Jonathan Lipnicki on Working with Tom Cruise as a Kid + His New Movie + Movies We Only Watched In School + Movie Review: The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie podcast and a movie Mike on Twitter and Instagram at Mike Destro and have a really great episode for you guys. This week. I'm gonna be talking to Jonathan Lipnicki, who you may remember as a childhood actor. He was in the movie Stewart, little little Vampire like Mike, but really made his big on screen debut when he was the kid in Jerry McGuire. You may remember him from this iconic line a Pound. He has a new horror movie out now called Royal, so I want to talk to him about that movie, about what it was like being a childhood star, and about working with Tom Cruise. So a cool conversation with Jonathan Lipnicki coming up. We'll also get into a movie review of The Trial of the Chicago Seven, which is available on Netflix now. But before we get into all that, I want to talk about movies we remember watching at school, and I'll explain how that topic came to be, So a little bit of movie nostalgic coming up on this episode. Thanks everybody for listening, Thanks for subscribing. Without any further ado, let's get start in a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast. One man stands to infiltrate the years of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking I MTV with glasses from the Nashville Podcast Network Movie Movie Podcast. I have Jonathan Lipniki coming up in just a second, but before I want to do this topic before I get into that interview, because how I wanted to tie this interview in with the topic this week is movies that we all remember watching in school. So I threw this topic out on Twitter, and I want to explain it because that's a little bit of a visual element to it. So I grew up in the nineties. I started elementary school probably in about nine seven. I'm twenty nine years old now. So all throughout my years of being an elementary school in a little bit into middle school and high school, we had these big TVs that our kegs and wheel INDs. So if you were born in the two thousands or later, you may not remember these entirely, but I think most of you guys listening right now probably remember when the teacher would roll these things into your classroom, because that's literally what you had to do. So what it was. It was like this big cart and it had a TV usually fastened down to make sure it wouldn't fall over. And then in the middle of little section it had like this little shelf built in and it had either a VHS and then later it had a DVD player. And there was always a certain selection of movies that schools would allow teachers to show in class or also just there was just like it felt like this group of movies that been in with like, okay, we can make these somewhat educational and have a kind of reason for showing these in schools. So I think there's all these movies that we remember watching back in the day, and for some reason, we only watched these movies at school, Like there weren't movies that I would go home and want to watch or even remember going to see in theaters. But we've all probably seen a bunch of these movies, and I kind of want to break some of these down to like there were the fun, rainy day movies that all right, the teachers just letting you watch whatever. We're just killing time at this point, and these are all the movies we could pick from. And there are always these movies that they would have some kind of educational tie in that they would loosely try to go into, whether they were based on a book that we all read and ended up watching the movie or something like that. But what I wanted to start with was a movie I really only remember watching in school. It's with Jonathan Lipniki, who is coming up later, and it's Stewart Little And this was a movie actually based on the children's book. And while it is a fun movie and maybe one of my favorites as a kid, it also kind of cheated you a little bit because it is this kind of crazy concept that comes from a children's book, but it kind of shows kids like what a family can be because obviously he's a little mouse living with this family and the whole relationship with him and Jonathan Lipniki in the movie, it kind of shows you how you can accept somebody into your family. And it also just shows with how kids can deal with being different and feeling like they don't belong. So while on the outskirts of the movie it is just the crazy kind of concept of this mouse going to be with his family, it kind of teaches you a little bit, but it's a movie that I really only remember watching at school, and I just remember when that movie came out how famous Johnathan lip Nikki was for being that kind of go to child actor of the late nineties and early two thousand's, So I do want to ask him about that movie coming up later, and also just how he kind of dealt with being famous so quickly and being so recognizable as a kid, So that one's a little bit of both. I'm gonna go through just some educational movies now, and I think a movie that we all remember watching in school when they rolled that card out was Remember the Titans, and you do learn a lot from that movie, and I think it's a message that's really important, especially for younger kids to watch that movie. But the great thing about Remember the Titans is it's also just a really good movie. No matter what. It doesn't feel like a straight on education a movie like I would watch that movie if it was on now, And I think that was probably the most not to say risk ay, but like on the rating side of things like that's kind of the more intense that it got. I remember at some point they would start to show movies and then had to get it to prove like send you home with like a little permission slipt that you were allowed to watch a movie. This is a Disney movie, but it does have more of an adult feel to it. I don't think they ever say any curse words in the movie, but I'd say it's on the upper end of the rating skill. Another movie I really remember only watching in school is October Sky with Jake Jillenhall, and I remember having a tie in in my fifth grade class that we were building a rocket made essentially out of a little cardboard tube from paper towels with like you know those eggshells you would, like real, these little plastic eggs that you would get around Easter. So we would break those apart and put that at the top of the cone, and then we would build like this PBC pipe thing and these little kind of wings and a hot glue gun and put all those things together. And somehow this was qualified as science and we would bring them all to school one day, all painted and everything, and it was like a big thing for fifth trainers to have these little paper cardboard rocket think we would shoot them off and I remember mine blew up. But the whole thing was we were studying about making our own paper rockets, and at the end of it, we would launch them off and then watch october Sky. I'm not sure if kids do anything like that these days. I don't think october Sky is that much of a staple in elementary schools anymore. But if you ever want to build a rocket and watch a movie and combine those two things together in a lesson, there you go. And then there were the movies based on books. So I guess the whole kind of reasoning behind this is you make a kid watch a movie after they've read a book. And I thought this was really beneficial for me because you always say that the book was better than the movie, and yeah, I have to agree to some extent, because when you read a book, you spend a lot more time with it, and you're able to kind of paint the picture in your head, and there's so many more storylines and kind of characters that you can develop in a book that you can't in a movie. So it's cool to kind of see where it goes from when you read it in class and then watch the movie, and then in the end, sometimes it's the great lesson of like, Okay, you should probably read the book because you get more out of it. We watched the movie, and it's also kind of cool to see how they act everything out and you're waiting for things that you already know we're going to happen, So I can see where that ties in. A lot of the movies I remember watching were The Outsiders, to Kill a Mockingbird, and of course Charlotte's Web were really only movies that I would watch at school. Now, kind of the in between of movies we watched for educational purposes and then movies we just watched for fun on rainy days were the Christmas movies. There's a few Christmas movies that I would only watch at school, and I think they kind of trying to play the line of like, okay, these are somewhat educational to kids and learning lessons about the meaning of Christmas, but they were also just ways to take up time as well. And I remember a Miracle on thirty four Street, It's a Wonderful Life, and then the Polar Express. And the fun tie in with the Polar Express was it was always on a day where they kind of try to make it special and celebrate Christmas without really celebrating Christmas, and we would all just wear pajamas to class, and then we got to drink hot chocolate and sometimes have like marshmallows thrown in there. Like That's what I remember about that movie. And then It's a Wonderful Life. Is such a long drawn out Christmas movie, and it's also about a very sad topic in a way, because he gets so depressed and his life isn't going right. It's barely a Christmas movie, but for some reason it teaches this meaning of life and Christmas. And we would watch it in school. But that's kind of the in between of watching those kind of movies, and then you get to the fun rainy day movies. And the first movie I ever remember watching in school was Peter Pan And I gotta say, there's nothing like a Disney movie on v A chess. I know that's a weird thing to say, but kind of like with music now that people say when you listen to an album on vinyl has like this a different feel. Now, I kind of feel that a little bit with VHS when it comes to animation. For some reason, the sound on a VHS takes me back to how I felt in in elementary school. It has like this nostalgic factor of you know, we don't remember how hard it was to get a VHS tape, put it in, make sure it was already rewound. And also that on some of these old school TVs they had what is called tracking to where if you press play on a movie, sometimes it's like not in sync all the way and when you're watching it, it's like skipping a little bit and you have to hit this little button that's the tracking button to get it to line up perfectly and not be all scrambled. Like that is the thing we take for granted now that the only kind of comparison we have is if you have slower Internet and you have to wait for a movie to load or it loses h D quality a bit, like that's our only equivality that now. But before it was really annoying to put a VHS in that maybe the classroom had had before you and it didn't rewind it, like why would they rewind it? Like how incourteous of them? But I remember watching Peter Pan and having that kind of fuzzy feel and the sound on it, and with the music sounded because it was on the VHS tape, and those Disney cartridges just had a cool collector's field to where you would have all these in a closet somewhere in your house, and all the way they all lined up and have a little artwork in those big plastic cases. Like there's something about those that had a cool collector's quality to them, and you knew when your teacher brought those out that it was going to be a good day in class. But I that's how I remember watching my first movie in school. Now later we did get a DVD player, and what I remember watching a lot was in Spanish class. We would watch classic Disney movies, but watched them in Spanish. Basically has a way to just have an excuse to watch movie but also make it educational. And for some reason it was usually Shrek or Finding Nemo in Spanish, and I think we would have to like write down sentences and we would remember from the movie or study it in some way. It was really just the way to watch a Disney movie and have a reason to watch it. But for some reason we got out of doing work that way. But the nineties altogether, we're a really great time for vhs is and just these movies that kind of resonated at that time, so I kind of run through some more of them that were just fun, rainy day movies, and I don't really remember watching since movies like Flubber, The Original Parent Traveled, Lindsay Lohan, Free Will, it was a big one. We would watch all the time. You got Homeward Bound, Tom and Huck from the old school of Jonathan Taylor Thomas and that super nineties haircut movies like Babe Indian in the Cupboard, James and the Giant Peach and a lot of these were movies that I remember watching other Disney movies, and these would be the coming attractions for when you first put to be a Jes tape. So this is something that has really gone away, but back in the day, when you would get a VHS tape or even a DVD, right when you would put that thing in before it got to the movie, there would be coming attractions. And as a kid, that was the best sound ever when you put a Va Jess tape in. I'm gonna play that sound now just to kind of get you in that mindset of what it would be like when you would put a tape in. If you don't remember this feeling that's the sound we all remember. And before the movie started, you would have trailers, kind of like when you go to the movies now or back when movie theaters were a thing, that it would be all the other movies that were coming out at that time, or even just straight to video movies. And I remember watching VHS is so much that I had these memorized on each movie, so much so that there are movies that I remember the trailer for but don't even remember the actual movie that came out. So the things we have learned in this segment are tracking. Back in the day, you had to fine tune a picture on a VHS tape to make sure to get it right. There was previews built into movies. There was cartridges involved in this. And also when all else fails and you need a way to teach kids Spanish, just take a regular movie and show it in Spanish. But all right, what I want to get into next is my interview with Jonathan Lipniki. Like I said, he was in the movie as a kid, Stewart Little. His very first movie was Jerry McGuire. He was also in The Little Vampire and like Mike and he got really famous when he was five years old and everybody kind of knew him as kind of the go to child actor, and I want to want to ask him what he remembers from those days of being so famous so fast, and when he realized, like, hey, people recognize me from these movies I've been in. And the interesting thing about him is that he took a break, like after he did all those movies as a kid, he kind of was like, I want to have a normal childhood and go to a public school like everybody else and experienced that, and since then he's been coming back into movies. Now. He has a new movie out called Broil, which is a horror movie that's available now on streaming, So I'll also get into that. Since it is October and we're doing horror movies, I want to ask him about that movie. And then of course I have to ask him if he remember anything about working with Tom Cruise in Jerry McGuire, So we'll get into that next. And No our feature present on now with Jonathan lip Nikki. How's it going, man, good? How are you doing? I'm pretty good. So I'm watching this Broil movie and it's unlike anything I've seen you in before, and I'm just wondering when you're doing this movie, like do you have nightmares throughout filming? Yeah? I uh so, Like, you know, it's really as you see, it's like a really interesting character to get into and it's like really dark circumstances. And didn't not think it would affect me. I was like, whatever, when I go home, I leave, I leave my work at work. No. I woke up every day before my alarm like heart race, like you know, and I'll be like, why can't I just sleep to my alarm because I would just be like there was just this anxiety in me. Um. It was you know, it was really an amazing fun shoot, but also intense. Definitely, the circumstances will definitely play into your mind when you're doing that all that. So like, how do you get into that mind space to play a character like this where you're in these weird situations experiencing these weird things, Like what does that process kind of feel like for you? You know, it's a lot of trying to put yourself in you know, this shoes as much as possible. I mean, it's it's kind of you know, I think it it comes alive really when you come on a set and you see and you're in the you're in the wardrobe and you see all the crazy things, and the art direction was really great. So it helps you play along and it helps you really invest yourself in the story. But for me, it's a lot of I listen to a lot of music, and I read the script over and over, and I really just try to dive into kind of almost a meditative state of just kind of think being you know, feeling, feeling it out, and and and and and thinking along the lines of of of the circumstances that I'm put in. So when you do a movie like this, do you have your lines down like a d percent when you go into it or is it like are you learning throughout the process? Well, we changed a lot of definitely got a lot of script changes, so, um, you know, I could be totally off book and then it would be you know that we change stuff. Um, you know, I go into it as prepared as I can be, and then um, you know, depending on the day, you know what you're gonna fill in the next day you work on that and you get really tight on that. But you know, I only had two days to really prepare for this movie. That from when I found out, I like it was for sure mine and then all of a sudden, I was leaving the next morning to go to Canada. So I just watched as much movies that mean. The director talked about that world kind of inspirations for him for this project, and I just discussed with the director a lot and we worked on it a bit, and uh, that was really great to have a director who was really in the trenches with me. And I kind of locked myself in my room in Canada and just explored. I explored it and it was you know, it's scary. It's always an intimidating task to take on a new project, let alone something that's you know, pretty dark. Well, the movie is called Broil. It's out now on video on demand. And I really like the character in it. And I've kind of seen you, Like we're the same age, so I've kind of seen you shift from you know, your childhood actor days to doing this now. Like what has that transition process been? Like? Uh, you know, um, it's not smooth. You know, it's hard. It's it's a hard industry. You know. Um, all jobs have a lot of difficulties to do them. Any anything you're gonna pursue creative endeavors are hard, you know, It's it's about longevity and realizing it's a marathon and not a sprint. I had a lot of things I was very fortunate for in my childhood career. I worked a lot. And it's about, you know, constantly rediscovering why of this, and and constantly working on um growing that that talent that is there, and and and working on the actual craft of it and really you know, being a fan. I'm always I'm still a fan of just working. I'm I'm a fan of I'm a fan of films. And it's it's just never losing that childlike curiosity. And when you do your first movie you're five years old, you do Jerry Maguire like, I don't remember anything from when I was five years old, but yeah, you have a film where you're in and you're five years old, Like, do you remember actually being on set and filming that movie? Like bits and pieces, it's like glimpses at this point, or like small things I'll remember l or really weird like oh I remember how that piece of wardrobe looked or smelled or like, you know, but a lot of it lives through the stories my family tells. And you know, my mom was around a lot for you know, most of my filming, it was my mom and my mom, between my mom and my dad. Like that's kind of my source of a lot of the memory, you know. But yeah, it's it's you know, each year goes by and it's like just been a part of me, um, you know, and so it's be here and there, you know, here and there. Definitely the memories that's seeing that you and Tom Cruise where you're going back and forth with facts. Is there anything you remember about like working with Tom Cruise and debt, Like did he help you like like guide throughout that process of like learning lines or something like that. Yeah, you know, he's he's he's he's a great guy and I'm really lucky that my first project was with him. He's the ultimate professional. He taught me what professionalism is, and um, I learned a lot and I also just harnessed my love for doing this and making me realize I want to do this for the rest of my life. How long after that movie did you realize like, oh, I'm famous, like people who are like recognizing me, Like, how long after that did that happen, you know, when it came out, like it was just like a kind of a interesting thing. I I didn't quite grasp officially when like you know, when when when I first got recognized, I was like, I didn't really quite understand it. I don't think you can ever understand it, no matter if your kid or an adult, because you're the person living it, so you don't really like understand what it means to other people. You know, you just understand what it's meant to you and how you've lived through the circumstances in your life. But you know, it's an interesting thing. You know, it's really it's really an interesting thing, especially at a young age. I think one of my favorite movies a kid was Stewart Little Um when you're doing that movie, like what are you looking at when you're acting? Is there just like a little green screen thing or something a piece of tape? A lot of the time, so it's just a tape or like a laser laser pointner, you know, sometimes they had a little little doll but of Stewart, but like a lot of times it was like tape, you know, just talking to tape. So the movie's broil it's out now. Obviously it's October right now, so a bunch of people are watching scary movies after people go see and check out Broil. What's one of your favorite horror movies that you would suggest to people. Ah, Man, I think that a lot, you know, I like like I liked Hereditary a lot. Um you know, uh, I love the sixth Sense. I think that's great. You know. I like things that make you think, you know, I'm not. I don't love the cheap scares. I love like actually like I like I'm a thriller guy, you know. I like that good twist. Appreciate the time. Man. I hope everybody checks out the movie. It's a great talking to you. Thank you, Thank you so much for watching. All Right, Going to get into a movie review now, talking about the Trial of this Chicago seven, which is streaming now on Netflix. Big thing about this movie, there's so many stars in it. You've got Sasha Baron, Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Joseph Gordon Levitt, so many the list. And we'll kind of get into that here in a little bit. And it's a courtroom drama, and you think, how could they make a court room drama? That's two hours long entertaining, which is how I felt going into this movie. But my opinion quickly changed. So let's just play a little bit of the trial to Chicago seven and then get into this review. So here's just a little bit of that. When we walked in this morning, they were channing that the whole world is watching. If we leave here without saying anything about why we came in the first place, it will be heart breathing unlast summer, why did you come to the convention and the wall. We're giving them exactly what they want, a stage in an audience. You really think there's going to be a big audience. So the movie is about these seven people on trial, and it's surrounding the events from the nineteen Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and it really starts off in the courtroom. And going into this I was kind of like, how are they going to make that compelling for the entire two hours? And you get a little bit at the beginning, but pretty much you're learning the entire story of what happened leading up to the trial, what happened to the riots, and the issues with the police during this thing. It's all kind of unfold inside the courtroom, which I was wondering how they were going to do that, because if you start out in your courtroom, it's gonna be a hunch of people talking. And I just found it hard to kind of grasp onto that concept that I didn't know a whole lot about the history of this. I remember maybe learning a little bit in school, but it was really kind of learning about all this stuff for the first time, and it kind of just goes together with the state of the world and now and how it's an important thing to watch and to learn about how this happened back in the sixties and we've seen stuff like this happening in today's world. So the first thing that kind of stood out from this movie is the amazing cast. You have so many people giving what I would say are arguably some of their best acting performances of their career. But the thing about it is, while they're giving is really great performances, it doesn't feel like an oscar bait movie, because sometimes when you put this many great actors into one movie with a really dramatic story, it's based on true events. That's that's all the recipe for an oscar chasing movie. And with this one. It has those elements, but it doesn't feel like they're trying to make it over dramatic in any way or like they're going for that. You just get really great performance, is a really great story, and it's done so well that it kept my attention throughout the entire movie. So maybe like the first five minutes, I was kind of just wondering where it's going and how it's going to get into the story. But after that you're pretty into it because while the trial is going on, they're showing all the events that led up to it. They're showing all of the really crazy things that are sometimes hard to watch and hard to take in, and throughout the trial you feel something from this movie. You get an emotion out of it, from the way the judge is acting in this and it's just like almost unbelievable at moments, like all the things put into it. It's really crazy to see what this story was about, why they were on trial, and everything that led up to it. I think it was just done so well that about halfway through it, I was like, I want to see how this is gonna end, And as soon as this is over, I'm gonna go and look up how accurate everything was, and kind of learned about this a little bit more. And while they're showing some of the stuff like in Chicago, like I've been in Chicago before and I kind of remember those scenes and that was kind of cool to see. What I really liked about it was how they kind of spliced in here and there, like real footage, real news footage from when these things were happening, to show like they depicted in like exactly how it was. They didn't really over dramatize it in anyway. They were showing, like the protests and the violence, all that stuff was just scene for seeing in the locations they happened, how they all went down, so it's not really taking any liberties in that aspect. I think my favorite performance in this was Sasha Baron Cohen, just because I know him as Borat and being a comedic actor and all the characters he has and seeing him do this role where it has a little bit of comedic kind of relief in the movie. Oddly, in a corner drama, there is some kind of things that make you kind of laugh or snickering a little bit, and I think he brings that to the movie. But Aside from that, it just shows how great of an actor he is, and it makes me think of when he was initially working on the Bohemian Rapsody movie and he was going to be Freddie Mercury, Like I can kind of see him now in a really great dramatic role. So that was cool to see. Also Eddie Redmain because he's playing an American in this movie and you really can't tell from his accent or anything that it came that it comes through that way. I thought he was fantastic in it as well. And then Joseph Gordon Levitt, like you forget how good of an actor he is. That he's been in so many things and has a really great range from doing action movie to doing drama to doing comedies, and seeing him in this as now kind of an older, more seasoned actor. He was really great in this as well. And while he's on the opposing side in this drama, he's still able to kind of be a good guy in this as well. And then when you factor in that Aaron Sorkin was the one who wrote and directed this movie. He's done stuff like The West Wing, he wrote The Social Network, Moneyball, and a few good men so he knows this kind of drama, and all that together it just really makes for a great entertaining movie, almost unexpected because it is a chore room drama, like I said, and you go into it not knowing what you're going to get out of it, but you end up learning a lot. If you're like me, you'll watch it and then kind of want to go research a little bit more about this, how accurate the ending was, and how all the facts kind of came into place. So that's also another aspect of it. If you're into watching a movie learning about history and then kind of going back and doing some research on yourself, it's a perfect movie for that. And if you already have Netflix, you don't have to pay any other rental fear or anything like that. So I would give this movie four point five out of five gavels one because I went into it with no real expectation and it left me feeling like I learned a lot and got a lot of entertainment at it while getting some little bit of education too, because the cast is just amazing and they're acting to superb and three because like I said, it is over two hours, but it never felt like that in any way, So a really great watch if you're looking for something good to watch on Netflix. And whenever the Oscars happened, I'm sure that will be nominated a good amount as well. So get in on this one early, all right. I also want to do a bonus movie review here, kind of a mini review, because I also watched Love and Monsters, which is only available to rent, which is a good twenty dollars that you're gonna spend if you want to watch this movie. But this week on the Bobby Bones Show, which I'm a producer and writer for, we had Michael Rooker on who was in this movie, and I did all kind of the research and wrote some question for him and kind of deep dive into this movie because I hadn't really heard a whole lot about it. Because this movie was supposed to come out back and I believe March or April, and it was postponed because of coronavirus, and it was supposed to come out now in theaters, but then recently they were like, all right, we're just gonna put the hout to stream on demand. So in a way, it kind of came out of nowhere. And when I was looking at stuff about this movie. I was like, Hey, this actually looks like it's a pretty interesting movie and was gonna get the full theatrical experience, but just went onto streaming, so I was like, I'll check it out since it already be up to that quality, and I ended up really liking it, Like Michael Rooker's character was really good in it, even though he was only in like a little bit on the movie. And then Dylan O'Brien, who I always get confused with two other actors, and then I realized who he was in this movie. I was like, Okay, that's that guy, but he also looks like the guy who was in Perks of Being a Wallflower, and then also kind of looks like the guy who is the teenager in Thirteen Reasons Why, Like they all exactly the same to me for some reason. But I thought the movie was pretty good. It kind of reminded me of Zombie Land into where it's a post apocalyptic world and you have a young Lee trying to stay alive and also find love, and the monsters actually look really cool in this. But I think what kind of steals this movie is there's a dog who is name Dog in the movie who he kind of befriend and kind of becomes the breakout star for me. Like I ended up after watching this movie like looking at what type of dog this was and thinking about getting a dog like this. So I thought it was a really entertaining watch. And if you're looking for something to give you kind of that getting a blockbuster type movie at home, I think this is a pretty good one, but it is twenty bucks. I rented it on Apple, you can rent it on Amazon or anywhere, but it does have that kind of price tag. I think if you're having like a little movie night with your family or maybe just having a couple of friends over and you're looking for something like that to watch, I think it's a pretty good one, but yeah, if you can get over that twenty dollar price tag. I also watched another movie called Clouds, and I'm gonna wait to review and talk about that one until next week because it's based and inspired on a true story and it's on Disney Plus, and I gotta say it's the first movie in a very long time to make me emotional to the point where I cried. So if you have Disney Plus and you haven't watched or heard about Clouds, yet I'm going to talk about it next week, and I'm going to talk about movies that make you cry or make you emotional, and I think it's a whole kind of topic to discover. And I don't want to go just straight up sad movies, because I think there's other movies that can make you sad and feel things that aren't just straight up death related. So that is what I'll be talking about next week. If you want to go watch that movie now and may put you in that headspace for next week. And if you want to shoot me any kind of suggestions of sad movies, you can always tweet me or send me a message or Instagram dm at Mike Destro that's Mike d e s t r Oh. That'll be the topic we get into next week for Hop out of Here. I got a little bit of movie news to go over. Um. Also talking about that Michael Rooker interview that we did, he did essentially confirmed that they do go into space on the new Fast and Furious movie f nine, which somehow that's kind of been the thing to do now, and he did say that his character is earthbound, but hinted to the fact that maybe other people go into space. And I don't know why Fastened the Furious has to go into space. I don't know why Tom Cruise is wanting to take a real life spaceship into space. I don't know. Maybe they're so bored of doing things on the ground they have to move in the new territory into space. But whenever you go to space, I think that's kind of jumping the shark. That means like, hey, we're running out of things to do, Let's do the same movie, but let's do it in in space. But yeah, that was also a good interview if you want to check out the Bobby Bones show when we talked to him. I've also been following the whole old New Spider Man movie that they're coming out with, and it's been rumored now that they're bringing back the two other Spider Man Andrew Garfield and Toby McGuire and Sony put out a statement this week saying that that's not really confirmed yet, but they didn't deny it, so it could be something coming within that realm. Maybe we have it off just a little bit, but they didn't just straight up say no, that's not happening. It seems to be that they're doing something like that where there is multiple Spiderman. Is that the plural for Spider Man? I don't know Spiderman, but it would be so cool to see Andrew Garfield, Toby McGuire come back and to be working and together with Tom Holland. I think that would be a crazy kind of monumental moment in Marvel. Also a very expensive movie to make, if that's the case. So I don't know if that's what they're doing entirely, but they're definitely up to something, and they're not straight up to nine it. So I'll follow that rumor and keep you guys updated. And also, the crazy thing I saw is that AMC is now allowing people to rent out movie theaters for bucks. And I found this pretty interesting because right around the time that coronavirus hit, this was the thing I was thinking about doing. I wanted to do this event where I invited a bunch of you guys who listened to the podcast to do this event where I read at a movie theater and that people just come watch like an old classic movie, and it'd be this whole kind of event to just thank you guys for listening to the podcast in a way to kind of meet some of you guys who listen to this. And I was looking into how much it would cost to rent a movie theater. It was a lot more than it wasn't terribly expensive at the one I was looking at. But doing this now would be pretty awesome. And I think they're keeping it to maybe under twenty people, and there's only certain cities doing it now, and there's only certain movies you can hatch, but I think that would be a pretty cool thing to do. I just think it's another way they're kind of trying to stay afloat until they can come back and have new movies on. But I would definitely rep one out for ninety nine bucks and invite twenty people would come watched that, Like, I think that would be cool. I think they should have something like this even when there isn't a pandemic going on. And then finally, the movie I was talking about last week, QB Halloween, which I still see up there in the top ten on Netflix. So I'm not the only one who enjoyed that movie. But one of the news anchors who was in that movie and that little sequence where they went to the news and they were all addressed in the Harley Quinn costume. One of those extras was actually a news anchor in Boston, and she lost her job because she said that her news station said her being in that movie violated as her contract, which was really weird to me because I think if you go and do a movie, maybe you clear it with your employer first that you're you know, you're doing a cameo in a Netflix movie as a news anchor. I don't see how that actually happened. So her name is Elena Pinto. I mean that sucks. Hopefully it's an update where they hire he back or she lands back on her feet. So I just don't see how that happened. All Right, that's gonna do it for this week's episode. I got to get into this week's Instagram shout out going over to my d m s this week, and it's to Dan Vanna, who has been listening for a very long time and always sends me nice messages. I appreciate that, Dan. He also suggested a Halloween topic that we're still gonna be doing Halloween themed throughout the month of October, so I have something working already in the plans, a big Halloween special towards the end of the month, so have that to look forward to and appreciate. All the d m s, all the messages, all the tweets. If you want to shout out, all you have to do is send me a d M tagging me your Instagram story, tweet me, or I do have a Facebook page, Facebook, dot com, slash Mike destro throw a comment up there. I check all those every week, every day and pick one of you guys to shout out every week, just as an appreciation for you guys listening, kidding download, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Thanks to Jonathan lip Nikki for talking with me this week. Whenever you're listening to this, I hope you have a good rest of your day, the rest of your note, and until next Monday. What's the thing I say every week? Oh yeah, later,