April 3, 2025

The Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2025 with Fandango's Erik Davis

The Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2025 with Fandango's Erik Davis

Fandango Managing Editor, Erik Davis, joins us once again on Pop Culture Weekly to discuss the results of https://images.fandango.com/cms/assets/3aea72c0-05dd-11f0-8321-2b978811c524--fandango-2025-moviegoing-trends-insights-study.pdf, including the...

Fandango Managing Editor, Erik Davis, joins us once again on Pop Culture Weekly to discuss the results of Fandango’s 2025 Moviegoing Trends and Insights Study, including the Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2025 as voted by YOU!

Kyle McMahon and Erik explore everything from the thrilling action sequences of "Mission Impossible: Final Recokining" to James Gunn's fresh take on Superman, featuring the charming Krypto the Superdog. Erik brings us the latest insights from Fandango's study on movie-going trends, where concessions remain king and premium formats like IMAX and Dolby are drawing audiences back to the theaters.

The conversation takes a deeper dive into the evolution of the movie theater experience, spotlighting exciting developments like themed experiences and the growing popularity of theaters such as Alamo Drafthouse. We also tackle the great debate over cell phone use during films, as some theaters experiment with screenings tailored to all preferences. As we preview the summer movie lineup, our excitement is palpable for the debut of Marvel's "Fantastic Four: First Steps," hailed for its 60s retro-futuristic flair, and the high anticipation for "Jurassic World Rebirth." With Erik's expert insights and our shared passion for cinema, this episode promises to be a cinematic feast for movie lovers everywhere.

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In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, Fandango Managing editor

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Eric Davis returns and we talk about all of the

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upcoming Summer of twenty twenty five movies.

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Let's go Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon

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from my Heart Radio your pop culture news, views, reviews

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and celebrity interviews on all the movies, TV music and

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pomp culture u CRABE Weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon.

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No no, no, no, no, Hello, and welcome to pop

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Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon. I of course am Kyle McMahon,

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and I thank you once again for hanging out with

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me for another episode of pop Culture Weekly. This week,

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there's no celebrity interviews. I have Fandango Managing editor Eric

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Davis returning once again for their they you know, every

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year they do this survey of well a couple of

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times a year, but the one we're talking about out

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is you know, on trends and that sort of thing

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in the industry. And so Eric is joining me to

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talk about that and Fandango's list chosen by you of

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the most anticipated movies of summer twenty twenty five. So

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I'm excited to hear what the most anticipated movies of

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Summer twenty twenty five are as chosen by you and

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Fandango readers, So let's just get right into it. Also,

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please note that you know I told you last episode,

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but in case you missed it, which is a great

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one with Kate Blanchett. By the way, I broke my kneecap,

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which has been a very challenging you know, couple of

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months in regards to mobility. I can't freaking drive, and

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you know me, I'm always everywhere, so it's been torture

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for me, as it is for anybody that's in this position.

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But I just wanted you to know why. You know,

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there might be a delay in some things over the

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next fully only a few more weeks and then I'll

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get right back to, you know, being everywhere, all the time, everywhere,

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all at once. So anyway, just an update on me.

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If you've dealt with this, please hit me up and

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let me know. Go to our socials or whatever and

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at me and let me know what you did to

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go through it. I've been watching a lot of movies, obviously,

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but you know, even me, who's a giant movie buff,

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gets bored with watching multiple movies a day, every single day.

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It's like I just can't sit in bed for twelve

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hours a day, you know. But in any event, that's

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neither here nor there at this point, because we're jumping

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right into our conversation with Fandango Managing editor Eric Davis.

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So welcome back. First of all, thank you so much,

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managing Fandango Managing editor Eric Davis. Welcome back back to

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Pop Culture Weekly. How you doing.

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I'm doing great, man. I'm getting ready for a play

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lethra of summer movie releases. I cannot wait. It is

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already feeling like summer in my neck of the woods.

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study five thousand people, I believe, on most anticipated summer films.

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So we do a study. It's a movie going trends

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and Insights study. We do it every year around this

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time leading into CinemaCon, which is a convention that happens

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in Las Vegas for the moviegoing industry, for theater owners

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and what have you. The studios come, they present their

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upcoming slates and so we get to see a lot

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of footage from films that are coming out later this

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year even into next year. So we put together this study,

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we go out to thousands of Fandango ticket buyers and

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you know, not only are we looking for their most

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anticipated summer movies that are coming up, but also just

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are they going to the movies more? If they're going

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to the movies more, you know, what are they enjoying,

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what are they liking to do? And just getting a

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little bit about a little bit of everything about the

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movie going experience in general.

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some of the non surprising things. We'll start there.

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I would say the non surprising things. Concessions still rule, right,

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I mean, over ninety percent of people when they go

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they go to the movies, and I think people are

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excited to see that concessions are you know, we're seeing

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a lot more versatility when it comes to the concessions

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that are offered at the movie theater, from you know,

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alcohol to complete meals. I think people were seeing a

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lot more people interested in going to the movies, you know,

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beyond just the popcorn and the soda. They want to

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get a larger experience when it comes to concession. So

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concessions very much top of mind for people when they're

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going to the movies. I would say, also, people are

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going to more movies. You know, I don't necessarily see

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that as much of a surprise, because you know, now

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that we're sort of past COVID, we're past these Hollywood strikes,

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we are seeing a lot more interest and a lot

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more of a steady stream in the movies that are releasing,

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and so we're seeing a lot more interest for people

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to go back to the movies. So more people are

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interested in going to see more movies in twenty twenty

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five than in twenty twenty four.

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you found in the study?

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I would say it's in the middle of being a

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surprise and not a surprise, but premium large formats. And

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when I say that, I mean like Imax movies, Dolby movies,

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four d X where the seats shake. You know, these

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sorts of experiences are becoming a lot more popular. I

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think it was something like seventy seven percent of people

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that we surveyed or that experience is front of mind

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for them when they're going to the movies, they're thinking

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about watching it in one of these sort of premium experiences,

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and I think that's up sixteen percent over last year.

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that we're seeing is that people want to experience movies

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in imax in Dolby. If they're going to go out

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to the movies for the evening, they want sort of

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the maximum experience that they can have, you know, and

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and so we're seeing that is a big trend as well. Also,

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you know, ticket bundles. This is something that's relatively new,

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but you know, people being able to go to the

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movies and buy a ticket but then also get a

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collectible item of that ticket, you know, whether it's like

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a trinket from Awana too. We had like Disney collector

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pins that we gave at at Fandango with your ticket,

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or it's a popcorn bucket that you know that that's

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like a custom popcorn bucket.

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There's things have been yeah, yeah, there's like not to interrupt,

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but I've seen so much action on social of people

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like lining up to get nosparato, you know, coffin bucket

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or whatever it may be. And these people are like,

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you know, it's crazy the demand there is for these

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cool kind of things.

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Sorry, it is, Yeah, it is crazy. And this is

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something that we've really only seen kind of bubble up

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over the last year. But it's very smart. You know.

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I think when I grew up going to the movies,

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I was one of those kids. And I don't know

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if you did this, but I like I collected my

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ticket stuffs, you know. And you know when you a

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lot of people when they go to the movies, you know,

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maybe they're on a first date, or maybe they're taking

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their kids to the movies for the first time, or

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there's some other sort of they're going to the theater

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with their parents, and they haven't gone to the theater with

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their parents or their friends, their new friend group or

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whatever it is. But you know, so many of us

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when we go to the movies, it's it's like a

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moment that we want to remember. And so it's very smart,

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I think, for for theaters and for your Fandango to

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sort of tap into that our human nature sure of

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wanting to collect things and remember the moment. And so

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that was something that we're seeing a lot more of.

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that that cultural moment of going to the movies.

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people that are coming up with these are so creative

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and how they do what I mentioned the Nasfaratu one,

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which I'm a huge fan of Eggers and Eggers and

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that film, and so that one particularly struck my fancy

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because it was like from the movie it was like that,

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you know, this like coffin tomb thing, and I was

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like wow, you know, of course when I got to

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Regal they were long gone, but but yeah, I mean,

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and it's you're kind of taking a piece of the

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movie home with you in a in a big way,

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which is cool, you know. And it's, like you said,

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one of those memento things that you know, it's just

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for people like us that are such big film buffs

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are I think is just a cool thing. And now

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it's leaking into the kind of general public too, exactly. Yeah.

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releasing Revenge of the Sith Star Wars movie and they

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have like a big Darth Vader popcorn bucket, you know.

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the camp of these kinds of popcorn buckets, but I

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also think they're smart promotional devices and it's sort of

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you know, it's like I remember talking to friends when

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they had the crazy Deadpool and Wolverine popslorn bucket and

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they were like, I didn't even know there was a

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deadpooin Wolvery movie until I saw the popcorn bucket.

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Wow, you know, And so I think it's.

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that survey where people saying that, like, you know, these

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sort of collectible items like popcorn buckets, like pins. I

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think for Captain America at Fandangle we had these like

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collectible coins. That's been another hot hot button top that

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people really like. So these kinds of things have just,

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you know, I think, not just sort of raised interest

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in movie going and given people sort of something that

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they can collect and remember the experience by, but they're

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also functioning as these sort of promotional devices of getting

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into these corners of the internet, so to speak, that

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where maybe people aren't necessarily the familiar with Nosfaratu, but

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they but they discovered the movie through the coffin popcorn

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bucket that they couldn't get when they got to the theaters.

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But you know, then, I don't know what that's going

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for on eBay. You know, it just goes to show

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you that, you know, there is an audience and a

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fandom for these kinds of things.

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What other kind of surprising things did you find, because

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I mean, five thousand people, it's a big survey example size.

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item was that, you know, we asked people, where are

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you discovering movies these days? And fifty nine percent And

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I believe this may have been the first time, but

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the majority of people are now discovering movies on social

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media fifty four percent TELEVISI advertising, so TV. The way

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I always discovered a new movie was the trail was

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on TV. I was like, oh wow, I guess this

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is being Nate. But now it's a whole different ballgame.

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And while TV broadcasting is still you know, fifty four

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percent still a really big place for discovery. Now social

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media has taken the front seat in terms of where

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people are finding out about movies for the first time.

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the rise of social media and you know, a lot

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of people are discovering things, you know, Visa, v Instagram

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and TikTok, and it's just a really interesting new evolution

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of movie marketing and how and discovery. So I thought

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that was another pretty interesting item on there.

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Yeah, for sure. Now, did you get into any you know,

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like one of the pain points I have with movies

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is cell phone use and talking and that sort of thing.

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people complaining about that. Did that register at all on

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in the survey?

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or deterrent, you know, and I think there's yeah, I

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feel like there's pockets of that, you know, and we

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actually see movie theaters. Now. Another interesting thing that I

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saw from the study was that you know, these sort

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of growing up there was the multiplex, right, and the

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multiplex kind of just took over, you know, the area,

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and you went to just the multiplex, there were like

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fifteen movie theater screens and that was it. But now

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we're sort of seeing the movie theaters transition into kind

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of entertainment centers. So you go to the movies, but

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there's also a bar there in the lobby. There's also

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like an arcade. There's also a bowling alley. And then

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you also have sort of like the Alamo Draft House,

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who take sort of talking and texting very seriously. But

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then you also have theaters where you know they'll they'll

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have screenings where you can text in the movie or

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you can use your phone, and they'll they'll advertise for

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that as well, you know, because there are some people

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that wanted to go to the movies, but they also

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want to be able to be on their phone at

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the same time. I don't understand these people. I don't

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know where they they where they exist, but they do.

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just an evolution that touches everything that people want when

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they go to the movies. Whether or not you want

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to text, maybe there's a screening where you can go

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do that, or if you want to make a whole

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night of it and you just want to go to

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one place, you know you can now do that. I

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just went to the one of the most successful Alimo

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draft House, the Races in Brooklyn, New York, and I

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bar in the lobby that's got all these like funky

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like horror masks and stuff, and it was great, and

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they have like feel the drinks and you can kind

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just think that, you know, the evolution of the experience

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is something that I think we really saw resonating on

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the survey, and that people are a lot more interested

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in maximizing the experience of going to the movies, you know,

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and trying to pair it with an arcade or bar

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or boweling. Alli.

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I love that. We're gonna take a quick break and

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when we come back, we're going to dive back in

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to our discussion with Eric Davis, and we're gonna get

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into the top most anticipated films of the Summer of

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twenty twenty five. Be back in thirty. All right, thank

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Eric Davis, and later we're going to jump into the

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most anticipated films of Summer of twenty twenty five. This

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summer looks like it's going to be huge. There's a

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lot of things I'm excited for. What what were your uh,

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you know, what were what are your first of all?

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You know, look looking forward to most with all of

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these giant blockbusters coming.

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I mean, if you're talking to me personally, I'm going

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to say, the top of my list is the Mission

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Impossible movie. I'm I'm look, I'm a dork for the

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Mission Impossible movies. I just think they give you everything

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that you want in like an experience of going to

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the movies. But I also remember, like when I was

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when I was a young kid, like one of the

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first things I remember talking to my dad about movies,

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he would always say, Tom Cruise is a guy that

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gives you your money's worth? Would you go to this

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is like pre Mission Impossible even too, And it always

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stuck with me, and especially stuck sticks with me when

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I watch these Mission Impossible movies. And I watched this

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guy like literally risking his life to entertain us, And

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I'm thinking, like if I'm going to take money out

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of my wallet and go to the movies, like I'm

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going to invest in that guy? You know, that's like

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putting his life on the line to make sure I

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have a good time at the movie. So you know

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that Mission Impossible movie. Also, you know, the word final

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is in the title, the Final reckoning. This could be

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the last one. This could be you know, tie up

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the whole franchise. And so for me personally, like that's

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my jam that's number one on the list. On our list,

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it's number three, So it is very important for people

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and they're they're really excited about it, and so that

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one for me is really up there. I would say

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beyond that, I'm a big Marvel nerd. I love the

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comic book movies. The Fantastic Four.

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That's my number one.

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Yeah, that's our number two, number two on the top ten,

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probably my number two as well, behind Mission. But I

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think there's you know, yes, we've seen Fantastic Four movies

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in the past, but this is the first one from

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Marvel Studios. They just announced the fact that that cast

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is always also going to be part of the Avengers movie,

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the Beers movie. So I think there's a lot of

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excitement about the Fantastic Four returning to the screen. Back

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cast as well, I think is really great. So that's

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another one that I'm really excited about. And then if

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I were to give you a third one, I'd probably go,

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you know, it's hard Superman. I'm really excited for the

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return of Superman. I'm a big fan of James Gunn

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who wrote this film. I think he's gonna do something

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really fun there or the horror movie twenty eight years later,

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A big fan Danny Boyle. To know that he's returning

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to that franchise, it makes me excited about what we

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So going I want people to go to and we'll

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have all the show in the show notes and all

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the links, but so they can see the full list there.

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But what is the starting with number five? What was

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the big number five?

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So number five is a Marvel de It's Thunderbolts. That's

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actually going to be the next Marvel Studios film that

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we see. That most of that cast as well, was

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just announced in this five and a half hour live

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stream that Marvel Studios did earlier this week on announcing

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what they say is part of the cast of Avengers Doomsday,

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which is already over twenty people. So that's part of

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the cast. Just to give you an idea of what

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that film is going to be like. But Thunderbolts is

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sort of like this ragtag. I kind of say, it's

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almost like Marvel's answer to the Suicide Squad, where they

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get like these anti heroes, some of these characters where

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villains and other films, and they're all going to have

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to team up in like an Avenger style of movie

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in order to sort of quell some big threat that

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the Avengers are not around to take care of. So

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that film looks a lot of fun. I really like

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what they're doing with their marketing campaign. Florence Pugh, who stars,

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compares it to like this is like Marvel's idea of

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like an a twenty four movie or a song movie. Yeah,

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so you know that reeks of them taking some chances

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with this film that maybe they haven't necessarily done before.

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So so I really like that film and I can't

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wait to see that. That's at number five?

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What about number four?

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So Superman Superman is at number four? This is a

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reboot not only just kind of a reboot of Superman.

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David corn Sweitt is now our new Superman Clark Kent,

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but this is also a big film for James Gunn

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and Peter Saffern's DC Studios. This is their first film

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that's going to kind of launch their new universe for DC,

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and so can't wait to see not only is Superman

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in it, but there's a Green Lantern in it, and

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there's other you know characters that are in it as well.

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But you know there's also your assic Lex Luthor played

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by Nicholas Holt and Lois Lean played by Rachel Brosnahan.

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What I love about this film is that, yes, it's

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a reboot Superman, but it's not an origin story, and

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so we're gonna get dropped in to like, you know,

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Superman has been Superman, he's been doing his thing, and

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you know, we're gonna tell a story at this moment

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in time. And so not only am I looking at

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it as like can't wait, I just love Superman. I

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can't wait to see what James Gunn does with it,

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but also I can't wait to see how this sets

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sort of the groundwork for what's to come in this

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master plan that they have for DC Studios.

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Yeah, and there's what's his name is super Dog Crypto Crypto.

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Thank you? I love it makes me nervous, but I

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love James Gunn, So I am eagerly interested in how

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he will work Crypto into it all.

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So, yes, exactly. And you know what's interesting about that

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is that Crypto was a part of the movie, but

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then James adopt the dog, and the dog went kind

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of ballistic on him and I just tore up his

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house and you know all that stuff, and it just

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kind of inspired him to like bring Crypto into this

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Superman movie to sort of be that kind of companion

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but also that thorn in his side. And so I

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actually really love it. I think it's just going to

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be a very relatable aspect of Superman for people, but

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also very different. We haven't seen this before, so yeah,

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I think Crypto is going to be is going to

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steal some thunder from the spotlight of Superman for sure. Yeah.

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If there's anybody that can do this kind of side

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of Superman, I think it's James Gunn. So I'm excited

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to see what he comes up with, you know exactly. Yeah.

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I think he does a really great job of telling

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stories that are action packed but also emotional and they

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also make you laugh. And when you can do all

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three of those things in a blockbuster film, I feel

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like That's when you are successful, you know, because your

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audience is constantly feeling a different emotion, and that I

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feel like is when you walk out.

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That's what makes a movie memorable. Yeah, for sure. My

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one of my favorite movie experiences ever was seeing Guardians

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of the Galaxy in the theater for the first time,

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and it made me think to myself, I wonder if

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this is how people felt when they saw Star Wars

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in the movies for the first time, you know, because

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I just had this sense of awe and just like

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I'm just watching, you know, on this big screen and

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that has just stuck with me. And it's so you know,

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the DNA of that is James Gunn, you know exactly.

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Yeah, so I can't wait to see what he does.

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So third, what's number three?

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So we talked a little bit about it already. It's

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my number one. It is Mission Imposter, right, Final Weakening,

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and you know Tom Cruise is back. He is of

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course doing death defying stunts. This is going to pick

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up sort of after the last film, Dead Reckoning Part

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one with Dead Reckoning now, so I would say, maybe

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catch up on that. But also, you know their tagline

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is everything has led to this So if you've ever

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wanted to do a little bit of a marathon of

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Mission Impossible movies, now is the time to do that. Yeah,

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we have them all at fandango at home, you can

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binge watch, you can catch up, because I do think

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that this is going to be a film that touches

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a little bit of every one of those previous Mission

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Impossible movies. The crew is back, you know, Simon peg

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Ving Raims, So you know, you got the crew there

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and and I'm curious to see, you know what, how

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how final is this reckoning? Is this going to be

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the last mission for Ethan Hunt? Or will they leave

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the door open for more Mission Impossible movies. I'm selfish

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I could watch these movies for the rest of my life.

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But you know, then again, what are these movies without

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mister Tom Cruise. So we'll see see what this film

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has in store for us as the audience and as

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Mission Impossible fans. But like I said, I can't wait

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for this. I think they're always fun. There's a bit

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of mystery and intrigue. There's the action element of it,

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there's the ensemble element of it. I've always you know,

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there's like there's always some heist element as well, and

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like that these kinds of movies just feed every aspect

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of why I love summer blockbuster movie making. So I

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can't wait. I think Christopher mcquery, who's directed the the

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last few Mission Impossible movies, a really great collaborator with

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Tom Cruise. I think the two of them connecting and

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collaborating for the last several years has been one of

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the great the greatest decisions of Tom Cruise's career.

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Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Number two, you said,

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is fantastic four First Steps, which is my number one,

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And I love that they're going with the kind of

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sixties retro futuristic kind of vibe. So I'm really curious

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how how that all ties in. And it also makes

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me wonder if there will be any other Marvel mcu

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characters that may make an appearance, you know, in the past.

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What's number one?

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So this one may be a bit of a surprise,

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but it is Jurassic World Rebirth, you know. And when

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we put out this survey, I saw a lot of

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comments from people being like Jurassic really like that's the

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number one movie. But I always say, don't underestimate the

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power of the Jurassic franchise. Yeah, people love the dinosaurs.

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I think this one sort of is looking like it's

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a back to basics, you know, if the last Jurassic

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movie was sort of like the Avengers end being of

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Jurassic movies, right, it's like, we're gonna take the old casts,

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We're gonna take the new casts. We're gonna put dinosaurs

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all over the world and like just go bananas with it.

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And now they're sort of scaling back down back at

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an island. You know, it looks like there's a bit

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of a heist mission has to happen. Great cast Jonathan Bailey,

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Scarlett Johansson, Mahrshala Ali, So you have three really powerful

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performers there, and it just it's the kind of Jurassic

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that I like. My favorite Jurassic movies were movies that

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were on the island where there was a lot of action,

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but there's also this like claustophobic, you know, kind of

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tone that underbelly to a Jurassic movie where it was

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scary but it was also exciting and sort of finding

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that connection in a Jurassic movie that's when it really

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sings like I want to be scared, but I also

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want to be like on the edge of my seat,

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like really excited watching what's happening. So this movie, at

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least in the early marketing materials and trailers that we've

493
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seen books to kind of have a lot of that

494
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essence to it, and maybe that's why it's really resonating.

495
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I think also our audience at Fandangle really loves scorelet Johansson.

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Her movies are always on these surveys if she's in it,

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and you know, and for good reason. She's a great actress.

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So I think, you know, Jurassic being at the top there,

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I kind of like it. I like how it kind

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of pushed the Marvel movies aside and said, no, you know,

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dinosaurs are the biggest species in the park. What we

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deserve right this number one spot. But I like it.

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I like that it's at the top there, and you know,

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you look at that July July this year, Jurassic World, Rebirth, Superman,

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and The Fantastic Four First Steps, It's got to be

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one of the biggest months of movies we've seen. I

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mean in years you go go pre twenty twenty without

508
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a doubt, so you know, the summer movie season is

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coming at us, and they're throwing out some big some

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big stuff and it looks really exciting and that those there.

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They aren't even only the only three movies. In July,

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we have another I Know what you did last summer

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movie as well, So there's just a lot coming out

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this summer. We just talked a lot about the action movies,

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but you know, also on this list twenty eight years

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later in the Horror movie. And then for families, there's

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a live action How to Train Your Dragon movie at

518
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number eight, a live action Lee Lo and Stitch be

519
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which my kids are obsessed with number nine, a sequel

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to Freaky Friday, Freaky or Friday at number ten. So

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you know, to juxtapose the action and the superhero movies,

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we have these really sort of familiar family movies that

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people are really excited to see.

524
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Yeah, it's gonna be an amazing summer. I can't wait. Eric,

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Thank you as always. Where's the best hub to get

526
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all of this?

527
00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:35.160
Yeah, I would say download the Fandango app without it,

528
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without a doubt, have that in your wallet at all times,

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fandango dot com for sure, and then follow us at

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the greatest.

532
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Eric Davis, thank you as always. It's always a pleasure

533
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talking shop with you, and I will talk to you

534
00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:58.359
very soon. Eric Davis always love when he's on pop

535
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Culture Weekly. Is a fountain of knowledge on the industry,

536
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not just the industry in general, but on movies and

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films and series. And he's just a and he's such

538
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a great guy. He's a fanboy just like me, and

539
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I always love talking to him about this and you

540
00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:18.119
seem to love listening whenever he's on the show, so

541
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always great to have him next episode. We have some

542
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very cool guests that I can't wait to share with. Yeah,

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some I'm not even gonna not even gonna hint because

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it's I'm just so excited.

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So and any of it.

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I will see you next episode. I love you.

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