Avengers Images Surface Of Deadpool And Wolverine With Major Character - The John Campea Show

Well greetings and salutations, everybody. Welcome to the best damn move related show on the planet. The John Campy show. Cutting from right here. Am I dilapidated, converted little garage? I'm, of course, your host, Lord of the garage, John Campy, good to have you guys here. I am joined today by our technical producer, Jonathan Voiko Lord of Burbank as they say. I've heard that before. Now normally we would have Christian Harloff here on Monday, but Christian is traveling right now. So he'll be back on next week. So Robert Mybernet was going to do the show today, but then this morning, the power went out at his house. Yep. I said, and that's why I have solar batteries. But yes, the power went out at his house. So we will just hope that Rob gets his power back soon today. So he doesn't have to go too much of the day without power, especially with it being over a hundred degrees out here. But most importantly, of course, guys, you guys are here. Thank you so much for being here and making our little show a part of your day. And here's how today show is going to go. We're going to start off by talking about a number of topics we got lined up for you guys. And then in the second part of the show is when I'm going to take your live comments and questions. If you have a thought, theory, opinion, question or an issue, you'd like me to address. As long as I deem it appropriate to be addressed on the show, go ahead and fire it on into the super chat feature if you're watching live. Now I will let you know the super chats are already over full. So I will leave them on for the next little while. But I'm going to turn them off probably in the next 15 minutes or so. But there you have it. If you want to send one in, you still can for the next little while. All right, guys, with that all down, let's get things rolling here. Shall we? And we're going to get started off with this. Well, June 3. Now you guys, of course, remember that just a couple of few select 70 millimeter iMac screenings of June 3 went on sale a few months ago. And they sold out very quickly. It was of course, it was a very limited number of seats, but they sold out very quickly. And not only did they sell out at that time, though, one of them so badly, they were not just being sold for, they were actually being sold. Like it's one thing to put something up for sale on eBay and say, I want a million dollars for this pencil, but it's a different thing if somebody actually pays a million dollars for that pencil. And what happened with the June 3 tickets, those early ones, people were asking for $2,500 a pair and people were buying them for $2,500 a pair. It turns out. Isn't all that far off retail, which we'll talk about in a little while here, but today, today, Denis Valnouv said the only Instagram that we are putting more, that's, that's more like George St. Pierre than a French. That's going to say that. Yes, he says, but they're both from French Canada. I mean, they're going to sound a little bit alike. That truck on the show. He gave a bad truck. The leaper is here. So Denis Valnouv came out and said, we're going to put more tickets on sale on August 18, Tuesday and sure enough this morning, the tickets went on sale. Or so they say, or so they claim because while everybody's been paying attention, understandably so to the doomsday tickets yesterday, we talked about the fact that the doomsday tickets are pacing 65% ahead of what the advanced ticket sales were for Spider-Man brand new day. And that movie went on to break the all-time opening weekend box office record. Well, lest you think that means there's not going to be anybody else around to go see doon three on doomsday. Well, rumors of its demise apparently have been greatly exaggerated because a lot of people, including myself, when they went to go to try to buy tickets, this is on my Instagram that I just put up a little while ago, when people went to try to go buy tickets, no, bueno, no good. No, in the words of the great and iconic approve from the Simpsons, thank you come again. So I tried Adam tickets. And on, this was AMC, by the way, then on Adam tickets, eventually I got in and it even let me go to the ticket. I selected my seats hit purchase and it said, somebody's already bought these tickets make another selection. I'm like, well, why the hell did you just say they were available? Fine. So I select two more to seats. This these seats have already been selected. Choose another and again and again and again until finally said this screening is sold out. And I'm like, double furs, f you, I was so mad. So, so I go, of course, to fendango and I choose one screening. Sorry, this is sold out. I tried it for the next day. I tried to add another theater. Sorry, the Monday sold out, tried it for the Tuesday. Now, before any of that, though, and I've got a bone to pick here, Jonathan, with the good folks at IMAX. I have a bone to pick. It sounds like it because IMAX said we're going to have these special IMAX inside of screenings sound all special, right? It says, oh, but Johnny boy, you're not an IMAX insider. You got to sign up first. So yesterday you did. So tonight, like a good boy, I went ahead and I signed up for IMAX insider to make sure I could buy those IMAX insider tickets. So this morning, again, following the rules and doing what they told me, I'm on the IMAX page right where they have the screenings and the show times. And I'm just waiting for 9 a.m. to hit when those grade out 6 p.m. boxes will turn blue so I could click them. And sure enough, because I'm an insider now, right? I'm an insider. So sure enough, 9 a.m. comes. The little grade out 6 p.m. box turns blue. That means you can click it now. Great. I'm going to go buy my insider tickets. You know what happened when I clicked that exclusive IMAX insider ticket purchase thing. Yeah, it just took me to Fandango where every other shut in mouth breather like me was already in line trying to buy their tickets. I'm like, wait a minute. What happened to I'm an insider? Woo, isn't this special? I literally waited till 9 a.m. Boom, click on it. And it just takes me to where everybody else is getting them except those mouthbreeding chugs like me were more smart than me SMRT. And they were there waiting in line since like 7, 30 in the morning that I didn't think I had to do because I'm an insider. So we were good. I thought I was being a good boy. I did what Denny asked me to do. I'm like, how does a theater know I was a good boy though? How do I even prove that I'm a good boy? And I signed up for this? No, it doesn't matter because you didn't have to be an insider. Yeah, with with the hooligans. Yeah, you didn't have to be an insider. So me and my other mouthbreeding chugs, we're going to the exact same screening except everything got sold out. Now I managed then after having to go back in line for AMC and wait another 7 minutes just to get into the site. I managed to grab a couple of tickets for the Thursday. It's not the Monday's advanced. It's not the Tuesday advance. But whatever, I got to get in and got mine. Was it Tuesday? It's like the standard I max, right? Because no, no, it wasn't even I max. I saw it. I got it for the Dolby at most prime. So those are available. So here's something funny. I can't share the screen. But if you, because you know, the 70 millimeter is that the universal aims yeah, universal studios. Oh, I heard they're not even showing it. So when you go on the site, you can't even have the option. It says, sorry, there are no listings like available for this movie here because it got so overwhelmed they had to take it down the server crashed. So it is available, but not right now because the server crashed. Yeah. So Fandango's so then I went to Fandango. Fandango site was, was crippled to a crawl. I was three minutes wait for 22 minutes before three minutes went down to two minutes and it kept logging me out. I kept getting me out. Yeah. And I had to sign back in. Yeah. And same thing happened with me on Adam tickets. Same thing happened with me on Fandango. Obviously AMC. I finally got in it, but I couldn't get tickets for the early ones. So I got one of them for the Thursday. Now I got lucky. My wife Ann, who is a persistent little badger. She kept trying and I guess what happened was and apparently this was a big thing that was happening. People were getting tickets then finding out their friends also got tickets. So they would cancel their tickets. And my wife Ann was able to snag us not even two seats together. We got a seat one in front of the other for the Monday screening of she can get you to start sleeping or something. Yes. I'm talking to hit you. So I've I absolutely I got mine, but I started when I was able to get back into the AMC website. I started going through the various screenings on the Thursday and they're either sold out front row only or disabled only like that. That that was it. They were all selling out fast. Now, look, let's be very clear here. June three is not going to make anywhere near as much as Avengers doomsday. of course not. You'd have to be a fool to think that. But also being true at the same time is make no mistake. This thing's going to make a lot of money for what it is. It's going to make a lot. And you know, I remember saying Jonathan before the first dune came out and people saying is this is going to be a billion dollar film. And I remember saying to people, listen, I think it's going to be great. But this is not the type of movie that will ever be a billion dollar film. I added about 800. Yeah. And I think the first one, I mean, there was some extenuating circuits. The second one made close to 800. But you know, it's just what it is. It's not, it's not a populous movie. It's not a four quadrant movie. It's not for everybody. It's just not a bit, but I mean, dune three considering how good dune two was. And with the big momentum of dune's day, I think maybe there is a possibility that dune three could actually end up being a billion dollar film. I mean, I mean, at least if today's ticket sales have anything to say about it. And yeah, some people are saying, I bet you I max regrets signing the deal with dune three instead of dune's day. I max is perfectly happy. Every seat is sold. And so it doesn't matter if every seat is sold for dune's day or for dune three as long as every seat is sold. That's all they care about and they're selling. Yeah. And Odyssey is sold is sold through September. I think we're going to see Odyssey available on some screens going into October. That's possible. That's definitely possible. That could happen. So anyway, guys, question is for you. Were you able to get your dune tickets? I ultimately was, but not before going through a lot of hoops and a lot of frustration and a lot of hassle, probably about a 45 minute endeavor, which is why today shows about 30 minutes late is because I spend like 45 minutes trying to get my dune tickets. Whenever you guys think about this, jump down to the comment section below and let us know your thoughts. All right, guys, with that down, let's kind of stay on the topic of dune three and talk about this, shall we? So when I was finally able to get in to one of the ticket purchasing sites, I believe it was Adam tickets and I was able to select tickets, but whenever I tried to complete purchase, it erred out and would throw me out of the site, which was very frustrating. But one of the things that I noticed because the theater I was trying to get it out wasn't an AMC. So I knew I was going to have to pay for my tickets. Normally I go to AMC and I have a list. So I normally don't have to pay for those tickets because I pay for a list, but I knew I was going to have to pay for these tickets because it was out of different theater. One of the things that I noticed when I clicked the seats that I wanted to get and I thought for sure it might have been a typo, a mistake, an 'er' if you will. But I did the whole, you know, Dr. Grant from Jurassic World, Jurassic Park. When I saw that my tickets were $43 a piece. Welcome to being poor. 43 dollars a piece. At first I thought, oh yeah, the 2150 per ticket for an AMC. Yeah, because I was trying to get two. Oh no, no, no, that's not 2150 per ticket for Grant total of $43. No, no, no. It was $43 per ticket. Now granted, this was for the early screenings, the Monday and Tuesday early screenings. So it's a little special. So I understand paying a little bit of a premium on top of that. I get that. You know, it's a special thing. It's only one screening per day, one on the Monday, one on the Tuesday. That's it. Otherwise, you gotta wait till everybody sees it on Thursday. So you might want to pay a little bit of a premium. I get that. But $43 per ticket for this screening. And I thought to myself, but Denis Villeneuve told me we wanted to make these tickets, especially for defends. It's our way of saying thank you to defends. You know, man, you know, it's a Canadian who can speak a little bit of French. I have a terrible fake French accent. But, but Denis told me this was a gift to us as the fingers. Yeah. $43 per ticket for this advanced screening thing. And I thought, you better than everyone else. Oh my God, I thought for $43 a ticket. Timothy Chalamet and Zendaya together should be rubbing my shoulders as I'm watching this movie for $43 a ticket. And Robert Pattinson hand delivering me my popcorn for $43 a ticket. What you didn't realize is the $43 you deliver them popcorn to give me. Yeah. I'm giving them the gift, right? And this is the part I have to say that really bothers me. And it bothers me because I've said for a while if the movie industry ever does go under on its tombstone, it will read, here lies the movie industry, death by suicide. It's not going to be death by streaming. It's not going to be death by home video. It's not going to be death. No, it's going to be death by suicide because they keep screwing themselves. Now, look, I understand supply and demand. I understand the idea of paying a little bit extra for this premium advanced screening. But here's the thing that they are losing sight of without me saying anything until right now about the $43 a ticket. I had a couple of people message me on my social media channels saying I finally got in and I saw I guess where they were, it was $40 a ticket where I am at 43. But they got in and saw $40 a ticket. And one of the things that one of the people said to me was number one, no, like, nope, like they waited 20 minutes to try to get into buy the tickets and they didn't they saw $40. So they said, nope. And that's fine. The theater and the studio may say because somebody else is going to buy the ticket. That's fine. That's fine. That's fine. Except here's the other thing. When the guy said, when I see stuff like this, I'm paraphrasing a little bit. I don't remember the wording exactly. But what he said was basically when I see stuff like this, it makes me rethink ever going to the movie theater. The movie theaters and the movie going industry is the number one thing keeping people from going to the movies. Let me say that again because it's so damn important. The movie theaters and the movie going industry is the main cause of fewer people going to the movies because you brain dead idiots keep doing things to turn people off. We are in the pandemic recovery. We're getting close to the end of it. Yes. But we're still in this pandemic recovery phase where the number one job of these movie theaters is to attract people back to the theaters. And when they have an opportunity like this, get these tickets for this event film, doom three, blah, blah, blah, going to be great. You have this amazing opportunity to really anchor down people saying, come on back to the movies again. Experience how remember how great it is to go to the movies and experience the movie on the big screen with 500 other people. And it's the best thing in the world. It really is. But you have this opportunity and what does the industry do? Instead of taking advantage of it and celebrating it, they decide to bend the customer over, take no loop and ram that cob a corn straight up our financial arses. And they decide to use this opportunity to remind people instead of using this as an opportunity to remind people why they love coming to the movies. They're using this opportunity to remind people why they stopped coming to the movies. The amount of short-sightedness that this industry has and continues to ignorantly display never ceases to amaze me. Now here's the thing. These doon screenings are going to sell out. They're going to sell out. And these theater chains and the exhibitors and all that and the distributors, they're going to make a lot of money on it. They are. But at what cost? What is the long-term cost where forever? Every one person you got to buy that $40 or in my case, $43 ticket, there's one person who's like, well, this is why I stopped going to the movies. And this is why I'm not going back. And again, it's just the unbelievable shameless exhibition, proudly displaying their short sightedness on this. You do something that can make you an extra dollar now and sacrifice what could make you an extra thousand dollars over the next three years. For that $40 ticket, way to go. You got that $40 ticket out of somebody, fantastic, but you know what else you did? You alienated somebody else who might have spent up to a thousand dollars in your theaters over the next three or four years. And this is why this industry is driving itself into the ground. As it's still time to save it, yes, can they turn things around? Absolutely. But with each passing day and with each passing idiotic decision like this one, the window gets smaller and smaller and smaller. And that is why once again, I've always said, if this industry ever does croak, the tombstone will indeed read death by suicide because they're killing themselves with their stupidity, with their short sightedness, with their ignorance. And yeah, that's that's all I've got to say about that. Anyway, guys, question is for you. Are you one of the morons like me that paid the exorbitant fee to go see this movie a couple days earlier? And if so, did it still leave a bit of a bad tasting your mouth like it did with me? Are you one of those people that saw the price thing and said, no, wait a minute, no. And maybe it turned you off. The idea of going to the movies a little bit more because it should remind you of how expensive it is now. Anyway, whatever you guys think about it, jump down into the comments section below and let us know your thoughts. All right, guys, with that down, let's move on to this, shall we? You know who's not worried about paying $40 for a movie ticket? Tom Holland. Tom Holland's not sweating it. Nope. I mean, I even under normal circumstances, he's not sweating it. But according to a story in the rap, Tom Holland is set to make, hold on to your bridges, $100 million dollars for Spider-Man brand new day. It will be broken down into a factor of that he got $20 million for doing the movie. And it's all said and done his points on it are probably going to add up to him at minimum, making $100 million dollars for one movie, $100 million for one movie. What's quite interesting about this too is when you look back and remember the fact that on top of all that, when you go back to the original Spider-Man movie that he did, or actually it was before the first Spider-Man movie when he did Civil War, you know, when Spider-Man made his introduction in Civil War, Tom Holland made $250,000, $250,000 was his paycheck for Civil War. Now granted, he wasn't in a ton of the movie. He's still basically an unknown and all that kind of stuff. But as the movies have progressed and as the Spider-Man movie started to get into the billion dollar range, he was in a position and listen, I never fault Jonathan. I never fault somebody asking for what they think they're worth. I will never fault any actor saying I want $700 billion dollars. That's fine. I have no problem with somebody asking for that. It's up to the studios to decide whether or not that's a financially responsible thing to do. Now of course with Spider-Man, you're talking about a franchise now that the last movie nearly made $2 billion dollars. The last one nearly made $2 billion dollars. So you know you're in a pretty good seat. Even if it doesn't, even if this new one doesn't make as much as the last one, it's pretty much assured to make over a billion dollars, you're going to make a lot. And so yeah, Tom is now definitively our Spider-Man. Let's give him the 20, which is a huge up front payday for an actor. And let's give him points on it so that the more money the movie makes, the more money he makes. He makes. I prefer the idea if you're going to give an actor points, give them a smaller base salary. That's what I think. I don't see how you make the 20 million mark plus points. Yeah. That's never made sense to me. That, but he knew he was in a position, he could ask for it. And so they gave it to him and more power to him for doing it. Now less we think though, you know, I was again, I was reading through the article about this saying that that Tom Holland is now worth $100 million dollars of film. And the reality, and listen, before I say this, you guys know, for those, if you haven't watched the show, maybe you don't know this, for those of you who watch our show, you know I am a bonafide Tom Holland fan. Yeah, he's not always in the best stuff, but I always, I've always thought he delivers really good performances. I am a fan of his. I have been from day one. I continue to be a fan of his. But is he now, can we say he's an actor who's worth $100 million? Well, if you look at the box office of the movie, he's done where his, you know, his character's name wasn't Peter or spider, Parker or man. It's not the picture of a actor who may in and of himself be worth $100 million dollars. These are the last eight films that have played in movie theaters to some degree or another. That Tom Holland is done that did not have anything to do with Spider-Man. The current war, again, he wasn't the main lead and it didn't do much, he did $12 million. Guys in disguise did $171, he was just a voice in that. Do little again a voice, $250, onward, he was one of the main voices with Chris Pratt. By the way, by the way, side note, that's an overlooked movie. Onward is an overlooked movie and I think it's overlooked because it was that last movie that came out before the pandemic shut everything down with the theaters. But that's a good little movie. If you haven't checked out onward, I do suggest you check it out. I think it's a really nice movie. Anyway, made 141. Then he did that movie with Daisy Ridley from Star Wars, Chaos Walking, made $26 million. Then he did Uncharted, which some people thought had the potential of being like a seven or eight hundred million dollar movie, didn't end up being great. So it ended up making 400. And then, of course, you've got the Odyssey that made $1.29 billion. But is there anybody out there that thinks Tom Holland, who I think is very good at in the movie? I think Tom's good in the movie. Does anybody think people went to go that movie made $1.29 billion and climbing because Tom Holland was in it saying that he's absolutely sure that his dad is coming back. I think that was the entire role. That was why I went. Yeah. I got to see how many times he's going to say his dad's coming back when he said that line I cheered. I applauded. I stood up and then I left because I didn't want that's peak Odyssey. It's like watching Nicole Kidman saying heartbreak feels good in a place like this. Like that's why we go to the movies. That's why I pay $43 for the big bucks to go see it. So I don't know that that Tom Holland is going to be able to go to any other movie and say, give me $20 million plus points. I think this chart is going to kind of preclude him from that. I think it's going to be kind of like shows us. And you know what? In many ways, Jonathan, this is very reminiscent and I said this the other day of Robert Downey Jr. You know, everybody thought Robert Downey Jr. Who is amazing. I love Robert Downey Jr. Love him. Everybody thought Robert Downey Jr. was this $100 million man because the success of Tony Stark. But then he went and did a couple of films outside of the MCU. He did do little, which did little. And then he did that other movie that I thought was really good, the judge. Well I think that was Robert DeVal. He did that one with. And I think DeVal got an Academy Award nomination for that film as a matter of fact. It's a, it's a really good movie. You should check it out. But nobody did. Nobody went to go see it. And it became one of those things where it's like people were asking, okay, it's undisputed that Robert Downey Jr. is an incredible actor. He's a really good actor. But does everybody want to go see Robert Downey Jr? Or does everybody want to go see Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark? And I got a wonder if the question for Tom, who I think isn't quite as good of an actor as Robert Downey Jr. But I think it's a very good actor. I think the question is going to become, do people want to go see Tom? Or do they want to go see Tom as Spider-Man? when he did on the show. G'day, I'm Justin Wolffers, host of the Platypus Economics Podcast. If there's one thing I've learned from a career teaching economics, it's that your life is shaped by economic currents you'll never see. A single price tag can explain things a thousand experts can't. People who understand economics, they make better decisions in their careers, their finances, their relationships, and their communities, and I want that for you. Listen to and follow Platypus Economics, available now wherever you get your podcasts. Nothing charted and he did chaos walking, you know, people didn't show up. Now, granted, those weren't big high profile films. We'll see what happens when he, if when he does some other things, but it makes me wonder. It makes me wonder if this pretty much ensures we are despite anything Tom says. We love him as Spider-Man. We love him and I love him in this role. And even though he's saying, you know, I don't know how much longer I'm going to be doing this, he's been saying that since the second film. I just want to remind everybody he's been saying that since the second film. And you know, I kind of imagine, you know, some, another character succeeding me in passing the torch blah, blah, blah. Here's the thing. I think we're going to see a situation here where the dust is going to settle from those ridiculous worldwide, bombastic success of Spider-Man brand new day. He's going to realize that his agent's not coming back to him with anything that's going to pay him 30 or 40 million dollars for other projects. And I think we're going to hear about a Spider-Man 5 on the books pretty soon. Yeah. I don't mean in the next few weeks or anything like that, but I don't think we're going to wait all that long because he's going to realize there is nowhere else. There is no other IP and there's no other studio and there's no other movie that is going to give me a quarter of this money. But if I show up in the Spider-Man leotard, they're, they're, it's dollar, dollar bills, baby. They're slapping them out. And I think that's, it's kind of leaning to this idea that we're going to, we are going to see him back for Spider-Man 5 and probably sooner rather than later. I think that's pretty much guaranteed. What this does is he's either going to have to take passion projects where it's not about the pay. It's something he wants to do. And I think he will. He's in a place now. He is, he's earned the right to do that. So I think we're going to see him regardless. I think we will see him do a couple of those. And he's just doing that. It's like the movies for you and movies for me. Those are going to be the movies for him. The old George Clooney philosophy. Yeah. Or he's just going to make sick money and be like, Hey, I'm semi-retired aside from Peter Barker. Yeah. I can see you going either way, you know, because he and Zendaya have both talked about maybe semi-retiring for a bit, you know, but I just think with this type of money and he's not going to get that money anywhere else, I think we're going to, I think we're going to see him come back. It's also going to be a big mistake for any studio to give him like 20 million, something that's just over blow a budget on something that makes like a hundred and fifty million. I can see that happening and it's going to be like, Guys, what are you thinking? Yeah. We're going to have to see at least one film that he leads. That comes out and is a big box office hit with him as the driver, you know, him as the main guy. Until that happens, I think he's in very good company with a guy like Robert Downey, Jr., where it's like, it's not so much that people are rushing out to see Tom. They're rushing out to see Tom as Spider-Man. He's in a position like Robert now where they can, they have the money for their own production company. Yeah. And they can be the boss. That's exactly what happened with the judge, right? That was literally the exact Robert Downey, Jr. literally produced that movie. He's like, I'm going to make my own movie and then and nobody want to go see it and then oh, look at that. Because remember around that same time, there was a question about whether Robert Downey, Jr. was going to resign a new contract with Marvel. And then after the judge flopped, again, really good movie, you should see it. But after the judge flopped, magically, they got a deal done with Marvel. So I just wonder if we might see the same thing here. What do you think about this? According to these reports, it's looking like Tom Holland is lined up to make over a hundred million dollars for Spider-Man brand new day. And listen, when you look at the success of the film and I think personally how good he is in the role, good on him for getting it. If the studios don't like how much they had to pay, well, that's on them for forgiving it to him. But good on him for getting what he thinks he's worth. The question is, can you get that kind of money elsewhere doing other types of projects? And I'm not sure that he can. Anyway, whatever you guys think, jump down into the comments section below and let us know your thoughts. And I'm going to let you guys know right up front here that we are getting into some potential spoiler territory here. Only about something that happens in a very finite amount of the film, but I do have to give you the heads up. This could be getting into spoilery detail of regarding Avengers Doomsday, all right? You got the message? Got the memo? You've been warned. All right, let's move on to this story here. You guys know that there was a lot of whispers and rumors that Robert Downey, if Robert Danny, Jr., we were just talking about him, that Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds would be appearing in Avengers Doomsday as Deadpool Wolverine. Now they have both basically confirmed this already with Ryan Reynolds showing up in Deadpool outfit at Comic Con and then Hugh Jackman coming up on screen at D23 with Ryan Reynolds in the background. So they have obviously pretty much confirmed to the world that the two of them are in it. That's really not an issue anymore. Okay, we all know that now. They put it out there. We know it. Well, some more things have been coming out. Now you've probably already see this around. This is making its rounds on some of the bigger outlets, some of the bigger websites right now right. We're looking at comicbookmovie.com. So everything we're about to talk about is coming from movie comicbookmovie.com, just so you know. And again, many of you have probably seen this well, they have, they are posting a couple of pictures here from what is being said is from the set of Avengers Doomsday. And it's got Robert, I keep, I want to say Robert Downey, Jr. again, Hugh Jackman, as Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds, as Deadpool, and another third person who was not present at Comic Con, nor were they present at D23. So again, last warning, if you don't know what, want to know what comic book movie.com and a few other outlets are revealing, you can bounce away now, although this will be everywhere in the next 15 minutes, I'm sure, but as we scroll down, we see them sharing these images. First of all, it's, well, we'll go down to the second image that they have here, which is, you know, Ryan Reynolds, Robert Downey, Jr. Hugh Jackman, and Toby McGuire, cool youth pastor, Toby McGuire allegedly, allegedly on set. Now, there is a possibility that this is a fake image that exists. One of the things that makes me suspicious about the image is the bullet holes on Wolverine's chest there seem awfully similar and symmetrical to the ones that were on him in Deadpool versus Wolverine. Right. Again, that, that could just be a coincidence though. Now, the other picture, I'm not zoomed in here, but you probably can get it. It's Wolverine literally on top of Toby McGuire choking him and Toby McGuire is in the CGI suit. Obviously, now that picture of Ryan Reynolds is actually one photo that's, Ryan is actually behind. Do you see right from a different photo? Yeah, from a different angle, you can see in front of Ryan's hands, the yellow of Wolverine's thing. When you put the pictures together, you can actually see it's one image where they are battling and fighting Toby McGuire's Spider-Man, at least we assume it's Spider-Man, and they are apparently winning that fight. I don't see how a Spider-Man of any universe would, wouldn't be able to just throw Wolverine right off of him with a flick. I mean, he can, he can carry tens of tons. Oh, yeah, but, but who knows, maybe he just got hit in the head with a car, you know, so who knows, we don't know. And so again, this is what these outlets are running with. Now, I, now again, so I cannot attest to the validity of these images, all right, other than to say I think they look right, other than the bullet holes which make me a little bit suspicious, they do look right. And I'll say this, as the people who showed up, the wonderful people who all came to our movie meetups, where inevitably people ask me about this movie and I let them in on some things, the people who came to our movie meetups, I will say this. Well, I cannot attest to the absolute validity of these images. I will say that they do match what I and a lot of other people know about the movie. So again, I cannot say 100% for certain that what comic book movie is posting here is authentic and real. All I can say is that even if they're fake, they line up with what we know about the movie, which lends it to there is a possibility. But again, so many people know about this part of the movie that it is conceivable that somebody could have faked these images. So that's possible. But again, it does seem like I'm going to lean on thinking these are real. I'm going to lean that way. So I think what comic book movie and some of the other sites here are showing, I think they may be legit, I do, which I mean, of course, it's very exciting for that. We are now only, we're less than four months away now yesterday was the exact four month mark. We are now under four months. We are now three months and a lot of change away from this movie. And I'll be honest with you, I expect probably a lot more of these things are probably going to be leaking out over the next little while. I don't know. Again, I can't even attest to the validity of these images, but I suspect as we get closer and closer and closer, this is such a ravenously hyped movie that so many people are excited for. I think we're going to see probably a lot more of this stuff coming out anyway on this movie. Yeah. So you're taking a look at this. You're taking a look at this here, Jonathan. What do you think? Do you think they're legit? Do you not think they're legit? What gives you belief that they're real? What gives you suspicion? They may not be. What do you think when you look at them? My first impression was I just believed it. I was like, oh, okay, that kind of makes sense. But the more I think about it, it's like, it could have been gendered of AI. I mean, you know, they can make motion, motion video of this stuff, too, and it's totally fake. It's pulled out of the ether. So I don't know, I'm of two minds, like I think the, I think the content, the subject is real is the photo fake. That's where I'm at. I think, I think what it's trying to show in convey is real, but I don't know if the photo itself is real. This was a picture directly of Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and Totally Maguire looking at the camera. This wasn't a shot from like, you know, some spectator. They posed for this. So that photo would have been approved by somebody on set to take that photo. So they could, they could trace that, that photographer back to who took this shot. They, they know this photographer. That's what makes me wonder like, how did this get out? Because that guy probably sent signed or woman signed a huge NDA. That's what kind of throws me off for this because I know that if you're taking these kind of photos on set, you sign things, you signed your life away. So I don't know if I believe this photo. Now, the one thing I'll say to that is that we have seen through official channels. They take these types of pictures on set all the time on these Avengers movies. They take tons of these group and actor shots and all it takes is one person to be left alone with an SD card or left alone with the hard drive for a minute or whatever and somebody gets their hands on it. I could see like maybe like an assistant like was like, let me snatch this SD card, plug this in real quick, upload, set it on it, no one's looking but sets are so, I mean, you really have to be left alone on a very busy set for a while to do that. And either way, you just put that photographer's career at risk because they're still going to be held liable because you left that card out of your site. Yeah. I mean, yeah, they're going to get somebody in trouble for it. Yeah. There's no doubt. Now, this stuff is different, but now, but here's the thing if, if, and I'm not saying they are, but if this is real, if, if this image is real, then I don't see any reason to believe and of course, here's the other side of that. If this is, if these images are real, which they, they look pretty legit again, I, I don't know for sure, but if those are real, I don't see why I wouldn't believe this one would also be real, where this, I mean, it's clearly Toby and the exact same outfit. Now, we're speculating, we're purely speculating here. We have that blanket on them in both shots, Ryan has that blanket on them in both shots. Does he? I didn't look at that other one. Oh, he does have that blanket on in that. And what are you, if they're working on blocking on set, like trying to map out their movements or whatever? Um, and by the way, this looks exactly like an Avenger set where they, where they put a whole bunch of practical stuff in the foreground with bluer green in the background. So that's, that's a possibility too, but again, whether or not the image itself is real, I cannot say. Oh, I, what's that someone just said, why wouldn't Ryan's face be mutilated? Because that was face should be mutilated. No, I'll, I'll tell you why here, here's, that was the first thought I had and I'll tell you why exactly because often he's not actually wearing a Deadpool mask. The Deadpool mask is often CGIed on him because because the Deadpool mask, um, an actual physical mask will not move and a moat the way his face does as he's Deadpool, right? Because you ever notice his Deadpool, when you're looking at his mask face, you can see the cheekbones moving. You can see everything. So he's able to a moat as an actor, I think because a lot, not all the time, but much of the time he's, same thing happened with Tom Holland and Spider-Man brand new day. A lot of those times, he's not wearing a mask and they don't have to like grid out like, like dots on his face to like, I don't know, I don't think so, but like, because there's that scene where he's, we're, Tom Holland and we'll move on from this in a second here, where Tom Holland was sitting on, on the edge of the building and he's not wearing his mask and he decided, he's about to jump off and literally all he does is this and all of a sudden this mask is on his face and seamless in with his outfit. That was clearly all CGI, so yeah, I'm thinking, uh, that his mask is just CGI. I don't, in that point, which would, which would also be why his face is totally clean, but again, I don't know, I'm, I'm theorizing here. So you guys will have to theorize as well. Guys, question is for you. What do you think about this outlets like comic book movie and others are sharing these images that are out there now that may or may not be real, but they do line up with the stuff that we know about the film now, especially since Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman have basically confirmed they're in the movie publicly at Comic Con in D23. So what do you think about them? Do you think the images are real? Do you think they're fake? Whatever you guys think, jump down to the comments section below and let us know your thoughts. All right, with that down guys, let's go on and talk about this, shall we? You know what's an amazing thing to do, making a horrible mistake and then asking for other people to pay for it. Oh, what a great idea that is. Look, as many of you guys know, Paramount is being sued by a collection of states attorneys general and separately by the writer's guild of America, the WGA, the writer's union. They're suing to stop the merger. Now, you guys may also know that when Paramount made their deal with Warner Brothers to buy Warner Brothers, they made them think, oh, our things are way all out of order here. They made them believe that their stuff was absolutely 100% going to close by the end of October. Said, don't worry, Warner Brothers, well, they were going to have no problems. It's going to be smooth sailing, said Paramount. We're going to be sailing through this, no problems, no issues. And we're going to have this thing done by get ready, the end of October. And we're so convinced of that, said Paramount, that if we don't close by the end of October, we're so confident, we will pay you $7 million per day that we're late closing the deal. We will pay you $7 million per day. And Warner Brothers said, well, what if we get sued by any of the states, any of the unions, maybe the Department of Justice, maybe the FTC, like what happens if we get sued? Yeah, don't worry about it. Trust me, bro, says Paramount, we'll pay you the $7 million, even if that happens. It's written right now. right into their bike guys. That's written right into their contract. It's written right into the contract that they put themselves in there. So don't worry about it. Even if we get delayed and even if the delay is caused by us getting sued, we'll still pay you seven mil per day because that's how confident we are. Well, things did not go as smoothly as Paramount has planned because they did get sued. And it is going to go well past the end of October. And it's probably going to end up causing them anywhere between 1.7 and 1.8 billion dollars. And that's the best case scenario. And so what has Paramount done? Paramount has done something so inconceivably stupid. It's hard to believe this is real. But Paramount is now asking that the states and the writers guild of America, the WGA that they post the 1.8 billion dollars that is going to cost Paramount to be late. They want them to pay for it. Now you've got to understand something here. Whatever private agreement that Paramount made with Warner Brothers or anybody else is none of the business and none of the concern of the WGA. Whatever private deal and contract and arrangement that Paramount made itself with Warner Brothers is none of the business and none of the concern of the state's attorneys general. They don't care. It's none of their business and they had nothing to do with it. It's not like the states and the WGA forced Paramount to put that clause into their agreement with the WGA. They did not. It was totally Paramount that just did it themselves, which is why in the article in question, the lead of the state's attorneys general, Bonta basically said California attorney general, Bonta said Paramount and Warner Brothers are too sophisticated companies who willfully decided to include a costly ticking fee as a provision in their contract. He's saying they're the ones who did this. We didn't. Bonta added Paramount itself agreed earlier to the timing and is now protesting. Bonta said, now they're trying to get a doover. Bonta said Paramount went into this process with eyes wide open. They are lying in a bed of their own making. And once again, they're trying to blackmail us into getting us to back down. Listen, this is not going to happen. The states and the WGA are not going to give them the $1.8 billion that they're going to need to pay the late fees, nor is any court going to make them do it because again, they had nothing to do with Paramount being in that situation. They did not force Paramount to make that agreement and it's none of their concern. It's none of their business and if Paramount has any kind of financial obligations that they made themselves, that can in no way be an impediment to the states or another third party from exercising their rights to bring it to court. So the very fact that they even asked for this is mind blowingly stupid. They, this is what happened when they were losing to Netflix, they had to sweeten the deal and essentially bribe investors. And he stuck his neck out, Ellison stuck his neck out too far. This also signals to me that the unlimited money from foreign investment and from his father is not so unlimited. Yeah. Yeah. They're going to be $110 billion in debt if everything goes right. Like, when Sarandas was winning the deal. Yes. And they, they put in a lot of concessions and it backed them into a corner. And now they want somebody else to pay the price tag for their own decisions, which of course that 1.8 billion has nothing to do with the lawsuit or anything. Now, it needs to be brought up again. So I'm just going to do this highlighting quick. I still see some very selective memory people out there trying to say, Oh, this lawsuit's about this and this lawsuit's about that. And blah, blah, blah, guys. I want us to walk through this very quickly. Some of you have heard me say this before, but I, it's so vital to understand. And if you guys, if the rest of you ever see somebody saying, Well, this lawsuit is just about this or this or this. I want you to feel free to screenshot this and share this. This is exactly what the lawsuit is about. Okay. 100%. It's cut and dry. It's clear as day. And here's what it is. It's this. It's three stages. Number one, there is the Clayton act. And the Clayton act section seven in particular says the Clayton act prohibits any stalker asset acquisition where the effect may be substantially to lessen competition or to tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce and in any section of the country. So basically number one, the Clayton act, the law, the law, the law. Remember that thing, the law, the law says you cannot have a merger. If the merger will result in lessening competition or tend to lead to a monopoly, the Clayton act says, if there's a merger that is going to do those things, it's illegal. The question then becomes, well, how much of ownership would equal lessen competition? What is the threshold for saying it could lead to a monopoly? Well, the Supreme Court in 1963, I believe, set the precedent and they said what the threshold is. The Supreme Court, the court held that the horizontal merger resulting in a single firm controlling at least 30% of a relevant market creates a rebuttable presumption that the merger is inherently anti-competitive and unlawful under section seven. Okay. So section seven of the Clayton act says you can't have a merger if it's going to lessen competition and could lead to a monopoly. Well, how much would equal that? Well, the Supreme Court gave a definition to it. The Supreme Court said 30%. If your merger creates you controlling 30% of the market, that lessens competition and that could lead to a monopoly. Therefore, it's illegal under section seven. Okay. Will is that the case here? Well, the judge in the Paramount lawsuit looked at the initial filings by Paramount and by the WGA and said the plaintiff states presented compelling evidence that the combined firm resulting from the transaction will possess substantial market share in the wide release theatrical distribution market on this combined firm market share alone. The court is persuaded that it can presume that the proposed merger is likely to violate antitrust laws. So this whole thing is very easy. It's three sections. The law says you can't do a merger if it could lead to lessening competition and lead to a monopoly. Number two, the Supreme Court said 30% market control equals that. So if you have a merger that would equal to somebody controlling 30% or more of a market, that violates the Clayton act and then the judge in this particular case said, yeah, it looks like when you look at the evidence presented that this does violate the threshold that the Supreme Court sat down and therefore violates the Clayton act. That's it. That's the law. That is why these states attorneys general and the WGA have brought the lawsuits and that is why they're winning. And that is why you're seeing you're seeing David Ellison and Paramount now getting desperate, flailing around like a fish in a boat, yelling things like, well, you drop this or we'll move out of California, saying things like, oh, we want you to put up the one point eight billion dollar bet. See, if you're confident and you believe the laws on your side and you believe you're doing things right, you don't act like that. And they are. Now, is it possible? Is it possible that Paramount could still prevail? Yes. If Paramount can get in front of that judge, the judge who already said, yeah, it looks like the evidence says you're going to have more than a 30% controlling interest and that breaks the law. If they can get in front of the judge and convince the judge, we won't have more than 30% controlling interest. If they can somehow make a presentation and convince the judge that her initial thought on that was mistaken and proved to her that it actually comes under that threshold, they can still win this case. They still can. It's a hard uphill battle. It's unlikely they'll succeed, but it is possible. But even if they do, Jonathan, they run into another problem. And this is really why they're panicking. Even if they do convince a judge that they've come in under that 30% it's still going to be a real big deal. going to take them past the June 4th deadline when Warner Brothers can kill the deal. That was my thing too. And so now it's a hard uphill battle. Yeah, they're asking for the 1.8. I was thinking, are they going to ask for the $7 billion to cover their tab to Warner Brothers if they back out, which again, is their own deal that had nothing to do with the States or the WGA. Yeah. And you brought up the qualifications for the monopoly. You mentioned horizontal expansion, horizontal integration. The difference between that and Netflix deals, that's vertical integration. Yes. That's a very important distinction. Netflix would be expanding into a business they weren't in before, which is an actual studio and distributor, whereas this is just a duplicate of paramount. So it's expanding horizontally. Yeah. I'm glad you brought that up. Let's go to that again here, where it says, under the judges ruling, where it says, the transactional possess substantial market share in the wide release theatrical distribution market. This is one of the big distinctions between the Netflix deal and this is that Netflix is not in the theatrical distribution market. They're not in it. The Netflix deal would have brought a big company into the theatrical distribution, whereas the paramount Warner Brothers deal will eliminate one of the players and that's, I mean, again, what is something that could also be argued in court, but that's one of the main distinctions and why Netflix, if Netflix had taken over Warner Brothers, it wouldn't have faced as many legal challenges because it was a vertical integration, not a horizontal one. So there's also seems to be a disconnect on what David Ellison is referring to as coming to a negotiating table and what the state AGs are saying. Essentially, the state AGs are saying we are, have always been open to a negotiation. That's going to require you to relinquish some of what you're trying to purchase so that you don't qualify as a monopoly, whereas David Ellison is like, oh, we want to negotiate, let us pay a fee or a fine. We'll pay you off in this lawsuit and settle out of court. The states aren't looking for money out of this so that they can continue to become a monopoly, and that's the disconnect. Yeah, and that's exactly what happened when Disney bought 20th century. Disney, a lot of people say, well, why didn't anybody try to stop Disney taking over 20th century? They did. The Republican White House at the time rightfully did sue to stop the merger between Disney and Fox. They did sue. But what happened was they ended up settling because Disney agreed to give up enough assets that it satisfied the Department of Justice. That's why today Fox still exists. Disney didn't buy Fox. Fox is still out there. Disney does not own Fox news. Disney does not own the Fox network. Disney does not own FS one. Disney does not own FS two. They still exist. They spun out a lot of the, a lot of the acquisitions and so what the states and what the WGA are asking is that Paramount give up a whole bunch of stuff in the deal and Paramount doesn't want to give up anything in the deal except for maybe CNN and that doesn't cover it. Paramount is getting truly desperate and they're acting even more and more pathetic. But what do you think about them asking for a $1.8 billion handout from the WGA and the state's attorneys general who had nothing to do with them making the deal that they made with Warner Brothers. Anyway, whatever you guys think about it, jump down to the comments section below and let us know your thoughts. All right, guys, with that down, it's time for us to move on to of course the most important part of our show, which is taking your live comments and questions and you guys did send a lot of them. So before we get to those, I'm going to take a second here and thank of course our technical director Jonathan Voiko. Good talk to you as always, Jonathan. We'll see you tomorrow. Good talking to you as well. See you guys later. Have fun with your questions. See you tomorrow. All right. Guys, let's get down to it now, shall we? We got a whole bunch of questions coming in from you guys. So I'm going to buckle up here because yeah, we had way too many come in. So and I have turned them off a long time ago. So let's get over to it, shall we? Did I get this set up? I did not give me one moment to get this set up again. It was a crazy day today, guys, because of trying to get those darn dune tickets, trying to get those darn dune tickets anyway. Let me going to try this again, going to go over here. Why can I not get this screen on here? Give me a moment. Uh, okay, almost got it, almost got it, got it, all right, we're starting off today. With Sawiner who writes, "Could Magneto ever be played by a female?" Yeah, they could. I mean, I don't really see anybody ever doing that. But you could do a totally different version someday in the future. You could do a totally different version of X-Men. I mean, listen, if Starbucks could be made into a female character and the result was the greatest show of all time in Battlestar Galactica, yeah, you can. I wouldn't personally, but if somebody else wanted to take a shot at that someday just to try something different, I'd be open to it to see if it turned out well or not. So could it, yeah, likely, probably not. All right. Next up. It says, "Dunes day is set December 18th, June 3, 645, IMAX 1050, Doomsday 3D, XD, D box. What a time to be a moving nerd, going to be insane thanks and bring on the filthy." Yes. So at the end of the day, this is Ananiy's schedule now. We do have IMAX 70 millimeter tickets for Monday the 14th. We have Dolby tickets for Tuesday the 15th. And we have Dolby tickets for Thursday the 17th. And on Thursday the 17th, we are first going to see Doomsday at 1.30 in the afternoon and then Doomsday 3 for our third screening of Doomsday 3 at 5.30. So that is how we will be celebrating our version of Festivus, also known as Doomsday. All right. Next up, we got Carlos who writes, "My date with Doomsday is set, took me four resets and a phone restart to secure my tickets, now I'm all out of A-list reservations to watch Doomsday and Doomsday watching both back-to-back. That is the problem, right? Okay. So A-M-C-A-List is the greatest thing for moviegoers ever. It just really is. You can watch up to 16 movies a month, never paying any upscale fee, no up charges for 3D or XL or IMAX or Prime or anything. But the one catch is, the one catch is that you can only have up to four reservations, upcoming reservations at any time. So when I book Avengers Doomsday screening with A-list for December and I book two Doomsday 3 screenings for December, that means between now and December, I only have one open reservation spot. Now I can book it to go see, what's the, there's a Jason Statham movie coming out this week when I go see Mutiny, okay? So I can use it to go see Mutiny. Then as soon as I see Mutiny, my reservation spot opens up and I can use it again. So it's fine. But I mean, I have three of my four booking spots all tied up between now and December. All tied up between now and December. So I'm going to have to make do with just having one open slot on my A-list for a while. All right. Thanks to that, Carlos. Next up, Jared Oberfeld. Since then, a $20 super fat chap. Thank you, Jared and Jared writes, I was late to log on to Fandango, been trying for an hour and a half to get an IMAX 70 millimeter ticket on the 19th, not even the 17th at the regal mall of Georgia. No luck. AMC app took only five minutes for me to get a ticket to an early screening. So I'm glad you were able to get in there, man. Again, considering that this movie is opening on the same day as Avengers Doomsday, you know, let me say this, I was with a lot of other people when they first floated that they were going to be doing this Doomsday thing, saying I don't know that that's a good idea. I admit it. I said, I don't know if this is a great idea because Barbenheimer was two very different movies going after two very different demographics, whereas a hell of a lot of people who are interested in Dune are also interested in Avengers Doomsday. And I said, I questioned the wisdom of releasing both of these movies on the same day. I have been convinced, though, you know, I've been convinced they've it's changed my mind. I really do think this whole doons day thing is for real. I think people are getting hyped about the fact that both these movies are coming out on the same day. I think people are getting excited about the concept of going to the theater to see one and then right into another sea, a theater to see the other. I think they have already successfully eventized this thing where as much money as Avengers Doomsday was already going to make and as much money as doon 3 was already going to make. I think now that I was wrong because now I'm starting to think that both of these movies are actually going to end up making even more money because they've made this artificial event called doons day. Yeah, I think they've changed. I think this is probably going to work out for them very, very well. All right. Eddie Burton writes, "After recent failure of the live action Moana film, I was wondering if you think the big promotional tours, like the one Dwayne Johnson did for Moana matter as much as they did say 10 years ago. Yes, 100% because here's the thing. I firmly believe this. If Dwayne Johnson had not done the big promotional tour, I think Moana would have made less money than it did. Stuff like a good promotional tour. All it can do hopefully is make the movie make more money than it would have without it. That's all it can do. If you're putting out a movie that very few people are interested in, a good promotional tour will get a few people to go see it, but it's not going to turn it into a hit movie. And so, yes, I still think the good publicity tour absolutely helps a film because as little as Moana made, I think it would have made less if Dwayne Johnson hadn't done such a very active job being out there trying to promote it. I think it would have made even less than it did. Good question, though, Eddie. All right. Next up, we've got Immanuel who writes, "This will be my first Dune movie in theaters. How to settle for regular IMAX. Heartbreak does not feel good in a place like this. You know what, though? I still I never saw either of the other two Dune films in IMAX. And I'm a big fan of IMAX. But both Dune one and Dune two, I did not see an IMAX. And they were both utterly fantastic, breathtaking experiences watching them on the screens that I saw them on. So if you see it on a regular I look, listen, even the regular IMAX screens, you know how they call them IMAX. But you know what? You go into one of those regular IMAX screens, the non-70 millimeter ones. You know that part at the very beginning before the movie starts, where that big zooming blue countdown happens. 10, 9, 8, 7. Like comes on screen. Like whenever that happens on one of those IMAX screens, you can call them IMAX all you want. I'm usually overwhelmed. Like it's like holy crap. That looks great. Like you're instantly captivated by how big the image truly is and how sharp it is. So yeah, I think you're going to have a great time watching it on the regular IMAX anyway. I really do. I think you're still going to have a good time. All right, Jackson writes any plans on going to St. Louis or surrounding area for the next part of the movie meetup tour, great food and theaters. All right, so I've settled on three cities I may add one or two more. The next leg of the movie meetup tour will include, and I'll I'm working on the schedule now, let you know a schedule later. But I can say for certainty, these three cities will be a part of the next movie meetup tour probably late next month. They are Atlanta, Georgia, Nashville, Tennessee, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Those three cities are absolutely going to be a part of it. There are three other cities that I'm considering. Those three cities that I'm considering are Houston, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis. So I just got to figure out what I just got to figure out what what my timeline is going to be, how long I want to be on the road because remember every stop I make adds another day to my trip and while I'm away from home. So I just got to figure out how many I want to do. So maybe it'll just be those three cities at Atlanta, Nashville, and Charlotte. Maybe it'll be the six cities where it's those three plus Houston, plus St. Louis, plus Pittsburgh. But I'm just trying to figure out right now. And yes, and somebody saying, John, do you only do AMC theaters? No, no, no, I've done, seriously, on the movie meetup tours, we've done AMC theaters, we've done regal, we've done cinemas, we've done harkens, we've done some smaller local chains. Yeah, I don't just do it at one theater chain by any starts the imagination. All right, next up, well, the next one I have to skip because it's a spoiler question. So I'm not going to do that one. Next one up will be Eric and Eric writes, where is Eric? I'll bring my thing down here. Eric writes, nope, that's not it. There we go. Nope, that's not it either. Let me try this. Ah, John, never actually notice how tiny Indy and I've already actually was until people started saying something about it. But anyway, I'm sure she's going to be awesome and become a fan favorite as rogue. Absolutely. And listen, the reality is, here's the reality. She's pretty much the same height as Sadie Sink. And she's pretty much the same height as Tom Cruise. And if Tom Cruise can play Reacher, what's all to remember that? Tom Cruise played Reacher. If Tom Cruise can play Reacher, Indy never ready can play, can absolutely play rogue. No doubt about it. She can't. All right, next up, we've got a Josh who writes, hey, John, same people that put out the brand new day would beat endgame, just posted that pre-order ticket sales have, have it tracking for 400 to 450 million opening weekend, predicting a 200 first day thoughts. No, no, it's, listen, I'm not saying that's impossible, but it is far too far out. We are far too far out for any legitimate tracking. And remember, these big advance ticket sales, it's just the people who are excited about seeing it immediately. That's one of the things that we warned about when we were talking about that endgame ticket sales right now are tracking 65% ahead of Spider-Man. That doesn't mean it's going to break Spider-Man's record. It just shows that people are, there's a good number of people that are very hyped and want to eat up those tickets right away. Also, you've got to remember Spider-Man put their tickets on sale only like 40 days before the movie came out. This is four months before the movie comes out. So listen, I'm not saying it can't beat the Spider-Man record. I'm not saying that at all. You guys know I was thinking about that the other day, but there's no legitimate data right now. There's no reliable legitimate data right now that you can rely on to do any real authentic tracking. So again, let's revisit this in like a couple of months and then we can have that discussion, but right now I wouldn't read too much into it. All right, Ryan Lonnie writes one of three possible hot take. When we talk about changing Magneto's backstory, we should be, well, what do you mean when changing? We were discussing this before, but what do you mean changing from what? Because Magneto's backstory has been changed in the comics several times. So when you say changing, changing from what? The first version, the second version, the third version, the fourth version. Anyway, possible hot take. When we talk about changing Magneto's backstory, we should be very mindful of what that means for Jewish representation to Max Eisenhart, which is what they ultimately in another change said that's what his last name. Remember, that was not Magneto's name for decades for decades. That was not his name. Anyway, what's created by Jewish writers to reflect their own painful past. Talk about swapping one genocide for another misses the point. No, it does not. Jewish fans have the right to be more protective of Eric than anybody else. Their opinions here are much more important than mine. Okay. So there's a couple of things I want to address here. And it comes up all the time. But number one, the first thing you have to understand is Eric being Jewish was never a part of his origin for decades, for decades. That was never a part of his origin. It wasn't until 1981 all the way. Remember, Magneto was created in the 60s. It wasn't until 1981 that they gave him his Jewish heritage. So that was already a major change. So they gave him a Jewish heritage. And did you know that later they changed it in the comics. They changed him from having a Jewish heritage to having a Roman heritage. Yes. For a number of years, Magneto's background was that he was Roman. He was a Dalian, eh? I'm Italian. So that was another change. Then later, they changed it back to him having Jewish heritage. So let's be very, very clear here. If the comic books changed his background numerous times, then are you really changing the character if you do something in the movies because the comics themselves change them many times? All right. That being said, when Batman first came out, there was no internet. When Batman first came out, there were no cell phones. When Batman first came out, there was no computerized Batmobile's. So if you make a Batman movie today, are you bound to, well, you know, Batman never had computers because when they created them, there was no such thing or at least a one megabyte computer was enough to fill up a warehouse. You know what I'm saying. But no, as years progress, you have to change the story of Batman because you understand that, yeah, when Batman was just a detective flying around and shooting his guns, the error was different. It would be ridiculous to have Batman today without high technology in the Batmobile, without amazing technology in his utility and without having massive amounts of world-class hyperthreading computers in the back cave. It'd be ridiculous because today is 2026, not 1950. With Magneto, I loved. Listen, the opening of the first Brian Singer X-Men film is the greatest opening to any comic book movie ever. I'll do respect to X-Men 2 with Nightcrawler's Assault on the White House, which was also awesome. Or Batman versus Superman with Bruce Wayne watching this destruction happen around him. That was also one of the greatest openings of a comic book movie ever. But the opening of the first X-Men movie showing Eric as a young boy in the concentration camps, powerful, awesome, magnificent, and something you could do in the 1990s. It's 2026. You can't do that anymore, just like Batman can't be without the internet anymore. The era has changed. So what do you do? What you do then is try to maintain the spirit of it. That's the best you can do. Otherwise, you're just looking ridiculous. Because today, if Magneto had been in the concentration camps, he would be 90 plus years old today. And we don't want a 90 year old Magneto. So what do we do? Well, we change that, but we try to maintain the spirit of it. And the main idea about Eric was that as a child, he witnessed the worst horrible tendencies and outrageous actions by humanity on itself. That turned him against humanity and turned his heart against them forever. So okay, you still give him Jewish heritage. Still say he's Jewish, but as a Jewish family, he grew up in Bosnia, or as Jewish heritage, his family was living in Rwanda, or whatever you can change that. So it's not ridiculous today, but still maintain the spirit of what it represents. To do otherwise is to suggest that if you do Batman today, he should still not have any computers. I mean, that's just ridiculous. It's just a part of Batman now because it's 2026. It's not 1950 anymore. So maintain the spirit of it, maintain his family heritage, do all that, but you got to change the event that he lived through that ultimately turned his heart against humanity. You just have to. You have to. Otherwise, you're being ridiculous. Much like it would be ridiculous to see Batman without any kind of technology today. Anyway, so that's, that's my take on it. Maintain the spirit of it. Not the literalness of it because what, because, because what are we going to do guys? What are we going to do? What are we going to do in 15 years? Okay. What happens in 2040? Are we still, when you make a new X-Men movie in 2040? Are you still saying that Magneto lived through World War II? Of course not. Of course not. So, I mean, at some point, you're just going to have to make that transition from that one event to a different event to still match the spirit of the origins of the character. Anyway, that's what I would say to that. All right. Next, where did we leave off? That was Indian Never Ready. There is that. Okay. There we go. Josh writes, "First day would be previews plus pure Friday." I think so. I think that's how they do it. I think that's how they do it for all movies that do that. Then we already had part two of Ryan Blake writes, "went back and watched. Remember the Titans after Hayden's passing and absolutely love that movie." Also, just realized Ryan Hurst plays Jerry. Listen, when you go back and watch remember the Titans, you are instantly taken aback by how many people are in that movie? There's a lot of people that you recognize in that movie. Of course, Ryan Hurst, who as sons of Anarchy, was going to be our crados in God of War, till he ripped the bicep off of his bone. I was going to be in there, but yeah, man, it's one of those movies that you go back and watch. Holy crap, I forgot how many people were in this and, of course, Hayden. Let's see. Eric writes, "I sometimes look at the Star Wars prequels and think there is a great story to tell, but man, did George Lucas fumble it? Oh, yeah, 100%. Listen, I've always said this, and I believe this. If you take the outline, like a quick treatment, like a six-page treatment, a six-page treatment outline of the Star Wars prequels. They're really good. The basic bones of the story is really good. It just was executed like poop. Sorry, it was. You can have a different opinion, totally cool, but you're asking me, and it was total garbage. It's absolute garbage. But the bones of the story were really. I think there were three really good movies in there. I think within the framework of the story that George Lucas came up with, there are the bones and the building blocks for three really good movies, but yeah, unfortunately, it was all fumbled in the execution, unfortunately. All right, next up. X-Men's Superfan writes one of two. How do you think they'll do Rogues backstory regarding Mystique and Destiny being her adoptive mothers/raising her or starting off as a villain? Or he taking Carol Danvers powers. Do you think they will go comic accurate and play the estranged mother storyline or something new? Again, here's the problem. What do you mean by comic accurate? Because that wasn't always Rogues' background. Rogues' background has also evolved in change. So when you say comic accurate, which version are you referring to? So my guess is I don't think they'll do that. I don't think they'll. I don't think they're going to involve Mystique into it or anything like that. I think they'll probably go her own unique origin out of it. I mean, because even like the original X-Men films within a pack when playing the character, they kind of did that. So I think they'll do that again here. I don't think they'll necessarily go with some of those, some of the different threads they've gone with Rogue and her background in there. All right, next up. We've got I3Com, who writes, "Discovered you while looking for an arrow analyst show on YouTube found the arrow after show in Benefan ever since you, Ann and Kerry, classic." Yeah, those were good times actually. The arrow after show, but before the show went off the rails, through no fault of the cast, it was totally the writers that screwed it up. But I loved that show for a number of years. I absolutely loved Aaron. I loved doing those after shows with Ann and Kerry. Kerry has a kid now. Kerry recently had a baby, and she and little one are doing very, very well. So yeah, but that was fun. All right, X-Men, where do you have that part? Let's see. Thomas Bombadill. At least I'm thinking BDL means Bombadill. I'm a Lord of the Rings guy. What can I say? I was afraid of this new season of of Ted Lasso, but I'm absolutely loving it. My fears vanished when I hit play. I didn't realize how much I missed it. You know what, I've still only seen the first episode. I've still only seen the first episode of this season, but holy crap, the moment the show started, I just felt like I was at home. You know what I mean? Like I was right back into it. I was, it was like I just watched the season three or four whatever it was finale last week. I feel like nothing missed a beat. And we were right back in there. And I just loved watching. Now again, I haven't seen the second episode yet. And I even think the third episode is coming up soon, but I really, really enjoyed it. I really, really enjoyed it a lot. So I can't wait to watch the new episodes. All right, next up, Eric writes, I'm not worried at all about the Indian Averide as rogue. She will be great. I'm more worried about my boy Cyclops. Hope they do him justice finally. Well, again, that has nothing to do with the casting because Cyclops and the original X-Men films, not one problem about Cyclops had anything to do with the casting, not one problem. They cast the right guy for Cyclops and the original X-Men films had nothing to do with the casting. It was all about how they wrote them. And so I, my guess is with Mr. Sinister being the main villain, I'm thinking it's really going to lean into Jean and Scott. So I think we're going to see Scott get much more highlighted, much more highlighted this time around. All right, Pablo writes, one of two. I follow your show since the first Superman, which I, if you're talking about the Christopher Reeves Superman, I've not been doing my show that long. So I'm like, part one, part two movie. And it's now part of my everyday thanks. Well, thank you for that. I'm going to assume, when you say the first Superman, I'm going to assume you mean my boy Henry Cavill's Superman, Man of Steel. I'm going to assume you mean that. Well, and if that's the case, thank you so much, man. I'm glad you're here and thank you for being a follower of ours. All right, X-man's super fan writes, how are you feeling about the potential DCU Justice League members after lanterns was out? John Stewart seems like he would fit with Superman, or should we wait to see who is Batman and Wonder Woman? I'm really not getting ahead of him. To be honest with you, I'm not getting ahead of myself with that. I'm not even thinking about Justice League. I, I don't care. Now, obviously I care, but generally speaking, I'm just all about the next movie and that the next movie being good. If you just make good movies, Justice League will take care of itself. So Clayface has got to be great. I mean, lanterns so far is awesome. I, who knows it could fall apart, but after I loved the first episode, loved it. So did Rob, we just adored it. So, but they got to make sure that Clayface is great. And then you just got to make sure whatever the next movie is, is great. I'm not worried about Justice League because here's the thing. If they make three or four more movies before Justice League and instead of being as good as Superman, they were all as bad as Supergirl, then there's no reason to have any hope in Justice League regardless of what the lineup is. It doesn't matter. They're making bad movies. However, if they make the next three or four movies and they're all as good as Superman, then it doesn't matter what their lineup is in the movie because I have a lot of faith that they're doing the movies right and they're doing them well. So I am all focused on the next movie. I'm not really worried about Justice League at this point. I'm just more worried about them putting out good films in and of themselves. And if they can get that right, then Justice League will be fine. If they get it wrong, you can have the Justice League movie, have Batman, Superman, Iron Man, you know, Ant-Man, it doesn't matter. There's nothing to be excited about. So I'm really focused X-Men's Superfan on the next movie and then the next one after that. So that's kind of where my head space is at. Hamnet should have won. Hamnet was wonderful. It was great. I'm at 70 millimeter was the issue. Other screens are available. Yeah, but even though we're selling out quick, I did get mine for the 17th on a prime screen, but yeah, the 70 millimeters all sold out extremely fast, but I even found they were selling on the other screens pretty damn quickly too. All right, Pablo Rotes. Oh, I really had that Pablo Alejandro writes, took me an hour but got three dune tickets for Monday. Nice Tuesday and Thursday. All I'm at 70 millimeter, followed by Doomsday at midnight, that Thursday. That is awesome. I'm seeing Doomsday at 1/30 in the afternoon on the Thursday. I'd be curious to know Alejandro what city you live in because I'm sure, I'm sure if you live in a city like Chicago or Dallas or Los Angeles or New York, it was probably a little more tricky getting those tickets. But maybe there's some other cities that maybe aren't as populated or whatever that might have been a little bit easier to get them. I'm sure that location probably had a little something to do. But I'm glad you were able to get your tickets, man. All right, Anthony C. writes, "Did you get to watch the Ang movie yet?" No, I have not. I got to say, it was all that I wanted and more, which makes it unfortunate that Paramount dumped it onto streaming. Yeah, I haven't watched it. I really liked Avatar of the last Airbender, like the original series. I was late to it, but I didn't get around watching it until the pandemic hit and I really enjoyed it. I liked it a lot. But I heard from people at Paramount that they really just didn't think the movie was any good. So I haven't had a chance to watch it yet myself. But I mean, here in some people like you, Anthony, saying that you like it. So I might have to try to check it out at some point. All right, X-Men's Superfan writes it again. How much do you think Superman and Wonder Woman are holding back when they fight? Because in the few times, they let loose. It gets a little bit scary. It all depends on whoever's writing it. That's it. Sometimes you can have a writer saying that this is the limit of what they are, and then another writer can say they have another limit of what they are. Jorge writes, "Got Disney Dune's Day ticks, add in Dolby and D3." I don't know what D3 is, in IMAX laser. Yeah, listen, again, I think there are-- man, the screening options today are so much better than the screening options, then say when I was a teenager. Like, there are so many great-- you know that new format AMC has AMC XL. Really good. It's really good. The AMC Dolby Prime is my favorite. The LiMAX is still an amazing presentation. 70 millimeter IMAX crazy good. The large formats that they have at Regal Excellent. I mean, there are so many really good viewing experiences now. All right, Animesh writes, Paramounts ask actually does make sense to me if the bond is payable only if Paramount wins. I don't see this clause anywhere in the news. It's still ridiculous. There is no reason why the WGA or the states should be on the hook for your own deal that you voluntarily made. It is not the WGA's business or concern whatever side deals you have with Warner Brothers. It is not the state's concern to be mindful or worry about your side deals that you made with somebody else. It has no basis in law. None. There's simply no foundation for it and no precedent for it. Now, if Paramount was facing a legal-- like something that in the law that said, hey, if you make a deal, you've got to have this late fee, that's one thing. But this is something that Paramount voluntarily offered to Warner Brothers to sweeten the deal and ensure that Warner Brothers went with their bid. That's all on them. That is 100% on them. It has nothing to do with the WGA. It has nothing to do with the states. And there is no reason on the-- in the world. None. Why either of those bodies should be on the hook for their penalties that they volunteered. Absolutely none. Anyway, let's see. Next up, we've got Jorge Wrights. I visited LA for the first time. Took me three hours to drive from Hollywood to Riverside, worse traffic by far. How does anything get done? Yeah, all the stereotypes are true, brothers. The stereotypes are true. Traffic in and around LA is insane. Like my wife's office is only about 30 miles-- about 30 miles from our house-- takes her about an hour and a half to get home every night. Takes her like an hour and a half to get home every night. And takes her well over an hour to get there in the morning. Now, there are ways to navigate it, like for instance, in the evenings, driving from Riverside to LA is a lot easier, because all the traffic is actually going the other way. So if I'm going from where I live into LA at night in the evening, super, not too bad. It's actually not too bad. If I try to drive from my place to LA in the morning, no chance. No chance. LA traffic is legit. All right. X-Men, superfan writes, "How hold in your opinion should be the actors that play Magneto Mystique and Destiny in the MCU? I don't know that we're getting destiny or anything like that. Same age as Charles. They are European-coded. That seems like it seems a lot, so not so young. I don't even know about Mystique or Destiny, but with Magneto, yeah, I think you make Magneto age-appropriate to Charles. So they got an actor who's in his mid-40s. So yeah, you aim for mid-40s. That puts them about 15 to 20 years ahead of the other X-Men actors, which is a good range, I think. So yeah, you definitely get Magneto age. Somewhere within, give or take five years of Charles's age. Jamie writes, "I know this is technically a rarity for the theaters to have their apps crashing, but this is one of the biggest days in movie history. They couldn't even have some kind of tech structure, listen, I am still flabbergasted. There are online services that handle 10 times the traffic that these theater apps handle on their busiest days, 10 times the traffic that these movies sites have to handle on their busiest days. Ever since Endgame tickets went on sale, ever since Infinity War tickets went on sale, I've been like, why can't these movie theater chains and these movie ticketing sites build out their infrastructure to handle this traffic? I'm not going to pretend that it's easy, but I see a lot of other services that handle 10 times the traffic seem to do it without any issues. So yeah, Jamie, I'd love to know what the issue is." Anyway, Cara Black writes, "John, do you know what the Dune 3 IMAX insider screening on December 15th and Tails exactly? I don't know, because I tried to click on it and it just took me to Pandegos website." So there's nothings. Honestly, it's probably just the movie. I'm going to assume at this point until I know more, Cara, I'm just under the assumption that it's just the movie is normal. I could be wrong about that, but that's all that I know right now. Right, Jamie writes, "I also spent $100 on two tickets to Dune at Ontario. IMAX 70 millimeter. This is by far the most expensive tickets I have ever bought for a movie ever." And again, for every one of us idiots that actually spent that kind of money on movie tickets, there's going to be somebody that looked at that and said, "I need to rethink going to the movies at all." Because that was just a huge cock slap across the face of a reminder of just how expensive going to the movies are. You just did a huge cock slap across the face reminding people how expensive it is to go to the movies. So this is more expensive than normal, and it's just a big thing to everybody that, "Oh, yeah, go to the movies today, real expensive." So for every one of the morons like me that paid for it, you actually also created a bunch of people who looked at it and go, "Yeah, I need to rethink going to the movies at all." So good job, good job. You made 20 extra bucks and sacrificed about a thousand bucks over the next few years that you could have made from that other person. Tell you, man, this, this, I've never seen an industry that sabotages itself so much. I really haven't. Alright, X-Men's Superfan writes, "What is your opinion on Fred Astaire? Do you think of him as an actor as an entertainer?" "Fair question. I, you know what? I had that discussed me and Snap had that discussion once. I think if I don't think of him as an actor, I think of him as an entertainer." That's a really good way to phrase it. Jamie writes, "Dune's day is the most important weekend at the movies ever. Later than 2015 Star Wars, theater chains cannot fumble this for the general audiences." Yeah, and listen, it's going to be a logistical nightmare. It's going to be a logistical nightmare. And I'm really hoping that they spend these next four months staffing, training, stalking up, figuring out the logistics of how we're going to flow from one screening into the next because it has the potential. With Dune tickets selling out, with Dune's day ticket selling out, it could be a giant clusterfuck. But hopefully, it'll be amazing because if people go to Dune's day and a lot of people are, and they have an amazing time and an amazing experience, this could be one of the best weekends ever for the movie industry. Alright, Freddie V writes, "First time sending a superchat, thank you for that, man. Just wanted to say that I enjoy listening to your shows." Oh, thank you, dude. It's always cool. First of all, anytime anybody sends in a superchat, it's always incredibly generous. But just to write in something like that to say something, affirming in kind is really, really nice. Thank you for that, Freddie. Alright, Draven writes, "Am I insane, probably for thinking Dune's day could be near 500 million weekend between them both, oh, between them both?" I don't think you're insane. I don't think you're insane. The question is going to start to become, "Are there literally enough seats for that?" I don't know the answer to that. I used to think that hitting 360, there just weren't enough seats to do that, but they did. But now you're talking about combining two different movies. I don't know, but right now, Draven, I'd have to say, "I'm not going to say it's going to do it, but I'll say I don't think it's insane. I don't think you're insane, dude." Alright, Kaden writes, "Seeing Odyssey for the first time and Spider-Man for the second time back-to-back tonight, nice, watched Michael the second time on Southwest trying not to get a motion. That's a very different experience. Watch them on the big screen and watch them on the airplane." But yes, you can now watch Michael on Southwest. Of course, Michael, one of the five films that joined the billion dollar club this year. We got the Mario Brothers. We got Toy Story. We got Michael. We got Odyssey, and of course, we got Spider-Man brand new day, or our five billion dollar film so far this year. I hope you have a good time tonight, Kaden. Spicy Runs writes, "Hey, Karai, I know the DCU Batman movie is years away, but if I could fan cast a role, I'm thinking you and Mitchell would be an amazing Joker. I get, I don't know who you and Mitchell is off the top of my head, so I can't comment. If you're ever going to write in something like that, guys, mention you and Mitchell from something, something so then maybe I'll be able to put it together. All I'll say is this. It's tough to know who to cast as Joker when you don't know how they're going to treat Joker, because again, like I always say, Heath was a great Joker, but he wouldn't have been a good Jack Joker. Joaquin was an amazing Joker, but he wouldn't have been a good Caesar Joker, so it really all depends on who they do. That's kind of the key thing. All right, next up, X-Men's Super Fan writes, "What are some things the DCU could improve in your opinion?" It's too early to say that they're doing anything necessarily wrong. It's just be consistent with being committed to making really good films, and that's got to start with James Gunn being in the office more, because he's out of the office too much. The oncoming writes, "As much as I love having my tics to Doon's Day, but it is getting too early to drop these tics. Also 43 dollars is too much as much as I love 70 millimeter. I agree." Like, I don't like, look, I don't mind the idea of for a very few select movies eventizing it and having tickets go on sale. I just today bought tickets to a World of Warcraft concert. It's this big Philharmonic just doing all the music of World of Warcraft, and that concert isn't until March, March, but I bought my tickets today. We do that, right? We do that for sporting events, we'll do that for big concerts, we'll do that for big shows, whatever. I don't mind. I mean, I don't want to see it for every movie or even half the movies or even a quarter of the movies, but I don't mind one or two or three movies a year being really eventized and putting their tickets on sale like six months in advance, whatever, I don't, I don't mind it as long as they limit it to that. All right. Next up, X-Men Superfan writes, "What other actor actors do you think could be near the level of acting that Daniel Day, Lewis or Mael Street?" Well, I've said it before, I'll say it again, I think the only actor alive today who has the potential of reaching that is Timothy Shalame. And he's not even at the height of his powers yet. I don't even know that he's at 70% of his powers yet, but I think any of them, any of the actors today that have the potential to get to that level, it's Timothy Shalame. I've said that for years, I stand by it. Rolando writes, "Haden, possible overdoses so sad, I'm not going to get into speculation about how she died or whatever, I'll let the coroner say for that, but it's sad regardless. It's very, very sad regardless." Jason writes, "Hey, John, what is the ceiling of the audacity?" I see from your point of view. By the way, nice hoodie. Oh, yeah, so I started playing World of Warcraft again. So when I did, I pulled out my World of Warcraft hoodie. Since I started playing World of Warcraft again recently, I decided to pull out the hoodie. So yeah, there you go. The ceiling changes. I thought the ceiling was a billion dollars before. Then I thought maybe 1.2 was the ceiling and it's already gone past that. So I don't know, I've had a change in mind a few times. Now I'll say 1.5. 1.5 would be my guess. I've spent super fan rights. Why do you believe Jane Austen adaptations are still present in the romance genre film? Because they're so well known and they have a very dedicated core audience. So whenever you do a Jane Austen adaptation, they're never going to make a billion dollars but you always know you can guarantee a certain amount of box office from it because it really appeals to a certain demographic. Getting movies rights, I brought my Dune Part III IMAX tickets for Tuesday, December 15th, at 6 p.m. Can't believe I actually got an IMAX ticket. Yeah, well I did. If it wasn't for my wife, getting lucky and striking where somebody just canceled theirs because I assume somebody else already bought their tickets for it, we wouldn't have gotten either because I struck out for the Monday screenings, I struck out for the Tuesday screenings. And I thought we were just relegated to the Thursday opening day screenings but thanks to my wife, we got some of those that sweet Monday action, so I'm glad you're able to get yours for Tuesday, man. That's not a small feat. All right, Stephen Turner writes, "Do you have any movies you love no matter critical reception or if it's largely considered bad? For me, it's Halle Berry's Catwoman, I grew up with it and I loved it as Campy Fun." That's awesome. Listen, I've got, I've got one. Well, first of all, we all have a bunch of movies that most people don't like and we like or a lot of movies that we don't like that a lot of other people like. We all have them, right? The one that really stands out to me the most is, and I acknowledge it's terrible, but very few movies ever have entertained me like this movie has and the MBT knows it. It's Cool As Ice, yeah. Cool As Ice is that movie for me, yep, yep, she likes me. The vanilla ice masterpiece of a movie with the dad from Family Ties, drop that zero and get with the hero, not get with the hero, get, drop the zero and get with the hero. Yes, Cool As Ice is that movie for me. All right. Next up, Fred Millerian sends in a $20 Super Chat. Thank you, Fred and Fred writes, "John, your thoughts on the rumor that Jack Loden could be the new 007?" Listen, every three months we have a new person who's the front runner to be 007. As long as they're good, I know this is the guy from Slow Horses, right? Correct me if I'm wrong. I believe Jack is from Slow Horses, which is a show I don't watch yet. Everybody tells me it's amazing that I'm going to have to watch it and I will watch it at some point, but I haven't started watching it. The only thing I care about or that I really ask is that the actor you're proposing is a really good actor. Everybody I know says he's really good, so I'd be fine with it, but again, don't get too invested in it because it feels like every couple of months there's a brand new absolute front runner that everybody's talking about. Yeah, so I'm not going to get too wrapped up in it, but again, all I care about is are they a really good actor? A lot of people are saying that they're a really good actor, so I'm good with it. All right. Thanks for that. Fred, appreciate that, man. Next up, Mr. I writes, John, any plans to see the 25th anniversary release of Fast and Furious in 4DX? Nope. Got my June 3 IMAX tickets, guess not as busy in Northeastern Ohio. Yeah, there's two reasons I'm not. What? I did get invited to this very special 25th anniversary event. This one theater was doing, but it was at a time that I would be doing the show, so I couldn't go. The second reason I have no interest in seeing is because I don't like the first Fast and Furious. Straight up, I'm just going to tell you, I don't like the first one. It is just a blatant, shameless, bold-faced ripoff of Point Blank. It is plot beat by plot beat, a direct, carbon copy ripoff of Point Blank. It's cars, instead of surfboards, that everything else is exactly the same. It is an absolute ripoff of Point Blank, or Point Break, I should say. Point Blank is another masterpiece, but that's a different movie altogether. No, I started to really like the Fast and Furious movies with Fast 4, then I love Fast 5, Fast 6, Fast 7. I even like Fast 8 until I fell off Fast 9 and Fast 10, but yeah, I just don't like the first one. It's just a ripoff. Point Break. Go see Point Break. It's a much better Fast and Furious movie than Fast and Furious, the first one. All right. Next up, Rick 302 writes, "Dune 3 and I am Act 70 millimeter at Universal Booked, Doomsday and Dolby Booked. Both on Thursday opening day, I am ready for Doomsday that countdown begins, dude, I can't wait." This is. I don't think in all of my years as a film fan, which is all my life, I don't think there's ever been a weekend like this. I don't think there has ever been a weekend like Doomsday. It is going to be one of the craziest, I think most amazing, incredible movie going experiences ever seen both those movies on the same day. Now, I will have already seen Doomsday at one of the early screenings, but Doomsday, December 17th, 1/30 in the afternoon, Avengers Doomsday, 5/30 in the evening, Doomsday. I think it's going to be one of the most wild, super bowl-like atmospheres being at the movie theater. Guys, I cannot wait. I cannot wait. It's going to be so good. Cannot wait." All right. Next up, Uben writes, "Though it was debated earlier this year, seems Doomsday won't get close to Odyssey worldwide money, but could it beat the IMAX gross Odyssey looking to close 450 million?" Listen, at this point, I am not counting anything out. Like I've always believed that Doon in and of itself because of the nature of the movies, they're not billion dollar films, right? Because they're not movies that are for everybody. But I am now questioning that assumption. When I look at these ticket sales and I see people buying tickets for $2,500 on eBay, I am now questioning whether or not Doon can get to a billion dollars. Now, if you ask me to vacuum, do I think Doon can make 1.3 billion like Odyssey has? In a vacuum, I say no, but at this point, I'm absolutely having to question all those assumptions and I just don't know anymore. Not yes, not no. I just simply don't know anymore. All right. Packers writes, "Bent of fans is the AMC days. Thank you so much, dude. Based on everything you know about Doomsday, do you think this will end up being the darkest tone M.C.U. movie yet? Yes. Yep. Bada, bada, bada, bada, bada, bada, yes. And the end of Infinity War is pretty dark, but yes, I think this has the potential for that. But I also think it has the potential to be one of the most fun. It has the potential to be one of the most fun ones, like, and both can be true at the same time. And so I'm very excited for this movie, very excited to see it, see it. All right. Shikster writes, "Reacher for off-to-fun start, lanterns equals great. I haven't seen the new Reacher yet. Haven't seen it. I love that show, though. I really do. I thought season three was a little shaky, to be honest with you. Maybe a little bit shaky. I'll be honest with you. I like Reacher more when it's him and his whole team, including Negley and all the others. And much prefer Reacher when it's him and his team. So I'm looking forward to Negley and I'm looking forward to season four, because I still like season three, but I kind of like it a little bit more when it's him and his team." All right. Allen writes, "Hey, John, I noticed that a lot of theaters, including AMC Disney Springs, are not adding more Doomsday showings until December. What's your thoughts?" Honestly, it doesn't matter. I mean, I remember being at the AMC Burbank the day the first Avengers movie opened, because we were there covering it, like for AMC movie news. And that was where our offices were. And they literally didn't add a bunch of their screenings till the day of. So it doesn't really matter. They've got plenty of time, tons of time, all the time in the world. So yeah, they will add more screenings, but there's no need for them to add them now. They can literally add them a week before the movies come out, and it's really not going to make much of a difference. All right. Francisco writes, "John, who's your top pick for Magneto? Should Marvel cast someone around Christopher Abbotsage or go older with Killian Murphy or Lee Pace?" Well, killing Murphy is not that much older, right? He's only about six or seven years older, and they could play roughly the same age. I do not have a top pick for Magneto because I don't know what their Magneto is going to be like. Again, you can't say, um, Joaquin is the best pick for Joker. Well, that's fine if it's the movie Joker's Joker, but it's not a good pick if it sees a Romero's Joker. So I don't have a top pick to that. I think there's a bunch of actors I'd be very excited about because they're really great actors and all that kind of stuff. But as far as age, I think you make them age appropriate for Charles, but an actor like Killian and actor like Lee Pace, like Lee Pace can pass himself off as 45, 46, 47, no problem. Like no problem. So it's really not the exact age, it's what can they play. And I think you've got to say that magneto and Eric or magneto and Charles are within five or six years of each other. That would be my preference and my guess, but we'll see what they have in mind for it. All right. Next up. Zau writes, "John, the question we all ask, if why is Thor crying in Deadpool 3, is it a joke without any meaning or someone is dying in his arms again?" Now that is one they are never going to answer. I feel very confident about that. But why is Thor crying? I feel very, very confident. They will never answer that question. It'll just always be one of those things floating around in the ether. All right. Zau also writes, "India's rogue is very good casting. She will act well." I mean, here's the thing about Indie Never Ready, though. You can put her in any role she would do great. And that includes Rogue. She's going to be a fantastic Rogue. 100%. Now, she won't be able to help the writing. I mean, if the writing isn't good for Rogue, there's nothing the actress can do about it. I mean, the actress has just got an actor role. But she is going to make the most out of that script. I mean, she's got one of the most dynamic ranges I've seen in an actress in a long time. And so she will knock it out of the park. Whatever it is, she will knock it out of the park. Believe that. All right. Brand new day would have had a bigger box office if we got rid of 3D theaters. Yes. 100% and you know why I know that's true guy? Why you're absolutely right about that? There were a couple of nights that Ann and I were just like, "Let's go see Spider-Man brand new day again." Now granted, this was in the first two weeks, today it'd be a little easier. But in the first two weeks, let's go see Spider-Man brand new day again. And we look like, okay, that theater sold out. That theater only has some front row tickets left. This theater doesn't have any seats together. That theater sold out. Oh, here's a theater with tons of empty seats. It's more than three quarters empty. Yeah. Oh, it's a 3D screening. Yeah, no, no. I'm not going to waste my time with 3D. Whenever somebody asks me about going to see a 3D movie, I feel like Paul Giamatti in sideways. When Paul Giamatti goes, "I'm not drinking fucking Marlowe." I, that's me. I'm not going to a fucking useless 3D screening, but that, but to your point, this, and this really happened. We're like, let's find a screen and go to tonight. Sold out, sold out, sold out. Oh, here's one of the three quarters empty odds 3D. Now, if that screen had been used to show a regular screening of Spider-Man, that theater would have been sold out too. But it wasn't because it's stupid 3D and nobody cares and nobody wants 3D. Obviously, some people do, obviously, but I'm saying, in general, nobody wants 3D. And yes, it would have made more money, had it not wasted a bunch of screens on 3D. You're absolutely right, guy. All right. Next up, Cara Black, writes in again, sends in a $20 Super Chat. Thank you, Cara. And Cara writes, "I just got my June 3 tickets on AMC for the Tuesday IMAX insider screening. It took me less than three minutes and there were still plenty of seats available regarding the $43 each, my early IMAX ticket only cost $16. Okay, I'm going to say double check your ticket then that you actually got the day that you think you got. Because I don't think a regular IMAX screening. I don't think a regular IMAX screening, 70 millimeter IMAX screening. I don't know where you can even get that for $16. So I would, no, now where you live, Cara, the tickets may be a little cheaper than where I live in LA, so they may not be $43. But I would, I would double check to be 100% for certain, certain, certain, certain, certain because I don't even know if it was just a regular 70 millimeter IMAX screening of any movie during a regular showtime would be $16. So yeah, I, I would highly, like if you did score, that's amazing, but double check, double check, because make sure it's like not just, it says Tuesday, but it says Tuesday the 15th, not Tuesday the 22nd or something like just, just go and be, and make sure, I don't know which ticket service you used to get the tickets, make sure it's legit, because that sounds a little iffy, Cara. I hope 100% that you're right. I hope 100% that that was all legit, but it sounds a little sketchy anyway. Just be careful. All right, Jimmy writes, how's everyone doing? Starting junior year at a new college, went to community first two years, taking some classes such as cancer biology, nice, gonna be watching the show to help through the journey. I'm so glad to hear that, you know, through the years, I've always loved hearing from people who are like, I've been studying this for this long and studying this and I've been watching the show. It's what gets me through our study nights and all that kind of stuff and through exams. I love hearing that. That's awesome that you're going through. Those are great courses to take, man. That's awesome. So I hope you have a tremendous experience there, Jimmy. And all right, guys, that, my voice is going. You can hear it. We'll do it for today's installment of the John Campy of Show. Thank you so much for being here and making our little show part of your day. Big special thank you to the thousands of you guys who have joined us in the live chat, great having you in there. And of course, a big thank you to all of you who sent in the super chats. Number one, because it gives us great fun things to talk about, but number two, you supported this channel as you did it and all of us involved at the show. Thank you guys so very much for your support. Don't forget to come on back and join us again tomorrow. I believe towards Wednesday, right? Yeah. So Chris Parker of 3C Films will be joining us on tomorrow's show, looking forward to that. And we'll look forward to having you guys along for the journey as well. All right, guys, that will do it for me. My name is John Campy. And until next time, my friends, bye-bye. [BLANK_AUDIO]