2024's Must-See Movies: Top Picks & Sleeper Hits with Kyle McMahon and Fandango's Erik Davis

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In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, I talk with Fandango's Eric Davis all

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about what we can look forward to
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fandango audiences list of top ten most
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in twenty twenty four, upcoming twenty
twenty four, whatever you want to say.

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So in this episode, Fandango Managing
editor Eric Davis comes back. I

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always love talking with him, and
we discuss what we're looking forward to in

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twenty twenty four in movies, as
well as the Fandango survey of the Fandango

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audience their top ten most anticipated films
of twenty twenty four. What made the

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list, what didn't? What is
like missing that? I'm like, wait

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a second, I can can't wait
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the list because you know, Fandango
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on their list. So let's get
right into my interview and let's discuss all

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of the most anticipated films of twenty
twenty four. Here he is Eric Davis.

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So I am here with Eric Davis, Managing editor at Fandango, and

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we're going to talk about some exciting
stuff. Fandango's doing as well as what

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we're looking forward to in twenty twenty
four. How you doing, Eric,

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I'm doing great, man. I'm
ready for a new year in movies.

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Yeah, Yeah, me too.
What's going on with you in your world

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these days? Well, you know, this is such an interesting time because

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it's the beginning of a new year. So there's a ton of films that

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are on the schedule that we're starting
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some early stuff. Are approaching Super
Bowl where we're hopefully going to see some

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trailers, maybe some first looks at
some of the bigger movies. It's also

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award season. We're in the thick
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as we speak, the Golden Globes
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Critics' Choice Awards is coming up,
which is a show that I voted

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in that I attend. So we're
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that the holidays have passed. What
speaking of the holidays, what has been

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your favorite films that you've seen over
the holiday season. You know, I

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was a really big fan of Waka, the Timothy Chalame movie. I grew

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up on the Gene Wilder Willie Wonka
movie, which you know, he's a

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bit more eccentric, he's a bit
crazier in that film. And so there

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was something really sweet and lovely and
sentimental about this new Woka, which kind

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of wears its heart on its sleeve, reminded me in some ways of Annie,

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the musical Annie in terms of its
music and its sensibilities. And I

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just thought it was a really lovely
film for families over the holidays, and

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and it did pan out that way. A lot of families are going they're

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still going to see it. And
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that stretch of holiday releases, Wonka
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love I loved Wonka. I also
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had obviously. The the original film
is a beloved classic. The book is

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a beloved classic. And I knew
that it was going to be a musical

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obviously based on the stage play.
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that was kind of amalgam of the
book and the movie and the stage play.

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It like you know, it wasn't
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but it took elements from the film, and it took elements from the book

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and then even took some sections out
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and they added some songs in and
every anyway, I was really really enamored

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with it. I saw it in
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night, which I was really also
pleasantly surprised at. And you know,

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for me, and I'm sure for
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film going. You know, I
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heck out of that thing. And
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especially in our industry, we get
sent screeners or you know, we go

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to a screening or whatever, and
there's something different, in my opinion,

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about going and seeing it in your
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people excited to see this movie.
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purple, which I was again kind
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dead on a Monday night and there'd
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maybe there, and it was a
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it. For you, going into
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months of twenty twenty four, but
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year. What are you looking forward
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the color purple, and I feel
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that we're starting to see when it
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the stage and there's musical involvement.
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as it kind of reminds me very
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similar in that way where it takes
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elements of the musical production, and
it kind of throws in a blender.

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It updates the story, it modernizes
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and available for a new generation to
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I said, very different from the
color purple, but I think the color

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purple also kind of mixed and matched
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new generation to make that story accessible
for them. And so both of those

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films remind me of each other of
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in. And you know, in
music and movies, I think there's so

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much power there. So, you
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I saw Mean Girls with my teenage
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so that for me, like if
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Mean Girls is definitely up there.
Would highly recommend that one. Also,

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Jason Statham has a new action movie
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January. Speaking of award season,
if you are somebody who missed, say

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Christopher Nolans Oppenheimer in Imax or an
Imax seventy millimeter, that's returning to theaters

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in January, as is Spider Man
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of my favorite movies to watch with
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three, the experience of watching that
with a packed house was just awesome,

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both of those films, and so
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and so January is a little bit
of a mix. It's like throwing stuff

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into a blender. But those are
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February, there's an action movie from
Universal called Argyle. There's a Sony Marvel

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et cetera. I can't our Gyle
looks so good and I'm there was a

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screening on Monday that I'm so mad
I wasn't able to make. But I

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am really excited to see that that
looks really good. Speaking of kind of

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this new generation sort of thing that
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about with with Wanka, with Mean
Girls with the Color Purple. What's interesting

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to me. You know, people
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Hollywood you know, needs new ip
and blah blah blah. One for

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me, a good film or whatever
the project is, is a good film

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or a project, you know,
and if you are finding your own take

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or whatever, and especially in the
case of The Color Purple, and as

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you're saying Mean Girls, where it
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Psycho the shot for shot remake that
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its own spin on things. And
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we were watching The Color Purple say
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oh, I think she was in
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Goldberg, who has a cameo in
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this girl has no idea, she's
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the original, and so that power
that a classic is something I consider a

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classic film like The Color Purple has
for me and the generations you know before

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me or whatever that had that film, This is their version of that.

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You know, she had never seen
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to experience that story. Similarly,
with Wonka, my godson was saying,

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oh, Wonka looks great, blah
blah blah. He had seen the Tim

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Burton, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but he didn't have that connection like

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you know, I think millennials and
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the original, And this is kind
of their chance to get that in a

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new way for us that are familiar
and perhaps beloved the original, you know

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what I mean. Yeah, So
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you're telling it in a fresh way
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from new filmmakers and like have had
it, you know. And obviously the

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box office if we look at the
box office, you know, the top

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films often every single year are IP
whether it's sequels or remakes or whatever.

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So people are obviously responding to it, you know, yeah without it.

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And I think of Mean Girls in
that way too, because I had a

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lot of people say, like,
why do you why they don't need another

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Mean Girls? Like the first one's
a classic. You don't need to do

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this again. But then I look
at my daughter, who is now a

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teenager going to high school in the
year twenty twenty four, and that film,

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the new version, you know,
takes place now they're using slang of

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the day, TikTok stars are in
it. She's leaning over and say,

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oh that I follow that person on
TikTok and that person And so these themes

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of you know, of bullying and
of sort of standing up for yourself and

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you know, everybody's talking behind everybody's
back, So why don't we just all

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kind of forget it and drop it
and get along. So like these themes

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that are still ridiculously relevant, even
more so these days with social media.

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You know, I think they stick
with her more so. And she's a

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fan of the original, but this
film I think really sticks with her because

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she can relate to it. And
so when people say we don't need another

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version of this for the modern era, I say, we actually do need,

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you know, not everything, but
some films I think that have powerful

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themes that even if it's a comedy
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the new generation kind of needs that
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mean, yeah, you know,
familiar IP and we you know, we

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have our survey of our ten most
anticipated twenty twenty four movies, where when

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I talk to you about it,
you're gonna be like, all of these

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are sequels and remakes, and we
hear that a lot. Yeah, but

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that's what audiences are drawn to,
first and foremost. They're drawn to sort

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of what's familiar, what's comfortable.
That's not to say that original stuff doesn't

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exist in between the familiar, but
audiences first and foremost are drawn to what

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makes them feel comfortable. Yeah.
For obviously, I'm a huge Star Wars

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fan, and I you know,
missed the boat by like twenty years for

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the original Star Wars to be in
theaters or whatever. And so my kind

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of time for Star Wars was the
prequel trilogy. You know, that was

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where I was in grade school or
whatever, and that was my hype around

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Star Wars. And obviously I wouldn't
have had that had the prequel trilogy not

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come out. It would have just
been this kind of Oh, everybody talks

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about this huge thing called Star Wars
from you know, nineteen seventy seven or

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whatever, and how people were flocking
to the movies and all that sort of

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thing, but it wouldn't register with
me for Star Wars because I wasn't alive,

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and without that prequel trilogy, I
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big Star Wars fan that I am
today. Guardians of the Galaxy I always

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say this. When I saw that
in the theater, the original Guardians of

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the Galaxy, I said to myself, this must be what it felt like

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to see the original Star Wars in
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kind of magical mode moment where I'm
just captivated by what's going on and I'm

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like, wow, this is like
so cool and blah blah blah, and

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and those moments matter no matter in
my opinion, no matter you know what

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films or ip they come from,
Because that was a big moment, if

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you will, in my movie going
history for me to go and see Guardians

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and just be in all of the
power of film, you know. So

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I think those things are always important, well, without a doubt. You

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know. I think of Dune as
well, you know. I mean when

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I saw the first the New Dune, I kind of got these like Star

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Wars esque chills. I was like, Wow, I don't you know,

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they don't do a lot of they
do big sci fi these days, but

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I think there's a certain level of
sci fi and craftsmanship that you know,

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Denie the New introduced with his Dune
movie that I'm hopeful will continue with part

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two. But like in this era
in terms of like there being this new

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Star Wars, what they've been able
to do with that, at least that

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first film kind of gave me goosebumps
in terms of bringing this new world in.

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You know, June of course was
an inspiration for Star Wars and so

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very excited about that sequel. I
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of the year. But you know, Star Wars is a really really great

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example because you know, I grew
up with the original trilogy, but my

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friend, you know, I know
people that grew up with the prequels that

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you know, Anakin, you know, is very important, That's more important

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than Luke to a lot of people. And then like my kids grew up

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with Ray and Finn. My dogs
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their Star Wars, And I think
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each of these generations to not just
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but then all sort of passed down
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wonderful to see. I love that. Sorry, I'm sorry I got sidetracked

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a bit. But so speaking of
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a list of, yes, of
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What are you able to give us
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And this was a survey that went
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So these are people that are buying
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going to the movies, and we
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films and performances, but also like
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is important and it's been a very
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to the movies. Going back to
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that we surveyed planned to see multiple
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over eighty percent more excited to go
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twenty twenty three. And I also
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want to see them in a premium
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people were excited to see movies in
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which I think made a big dent
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Freddy's, which is a huge,
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really well too so and like I
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to sort if I'm gonna go out
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life. So that's why I think
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they're all sort of either belonged to
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Not surprisingly, Marvel Studios has led
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Deadpool three being the number one most
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stuff they had on the docket moved
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it's just Deadpool three, and so
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is their first R rated film as
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as Wolfver Reene. So just a
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as a buddy comedy through the multiverse, which I'm all about. Yeah,

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I'm so excited because I think it's
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to soft reset in any way,
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of third wall fourth wall, the
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sort of breaking this fourth wall sort
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the viewer, and I think there's
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feel that that's where they can go. But this is the perfect opportunity

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to do that, even if they
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film. Ryan Reynolds is Deadpool for
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most anticipated film of the year as
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Ryan Reynolds as well, which helps
that film. Next three, two,

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three and four Beatle Juice two.
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Michael Keaton is returning When a Rider
is returning, Jenna Ortego. One of

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the hottest up and coming stars right
now, of course, was Wednesday Adams

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in Tim Burton series is going to
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Tim Burton returning to direct. So
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love of Beatle Juice, the original
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is number two, and then I
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three is Ghostbusters Bros. At Empire. I think a lot of people excited

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for that one, a because it's
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because that Ghostbusters Afterlife cast Paul Rudd, Finnwolfhard, et cetera. Is joining

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forces with the old school Ghostbusters Dan
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et cetera. So I think that's
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generational excitement around that one. Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm you know,

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those top three for on the Fandango
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and Ghostbusters are kind of equal for
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to both. You know, Beetlejuice, I mean I was a kid when

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of my favorites. I mean,
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started because I had an older cousin
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that was much younger than our parents, and so I kind of got into

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a lot of stuff from her,
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kind of probably two edgy for me
things at the time. And but I've

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picked up some cool stuff along the
way. One of them was Ghostbusters and

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Beetlejuice and that sort of thing.
It's just like you said, the nostalgia

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factor, where it just has that
special place in my heart and my life,

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and to have it done well,
you know, I think Ghostbusters After

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Life was so well done with such
a loving touch and respect for the original

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property that it really did bring it
into today in a perfect way, really,

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people like myself and yourself who loved
the original two films, and then people

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that loved the you know, Ghostbusters
Afterlife that are bringing this hope and excitement

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to Frozen Empire. So that's awesome. I can't wait for those. Yeah,

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these franchises from the eighties that had
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evolved, and you still need to
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like that's one of the hardest things
to do. We see some films stumble,

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some films really get it. I
agree with you. I think it

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comes down to the filmmaker and the
appreciation, understanding the tone and how to

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adjust it when needed. And it's
funny because we talk about Ghostbusters nineteen eighty

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four, the year the first one
came out. Four, Yeah, very

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much a theme this year Beverly Hills
Cop. Also Eddie Murphy came out then,

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and there's a new Beverly Hills Cop. It's actually a Netflix movie this

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year, but Eddie Murphy returning to
the role. And so the eighties Beetlejuice

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eighty eight, So the eighties very
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Number four on that list was a
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about. Probably this would be my
I would say number two or even number

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one, Personal Doom Part two.
I think that we spoke about the original

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Dune or the first Dune, that
of the New Dune, the original Dune.

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But I just think that the cast
is just tremendous. Timothy Challomey and

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Zendeia are backs, and Dey is
going to have a much larger role.

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They've added Christopher Walking as the emperor. I mean to have Christopher Walking as

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an emperor of a galaxy I think
is just an amazing choice. Florence Florence

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Pugh, Austin Butler who played Elvis, nominated for an Oscar. He's the

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big villain in this film. And
then also more from the other film,

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Javio pardm Josh Brolin, stealin Scarsguard
all returning. But yeah, I mean

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just the cast, the quality of
filmmaking. I think Dannis Villaneu I would

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put him up there with your Christopher
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modern era filmmakers that just time they
have something come out, it's you half

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that you're compelled to see it,
especially on a big screen. So watching

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Dune Part two in Imax, honestly
I haven't done it yet, gonna be

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one of my most anticipated movie garning
experiences, at least early on in this

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year. And what's that? So
those are that's the top five? Five?

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Number five is Venom three Venom Sony, Yeah, Sony Marvel. We

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said Marvel Studios only as one movie
out this year. Sony's Marvel. They

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have three out. Only one of
those is mentioned here, the other two

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being Madam Webb which comes out in
February, Craven the Hunter which comes out

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in August. But Venom three,
I would say, maybe aside from spider

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Man, Tom holland Spider Man who
shared with Marvel Studios, I would say

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Venom probably the most popular of those
Sony Marvel spinoffs. Of course Tom Hardy

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stars, and there is a third
Venom do out in October. Yeah.

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That that Yes, that is definitely
a movie that's coming out. But yeah,

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I mean, of course a lot
of people want to see Tom Hardy's

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Venom kind of party at some point, I do. Yeah, and he's

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great in the role. He yes
it, yeah, and he's good.

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Yeah, we'll see. I think
the second one went off the rails a

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little bit little yeah. Yeah,
So I'm hoping, you know, better

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things for the third one. Yes. So that's number that rounds out the

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five, six and seven. I
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of this year. Despicable Me four
is at number six. Of course,

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the Return of the Minions and Grew. I mean, this is a franchise

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that's grossed over four billion globally.
Arguably Illumination's most popular franchise. It's seen

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a spin off with the Minions.
They have their own franchise in addition to

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Despicable Me. So that's gonna be
play like Gangbusters. Comes out in July,

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which is when those films like to
slide in. Probably gonna be one

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of the biggest earners of the summer
and probably of the year as well.

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But right next to it, Inside
Out Too, a sequel to I would

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say, one of the more beloved
Pixar movies. And you know, before

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I was talking about my daughter,
this is a really and you were talking

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about Guardians, you know, kind
of growing up with a movie and being

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able to follow a character who's growing
up along with you. And so Inside

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Out Too picks up with Riley as
a teenager, and you know, of

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course dealing with new emotions of being
a teenager, anxiety being one of them.

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well, yes, so, but
it's lovely I think that, you know,

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to have a franchise where you know
you're a young kid and it speaks

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to you in that way, but
then the sequel picks up with you at

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the age that you're at, you
know, and then if inside out three,

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maybe they pick up with Riley as
she's graduating high school or going to

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college or something. And it's nice
for a generation to have those those beats

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there because it's somebody that they're relating
to and growing up with. Absolutely,

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in many ways, it's similar for
me to Toy Story. You know,

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it was kind of andy growing up
as I was growing up, which I

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find have found interesting and cool because
it's not too often that that happens,

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you know, and so it is
kind of a unique thing that And then

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on the viewer side, you know, you're remembering where you were in your

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life while seeing that particular chapter in
the franchise, you know exactly, and

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it just speaks and I think there's
it speaks about saying good bye to your

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childhood. And you know, that's
why the coming of age genre is one

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of my favorite genres, because I
think those movies, more than any help

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a generation when they need the most
help sort of understanding the changes between elementary

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school and middle school and high school
and and sort of that uncomfortableness and the

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way kids treat each other. And
you know, I think that those moments

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when you're thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, especially for girls. I think to

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have films and I go to my
every film that means a lot to young

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women. I bring to my daughter, even if I feel like it might

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be a little bit too much for
her, because I do think, like

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when you can't talk to your parents
or you can't talk to your friends,

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sometimes there's a film there that is
giving you the answers that you desperately need.

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And so so that's why I'm really
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Going into eight nine, Lord of
the Rings is back. But it's

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interesting because Lord of the Rings is
back with a new speaking of trends,

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a new trend, it's an animated
version of Lord of the Rings, and

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this speaks to you know, across
the Spider Verse, into the Spider Verse.

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We saw did really well with animation
Teenage Ninja Turtles one of my favorite

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animated movies of last year, and
so you know, ken these big franchises

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pivot to animation and find a lot
of success there. Everybody can do it,

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but they may be able to do
Lord of the Rings. Also Transformers

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attempting to do it this year as
well. There's a film called Transformers one

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that's animated, and then number nine
Gladiator two. Speaking of a classic,

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that one returns Best Picture winner the
First Gladiator, Ridley Scott returning, not

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Russell Crowe. This one will have
Paul muscal who is an a big up

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and coming actor, then to a
Washington Pedro Pascal. So a lot of

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people looking forward to that. How
long has it been since the First Gladiator?

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Do you remember? What? Are
we looking at? Two thousand?

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I want to say one best picture? So yeah, I mean this one

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picks up twenty years later. Oh
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This is kind of yeah, picks
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who plays the sun. I believe
of Russell Crowe's character, and he's kind

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of been off and hiding for a
long time and he's kind of re urging.

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I think I believe that is the
premise here. So great cast.

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Ridley Scott is back and I think
he does a great job. So could

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it be another Oscar contender? It's
coming out right in that November time frame.

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We'll see. And what about number
ten? Number ten is another interesting

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one, another sort of franchise movie. It's a quiet place day one.

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So you remember the John Krasinski the
two Quiet Place movies. This one a

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spinoff of those. This not Quiet
Place Part three, so Emily Blunt not

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This isn't an Emily Blunt in that
crew. This is a whole new cast

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led by Lapito Jungo, and it's
about sort of that day one. So

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if you remember Quiet Place Part two, it opens up the day the monsters

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arrive and there's the chaos that's happening. So I would say, imagine an

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entire film taking place on that day
in some other location, and that would

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be Quiet Place Day one. I
love that. I think the the Quiet

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Place films are extremely well done and
I love them. So I am looking

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forward to this myself. There's a
few that I'm looking forward to that we're

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not on the list. Godzilla,
Kang oh my God, not Frozen Empire,

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Godzilla, it's like a new new
empire. There's a lot of Yeah,

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I believe it's Godzilla x Kong,
a new empire, okay, and

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then this Frozen Empire is Ghosts.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to this.

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I love what Legendary has done with
this series. Kong Skull Island is one

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of my probably top twenty favorite films. I love it so much. And

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then the Monarch series that Apple TV
Plus has is such a cool entry I

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guess into that world that I just
think they've done this whole thing masterfully and

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I'm really looking forward to that.
Also. I believe it's called If by

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John Krasinski. Yes, an imaginary
Friend. Yes. So those are two

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that are not on the list that
I'm really looking forward to as well.

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What are some of yours that aren't
on the list, But you're like,

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I can't wait? Yeah, I
mean I would say right up there in

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my top three not on the list
would be Furiosa, the mad Max Fury

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Road prequel. I mean, look, George Miller, I think is a

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genius with the Mad Max series.
Mad Max Fury Road, I think is

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among the best films of the past
twenty five years. So to get another

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film in that world, even though, look, am I crazy that it's

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a prequel? You know, I'm
never so crazy about prequels because we kind

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of know where the story ends up. But just to watch another story be

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told in this world directed by George
Miller is what I am jonesing for.

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So really excited for that. Chris
Hemsworth. Anya tail Joy plays the younger

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Furiosa who is played by Cholly Stern
in Fury Road, so that is up

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there for me. I would also
look at that Joker sequel. You know,

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Joaquin Phoenix is coming back, Todd
Phillips Direx, Lady Gaga is starring,

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I believe as Harley Quinn. It's
like a musical apparently. So I

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don't know what this film is gonna
be, but it's probably gonna be very

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different from that first Joker, which
was, you know, a huge box

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office success for Warner Brothers. So
that's there. And then also another film

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I'm really curious about because I'm a
big karate Kid fan speaking of the eighties,

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and I think it came out in
nineteen eighty four, so this might

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be another nineteen eighty four movie.
But yeah, there's a karate Kid movie.

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I also watched the Cobra Kai Netflix
series and Ralph Macchio is in it.

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But then Jackie Chan is also in
it, right, jack Chand starred

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as Worlds. Yeah, so it's
like this, it's like this multiverse karake

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Kid movie. So I don't know
what it's about. All we've seen was

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like, uh, you know,
Ralph Maccio and Jackie Chan like a casting

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video looking for the next Karate Kids, So I consider my interest super peaked

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because I'm a Karate kid nerd.
But that one I think is due out

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in December. And what are your
predictions for like the top three biggest hits

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of the year box office wise?
I would say Despicable Me for I think

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we'll be up there. We could
even see Inside Out too, because this

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could be a big year where Pixar
comes roaring back. I would say,

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to remind us of the power of
Pixar, so we could see those two

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up there. I think Deadpool three
will be up there. The other Deadpool

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movies have have done very well.
I would look maybe at that Joker Joker

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movie, the first one. I
think it cleared a billion globally, but

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it's it's yeah, it's a huge, it's a huge film, So I

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would put I would put that in
there. And then you have some wild

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cards, you know, because you
know we'll beatle resonate with with with a

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new generation. And will that help
help go you know Wednesday, the series

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Wednesday was a phenomenon for Netflix.
Will that spill over into Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters,

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Frozen, Empire, Will That Find
It's Footing, Godzilla x kN So

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there are some of these wild cards
out there that on paper, yeah,

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they are big movies. There's a
lot of anticipation about them. Once they

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land, will will audiences find them
and embrace them? So so we'll have

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to see yeah, and then part
of I think the fun part of what

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we do is then you get the
what you would think would be outliers,

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Like I mean, everybody knew Barbie
was going to be big, but I

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don't think anybody knew Barbie was going
to be that big. And then Oppenheimer.

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You know, of course it's Christopher
Nolan and and that has a built

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an audience. But I don't think
any of us probably could have predicted that

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these two movies would be these giant
juggernauts if we were having this conversation as

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you know, last January, you
know what I'm saying. And so these

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kind of some of those things kind
of go from oh, yeah, that's

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going to be a big movie to
wow, this is like a cultural jug

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or not that we probably weren't expecting
exactly. Yeah, And so well we'll

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have to see like, I'm looking
at my schedule now, and you know,

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after the Barbenheimer weekend, everybody was
like, what's our next Barbenheimer weekend?

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What's the next weekend? Where like, you have these two, these

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two films that could potentially combine for
this magical skyrocketing you know, events extravaganza.

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There doesn't seem to be a you
know a lot of those on the

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dot. I mean, yeah,
we have weekends that have multiple films in

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it. You know, May twenty
fourth has Garfield. They have Kingdom of

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the Planet of the Apes and Furiosa. That was another one. I really

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we're too Kingdom of the Planet of
the Apes. Yes, so that and

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Furiosa and Garfield, which Chris Pratt
playing Garfield. All three of those are

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coming out on the same weekend,
so we could see a lot of action

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at the movie theaters. But in
terms of like like the next Barbenheimer weekend,

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I'm personally going into twenty twenty five. We have the Megan to the

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sequel to Megan and Paddington three,
both both on the same weekend. I'm

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calling it Meggington, So let's get
that going now. But that that could

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be the next Barbenheimer we'll see.
I love that. Where can we find

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you, Eric, Yeah, I
mean find me at fandango talking all things

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movies at all times. You can
find me on on Twitter or x at

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00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:44.679
Eric with a K. Davis and
you know, on all the other socials

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00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:47.639
in that in that space for sure. Awesome And as always we can go

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to fandango dot com and get all
of the latest and uh and get your

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00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:57.760
tickets as well, so Eric,
and I would also I would also note

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I would also note that you know
all of these that we talked about are

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part of a franchise. They are
sequels all of those previous installments we have

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available to watch rent buy at home
on Voodoo as well, so you can

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catch up before these theaters. Awesome, Thank you, Eric Davis. Please

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come back again and let's talk movies
without a doubt. Man, Take care

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you too, Eric Davis, Fandango
Managing Editor, fellow pop culture, movie,

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film, streaming, limited series,
TV technology lover. Always love talking

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with Eric Davis. You can go
and see the list and everything else you

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want regarding movies on fandango dot com. We have the links in the show

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notes as well as a link right
to that list that most anticipated Movies of

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twenty twenty four and you can follow
Eric right in the links in the show

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notes as well. So that's our
show for I'm looking forward to continuing to

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bring you more pop culture goodness and
incredible interviews with the people that you love

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and I love in pop culture and
more. And like I said, we're

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gonna be really heavy on video this
year. So there's gonna be a lot

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of good stuff coming your way and
I can't wait to talk with you about

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all of it, all the pop
culture goodness. All right, that's our

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show for this week. Hit me
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