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PS5 Contesthttps://www.strandedpanda.com/ps5Matt's Daredevil Album Fundraiser:https://igg.me/at/daredevilalbum/x/24216561#/Multiverse News Merchhttps://multiverse-news-shop.fourthwall.com/Welcome to Multiverse News, Your source for Information about all your favorite fictional universesToday, Marvel held a five and a half hour long casting announcement live stream. Twenty-six cast members were announced painstakingly slowly and wordlessly, via the backs of chairs and it all ended with Robert Downey, Jr. himself strolling in and shushing the viewer. Also in an interview this week, Scarlet Witch herself, Elizabeth Olsen, claims Wanda will not be returning for either of these Avengers films.Amy Pascal and David Heyman have officially been named as producers on the next James Bond film, according to a Variety article from Tuesday. Pascal is known for her work at Sony and continues to work with Phil Lord and Christopher Miller on different projects such as Spider-Man: Noir. Heyman's name ought to be familiar to Harry Potter fans as he produced all eight of the original films and is also in pre-production on the new series. Though it took first place this weekend, the $43 million domestic opening of Disney's live action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a box office failure. Along with dismal revenue for the controversy-embroiled film, it has received an overall CinemaScore of B+ - something no Disney live action remake has done yet. Robert DeNiro's Alto Knights also debuted to disappointing figures and the Jonathan Majors-led Magazine Dreams only cracked $700,000 in its limited release.Apple's streaming service had a huge win after finishing the second season of Severance last week when the show became the most-streamed series on AppleTV+, surpassing Ted Lasso. Severance hit the Nielsen streaming report for five consecutive weeks, clocking in with 681 million minutes viewed. Apple CEO Tim Cook quickly gave the show the greenlight for a third season last Friday morning. On the heels of this news, it may be surprising - or not - to hear that Apple loses $1 billion a year on the streaming service and only has 45 million subscribers. But based on what the tech giant has said in the past, this may not matter.Speaking at Disney's annual shareholder meeting, Bob Iger confirmed that Pixar is developing a sequel film to Coco with a targeted theatrical release date sometime in 2029. The sequel will bring back members of the creative team from the original film, including director Lee Unkrichn and co-director Adrian Molina. Mark Nielsen will produce.WME is shopping the rights to the Jason Bourne franchise as well as the full library of Robert Ludlam properties to potential suitors since the rights have officially expired at Universal. Skydance, Apple and Netflix are said to have met with the estate for the rights. Universal, too, could potentially win the rights back if it made an attractive bid.Sherman Augustus has joined the cast of HBO's Lanterns in a recurring role. He will play John Stewart's father, John Senior. J. Alphonse Nicholson was also cast last week in the series and will play a younger version of John Senior.Agency Verve, which has represented the rights for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise since 2017, is reportedly looking to sell the rights to revive the franchise. A rumored interested party, according to Deadline, is filmmaker JT Mollner and producer Roy Lee and if they get a script together, word is that Glen Powell would like to read it. A24, Lionsgate and others are reportedly expressing interest in that vision. Mollner and Lee are currently coming off the heels of cult hit Strange Darling.Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz and two time Oscar winner Renee Zellweger have joined Only Murders in the Building Season 5.
Your father was a Starship captain for 12 minutes. Can you do better? This week on Trekcast, we're kicking off a brand-new review series! Over the next three episodes, we'll dive into the Kelvin Timeline—J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot.First up: the 2009 Star Trek film. Does it still hold up? How does it compare to modern Trek? We've got the breakdown.In the news: Skydance vs. Paramount – The studio battle is heating up, and Skydance might need a lawyer as good as Daredevil.Anson Mount made Kevin Feige cry – What happened behind the scenes? Get ready for six inches of Captain Archer – Trek collectibles just got interesting.All that and more on Trekcast, your ultimate Star Trek podcast!News:Skydance Going to Court over Paramount Dealhttps://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/paramount-deal-case-off-fast-track-over-project-rise-allegationsAnson Mount made Kevin Feige Cryhttps://www.slashfilm.com/1809293/marvel-kevin-feige-crying-star-trek-gift/Nacelle Star Trek Figures are up for pre salehttps://www.startrek.com/news/nacelle-star-trek-action-figures-wave-oneStar Trek 2009Star Trek is a 2009 American science fiction action film directed by J. J. Abrams and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. It is the 11th film in the Star Trek franchise, and is also a reboot that features the main characters of the original Star Trek television series portrayed by a new cast, as the first in the rebooted film series. The film follows James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) aboard the USS Enterprise as they combat Nero (Eric Bana), a Romulan from their future who threatens the United Federation of Planets. The story takes place in an alternate reality that features both an alternate birth location for James T. Kirk and further alterations in history stemming from the time travel of both Nero and the original series Spock (Leonard Nimoy).[4][5] The alternate reality was created in an attempt to free the film and the franchise from established continuity constraints while simultaneously preserving original story elements.Trekcast: The Galaxy's Most Unpredictable Star Trek Podcast! Welcome to Trekcast, the galaxy's most unpredictable Star Trek podcast! We're a fan-made show that dive into everything Star Trek, plus all things sci-fi, nerdy, and geeky—covering Star Wars, Marvel, DCBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/star-trek-podcast-trekcast--5651491/support.
The show discussed NIL's impact on college sports and the timing of portal openings. C-Lo shared a clip from The Roommates Podcast featuring Dolan. Boomer reminisced about his time with the Jets. Josh Allen signed a deal with Skydance, and a ten-part documentary on Jerry Jones is in the works.
Hour 1 Boomer and Jerry discussed Aaron Rodgers' potential team, Joe Flacco's Giants visit, and rumors surrounding Shedeur Sanders, with Boomer relating to pre-draft negativity. They covered Jeff McNeil's injury, Giancarlo Stanton's multiple ailments, and the NFL's QB complexity, recalling Boomer's play-calling issues with Rich Kotite. St. Johns' Big East Tournament advancement was highlighted, followed by a discussion of Daniel Jones' signing excitement in Indianapolis, tempered by Boomer's experience with initial hype versus game-day reality. Finally, they touched on the Cowboys' Super Bowl drought, evidenced by a social media exchange between DeMarcus Lawrence and Micah Parsons. Hour 2 Max Fried's schedule prevents him from being the Yankees' opening day starter, prompting discussion about the Mets' Luisangel Acuna and Brett Baty's position. Jerry shared a story about a hair loss pill's severe side effects. C-Lo's update included audio of Boomer's Jets frustrations and his appearances on Mike & The Mad Dog. The Giants' quarterback situation and DeMarcus Lawrence's social media activity were covered, along with St. Johns' tournament win, Rangers and Devils victories, and local pro sports teams' social media popularity, with the Yankees, Knicks, and surprisingly, the Nets, leading the pack. Hour 3 Boomer enthusiastically discussed the proposed Penn Station renovation, including the relocation of MSG, and contrasted the frustrating experience of congestion pricing with the pleasure of smooth travel. C-Lo's update highlighted fundraising for the Five Borough Bike Tour, Steph Curry's 4,000th three-pointer, and James Dolan's podcast appearance with Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart. The hour concluded with a discussion on the evolving impact of NIL on college sports teams. Hour 4 The show discussed NIL's impact on college sports and the timing of portal openings. C-Lo shared a clip from The Roommates Podcast featuring Dolan. Boomer reminisced about his time with the Jets. Josh Allen signed a deal with Skydance, and a ten-part documentary on Jerry Jones is in the works.
Almar Latour is the publisher of the Wall Street Journal and also CEO of its parent company, Dow Jones — itself a part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Almar's been with the paper since the 90s, and now he's got insight into all the modern messes. He's made a big deal with OpenAI, while also suing Perplexity — all while building his own AI data products for Dow Jones customers. He's also a strong defender of press freedom who fought to have Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich released from Russia after being imprisoned for more than a year — while News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch famously has deep ties to Trump and has overseen a vastly polarized and politicized era of news media. Links: Here are the WSJ journalists whose jobs were eliminated | Talking Biz News OpenAI, WSJ parent strike content deal valued at over $250M | Wall Street Journal News Corp sues Perplexity for ripping off WSJ, New York Post | The Verge Dow Jones negotiates AI usage rights with 4,000 publishers | Nieman Lab Rupert Murdoch joins Trump in Oval Office | The Hollywood Reporter WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich is free | Wall Street Journal Trump sues Iowa newspaper and top pollster | Reuters The FCC is a weapon in Trump's war on free speech | The Verge CBS considers caving on Trump lawsuit to save Skydance merger | The Verge Why The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI | Decoder Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/626229 Credits: Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Ursa Wright. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
THIS VOYAGE, the Treksperts, MARK A. ALTMAN (author, The Fifty Year Mission, writer/producer, Pandora, Agent X, The Librarians, writer/producer Free Enterprise), DAREN DOCHTERMAN (associate producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and ASHLEY E. MILLER (showrunner; DOTA: Dragon's Blood, writer, X-Men: First Class, Thor) remember ROBERTO ORCI who sadly passed away February 25, 2025. To honor his contributions to Star Trek as well as cinema, we've assembled a group of fellow writers who worked closely with him over the years including JESSE ALEXANDER, a writer and showrunner for such shows as Hannibal, Lost, Heroes and worked with Roberto and his writing partner at the time Alex Kurtzman on Alias. STEVEN MELCHING is a writer for such shows as The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, X-Men: The Animated Series and Big Guy & Rusty The Boy Robot and worked with Orci on the Transformers: Prime animated series. Our own ASHLEY E. MILLER worked with him on Fringe and later developed Power Rangers and the follow-up to Star Trek Into Darkness with him for Skydance which Orci was set to direct. **TREKSPERTS+ SUBSCRIBERS NOW GET COMMERCIAL FREE EPISODES ONE WEEK EARLY! SUBSCRIBE TODAY AT TREKSPERTSPLUS.COM****Join us on our new INGLORIOUS TREKSPERTS DISCORD Channel at: https://discord.gg/7kgmJSExehLearn all that is learnable about Star Trek in Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross' THE FIFTY-YEAR MISSION, available in hardcover, paperback, digital and audio from St. Maritn's Press. Follow Inglorious Treksperts at @inglorioustrek on Twitter, Facebook and at @inglorioustreksperts on Instagram. And now follow the Treksperts Briefing Room at @trekspertsBR, an entirely separate Twitter & Instagram feed."Mark A. Altman is the world's foremost Trekspert" - Los Angeles Times
As Paramount's proposed merger with Skydance continues to wend its way past regulators, we're looking back at the beginning of the studio's financial troubles through the lens of the 2017 flop Monster Trucks! Join in as we discuss the film's inception as Paramount's next big franchise, the diverging opinions of studio leadership and director Chris Wedge, and the many ways the studio signaled the audiences and the industry that they'd given up on it long before it came out. Plus: Were the main characters held back in school several times? Is Creech less energy-efficient than a gas engine? Is Burke a landman? What would the planned sequels have been about? And, most importantly, are monster trucks even cool to begin with? Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe! Next week: Assassin's Creed (2016)-----------------------------------------------Key sources and links for this episode:"Today Now! Interviews the 5-Year-Old Screenwriter of Fast Five" (The Onion)David Ehrlich's D+ Review of Monster Trucks (IndieWire)"Hear Me Out: Why Monster Trucks Isn't a Bad Movie" by Chris Evangelista (The Guardian) Deadline story announcing the development of Monster TrucksMonster Trucks casting announcements (The Wrap)"Monster Trucks Leads Viacom to Take $115M Write-Down" (The Hollywood Reporter)"Monster Trucks Proves It: Don't Let a 4-Year-Old Develop a Movie" (Wired)
The Future of Star Trek: What's Next for the Franchise?Star Trek has had its fair share of highs and lows, but the past year has been especially turbulent. In 2023, we saw the cancellation of Prodigy, Discovery, and Lower Decks, leaving fans wondering about the future of the franchise. While Starfleet Academy is on the horizon, many Trekkies are still campaigning for Star Trek: Legacy.Meanwhile, a new Star Trek movie remains stuck in development limbo, and to top it all off, Paramount is exploring a potential merger with Skydance.So, what does all of this mean for the Star Trek universe? How are fans reacting to these major shake-ups?To dive into this topic, we've enlisted the help of some fantastic Star Trek podcasters—The Pod-Wraiths and It's Got Star Trek Podcast.Together, we'll break down the state of the franchise, explore what the future might hold, and share insights from a fan survey on how the community is feeling.All that and more, right here on Trekcast!News:Roberto Orci passeshttps://deadline.com/2025/02/roberto-orci-dead-star-trek-transformers-writer-producer-1236301807/Khan you believe it, they cast a new Khanhttps://treknews.net/2025/02/28/star-trek-khan-coming-2025-naveen-andrews/Shatner talks about why the let them kill Kirkhttps://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/star-trek-william-shatner-age-paramount-b2707174.htmlAdditional info:CBS All Access numbers before Paramount Plus - 3 years after Discovery, nearly 30 million subscribers in 2021https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/24/22299240/cbs-all-access-subscriber-numbers-paramount-plus-showtimeOne year after Paramount Plus - 36 million subscribers, 2021https://www.thewrap.com/paramount-plus-subscribers-showtime-viacomcbs-36-million-q1-2021/Walmart and Paramount partner 2022https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/15/walmart-strikes-streaming-deal-with-paramount.htmlParamount Plus numbers source:https://www.statista.com/statistics/1211543/paramount-plus-subscribers-worldwide/Guest Links:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pod-wraiths-a-star-trek-deep-space-nine-podcast/id1559635508https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-got-star-trek/id1489620055Trekcast: The Galaxy's Most Unpredictable Star Trek Podcast!Welcome to Trekcast, the galaxy's most unpredictable Star Trek podcast! We're a fan-made show that dives into everything Star Trek, plus all things sci-fi, nerdy, and geeky—covering Star Wars, Marvel, DC Comics, Stargate, and more.But Trekcast isn't just about warp drives and superheroes. If you love dad jokes, rescuing dogs, and even saving bears, you'll fit right in! Expect fun, laughs, and passionate discussions as we explore the ever-expanding universe of fandom.Join us for a wild ride through the stars—subscribe to Trekcast today!Connect with us: trekcasttng@gmail.comLeave us a voicemail - (570) 661-0001Check out our merch store at Trekcast.comHelp support the show - ko-fi.com/trekcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/star-trek-podcast-trekcast--5651491/support.TV Drama Version 2 by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Ep 463 - Majima's here take Huber on a pirate adventure. Bloodworth brings back stories from DICE, and somehow, even the explosive success of Marvel Rivals can't dodge the industry layoffs. (0:00) - Intro (3:20) - Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Impressions (33:00) - Blood's Stories from DICE (59:24) - Skydance's Behemoth Impressions (1:15:44) - Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana Impressions (1:34:32) - A Word From Our Sponsors (1:36:00) - Marvel Rivals - NetEase Layoffs (1:51:22) - Isla's Hooked on Elden Ring: Nightreign (2:01:08) - Also This Week (2:15:03) - L&R: Split Fiction and What's Next? (2:21:36) - L&R: Split Fiction Matchmaking (2:27:48) - L&R: Roguelike RNG (2:31:28) - L&R Game: Which Word More Good? (2:40:47) - Bets (2:46:18) - Closing Go to https://www.shopify.com/allies for a one-dollar-per-month trial period to grow your business–no matter what stage you're in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This is another Apple original film (in partnership with Skydance) that has gone mostly unnoticed, with little lead up to it.The Gorge127 Minutes, Rated PG-13Written by Zach DeanDirected by Scott DerricksonSynopsis:Two highly-trained operatives become close after being sent to protect opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.Have a listen to see what the boys think about this one.~~~~~You can read more reviews and opinions on our website: https://VSMoviePodcast.com.Please LIKE, SHARE, and FOLLOW us on:Facebook (@vsmoviepodcast) (https://facebook.com/vsmoviepodcast)X (@vsmoviepodcast) (https://x.com/vsmoviepodcast)Instagram (@visuallystunningmoviepodcast) (https://instagram.com/visuallystunningmoviepodcast)Threads (@visuallystunningmoviepodcast) (https://threads.net/@visuallystunningmoviepodcast)BlueSky (@vsmoviepodcast.bsky.social) (https://bsky.app/profile/vsmoviepodcast.bsky.social)YouTube (@visuallystunningmoviepodcast) (https://youtube.com/visuallystunningmoviepodcast)Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to our audio wherever you listen to podcasts (https://shows.acast.com/vsmoviepodcast).And please, if you like what we do, consider helping us keep on entertaining you. Find out how on our Contact/Support page (https://VSMoviePodcast.com/Contact-VSMP/). Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/vsmoviepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
For well over a decade, Whitecat has been wholeheartedly committed to his musical identity. Relentlessly pursuing deep, undulating rhythms and dreamy sonic textures, Whitecat's main obsession will always be the art of playing records. His tastes lean firmly towards stripped-back selections – always with an unmistakable groove. Having made a name for himself as a co-founder & resident artist of the respected Australian Minimal brand Mantra Collective, Whitecat now takes the reins as the Music Director of the intimate boutique music and arts festival Skydance, bringing his creative energy to the Australian doof community.Connect with Tim via the following links: Instagram: @whitecatauSoundcloud: soundcloud.com/whitecat-auFacebook: facebook.com/Whitecat.AU/info/Support the show
In this week's episode, I take a look at the movies and streaming shows I watched in winter 2024/2025, and share my opinions on them. I also take a look at my ebook advertising results from January 2025. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Half-Orc Paladin, Book #3 in the Half-Elven Thief series, (as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward) at my Payhip store: PALADIN50 The coupon code is valid through February 28, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook for the bad February weather, we've got you covered! 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 238 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is February 7, 2025 and today we are discussing the movies and streaming shows I watched in Winter 2024 and 2025. Before that, we will do Coupon of the Week, an update on my current writing projects, Question of the Week, and my ad results from January 2025. First, let's start with Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Half-Orc Paladin, Book Three in the Half-Elven Thief Series (as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward) at my Payhip store. That coupon code is PALADIN50. This coupon code will be valid through February the 28th, 2025, so if you need a new audiobook to get you through the bad February weather, we have got you covered. Now for an update on my current writing and audiobook projects. As I mentioned last week, Shield of Deception is now out and you can get it at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Smashwords and my Payhip store. It is doing quite well. Thank you all for that. I hope you enjoy the book and I've been hearing good things about it from people who read it. Now that Shield of Deception is done, my main project is now Ghost in the Assembly and I am 36,000 words into it as of this recording, which puts me almost on Chapter 8 of 21. So I'm about one third of the way through the rough draft, give or take. If all goes well. I'm hoping that book will be out in March. My secondary project is Shield of Battle, which is the sequel to Shield of Deception and I am about 2,000 words into that. I'm also 50,000 words into what will be the third and final Stealth and Spells book, Stealth and Spells Online: Final Quest. It was originally named Reactant, but I decided to change the name to Final Quest because that sounds better and if all goes well, that will probably be out in the middle of the year, give or take. In audiobook news, Cloak of Masks (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) is now out at all audio stores, including Audible, so you can listen to that there. Work is almost done on Cloak of Dragonfire. It's being proof-listened to as I record this and hopefully that should be out before too much longer. So that is where I'm at with my current writing and audiobook projects. 00:02:19 Question of the Week Next up is Question of the Week, which is intended to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics. This week's topic, which ties into our main topic: what was the favorite movie you saw in 2024? No wrong answers, obviously (including “I hate everything I saw in 2024”). We have a few responses for this. JD says: It was either Transformers One or Deadpool and Wolverine. Mary says: I didn't see any movies in 2024. Doug says: Dune was one of the books I read in the ‘70s. Like your books, I never got enough back then. I was buying Hardcovers. I still have six of them. I have seen the two versions of the books. Can't wait to see this version of the books. I have seen the first movies. Hope to see more. David says: Godzilla versus Kong was pretty much the only one from last year I saw. I just bought Gladiator 2 but haven't watched it yet. Davette says: I enjoyed both Dune 2 and The Fall Guy and Inside Out 2 and Deadpool and Wolverine. My favorite was Wicked, mainly because I've been waiting on that movie for years. Bonnie says: I haven't seen any movies or watched TV in years. For myself, I think it would be a tie for my favorite movie of 2024 for between Dune 2 and The Fall Guy. The two Dune movies, for all the stuff they changed from the book, are probably the most faithful adaptation it was possible to make with that very dense and very weird book. I thought The Fall Guy was just hilarious and I had no idea it was based on TV series from the ‘80s until I read up about it on the Internet after I saw the movie. It was interesting that we didn't have very many responses to this question the week and of those responses, one third of them was “I didn't see any movies in 2024.” So if the movie industry is wondering why it's in so much trouble, I think we might have just found the answer here in that nobody wants to go to see movies in the theater anymore. 00:04:09 Ad Results for January 2025 Now onto our next topic, how my ads performed in January 2025. Now as usual for my books in January, I used Facebook ads, Amazon ads, and BookBub ads, so let's break them down by category- first, by Facebook ads. As usual, I advertised The Ghosts and Cloak Games/Cloak Mage. GHOSTS: $4.08 for every dollar, with 22% of the profit coming from the audiobooks. CLOAK GAMES/MAGE: $3.38 for every dollar, with 6% of the profit coming from the audiobooks. So that went pretty well. I'm hoping that percentage will go up once Cloak of Dragonfire is done and we can put together Cloak Mage Omnibus Three. I also did some Amazon ads – specifically for HALF-ELVEN THIEF, STEALTH & SPELLS ONLINE: CREATION, and THE LINUX COMMAND LINE BEGINNERS GUIDE. Remember, for an Amazon ad to be effective, it usually needs to be generating at least one sale for every eight clicks on the ads. HALF-ELVEN THIEF: $4.65 for every dollar spent, 1.85 sales for every click. It's just an amazing ratio-thank you for that. STEALTH & SPELLS ONLINE: CREATION: Lost $0.15 for every dollar spent, 1 sale for every 4.76 clicks. THE LINUX COMMAND LINE BEGINNER'S GUIDE: $3.16 for every dollar spent, 33% of the profit from audio, 1.34 sales for every click. The standout was HALF-ELVEN THIEF, which actually had more sales than clicks on the ads. That hardly ever happens! You can see there's a reason I'm going to conclude STEALTH & SPELLS with the third book, because it just doesn't sell well. All of the advertising experiments I have tried to make it sell well have not responded to date. That said, we did improve from December, where I only got a sale for every 14 clicks. Additionally, Amazon ads work really well with nonfiction books, since they respond a lot better to keyword ads. Finally, I used Bookbub ads for THE GHOSTS on Apple. That went pretty well. THE GHOSTS: $4 for every $1 spent. So, all in all, a pretty good month for ads, though STEALTH & SPELLS remains the weak point. As always everyone, thank you for buying the books and listening to the audiobooks. 00:06:50 Main Topic: Movie/TV Show Reviews of Winter 2024/Early Winter 2025 Now onto our main topic, the movies and streaming shows I watched in Winter 2024 and early winter 2025. As always, my ratings are totally subjective and based on nothing more concrete than my own opinions. Our first one is Red One, which came out in 2024. This was a strange mashup of genres, a holiday movie, urban fantasy, a thriller, and just a little bit of existential horror. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays Callum Drift, who is the head of Santa Claus's security. Meanwhile, Chris Evans plays an unscrupulous hacker and thief named Jack O'Malley. Jack unwittingly helps unknown malefactors kidnap Santa Claus and so Callum and Jack have to team up to rescue Santa from his kidnappers. This sounds like a lighthearted holiday movie, but it really isn't. The movie is rather dour and takes itself very seriously. Callum acts like he's in a Jason Bourne movie and deals with various supernatural creatures like a special forces operator assessing targets. Additionally, there are some urban fantasy elements with the vast government agency dedicated to hiding the supernatural world from normal people. I don't think the dissonance really worked at all. It had pieces of a light holiday movie and pieces of a thriller and they really didn't mesh. It's not hard to see why this one didn't do well in the theaters, on top of its enormous budget. Overall Grade: D (In the spirit of Christmas generosity) Next up is Argylle, which came out in 2024. This was a dumb movie, but I enjoyed it, kind of like Murder Mystery with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston on Netflix. I mean that wasn't exactly Shakespeare or Milton, but I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy myself while watching it. Same thing applies to Argylle. The plot is that the protagonist Ellie Conway is a bestselling spy novelist. Ellie is a bit of an eccentric personality and travels everywhere with her cat in a backpack that has a window in it so the cat can see what's going on. However, it turns out that Ellie's novels are accurately predicting events in real life espionage, so several sinister spy agencies are hunting her down to learn her secret. A spy named Aidan saves Ellie, claiming that he's the only one she can trust. Of course, this is the kind of movie that has a shocking betrayal and plot twist every eight minutes or so, and the revelation of the central twist made me face palm a bit. There is a fight scene at the end involving colored smoke that's absolutely bonkers. It was on Apple Plus or Apple TV or whatever it's called, but that means all the characters did all their computing on shiny new Apple devices, which is always amusing. Overall Grade: D+ (but barely) Next up is Venom: The Last Dance, which came out in 2024. It wasn't as good as the first two since so many of the characters did not return, but it brought the Venom Trilogy to a mostly satisfying conclusion. Eddie Brock and Venom are on the run after the events of Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Unbeknownst to either of them, the US government has a secret facility holding captured symbiant aliens and the agency that runs the facility is hunting for them. Unbeknownst to the US government, the creator of the symbiotes, an evil entity named Knull is preparing to escape his prison and to do that, he needs Eddie/Venom delivered to him alive, so he dispatches his creatures to Earth hunt down Eddie and Venom, with disastrous results. The best part of the movie was the comedic duo of Eddie and Venom since the movie takes the absurdity of their situation and leans into it. Overall Grade: B- Next up is the Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, which came out in 2024. I read an interview with Brandon Sanderson where he said that a big part of the problem with movie adaptations of books is that the filmmakers often want to tell their own story, not the books'. So they basically used the book as a framework for telling their own story, which inevitably annoys the readers of the book. I suspect that was what happened with The War of the Rohirrim. This movie was a mixture of strong points and weaknesses. Apparently it only exists because New Line needed to put out something or they'd lose film rights to Tolkien's stuff, and so The War of the Rohirrim was fast-tracked. The strong points: the animation looked pretty, the battle scenes were fun to watch, the voice performances were good, and the music was also good. The weak points: it felt too long and slow-paced. I think a good half-hour could have been cut of the characters looking pensive and thoughtful (and saved the animators a lot of work in the process). Additionally, I don't think the changes to the plot quite worked. It's based out of the Appendices of The Lord of the Rings, specifically the history of Rohan. In the book, the plot is touched off when the corrupt Lord Freca demands that King Helm's daughter Hera marry Freca's son Wulf. Helm takes exception to this and ends up killing Freca. His son Wulf swears vengeance, gathers an army from Rohan's enemies, and sets out to seize the crown for himself. In the book, Helm's sons are killed, and Helm himself dies in the defense of the Hornburg (which later becomes known as Helm's Deep), but his nephew Frealof gathers an army, kills Wulf, and becomes the new king of Rohan. That would have been perfectly good for the plot, but as we mentioned above, I think the screenwriters decided they wanted to write about a Strong Female Character, so they massively expanded Hera's part and made her the protagonist. The problem with this as an adaptation is that Hera is only mentioned once in the book, so the script has to make up a lot of extra stuff to justify Hera's presence, which always weakens an adaptation of a book. This version of Hera would have been in danger of becoming a stereotypical #girlboss character, but she acts more like a Japanese anime protagonist, which does work better in this sort of movie than an Americanized Strong Female Character. So, in the end, not a bad movie, but I think it would have worked better if they had stuck closer to the original plot in the book. Overall Grade: B- Next up is Golden Era, which came out in 2022. This is a documentary about the making of the classic Nintendo 64 game Goldeneye and the company behind it. Until I watched this, I never knew that Rare, the company that made Goldeneye, was based in the UK. I admit I really didn't play Goldeneye back in the ‘90s and early ‘00s. I did a few times at various social events, but I never really got into it since I didn't own a game console from 1998 to 2019. Nonetheless, Goldeneye was a very influential game that left its mark on all first-person shooter games since. The documentary interviews most of the people who were involved in the making of Goldeneye, and it was fascinating to see how they more or less accidentally created a genre-defining game. If you enjoyed Goldeneye or are interested in video game history at all, the documentary is worth watching. After many years of official unavailability, Goldeneye is now available on Nintendo Switch and Xbox, so I may have to give it a try. Overall grade: B Next up is Wonka, which came out in 2023. I didn't really intend to watch this, but it was on in the background while I was playing Starfield…and Starfield has a lot of loading screens. This movie wasn't made for me, not even remotely, but I thought it was a competently executed example of a movie musical. Anyway, the plot revolves around a young Willy Wonka coming to a city that seems like a weird hybrid between Paris and New York. Wonka sets out to start selling his innovative chocolates, but soon runs into stiff opposition from the corrupt local candy industry, the corrupt local police chief, and his equally corrupt landlady, who has somehow transitioned from hospitality to luring people into debt slavery. Wonka makes allies from his fellow indentured workers, and soon he is conducting local chocolate manufacturing like a heist. Like I said, this really wasn't made for me, and I'm sure people who actually like musicals would have many more detailed opinions. But this had some genuinely funny bits. Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa was hilarious, and so was Rowan Atkinson as a corrupt bishop. The best line: “Judgment has come…in a most unexpected form!” Overall grade: B Next up is Man on the Inside, which came out in 2024, and this is a Netflix comedy series from Mike Schur, who created Parks and Recreation, The Good Place and Brooklyn 99. To describe this show, think of a meditation about accepting the inevitability of aging and death through Schur's comedic style, and you'll be there. Anyway, Ted Danson stars as a recently widowed retired professor of engineering named Charles. His daughter is worried that he's not handling things well and becoming too isolated, so suggests that he find a hobby. Charles answers a classified ad for an “older man who can use technology” and finds himself recruited by a private investigator named Julie. Julie's company has been hired to find a thief within a retirement home, and Julie is about 35 years too young to convincingly infiltrate a retirement home. Hence, Charles pretends to be a new resident, and finds himself befriending the residents he is supposed to investigate. All the while, he tries to deal with the remaining grief from his wife's death, which he never got around to processing in the moment. In my opinion, The Good Place and Brooklyn 99 both kind of fell apart in their final seasons, but Man on the Inside avoids that in its final episodes, providing good resolution to both the conflict and the emotional stakes. I thought it was both bittersweet and quite funny, and I approve that there's going to be a 2nd season. Overall grade: B Next up is Minted, which came out in 2023, and this was an interesting documentary about the rise in the fall of the NFT, which in the early 2020s we were assured was going to be the next big thing, but it just turned out to be yet another scam. The documentary follows an interesting course, first explaining what an NFT is, and then interviewing artists who made life-changing money from minting their early NFTS. But then the speculators arrived, and followed swiftly by the scammers. As of 2025, of course, NFTs are quite worthless, like so many much-vaunted Web 3.0 style technologies. I think the documentary's biggest weakness was assuming that NFT technology was around to stay and would find a use that would help artists. I agree that it's around to stay, but I don't think it adds value to anything at all. Nevertheless, an interesting look into the NFT fad and the impact it had on artists. Overall grade: B Next up is Gladiator 2, which came out in 2024. This is basically the same movie as the original Gladiator, just reshuffled a bit and with twenty years of improved technology. The main character Hanno is a soldier in an African city that rebels against Rome. After the rebellion is inevitably crushed, he is taken as a slave and ends up as a gladiator in Rome, determined to take his vengeance on the Roman general who ordered the death of his wife. However, the general was only carrying out the orders of the insane twin emperors Geta and Caracalla. For that matter, Hanno's owner, the charming and affable Macrinus, has his own agenda. As Hanno seeks revenge, he finds himself drawn into the deadly game of imperial politics and must confront the secrets of his own past. The movie is only very vaguely accurate in terms of history, but it does a good job of capturing the corruption and decadence of the Roman Empire at that time. The empire was in very bad shape, and in fact was only a few years from what historians call the Crisis of the Third Century, a fifty year period of continual civil war, assassination, usurpation, and economic meltdown that resulted in the empire breaking into three separate states for about fifteen years. Everyone knows that the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD, but it very nearly didn't make it even to 300 AD. So the ending of Gladiator 2 is a total fantasy, like one of those alt-history books where the Roman Empire ends up conquering the Americas or expanding into outer space. That said, I enjoyed the movie. Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, and Connie Nielsen in particular gave very good performances, with Denzel Washington's Macrinus as the standout. Overall grade: B Next up is High Sierra, which came out in 1941, and this is 1940s true crime grimdark. A common misconception is that black and white films are generally more sanitized and saccharine than modern fare. This definitely isn't true – there wasn't any gratuitous violence and nudity in ‘40s movies, but some of them were very cynical and dark. High Sierra definitely falls into that category. Humphrey Bogart plays Roy Earle, a bank robber currently in Indiana state prison. His former boss Big Mac arranges a pardon for him, and brings him out to California for one last big job. Unfortunately, the other people on Earle's crew are idiots, and he has a growing sense of impending disaster. Additionally, Earle gets emotionally entangled with two women – Velma, a sick woman from his hometown, and Marie, a woman inured to the lifestyle of criminals. As Earle prepares for the job and attempts to deal with the two women, things get more and more complicated. Definitely on the darker side as I mentioned, but well worth watching, both as a historical artifact and a crime story in its own right. Overall grade: B+ Next is Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5, which came out in 2024. Lower Decks is an example of a parody of a thing that is so good that it sort of loops around the horseshoe and becomes a good example of the thing it is parodying. Season 5 is the undeserved end to the very funny Lower Decks series. Paramount really, really wants to get purchased by Skydance, and that's probably going to happen in 2025, so there's a lot of clearing the decks at Paramount, and I expect Lower Decks was one of the casualties. Then again, our protagonists are no longer lower deckers but junior officers, so perhaps it was a natural place to end the show. So Lower Decks went out pretty strong with a collection of funny and good episodes. All the characters experienced plot arcs and development. The lower deckers matured from the callow ensigns they were in Season 1, and the senior officers likewise experienced character growth and development. (I liked Commander Ransom's triumphant battle cry of “high intensity interval training!”) I'd say the only weakness is that the show ended with multiverse stuff, and I don't like multiverse stuff in general. Still, the show made a compelling argument for the multiverse as a concept, and the multiverse plot did give an excuse to bring back various Trek actors for speaking parts. And, to be fair, Star Trek has been doing multiverse stuff long, long before the Marvel movies ran the concept into the ground – Captain Kirk was dealing with alternate universe stuff back in the 1960s. The last episode was a satisfactory conclusion to the series. Lower Decks might be over, but once the Skydance acquisition settles down, maybe the character will return in a new show called Junior Officers? One can hope! Overall grade: B+ Next up is the Frasier reboot Season 2, which also came out in 2024. I liked this about as much as I liked Season 1, which is to say I enjoyed it and found it funny. Frasier's and his son Frederick's relationship seems to have reached equilibrium, so the season spent more time on more 1940s style screwball comedy, which is not a bad thing. Some of the best comedy remains the conflicts between Frasier and Frederick, which is of course an echo of Frasier's own conflicts with his father back in the original show in the 1990s. I think the best episode was the return of Frasier's scheming, Machiavellian agent Bebe and her daughter Phoebe, who did not exactly fall far from the maternal apple tree. The 10-episode format for the season does seem rather cramped compared to the 20-ish episodes per season of the original show, but that was a different era. Frasier remains, as one of the characters said in the previous season, the same well-meaning buffoon who goes “that extra, ill-advised mile.” I hope we get a Season 3, but with the shakeups we mentioned at Paramount, that seems unlikely. Overall grade: A- Finally, let's close with the three best things I saw in Winter 2024/2025. The first of my favorite three is Saturday Night, which came out in 2024. This is a biopic about the chaotic first night of Saturday Night Live back in the 1970s. Quite hilarious in a vicious sort of way, and (from what I understand) it accurately captures the sheer chaos of live TV. Of course, the chaos surrounding SNL is probably a bit higher than usual for standard live television. After I watched it, I looked it up, and it seems the movie compresses about three months' worth of events into the hour and a half before the launch of the very first episode. What's amusing is that the more outlandish an event in the movie was, the more likely it was to have actually happened in the leadup to the show's launch. It was the mundane stuff that was made up, not the crazy stuff. JK Simmons was hilarious as Milton Berle. Nowadays, SNL is an Institution, so it was amusing to see it back when everyone thought it was a bad idea that would fail catastrophically. The movie convincingly captured the “look” of the 1970s – all the characters looked like they were made of nicotine, cholesterol, and cocaine, and in some instances, a lot of cocaine. That stuff is bad for you, as several SNL stars later found out to their sorrow. It really shows the randomness of history – watching the creation of SNL, you wouldn't expect it to have lasting cultural impact, but it did. Overall grade: A The second of my three favorite things I saw was The Thin Man, which came out in 1934. This is based on a novel by Dashiel Hammett (most famous for writing The Maltese Falcon), and was made pre-Hays Code, so the female lead tended to wear outfits that show off a bit more skin than you would otherwise expect in a 1930s movie. Interestingly, The Thin Man is a fusion of a noir detective movie and a screwball comedy, not two genres that are usually connected, and somehow it all works. Anyway, the movie centers around detective Nick and his wife Nora, who have returned to New York after a four-year sojourn to California. Nick used to be a private detective, but then he married the wealthy Nora, and wanted to retire to a life of ease and parties with a lot of alcohol. Except everyone in New York assumes that Nick isn't retired and is back on the case, and so he gets dragged into the disappearance of an eccentric factory owner and a string of murders that pop up around it. Of course, Nick isn't as reluctant to come out of retirement as he pretends. As is often the case in many movies made in the 1930s, many of the rich characters are shown as malicious buffoons, especially the factory owner's ex-wife. Nick and Nora, as the protagonists, are of course exempt from this. This is considered a classic, and deservedly so – the characters are sharply drawn, the dialogue is good, the performances are excellent, the movie manages to portray a fairly complex plot in 90 minutes. You'll want to watch it with the captions on, of course, because while human nature may not have changed in the ninety years since this movie came out, audio technology has sure improved. Fun fact: Nick and Nora's dog is named Asta, which is apparently a frequent answer in crossword puzzles due to the double vowels. Overall grade: A Now, for the third of my three favorite things I saw in Winter 2024/2025, that would be Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which came out in 2024. This is Star Wars meets The Goonies meets Pirates of the Caribbean, and despite that very odd combination of influences, the show was really quite good. The show opens on the idyllic planet of At Attin, which looks like an idealized version of 1980s suburbia filtered through Star Wars. Everyone on the planet has the same job – contributing to the Great Work (whatever that is). Since our four protagonists are kids, they don't pay much attention to that or the concerns of the adults. When one of the children discovers a derelict spaceship in the woods, they accidentally activate it and fly off-planet. This is a problem because At Attin is protected by a Barrier that doesn't allow travel, and the galaxy is a dangerous place with a lot of pirate gangs roaming around looking for prey. However, the children fall in with Jod, who claims to be a Jedi who will help the kids get back to their home. Everyone they meet warns them that Jod is a con artist and not to be trusted, but he demonstrates Force powers again and again (which would seem to support his claim that he's a Jedi). And the kids' home of At Attin has a mysterious secret, one that Jod desperately wants to claim for himself. This is very entertaining all the way through. Star Wars really works best as a kids' adventure show (in my opinion), though I'm still looking forward to the second season of Andor, which is Star Wars crossed with a John le Carre spy thriller. Overall grade: A So that is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave your review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.
Eriq Gardner joins Peter to navigate the growing tide of legal challenges surrounding Trump's contentious executive orders and his efforts, along with Elon Musk, to reshape the federal government. Then Eriq shifts gears to dissect the mounting scrutiny on Shari Redstone's bid to sell Paramount to Skydance, sparked by Trump's shaky lawsuit against CBS News. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The FCC releases the entire unedited 60 Minutes pre-election interview with Kamala Harris and is exposed for editing her responses to several important questions. Will the discovery throw a wrench in CBS parent company Paramount's $8B bid for SkyDance? A judge rules President Trump can have all his boxes of "classified documents" back as regular Americans record their growing disgust for the Democrat party. USAID's 10,000 employees get bad news from the boss.
This week, Paul and Mesh recap some of the winners of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and ponder whether it can remain in Park City, UT. Next, they break down the ranking of the various SVOD and FAST platforms based on Nielsen viewership data. Finally, they discuss the efforts of Skydance and Paramount to clear regulatory hurdles around the long-awaited purchase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4:30 - Nintendo Switch 2 31:27 - Magic Mind 35:50 - Mortal Kombat 46:58 - P47 II MD 54:05 - Lunar 1:03:48 - No Man's Sky 1:16:35 - Forza Horizon 5 1:22:00 - Ninja Gaiden 4 1:31:47 - Turbo Overkill 1:35:27 - GalaxyLand 1:40:22 - Skydance's Behemoth 1:43:36 - PlayStation 5 Pro Switch 2 officially revealed, details coming April 2nd, 2025 Ted Price is retiring
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Jodi, Bridget and Philip talk about 'Spellbound' (2024), a new animated musical from Netflix and Skydance Animation. This is the second animated feature to come from Skydance after 'Luck' (2022) and is directed and co-written by 'Shrek' director Vicky Jenson. The film takes viewers to the enchanted, or rather, cursed, kingdom of Lumbria, ruled by King Solon and Queen Ellsmere. Their daughter, Princess Ellian, must determine whether to become queen, since the king and queen were transformed into feral monsters and have been hidden away in the palace for a year. Ellian manages to contact two oracles who are unable to reverse the enchantment but point her toward a possible solution. She must guide the two lizard-like monsters on a journey to a lake of light, but must contend with the fact that this perilous quest will likely leave her, her kingdom, and her family forever changed. Follow The ThawedCast: Conversations About Animation: twitter.com/thawedcast and instagram.com/thawedcast, instagram.com/bridget5246, instagram.com/philipehlke, visit thawedcast.com
Empieza el año haciéndote Patreon de Reconectados en https://www.patreon.com/reconectados y ayudándonos a poder seguir con el podcast, accediendo al nuevo contenido exclusivo que estamos preparando para mecenas y participando así en todos los sorteos. Nintendo Switch 2 ha confirmado con su primer vistazo a la máquina todos los rumores y poco más, pero la actualidad nos deja otras filtraciones y titulares, como The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remake, más insinuaciones de sagas históricas de Xbox como Halo o Gears llegando a PS5 o los últimos Final Fantasy aterrizando por fin en Xbox. Además, nos adentramos en las primeras horas del prometedor, realista, inmersivo y realmente sorprendente Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, analizamos juegos de VR que teníamos pendientes como Skydance's Behemoth o el asfixiante, fiel a las pelis y tan tenso Alien Rogue Incursion, y cómo ha salido la remasterización de Donkey Kong Country Returns HD en Nintendo Switch, su gran juego de enero. La semana que viene el podcast saldrá el viernes 24 para cubrir toda la última hora y anuncios del Xbox Developer Direct, que veremos en directo en el canal de Twitch de Reconectados. ¡Gracias por hacernos empezar tan bien el año con vuestro cariño y comentarios! ¡Apoya Reconectados, decide y participa en todos los sorteos! ✅ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/reconectados ¡Sigue nuestro canal de Twitch! ✅ Suscríbete a Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/reconectados ¡Únete a nuestro grupo de Telegram de ofertas! ✅ Canal de ofertas: https://t.me/ofertasvideojuegosreco ¡Escucha Reconectados cada semana: Jueves 07:00am! Ivoox: https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-reconectados-videojuegos_sq_f1467878_1.html Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0TzgUfUZppavUlKeRreIXL iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/reconectados-videojuegos/id1304330116 ¡Síguenos en redes sociales! Twitter: @ReconectadosPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReconectadosPodcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reconectadospod/ Jabote: @Jabote22 Manu: @ManuGmn Borja: @borjaruete
This bonus content interview went out first to patrons, releasing on December 20th. If you want to support the show, get bonus content like this interview early, get access to Wednesday's Paid DLC show, Feeling This seasons, spoiler chats, and more, check out Patreon.com/DLCpod Shawn Kittelsen, SVP, Creative for Skydance Interactive, including Skydance's BEHEMOTH joins Christian and Jeff for a broad conversation about making games in VR, where VR might be heading, the technical aspects of working in VR, and what has changed in Skydance's BEHEMOTH since launch.
For this special podcast—one day early, just for you!—Anthony and Laurie are joined by TrekMovie's Matt Wright and Aaron Bossig (also of the Hungry Trilobyte podcast) plus Tamia Harper of the SyFy Sistas podcast. Together, the group goes through their favorite episodes of the year from Discovery, Prodigy and Lower Decks as well as discussing the Roddenberry Archive “Unification” short film and what it could mean for the future. They also discuss their favorite 2024 Star Trek books, merchandise and events along with some personal memorable moments from the year. The group wraps up with previewing Star Trek in 2025, including the Section 31 movie, season 3 of Strange New Worlds, the 30th anniversary of Voyager (along with the To The Journey documentary) and few other assorted highlights to look forward to. There are also questions and some speculation about how the pending Skydance takeover of Paramount could impact Star Trek.
For this special podcast—one day early, just for you!—Tony and Laurie are joined by TrekMovie's Matt Wright and Aaron Bossig (also of the Hungry Trilobyte podcast) plus Tamia Harper of the SyFy Sistas podcast. Together, the group goes through their favorite episodes of the year from Discovery, Prodigy and Lower Decks as well as discussing the Roddenberry Archive “Unification” short film and what it could mean for the future. They also discuss their favorite 2024 Star Trek books, merchandise and events along with some personal memorable moments from the year. The group wraps up with previewing Star Trek in 2025, including the Section 31 movie, season 3 of Strange New Worlds, the 30th anniversary of Voyager (along with the To The Journey documentary) and few other assorted highlights to look forward to. There are also questions and some speculation about how the pending Skydance takeover of Paramount could impact Star Trek.
From the archives: Eriq Gardner joins Peter Hamby to unwind the myriad legal challenges facing sports business behemoth Fanatics and its brash billionaire founder Michael Rubin. Plus, news on an under-the-radar trial surrounding the Skydance-Paramount merger. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
0:00 Intro 1:02 Alien Rogue Incursion 22:49 Batman Arkham Shadow 31:00 Skydance's Behemoth 53:33 Metro Awakening 1:07:54 The House of Da Vinci VR 1:14:12 Lego Bricktales 1:20:55 Action Hero 1:25:04 Ghostbusters Rise of the Ghostlord 1:31:04 Into Black 1:35:41 Stranger Things VR 1:39:40 Trombone Champ Unflattened 1:47:50 The Thrill of the Fight 2 1:52:02 Halo VR Mod 1:57:12 EXOcars 2:00:00 Human Fall Flat VR 2:04:03 Resist 2:06:56 Mark's Magnificent Marble Maze 2:09:22 Ship It 2:10:41 Max Twist 2:12:05 Walkabout Holiday Hideaway 2:14:18 2024 GOTY 2:22:58 Upcoming Games Lots of discussion about what we've been playing in VR. Justin's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mamefan Alex's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/virtualinsider Nick's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/BuffaloPinball VR Gaming Podcast Discord link: https://discord.gg/Kbg44ADPD2 Justin's email: mamefanyt@gmail.com If you'd like to donate, Paypal: https://paypal.me/mamefan Venmo: @Justin-Davis-1030 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vrgamingpodcast/support
Gaming is in session and Skydance's Behemoth takes the stand! This newest addition to the PSVR2 library is believed to be the VR game of the year and has commanded lofty expectations from players and critics alike. We dive into the first 20% of the game, defeating the first behemoth to decide if it is worth playing for the remainder of the game. Discussion topics include plot, graphics, combat, game play, platforming and more. If you are interested in playing Behemoth for yourself or just want to listen to two rowdy critics argue about games, tune in, relax and enjoy the show.
It’s that time of year again and we are serving up a heaping plate of 2024 Megabanter! The Paramount–Skydance merger finally lands, streamers and legacy studios duke it out for sports rights, Bob Iger makes his moves while the Disney board ramps up its succession race, and linear television continues to decline — what’s the story of the year? Banter buddies Lucas Shaw and Matt Belloni join Kim Masters to figure it out.
This is the daily Tech and Business Report. Today, KCBS Radio news anchor Holly Quan spoke with Bloomberg's Kelcee Griffis. A public interest law firm today filed a petition with the FCC to challenge the planned $8.4 billion merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media. The Center for American Rights believes the investment is raising concerns about foreign influence over the U.S. media.
We get gobsmacked by the first few hours of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle plus we also discuss Marvel Rivals, Skydance's Behemoth, Star Wars Outlaws and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies.
On this episode hosts Laurie, Alex and Reece give their impressions of Behmoth, Dodgecraft, Survivors of Xcalibur and more. They also discusss the latest updates, announcements and innovations in VR. Meta Quest Afilliate: 20% off all Quest Games Here - https://tinyurl.com/39mxmkcv Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview 03:41 Skydance's Behemoth Thoughts 15:18 Drums Rock Cyberpunk 2077 Update 16:50 Vertigo 2 Aether DLC Announced 19:09 Among Us Wild West Event 20:37 Synth Riders Barbie Dream 'n' Dance 23:33 UNDERDOGS Coming to PSVR2 26:08 Pools Coming to PSVR2 27:53 Madison VR Heading to Quest 29:27 Cold VR Coming in December 31:21 My First Gran Turismo Announced and Released for PSVR2 35:21 Apple Vision Pro to Get PSVR2 Sense Controller Support? 40:36 PSVR2 Testing Hand Tracking 50:57 Survivors of Xcalibur 55:00 Bounce Arcade 55:38 Dodgecraft 57:58 Contractors Showdown Update and Outro
Im heutigen Alternativen Realitäten Podcast unterhalten wir uns über Behemoth, den neuen VR Blockbuster von Skydance! Des weiteren besprechen wir das Thema Quest Raubkopien und Sebastian reviewt die Vive Focus Vision! Viel Spass dabei. Quelle zum Raubkopie Thema: https://mixed.de/meta-quest-piraterie/ Behemoth mit 20% Rabatt kaufen: https://www.meta.com/affiliates/4unJXoQ8m (Affiliate) - Alle Meta Spiele mit 20% Rabatt auf dem MRTV Discord Server: https://bit.ly/mrtv-discord-deutsch #alternativerealitäten 60€ (!) Meta Store Guthaben sichern, wenn ihr über diese Links kauft und nach Black Friday Headsets aktiviert: Meta Quest 3s: www.meta.com/affiliates/5Gx9z6HLJ (Affiliate) Meta Quest 3: www.meta.com/affiliates/9iNaDtx7J (Affiliate) New VR Tech: www.youtube.com/channel/UC0j6VwRwFCjl9tDyPt_cMtQ Gamingladynici: www.youtube.com/channel/UCRvAr1b2bDb28PQoygyCgiw Mo Fun VR: www.youtube.com/channel/UCY-OJelLZXssnD3nu828LoQ
Jeff and Christian welcome Lucy James from Gamespot and Giant Bomb to the show this week to discuss a new report that claims gamers spend more time watching others playing than playing themselves, Apple's plan to support PSVR 2 motion controllers on Vision Pro, and the huge PC Gamer Most Wanted showcase. The Playlist: Lucy: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, After Inc Christian: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Jeff: Path of Exile 2 VR Talk: Christian: Skydance's Behemoth Jeff: Skydance's Behemoth Parting Gifts!
Back in the can to talk, boogies, big game and top tear African adventures, it's the one and only Billy Sharman! Growing up watching his mom huck herself out of airplanes in California, not only making over a thousand jumps on rounds, but earning herself a California State Championship, there was simply no way that Billy Sharman wasn't going to at least try one jump. Of course, as seems to be the case, with a first wonderful experience at Skydance in Davis, CA and a little salesmanship from Ray Ferrell, Billy was well and truly hooked! A few bumps in the road (or ditch) aside, he was well on his way to what would become a lifelong career in the sky, and the windy tubes. Now, the proud owner and operator of Skydive Pretoria in South Africa, Billy has many years under his belt, and twice as many stories to tell about his travels with the Lunatic Fringe.
This week Shawn Kittelsen SVP Creative at Skydance Interactive, the creators of the just released Skydance's Behemoth (available now on PSVR2, Steam VR, and Meta Quest) joins us to talk about the game which puts players into the role of Wren, a lone hunter who sets off for the Forsaken Lands to lift a terrible curse. The only way to do so is by saying the towering gods known as Behemoths.In this talk we get into storytelling in VR, the way dynamic, spatial games systems lead players to embody characters, and a whole lot more. It's another very fun conversation about VR at the precise moment when the medium is hitting a stride on narrative focused experiences that rival the best traditional video games can offer.SHOW NOTESSkydance's BehemothAnn Morrow Johnson, of Gensler, Joins Board of The Immersive Experience InstituteThe Next Stage Immersive Summit: Speakers & GuestsThe Next Stage Immersive SummitThe Next Stage Immersive Summit: BadgesNo Proscenium Gift Subscriptions Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
One of the most anticipated VR games is finally here! Join us as we discuss our first impressions for Skydance's Behemoth! Travel through the forsaken lands on an epic journey and face against various enemies, and the almighty Behemoths! Get ready to: Hear our unfiltered reactions - what works, what wows, and where it truly shines. Meta Quest owners - save 20% on release using our Behemoth affiliate link - https://www.meta.com/affiliates/9Qgjrce4h Don't miss out! Join the CrossButtonVR community on Discord now and be part of the conversation: ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/2kpbyyv7 ⬅️ #Skydance'sBehemoth #PSVR2 #Snap #VR #Gaming #FirstImpressions #MustPlay #Behemoth
Pop Break's Podcasts Editor Alex Marcus is joined by Editor-in-Chief Bill Bodkin, and TV Columnist Josh Sarnecky to talk about the happenings in television. Here's the format of the show: New Series Spotlight Rewind – Alex, Bill, and Josh check back in on all the series they covered in their New Series Spotlight segment this year to see which shows they actually kept up with and which fell by the wayside. News Break – Alex, Bill, and Josh discuss the single story that they each believe was the biggest for the world of TV this past year. Bill & Josh both opted with the August's news that the Amazon, Disney, and NBCUniversal had finalized their television rights deal with the NBA, while Alex handed it over to July's news that SkyDance had officially agreed to merge with Paramount Global. Streaming Wars – Alex, Bill, and Josh check in on the standings for the past year of who won the most months in streaming before giving their own picks for who won the year, where they all agreed that Netflix, Disney Plus, and Peacock had incredible years, but who won the year and who was their most improved streamer? Tune in to find out! The Beast Series of 2024 – Bill, Josh, and Alex each give their favorite series of the year, and two honorable mentions, which you can check out below! Bill's Series of the Year - Agatha All Along (The Penguin, Fallout) Josh's Series of the Year - Shogun (The Penguin, House of the Dragon) Alex's Series of the Year - Ripley (Hacks, Shogun) Finally, the hosts close out 2024 by circling back to their Most Anticipated Series of 2024 from this past January to see how their collective optimism and enthusiasm paid off.
In this episode of Fine Tooning, Jim Hill and Drew Taylor dive into the magical world of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail. Hear all about Jim's recent visit to this dazzling event at the New York Botanical Gardens, where he experienced life-sized sculptures, fog-filled forests, and stunning light displays that bring Burton's eerie, whimsical vision to life. Also in this episode: The Wild Robot still dominates the box office, edging closer to $300 million worldwide. D23 Brasil's big animation reveals, including a new Ice Age film and Toy Story 5 updates. Behind the scenes on Skydance and Netflix's Spellbound promotion in Times Square. Updates on Marvel's animated lineup and what's in store for 2025. Get ready for all this and more on this week's Fine Tooning! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Fine Tooning, Jim Hill and Drew Taylor dive into the magical world of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail. Hear all about Jim's recent visit to this dazzling event at the New York Botanical Gardens, where he experienced life-sized sculptures, fog-filled forests, and stunning light displays that bring Burton's eerie, whimsical vision to life. Also in this episode: The Wild Robot still dominates the box office, edging closer to $300 million worldwide. D23 Brasil's big animation reveals, including a new Ice Age film and Toy Story 5 updates. Behind the scenes on Skydance and Netflix's Spellbound promotion in Times Square. Updates on Marvel's animated lineup and what's in store for 2025. Get ready for all this and more on this week's Fine Tooning! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tonight on GeekNights, we review the Terminator Zero anime. It's a worthy Terminator entry, though we'd suggest watching Terminator and Terminator 2 (and nothing else) before watching it. Eight episodes on Netflix and produced by Production IG, Skydance, and Netflix. In the news, John Wick is getting a prequel anime, and Animation Speak Easy is this Friday in Brooklyn.Be sure to make a plan to vote for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. Don't be a sucker.Related LinksForum ThreadTerminator Zero (2024)Discord ChatTerminator Zero (2024)Things of the DayRym - he single worst seat at Guaranteed Rate FieldScott - Protecting a Dust Jacket
As David Ellison’s Skydance merger with Paramount begins, studio executives have been given some serious incentives to stick around through the transition process. Matt Belloni and Lucas Shaw examine the latest happenings at the studio. Then, Kim Masters wraps a two-part conversation between The Apprentice writer Gabriel Sherman and Briarcliff Entertainment founder Tom Ortenberg. Sherman shares how billionaire Trump supporter Dan Snyder helped finance the project without reading the script… And he also shares how Snyder was bought out of the project once he saw an early screening and realized that the film was far too critical for his taste. Plus, Ortenberg reflects on the death threats he’s encountered over the years due to his propensity for distributing controversial movies.
IntroductionLIVE from your ESG USB-C DIY LOL DEI Vape Pen, it's a Business Pants Friday Show here at October 18th Studios, featuring all of your favorites: AnalystHole Matt Moscardi! On today's weekly wrap up: Meta employees have acne but don't call CVS's Karen Lynch, meth-flavored TikTok, 3-headed CEOs, and even one-headed CEOs named Jamie that love to talk Our show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE.Story of the Week (DR):CVS ousts CEO Karen Lynch, names Caremark head as new chief DR MMCVS Health Corp. named David Joyner as its new chief executive officer, ending a tumultuous tenure for current CEO Karen Lynch at the pharmacy giant.Longtime executive Joyner, 60, took over Thursday, according to a Friday release. The move comes after the company repeatedly missed earnings targets, setting off unrest among shareholders that spilled into public view in recent weeks.Last month, major CVS shareholder Glenview Capital began a significant push for changes at the company, CNBC previously reported.CNBC reported last month that CVS' board had engaged strategic advisors to weigh its options, including the potential of a breakup of its insurance and retail businesses.Joyner most recently oversaw the company's pharmacy services business as president of CVS Caremark, a similar position to the one Lynch held before she assumed the top job in February 2021. He began his career at Aetna in pharmacy benefit services and previously held the role of executive vice president of sales and marketing at CVS Health.“We believe David and his deep understanding of our integrated business can help us more directly address the challenges our industry faces, more rapidly advance the operational improvements our company requires, and fully realize the value we can uniquely create,” Chairman Roger Farah said in a statement.Lynch also stepped down from the company's board of directors this week, the company said Friday. Joyner will take a seat on the board, and Farah will assume the role of executive chairman.FFA: Karen Lynch (16%) vs. Roger Farah (16%)Meta fires staff for abusing $25 meal creditsMeta recently fired some employees for misusing a Grubhub meal perk.Roughly two dozen employees were terminated for abusing the company's meal credit system.The Grubhub perk is intended to support employees who work at locations where free meals aren't provided by a cafeteria or when employees work late and need food delivered to the office.Instead of purchasing meals, some Meta employees used the $25 credit to order other items, including laundry detergent, wine glasses, and acne pads, the person familiar with the situation said.The roughly two dozen staff were fired for a repeated pattern of misuseAmazon invests in nuclear energy, hot on the heels of Google and MicrosoftBig Tech continues to go nuclear as the artificial-intelligence boom drives energy demand to new heights.Amazon announced on Wednesday that it's anchoring a $500 million investment for X-energy to develop small, advanced modular nuclear reactors, which would provide carbon-free power for some of its data centers.Microsoft last month helped advance a plan to reopen the Three Mile Island plant, the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in US history, and Google on Monday announced a partnership in small-modular-reactor tech with Kairos Power.A Sam Altman-backed nuclear power stock soared 150% in a monthParamount Will Allow Its 3 Co-CEOs to Resign and Receive Severance If They Are DemotedWith Paramount Global poised to be taken over by Skydance Media in 2025, the three execs running Paramount as co-CEOs — George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins — now have an additional provision in their employment agreements that will let them quit and receive severance benefits if they are demoted from their co-CEO roles.In addition, Cheeks, McCarthy and Robbins were each awarded grants of $3 million worth of restricted share units Prior to securing the deal with Skydance, Paramount dismissed former CEO Bob Bakish and formed the three-member Office of the CEO effective as of May 1 comprising: George Cheeks, president and CEO of CBS; Chris McCarthy, president and CEO, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks; and Brian Robbins, president and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon.guaranteed severance payments equivalent to two times their annual base salary plus twice their annual target bonus amount, among other benefitsFor Bob Bakish last year that severance would have amounted to nearly $50MThe change in compensation comes at a time when Paramount is aiming to reduce annual costs by $500 million ahead of its merger with Skydance Media. As part of these cost-cutting measures, Paramount started job cuts in August and plans to lay off 15% of its U.S.-based workforce in three phases by the end of the year."US judge orders Boeing, DOJ to detail diversity policy before deciding on pleaA federal judge on Tuesday ordered Boeing and the U.S. Justice Department to detail the impact of diversity and inclusion policies on the selection of an independent monitor before he decides whether to accept the planemaker's plea deal.While ordering DOJ and Boeing to respond to a series of questions about the diversity and inclusion policy and how it might affect the selection of an independent monitor, he also pointed out that it was not a disputed facet of the plea agreement."Critically, Boeing did not voice any objection to this provision," the judge said in his order.O'Connor also wants the planemaker to detail how its existing diversity, equity and inclusion policies "are used in its current compliance and ethics efforts."U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor held a hearing Friday as he considers whether to approve Boeing's agreement to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud regulators. The deal would include oversight for three years by an independent monitor.Reed Charles is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. O'Connor has become a "go-to" favorite for conservative lawyers, as he reliably rules against Democratic policies and for Republican policies.Elon Musk is bringing lawsuits to Texas. A judge with Tesla stock keeps hearing themBillionaire Elon Musk seems to have found a new favorite federal judge: Reed O'Connor in Fort Worth, Texas.Musk's social media company X has filed two major lawsuits against groups he sees as antagonists, and O'Connor is presiding over both of them, even though none of the parties is based in Texas.So far, O'Connor has delivered stunningly pro-Musk decisions, which have gained widespread attention.What has garnered less attention: O'Connor's investment in Tesla, between “$15,001 and $50,000” of Tesla stock, according to his most recent publicly available financial disclosure filing.The order is the latest hurdle Boeing faces to avoid a potentially embarrassing trial and plead guilty to misleading the Federal Aviation Administration and violating a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement.Assholiest of the Week (MM):SEC charge hinges on director's lack of ‘social independence' DR MMYou're kidding SEC - on average, 20% of every US large cap board is connected inside two degrees JUST FROM OTHER BOARDSWe just covered Parker Hannifin on our show Proxy Countdown and found that 100% of the board worked within 250 miles of one another, and 40% of them were from Ohio!Where are the regulations on this? If you're policing social independence, barring directors from future directorships, just because it wasn't disclosed - NONE OF THEM ARE DISCLOSED!It can't be that a former employee of the company like Leslie Kilgore on the Netflix board, who worked under Reed Hastings AT NETFLIX from 2000-2012, can NOW be considered “independent” on a board… WITH FOUNDER REED HASTINGS… and not have a lack of “social independence”?Digital tobaccoTikTok knew its algorithm harmed kids, accidentally revealed internal documents show14 states are suing TikTok35 minutes from starting use of the app to addiction - that's faster than meth where dependency can take days to weeksMeta must face US state lawsuits over teen social media addictionVOTE EVERY DIRECTOR ON A DIGITAL TOBACCO COMPANY BOARD OUT OF EVERY OTHER BOARD THEY SIT ONThere are 40 directors of Alphabet, Meta, Snap, and PinterestThose directors have 72 directorshipsThere are 22 of them that have directorships on other boardsEliminate OTHER dual class asshole companies, and you have 15 directors to vote out - stop selling digital tobacco or you lose your jobUnited Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) Board of Directors Approves Share Buyback ProgramFour years ago we bailed out the airlines after UA posted a 6bn loss followed by a 1bn lossThe last year net income declined 15% to less than 1bnThe highest TSR performer on the board that approved this has a history of .488 batting average - meaning they are below average of .500 - and they are the HIGHEST ON THE BOARDOf the 13 bloated board members, two have earnings batting averages above .500 - the rest are all below .350!This is one of the worst performing, most interconnected boards in America - and they are spending over $1bn they don't have to grease the palms of investorsYou can send thank you notes to Vanguard (14% of shares) and Primecap (9% of shares) when they stop serving you hot food and force you to sit in an overhead binGoodliest of the Week (MM/DR):DR: Teen tobacco use falls to 25-year low as fewer pick up e-cigarettesDR: Union petitions skyrocket under Biden, doubling for the first time in 50 yearsMM:Supreme Court Allows E.P.A. to Limit Power Plant EmissionsMM: JPMorgan's Dimon Says Economy ‘Remains Resilient'Headliniest of the WeekDR: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Says We Shouldn't Put Our Heads In The Sand, 'We Have To Find A Better Way To Help The People Who Get Hurt By AI'Jamie Dimon suggests he'll remain at JPMorgan for a very long time: "I intend to be doing what I'm doing — I almost guarantee I'll be doing this — for a long period of time, or at least until the board kicks me out"MM: JPMorgan CEO Dimon says cash is very valuable when the future looks ‘treacherous'Who Won the Week?DR: 3-headed CEOsMM: The Shareholder Primacy podcast with Mike Levin and Ann Lipton - Activist Investors Are Podcasters NowPredictionsDR: Disney's post-Iger succession planning is to replace him with six-headed CEO:Chadwick "Chaz" Van Buren III – The overly confident CEO who insists on golfing metaphors during board meetings.Reginald P. Throckmorton – Always talking about the "good old days" and using phrases like "back in my day."Wellington "Wells" Haverford – A CEO who embodies the old-school, silver-haired corporate type with a massive corner office.Bartholomew J. Wainscott – A pompous executive with a fondness for outdated business jargon like "synergy" and "paradigm shift."Milton C. Kensington – Known for his oversized suits, outdated tech skills, and resistance to change.Horace F. Farnsworth – The CEO who refuses to retire, always seen with suspenders and a comb-over.MM: Kids start playing a new game called “Jamie Says” in which a kid says something louder and louder and everyone else called “the reporters”, writes them down furiously
Skydiving absolutely was not on the agenda. It was chemical engineering. That was the direction he had taken, and Brian Naiman was happy with the choice. But as it's been known to happen, skydiving snuck up on him, and a random invitation by a skydiver to join him at the drop zone let him down a new path. When everything from dissatisfaction at work to a pandemic got it the way, the once unthinkable became reality. Enter the new partner of Skydance skydiving in Davis California. Now, handling everything from social media to managing the upcoming scrambles in October as well as their film festival in November, Brian's journey towards the lunatic fringe is complete.
Welcome to Multiverse News, Your source for Information about all your favorite fictional universes.Reports are here to give us hope that a Scarlet Witch solo movie is in the works, though this is not confirmed by Marvel Studios or Kevin Feige. The news from Production Weekly comes on the heels of a Dublin radio interview given by Wanda Maximoff actress Elizabeth Olsen where she indicated her love for the character and her willingness to return to the role if “there's a way to use her well.” Television's royalty was out on Sunday, September 15, when the 76th Emmys took place. Hosted by father/son comedy duo Eugene and Dan Levy, the award show mostly followed expectations with a surprise win from Jean Smart's show Hacks taking home Best Comedy Series and Best Actress in a Comedy Series for Smart herself. Otherwise, Shogun and The Bear cleaned up, with the former setting historic records including Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada becoming the first Japanese actors to EVER win Emmys. The Bear did well for itself as usual, with its 11 awards setting a new record for the most wins for a single season of comedy. The final trailer for Venom: The Last Dance was released by Sony. The trailer showcases Eddie Brock and his symbiote sidekick facing down Venom's homeworld, with comics enemy Knull at the forefront as the antagonist. Venom: The Last Dance is the final movie in the trilogy, written by Kelly Marcel who is also taking a turn in the director's chair for this entry. Happy Gilmore stars, Christopher McDonald and Julie Bowen, have joined Adam Sandler to reprise their roles for Netflix's Happy Gilmore 2, which is now officially in production. Paramount has released the first trailer for the Dexter prequel, Dexter: Original Sin, and has set a premiere date of December 13 for the series. Netflix has released a new trailer for adult animated series Twilight of the Gods from Zack Snyder, which is based on Norse Mythology. The series debuts on the streamer on September 19. Last week, the first trailer was released for Gary Dauberman's upcoming Stephen King adaptation, Salem's Lot. The film will begin streaming on Max on October 3. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice stayed atop the box office this weekend, pulling in about $50 million dollars to bring its worldwide total earnings to $263.4 million dollars in its second weekend. Speak No Evil hit second place in its opening weekend, pulling in $20.8 million dollars globally on a $15 million dollar budget. Lionsgate's The Killer's Game starring Dave Bautista took in a disastrous $2.6 million dollars. Netflix has announced that Emily in Paris has been renewed for a fifth season. Deadline has revealed that Oscar-winning filmmaker James Cameron has purchased the rights to Charles Pellegrino‘s forthcoming book Ghosts of Hiroshima. Cameron has committed to use that, and the 2015 Pellegrino book Last Train From Hiroshima, as the basis for a film he will shoot in between Avatar productions. It will mark Cameron's first non-Avatar film since 1997's Oscar-winning Titanic. AppleTV+ has canceled Time Bandits, an adaptation of a 1981 feature film by Terry Gilliam, after a single season. The news comes less than four weeks after Time Bandits completed its 10-episode first season on August 21. The long rumored The Sims film adaptation has finally found a home and director. Amazon MGM Studios has announced that development has begun on a film adaptation of the long-running Electronic Arts gaming series. Kate Herron, known for directing the Disney+ series Loki, will helm the feature from a script that she is co-writing with Briony Redman. Margot Robbie's production company Lucky Chap will produce. John Cena has signed on to star in Matchbox, a live-action take on the classic Mattel car toyline. Apple will distribute the feature from Skydance and Mattel Films. Sam Hargrave, the director behind the Extraction movies will direct.
It's that time of the year again! We're on studio break this week, but you can hear more Hullabaloos and other bonus episodes over on the Patreon, Patreon.com/WizBru This week on WizBru Hullabaloo: Holden was furious at how challenging the final boss is in Another Crab's Treasure, Jake's getting back into Fortnite for the Doctor Doom season, Jake is binging Veep in light of recent events, Skydance is producing a very random live action adaptation of Sega game Eternal Champions, Nic Cage is playing John Madden in new biopic, Alien: Romulus does huge box office numbers, HBO hired extra security to The Last of Us set for the filming of scenes with Abby to protect everyone from rabid gamers, Holden and Jake wonder if there has ever been a great live action feature film based on a video game, Holden and Jake close out the show with a roundup of the video game release calendar for the rest of the year, and so much MOOOOOOOORE!!! Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to ad-free new episodes.
The Verge's David Pierce, Alex Cranz, Allison Johnson, and Richard Lawler discuss the Google Pixel 9 review and its controversial reimagine AI feature, a Chick-fil-A streaming service, Sonos app updates, and more. Further reading: Google Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL review: AI all over the place Google's AI tool helped us add disasters and corpses to our photos This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren't platforms using it? The AI photo editing era is here Donald Trump posts a fake AI-generated Taylor Swift endorsement From Digital Trends:I tried Google's new Pixel Studio app, and it's a mess OpenAI exec says California's AI safety bill might slow progress https://www.threads.net/@chriswelch/post/C-8wxAGOpyP https://www.threads.net/@chriswelch/post/C-8LGwKOlPj?xmt=AQGzGV_vvL3vxoEhZ_nM263bP8n-Pu9Dxz5Ngmib-0wzgA https://www.threads.net/@chriswelch/post/C-8wxAGOpyP A new $6 billion bid to take over Paramount could undo plans to merge with Skydance. I hope the next CEO of Disney is just Bob Iger with a fun mustache. Paramount Plus plans are 50 percent off ahead of the 2024 NFL season The 2024 Olympics were a big win for TV of all kinds The Acolyte has been canceled Chick-fil-A is reportedly launching a streaming service for some reason Apple Podcasts now has a web app Spotify star Alex Cooper is jumping to a new podcast network JBL made its charging case touchscreen more useful with a size boost Meta and Snap are about to show off their new AR glasses Amazon cancels the Echo Show 8 Photos Edition's main feature — focusing on photos Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chris and Andy talk about the news that Paramount Television Studios is being closed as Paramount begins to merge with Skydance (1:00). Then they talk about some of the news that came out during Disney's D23 expo, including the trailer for the newest 'Star Wars' series, ‘Skeleton Crew' (10:36). Finally, they discuss the first two episodes of the new Apple TV+ series ‘Bad Monkey,' which stars Vince Vaughn and a lot of nice shots of the Florida Keys (25:46). Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Producer: Kaya McMullen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
John welcomes back Mike Schur (The Good Place, Parks and Recreation) to ask, how do you fix an overwritten script? They discuss ways to rebuild scenes and restore muddy characters that have become burdened by too many notes, all while making sure your script retains its voice. We also look at the new IATSE deal with the AMPTP, the WGA's back-pay settlement with CBS, Skydance purchasing Paramount, and follow-up on our idea of keeping pages un-locked. In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Mike listen to the AI generated songs named in the RIAA's current lawsuit and wonder, did they really steal from copyrighted material? (The answer is yes.) Links: Mike Schur on Wikipedia Weekend Read 2 IATSE tentative basic agreement David Ellison's Skydance Taking Over Paramount After $8 Billion Investment by Dade Hayes for Deadline WGA West Reaches $3 Million Settlement With CBS Studios Over Writer Fees and Benefit Payments by Cynthia Littleton for Variety Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Alphabirds Should We Go Extinct? by Todd May Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt! Check out the Inneresting Newsletter Gift a Scriptnotes Subscription or treat yourself to a premium subscription! Craig Mazin on Threads and Instagram John August on Threads, Instagram and Twitter John on Mastodon Outro by Vance Lovett (send us yours!) Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt with help from Jonathan Wigdortz. It is edited by Matthew Chilelli. Email us at ask@johnaugust.com You can download the episode here.
Opting out & class actions; school TikTok mob attack; Boeing's troubles; health crisis in a Texas Bitcoin town; unlocking Ticketmaster resales; Trump threatens Zuckerbucks; Humane execs leave to launch AI fact-checking startup; comment sections are garbage, Spotify adds one for podcasts; Amazon's questionable climate goal claim; FTC bans NGL from hosting minors; taking student's phones; Elon still planning to colonize Mars; Lilith Fair doc; Skydance buys Paramount; CNN layoffs; TUAW AI zombification; Watch Duty; Notepad gets spellcheck; Affinity over Adobe; Epic Games & Apple; Flow Pro; Blue-Ray; Fitbit, Nike losing services; e-bikes; the Acolyte; the Charismatic Voice; Shelly Duvall & Faerie Tale Theater; Dave's security camera odyssey.Show notes at https://gog.show/656Sponsors:1Password Extended Access Management - Check it out at 1Password.com/xam. Secure every sign-in for every app on every deviceDeleteMe - Head over to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use the code "GOG" for 20% off.Private Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!!FOLLOW UPRedbox Owner Chicken Soup For The Soul To Liquidate In Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Shift; Workforce Of 1,000 To Be Let Go And 24,000 Kiosks Shut Down, Lawyer SaysIN THE NEWSFirst-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachersYour Waymo got pulled over. What happens next in Phoenix?Boeing agrees to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US governmentWheel Falls Off United Airlines Boeing Plane in Mid-Air‘We're Living in a Nightmare:' Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin TownHackers reverse-engineer Ticketmaster's barcode system to unlock resales on other platformsTrump Threatens Mark Zuckerberg With Prison In Unhinged Truth Social RantHumane execs leave company to found AI fact-checking startupAI-Driven Behavior Change Could Transform Health CareMicrosoft and Apple give up their OpenAI board seatsGoogle's search market dominance grows as ChatGPT faltersCrunchyroll Announces the Removal of Its Comment Section Across All Platforms To 'Reduce Harmful Content'Spotify is launching a comment section for podcastsAmazon Says It Reached a Climate Goal Seven Years EarlyNGL becomes the first app banned from hosting minors by the FTCA British boarding school will make students use boring old Nokia phonesCourt ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmatesHow Elon Musk and SpaceX Plan to Colonize MarsSchmactors EP02 - Clowns, Nudity, and the Red Planet: A Wild Ride Through the UnbelievableMEDIA CANDYLilith Fair Documentary to Feature Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Erykah BaduParamount and Skydance will merge to create new tech-media giantCNN to Lay Off 100 Staffers as It Preps Major Revamp of Digital EffortsEarly Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombifiedTikTok Star MurdersGladiator II | Official Trailer (2024 Movie) - Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel WashingtonThe Umbrella Academy | Final Season | Official Trailer | Netflix‘Constellation' Canceled By Apple After One SeasonAstronomy Photographer of the Year Features Cosmic Fireworks and Aurora DragonsAPPS & DOODADSWatch DutyMicrosoft Notepad Receives Spell Check for The First Time Since 1983Canva's Melanie Perkins says it's time to stop overpaying for AdobeAffinity six-month free trialAfter two rejections, Apple approves Epic Games Store app for iOSYouTube upgrades its 'erase song' tool to remove copyrighted music onlyFlow Pro is the First AI Tracking iPhone Stabilizer with Apple DockKitSony Killing Off Blu-Ray Production Is a MistakeYou Won't Be Able to Access Your Fitbit Web Dashboard After TodayNike's self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile appTHE DARK SIDE WITH DAVEThe CyberWireDave BittnerHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopOnly Malware in the BuildingThe Charismatic VoiceThe Shining actress Shelley Duvall dies at 75Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale TheatreShelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre The Complete CollectionHow Shelley Duvall Was Discovered by Robert Altman | LettermanSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Today's word of the day is ‘disrespected' as in Paul George as in Clippers as in 76ers as in NBA. Was Paul George right to feel that way? The NBA contracts are out of control because of the TV money. George was offered $30 million a year! That's disrespect? (7:00) Jalen Brunson has a huge decision to make Friday. Will he sign an extension or wait? If he signs Friday it's one number. If he waits till Summer 2025 it's a way bigger number! (16:00) Are dynasties done in the NBA? Steph Curry seems to think so. (23:00) Will Joel Embiid win a ring? Can his new Big 3 do it? (25:45) NPPOD. (32:45) Review: Top 5 Musicals. (37:33) The Dallas Stars have a new streaming plan. No more Ballys. Now a free service? (44:15) What is happening with Paramount and Skydance? What does the merger mean? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kara and Scott discuss Biden's decision to stay in the race, and what alternate scenarios might look like. Then, after months of negotiations, the Paramount and Skydance merger appears to be (finally) happening. Plus, Apple gets a seat on OpenAI's board, and Threads turns one. Finally, our Friend of Pivot is Brian Derrick, a political strategist, and the founder and CEO of Oath, a fundraising platform that aims to maximize campaign donations. Brian explains how donors are reacting to Biden's continued candidacy, and reveals the high-stakes statewide elections that people should be paying attention to. Follow Brian at @brianderrick_ Follow us on Instagram and Threads at @pivotpodcastofficial. Follow us on TikTok at @pivotpodcast. Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or at nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Paramount just announced a merger with Skydance, a film production company. The hope is that adding Skydance’s offerings to its streaming platforms will boost subscriptions. But streaming is a finicky business, where you have to be a top-tier service to thrive. Also in this episode: Dynamic pricing technology could be profitable for retailers, some Chinese families seek gentler school environments and Americans visit South Korea as skin care tourists.
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