Secret Vegas Meeting That Controls Hollywood + Movie Review: The Mummy + Trailer Park: The End of Oak Street

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to movie Mike's movie Podcast. I am your host Movie Mike. Today I want to break down CinemaCon that happened last week. We got a bunch of announcements and trailers and a lot of things coming out in theater soon. I also want to break down what theater owners say are the most bankable actors right now, and how movies make money when it comes to the studios versus the actual movie theater. Will break that down. In the movie review, we'll be talking about Lee Cronin's The Mummy, why it has nothing to do with the Mummy franchise with Brendan Fraser. I think it caused some confusion among fans, but I'll give you my thoughts on that movie. And in the trailer park, we'll be talking about Ann Hathaway in the End of Oak Street, which looks amazing because it is a sci fi movie mixed with dinosaurs, mixed with survival. All that coming up for you today. Thank you for being here, Thank you for being subscribed. I'm pumped up. I'm ready to go, and now let's talk movies podcast. Movie Mikes Movie Podcast cinemacn twenty two, twenty six went down last week, which is basically just a giant party in Las Vegas, but it's just for people who own movie theaters, so actors and directors are all sent out there to basically pitch all the things they have coming out, usually in the next year or two. It's kind of like a big pep rally for the movie industry, but it is the largest and the most important annual gathering goes down at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. The actual Caesar did not live or stay there, unlike what you might have heard in the hangover. So studios go there to showcase all their upcoming movies and theater owners start to explore some new technology on how to make the theater going experience better for you and I. The event is not open to the public, though, because if you think, man, why can't I go to this, or maybe you see some influencers there, which I would love to go to. CinemaCon, by the way, it's not something that everybody is invited to or that you can buy tickets to. And also they show a lot of these trailers at CinemaCon and we don't get to see them. It's just exclusive for movie theater owners. First of all, before we get into all the big announcements from CinemaCon, let's talk about how movie theaters and movie studios make money. Because there is a difference movie studios, they are essentially the content owners. So think of studios like Warner Brothers, Disney Universal. They are the ones who actually own the movies and how do they make their money strictly through box office revenue. That is their biggest upfront payday. So when you buy that ticket, that money gets split between the theater, who is essentially the host of the party. If you think about like a party, the movie theater is hosting the party and the studio is providing them with the actual party, the actual content, the stars, that is the movie. But the studio gets the bigger cut early on because they have this based on percentages. Usually opening weekend, the studios take on average from sixty to seventy percent, but sometimes now they can get eighty to ninety or even one hundred percent based on the studio. Some of the bigger companies have that pool where they can take more of the percentage, and then as the weeks go on, depending on that particular film's theatrical run, the cut does go down from week to week. So that is why opening weekend is so important, because the studio is gonna make their most amount of money during that opening weekend. In the later weeks, theaters get the bigger share. So that is why movie theaters love it when a movie like Project hil Mary just crushes it for like a month, or if you think back to the nineties, whenever Titanic was in theaters for almost a year, they made so much money back then. So still talking here about the movie studios themselves, that is how they make a lot of their money when it is in theaters, particularly in that first weekend. And then you have streaming in digital where they sell their rights to Netflix or other subscription services like Disney Plus. And then you also have premium rentals, so those movies that come out and they're twenty dollars for you to watch it home, and you're like, man, that's who's getting that money. Then you also have physical and digital sales. Don't really see these as much, but they still provide some revenue for studios. Think of Blu ray or downloads when you're just straight up buying the movie to own it. Then you also have licensing and TV deals, think about cable, airlines, hotels, international distributions, so not just in America. And then you have merchandise and IP, which for some movies that are a part of a big franchise like a Jurassic Park, like a Fast and and Furious like Super Mario Brothers. Right now, this is huge, think toys, games and theme parks. This is where something like Marvel and Star Wars become a gold mine. That essentially is what you want if you are creating a fandom based movie. So bottom line, studios make their money from the movie self as the product in that IP over time. Now talk about how movie theaters make their money. I think we all kind of know because when you roll up to your amc your regal, or your cinemak, it is concessions the real money maker. That is why your popcorn, your Solda, your candy is gonna cost probably seventy to ninety percent more than it would if you just bought it at the store. But theaters keep all of this revenue. The actual studios don't get any of this. This is where theaters make their money because they only get a small percentage of those ticket sales, especially on opening weekend and sometimes for those big movies or a bomb, they will rarely break even. They also make their money off of premium experiences that have been doing really well this year. Think watching a movie in Imax or in Dolby Cinema or the Recliner Seeds anything you have to pay a little bit more of to get a little luxury at the movie theaters. That is why saintemccona is important. When you go and you watch a movie in those rumble seats where you pay a lot more money, the theater wants you to do that because you are paying more and they are able to get a bigger cut. Here. You also have things like ads and partnerships, which like shout out to my ads and partners here on this podcast, think of not only trailers which they actually do make money from some of those trailers that play before their movie, but also those pre movie ads that are commercials essentially. That is why most often times you'll see theaters advertise the start time as like a two pm showing, but that is when the previous start because they want you to be there for that too, because that is how they make their money. And then you also have things like rentals and events private screenings, which I did back during when we were coming out of COVID. I was able to do it for so cheap. It has gone a little bit more expensive now, but I was able to rent out the entire theater at Regal to watch. I think it was had to have been fastened. The fury is eight and it was maybe hundred dollars. Oh, that was a great time for me to run out an entire theater. Not a great time for movie theaters. But bottom line, movie theaters make money on the experience, not the movie itself. That is why studios want bigger cuts. Their relationship kind of ends with after it has this theatrical run. That is why you start to see movies pop up at home really quickly. The theaters would much rather keep that theatrical window to forty five days, which a lot of the news I saw at a cinemacn is they are promising to hold stronger to that to keep movie theaters alive and going that are actually having a really great quarter this year. Theaters do want those longer exclusive runs to provide them with more ticket revenue. So if theaters had their way, they'd want at least a forty five day window exclusive with theaters. If studios had their way, they would be good getting probably immediate streaming after that first weekend, which would be kind of cool. Think about not really so much anymore. If you'd go to a concert, you see a band you really like, you want to buy their CD so you can watch it at home. The problem is a lot of people willn't just take that and upload it on the internet, so you can't really do that. So that is also why you see movie theaters really pushing towards things like collectible pompcord buckets, which have been a huge way that they have made money in the last couple of years that they've really become a thing. And movie theaters actually get a good amount of that money as well, because they pay for the licensing fees from the studio. So a Universal or a Disney will still hold the rights to all of those characters or designs that they use, and they will take a royalty fee, which is something I learned from watching Shark. Take Oh Mister Wonderful loves Himself a royalty fee, and that could be ten to fourteen percent of sales. But then you have the movie theaters making that ninety percent that eighty five percent for selling you a Lee Low and Stitch popcorn bucket. I wonder who would buy that, but that is why theaters really pushed towards that, and we just saw with Super Mario World, the Yoshi popcorn bucket was impossible to get. They love it when they can sell out of something like that. That is why IP is king, and that's why those are so expensive because they're collector's items and they still sell them for fifty bucks, so that itself is a win win structure, which I did. See a lot of cool popcorn bucket designs come out of CinemaCon. I think my favorite has to be the Masters of the Universe popcorn bucket, where it's he Man's sword. Again, not a practical popcorn bucket or a thing to put your drink in, but it does look really awesome. Let's get into now all the details from CinemaCon. The most interesting headline to me at the very start of CinemaCon was movie theater owners coming out and saying, these are the top eight most bankable stars in Hollywood right now meeting These are the people they feel bring in the most amount of butts into their seats. They love hosting movies that these eight actors start in, and I think it's a little bit surprising. And number eight is Austin Butler, and that one really had me questioning the list and making me think of why they would want Austin Butler. Is it because his work in the Bike Riders Elvis in Dune caught stealing? And when I started to look at the top ten most profitable movies of the year end of twenty twenty five, I see a lot of franchises in there. Where sometimes franchises are just more enticing and appealing and recognizable to the average person that it's probably easier to get somebody to go watch a Super Mario movie than it is just to watch a movie with X Star that could be a better original movie. And oftentimes the actors in those movies, or even in like an Avatar movie, they're not going for those movie stars in particular, They're going for the franchise. They're going for that hype. So I started to think about when it comes to Austin Butler, he is actually a name that could draw in people just based on his acting abilities and his appeal that doesn't need some kind of IP attached. You think, why wouldn't somebody like a Chris Evans be in over Austin Butler. It's because Chris Evans is probably least likely right now to sell a ticket as just himself versus if he was playing Captain America. That'd be an easy sell. People would go by that no matter what. But the Captain America character is almost bigger than Chris Evans. So while I was a little bit like whoa really Austin Butler had eight, it kind of makes sense when you start to break down the rest of this list. Right above him and number seven is Timothy Shallomy, arguably one of the biggest male actors in right now who can still just bring in an audience. Look what do you do with Marty's Preme? Above that at number six is Ryan Gosling, who is crushing it right now with Project Hail Mary. Has been around for a long time. Everybody knows who Ryan Gosling is. In the top five. At number five is a Brad Pitt. Easy money. You put Brad Pitt in a movie, you put a poster up, people are going to pay money to go see that. At number four is Tom Holland. Everybody want to see Spider Man, and I would say even if Tom Holland did a non Spider Man film in theaters, which he hasn't done in a while. He's done some streaming movies, done some series, but I still think his name alone would still bring in an audience more so than a Chris Evans. At number three, Margot Robbie. Look what she did with Wuthering Heights. I think her paired with Jacob Elordi perfectly sold that movie. People want to see Margot Robbie in theaters. I'm totally good with that one. And number two is Ndaya, who is just going to be all over movie theaters and your small screen this year. And at number one, according to movie theater owners, the most bankable star is Leonardo DiCaprio. Doesn't matter what he does, could just put out a movie where he's sitting at a desk reciting a few lines. People are gonna go pay money to see Leonardo DiCaprio in theaters. And now let's get into what I'm most excited about that was announced that cinema con starting with what I am the most to the least first up, Top Gun three is officially in the works at Paramount with Tom Cruise set to return Top Gun Maverick back in twenty twenty two. This is why so many theaters are so excited for this movie that was such a success. Made almost one point five billion dollars worldwide at the box office. It became the highest grossing film of Tom Cruise's career and the second highest grossing film of twenty twenty two, second only two Spider Man No Way Home, and this was a major factor in boosting the theatrical industry in a post pandemic world. This I'm buying with Spider Man is what saved a lot of movie theaters. So I think this is why I'm the most excited about this one. And I really like Top Gun Maverick. I thought it was better than the original. I'm excited for it. It doesn't get more American than a new Top Gun movie. I'm just curious where they are going to take Tom Cruise's character, which I felt like Maverick kind of left him in a spot. But he's gonna come back and maybe roll today once more. Next up, and this one is only second because I already knew this movie was happening. I didn't know Top Gun three was coming out officially, but Marvel unveiled the first look of the Avengers Doomsday trailer coming out in December. The trailer opens up with the sign for Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters covered in rubble. Charles Xavier played by Patrick Stewart, cowers in fear as he sees a huge fire out of his window, which I love the inclusion of X Men now and the Avengers. I don't think we realize how big of a deal this is. But then we see Robert Downey Jr. As Doctor Doom in profile, which I cannot wait to see that visual with his green cloak covering part of his face, he has scars, he speaks in an accent, and then we see Thor swing and storm Breaker at Doctor Doom, who casually stops the attack with the palm of his hand. I don't think we realize because of the Fantastic Four movies that came before what we have now how powerful Doctor Doom is. But this moment gives us the first clear, dead on look at Doctor Doom in his iconic metallic mask in the green that looks so good on Robert Downey Jr. And then you hear this voiceover from Thor, who says, I've fought with many warriors in my time who are far stronger than all of us put together, and they died. They died facing enemies and threats that scared me far less than this one. Again, this is Thorn narrating this trailer. He said, everything that they sacrificed will be for nothing if we do not stand together, Put aside your petty squabbles and presume nothing except this. If you return, you will return as brothers and sisters. But mark my words, we are going to need a miracle that gives me chills. Can you imagine Chris Hemsworth giving that speech a store which you saw the battle he faced internally and externally with Thanos. Can you imagine an even bigger threat than Thanos, which there was strong in those movies, but he kind of got put in his place by Thanos. How is he gonna take on Doctor Doom? Then in the trailer we see a new and improved Avengers tower with a red a logo. I love the slightly updated logo by the way. Where the Fantastic Four meet Bucky Barnes played by Sebastian Stan. They also meet Anthony Mackie's Captain America Scott Lang So Paul Rudd is back, and then in a separate scene, we see nay More, who is coming back from Black Panther Wakona Forever on his throne as he interacts with Wakandan's and Shuri, which I do hear that at one point nay More is going to split the sea like Moses. We see Channing Tatum as Gambit fighting Shang Chi. I want to know what is happening there. Gambit knocks off a few of shang Cheese rings on his wrist. There is also a scene with Mystique, who is going to be played by Rebecca Romain. The og is coming back. She is fighting Elena played by Florence Pugh, and Mystique adopts the form of the former Black Widow's appearance as the battle. Then it goes back to the Fantastic Four headquarters. We see Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman, using her force fields to hold back something massive. In a separate scene this is what I'm so excited about. We see the same shot of James Marsden Scott Summer's aka Cyclops letting out a massive optic blast that was previously seen in the trailer. I love that scene. I can't wait to see that scene on the big screen. And the trailer ends with Thor seeing his hammer being summoned to another person, and nearby, a bearded Steve Rodgers played by Chris Evans says, hey, pal to Thor. Thor and says it is not possible. So we are getting a much different version that would appear in that little teaser trailer that we saw with Steve Rodgers and a baby who was all clean shaven, look like og Steve Rogers. We are getting long hair and bearded Steve Rodgers, which gives me the feeling of Infinity War, which I think was the best looking version of Steve Rodgers. This trailer sounds fantastic, and now I'm kind of able to put in my head where this story is going to go, all these pieces shifting together, and it feels really weird to me to have the same feeling I had back in twenty nineteen that was building up towards something massive. It is crazy to see all these characters back in a story that seems like it's going to be firing on all cylinders. I am so ready to have that feeling again, and they did confirm at CinemaCon they are not moving the release date. They'll go into direct battle with Dune Part three and not go into IMAX screens. Dune will take all those up. But I do not I think that is going to hurt this movie. Next up, Johnny Knoxville reveals the title for Jackass five. It is called Jackass Best and Last, and it will be the final Jackass movie. And it was Johnny Knoxville's quote at cinema Con that got to me a little bit. He said, I'm going to try not to get emotional. It means a hell of a lot to me. We knew we were making our last, so we went extra hard to make sure it's our best Jackass film. And from the stories I've seen, which they have wrapped the filming for Jackass five, but so far from production, Dave England I believe has ended up in the hospital. So they went hard. And Johnny Knoxville is also fifty five years old. I think they've been saying it was going to be the last Jackass movie, probably since Jackass three. Jackass Forever really felt like that last one. But these movies make money because they cost a relatively low amount to produce and do really well at the box office. Such an unorthodox format for a movie, which I think these films don't get enough credit for that. It's essentially them putting a bunch of skids in random moments into a cinematic form and putting out in theaters. It is an experience unlike anything else that you'll see in theaters. It doesn't on paper look like it would work or should work, but it does. My hottest movie take ever on this podcast is I believe Johnny Knoxville should have been nominated for an Oscar for his work in the Jackass movies. There should be a stunt performer category at the Oscars. I don't know why we don't have this. We are starting to see them kind of incorporate things like casting oscars we've always had, like costume design. I think stunt performers deserve to be recognized. Motion capture, all these things that bring these movies to life, bring these characters to life behind the scenes that don't get the recognition they deserve. Give Johnny Knoxville an Oscar if you're gonna give it to another actor who loses a bunch of weight for a movie and goes through all these crazy dramatic body changes. I believe his work sacrificing his body for our entertainment should be up there on the level of an oscar. Could Jackass five do it? The final Jackass film? I mean, he's basically said, if he takes another hit to the head, he could be gone forever. And Jackass really all started because he was writing for a skate magazine called Big Brother, and he was doing this piece on self defense equipment, things like pepper spray, and the most famous story from that is he went to a store and bought the cheapest bulletproof vest he could find to test out if it would work, and he shot himself in the chest wearing a bulletproof vest, filmed the thing, and then wrote a piece for Big Brother Magazine, which Jeff Tremaine was working at that combined with the Cky Guys, which was Bam Margera Ryan done that entire crew that was happening kind of adjacent to it, those two things kind of merged and turned into that first season of Jackass. But since then, Johnny Knoxville has remained the co creator and creative force behind it. So they could essentially kind of make some spinoff things or do movies that Johnny Knoxville isn't a part of. But I do not think it'll feel like the same thing. I have to imagine he will just lean a little bit more into his acting. Next up, they released the first teaser for Godzilla minus zero and it looks amazing. Godzilla Minus one was my favorite movie of twenty twenty three. Changed my life. I was blown away by it. Went into it with no expectations whatsoever, and that movie resonated with me so much because it truly felt like the filmmakers were trying to bring the most raw and perfect version of Godzilla to life, and that is exactly what they did. The movie went on to win a couple of Oscars, have won more should have been nominated for Best Picture. But now we are getting our new installment in this franchise, Godzilla minus zero, coming out in theaters on November sixth, which we already knew that, but they unveiled the first teaser trailer and it looks amazing. It shows Godzilla arriving in New York City. In the teaser, you see Godzilla walking behind the Statue of Liberty. That is such an iconic shot, and what I love so much about the first one were the visual effects, which they ended up winning an Oscar for. It had a total budget of about fifteen million dollars and three million of that was spent on visual effects, which is a relatively low amount. That is pretty cheap, but it looks so much better than movies with two hundred and fifty two upwards of three hundred million dollars budgets. It blew it out of the water. The scene of Godzilla coming up behind the boat and maybe it's the second act of the movie is one of the best visuals of this decade. And now that the first one was such a major success and they were really praised for that, I have to imagine they're going to get a little bit more money and I cannot wait to see what they do with that money. It is going to continue two years after Minus one, still following the stories of the survivors from that movie. They are back in this trailer as well. It is also the first ever Japanese film to be shot for IMAX, so this movie is going to look massive. Can't wait to see it on the biggest screen possible. Godzilla Minus zero could quite possibly. It can't be my favorite movie of the year. If it were any other year, this would be in the running of my favorite of the year. But we have Spider Man, we have Doomsday. There's still a lot of good stuff coming out this year, but I would still put it on Hype alone, probably in my top three. Next up, Margo Robbie confirms the story for Ocean's Eleven, which is a movie that she is producing with her production company Lucky Chap It is going to be a prequel and it is going to be starring Bradley Cooper. The description is before Danny Ocean ever stepped foot in Vegas, two masterminds taught him everything he knows his parents. You'll see them in their prime and in their new movie, pulling off an epic heist at the nineteen sixty two Monaco Grand Prix. So the movie will star Margot Robbie, which he is producing it. It'll also star Bradley Cooper and he is directing it. It is coming out in theaters on my birthday twenty twenty seven. Next up, we got some new Spider Man news. The two new posters that came out, one in particular, I thought was so perfect every Great Spider Man franchise has had an iteration of Spider Man's face with the big bug eyes and some villain or something reflecting in his eyes, and it's always been used in such a great way. And now we have that poster again, which I think Marvel posters are often criticized for just being a bunch of floating heads. Not always their fault. Some of the reasons you see those all the time is because there are restrictions. People and actors involved have a certain amount of space that they have in their contracts that they have to be in a certain percentage, or a certain amount of their face needs to be shown in a poster. So when you have these large ensemble casts, you have to work out a way to get all these people's faces on a poster, and oftentimes results in just a floating heads poster. That has kind of been the norm for a while now, but it's kind of boring. You don't want to put a floating heads poster on your wall. Also, I had to say, I'm not putting posters on my wall with thump taxture or anything, but it just doesn't look good. It doesn't entice you. But what we got with this brand new set of two posters. One in particular, you have Tom Holland Spider Man now with the big bug eyes reflection in his eyes, and you have Zendeiya right there in his left eye. The poster looks fantastic. It's very crisp, very much an ode to the Spider Man movies that have come out before it. And finally, the actual Marvel studio is putting out posters that are up there with all fan art that gets made, because oftentimes the fan art looks a lot better than the real studio art because they play it so safe. But along with the posters coming out, they showed a brand new clip from the movie that I'm going to describe to you now. And again I don't like to give all the details. I can't really spoil the movie that I haven't spoiled before, but I'm so excited about this one in particular, I do want to talk about the clip because a lot of people were reporting about this and a lot of people will hype on this at CinemaCon. But Sony head Tom Rothman showed off those posters. He showed off this clip which shows Peter Parker living in a post no way home world, where his closest friends no longer know who he is. Peter is grabbing a bite to eat at a bodega when Ned walks in to grab some alcohol and as expected, doesn't recognize his longtime friend. Peter decides to follow him home and crash a house party that Ned and MJ are throwing. That's kind of what you saw in the trailer there, and then Peter discovers that Ned has a wall of Spider Man photos and news clippings in his room and has created a spot tracker which monitors the hero's whereabouts and claims he has narrowed down Spider Man's identity to two prime subjects. Won't say anything else about that, but then MJ appears as Peter gives her flowers that he brought as a host gift, and in a nervous moment, he introduces himself as Mayard. And then in the clip, MJ tells Ned that she got a job but turned it down because she didn't want to work at a soul list corporations with a plan to wait for something great. MJ Here's Where It Hurts is also dating someone else, and she leans in to kiss him. Peter emotionally flees the scene. Brand New Day is coming out in theaters on July thirty. First. I have to imagine in that moment, MJ's like, what is that guy's problem? I just met him and he just took that kiss from really hard. But I imagine at some point in this story some memory of Peter is going to come back to MJ. She's going to start remembering some things, or maybe just maybe she ends up falling for him. No matter what, but that looks and sounds awesome. Tom Cruise was also there to give some details on his upcoming comedy, Yes comedy called Digger, where he plays an oil baron who has quote a thick Southern accent, a beer belly, and thin white hair that's been manipulated into an unconvincing comb over. It is nice to see Tom Cruise stepping out of the action genre, even though later he is going to hop back in for Top Gun. But it does kind of remind me of his character from Tropic Thunder, where he was pretty much unrecognizable, was dancing about, was doing a lot of yelling and things that you don't normally see Tom Cruise lean into, which I don't know, maybe secretly he doesn't have hair and it's all a wig, and he's all just putting up front as putting on this Tom Cruise costume when he comes out in public and in movies, and this is like his true self. That is the story I start to build in my head that secretly he is being held up by like a bunch of close pin and then at night he just takes them all off. His skin just kind of goes flock and his hair piece comes off, and this is him truly being himself. Probably not the case, but just peeking to my mind there. But in this movie, his character's company is responsible for possibly setting off a disaster that could also spark a nuclear war. Tom Cruise said, it took forty years for me to be able to put on the boots of Digger Rockwell, and that is coming out this year on October second. They also gave another look at Toy Story five and Woody is revealed to not only have the balding head that we saw in the trailer, but he's also going to have a beer belly, which I think is funny. And then they gave some more details as far as what is going on with Bonnie. She apparently gets addicted to doom scrolling apps on her lily pad, which sounds kind of depressing. There is one scene that found the toys dealing with being pushed aside by Bonnie in favor of this lily pad. In order to have all these group chats with their friends, play a bunch of video games hours on end. So in order to back with all that screen time, the toy send out an SOS to Woody, who then comes in with a beer belly. So no crazy bombshells dropped about Toy story five, but I do like those additional details. Those are the biggest things that I am excited about. Here are some other movies that were announced that sound interesting to me. Tared Egerton is going to be in a movie called Everybody Wants to f Me, where it's basically as the title says, the movie is build as a thriller about a man who discovers that every single woman he encounters is stalking him and wants to get railed by him. That movie is coming out in twenty twenty seven. Could very well be a disaster, but I love a movie that the title speaks for itself. You know what you're getting, just by that title alone, and it sounds enticing. I gotta admit Seth Rogan was there. He revealed that Krag will join Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem two. Not a whole lot of details about that movie, but just knowing the villains has me excited because the first one looks really good. Brought back that Turtle nostalgia, and gotta have Shredder in a Ninja Turtles movie. I love the introduction of Krng, so I think that'll be good. Zach Kreiger's Resident Evil has reportedly been described as a horror fury Road that is ninety minutes of all gas, no breaks. Zach Creiger is one of my favorite new directors. I think the horror genre is in good hands with Zach Creiger making any kind of movie right now. Along with that, they did announce that Gladys is coming out on September eighth, twenty twenty eight. That is going to be the prequel to Zach Creiger's movie Weapons, following that character's origin story, which I think will be wild. Warner Brothers set some more theatrical dates for their movies, The Revenge of Laoorna is coming out on April ninth, twenty twenty seven. Ocean's Eleven, which we talked about already, is coming out on June twenty fifth, twenty twenty seven. Evil Dead Wrath will come out on April seventh, twenty twenty eight. Final Destination seven is coming out on May twelfth. Gladys That movie will come out on September eighth, twenty twenty eight. And Boz Lherman's Joan of Arc movie will come out on November twenty second, twenty twenty eight. And the last thing that really stuck out to me was David Kornswet is going to be in a movie called Mister Irrelevant. The movie follows John Tuggle, who was given the title of Mister Irrelevant after being the last pick of the last round of the nineteen eighty three draft. That movie is coming out in theaters on December twenty fifth of this year. I think that is interesting because David Kornswett is at a really interesting moment in his career where Superman has really put him into that upper tier of actor. As far as people going from who's David Kornswett, how do you say his name to oh yeah, he's Superman. And whenever you get such an iconic role like that, oh man, you got to be very careful in the roles you take because people will just start to typecast you and only see you as that one role, and it could be the role that makes your career. I don't think many actors would turn down playing Superman, but it's kind of the dark that comes along with that. If you are such a great Superman, you make your studio a bunch of money at the box office. The fans love you. But then you want to go do a movie like Mister Irrelevant, and you want people to still take you seriously, and you want to be able to go out and promote that movie and just talk about that movie and not have everybody want to talk to you about Superman, people yelling at you on the street a Superman. This is that moment in his career that it's going to show Canny also carry a movie outside of a superhero franchise. Will people still be interested in him when he is not Clark Kent. I like the stills that they showcased in that I am on the David Corn sweat train. Ever since Twisters, I saw him on Twisters. I like that guy's gonna be Superman and he's gonna be great. But those are the biggest headlines from cinemacn I'll come back and give my spoiler free review of Lee Cronin's The Mummy. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free mood review of Lee Cronin's The Mummy right at the top of this review. I do have to mention because some people have asked me, but it has nothing to do with the Brendan Fraser version of The Mummy. New Line Cinema and Blumhouse have actually revived a lot of old classic horror movies. They have a lot more coming, but movies like Wolf Man, The Invisible Man. So think of the Mummy as just the classic horror character, like you would Frankenstein, like you would Dracula. Even if they just made a new movie about a ghost, think of just really classic Halloween stories, those type of characters. That is what this is trying to revive. But the big question in this movie is what happened to Katie. You have a family living abroad. Dad is a journalist. Mom works in the medical field. They have a daughter a son, and the daughter is named Katie. They are living in this house and she goes to the edge of the garden and develops this really creepy friend, and all of a sudden, Katie goes missing. They have no idea where she is. They move back home and for eight years they just think she's gone, no questions answered, and all of a sudden they get worried that Katie has been found. She is alive, but not well. She comes home, reunites with the family, and they realize there is something really wrong with Katie and they have to figure out what happened to their daughter. This movie comes to us from director Lee Cronin, who I enjoy. I've actually had him on the podcast before whenever The Evil Dead Rise came out. He is somebody who loves the use of blood, which there was a lot of blood in this movie. Has a really great eye for how to make a movie make your skin crawl, which is what this movie does really well. A lot of big, intense close ups, really crunchy sound effects that at times even made me feel uncomfortable. And it takes a lot to make me watch a horror movie and feel that feeling a discomfort, and this movie really leans into it. So much so that I think it kind of hurt it at times because it becomes so bloody and disgusting. Almost it's just for the sake of being so over the top that I don't know how much these visuals really helped the story, which underneath all the blood and gore is where you find the story. It is about grief. I put myself into the perspective of these parents where I don't have kids, but it really made me question how I would be in this situation. They are going through a lot after these eight years of not having their daughter. They get the best news ever that she has been found after everybody told them they were crazy, after the police when they brought them in for questioning, thought that maybe the parents had something to do with it. And then you go to these emotions of we finally found our daughter. Our life is going to go back and be how it was supposed to be. We're going to get these eight years back to start living life as a family. You go and see your daughter and see the state that she is in, don't really recognize her, even though the doctors are telling you that for the most part, everything is okay with her. Aside from these really crazy emotions that she is having, so you have to speak in a really soft way around her, otherwise she will just kind of go off the rails. What would you do as a parent where your worst day suddenly becomes your best day because now you have your daughter back. But if you don't recognize your daughter and there's something really sinister going on inside her mind and inside of her body, what do you do? Because the doctor say the only way to get her back to her normal self is to have her around the comforts of home. You bring her back home, she meets her younger brother again, who now is much older and now has another younger sister who she never met, And all of a sudden, you have this really crazy dynamic of having somebody in the house who doesn't even feel human at this point, and you are trying to treat them as if they didn't come back from something traumatic and trying to continue normal life. You can't tell anybody in your community that your sister has returned because she isn't quite ready to be around people yet. And the dad is trying to uncover the mission. And that is the ride you go on inside of this movie. Now, when it comes to the visual aspects. I thought they were really great from the very start of the movie when you see what happens to Katie and then all the things that happened to the family as Katie is back home. It is very intense. A lot of the scenes feel like a ticking time bomb because you, as the viewer know a little bit more than the family know that this girl is not okay. She has been through something crazy, but you are still trying to figure it out along with the parents. You just feel that at any point she could be set off, so it creates a lot of great tension between Katie and all the other members of the family. Anytime the lights go down in a horror movie, you know it's about to go down, but even the scenes that take place during the day are equally as terrifying. I think for me, it was just hard to humanize some of the moments because while you started to care for the parents and what they are going through trying to process this grief, you were trying to grab onto the story, trying to feel for Katie. But I think it becomes so intense and so over the top that it takes away a lot of the heart. Even though I think this is a really well crafted movie on how they navigate what is going on at home and also the detective trying to figure out what happened to Katie back in the country where all this stuff went down. At times it felt like it was truly going to become something special, but then never really got there. And then the third act came around, where I feel is where this movie ended up losing me and I struggled to find who exactly is this movie going to before because as big of a horror movie fan that I am, I don't know that this is the traditional ride that I wanted to go on because some of the things felt a little bit formulaic and I've seen before. I just felt like it never really reached that flow state where everything was working at the exact same time. Felt a little bit clunky, and I just kind of stopped caring for the characters because at the beginning of the movie, I couldn't wait to figure out what was going to happen to Katie, what was going to be the lore behind your story? And I almost found that not knowing was a little bit more satisfying than once you actually do the mystery that you uncover it doesn't really go in the direction that I wanted to, didn't really leave me with a smile on my face, and some of the horror moments just felt a little bit too self indulgent, like Lee Cronin was just trying to make our skin crawl for the sake of making us feel uncomfortable and for the sake of letting us watch something so disgusting and over the top and disturbing when it didn't really help the story itself. It was almost just put in there as shock value, not really jump scare moments, just things that you're like, oh my gosh, why are we still doing this over and over again? And overall, I didn't like some of the aspects of the supernatural force. The actual Mummy action I just thought could have been handled a little bit better. It very much felt like the same thing we saw in The Evil Dead Rise, But that type of horror fits that style of movie more. I was kind of hoping it would have a little bit more of a classic horror movie vibe, because they are trying to revive all these old classic characters. But I guess if you hire Lee Cronin to do a lead Cronin movie, this is what you're gonna get. I think overall, that is what this story was trying to say, how something traumatic like this can take a really big toll on a family, and how strong you have to be to get through one of the hardest things you would ever have to get through as a family. And I think us as the viewers can kind of take that away and apply it to our own life when we all have some adversity in our lives and have to overcome it as a family as a force. It is those moments that show you what it is to be a family, that bond that brings you together because you've been through so much and this is really pushing the limits on what you are willing to take on and what is going to really set you off and make you crumble. I think the true unfortunate thing about this movie because it's not bad. It's not great, but it's not bad, it's the time it came out in theaters and what it's going to reflect with the box office, where people are still going and watch the Mario movie. People are still going to watch Project Till Mary as it came back in theaters in imax, and people are also kind of waiting it out for the summer blockbuster season, and unfortunately there is some confusion on what this movie even is. You think The Mummy and you think the old franchise, so people are like, I don't want to go watch a reboot of that. I didn't even hear or know this was going on, and I know you put Lee Cronin's name at the front of that to try to give it a little bit of Okay, this is actually something different, But it's not like putting a Quentin Tarantino or a Christopher Nolan or even a boz Lhrman's name at the front of a movie and people kind of knowing that it's something different, and if it would have came out in September or October, which you also have that loaded up now. Is just unfortunate that the box office is going to reflect that this is not a great movie when I don't think that is the case. But it just shows you that it's not only important to have a quality product, it's also putting it out at the exact same time. That is why you see these movies sometimes move up even just one week, move six months to a year, is because it is so important when your movie comes out, even though horror to me, I believe is a year round genre. I will go watch a movie like this at any time of the year I think for it to be successful in the mainstream. Unfortunately, it still has to come out around September or October. So for Lee Cronin's The Mummy, I give it three point five out of five caskets.

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Speaker 2: It's god to head down to movie Mike Traylor Park.

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Speaker 1: We are finally getting something I've been asking for for a very long time, a dinosaur movie that is not a part of the Jurassic Park or Jurassic World franchise. The movie is called The End of Oak Street and we find Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor living in suburbia running from dinosaurs. One day, all of a sudden, their entire street, not just them, not just their house, their entire street has moved. And boy, let me tell you, sci fi survival movies are my jam. If once a year we get a movie like this, I am satisfied. Think of movies like a quiet place where civilization is crumbling, you have to survive. And Kelsey and I were actually talking about this recently. If we got to the end of times and we were gonna have to basically resort to living in a bunker. I think we would just go as soon as the Wi Fi goes down, and as soon as we can't go to the grocery store to get food. I don't know how much interest I have in trying to write it out. I would go as far as I could, but I don't know that I would have to be one of these people who would want to survive at all costs. But before we get into more, here is just a little bit of the end of Oak Street trailer.

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Speaker 2: Huhman's talking to us. I think our house, our neighborhood, our whole street has moved.

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Speaker 1: No, the hell is not even possible. Oh my god, Aron, that is one of my favorite things that trailers do, where it gets so big and loud, especially when you go watch it in a theater and then the audio cuts out. It's like, I don't know why. That's such a great tactic that trailers use. But what happens in this movie. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, The Platte family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings. So a lot of things to dive into. First, let's talk about dinosaurs and why we don't get more dinosaur movies. It turns out that Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, which is Steven Spielberg's company, they don't necessarily own the rights to real dinosaurs. That is something you can't copyright, but they do have very extensive copyrights and trademarks on specific artistic and CGI interpretations of dinosaurs, along obviously with the brand name Jurassic Park. So again, while nobody can own a dinosaur, the Jurassic Park team actually owns the specific visual designs, models, and CGI renders of the dinosaurs that are put into the Jurassic Park movies. Some of these designs that they own specifically that you cannot make without getting sued by them, is the Velociraptor blue that you would know from Jurassic World. They also own REXI, the Trannosaurus rex from Jurassic Park, and they also own some of the hybrid dinosaurs like the Indominus Rex and in Draptor. I think that's how you say that one, but a lot of other dinosaurs, like the Bronchiosaurus, the Stegosaurus, those both down like diseases, sort of are all public domain. So it can be done. You can make a dinosaur movie, but you have to be very careful that they don't resemble Jurassic Park whatsoever, or they will come after you. Because I was thinking, aside from Godzilla, we really don't get a whole lot of live action dinosaur movies, and everybody loves dinosaurs. You throw a dinosaur in a movie and it makes it entertaining most of the time. And I was thinking of some of my favorite dinosaur movies. You have the Land Before Time, the Classic og, the one that made me want to eat leaves as a kid. You have basically a lot of animated movies, The Good Dinosaur from Pixar. You also have the Disney movie Dinosaurs from two thousand. When I think back to very early two thousands DVDs, that cover comes to mind, but I don't really I remember a whole lot of that story. I just remember watching that on DVD and be like, man, you can skip to chapters in this thing. You also have movies, like I says, that are still inside of the genre. Most recently in theaters. I went to go see sixty five with Adam Driver. It has dinosaurs. That movie had so much potential, and maybe because I overhyped it in my head, I found that movie to be a total snooze fest and a waste of dinosaurs. So to create a CGI dinosaur is an expensive process and that movie it looked good in it, but the overall story and action in that movie fell completely flat. If you ever see sixty five and think, oh, had them Driver dinosaurs, I haven't heard of that, and I want to check it out. Do not waste your time. But that is what this movie feels like. It feels a little bit like Jurassic Park meets Lost, which jj Abrams is a producer on this movie. He actually hasn't directed a movie in a long time, since the last Star Wars that came out in twenty nineteen. He's really stepped into the producer role. He has a company called Bad Robot, which I love, and of course anything he is a part of which he is really stressing original stories. He doesn't want to do sequels, so that could be a reason that jj Abrams isn't directing a whole lot. And that's why this movie also feels a little bit like Lost which he was a part of Cloverfield. It also feels a little bit like Jumanji to me when you get a little glimpse of the dinosaurs running through suburbia, which that is such a great contrast that Jumanji I think did really well where you see monkeys driving a police cruiser. You see an entire street completely flooded and crocodiles and lions all being swept away. Another scene that comes to mind is from Jurassic Park Lost World. Whenever you see the t Rex running through the city going to the gas station, I think it's a seventy six gas station in that ball rolls. That is such a great visual putting dinosaurs into our world. I would love to see more of it, and finally we are getting it in a non Jurassic Park movie. It also reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons. It's a Treehouse of Horror episode where Homer Simpson gets his hands stuck in the toaster and it turns into a time machine and then he goes back to dinosaur days and accidentally kills one and then it changes the entire trajectory of history. So you have all these things swelling up into one movie, and I am excited about it. It also stars Ann Hathaway, who I also have to give credit to having a monster twenty twenty six, which I know. I've been talking a lot about Zendaiya's banner year that is approaching, which a lot of people have been hating on Euphoria Season three. I so far am loving it. What do you expect? It took forever to make all these people have become incredibly famous. It was gonna be an impossible task. You were never gonna make a bunch of people happy with this. But I am satisfied. But like Zendaya and Hathaway is also going to be everywhere this year. She has five movies coming out across different genres in twenty twenty six, running through what's coming up next. On April twenty fourth, she's going to be in a movie called Mother Mary that is a psychological drama where she plays a really big pop star. On May first, she's going to be in The Devil War's Prada two, which I told you guys, we rewatched the first Devil War's product and now I am excited for that movie. She is also, along with basically the rest of Hollywood, going to be in The Odyssey on July seventeenth, what we're talking about now. The End of Oak Street is coming out after that on August fourteenth, and then on October second, she's going to be in Verity, which is the Amazon adaptation of the Colleen Hoover thriller. So that is a really big year for Anne Hathaway, which maybe is revisionist history, but I always thought of Ann Hathaway as one of the most likable movie stars. She made her debut back in two thousand and one with The Princess Diaries, and if you told me before doing this episode's research that she just has had a great, long career and has never gone away, I kind of forgot that. In the twenty tens, there was a really big campaign on the Internet where she just got all kinds of hate. It was dubbed Hatha Hate, and it was after she won an Oscar in twenty thirteen for lem Me set Up. I can never say the title to that movie correctly. She won the Oscar for that, and then she co hosted the Oscars with James Franco, which is often cited as being one of the worst Oscar pairings of all time. They were trying to appeal to a younger audience, so you get James Franco, you get in Hathaway. I do remember that Award show of being pretty awkward, but I don't really remember all the hate that came from that, so much so that she said that a lot of people did not want to work with her after that, and she credits Christopher Nolan, the director of movies like Inception Interstellar, for saving her career, and Hathaway described Nolan as the angel who did not care about the negativity and cast her an Interstellar. In twenty fourteen, she said that it was Christopher Nolan's support that allowed her career to keep its momentum when otherwise it would have started to fall, and she had previously worked with him on The Dark Knight Rises in twenty twelve, and we see this happening over and over again, where people can just decide, ah, we don't like you anymore, and suddenly it becomes so hard to find work. I do believe she is in a bit of a renaissance right now. I also liked her movie The Idea of you that was on Amazon, where she plays a woman in her thirties who starts dating a pop star. And maybe it's now seeing this trailer, seeing all the movies she has coming out this year, fresh off of rewatching The Devil War's Prada, that I realized I need to start including her in my list of the best actors working right now because all those movies I listed sound like things I want to go see in theaters. I'm not a big Colleen Hoover fan. That's more of a Kelsey thing. She's gone to see every single one of those movie adaptations in theaters. That's the one I'm probably least likely to see. But could it be and Hathaway who gets me to see a Colleen Hoover movie Because I kind of had to complete the five films of hers this year see them all in the theater, So maybe this is the one that changes it. There's also a really moving story I wanted to share with you about an actor named Hudson Meek who is going to be in the End of Oak Street. He has been in other movies like Baby Driver. He actually died in a really tragic accident on December twenty first, twenty twenty four after he fell from a moving vehicle in Alabama. That happened on December nineteenth. He suffered blunt force trauma and died from his injuries on December twenty first, So really sad. A memorial scholarship was actually set up at his high school, Vestavista High School, where he was a student, in his honor. It is called the Hudson J. Meek Memorial Scholarship. But this is going to be the last movie he is going to be in. Such a tragic story of an actor gone too soon. But I did see a lot of people in the YouTube comments talking about his story, and people who knew Hudson said he was so excited to be in the movie, and he was so chill about it. He wasn't going out and bragging to people like, Yeah, I'm gonna be in a Hollywood movie. He was just incredibly grateful to get this opportunity. So I'm really hoping it looks like what I looked up on IMDb. He is going to be in it, and I have to imagine that wouldn't be something they would cut out of the movie knowing what has happened to him. So that is something to look for if you go see this movie in theaters. So yeah, kind of sad, but also a really great way to be remembered. And the end of Oak Street is coming out in theaters on August fourteenth. And that was this week's edition of Movie Mike Trailer PARR and that is going to do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I got to give my listeners shout out of the week. I actually have a lot of shout outs to hand out because last week I asked if you would be so kind to share the new episode artwork on Instagram and Twitter wherever you can tag me on and so many people did so shout out to everybody who shared that in your Instagram story or on X. 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