So much to talk about on this week's Stage 16!
With CinemaCon going on at this very minute in Vegas, Hollywood is bursting at the seams with updates. O'Banion and Roberts start with the first full screening of Paramount's TOP GUN: MAVERICK and its gushing critical reception. They'll talk briefly about Lady Gaga's bid for an Oscar for her new song for the film, following in the path of Berlin's Best Original Song winner Take My Breath Away from the original. They'll talk about the biggest industry news this week, Justin Lin's departure from FAST X (the next film in the FAST & FURIOUS franchise) nearly a week into shooting and what that means for the film, its cast and crew and what they may do moving forward to see the production moving. They'll also address the ("alleged") problem with Vin. A quick conversation about some cast from the franchise leads to a brief sidestep into the money these people make (and the real estate they can afford) before they move on to AVATAR 2, Disney's win in picking up Fox and Lucasfilm and Marvel's trailer for THOR: LOVE & THUNDER.
They've got a little more info on Kevin Costner's new HORIZON, they'll talk Sony's greenlight for GHOSTBUSTERS 4 (or AFTERLIFE 2), the failure of MORBIUS, the middling success of VENOM and its sequel and then touch on the genius of Marvel's Kevin Fiege and, now that Roberts has seen it, the brilliance of SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME and the potential for a multi-verse of standalone Spidey films.
Sticking with Marvel, they'll look briefly at the upcoming DR. STRANGE AND THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS, the next two SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE films web-swinging down the calendar and then briefly switch to Pixar for the LIGHTYEAR trailer. After that it's time to discuss Ben Affleck and Matt Damon reuniting again for a new Amazon film, Idris Elba getting hijacked by Apple TV+, The Offer on Paramount+, The Ozark finale (which drops today on Netflix!) and Bill Hader and Alec Berg's Barry returning on HBO Max after a long absence. They'll round out the hour (+/-) with their anticipation of the AVATAR 2 trailer, Damien Chazelle's upcoming Brad Pitt/Margot Robbie film BABYLON and Robbie's new David O. Russell film with Christian Bale and her BARBIE film with Ryan Gosling. Lastly they talk JURASSIC PARK: DOMINION's final trailer, Universal's penchant for spoiling entire films in their trailers and some upcoming episodes.
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