The Must-See Movies of Summer 2024 with Fandango's Erik Davis; Jamey Johnson: A Song for Heroes

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In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, I talk with country star Jamie Johnson

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about his brand new song, his
first in nearly a decade plus. We

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talk with Eric Davis from Fandango all
about the biggest summer movies coming out this

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year. Let's go Welcome to pop
Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from my Heart

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Radio your pop culture news, views, reviews, and celebrity interviews on Fall,

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the movies, TV music, and
Pomp Culture U Crab Weekly. Here's

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Kyle McMahon. Nanna, what's up. Welcome the pop Culture Weekly with Kyle

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McMahon. I of course am Kyle
McMahon, and I thank you for hanging

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out with me and you know,
rapping about pop culture this week. This

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episode, I have two cool things
going on. I speak with Jamie Johnson,

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country music songwriter, singer who he
hasn't released a single in like a

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decade believe his last single was twenty
fifteen, so nine years ago, and

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he is releasing one now that you're
listening. He has released one called twenty

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one Guns and it is a tribute
to the men and women that we have

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lost that were in our armed forces. You know, it's referring to the

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twenty one gun salute. Jamie himself
was in the Armed Forces. He was

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a United States Marine for four years
and kind of began playing country music in

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bars while he was, you know, in the Marines, which is pretty

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cool. So I talk with Jamie
about that. He's going to be performing

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at the twenty twenty four National Memorial
Day Concert on PBS, which I will

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be there live from. We'll have
a special episode with the performers there coming

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out in just a few days,
so it's the next episode that's coming out.

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I'll be talking with the performers and
by the way, some of the

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performers Joe Montaigne and Gary Sinise who
always as always hosts, you know,

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the National Memorial Day Concert from Breaking
Bad Brian Kranston and I've talked to Cynthia

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before. But Cynthia Arivo, who
of course has been in so many great

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things, but will be in or
is in Wicked, which comes out this

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fall. It's going to be a
huge movie musical. And jennam Alone is

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performing, and Patina Miller. There's
so many great artists and talent that will

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be performing for the National Memorial Day
Concert, which you can watch live on

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Sunday, night on your local PBS
station, or you can watch on demand

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for the following two weeks and on
Facebook and YouTube and all the good stuff.

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So be sure to you know,
keep in touch with me through social

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I'll see my updates from rehearsals for
National Memorial Day Concert and my interviews with

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the talent. Also, I talk
once again with managing editor at Fandango,

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Eric Davis, and we talk the
most anticipated movies of summer twenty twenty four.

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So I'm really excited to get into
that. Let's start with my interview

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with Jamie Johnson discussing his career and
his first single in nine years. Here

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he is Jamie Johnson. I want
to welcome Jamie Johnson to iHeartRadio's Pop Culture

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Weekly. We are discussing twenty one
Guns, which he will be premiering at

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National Memorial Day Concert on PBS.
But for a moment, I'd like to

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go back Jamie, if you don't
mind. First of all, thank you

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for your service. You know served
in the US Marines. I come from

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a military family myself, and uh, and you know I can't thank you

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enough for for your service. So
thank you for that. Oh hell,

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I was proud I got to do
it. I have a lot of friends

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in the Marines. Marines are such
a great, you know, great branch,

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all of our branches obviously, but
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Marines. So for you, uh, you when you were in the military,

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that's kind of when you started performing, right, you were thinking Montgomery

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or something and kind of started performing
at bars. Is that accurate? Well,

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in a way, I started singing
in front of crowds in church,

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and that was at a really young
age, and so performing goes back with

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me all the way, wows as
early as I can remember grabbing a guitar

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and getting up with my dad and
my sister and you know, singing gospel

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songs in church. But yeah,
when I was when I was in the

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Marines, I started kind of,
I don't know, I'd gook book a

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bar, gig somewhere, you know, twenty years old, nineteen twenty years

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old, booking wherever I could get
to. It was. It's one of

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those things that kind of bonded me
to a lot of the Marines I was

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serving with. Was you know,
the fact that we could take my guitar

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somewhere. You know what. We
went into Laughlin, Nevada, and set

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up and played some somewhere. But
we would just be out in the damn

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desert and throw a hat upside down, collect tips or play stump the band

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or whatever, you know, and
have these guys you know, well you

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know this song, No, you
know, but it was it was fun.

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I had a great time and it
taught me a lot about me music.

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It taught me an awful lot about
the kind of music other people like.

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People will people will get deep with
you on their music. Yeah.

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Yeah, music is uh, you
know, definitely a unifier that that transcends

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language and creed and zip codes,
and you know, it's it's pretty incredible

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for you. You know, did
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songwriting at all in those kind of
formative years. No, well, everything

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has to You only get the one
perspective, you know, so you use

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everything in that perspective for songwriting.
There's not an aspect of my life that's

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been walled off or safe from my
songwriter, uh, which is not always

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a good thing, you know.
Being an introvert, it's sometimes cringe worthy

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for me to look at the things
that I put in detail in songs and

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think, why have I let this
guy have control of the vessel ratting us

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all out, and it's been you
know, it's it's I would imagine that

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it is therapeutic for you. It's
it's something that I assume needs to come

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out in some form. And you
know, this is a safe I mean,

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besides the fact that it could go
to millions and millions of people,

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but it's a safe way to get
that out. I would I would imagine,

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well, it's been safe so far. Yeah, you know, if

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you're if you're a songwriter, it's
something you have to do. They're coming

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when they're coming. For me.
For the longest time, I just didn't.

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I didn't record him. I wrote
something good. My first phone call

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was going to be to send it
to Willie or or George Straight or somebody

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that I knew might appreciate it.
You know, it's I'm sorry, no,

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go ahead, go ahead. It's
interesting that you say that, because

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you know I was I was going
to lead in. This is a great

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lead into, you know, from
after the Marines, you uh, from

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my understanding, moved to Nashville and
jumped into that world. But you were

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were you looking to become a songwriter? Was that your goal or did you

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want to be a performer as well. Oh, I was already a songwriter

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when I moved to Nashville. I
I don't know how many songs I had

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written at that time, but I
bet it was close to five hundred.

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Wow. And uh, none of
them had ever been co written. I

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always wrote by myself. I didn't
know really anything about co w right.

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You know, it seems that it
wasn't even a foreign concept. It was

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just something I'd never thought thought about. We're going to write a song two

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of us. How are we going
to do that? It only goes in

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one direction, the way your mind
tells it to go. So co writing

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became like a It felt like a
team sport when I first started off.

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You know, you have to learn
an awful lot about uh when to be

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quiet when you're co writing. Uh, there's anything I say and can move

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it in a direction that's against where
somebody else is trying to go, and

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that's not that's not conducive for a
good song writing if people can't agree.

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So it's a it's an art,
you know, it's a it's a team,

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team event. At that point,
Yeah, songwriting was not something I

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came to Nashville for. I came
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Nashville, because the ipery is in
Nashville, because the entire music industry was

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in Nashville. And I knew I
was supposed to be a part of it.

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Wow. And just like I knew
I was going to be a marine

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when when I was little, I
knew I was going to be a part

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of the grand old lobbry in some
form. And I knew I was going

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to be a part of the music
industry in Nashville. You know, I

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didn't really think about it until the
other day somebody asked me how long I've

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been in my studio now, which
doesn't seem like a long time. I

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realized I moved into this studio in
twenty ten. I'm at right now,

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and we've been there for fourteen years
already. In this spot, which is

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Chad Akin's old office. It's the
it's the office in the RCA building that

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Chad Atkins used to decide the fates
of young artists. And uh, it's

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it feels good to me to know
that this was the office of a musician.

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This is in the first time music
has been resonating off the walls in

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this room and Old Chester seems happy
with it. Good for now. I

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love that. And when you came, you know, you ended up relatively

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quickly. I mean, and I
say that, you know, knowing that

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you had years of blood, sweat
and tears in it. But you know

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you ended up writing Honky Tonk Badunkadunk, which is still an iconic song that

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had to be huge for you.
I would imagine, uh, the Badonka

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don't. Yeah, it was,
but I mean, like especially you know

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personally, I mean, you know, you you come to to Nashville and

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uh, you know, you're looking
to to make your mark and then you

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have this iconic song that that you
write that still today is iconic. You

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know what was that like for you? We were all young and uh at

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that point had not had a success
in our career, me and Randy has

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Dallas Davison, and uh, we
knew we had a a gigantic song,

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you know. It was. It
was everything that U that people needed put

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on just a for a three minute
mindless Diddy, This one I'll do.

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I was proud of. I got
to make my kid dance. You know,

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she was a year old and diapers
at the time. And when that

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song would come on, she just
felt something different in it and got a

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wiggle in her button, you know, in a diaper. It was a

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blessing, you know, it was. It took us thirty minutes to write.

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We spent most of that time happening
and uh and from the time that

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that song came out, Yeah,
my life changed drastically. I went from

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being a general contractor to being a
musician. Wow, is that when you

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realize I'm here? I made it? Well? It was. It was

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the starting line, I think,
and what a gigantic way to start.

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Yeah, it was the starting line
of the race and and and there were

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all kinds of steps that led up
to you know, getting getting there,

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but uh, yeah, it was. It was definitely, uh, a

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turning point for sure. Then you
know, you ended up releasing a couple

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of albums that I believe your second
one, uh, that Lonesome Song,

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which still today is you know,
praised and renowned for, especially the songwriting.

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You know, when you get a
yet another achievement like that, you

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know, do you feel is that
when you're like, you know, I'm

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very just curious because you've had so
many highs in your career. You know,

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eleven time nominated Grammy nominated artists.
You know, when is it that

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you're like, I am this is
what I what I'm supposed to be doing

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and I'm doing it now? You
know? Was it with that album?

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Do you ever feel that way?
Was it with but Donka? Don't you

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know? When do you uh?
When do you say? Wow? You

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know? I'm This is what I
dreamed about when I was little. Well,

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the version of the music industry that
I found wasn't wasn't what I expected,

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especially after after the outlaw movement.
I thought that Nashville would be a

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little more free than these ideas,
you know that they come from all over

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the place. Oh and what I
found when I first started off was everything

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was locked down, you know,
and it was all kind of dictated how

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what how things would go? You
know, had seen So here's here's the

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difference. There's producers you can work
with. Like for me, I had

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a great producer, Buddy Cannon.
One of Buddy's secrets is how he sets

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a mood for a room for the
musicians because all of these musicians have worked

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with him before and they when he
starts a session off and it just feels

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a certain way. I mean,
he lets players play what they imagine,

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and if that needs a little dialing
in, he can chime in and offer

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up suggestions. Most of the time
with Buddy he doesn't. Most of the

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time he would chime in with a
something is distracting or listen to this,

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are you sure you want that to
go that way? And then there's producers

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out there that are very rigid and
very demanding. It's got to go exactly

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like this right here, right now, and then these parts have to be

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laid out just so. And they're
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that they have the overall plan and
they're going to dictate that out as they

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go. The music business that that
I started off in was very orchestral and

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demanding and everything had to be done, you know, And I wasn't expecting

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that. I would have thought that
by now they figured out that micro managing

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the piss out of people is a
great way to put out crappy music.

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But they did it that way anyway, and I tried to I try my

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best to navigate through those kinds of
water, and I felt like I had,

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you know, Loansome wasn't the first
time I started doing things the way

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I wanted them done. It was
just the way that worked, you know,

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after we put out another project.
But it was also it worked that

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way because I had changed through that
whole experience too. Uh. You know

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that there there was a lot of
me that was in the way of some

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of the early projects. I can
be a smart aspect, but like a

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like a bad dog, I can
be in the way to Is that why

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you started your own label eventually?
Well, I started my own label to

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minimize the hot and back and forth
between the other ones that was starting to

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starting to look like it was gonna
be a norm. And plus, if

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you if you're gonna put anything out
and you're not signed to a label,

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you kind of have to create a
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the the the industry is set up. Uh. So I created a record

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label off of my off of the
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gonna be my label for the rest
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gonna hold on right there, and
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with other uh labels as I go, and may try to do some some

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you uh, you've you're putting out
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is a beautiful, uh tribute in
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be performing it, you know,
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first time. From my understanding,
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but this is the big debut.
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young marine, I served at those
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I was I was one of the
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it always impacts you know. Those
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know, for families that I didn't
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staying in there as a friend m
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then that happened over and over and
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know that this is somebody who ended
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and sacrifice that for their country that
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these funerals I attended, the more
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the loss of the family, but
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grief and that that's one of the
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need anybody to tell me that you
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whole life. Well, same with
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were gone. I knew what they
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also like a family kind of claiming
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At the beginning of it saying,
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you back home, but there there
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you you uh performing it? You
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or you know, Memorial Old Day. Have you thought about and I hope

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weight of that, you know,
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this incredible song, on Memorial Day. Yeah, Uh, I don't put

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that kind of weight on them,
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probably somebody out there that that needs
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that regard, I'm not there for
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and that's it. So there's not
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know. I hope I don't mess
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yeah, I'm not there for me. That's that's incredible. Finally, what

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does Memorial Day mean to you?
You know, marine songwriter, American?

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What does Memorial they mean for you? It's a it's a time we've set

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aside as a country two remember well
and appreciate and give gratitude to the people

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who have lost their lives in support
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country. There's a difference between that
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anybody who served. This is for
people who you know, Memorial Day is

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for people who have lost limbs,
lost their lives and service people who without

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them, there probably wouldn't be in
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We're here for a reason, man, you know, we're here because at

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least in our own lives because the
greatest generation back in the nineteen forties was

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able to defeat Adolf Hitler. That
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astonishing loss of life by the time
that war was over with. So this

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is our way of remembering ours ones
who fought the good fight, the good

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guys. I love that, Jamie
Johnson, Thank you so much. Twenty

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one cons out everywhere, including the
free iHeartRadio app. And we will see

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you PBS's National Memorial Day concert.
Thank you so much for speaking with me.

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Sure it was enjoyable. Thanks,
Yes, I'll see you at rehearsals.

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Jamie Johnson. What an awesome talent, incredible songwriter. He's had a

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pretty amazing career with the different people
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and interesting career as a songwriter and
performer himself. We're going to take

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a quick break. Pay the bills. I will be back in sixty Thanks

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keep the show going and interview amazing
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TV, streaming technology, all the
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all right, next up, once
again, Managing editor of Fandango, Eric

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Davis is back on This time we
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Summer twenty twenty four movie season.
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fandango dot com to see what the
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anticipated movies of Summer twenty twenty four. So here we go, Eric Davis.

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All right, iHeartRadio pop Culture Weekly. Once again, I am joined

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by Fandango's Eric Davis, who I
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talking about the most anticipated Summer movie
survey from Fandango, which I am excited

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about. There's a lot, in
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coming out this summer. How are
you, Eric, doing good? You

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know what. I'm getting ready for
summer and I think this is one of

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my favorite times of year because there's
a lot of big movies on the way,

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and I think people don't realize like
the extent of the movies that are

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coming over the next three months,
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great about these like most anticipated surveys
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know, oh, yeah, I
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what a lot of people have been
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days. It's like, oh,
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July. So it's always a great
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most looking forward to, but then
to also just get educated right on what's

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coming. Yeah, and for a
lot of people not like us, you

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know, their exposure potentially could be
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Bowl or something, and then you
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months until you know, here we
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off summer movie season, and like
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people might be, oh, shoot, I forgot about that. I

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saw that on the Super Bowl four
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and oh now it's finally coming out
or whatever, you know, without

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a doubt. Yeah. I was
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other day and a mom leaned over
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new quiet Place movie coming out this
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there is comes out June twenty eighth. Actually, so yeah, I

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think there's just a lot of you
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now sitting down and saying, Okay, let me see what is coming out

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this summer, and they're realizing that
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and for of course, for the
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the summer, where you know,
there's stormy nights where you can't get out

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to the theater or whatever. We
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and you're not your two hours away, but where you know, we get

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the tornado warnings and all the time
there's Fandango at home, so you can

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catch up on all the films from
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without a doubt, you know.
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films that come out the summer sort
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they come home. So we ask
people not only what films are you

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anticipating coming to theaters, but then
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when when they do come home?
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first half of summer, you're getting
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May releases coming home, and then
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August and then maybe even into September, some of those bigger summer movies are

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coming home too. So so yeah, I mean, no matter where you

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want to watch films or what experience
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say, Fandango has got you covered
awesome. Uh And let me ask you

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just before we hop into this megalopolis, Yes helped me out? Is that

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how you say yes? For Coppola
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this this past week pretty from what
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like, it's either a genius and
amazing or whatever, or it's you know,

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overly done and bombastic and all that
stuff. What are your thoughts on

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the film, especially the breaking the
fourth wall aspect of it. Yeah,

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I personally haven't seen the film yet, so I'm if someone's listening and they

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can show it to me, please
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been reading some of the reviews.
I am also someone, especially when it's

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a new Francis Sport Coppola film.
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much. Like I watched the teaser, I kind of saw some of what

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people were saying about it, but
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know. And I think we are
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out how we're going to be able
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that they will definitely be screening it, so it will be coming to an

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Imax theater, and then beyond that, I think we're still waiting to hear.

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But I love it. I love
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a film make er, you know, a visionary like Francis Ford Coppola,

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can just pour everything he's got into
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and and yeah, let it be
polarizing, you know. I mean some

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of the best films ever made are
polarizing films. And I think especially in

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this day and age where yes,
we do see a lot of franchises and

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remakes and sequels, which without a
doubt people are anticipating we have a ton

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of them coming this summer. But
then I think there's also should be room

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for films like Megalopolis to exist and
to sort of, you know, drive

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interest and for you to watch and
sit with and maybe watch multiple times and

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kind of lose yourself and in what
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tell, you know, And I
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and while he's here and making films, you know, similar to Martin Scorsese

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as well. And I think Christopher
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James Cameron and just you know,
seeing anything that these guys make think is

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rewarding for if you're a film fan. Absolutely awesome. So the most Anticipated

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Summer Movie Survey. I was excited
to see the results of this. Where

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do you want to dive in?
There's so much good stuff. I mean,

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you know, Dead Poo and Wolverine. I think, you know,

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if you want to look at like
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and we broke it down into a
bunch of different areas. You know.

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Earlier a couple of months ago,
we did a most anticipated Summer Movies

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just flat top ten. What are
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talked about that. Yeah, yeah, we talked about that. Dead Pool

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and Wolverine led that. But then
coming into sort of official official summer,

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we wanted to break it down,
you know, and ask people most anticipated

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Imax movies, Action movies, comedy
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kind of break down some of this
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in front of people, and see
what audiences are innticipating. And I think

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if there is a big theme,
it was Deadpool and Wolverine just really dominating

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these lists. It led you know, most anticipated Imax movies, action movies,

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and comedy movies, which I think, you know, just goes to

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show you that I think this is
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know, maybe since Black Panther,
Wikonda, Forever, Spider Man, No

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Way Home. You know, I
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Avengers Infinity Warren Endgame in terms of
just anticipation. Tickets just went on sale

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this week and it already broke first
day ticket sales on fandango the record for

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twenty twenty four. It broke the
first day ticket sales record on Fandango for

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first twenty four hours for Deadpool movie
for the franchise, So I mean,

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it's just showing an incredible amount of
anticipation. We also released the first big

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video interview, Big Ticket Interview on
fandom Angle with Hugh Jackman and Bryan Reynolds

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and director Sean Levy, and it's
like our highest performing interview in its first

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twenty four hours ever. Wow.
Angle. So it just goes to show

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you that bringing, as Ryan Reynolds
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the first time on the big screen, I think is something that not only

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have fans wanted to see, especially
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but I also think, like just
for Marvel, it just shows you,

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like, look, there's still a
lot of love and energy and excitement for

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the films a Marvel Studios is putting
out. Absolutely, that's my most anticipated

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film for the summer, potentially probably
the year. To be honest, I'm

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a huge MCU fan. I love
Hugh Jackman as Wolverene, and I love

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that they were able to do this, and I'm excited to see how it

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all meshes into the MCU. You
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I mean, there's so many things
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I just can't wait to see it, and I can't wait to see it

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on a big screen. You know. There's there's you, and I do

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a lot of screeners or screenings where
it's you know other people like us,

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and and but there's something about a
big sold out theater for an MCU film

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event, films like that where you
know, people are dressing up and people

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are cheering at the you know,
I'm looking forward to that. I really

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can't wait for it without a doubt, you know. And a lot of

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people were saying that last summer with
Barbenheimer, like people were dressing up as

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Zoppenheimer as Barbie and going to the
movies, and you know, in our

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interview, Hugh Jackman actually says that, you know, the head of Fox

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00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:43.519
at the time when the first Deadpool
came out, told him go just go

409
00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:46.039
to a movie theater and see what
people are written with this Deadpool, Like,

410
00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:50.079
see what it's about. So he
says he went to a nine pm

411
00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:52.639
screening in Times Square the weekend Deadpool
came out. He was in disguise,

412
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:57.400
he had a hat on. He
sat on the stairs because it was so

413
00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:00.920
sold out, and he had never
experienced anything like that before, just like

414
00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:05.679
the yelling and the screaming and the
laughing and you know, and and that

415
00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:09.960
moment, he says, is what
ultimately I think convinced him to do this

416
00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:15.960
film. Years later, and just
in terms of seeing how the audience comes

417
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:21.960
together for a character and for a
franchise. And so it's also making history.

418
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:25.519
It's Marvel Studios first R rated movie, It's the first Deadpool MCU movie,

419
00:37:25.559 --> 00:37:29.719
so you know, there's history on
the line too here as well.

420
00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:35.159
And I think all of that,
that entire recipe just comes together for this

421
00:37:35.280 --> 00:37:39.199
perfect storm of a blockbuster arriving this
July. Yeah, I can't wait,

422
00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:45.480
and I can't wait to see the
the reactions to it, the fan reactions.

423
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:50.480
I'm excited to follow the box office. There's just you know, so

424
00:37:50.559 --> 00:37:58.840
much to look forward to surrounding Deadpool, Deadpool and surrounding Deadpool and Wolverine.

425
00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:02.599
So yeah, I'm really looking forward
to that. And as you said,

426
00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:07.480
it's kind of dominated everything, you
know with the survey. It's just such

427
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:13.960
a huge film. What what overall
have you seen? Have you seen any

428
00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:17.599
themes overall with the results in the
survey, I mean, obviously besides that

429
00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:22.159
Pool and Wolverine, Like, are
we are we seeing big budget actions or

430
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:25.920
is it kind of everywhere or I
think it's a little bit of everything,

431
00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:30.400
you know, Like I'm looking at
our most anticipated IMAX movies and This is

432
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:36.119
the first time that we ever asked
people which movies are you most looking forward

433
00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:38.360
to seeing in imax theories, And
I think it's an important conversation to have

434
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:44.480
because I think like imax and premium
large formats, I don't think they've ever

435
00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:47.400
been as popular as they are right
now. You know, people want when

436
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:52.079
they go to the movies, especially
to see a big summer blockbuster, they

437
00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:54.559
want to see it, like they
want that experience to be heightened, you

438
00:38:54.599 --> 00:38:59.199
know, as max as you can
go. I'm leaving the house to go

439
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:02.639
see know Furiosa. I want to
see it on the biggest screen with the

440
00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:07.880
craziest sound. And I think,
like I've always been like that, but

441
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:10.760
it's great to see that general audiences
are now saying, you know what,

442
00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:16.199
these these experiences mean more to me. And so we did that that survey,

443
00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:21.639
and I mean what we saw,
you know, I think franchises,

444
00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:27.920
franchises, returning franchises always a big
theme around summer. Every time we get

445
00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:30.880
to summer, people are like,
there's just just a bunch of franchises.

446
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:34.119
It's like, well, that's every
summer, yeahranchise, and that's what you're

447
00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:37.800
going and seeing. Yeah, right, that's what the summer season is and

448
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:39.360
look, and there's a bunch of
stuff in between, and we have like

449
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:43.639
art house movies and we could talk
about those, but you know, I

450
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:47.000
think, you know, for the
biggest stuff, it's returning franchises and looking

451
00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:51.920
at the IMAX. Deadpool Wolverine is
number one, of course, but then

452
00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:57.519
you have like Twisters at them two
seql to a nineteen ninety six movie,

453
00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:02.599
which Twister, which I think is
to see that as high as it is,

454
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:07.599
just goes to show you that there
are some of these like random nineties

455
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:12.039
movies that actually like still have a
ton of interest in people wanting to see

456
00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:15.719
that return. I think it's I
watched some footage of this at CinemaCon.

457
00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:22.239
It's you know, Universal promising it
to be like the most immersive summer blockbuster

458
00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:25.039
experience that you have. So that's
at number two. There's a new alien

459
00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:31.679
movie, Alien Romneys. That's that's
on this list as well, furiosa Mad

460
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:36.719
Max Saga which comes out Memorial Day
weekend, and then Quiet Place Day one.

461
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:43.079
So you look at what's interesting about
these five for most anticipated IMAX is,

462
00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:45.480
Yeah, you have your comic book
movie, and then you have your

463
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:51.039
Tornado movie. And then you have
your Mad Max action movie. Then you

464
00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:53.480
have two horror movies in there too, you know, and it just goes

465
00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:58.760
to show you, like how people
don't just want to watch action movies in

466
00:40:58.840 --> 00:41:01.639
IMAX. They want to watch like
scary movies too. And I think Quiet

467
00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:07.480
Place Day one and Alien Romulus Look
look awesome, both of those films.

468
00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:10.719
Yeah, yeah, I you know, looking at this list. So I

469
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:15.960
remember when I was a kid,
my mom the first DVD that I ever

470
00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:20.480
had, my mom bought me,
and she had no idea what she was

471
00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:22.679
buying. Really, she just you
know, knew I was a movie buff,

472
00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:28.199
and so there was this thing called
DVD that had come out. So

473
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:30.360
she, her and I went to
this store and bought a DVD player.

474
00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:35.360
There were only a few films that
were out on DVD, and one of

475
00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:38.559
them was Twist Her And and I
just remember, and i'd seen it in

476
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:45.239
the theater. I just remember like
the emotion that I had as a kid

477
00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:49.719
seeing that movie where it was like, oh my gosh, this could happen.

478
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:52.400
You know, we get like I
was just saying, we get tornado

479
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:55.400
with warnings, you know, frequently
in the winter, and so it was

480
00:41:55.440 --> 00:41:59.280
almost like, oh, this is
what would happen, you know, and

481
00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:02.119
it's scary and it's exciting and it's
thrilling and all that. And then for

482
00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:07.960
Twisters to be coming out twenty whatever, thirty years later or something, I'm

483
00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:12.000
bet at math. I don't know. Anyway, a couple of decades later,

484
00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:15.920
I'm like, that's another one of
my most anticipated films because I'm like,

485
00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:19.679
you know, it's that nostalgia factor, it's that oh, it's even

486
00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:23.800
bigger and better now it's not just
Twister but Twisters. And then you know,

487
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:31.079
you have the the obviously the huge
advancement in CGI that I'm looking forward

488
00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:35.000
to seeing it kind of updated,
if you will. And I don't even

489
00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:39.159
think Twister. I think the effects
for Twister still hold amazingly up today.

490
00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:44.320
But I'm excited to see what they
do with that. So there's a lot

491
00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:47.880
of exciting things in that IMAX and
you know, talking talking to you now,

492
00:42:47.960 --> 00:42:52.360
I'm like, you know what,
I'm gonna buy my ticket for that

493
00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:57.679
in IMAX because why, you know, why wouldn't I It's it's actually all

494
00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:00.480
five of these are the perfect films, And i'max this summer, you know,

495
00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:05.000
I love that. Yeah, No, that's a no brainer, you

496
00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:08.599
know. And I think also one
thing that people forget about twisters and and

497
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:13.400
the original Twister. Uh. And
in watching the trailer with my kids,

498
00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:15.639
like they reminded me, you know, like these are real people that go

499
00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:21.679
do this like that, go and
go and drive into into tornadoes and you

500
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:25.400
know, get the data that helps, you know, ultimately and hopefully save

501
00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:31.159
communities future communities from these these storms. And so you know, I think

502
00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:35.679
that there is this yes, this
could really happen, and it does really

503
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:38.840
happen, and you know there and
it's and it's a very it's tragic when

504
00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:44.159
when these tornadoes sweep through cities.
And so I think there's a certain personal

505
00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:47.559
connection that a lot of audiences have
to the topic. And then yes,

506
00:43:47.639 --> 00:43:52.159
you have that advancement of the effects. These movies are known to sort of

507
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:55.960
be at the forefront of what we
can do with with technology. Uh.

508
00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:00.079
And then yeah, and then there's
this educational part of it where it's just

509
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:02.920
like these are real people, these
are real like heroes that go in and

510
00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:06.920
do this, And so I think
that's you know, like there are no

511
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:09.039
real X men, like there are
a few, really, I don't know,

512
00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:15.159
hasn't been revealed yet they told us
there, but like these are real,

513
00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:19.840
like I think, you know kind
of heroes too that go and do

514
00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:22.800
this stuff. And so I think
all of that, I think is what

515
00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:28.840
attracts audiences to a film like Twisters. Yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward

516
00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:30.360
to it. What about you know, I'm a huge horror fan. What

517
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:35.719
about on the horror front? Did
I see that? You guys did?

518
00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:40.079
That was part of the survey.
What are you seeing with that? I

519
00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:44.440
think what we well, what we
are seeing is we're seeing a lot of

520
00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:52.119
uh, the Alien and Quiet Place, Day one, Big Ones. Also

521
00:44:52.679 --> 00:45:00.760
Maxine, which is the trilogy for
Ty West. That was X and Pearl

522
00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:06.639
and uh and now Maxine is the
third one. Uh me a goth stars

523
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:10.719
and uh this one takes place in
like the eighties and what I what I've

524
00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:16.159
been really loving about this series and
Maxine also leads most Anticipated Art House Movie

525
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:21.199
survey as well. What I love
about these films is that, you know,

526
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:24.079
ty West kind of not not only
does he set these these horror films

527
00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:29.000
in different periods, but he also
shoots it as if it was a horror

528
00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:34.519
film that was made in that period. You know, like X, I

529
00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:37.480
love X. You know, he
kind of shoots it like like it was

530
00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:39.400
set in the seventies, you know, tak you know, I kind of

531
00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:44.639
got Texas chainsaw mascer vibes from the
from the movie. Uh. And now

532
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.840
you know with with Maxine, he's
going to kind of I feel like it's

533
00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:52.119
going to feel like an eighties horror
movie. Yeah, And so that one

534
00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:58.519
looks really good. Uh. Alien
Romulus what I love about this new alien

535
00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:00.199
movie. And some people have been
like, really doing another Alien I'm like,

536
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:04.840
no, but this one you kind
of want to pay attention to because

537
00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:08.840
a it's set between the first Alien
and the Second Aliens that yeah, it's

538
00:46:08.840 --> 00:46:13.760
in between those two movies. And
it's directed by a guy named FEddi Alvarez

539
00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:19.559
who did Evil Dead Rise. He's
one of my favorite horror filmmakers, along

540
00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:23.440
with the guy's Radio Silence. I
love them too because they make like very

541
00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:30.239
accessible horror movies, but they go
a bit harder than your normal horror movies,

542
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:35.639
and I think that's a really difficult
thing to do. And I've seen

543
00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:37.719
some you know, extra footage of
Alien Rodmuels. I haven't seen the film

544
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:42.960
yet, but it's exactly that.
You know, it's like this is crazy.

545
00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:45.239
I'm on the edge of my seat. It's a bit harder than I

546
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:52.559
was expecting, gory wise, but
it's really great stuff. And so I

547
00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:55.079
think, I think he's gonna knock
this film out of the park. I

548
00:46:55.119 --> 00:46:59.599
think it's gonna be a really great
film. And and you know, and

549
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:04.400
so that one big and then Quiet
Place Day one. A lot of people

550
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:09.039
are don't realize that this isn't necessarily
a sequel to Quiet Place Part two.

551
00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:14.000
Emily Blunt, you know, John
Kuzitski, those characters aren't in this one.

552
00:47:14.079 --> 00:47:17.440
This one's set in New York City
on the first day that the monsters

553
00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:22.519
arrive. So it's like a spin
off of those first two movies, expands

554
00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:28.599
the universe bit and it kind of
gives you a different setting for Quiet Place,

555
00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:31.559
which I think is pretty cool being
from New York City and seeing how

556
00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:37.239
how it's gonna look. So,
you know, those three films very much

557
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:44.119
dominating horror at the moment. Also, m Night Shyamalan has a new film

558
00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:49.119
called Trap that's coming out, and
his daughter, Shanna Shaia Milan has a

559
00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:52.920
film called The Watchers, also on
the list, based on a book that's

560
00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:57.639
coming out. I think I think
it's this has got the first time,

561
00:47:57.719 --> 00:48:01.840
the first summer that a father and
a daughter have movies, horror movies coming

562
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:05.320
out, like that's cool, you
know, in the same summer. So

563
00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:07.760
I think it's really Shia Milan is
all over the play and his other daughter

564
00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:16.039
is the superstar music performer in Trap. Yeah. Yeah, I love them,

565
00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:21.119
his his daughter. You know,
I've met both both of his daughters

566
00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:24.360
as well. For the Servant coverage
that I did, and she actually,

567
00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:30.360
I believe wrote and directed at least
a few episodes of Servant, uh and

568
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:32.400
she and so I was really excited
when I saw those. I mean,

569
00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:38.280
I'm obsessed with Servant, but when
I saw the what she did with Servant,

570
00:48:38.440 --> 00:48:42.840
particularly with the directing, I was
just like, I cannot wait for

571
00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:45.639
her feature film, you know.
And uh, and here we are,

572
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:52.199
and you know, I love that
now we have two of two Shamalan's that

573
00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:54.679
that I can look forward to their
films, you know what I mean.

574
00:48:55.519 --> 00:49:00.239
Yeah, And it's great. And
both of them look so different, you

575
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:01.639
know, the Watchers. It is
based on a book. I haven't read

576
00:49:01.679 --> 00:49:05.000
the book, so I'm not as
familiar with the story, but it looks

577
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:07.920
freaky. Dakota Fanning stars as a
woman who gets like trapped in a cabin

578
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:13.760
which seems like where there's like monsters
outside and there's all these rules about going

579
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:16.000
out of the cabin and how does
she get back to where she came from?

580
00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:21.880
So it kind of feels really freaky
and cool and wild. And then

581
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.679
Trap, Trap I'm kind of obsessed
with because it's almost like like a lot

582
00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:29.440
of people look at m Night Shayamalan, They're like, what's the twist in

583
00:49:29.480 --> 00:49:32.400
his movie? And I look at
Trap and I watch that trailer and I'm

584
00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:36.400
like, he kind of gives you
the twist in the trailer, you know.

585
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:39.800
Josh Hartnett takes his daughter to to
like a sold out rock show and

586
00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:44.760
she's all excited, but then he
realizes that there's cops everywhere, and he

587
00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:46.639
goes and asks a guy what's happening
and he's like, oh no, this

588
00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:51.159
is a whole. This is a
setup to catch a serial killer. And

589
00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:57.280
Josh Hartnett is the serial killer.
So I like, just that setup is

590
00:49:57.320 --> 00:50:00.199
so interesting to me. So it's
just like, so are we rooting for

591
00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:04.800
the serial right? Like What's like
it's almost like he's giving you like,

592
00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:07.800
this is the twist, and I'm
giving it to you right up front,

593
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:10.000
and so what is the rest of
this? So I'm really curious to see

594
00:50:10.039 --> 00:50:15.159
how this movie unfolds. And it
definitely feels unique in terms of what we've

595
00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:20.320
seen from from m Night. Yeah, And and so that was the one

596
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:25.679
thing I was going to comment comment
on was this is much more I don't

597
00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:31.760
want to say less fantastical, but
this is much more like you could almost

598
00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:35.920
see it happening, you know what
I mean. With something like the Happening

599
00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:40.480
or many of his film signs or
whatever, there's a little bit of you

600
00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:46.199
know, imagination used for the viewer
where this is like, well, I

601
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:52.119
got a concerts all the time,
and you know there's police there sometimes,

602
00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:54.519
you know what I mean. Like
it's more like like you know what I'm

603
00:50:54.519 --> 00:51:00.239
saying, Hey, look in my
real life, I'm to talking to you

604
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:06.559
today, and I've been hearing helicopters
outside my house and and why is that?

605
00:51:06.599 --> 00:51:10.599
Because I happened to live somewhat close
to a guy named Rex Huerman who

606
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:15.280
is a big serial killer who was
caught on Long Island, New York about

607
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:20.320
a year ago, and they're searching
his house as we speak. And so

608
00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:25.280
like, yes, this could be
a real situation where there are these real

609
00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:30.440
like kind of serial killers out there
and there are these elaborate sort of traps

610
00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:36.039
to kind of catch them. And
You're right, this doesn't have that kind

611
00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:38.679
of that mystical like m Night's last
movie was kind of about the end of

612
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:42.519
the world and these people shutting up
and saying the world is ending, you

613
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:45.840
know, YadA, YadA, YadA. So there's this is kind of a

614
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:51.199
real a real you know, feels
more like one of his more realistic right

615
00:51:51.239 --> 00:51:54.280
films in terms of being a thriller. But yeah, man, I mean

616
00:51:54.679 --> 00:52:00.760
I'm definitely looking at trap and I'm
feeling feeling some some parallels what's happening in

617
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:06.320
my real neighborhood. Yeah, right, now that's a bit scary. Now.

618
00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:13.559
Comedies, you know, I always
love the big you know, I

619
00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:19.440
feel like comedy obviously they can pop
up anywhere throughout the year, but I

620
00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:23.039
always feel like a lot of the
big comedies, you know, the the

621
00:52:23.559 --> 00:52:30.360
giant, bombastic comedies often come out
in the summer. What was the survey

622
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:37.719
saying about about the summer comedy films? Anticipation? You know, it's funny

623
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:43.280
we see of the five we have
two R rated comedies like action comedies.

624
00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:46.159
Deadpool and Wolverine of course leads the
list. Number four is Bad Boys,

625
00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:52.119
Writer or Die. So you have
these both like duo R rated kind of

626
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:57.960
action comedies, and then they're surrounded
by I would say the three biggest family

627
00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:05.320
movies with Pixars, Inside Out Too, which is at number two, Despicable

628
00:53:05.400 --> 00:53:08.480
Me four is at number three,
in the Garfield movie is at number five,

629
00:53:08.599 --> 00:53:13.679
and so it's a little bit of
you know, I feel like and

630
00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:16.280
this is something that I would like
to see, and it's funny. I

631
00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:20.360
was at CinemaCon and I was talking
to AZ's I'm sorry about this because he's

632
00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:24.119
got a big R rated comedy coming
out I believe towards the end of the

633
00:53:24.239 --> 00:53:29.559
year about like you know gone,
you know, not gone on the days,

634
00:53:29.559 --> 00:53:31.920
but like I don't there's not like
a hangover or there. There isn't

635
00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:37.119
like a big R rated party movie, and I feel I miss that,

636
00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:42.360
you know, if there's something missing
from this summer slate, I feel like

637
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:45.960
it's it's that sort of R rated
sex comedy that we used to get so

638
00:53:45.079 --> 00:53:50.440
many of back when I'm hopeful that
they're going to come back and I was

639
00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:54.239
talking to Disease about that and he
feels like they need to come back and

640
00:53:54.320 --> 00:54:00.280
so. But when it comes to
this summer and comedy is a lot of

641
00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:05.119
families are drawn to these three films
Inside Out, Despicable Me, the Garfield

642
00:54:05.159 --> 00:54:07.440
movie. I'm hearing from a lot
of moms and dads who are like,

643
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:12.159
where are the animated movies? And
they're on the way, you know.

644
00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:15.800
John Krasinski's If just came out recently, and Garfield is coming out from Memorial

645
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:22.079
Day weekend, and you know,
there aren't too bigger I would say animated

646
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:28.519
kind of hyped franchises than the Inside
Out movie and Despicable Me movies. The

647
00:54:28.559 --> 00:54:37.599
minions are more powerful than anything.
Yeah, so I am I'm relatively surprised

648
00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:49.320
to see Bad Boys Ride or Die
on the most Anticipated Summer Comedy Survey results

649
00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:55.360
because of the slap heard around the
world. I wasn't sure. I wasn't

650
00:54:55.400 --> 00:55:00.639
sure if you know, if it
was going to be ignored, if if

651
00:55:01.000 --> 00:55:07.199
Will Smith had been uh literally canceled, if the audience cared at you know,

652
00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:12.599
the general audience cared at all.
So so that was surprising for me

653
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:16.199
to see that on there. Uh
and It'll be interesting to see how that

654
00:55:16.239 --> 00:55:21.760
plays out at the box office,
if it has any you know, effect

655
00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:25.679
whatsoever. But I think a lot
of people are going to be watching that

656
00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:29.519
box office to see. You know, this is kind of his big his

657
00:55:29.599 --> 00:55:35.800
first big film since then. So
I'm curious, or is it his first

658
00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:43.559
film. I think he had one
other film come out that the name escapes

659
00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:46.880
me. I think it was it
was it was a streaming film. But

660
00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:50.599
but this, like this, for
without a doubt, this is his most

661
00:55:50.679 --> 00:55:53.039
commercial film, uh, to come
out since then. But you know,

662
00:55:53.119 --> 00:55:58.519
you've got to remember the Bad Boys
for Life came out, uh you know,

663
00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:01.239
it was a January February twenty twenty, right before the world shut down,

664
00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:05.960
but it was, you know,
the most successful Bad Boys movie at

665
00:56:06.000 --> 00:56:09.880
the box office, and it did
go on to be the highest grossing movie

666
00:56:09.880 --> 00:56:15.400
of twenty twenty, albeit an asterisk
kind of year. So I think there's

667
00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:19.639
a lot of momentum coming into Bad
Boys Ride or Die. And look,

668
00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:23.559
I can't speak for audiences everywhere.
I can only look at the results of

669
00:56:23.639 --> 00:56:29.199
over two thousand moviegoers and what they
voted for, and you see this film

670
00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:34.039
prominently placed throughout our most anticipated and
so I think that there is a lot

671
00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:37.639
of love for the franchise. I
think there's a lot of love for the

672
00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:43.679
two for Will and Martin to yeah, very much. I would say alongside

673
00:56:43.760 --> 00:56:46.519
like similar to Ethal Weapon, like
the you know, and those kind of

674
00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:51.800
franchises, And I think there's just
a lot of built in love for that

675
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:57.480
chemistry and watching them together, and
so I think that's reflected in this survey

676
00:56:57.519 --> 00:57:00.760
without a doubt. And we do
have a big interview dropping. I think

677
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:04.360
it's going to be the longest interview
that you will see with Will Smith and

678
00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:07.519
Martin Lawrence. We talked to them
all about the legacy of the franchise and

679
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:09.719
all that stuff, and you'll be
able to watch that on Fandango Awesome.

680
00:57:09.880 --> 00:57:16.280
I'm looking forward to that one.
What is your uh well, actually,

681
00:57:16.639 --> 00:57:24.360
before we get into that, the
the more art house films you mentioned,

682
00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:30.159
Maxeine. You know, for the
general movie going public, it's all about

683
00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:36.239
the big blockbusters and that sort of
thing. But for especially film lovers and

684
00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:42.639
genre lovers, sometimes the summers aren't
so packed for for those fans. What

685
00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:45.719
are you saying that people are looking
forward to on the art house side the

686
00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:51.079
summer, Well, Maxine, is
number one on that list. The Bike

687
00:57:51.199 --> 00:57:55.119
Riders, which is a stacked cast
Austin Butler, Jody Comer, Tom Hardy

688
00:57:57.239 --> 00:58:05.559
sort of follows you know, a
Motorcycle Crew, and that movie's at number

689
00:58:05.599 --> 00:58:08.679
two. It was supposed to come
out, I believe, last fall,

690
00:58:08.760 --> 00:58:13.360
but it got delayed due to the
strike. It was one of those films

691
00:58:13.360 --> 00:58:15.800
that's just got a really great ensemble
and they'd rather sort of wait for that

692
00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:21.360
ensemble to be available to promote the
film, So that one is at number

693
00:58:21.400 --> 00:58:25.800
two. There's an animated film,
cool little animated film called Robot Dreams that's

694
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:32.719
at number three. My probably my
most anticipated on this list, Kinds of

695
00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:37.599
Kindness, which comes out in June. This is the next film from Yrgo's

696
00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:43.599
Atlanthemos, who did poor things with
Emma Stone. Emma Stone comes back and

697
00:58:43.639 --> 00:58:46.519
she's in this film as well.
I've heard. It's like a sprawling,

698
00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:52.599
sprawling film almost three hours in length, that follows the three different stories and

699
00:58:52.679 --> 00:58:59.760
the same characters, the same performers
are in each story, so that one

700
00:58:59.800 --> 00:59:04.880
looks really cool. And then there's
kind of like this under the radar horror

701
00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:13.599
thriller starring Hunter Schaeffer called Cuckoo Cuckoo
that's at number five on the list,

702
00:59:13.639 --> 00:59:16.239
So a little bit of a mix. I would say, you're seeing some

703
00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:22.159
kind of you know, under the
radar horror mixed in with like some indie

704
00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:29.760
animation mixed in with you know,
Awards kind of darlings. I'd love personally,

705
00:59:29.800 --> 00:59:32.199
I'd love to see Megalopolis kind of
drop into the summer at some point,

706
00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:36.599
but I don't know that could be
like a like a you know,

707
00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:39.079
more closer towards the end of the
year. But you know, there's definitely

708
00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:44.000
and it's not just this these five. I always tell people look between the

709
00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:46.840
blockbusters, a lot of those like
Sun Dance movies. There's another movie coming

710
00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:51.320
out called DIDI that didn't make the
Art House list that but it would be

711
00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:54.239
my I think it's the best coming
of age film of the year, comes

712
00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:59.280
out towards the end of July,
about a kid kind of coming of age

713
00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:02.960
circa tooth thousand and eight, kind
of the MySpace era, you know,

714
01:00:04.079 --> 01:00:09.800
the I Am Instant Messenger era,
very very familiar error for me in my

715
01:00:09.920 --> 01:00:14.360
youth. So that was it was
a really really great film that's called d

716
01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:16.239
D d I. D I comes
out at the end of July. So

717
01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:20.840
there's a lot of these other films, these festival films that will slide in

718
01:00:21.400 --> 01:00:24.440
between these bigger films, And I
would say look them up, watch trailers.

719
01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:30.199
If you're looking for something a bit
different that isn't a blockbuster, there's

720
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:34.599
plenty on the way. Just do
a little research, go to Rotten Tomatoes,

721
01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:37.360
see what's out there. And finally, I thought this was cool that

722
01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:45.480
you had most anticipated summer movies to
own on digital when available, which you

723
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:51.400
know, we briefly touched on Fandango
at Home at the top of the show.

724
01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:55.360
But and this kind of reflects,
you know, what we're seeing in

725
01:00:55.400 --> 01:01:01.000
the in the results of the other
categories, Deadpool and Wolverine at number one,

726
01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:07.159
you know, are these people that
would be skipping it at the theater?

727
01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:10.440
These are just never theater goers or
are these kind of boat like a

728
01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:14.960
mix of both, like somebody like
me who then goes and owns it anyway

729
01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:17.639
when it comes to home. Yeah, you know what I see in this

730
01:01:17.719 --> 01:01:21.760
list, I do think these are
people that are all going to go see

731
01:01:21.800 --> 01:01:23.440
these movies in theaters. But I
think, you know, when I look

732
01:01:23.480 --> 01:01:29.719
at these movies Deadpool and Wolverine is
number one, Alien Romulus. Surprisingly,

733
01:01:29.840 --> 01:01:34.440
I think number two, Despicable Me
for number three, Furiosa four, Quiet

734
01:01:34.440 --> 01:01:37.159
Places at five. If you look
at what it will all of those films

735
01:01:37.199 --> 01:01:42.280
have in common is that they have
sort of a catalog of other films,

736
01:01:42.679 --> 01:01:45.639
you know, And so you know, I would imagine that there'll be bundles

737
01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:50.480
available if you don't have a Despicable
Me movie or you don't own one,

738
01:01:50.519 --> 01:01:52.199
when Part four comes out at home, you may be able to get a

739
01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:57.199
whole bundle of all four movies.
And so I know that that's very attractive

740
01:01:57.199 --> 01:02:00.000
for people, especially the alien movies, like to have that all of those

741
01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:05.360
Alien movies together, all of the
Quiet Place movies together, all of the

742
01:02:05.440 --> 01:02:09.360
Deadpool movies together. You know,
Quiet Places is a third installment Deadpool and

743
01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:15.559
Wolverine is a third installment. And
so I think what we see here likely

744
01:02:15.719 --> 01:02:20.840
you know, driven by you know, fans of these movies, without a

745
01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:23.400
doubt, but also fans of the
franchises and collectors and people who want to

746
01:02:23.480 --> 01:02:30.559
have, you know, have that
entire franchisees to own at home. I

747
01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:34.559
love that. I can't wait for
everything we've talked about. Really, you

748
01:02:34.599 --> 01:02:37.960
know, this is our time.
Where where can we read the whole list?

749
01:02:38.760 --> 01:02:42.079
Yeah, go, you can go
to fandango dot com and you can

750
01:02:42.159 --> 01:02:45.480
see everything. And we actually have
some some other really fun stats that we're

751
01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:50.920
going to be rolling out around fourth
of July, so maybe we can meet

752
01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:54.400
up again and talk about that stuff. Absolutely, and and yeah, go

753
01:02:54.440 --> 01:03:00.000
to fandango dot com, follow us
on social at fandango, you know where.

754
01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:02.599
We're rolling out all kinds of new
images as we speak, from many

755
01:03:02.719 --> 01:03:07.239
of these films, and we'll have
some really big interviews as well before anybody

756
01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:12.840
else has them with some of the
casts for these films. And so you

757
01:03:12.840 --> 01:03:16.639
know, follow out fandango and check
out fandango dot com for your all your

758
01:03:16.679 --> 01:03:22.760
ticketing and watching at home needs.
Yeah, the whole shebang. Thank you

759
01:03:22.840 --> 01:03:24.960
so much as always, Eric,
You know, it's always a pleasure for

760
01:03:25.039 --> 01:03:31.000
me to speak with you about films
and the industry. And I can't wait

761
01:03:31.079 --> 01:03:35.760
till you're own next time without a
doubt, man, And look and start

762
01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:38.079
your summer right. Go see the
Furiosa movie. It's awesome. I loved

763
01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:40.719
it. It's a great way to
start the summer. I can't wait.

764
01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:46.440
I will do that. Thank you, all right, Eric Davis from Fandango.

765
01:03:46.559 --> 01:03:51.719
Always great talking with him, especially
with all the great movies coming out

766
01:03:51.840 --> 01:03:54.880
for the summer, lots of good
stuff, as you heard, I'm looking

767
01:03:54.920 --> 01:03:58.719
forward to a bunch of them,
and I want to know what you are

768
01:03:58.760 --> 01:04:02.559
looking forward to seeing this summer.
Hit me up on socials at KMAC Music

769
01:04:02.719 --> 01:04:06.360
or at CAP Kyle McMahon or at
pop Culture Weekly. You know where to

770
01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:10.679
find me on socials. Hit me
up, let me know what you're looking

771
01:04:10.719 --> 01:04:15.400
forward to, and I just might
feature you on the show. All right,

772
01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:18.920
that's the show for this episode.
I will see you next week.

773
01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:24.159
Actually, i'll see you very shortly
for the you know, Live from the

774
01:04:24.239 --> 01:04:28.280
National Memorial Day Concert episode in just
a few days. So I'll see you

775
01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:30.920
then. I love you. Yeah, thank you for listening to pop Culture

776
01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:45.719
Weekly. Here all the latest at
popcultureweekly dot com. Most Anticipated Shummer Movies

777
01:04:45.360 --> 01:04:49.679
of the Shommer twenty twenty four.
They're not really showmer movies. I mean

778
01:04:49.719 --> 01:04:55.679
they're movies that come out in the
showmer. Hope, they're not Schummer movies.

779
01:04:55.719 --> 01:04:59.440
I mean they could be movies that
take place in the winter or the

780
01:04:59.559 --> 01:05:04.159
hall or the spring. Not Shummer
movies are just movies that happen to be

781
01:05:04.199 --> 01:05:10.559
coming out in the Shummer anyway.
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01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:14.119
with release dates in the summer of
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