The Kristian Harloff Show - Willy Wonka & Scream Images! | The Big Thing

Episode Date: October 11, 2021

Willy Wonka is back! Bond did pretty good, Many Saints of Newark was a massive hit for HBO Max. The Eternals is looking better and better and tickets are on sale! Nolan finds a home, Scream has a poster and Kristian is here to talk about it all. And we answer your questions! Follow on Twitter Kristian Harloff https://bit.ly/31PePMD Mark Ellis https://bit.ly/2U1wKPa Brett Sheridan https://bit.ly/2HBltii Steph Sabraw https://bit.ly/3m0ud0z Kate Mulligan https://bit.ly/3owBneT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, everybody. Welcome back. I'm back from New York. It was a hell of a trip. It was a lot of fun. A lot of stand-up comedy. A lot of schmodeau. A lot of fun. But today we're going to be talking about so much. We're talking about James Bond. How did that do in the box office? Many Saints in Newark was a massive hit for HBO Max by the way. The first look, as you see in the thumbnail of Timothy Shalmay as Wonka Resident Evil. So much news. And I think, I think, thought, hey, I'll go through some stuff, read it, talk about it, talk about it with you guys, and see what you thought. And at the end of the show, I'm going to end it with a couple of your questions. I went to my Facebook page and I posted, hey, send me some questions and I'll put them on the show today. And that's exactly what you did. So let's get into it today. We have so many stories to talk about on the big thing. Thank you guys for joining us. Let's get moving. Welcome back one and all to the big thing. It's me, Christian Harlaw.

We can have a lot of fun this week, man. Last week was fun, too, for big thing listeners or viewers. People love that Navid episode. Navid's a lot of fun to talk to. I've been friends with Navid for a long time. So having him come on and talk about the business, he's always going to give you a lot of fun stories. And that's going to happen again for sure.

We started the Spider-Man rewatch with myself, Winston, and Coy. That, of course, dropped on front. Friday, people enjoyed that. The nuttiness that was myself and Steph and Kate, that will happen again. Kate and, excuse me, Steph and Brett are going to be on the show on Wednesday. And then Friday, we're doing Spider-Man 2 with myself, Winston and Coy. And then on Monday, Ellis is going to be on. So we're ready, booking all these things and having these shows, you guys have been really responding to the show. I'm very happy for that. And these shows, these like little one-on-ones, if you will, with myself and you guys, has also been something you guys have been telling me anyway that you've been enjoying.

And we're going to get into some stories. There's stuff going on in the world of news that a lot of stuff that dropped that I thought was very interesting. And that's for, if you've brand new to this format, I'm not going to go over every big story. Some of it, to be honest with you guys, I don't give a shit about. But there's some stuff that came out. I said, oh, that's interesting. I'd actually like to actually talk about that because I'm curious about it. I think I can speak on it, and I hope that you feel the same way.

So the first thing that I think that we can actually talk about, I'll just bring it up here. So we get to the, where's the news? Where is the news? News is here somewhere. And there he is. It's Timothy Chalmey. And he's going to play Willy Wonka.

And any time you put, someone's playing Willie Wonka, they're always met with the, but he's not Gene Wilder. Right? It's a heavy, heavy crown to wear. Timothy Chalemay, this is from Dark Horizons.com, the report that I'm seeing, has posted a first look of himself as a young version of a eccentric chocolatier, Willie Wonka in the upcoming Wonka movie at Warner Bros. Pictures. The film serves as a prequel to the novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,

and will follow the young Wonka before he set up his famous Chocolate Factory. The project is being spearheaded by Paddington II, director, co-writer, Paul King, and co-writer Simon Furnaby with filming underway at Levinson Studios. Kegan Michael Key, Sally Hawkins, Rowan, Ackinson, Olivia Coleman, and Jim Carter co-star. Lindy Hemming, Dark Night and Wonder Woman created the costume for the film, which will hit cinemas on March 17th, 2020. So we got a while before this movie comes out.

But I got to tell you guys, I think the kid looks legit. I liked this casting. And Shalome always does this kind of weird thing in every movie that he's in, but I like him a lot. And I think he's, I think he can get that goofiness and that silliness that was missing in the Tim Burton redo, which we didn't need a redo. I love the idea that it's a prequel. I love the idea that it's going to move into the story and the person that we have seen. And I think there's a lot of things. I mean, hell, many Saints of Newark just did that.

And I like it. I like the pitcher. I think he looks good, man. I think he looks good. I think that he's got that bit of, it's like the young genius boy before he really comes into his own, right? And builds the chocolate factory

and figuring all the whole thing through. Yeah, I think this is perfect casting, to be honest. I think it's absolutely perfect casting. I love the idea of Timothy Chalemae is Willy Wonka. And the fact that it's not a remake, I'm always going to be in for that. And I think that if you guys have been, I don't know, watching me long enough

and I'm on, I have a, there's some people who think I'm nuts when I talk about Back to the Future. It doesn't want it to be touched at all. And I'm all for a continuation of the story that some other kid finds the Delorean. It's a continuation. It's not redoing the story that it already worked well. And sometimes I do think that remakes work for certain movies that, you know, people aren't, like, if there's a movie, and I know there's film purists out there, and I don't mean to step on any film, Purist's Toes,

but like if there's a movie from like, what's going on with this microphone, 1946, that not a lot of people or people of today's generation is going to be checking out and people want to make a remake because the story is really good. I'm all for it, right? Like I don't necessarily think like Rocky needs to be remade, but that could happen one day as well.

There are certain roles I don't think should be remade, need to be remade, and they still remake them sometimes. Like here's another reason. This microphone can go fuck itself. It's been doing this for the last couple of, as I know, and it's been, and every time it seems like it's telling me it's okay, it stinks up the joint again.

So I apologize for that for the audio listeners. But remakes, sometimes when they're made, I didn't mind the footloose remake. Craig Brewer did a footloose. remake and I thought it's a pretty good remake. Was it necessary? I don't think so.

But you always have the original. That's the other thing, right? But it's a moot point because this is not a remake. This is a prequel leading into it. And I like the ideas of the prequel, but we've been doing the Sith Council, the rewatches for Star Wars and Hell Solo is a prequel, right? And you may or may not know.

I'm sure that you do. Know my thoughts on that movie. Do I think it's a bad movie? No. Is it a movie that I feel that Tony Soprano to me in many scenes in Newark? Absolutely. And not just because it's James Gendellfini's child, but the fact that I thought Michael Gandlefini did such a great job

of establishing that innocence of what Tony Soprano was. But he's not the guy we know yet. But you can see him in there. He's in there. I didn't feel that in solo. So I want to make sure when I'm going to this, That is that the guy? And I think that this is a,

they wanted us to feel like it's going to lead into what Gene Wilder was. So I'm, I think he can do it. I think it's great casting. This kid's very talented. He's been acting up a storm. I can't wait to see Dune. So I'm into it.

What about you guys? You like the idea of this, of this movie? 2023. cast, by the way, that's surrounding him. It's a great cast. I really like that cast a lot. So Timothy Chalemi, what do you guys think? Are you guys, you guys into it? No, not so much. Tell me what you think. Very curious. All right. Bonn came out over the, whatever the hell it was. I'm going to come back in this past weekend, right? And there he is.

So, no time to die. Comes out. and it does 55 million, 56 million. Marvel-inspired films like Shang-Chi and Venom have overperformed in recent weeks. It looks like the blockbusters outside of the comic book genre are facing a tougher battle. The much-hyped James Bond film No Time to Die hit the North American box office this weekend and pulled in an estimated opening of 56 million. Once again, this is from Dark Horizons. That's the fifth best domestic opening of the pandemic era,

but it comes in shy of the early projections of 60 million. 4 million off the projection. Or higher that were thrown out last week after the film's strong performance in Europe. It's also down from the 88 million of Skyfall. Okay, but Skyfall was when there was no pandemic. The 70 million of Spector and the 67.5 million of Quantum of Salas.

Slight shortfall is being seen as due to limited sessions, okay, by the film's 163-minute runtime. That's definitely a factor. And the Bond franchise skewing decidedly older than the Marvel films, also fact. Bond's audience was 36% off. 45 compared to Venom's 9%. Audiences over 35, especially women,

are proving hard to lure back to the cinemas and aren't nearly back to pre-pandemic levels yet. That's the biggest one, I think. Bond has always earned more of its money internationally with U.S. domestic runs relatively tame compared to some of the other franchises. Globally, the film pulled in an astonishing $145.5 million, and it now stands at $313 million worldwide so far.

So it's not struggling, kids. That's without big bond. on markets like China and Australia who aren't going to get it for a few weeks. Critics have been split, tending to skew more positive by those who aren't pre-Kraig-era bond fans. US critics also seem to be more up on this emotional bond film than overseas critics. And Venom opened to a pandemic-era best of 90 last weekend, but fell big by 65% of 32 million in its second outing. Still, it is a strong domestic total of 141 million so far. The Adams family, too, came in third with 10 million.

and Shang Chi, Changchi, excuse me, crossed the 400 million worldwide. And Dune is at 117 million so far from a limited international opening. It hasn't hit the U.S. yet. But, okay, a lot to take in there. The first being, you know, with Bond, yeah, it's, it, they said it inside the report. It's, it has always been an international movie. It's played for an international audience, an older audience.

And it, what, it came in four. million under the projection. To quote when Saturn Out Live was decent. So what? Who cares? Because liquid, it made that up and it hasn't even hit in China yet. Movie's going to crush.

It's the last. Craig won. I haven't had a chance to see it yet. I haven't a chance to see anything, especially. It's been harder for me to see things in general lately, but with the trip to New York, I didn't get to see it at all. But very curious about it, very excited about it. I did a reaction to the trailer. when it dropped and I really am

pumped up to see how it ends for Daniel Craig inside of this. I never minded when they switch up the character a little bit. It started off with him darker than we had seen him in the past and he kind of progressed into the classic Bond and so he's a little more emotional and they changed it up a little bit.

I don't care. If it's good, it's good. And I want to see how the movie plays out. But it's a good number. I think it's a pretty good number. You guys think that it's over for Bond? sure nobody's going to say yes to that, but maybe you do. Should it be over for bond?

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And we rave about them. We will continue to rave about them. Let's see what else we got going on in the news. A lot of stories, man. A lot of stories going on in the news, which was great. I was looking for stories this morning. And I was like, okay, what can we talk about? Is there going to be a lot of stuff?

And boy, was there ever. I just mentioned those two stories. And there were some other ones that pop for me. They had the first photo and poster for Scream 5, which was, for some reason, calling itself scream. Why? Where the hell was it?

It's here somewhere. Is that it? No. I'll find it for you. Hold on a second. Is that it? No, that's a silly resident evil thing

we'll talk about in a second. I thought I had it. Did I not bring it in here? I did. I know that I had this here. We'll bring it back up in a second. But they had scream. And the poster,

and here it is. Boot. It's pretty legendary, pretty simple. Scream. Scream 5. This is what they should have called it. They should put a 5 for the S. Scream 5.

First poster of Paramount Pictures as debuted both the first photo and the poster for Scream. The fifth entry in the horror comedy franchise that began back with West Craven's 1996 original. The material arrives ahead of the new film trailer. There's a trailer come out tomorrow. Tomorrow.

I'll react to that one for sure. The 2022 sequel reunites surviving members of the original cast. Neff Campbell, she's going to eat at Courtney Cox and David Arquette, along with Screen 4's Marley Shelton, along with some of the newcomers of the franchise. Which include Jenna Ortega as Tara, Melissa Berrera, as Sam, Jack Quaid, as Richie, Jasmine, Southlight Brown is Mindy, Mikey Madison, as Amber. There's a lot of people in this. Okay.

Ready or not? directors, I like Ready or Not, Matt Blingiablin and Tyler Gillett Helm, the new entry, which will open up on January 14th. I always felt like it's changed up, especially with the world's been the last two years, but the, uh, January I always used to call like the toilet bowl of movies. They used to like dump things there and their bad horror movies. I don't think that's the case right now, especially that things have changed with release on streaming. It was very different when there was no streaming, and especially Scream is going to do well at one point or another anyway. But let's start with the fact that it's called Scream.

It's always a meta franchise in general. There's always meta stuff that are happening, whether it's a movie instead of a movie or whatever it might be. So this is going to play back into it somehow. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if Neff Campbell gets Drew Barrymore and she's gone within like the first, you know, five or ten minutes if she's the opening scene. I wouldn't be surprised at all if that's the case. And that's the big story is that they, you know, they take her out. That's what I would guess. At least wouldn't be surprised.

I don't think she's going to wind up showing up the whole entire time. Who knows, though? I think they're opening it up. What they're probably hoping for is that the new cast kind of resonates with fans, people really enjoy them, and then we start a whole new franchise again. I remember Scream 4 not being, people liked it. I remember seeing it once and never want to see it again. I thought it was too goofy from what I remember.

But it's weird though because Scream to me is one of those franchises similar to like Die Hard and Terminator and all these other movies that even if there are bad entries, I'm always curious to see if they're going to pull off the next one because I loved the first movie. I loved the first movie. The first movie was so fun. I didn't mind the second one. I don't, they start to all blend in together, to be honest. But the first one was just so, it was just so different. It was so new. And I remember people raving about the movie.

And it was just become like this massive hit. And people telling you got to go see it in the theater. You got to see it. And I remember seeing it and really, and buying all the hype for it. And so I see why it became a franchise. And it's got the iconic mask. ghost face and everything that they have. So it'll be fun to see.

I think it's a fun January movie. I think it'll be, it's, I'm curious to see what the trailer's like. So we'll find out tomorrow, I think, why they're calling it scream. Maybe that's why they can shut everybody up. Like before, I saw everybody tweeting out about it of why you shouldn't call it scream. It's too confusing.

This and that. I'm going to, I happen to be in that camp and agree, but I don't want to really publicly say anything about it yet. I guess I just did. But because if they explain why in the trailer, you know, not that, not that that matters because then you have to see the trailer. So it could confuse people. They just see scream and they go, oh, they're re-releasing it.

Because I think that's the problem. I think some people are going to think it's re-released. But, you know, word of mouth should carry it. That does a new scream movie. Either way, looks all right to me. And there he is. There's ghost face. What's the next one we should talk about?

I want to talk about this. I want to talk about the Many Saints of Newark. We're talking about, you know, the HBO Max thing. And Newark, Many Saints in Newark was a massive hit. Because everybody was talking about how it didn't do very well. It's why it was a failure and all this kind of stuff. It's like there was no way this movie was going to make money in the theaters. There was no way.

There was no way because the show was released. And it was the biggest television show, like of all time. And it was, it was on HBO. And it's, you, you automatically just connect it to television. You don't think of it as a movie. You think of it as television. And then even watching it, and I, it's funny, I was talking to Josh Horowitz. I got to meet him for the first time.

And he had David Chase on his show. He was talking to, I mean, there aren't a lot of people that Josh Harwitz does not have on his show. If you haven't checked out his podcast, you should. He's a really cool to guide two men. Got a chance to chat with him in person. I'm a big fan of Josh Harwitz. But anyway, he talked to David Chase, because we got into a conversation briefly about many saints

and both said how we like the movie, but we both agreed, you know, I said it should be a miniseries. He goes, don't tell David Chase that. He was very adamant about making movies. And I get it. Something he's always wanted to do is a bit ironic, too, considering the guy who just kind of revolutionized television,

doesn't want to go back to television. I think that we're going to be, I hate to say it like this, but I think we're stuck with movies inside of this universe. I still think a Tony Soprano mini-series of how he becomes the Tony that we know is

a much better way to do it, but what do I know over David Chase? But WarnerMedia's experiment this year of a simultaneous theatrical and day and date strategy has apparently been pretty consistent with its results, according to both statements from the studio and third party analytics.

This is the whole conversation Naveed and I were having the other day. Namely, the releases that have done their best in their theatrical run have been Godzilla versus Kong Mortal Kombat, they've also done the best on HBO Max, while the ones that underperformed in cinemas

also underperformed on streaming. An exception to the rule appears to have arisen with last weekend's the many scenes of Newark. The prequel film to the Sopranos performed poorly at the domestic box office, earning only $4.6 million in its opening weekend. Okay, that's not good. It's really bad.

According to Warner's metrics, though, The film's streaming viewership was through the roof with the movie not just the top performing title on HBO Max but also scoring more than triple the audience of the next. That's what I'm saying. It's a television show. You'll want to see the next episode on TV. The film also reportedly outperformed other recent Warner releases

in this budget including Reminiscence and Cry Macho. In addition, it had the knock-on effect of raising viewership for the now nearly 15-year-old of Sopranos, breaking HBO records for the weekly viewing of a series. series and nabbing the highest daily viewership in service history last Sunday. Viewing of the series rose 65% in week over week viewing as many saints become available. Okay. I just feel, I don't know the man.

I don't know the man. I don't know David Chase. So I would assume from every interview, everything I've seen, seems pretty George Lucas stubborny. But I beg of people to convince this. genius man to make a mini-series of this stuff, even if it's just eight episodes. Make an eight-hour movie. Make an eight-hour movie and cut it.

I know he's adamant about making movies. This stat should prove people want more Sopranos television. It annihilated records. Annihilated records. It was massive. It was a massive hit. So anyone who's saying, oh, it was a bomb. Wrong.

Does it surprise me at all that it tanked at the box office? No. The throwaway to that is well, sex in the city didn't do. Sex and the city did pretty well. Sex and the city did good and so did entourage I think did okay. But different times, very different times when those movies came out. There were no streaming. There were none of this stuff.

There was very different times. And with the amount of money that HBO Max and all these streaming, services are going to do like and dano david chase already has his deal but man i am hoping and crossing my fingers that we can get that mini series because look at those those numbers were there's no joke those numbers that we just heard i mean and the fact that it brought everybody back to the sopranos and people are watching the sopranos again and going through it and it's up astronomically at the moment people can i'm still watching i'm almost done with the last season um We got like four episodes left.

But yeah, man. And then I think everybody's going to want to see Michael Gandalfini back. If you haven't seen the review of it, you can check it out. And if you didn't, I basically said that what I'm telling you guys now, there is a lot inside of this movie that I really like. I've seen a lot of comments. I don't necessarily agree with any of them that say this is trash. It's horrible.

It's jammed in. There's a lot jammed in there. And for people who are saying, well, it's not even about Tony Soprano. I find that to be wrong. Because David Chase was on people. Someone sent me earlier asked me a question if I had an opportunity to see the Talking Sopranos episode with Many Saints, and I did.

And I watched the David Chase interview. I watched all that. But he was mad at HBO because their first trailer was marketing it as a straight-up Tony Soprano prequel. So he said that's not what the movie's about. But they tell you that that's not what the movie's about from the title of the film. The title of film is Many Saints, and I'm pretty sure that's what Maltesante means.

And it's about Dickie Maldesanti. It's, I think that, I think they could have done eight to ten episodes inside of this as a miniseries, built it up tremendously, turned it into this little miniseries, and then a second mini series of Young Tony. I've done like two seasons of this thing. but alas, didn't happen that way. David Chase said he's very interested in doing another movie, and I said the same thing that I think in my review that I'll say now,

I'm not going to complain the young Tony Suprano movie. I'll watch it, and HBO Max now is going to want to do that. They'll probably have to make the deal with David Chase, that they're going to have to put it in theaters, knowing that they're going to have to take the hit that the movie's not going to do very well in theaters. I just think that he's always wanted to make films. He's always wanted to make movies. I think he's old school.

And like I, a lot of people, a lot of my friends are so old school still. Like where you guys, again, will know me or not know me if you stumble upon this show. But like I've, I started in this business, in this, the YouTube space and all that talking about movies and Bill Schmo's talking about movies. And always been a movie guy. And TV to me has surpassed storytelling inside of movies. There are some movies that absolutely just work for movies and should just be movies. But I think storytelling is better in television because you just get to spend more time with them. My problem with television back in the day was that it just looked cheatsier.

And you couldn't suspend disbelief as much because you couldn't put the budgets in them. That's changed. Streaming has changed that. The Sopranos changed that. They started to change that. And I think that David Chase is still in that old school kind of television mind where that, that movies is a superior medium, I don't believe it is. A lot of people do.

I know a lot of you guys who are watching right now or listening right now feel the way David Chase does, that movies is the superior medium. And I get it. I get it. That's where, that's where, you know, you've had those experiences in movies and there's just something magical about movies that I'm not trying to take away from anybody, but I just, I get more invested in certain. television shows now.

Like I was like obviously I was used Star Wars an example, but I'm way more invested in the Mandalorian that I was in any of the new movies on the, uh, the new trilogy, right? And that's also because it just had more time. So I'm hoping, hoping that there's a miracle and they announce some kind of mini-series.

I don't see it happening at all, but I do think because of these numbers, we might get that young Tony prequel and we'll see these kind of numbers again. For sure. All right. thing I wanted to mention to you guys. Talking about horror, talking about Halloween, talking about all this stuff. I'm very excited to announce that we've been

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Well, Shudder's got all of them. I got everything that you want. If you like slasher films, you like, the stuff that I like, they have it. And that's when I started. Like I said, it's Clark Wolf and Bibbs told me about it. I checked it out, and I'm very smart on what they do. They have a very extensive international library.

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Do it. Okay, a couple more stories. I'm going to get some questions in a second as well. Two of the other, what else was it? So obviously that one, that was a good one. There's, eh, butee, but do. What's about Eternals? Let's talk about Eternals.

Talk about Eternals. There's something else that came out about Eternals today. They're going, oh yeah, the tickets just went on sale. They're gearing up for this one to be massive. I went on sale this morning. Just over three weeks out from the film's release. Chloe Zau recently spoke to Fandango about her approach to shooting the movie.

She was as little green screen as possible, which I really like, and shot on location where people make the film feel real and grounded, yet I'm already loving everything about this movie. I'm loving this. In this interview, she reveals that she's bringing her signature, immersed, long takes into play so we can expect the length of the film shots

to run far longer than the MCU standard. The film must, this is a quote from, the film must feel immersive enough for the audience is to believe that these superhero characters have walked the earth for 7,000 years. So in order to do that, there's what I like to call an anthropological way of capturing things. The cameras are very grounded,

and the movements are very natural. Shots are longer. We use wide-angle lenses and deep focus. It's about giving the audience the space and the time to be able to explore what's within the frame and therefore come to their own conclusion of the relationship between the characters and the space that they're in. we definitely linger with the camera both in action sequences

and if someone's walking through a village or in space with the celestials we always try to see how long we can hold before we have to cut when you have unlimited tools it was very important to set limitations so for us we set the language up and we followed it strictly and part of that for us is to try to linger in every type of scene as much as possible for a film like this internals unfolds the after events of adventures endgame as a group of powerful immortals come together to stop the alien

raised known as the deviance. The interview confirms the film clocks in around 150 minutes. Wow. And we'll include two post-credit scenes. Turnels opens up exclusively in theaters November 5th. This could be... This movie is really speaking my language. Everything about it from the fantasy elements,

length of it, the way they're shooting it. I'm hoping that they do... This is part of the conversation that interview. had the other the other day. I'm hoping that more directors are going to start doing this because I saw and I and I guess we'll talk about it in a second too. I have the Resident Evil thing and one of my, I think that the kind of killing two birds of one stone here, but I think the Resident Evil trailer looks pretty good.

It reminds me of playing a game, playing that game back in a day and it seems more, you guys tell me for the gamers and Resident Evil fans, but it seems more like true to the original story. could be wrong, but I'm pretty, from what I remember, and it's got more of that kind of classic kind of horror film, a little more simple. My problem with the trailer was that it looked, some of it looked to CGI, like CGI dog and the same thing,

the same alien face that we've seen a million times over from every freaking alien that looks the same. It may not be an alien, I don't know what the hell it is, I don't remember, but it looks the same as everything. But the classic way of shooting and doing what Oizau is doing, that's the way to really change up. And like, she's just such a great filmmaker. And I'm so curious to see what she does in this big budget setting.

But the fact that they're letting her do her thing and they're letting her basically use this big budget to make like the biggest independent film of all time. as far as budget was. As far as independent-looking film. Be very clear on that. But the long shots and all that and the fact that it's long and the fact that they're not cutting her down, like, why would you right now?

Especially with everything that she's done in her career already. But man, I'm looking forward to this movie. I'm looking forward to this movie. I want to see how it pans out in the way that things have been moving around so far with these other movies. People ask me, Black Widow started it. haven't finished you yet and I was wondering I'm like why haven't I finished it yet

I think it's okay I don't think it's that great yet um but I got to finish it I got to finish it I just I was very tired when I watched it also but this movie though man I'm on board can't wait to see it can't wait to see what she does with it and um yeah I'm uh I can't wait for this one shang chie I haven't seen yet but I'm gonna watch that one as well probably before I see this. Yeah. What do you guys feel about Eternals? Excited for it?

I want to see it? You like this? Do you think that maybe these long shots, it's not a, they should cut it down to two hours? Hard to say. It's in the movie, but curious what you think.

Go ahead and throw your comments in there. But yeah, I love the feel. Look at this, just the look of it. The villages and the background, get the futuristic kind of, uniforms that they have on. I'm pumped. I'm really pumped with us.

What else did we miss? Do you miss anything else? There's some other stuff that I had in here. Got this one. That's the screen. We did that one. Did no work. All right.

So what else? Wonka, we covered. Oh, there he is. Like this, this Resident Evil. It's just everything looks the same. I don't know. Maybe that's the original design from the game. I don't know. You guys can tell me, but I don't care.

Nolan. Okay, I'm going to talk about Nolan. Then we're going to move on to your questions. Christopher Nolan is now, was he talking to Universal, I think, that they said? He said he's talking at uni. That's exactly where I saw that because he's, he's ready. He's out. He left one of those pretty public, not pretty.

So, oh, this is okay. Oppenheimer film set for July 2020. His next film has scored the title of Oppenheimer, has said Killian Murphy as its lead and now has locked in July 21st, 2023 release date. Universal Pictures won the feature after a heated bidding war will release the film worldwide in that late July slot,

which Nolan has favored for years now with his various Warner Brothers films. Murphy's going to star as scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist and wartime, head of the Los Alamos Laboratory. He's credited as being the father of the atomic bomb for his role among many in the Manhattan Project.

The epic thriller was also penned by no one who will produce alongside Emma Thomas and Charles Rovin. No one based the script on Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin's Pulitzer Prize winning book, American Prometheus. Film's going to begin production in early 2022 and it's being shot by cinematographer Hoyt van Hoitima on a combination of IMAX 65 millimeter and 65-meter. millimeter large format film.

Also on boarder, Jennifer Lane is the editor, and Ludwig Gorinson as the score composer. A lot to take in there, too. I think this movie sounds intriguing. I think that when you look at the research that no one has put into all of his films, and it's always the stuff that interests him, this movie is going to be fantastic.

This movie is going to be detailed. This movie is going to be intense. I think it's probably part of the deal that has to come out in summer. He loves putting things out in summer. I don't know why this movie's a summer movie. This movie does not sound like a summer film to me. This movie sounds like a potential Oscar movie.

He's trying to always get those Oscar Noms during the summer. I think that's one of his goals with things he's tried to do. Inception, I understand why that was a summer movie of why they wanted to do all his movies where they come out in the summertime. But this reminds me of like Cinderella Man, not the story itself, but the fact that Cinderella Man,

that movie comes out later in the year, I think it, because anybody who talks about Cinderella, man talks about great that movie is. Bombed in the theater. It's not a movie people are seeing in the summertime. It does go back to the fact of the thing that I've repeated many times over. There are very, there are a few directors who are the stars of the movies, and it doesn't matter what the movie is.

Tarantino, Nolan is one of them, if not, you know, the top. When you hear a Nolan, movie is coming out. It doesn't really matter what it is. You want to see it. So, I don't know, summertime. Again, I haven't seen a trailer. Don't know how big of this, but I just don't know if that's the one, you know, we're just talking about the younger audience inside of Bond, right? Like, is the young audience going to be rushing, that's who's going out to see a lot of the summer movies. Are they going to be rushing out to see Oppenheimer? I don't think so. But I'm assuming that's part of the deal that came with that bidding war

that if you get this movie you got to release it in summertime and that's probably what Universal had to do. But it's also probably you know, you get a deal and you make Nolan happy that means he's going to keep making movies for you.

So, I'm going to see it. I love Nolan movies. I'm just always curious about the strategy to put a movie like that in the summertime, especially now. He's, I mean, he's another,

he's a kind of stubborn filmmaker. You saw everything that went down the movie last year, you know? he is just he there's he's got to bend with the times a little bit he doesn't seem to have been doing that I know how much he he he hates streaming and stuff so um yeah I just think that and I know he's won and there's a lot of the filmmakers out there that just want you to see their movies in the theaters and that's it but as we just went through again with that soprano story that people like to see things in their comfort of their own home now.

It's convenient. You don't have to go to the movies to see it. You don't have to spend the money on it because you spend so much with streaming. There's certain movies that they're going to spend the money to go see. And you might just have to realize, like these people, when they put their feet down and they start saying, they're taking the shots of comic book movies. And it's like, why not take shot at horror movies or take shot at action-adventure movies?

Or take shot at, you know, of dramas or or, or, or, Biopics. It's a genre of film just because it's making more money That's why people get pissed off all cinema's dead because no it's not Oh people just want to watch people flying around in capes and that's why they it's silly It's for children you're an idiot Bill Maher shut your face it's stupid There's a place to the table for everyone but the table just happens to be in another room here It's in the streaming room and there are there are going to be like i think that number for bond is good

it's just that the audience that's going out to see you know looking at like a band right certain bands we pull certain audiences at venues and that's a good audience and then you get Taylor Swift it's going to sell out massive stadiums do all this and you might not be a Taylor Swift fan but she's going to sell out the biggest stadiums across the world because fan base is rabbit. And that's what DC and MCU and Star Wars. That's what they have. They have. They're a big band that they can sell out all over the world and people are going to see them. It's not a matter of, no, cinema's dead. You're just not a fan of that band. And when your band goes and go support your band when they're out in the theater,

doesn't mean everyone else is going to support that band, but they might watch your band on TV because they have access to it now. So, anyway, that's how I see all that going. Nolan, I'm going to watch his movie. I'll see it in the theater. that point, you know, I like watching this movies in the theater, but I just don't think there should be expectations that everyone's going to. But Universal, they made out big by getting them nonetheless. And one last thing before we're going to get to your questions. He's got a ton of questions I want to get to. The other thing that I just recently got into is this FitBod, man. Yeah. Alex Marzone was very excited. I haven't used them since 2018. Just got FitBot. And you guys

know I've been talking about how I lost a ton of weight, got myself trying to be more healthy. And then I heard that FitBod was interested in coming on in. And I was like, you know what? It adds to my lifestyle at the moment. So I wanted to hear more about them because with exercise, it can get dull. It's called what it is.

It can get dull. Because if you keep repeating the same exercises, is you can lose sight of your progress and it just kind of kills your motivation. You don't get stuck doing the same workouts. You're going to make progress towards the future. In order to do that, you've got to overcome new challenges. What FitBod does is that they create a fitness program.

They send it to you on the phone and let you know what to do and it continually adapts with new exercises and a dynamic intensity that adjust to how you're progressing. So you'll be challenged to meet your goals at your own pace. So perfection, trying to become perfect and trying to get those perfect. It doesn't always happen. But you can always get to a higher level to strive for that,

to look different. Especially when it comes to fitness. There's no perfect body that everyone can achieve. But when we do it, we become better version of ourselves. No workout is one-size-fits-all. What FitBod does is creates a fitness program that continually adapts. It's going to adapt to you. You stay challenged with those new exercises.

So I love that I can pick workouts that are tailored to, like I'm doing a lot of stuff as far as in my office. And I want to be like stuff that I need is the equipment that I have in my house and the goals that I want. The app has clear and very easy to follow instructions. And it's great because it also balances their different muscle groups. So you're fully recovered by the time the next workout starts. And so I've definitely feel, since I've only been using it for the last, last like week and a half, two weeks, and I already feel better, feel stronger, faster. And I normally do get bored of workout routines very quick.

But it keeps things fresh. It sends you new stuff. And I feel like, oh, this is cool. Let me try this one now. It's like a new thing that they like suggest. It's pretty great. So it's not always going to be easy for everyone and always looks different for everyone too, like what you can do, what you're comfortable with.

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sponsors here today and happy to have FitPod because I was getting that a lot in New York. They're like, oh man, you look, you look, you look, you're in shape, look thin. It's like, I just feel good, feel better. It's nice seeing everybody. Thank you to everybody who came out to New York and saw myself and Mark Ellis and Ken Napsock, Jen Sturger, Coy, Andrew, and big shout out to Vincent Chang. You didn't see. If you were at the shows, I told Vince when he was,

he was after the show, he was hosting both the shows on Thursday and Friday night. And I said, dude, I think you are the best host I've ever, I've really ever worked with in comedy. Like, he's just such a great host. It was a real fun show. Both the shows were fun. The first show on Thursday night, I popped in. I did like 10 minutes. And it was great because when we got there, I think there's like 50 or 60 people in the audience for that one.

That's 60. and when we got there, I said, I don't think there's a lot of like Big Ding, Shmowdown like Shmo's Collider fans here at all. I think this is just a comedy club crowd. And I got excited.

Let me explain it in a second. Don't get offended. Because I knew I was going up in front of that crowd on Friday night. And I knew it was going to be a pack crowd. And it was. There was 125 people or something on Friday night. Packed sold out. Couldn't move some of my friends from,

home had got kicked out because I got there too late. But the reason I say that is because I wanted to test out the stuff I was going to do the following night, that night and see like, well, if it works on this audience, then because the audience on Friday is always going to give you a nice cushion. They're always going to say, okay, we're excited to see you and we want to encourage you with the big pop kind of up top and we're going to, we're rooting for you. The comedy club crowds, we paid money. You better make us laugh.

And I had a really good set on Thursday night. And it gave me confidence going, okay. And this stuff is, I'm going to have a little bit more time. It's at 10 minutes on Friday and then I had like 15 on Saturday. Or opposite Thursday and Friday. But it was great. And the audience, both audiences were just phenomenal. The Shmowdown, Shmo's big thing audience that was there on Friday.

We're super cool. Very, very encouraging and nice. And it got to meet a lot of the fans. and then Saturday night, obviously we did the Shmowdown in New York at Thruillette. I was very excited about that because we were kind of stalling at one point, and New York showed up, we wound up selling out the floor, and we knew it was going to be, I mean, a lot of places, even Comic-Con didn't sell out, for God's sakes, it always sells out,

which is not talking about that with Saul. But it was the first time we didn't sell it out, but we were still packed to the rim, and people were screaming and yelling, it was phenomenal. It made a lot of new fans. which I was very happy about that new live. That just that live feeling. I just,

if there's anybody here in Big Thing that came on over from back in the day, I was like, I just never was watching. I looked at the Shmowdown and I saw, you know, the digital stuff. And it's just not for me. When you have an opportunity, the only thing I ask you if you've ever watched this and you have an opportunity to come see it live,

that's when I want you to make your mind up. Because that's what it is. That's what it is. The show is supposed to be live. It is supposed to be a live show or a studio show. It is not supposed to be me talking to someone via Zoom. All right. I'm going to wrap the show in a second,

but I want to take some questions. And I have a couple. First one, Danny McGinnis. What are some of your movies you consider guilty pleasures? For me, it's basketball. It's dumb as hell, but I laugh every time I see it. I mean, the same vein, Team America, I guess, but that's not really guilty pleasure, I don't think.

Hot shots part one, I don't think is a guilty pleasure. Flash Gordon, I guess, would be one of those. Rad, for sure. I know to, like, Ed Harrell or something, that's like, that's not a guilty pleasure for some people. They wouldn't be able to watch that now. I tried to show my 10-year-old that movie, and she was like, yeah, I'm good. But that's, I mean, there's probably other ones that I start thinking about.

I'll probably come up with, but that's, those are the ones that come to mind, for sure. Jimmy Baker, how's the dude? Can we get an update? The dude's good, man. He was very excited when I got home. He was very excited when I got home. And that's what you want to see. He's a really good dog.

He's a puppy. He does like, he bites on shit and does. He's right here. I forgot that he's here. He's right here. Dude, you want to come here? Come here. I'll get the dude.

Hold on. I got to try to sink because he's laying down. He doesn't want to be bothered. Come here. Wow. say hi. There he is. Here's the dude. They want to say hi. Oh, how you doing, buddy? You're up. You're tired, right? So you just, yeah, you smell the mic. You're saying hi. Yeah. Are you, are you cool as hell? You're pretty great. You want to do another yawn? Yeah, you're pretty awesome. Yeah, you're pretty

great. Yeah, you know, do you realize that you're talking to people right now? You want to get out of here. All right. Yeah, he's awesome. Like I said, I forgot he was in here. He's just, he's just, So chill. He gets, he can be a, he can be a skunk. But right now he's just chilling. The dude. Thank you for asking. He's the man.

All right, let's go to the next one. Oh, when's that coming back? That's coming back Friday. The rewatches, it's coming back on Friday. All right. Next one. Gregory Engville, Dopp, excuse me, Doom Patrol, season three is partly out on HBO Max watching any of it.

I haven't seen any of Doom Patrol yet. I heard it's great. I saw you're confused. Fused by the title of Buccaro Bonzai and the eighth dimension. Have you seen it? No. I have not. It's a great mid-80s science fiction fantasy movie.

How about a review and a watch long? I don't know if anybody would be interested in me doing that, to be honest. I don't know. It's better than the thing, my opinion in movies. Wow. You might have missed. I'm literally Brett's age, he's seen it or mark. I'm sure I hear of that title all of the time.

I hear that title all the time. And I'm familiar with the title, but I've never seen the movie. So, but no, I've never seen. I don't know if anyone's going to really give a crap if I do a watch long on that, but I might be wrong. That's what we want people to talk about. All right, next one. There he is.

There's Big Ed. Hey, Christian, good morning. It's a question. How is your flight back home? Flight back home was a lot better than the flight there. I'll tell you that. It's because I took the red eye on the way in, and the way back. It was, I just worked and answered, did a Q&A on Facebook, which was fun.

I responded to people on YouTube. I met a nice dude. On the plane, it was a nice guy. He was talking about how he and his lady might come to the spectacular. Pretty nice. It was cool. Uneventful, I hope. Thank you to Mark and the entire crew for, as myself, had advertised, Epic and awesome.

Three-day Shmoa down the weekend, both comedy shows, our pre-show dinners, the after-parties, and event itself. Outside of selling a few more tickets, I don't see how it could have gone better. Okay, enough for me, going back to bed to recovering. Yeah, I mean, look, besides selling out, we didn't sell out. but it was packed and it was so loud massive i thought that all four competitors put on a hell of a show great pre-show with brad and uh and and and ken it was great last one jesse swift i assume you probably haven't had time to watch it but you should absolutely check out midnight mass now i haven't checked out midnight mass i haven't checked out squid game i know those are the the trends at the moment that

everybody's talking about but i haven't checked either isn't midnight mass like a horror movie you think that I like that? I don't know. I might. I've heard, I've heard good things. I've heard good things. But I haven't checked it out. I haven't seen it. But anyway, I had a blast here today, guys. I hope you did. Make sure that you comment below. If you haven't subscribed to this podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, anywhere where it is found. Podcasts, if you can listen to podcast somewhere, that's where you can find BingFix. It helps us out tremendously. The reason we get sponsors like we had today, and we keep getting getting more is because of you guys. If you download these episodes, you do that's how you keep us on the air.

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