. It raises the possibility that Disney may sell its Hulu stake.

Under a 2019 agreement, Disney can buy out Comcast remaining 33% stake in Hulu as early as January 2024, and Comcast can require that Disney do so. But they suggested that a deal might be in the offering, and certain Marvel characters could well be part of it. Quote says, while Disney owns all of Marvel IP, Universal has distribution rights to Hulk and Namor. As such, if Disney makes a Hulk or Namor film,

Comcast can distribute the film on Peacock. If Hulu is sold, Disney may use this as an opportunity to secure the distribution rights. So that's the ultimate deal. So they can make these solo films. They just have to share it. Now they don't have to do that anymore if they do this sale. Hulu is a valuable asset with 44% of U.S. Internet households subscribe to Hulu

in the third quarter of 2022 with an average revenue per use of $12.46. Disney shedding Hulu wouldn't be that at a left field. Hulu has no footprint overseas. Disney Incorporated as Hulu original offerings and Fox Library into a section of the Disney app named Star in all international markets where it's worked just fine. The U.S. could follow suit. That's interesting. The analysts say that Hulu's price tag could come in anywhere between 90s,

$19.8 billion and 27.5 billion. Holy moly. Yeah, I think you're going to sell it. I think you're definitely going to sell it. And I think for that last point, it's not like they're going to lose all their shows. Bear and all that stuff, you just got to find, you put it on Disney Plus,

and you just put it on that adult thing. I mean, that's like, look, yeah, people are going out to see it. You put in that code to watch the adult stuff, and that's what it is. And what happens? We get $19.5 billion out of it, deal with the parents.

it's what it's going to come down to. And in the case, then they can also make a little bit more than they make solo, you know, Hulk films or a solo Namor film, especially after where does start turning that one. I think, yeah, I think this is going to happen. I think it's definitely going to happen. I don't know, what do you guys think it's going to happen? I don't know. I'll tell you what should happen.

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Daredevil and the Penguin, the Penguin probably for me a little bit more of the anticipation because of just what Colin Farrell. I've always been a massive Colin Farrell fan in general, but what he did in the Batman was just, I think underrated, to be honest. I know when people talk about him, They talk about how great he was in the movie, but it's not brought up enough.

It really isn't. But anyway, this is, again, Dark Horizons, a whole different kind of DC versus Marvel. His production has officially gone underway on both HBO Max as the Batman spin-off series, The Penguin, and the Disney's MCU set series, Daredevil Born Again. Colin Farlow has been photographed on set and back in makeup as Oswald, the Penguin Coppupon, who is donning a purple jacket this time out for the eight-episode, Penguin series, which takes place shortly after the events of the Batman, with the death of Carmine Falcone, and part of Gotham City still somewhat flooded, a fight for control of

Gotham's underworld is underway as the penguin, Carmine's daughter, Sophia Falcone, and arrested mob boss, Salvatore Maroni, Clancy Brown, Battle for Control. Love that. So they, there's, that's what, and they have Craig Zobel who did Mayor of Easttown directing the first two episodes. That's fantastic. Now, Daredevil, Born Again, will consist of a mass of 18 episodes and will reportedly acquire around 254 days of shooting with the shoot beginning today set across the rest of the year, ending on November 15th. That's a lot of days. The series sees Charlie Cox and Vincent Donofier reprising the roles of Murdoch and Fisk, respectively, and set images of Cox at work, have begun to pop up on social media. Michael Gandalfini, yes. Sandrine Holt and Margetta Livia.

Definitely didn't say that right. All co-star. Kevin Feigy, Matt Corman, and Chris Ward Service executive producers, which follows on from appearances by Cox and Spider-Man No Way Home and She-Hulk Attorney Alon, Donofrio, and Hawkeye and the upcoming Echo. Yeah, I think that this is also, you know, one of the things that we talked about, as I mentioned, with capes and cows, was that what you want to hope is that,

whether it's Feige, Disney, all the producers, all the writers, are paying attention to the audience as far as not just people who are just tweeting and all that kind of crap, because that can get, I can just be people screaming into an echo chamber, which is, you know, sometimes it's just not effective, even though they think that it's going to be.

However, money talks, bullshit walks. And you've got to pay attention. So I was thinking about today, as, again, even though I enjoyed watching the information, what it was. They could have probably made that a lower budget kind of science fiction kind of really inception type film with time travel being the major device on it with what Kang is able to do and using his his manipulation of time a lot different way and made it more less about the spectacle and more about, you know, the science fiction more, more, more, I just more really deep dive

science fiction stuff and not just worry about people having to see the big spectacle. Now, I hope that they've gone out of their way in interviews to show how different this is going to be from the Netflix series. That has also, as far as Daredevil goes, a lot of people have been going, I don't know, I mean, they obviously can't do a full-on rated R crazy show like that on Disney Plus. I mean, maybe they could, especially if you're looking, if you're going down the Hulu route, but they're not going to, is the point. They're not going to. Like, Daredevil's going to, I mean, Deadpool's going to be rated art. They're not going to change that.

It's been established inside the movies, but they, their version of it, Kevin Feige's version, he didn't have anything to do with that series alone. You know, he didn't, but he knew and he recognized that people really love Charlie Cox and really love Dinoffering these roles. I thought they butchered Kingpin in that Hawkeye series. I mean, he is terrifying in the Netflix series. It's like terrifying. And I love Donofier.

It was just kind of goofy and not terrifying at all. I know it's maybe like, you know, the way you can explain it now is that they're variants. And it's just a different version of them now. And that's what they're going to do. But like, I hope, I really do hope that they try to, they try to go back to what made these earlier movies and early, like dive deep into the character development of it all.

We don't need an origin again. We don't need that. We have it. but dive deep and I hope within 18 episodes that's scary 18 episodes can unless there's like a clear cut thing that they really they have a story they want to tell and they've written it out and it's kind of really dive deep and a lot of character development

and things of that nature 18 episodes could serve it well 18 episodes could also add you a lot of filler it's a lot of episodes I mean they got they had to pitch the hell out of that thing to get 18 episodes 18 episodes is a lot, a lot of episodes. Just in comparison, the last of us is finishing up episode 9, with their season finale next week. Now, you would assume at 18 episodes,

they're going to stick with this thing that I mean, a lot of people aren't fans with, but half an hour episodes or 35-minute episodes like Mandalorian's been doing and some Marvel shows. But I think at 18 episodes, I think 35 minutes you'd be a little bit more forgiving, because there's so many of them and it's so quick. I would assume.

I mean, 18 hours of a season, man, that's a lot. That's a lot. Streaming series, you don't normally get that a lot. Speaking of The Last of Us, I have my spoiler review up today, and you can see all my thoughts on that. It's up there now.

It's so good. It's so good. And I've been playing the video game, and I actually had played, I was playing the game, up until the points where I didn't want to get spoiled. But I did the opposite last week. I played through it and then watched what I played.

So if you saw the episode that happened on, I'm not going to spoil anything, so you don't have to fast forward. But I was watching it with different eyes last night when I was watching. I was watching as somebody who did play the game first, as opposed to someone who was playing the game through it, you know. And I really enjoyed it. It just, it absolutely made me want to, just keep saying more so every single time on,

I'm on Sith Council. Please, please, Star Wars, adapt, you damn, novels. You have all of these stories. Do what they're doing. Adapt, Knights of the Republic. Adapt it into a freaking nine-hour series for Disney Plus. You have it.

It's right there. It's one of the most popular video games of all time. It's one of the most popular Star Wars games. I hope that the last of us really, really inspires people to do stuff like this, not just Star Wars, but in general, there's so many, like Nottie Dog alone. I mean, let, I still think, I understand why they went for a movie with Uncharted. I really do. It's a big action piece.

I didn't mind that movie. Same thing like I said with, um, with, uh, you know, Ant Man. I didn't, it didn't, it was a cotton, it was a cotton candy version of what it could have been. Could have been so much better. It could have been a, it could have been a series. longer over the course of what is it, four games. They could have done so many, they could have done like five seasons easily, easily.

It would have been great. And I love Mark Wahlberg, but it completely miscast as Sully, completely miscast. But I just hope that they start to do this type of stuff and see what the last of us can do is that you can adapt, you can stick to the story,

you can, you know, deviate a little bit to make it a little fresher, you know, and not do a complete shot-by-shot remit. but last of us proved, especially with last night's episode, you can do the game, make your changes, and still make it a pretty phenomenal show. It's exactly what they've done this for. All right.

Let's move on. All right, this is the one I got to talk about. The Flash Synopsis was released. Warner Bros. Pictures has released a new plot summary for the upcoming The Flash film, which goes into a bit more detail about how the new film story works. The new synopsis appears alongside the listing for a new 12-1,000, statue of Michael Keaton's Batman in the flash film, which was unveiled at McFarlane toys.

McFarlane toys, excuse me. According to the listing, the film sees Barry Allen, arriving in an alternate 2013, where he urgently seeks out the expertise of his friend and mentor Bruce Wayne. However, the one he finds in the multiverse is different on all fronts, older, long-retired from service as Gotham City's protector, and somehow even more hardened than the billionaire superhero Barry has grown to know. With a global threat on the horizon, Bruce Wayne must decide whether he could become Batman once more. That's pretty cool.

The 2013 timing is deliberate, of course, the year Manus Steel came out, which would explain the return of Michael Shannon's General Zod, but not the lack of Henry Cavill's Clark Kent. Sasha Kall's Kara Zor-El Supergirl fills that niche here, seemingly changed in the way Batman has from Barry's perspective. The trailer released last month indicated there are no other superheroes. West Side Story and Shazam Fury the God star Rachel Ziegler recently revealed to slash film that she tried out for Supergirl in the film,

but I was not right for it, which led to her scoring the Shazam sequel rule. Ben Affleck, Ron Livingston, Maribel Verdu, Kiercy Clemens, and Angie Trowell, co-starring The Flash, which will open in cinemas in June 16th. So this is pretty interesting. It's a good start here.

I like that. I like that a lot. I like the idea that the Batman that we see. It makes sense. He goes to 2013, and then that's the Batman that's helping. So that answers a lot of questions right off the bat, pun intended, I guess, there. But that absolutely answers a lot of questions, right? It's not like, oh, well, this is this the Bruce Wayne that happens after all the events of the Justice League?

Nope, happens in 2013. Great. I know exactly what I'm getting into. Is it a major spoiler? It is not. Let's me know, okay, so that's how they're playing this particular thing. Why he goes back there, we'll figure that out. But they don't reveal a lot of details about Michael Keaton, but in this version,

it's not Kelle, it's Kare. Okay, I have enough information that I know. I don't need any more. I'm good. Now he's got to figure that something happens inside of there. So Bruce is going to help me out, but then he winds up going somewhere else to go find the Bruce Wayne that we know from Tim Burton's Batman.

This movie is, I'm telling you, man. And I get it. I've gotten into some conversations with people who are just still, they just don't know they can get past the Ezra Miller of it all. And I get it. I had a long conversation with Campia, when it was, when I did his last show.

And I said, and I still, I'm telling you guys, I think this is just the way business works. I don't think that Ezra Miller should return as the Flash after this. I just don't. I think it's bad.

I think it's, and nothing, look, I don't know, any investigation hasn't even happened. I have no idea. I just think for everything that they're going to be setting up in the future with the DCU.

They don't need it. They don't need the headache. And I hope that they all, look, and like I said, and I stand by this. There was an investigation, and it turns out that Ezra Miller did a lot of just horrific, horrendous stuff. They should pay for everything that they did. They should try to get help, but they should absolutely have, there should be consequences. No doubt about it. It turns out they find a way that,

they find the help that they need. I hope they get, you know, that kind of, I always root for people to get help, and I always root for people to get back on track. And if, again, whatever it might be. But business-wise, it should be, that's it. No more the flash for you. That's my opinion.

You might have a different opinion. Now, when I said, they can't be, which I still, I don't, doesn't mean that I, that I, that I trust Hollywood. And I shouldn't say Hollywood. I should say business in general. Because here's what I believe will happen. They are not making any calls right now or any decisions of who is coming back, minus Henry Cowell, who is coming back and who is not coming back until we see results.

Shazam 2 is tracking terribly. And, well, I shouldn't say terribly. I think I'm bomb. but it's not track. It's tracking, it's tracking disappointingly is what we should say. And I think a lot of that has to do with people saying, you know, I don't know if I'm excited to see this movie. I don't know if now with the DCU,

the first movie was kind of a soft opening, but it didn't cost that much so it made money, you know, and then it kind of built up. I like the first movie. I was, you know, but if that movie doesn't do well, and David Sambor said the same thing. I don't think you see Shazam, again, at least not in this version.

You don't see Zach Levi anymore as shaziming, and they put that to rest if this doesn't do very well. I think that's easy. The Flash is a very different animal because the Flash from everybody who has seen it on, whether it's people that I know from test screenings, freaking James Gunn himself, other people saying this is one of the best superhero films of all time

is what people have been saying. Now, a lot of times people say that kind of stuff to hype it up, but it seems like it's coming from all fronts here. Trailer look pretty damn good. A lot of people will agree to that. The trailer looked fantastic. If this movie winds up making a billion dollars, a billion point four, and there's an opening for a sequel,

this is the reason why James Gunn said, we're going to keep the door open. Because there will be a lot of people, people that might not see the movie because of Ezra Miller, that's very possible, right? And if it still makes a billion dollars, they're going to go, well, a lot of people did see it. That's part one. Part two, there will be a lot of people who see the movie and say, well, I know what's happening, but I don't think Ezra Miller is going to return, so I'll report, plus I want to see McLecate and that's it. But there will be a lot of people who don't know any of this drama and might

hear about it later, might not hear about it at all. That go, Michael Keaton's coming back. And from what I hear, Michael Keaton steals the show in this movie. I think there is a way, not a way. I think there is a possibility that this movie makes a billion. A billion point three million. Yeah. $1.3 billion.

And I think that it's very possible that they go, oh, well, there's going to be a sequel. And they feel that they can take the hit on the back. backlash because clearly there was, you know, people who didn't want to see it, but yet it's still made a billion dollars. Now, I don't think that's the move that should be made, but I think if it makes a billion dollars or whatever it does, I think it will be made. And I think you're going to see some angry, can't be a rants if that happens, but I think it's going to happen if it makes that kind of money. And I don't think it should, but that's just my, that's just, that's just me. What do you guys think? You think there's no chance, or do you think because they said, or, keeping the door open for all possibilities.

What do you think? I'm so curious to hear what you guys think on this one. That's kind of why I think this is going to be the lead of the show to see if, you know, just in general the flash synopsis, which I think is also interesting that we know that there's this. And it's, again, another reason why, if the actress who's playing Supergirl steals the show as well as Michael Keaton,

people are going to want to see more of her. So, and if her audition tape was anything, it was so endearing and it was so like just heartwarming, watching her get the role with Andy Michietti. If you haven't seen that, you should check it out. And that way you can do it as, and you could do the Flash as an elseworld's thing now if you wanted to and still bring in, you know, this other Supergirl project you were going to do and still have her in the Flash 2. and I'm telling you. And don't be surprised if this happens.

And we'll all talk about it here. And it'll be stories that we'll be talking about for the next, you know, three, four years, wherever they decided to do a sequel. But there's going to be a lot more than just the opening of this movie. Keep an eye on how this movie does. You know, and it's got, it has a week. It's got a week before it has any competition after it hits. So it's going to dominate the first two weeks.

It's probably going to make. I think it makes close to $200 million it's opening weekend. I really do. And then I think it makes, and then it drops. And let's say, let's say worldwide, I think it could make like four or five hundred million within, maybe more, maybe four or five hundred million within the first two weeks. Because that's got Indiana Jones and then it's going to start to fall off a little bit.

But not by much. Very interesting to say the least. I think I'm going to do, I'll do, let's see, let's see what else we got here. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the new trailer produced by Seth Rogen, just hit, and they put out a poster the other day. I'll tell you, man. I dug this trailer. I liked it. It had that flavor.

It had that flavor of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There's been so many. I'm glad it's not live action, to be honest, this time around. I'm glad that they're going animation with it. They're kind of taking a page out of into the Spider-Verse for sure. Paramount Pictures in Nick Lodi, and they premiered the teaser trailer, and the poster for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem. You got the Turtle voices, which are Micah Abbey,

Shaman Brown Jr., Nicholas Canto, and Brady Noon, along with Jackie Chan as the voice of Wise Rat Mentor Splinter. That was very smart. The film begins as the Turtle Brothers seek to win the hearts of New Yorkers by performing heroic acts as they hope we'll get them accepted as normal teenagers. They take on a mysterious crime syndicate with the help of a new friend, April O'Neal, but find themselves over their heads when a mutant army is unlawful. Lease, the Project Marks Nickelodeon's first theatrical CG animated movie.

Other cast members are Seth Rogen as Bebop, John Sina as Rocksteady, John Carlos Spazito as Baxter Stockman, Paul Rudd is Mando Gecko, Ice Cube is Superfly, Roseburn, as Leatherhead, Hannibal Burris as Genghis Frog, Natasha Dementio as Wingnut, Post Malone as Ray, Philitt and Myatt Rudolph as Centria Ultram. Yeah, this is, I thought it looked pretty good. And I was, it's one of those things I just released a short recently and it was from the, an episode, maybe I think it was the Capes and Cal's episode, we talked about Terminator. And I, and again, one of these non-listening things, I said that they should go back to the Terminator franchise.

And if you're going to do it, you said it the same way they did in 1984, again, not necessarily in the year, but in the production of it and you go low budget with it and you produce it. And there's an opportunity to make more money. And some of the comments, most of the comments understood what I was saying, some of the comments it's not about the budget it's about a good story no shit that's number one isn't you have to have a good story with it but you can turn a good story a good story can be focused on more if you're not focused on all the big budget nonsense that you have to do and i think that that's one of the things by going and looking at the animation that um that what set rogan

has done so very well whether it's you know being a producer on invincible and and just things that he's done he he knows comic book lore and this is you know the uh a comic book, and all in itself with Teenish Mutiny Ninja Turtles. And I like the style of it. And I think that it really captured the essence of what I liked about. I love the fact that you used Tribe Called Quest for the entire thing. Can we kick it? And I was way more excited about this now than I was beforehand because it was one of those things,

the same type of thing I was talking about with Terminator, where I've just seen it so many different times. What else can you do with Teenage Mutual Ninja Turtles? And I like where they're going with it. I like where they're going with it. I think it looks pretty good. But what do you guys think? Did you like it?

Not like it? Go ahead and give me your thoughts on it. All right. That's Michelle. Short, sweet. To the point. I will say, again, with that Penguin series, man, I can't wait to see what Colin Farrell is going to do.

And I love the idea that it takes place right after the Batman, to see him kind of just more power, more power, more power, and then because of that series, then that'll transfer into the second movie you hope. I hope Robert Pattinson shows up. I hope Annie Circus shows up. can't wait for that series on HBO Max. I think that's going to be a really...

I mean, that's one of my most highly anticipated series, to be completely honest with you, way more so than I think. One of the reasons also that DC has an advantage to me is because their stuff is... I mean, as the DCU is now starting to come out, they released... They talked about what's coming out

over the next 10 years, but not everything, right? And then you're going to start to get things gradually where I think that Marvel is now pulling back, which is a smart thing, but like when you're getting something from Marvel, all the time and it wasn't hit if everything was hitting and I still said this back in the day when I talked about Star Wars movies then they talked about doing a Star Wars movie every year and I said that could be a great idea and people like well see no you don't want to do it every year because it's

you're getting you're going to get burnt out on it's not going to be very good with the team that they had absolutely that's true writing team and not knowing a plan and everything absolutely that's true but the concept of it with the right writers I mean look at what Marvel did for years they're putting now two or three a year, and it was working fine because they had a plan, they had the writing, and they knew what they were going to do. And then they're starting to lose that a little bit, so they're losing the kind of the juice a little bit, right? But they're still making money as far as maybe, you know, Ant Man excluded from this conversation,

a lot of the movies, even though I can't stand that Thor movie, it still made money. And it still came out the same year, I think, as, yeah, it's Dr. Strange. So you can put them out of this plan. You can do that. But DC, I think the way that they're strategizing now is a good idea. And that's also why I'm excited about the Penguin because it's like one of their first series. And it's not even included to the damn DCU. It's an else world's thing.

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