October 18, 2025 • 17 mins
This week in PREVIOUSLY ON… Jason and Rosie discuss new casting announcements for season 3 of the HBO drama Euphoria, the first look at Laurence Fishburne in the unintentionally hilarious teaser for season 4 of Netflix's The Witcher, a box office check-in for One Battle After Another, Tron: Ares, Black Phone 2 & Wicked: For Good pre-sales, some curious quotes from the creators and actors of Stranger Things about the trying to stick the landing of the final season, Apple and Peacock's newly announced streaming bundle and to close, they highlight the careers of Diane Keaton, Drew Struzan and D'Angelo, who all passed this week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On today's episode of News, we're talking news including Lawrence
fishburnh and The Witcher season four Apple TV, plus Peacock
Hard launching their situationship slash Relationship at bar. Hello. My
(00:27):
name is Jesson Excepcion.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And I'm Rosie Night and welcome back to Extra Vision
on podcast, where we dive deep.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Into your favorite shows and movies, comments of pop culture
coming from my Heart, where we'll bring you three episodes
a week, plus this episode.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Which is news, news, news, news, and in today, we
are once again catching you up on the biggest nerdy
news of the week, including Hello, box office a sluggish
October box office checking and.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Forecast, and the Stranger Things.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Kids are not feeling great about Stranger Things season five.
They are afraid people will not like it. We're going
to talk about that too, but first, some insane costing news.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
First up, apparently Sam Levinson did a huge bump of
some sort of drug and then immediately cast this season
feels because the cast of Euphoria season three has just
been announced moments before we hit record on this and
the new cast includes influencer and personality Tricia Paytous, Natasha
(01:25):
Leone we Love and writer director actor torture horror enthusiast
Eli Roth, What is this season going to be?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, there's there's a Tricia Peytos song that you know
she does as a meme and she is just like
such a stone quote.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, I love it, Jesus exactly. I'm just like, my
mind is blown. I don't know what this is.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I think that we can basically say that Eusforia season
three is going to be insane. The kids are once
again not kids, and who knows what's going on, but
it is a weird week for TV news and that
is what we're gonna talk about next too, because for me,
I did not know this casting had happened, and now
I'm gonna have to watch that.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean listen. Admittedly I have watched Little Too No Witcher,
but the trailer for The Witcher season four has just
been released. It features Laurence Fishburne and this trailer it
looks like an SNL sketch. It does, and I don't
(02:37):
whoever put Larry in this wig. First of all, shouts
to Larry because he is so what a professional he's at.
He's just kill look like, but he looks fucking insane.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
He looks so crazy. He looks crazy. And also it
feels like now.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That they lost Carville, which is so funny because they
did not need to lose him because he did not
go on to return as Superman in any long way
outside of the Black Adam finale. But like it literally,
like Calm and wrote, it looks like an SNL sketch
filmed on the Sleepy Hollow sit and.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I just think it's so good. I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It feels like once they lost Carbo they were like, well,
let's cut back and see how much we can save
because it's looking insane. Basically, every comment is like, looks
like an SNL Skit thought it was a reboot of
Tales from the Hook. It's like an episode of the
Mighty Boosh Good British Deep Cut. There a Boo is
telling us that his character is supposed to be a posh,
(03:39):
distinguished vampire who has lived for centuries. I'm sorry, it's
not giving that, guys. We have interview with the vampire.
We know that vampires can be glamorous and cool.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
This is not the case.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, this is a deranged situation. But I love
Larry Fishburn, like I will watch I've watched the Death
Wish movies because he's in them, Like, I will watch
this now, but it does not look like a real
TV show, which I do think is a Netflix problem.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
The set looks like the between two fern sets, but
they just added some more ferns and lower the lights.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It looks so fucking cheap.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It's so fucking bad. I don't know what the fuck up.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I need to know what the budget for witcherfo was
budget Witcher for show Let's see.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You better not? I don't want to hear. Oh my god,
I do not want to hear about it. Two hundred
and twenty one million episodes for season four? Are you crazy?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Broke?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I can't be right.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's no way that that can be right. That I
can't be right, And that's just the saying conversation. And
I yeah, crazy, crazy times.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
But you know what, I'll.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Watch it for Larry, and I hope the Witcher fans
will watch it, even though it's a lesser Hemsworth brother,
one of the lesser famous ones. But when I still
enjoy Liam, he will be playing the Witcher no longer
Henry Carvill. And it looks like the Wag budget has
gotten worse next time, guys, I'll give you a tip.
This is a made for TV movie tip. I mean,
have Vivica a Fox be in your show because she
(05:09):
owns a wig company, and then she will deliver you
all the whigs as part of the deal, Like she
doesn't have lifetime wrong movie series and the whigs actually
look good.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
How Bavels Cavil spends more on his weekly Warhammer budget
than show other wigs up next a box office check.
In One Battle after Another, it looks looking like not
only will it be one of the consensus critical movies
of the decade, it's also gonna lose a ton of.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Money, which is funny because we kind of talked about
that possibility with this director.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
It's gonna lose a projected one hundred million dollars. Here's
a quote from Variety. One Battle after Another, led by
a Leo DiCaprio, struggle to break out despite being hailed
as a generational masterpiece. Though the global hall of one
hundred and forty million is impressive, film that's an original
R rated in nearly three hours long, One Battle requires
roughly three hundred million to break even because of promo
(06:07):
and et cetera.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Listen and also interesting, I know, I'm like, it's like
the truth is I get this, And I think like
that's trying to tie a line between this and The
Smashing Machine not doing well even though it got a
fifty million dollar budget.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
These movies are not blockbuster movies that make a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
These movies are movies that artists make and then people
watch them. And I gotta tell you, guys like Warner Brothers,
if you don't want to do this anymore, just don't
hire someone like Paul Thomas Anderson. You're he's gonna go
for the craziest studio budget. You guys have shown you
can do that with Christopher Nolan movies.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You've shown you.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Can do that with all kinds of adult or more
adult films. And obviously Warner Brothers has had a lot
of hits this year, like it's a smash year for
Warner Brothers, so this is not really gonna hurt them.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
But it's interesting to.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
See variety and deadline approaching these movies, Like the Smashing Machine,
that was obviously an oscar movie. Everyone knew that that
was not going to be some huge giant thing. Mark
curR is not a if you're outside of the UF city,
Space is not necessarily a known name. And the Rock,
as I said before, even though I am a fan
(07:17):
of many of his action movies, not necessarily a certified
blockbuster bringer. So I think that it is almost like
a It's a conversation again that I think ties into
one of the things I have really learned about this year,
which is I think that they don't the box office
predictors nowadays are slightly out of touch with what is
(07:37):
delivering and what is not delivering, and I think that
is an issue here and again another movie that nobody
asked for Tron Tron Aries, let's talk about it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Here is a quote from the Hollywood Reporter. Quote. The
Disney sci fi tent pole pulled in a dismal thirty
three dst million from four thousand Dear what a wide release,
and that's a peach budget of at least one hundred
and eighty million. Overseas of sci fi Epic also failed
to connect, grossing twenty seven million, or a global start
of sixty point two million. Folks, it's a stinker and
(08:15):
it's also a bad movie.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah. I also learned that this was a movie that
Jared Leto specifically picked up and became the producer on
because nobody else wanted to make it. And I'm like,
sometimes you just got to listen to other people, bro,
You've got to actually listen to what other people are saying.
And I say that as a number one. The first
Tron was a hugely important moment for me. I was
an eighties baby. I watched all the documentary footage they
(08:37):
had of how they made it happen. I loved the movie.
It was not a box office hit. The sequel was
not a box office hit, though it did have a
banger soundtrack just like the new one, and that will
likely be its legacy. But I am not surprised, though
there is a slight surprise because me and you were
both thinking that Wicked for Good may not hit those
top five box office heights, but it's looking.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Like for fandoms.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It's had a crazy opening day of sales right.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So projected to surpass Wicked Part one. I think that
this is domestically now because we said internationally, I'm unclear.
I don't think it's going to resonate internationally, but I
do think because of the VOD sales and then the
later streaming run of Wicked Part one. Yeah, more people
are excited about it, want to see it in theater.
(09:23):
So this makes sense to me. I'm excited for this.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
And then in our final bit of box office news,
black Phone two, the Scary Oh Demon, serial killer, child
abduction horror movies starring Ethan Hawk, opens to two point
six million on Friday previews with a thirty million dollar budget.
It's going to get there. People are people of heart
right now.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Get there.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
But I do think this is interesting because this is
another low opening for Blumhouse this year.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
They have not they really went.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
All in on sequels and with this with Megan two,
trying to build on those breakout Hollywood hits, and it
just yeah, did not deliver.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Have you seen here's my question, black Phone too. I
haven't really felt the marketing, not in the way Megan
two was unavoidable. Megan two was in your face everywhere.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
The marketing for this, I think is a has to
be a little bit more low key because it is
about a child murderer. Like I know, Meghan did murder child,
but she's also a robot. The first movie is very bleak.
It's Scott Derickson, and it has this very much like
kids being murdered. It's very five Nights at Freddy's in
that way. They're coming back together as spirits to help.
(10:32):
And apparently this movie is super weird, has a ton
of like snow set escapades. I recently watched this horror
movie called Curtains. It's very famous for having a scene
where a girl is killed on ice skates while she's
skating across the lake. We get homage to that, so
I'll be interested. I think it's gonna make back its
thirty mil. Most of the promotion I think has been
(10:54):
at Universal Studios because they have a Blumhouse maze this
year for the tram tour and that definitely has the
grab a very prominently right there. But for me, I
have not seen like the buzz around this one, particularly
or organic or non Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Carmen and Aaron are both saying they're getting a lot
of black Phone two on YouTube. Maybe it's it's my
algorithm then, because all I get on YouTube are Spanish
language ads for like detergent and cars.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That means you're doing well because you're learning Spanish.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
No. I would also say, Jason, this is also like
an age thing, like we are a little bit aged.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Out of where they are atsizing this movie.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I like Black Phone too, but I think that's why,
Like it's moving to spaces like YouTube. It's moving to
those spaces. But for me, yes, my YouTube ads are
usually like watch this free thing.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Let me just say it into my phone slash spy
black phone two, black phone two, black phone two in
the vicinity of my phone, and let's see if my
algorithm changes. Let's take a quick break and we'll be
back with the endernew flow up next. In news that
(12:12):
you don't want invoked about your television show, the Stranger
Thing cast is worried that this final season could get
quote Game of Throne style backlash. This act from a
new story from the Hollywood Report. Quote we were nervous
about season four. Co creator Rostuffer said it was one
of the most expensive seasons of TV ever, made it
(12:34):
a reported thirty million. Quote continues, it was such a
relief when it got the viewership it did, because you
don't want to scale it down for your final season
or an abbreviated final season. These were all possible for realities.
Now that is a quote. They're kind of hints at
the Game of Thrones connection. Now here's the one that
really goes for it. From cast member Finn Wolfhart says, quote,
(12:54):
I think everyone was pretty worried, honestly, the way Game
of Thrones got torn to shreds in that final and
we were all walking to this going we hope to
not have that kind of thing happen. But then we
wrote the scripts and we knew that it was special,
so don't't worry. Still, why would you look into the
mirror and say candy Man even one time?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Why would you say it? That's what I'm saying, Brouh.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I'm like, don't say bloody Mary, don't say candy Man.
You know I will say though, I do think that
in a way from my experience of how the set
visits were for this show and also for how the
kids were managed.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
This is also I think Finn wolf had getting.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Out ahead of it and being like, hey, we had
the same worries as you, like, we know where this
is at.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
And I think for him it's smart.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
But yeah, the Duffer brothers are notoriously hardcore people who
run a set. They don't like spoilers, they don't like
these conversations. I wouldn't be surprised if sweet baby Finn Wolfard,
who's probably like thirty now got a little combo up next.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
As the streaming behemoths continue to look like they're all
joining forces together, either through merger or other forces. Here's
the other forces version of this. Apple TV and Peacock
form a streaming bundle alliance starting at fifteen dollars a month.
Here's the quote from Deadline. Apple TV and Peacock will
be available starting next week in a bundle NBC Universal
(14:16):
and Apple said customers will save more than thirty percent
off the full retail price for the service, which hits
the market on Monday. Apple TV is AD free and
can be combined with the AD support of Peacock Premium
or the AD free Peacock Premium Plus. How much closer
does this put us to the ultimate megastreaming bundle featuring
all services. That's a question to be answered probably in
the next couple of years.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah, it feels like we're getting back to cable. Everyone
knows it, everyone said it. Apple and Peacock did not
see that one coming. But NBC Universal is doing its
best right now, I think to prove that it can
still be in the TV game, So yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I mean crazy, but will be interesting to see it.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And honestly, Apple TV has some of those best originals,
so maybe this will mean that people will get to
stop watching them more.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And then, finally, in sad news, we lost some real,
real heavyweights this week, starting with Diane Keaton, who died
at the age of seventy nine, star of some of
the most iconic films in film history, including The Godfather,
(15:21):
Annie Hall and Something's Got to Give and other Reds
to have a three hour movie about the Russian Revolution,
I can't recommend Reds more highly. And she was just
an absolute powerhouse and an I speaking of joy absolutely
Drew Strusan, a talented poster artist for I mean, you've
(15:43):
seen his.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Work basically every movie that you.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Love, Goonies, Indiana Jones, Return of the Jedi, I Believe,
and many many more, passed away at age seventy eight,
And shockingly, D'Angelo.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Oh the RB saying such a hard day.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I lived in the Voodoo CD for many, many a year,
shockingly passed away at age fifty one, way too young,
after a very very private battle with pancreatic cancer. I'll
never forget Hit hearing his voice show up in Red
Dead Redemption two all of a sudden. He was apparently
(16:22):
a huge fan of the of that video game series,
and his song in that game at a really emotional
high point of the game is just like an indelible
media moment. They will all be missed.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
And they will all be missed. And I love the di'angelo.
I Love the Red Dead came out of his own
love for the first Red Dead game. Apparently there's anecdotes
that he would just show up. He had an open
invite to bait attest the second game so he could
write the song for it, and he would just show
up at like one in the morning and just play
it for like a few hours and just leave. Well.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Legend that was a hard day, but yeah, that'll be
missed well.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
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On today's episode of News, we're talking news including Lawrence
fishburnh and The Witcher season four Apple TV, plus Peacock
Hard launching their situationship slash Relationship at bar. Hello. My
(00:27):
name is Jesson Excepcion.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And I'm Rosie Night and welcome back to Extra Vision
on podcast, where we dive deep.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Into your favorite shows and movies, comments of pop culture
coming from my Heart, where we'll bring you three episodes
a week, plus this episode.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Which is news, news, news, news, and in today, we
are once again catching you up on the biggest nerdy
news of the week, including Hello, box office a sluggish
October box office checking and.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Forecast, and the Stranger Things.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Kids are not feeling great about Stranger Things season five.
They are afraid people will not like it. We're going
to talk about that too, but first, some insane costing news.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
First up, apparently Sam Levinson did a huge bump of
some sort of drug and then immediately cast this season
feels because the cast of Euphoria season three has just
been announced moments before we hit record on this and
the new cast includes influencer and personality Tricia Paytous, Natasha
(01:25):
Leone we Love and writer director actor torture horror enthusiast
Eli Roth, What is this season going to be?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, there's there's a Tricia Peytos song that you know
she does as a meme and she is just like
such a stone quote.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, I love it, Jesus exactly. I'm just like, my
mind is blown. I don't know what this is.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I think that we can basically say that Eusforia season
three is going to be insane. The kids are once
again not kids, and who knows what's going on, but
it is a weird week for TV news and that
is what we're gonna talk about next too, because for me,
I did not know this casting had happened, and now
I'm gonna have to watch that.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean listen. Admittedly I have watched Little Too No Witcher,
but the trailer for The Witcher season four has just
been released. It features Laurence Fishburne and this trailer it
looks like an SNL sketch. It does, and I don't
(02:37):
whoever put Larry in this wig. First of all, shouts
to Larry because he is so what a professional he's at.
He's just kill look like, but he looks fucking insane.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
He looks so crazy. He looks crazy. And also it
feels like now.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That they lost Carville, which is so funny because they
did not need to lose him because he did not
go on to return as Superman in any long way
outside of the Black Adam finale. But like it literally,
like Calm and wrote, it looks like an SNL sketch
filmed on the Sleepy Hollow sit and.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I just think it's so good. I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It feels like once they lost Carbo they were like, well,
let's cut back and see how much we can save
because it's looking insane. Basically, every comment is like, looks
like an SNL Skit thought it was a reboot of
Tales from the Hook. It's like an episode of the
Mighty Boosh Good British Deep Cut. There a Boo is
telling us that his character is supposed to be a posh,
(03:39):
distinguished vampire who has lived for centuries. I'm sorry, it's
not giving that, guys. We have interview with the vampire.
We know that vampires can be glamorous and cool.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
This is not the case.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, this is a deranged situation. But I love
Larry Fishburn, like I will watch I've watched the Death
Wish movies because he's in them, Like, I will watch
this now, but it does not look like a real
TV show, which I do think is a Netflix problem.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
The set looks like the between two fern sets, but
they just added some more ferns and lower the lights.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It looks so fucking cheap.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It's so fucking bad. I don't know what the fuck up.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I need to know what the budget for witcherfo was
budget Witcher for show Let's see.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You better not? I don't want to hear. Oh my god,
I do not want to hear about it. Two hundred
and twenty one million episodes for season four? Are you crazy?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Broke?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I can't be right.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's no way that that can be right. That I
can't be right, And that's just the saying conversation. And
I yeah, crazy, crazy times.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
But you know what, I'll.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Watch it for Larry, and I hope the Witcher fans
will watch it, even though it's a lesser Hemsworth brother,
one of the lesser famous ones. But when I still
enjoy Liam, he will be playing the Witcher no longer
Henry Carvill. And it looks like the Wag budget has
gotten worse next time, guys, I'll give you a tip.
This is a made for TV movie tip. I mean,
have Vivica a Fox be in your show because she
(05:09):
owns a wig company, and then she will deliver you
all the whigs as part of the deal, Like she
doesn't have lifetime wrong movie series and the whigs actually
look good.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
How Bavels Cavil spends more on his weekly Warhammer budget
than show other wigs up next a box office check.
In One Battle after Another, it looks looking like not
only will it be one of the consensus critical movies
of the decade, it's also gonna lose a ton of.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Money, which is funny because we kind of talked about
that possibility with this director.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
It's gonna lose a projected one hundred million dollars. Here's
a quote from Variety. One Battle after Another, led by
a Leo DiCaprio, struggle to break out despite being hailed
as a generational masterpiece. Though the global hall of one
hundred and forty million is impressive, film that's an original
R rated in nearly three hours long, One Battle requires
roughly three hundred million to break even because of promo
(06:07):
and et cetera.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Listen and also interesting, I know, I'm like, it's like
the truth is I get this, And I think like
that's trying to tie a line between this and The
Smashing Machine not doing well even though it got a
fifty million dollar budget.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
These movies are not blockbuster movies that make a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
These movies are movies that artists make and then people
watch them. And I gotta tell you, guys like Warner Brothers,
if you don't want to do this anymore, just don't
hire someone like Paul Thomas Anderson. You're he's gonna go
for the craziest studio budget. You guys have shown you
can do that with Christopher Nolan movies.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You've shown you.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Can do that with all kinds of adult or more
adult films. And obviously Warner Brothers has had a lot
of hits this year, like it's a smash year for
Warner Brothers, so this is not really gonna hurt them.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
But it's interesting to.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
See variety and deadline approaching these movies, Like the Smashing Machine,
that was obviously an oscar movie. Everyone knew that that
was not going to be some huge giant thing. Mark
curR is not a if you're outside of the UF city,
Space is not necessarily a known name. And the Rock,
as I said before, even though I am a fan
(07:17):
of many of his action movies, not necessarily a certified
blockbuster bringer. So I think that it is almost like
a It's a conversation again that I think ties into
one of the things I have really learned about this year,
which is I think that they don't the box office
predictors nowadays are slightly out of touch with what is
(07:37):
delivering and what is not delivering, and I think that
is an issue here and again another movie that nobody
asked for Tron Tron Aries, let's talk about it.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Here is a quote from the Hollywood Reporter. Quote. The
Disney sci fi tent pole pulled in a dismal thirty
three dst million from four thousand Dear what a wide release,
and that's a peach budget of at least one hundred
and eighty million. Overseas of sci fi Epic also failed
to connect, grossing twenty seven million, or a global start
of sixty point two million. Folks, it's a stinker and
(08:15):
it's also a bad movie.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah. I also learned that this was a movie that
Jared Leto specifically picked up and became the producer on
because nobody else wanted to make it. And I'm like,
sometimes you just got to listen to other people, bro,
You've got to actually listen to what other people are saying.
And I say that as a number one. The first
Tron was a hugely important moment for me. I was
an eighties baby. I watched all the documentary footage they
(08:37):
had of how they made it happen. I loved the movie.
It was not a box office hit. The sequel was
not a box office hit, though it did have a
banger soundtrack just like the new one, and that will
likely be its legacy. But I am not surprised, though
there is a slight surprise because me and you were
both thinking that Wicked for Good may not hit those
top five box office heights, but it's looking.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Like for fandoms.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It's had a crazy opening day of sales right.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So projected to surpass Wicked Part one. I think that
this is domestically now because we said internationally, I'm unclear.
I don't think it's going to resonate internationally, but I
do think because of the VOD sales and then the
later streaming run of Wicked Part one. Yeah, more people
are excited about it, want to see it in theater.
(09:23):
So this makes sense to me. I'm excited for this.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
And then in our final bit of box office news,
black Phone two, the Scary Oh Demon, serial killer, child
abduction horror movies starring Ethan Hawk, opens to two point
six million on Friday previews with a thirty million dollar budget.
It's going to get there. People are people of heart
right now.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Get there.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
But I do think this is interesting because this is
another low opening for Blumhouse this year.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
They have not they really went.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
All in on sequels and with this with Megan two,
trying to build on those breakout Hollywood hits, and it
just yeah, did not deliver.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Have you seen here's my question, black Phone too. I
haven't really felt the marketing, not in the way Megan
two was unavoidable. Megan two was in your face everywhere.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
The marketing for this, I think is a has to
be a little bit more low key because it is
about a child murderer. Like I know, Meghan did murder child,
but she's also a robot. The first movie is very bleak.
It's Scott Derickson, and it has this very much like
kids being murdered. It's very five Nights at Freddy's in
that way. They're coming back together as spirits to help.
(10:32):
And apparently this movie is super weird, has a ton
of like snow set escapades. I recently watched this horror
movie called Curtains. It's very famous for having a scene
where a girl is killed on ice skates while she's
skating across the lake. We get homage to that, so
I'll be interested. I think it's gonna make back its
thirty mil. Most of the promotion I think has been
(10:54):
at Universal Studios because they have a Blumhouse maze this
year for the tram tour and that definitely has the
grab a very prominently right there. But for me, I
have not seen like the buzz around this one, particularly
or organic or non Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Carmen and Aaron are both saying they're getting a lot
of black Phone two on YouTube. Maybe it's it's my
algorithm then, because all I get on YouTube are Spanish
language ads for like detergent and cars.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
That means you're doing well because you're learning Spanish.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
No. I would also say, Jason, this is also like
an age thing, like we are a little bit aged.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Out of where they are atsizing this movie.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I like Black Phone too, but I think that's why,
Like it's moving to spaces like YouTube. It's moving to
those spaces. But for me, yes, my YouTube ads are
usually like watch this free thing.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Let me just say it into my phone slash spy
black phone two, black phone two, black phone two in
the vicinity of my phone, and let's see if my
algorithm changes. Let's take a quick break and we'll be
back with the endernew flow up next. In news that
(12:12):
you don't want invoked about your television show, the Stranger
Thing cast is worried that this final season could get
quote Game of Throne style backlash. This act from a
new story from the Hollywood Report. Quote we were nervous
about season four. Co creator Rostuffer said it was one
of the most expensive seasons of TV ever, made it
(12:34):
a reported thirty million. Quote continues, it was such a
relief when it got the viewership it did, because you
don't want to scale it down for your final season
or an abbreviated final season. These were all possible for realities.
Now that is a quote. They're kind of hints at
the Game of Thrones connection. Now here's the one that
really goes for it. From cast member Finn Wolfhart says, quote,
(12:54):
I think everyone was pretty worried, honestly, the way Game
of Thrones got torn to shreds in that final and
we were all walking to this going we hope to
not have that kind of thing happen. But then we
wrote the scripts and we knew that it was special,
so don't't worry. Still, why would you look into the
mirror and say candy Man even one time?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Why would you say it? That's what I'm saying, Brouh.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I'm like, don't say bloody Mary, don't say candy Man.
You know I will say though, I do think that
in a way from my experience of how the set
visits were for this show and also for how the
kids were managed.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
This is also I think Finn wolf had getting.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Out ahead of it and being like, hey, we had
the same worries as you, like, we know where this
is at.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
And I think for him it's smart.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
But yeah, the Duffer brothers are notoriously hardcore people who
run a set. They don't like spoilers, they don't like
these conversations. I wouldn't be surprised if sweet baby Finn Wolfard,
who's probably like thirty now got a little combo up next.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
As the streaming behemoths continue to look like they're all
joining forces together, either through merger or other forces. Here's
the other forces version of this. Apple TV and Peacock
form a streaming bundle alliance starting at fifteen dollars a month.
Here's the quote from Deadline. Apple TV and Peacock will
be available starting next week in a bundle NBC Universal
(14:16):
and Apple said customers will save more than thirty percent
off the full retail price for the service, which hits
the market on Monday. Apple TV is AD free and
can be combined with the AD support of Peacock Premium
or the AD free Peacock Premium Plus. How much closer
does this put us to the ultimate megastreaming bundle featuring
all services. That's a question to be answered probably in
the next couple of years.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah, it feels like we're getting back to cable. Everyone
knows it, everyone said it. Apple and Peacock did not
see that one coming. But NBC Universal is doing its
best right now, I think to prove that it can
still be in the TV game, So yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I mean crazy, but will be interesting to see it.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And honestly, Apple TV has some of those best originals,
so maybe this will mean that people will get to
stop watching them more.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And then, finally, in sad news, we lost some real,
real heavyweights this week, starting with Diane Keaton, who died
at the age of seventy nine, star of some of
the most iconic films in film history, including The Godfather,
(15:21):
Annie Hall and Something's Got to Give and other Reds
to have a three hour movie about the Russian Revolution,
I can't recommend Reds more highly. And she was just
an absolute powerhouse and an I speaking of joy absolutely
Drew Strusan, a talented poster artist for I mean, you've
(15:43):
seen his.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Work basically every movie that you.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Love, Goonies, Indiana Jones, Return of the Jedi, I Believe,
and many many more, passed away at age seventy eight,
And shockingly, D'Angelo.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Oh the RB saying such a hard day.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I lived in the Voodoo CD for many, many a year,
shockingly passed away at age fifty one, way too young,
after a very very private battle with pancreatic cancer. I'll
never forget Hit hearing his voice show up in Red
Dead Redemption two all of a sudden. He was apparently
(16:22):
a huge fan of the of that video game series,
and his song in that game at a really emotional
high point of the game is just like an indelible
media moment. They will all be missed.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
And they will all be missed. And I love the di'angelo.
I Love the Red Dead came out of his own
love for the first Red Dead game. Apparently there's anecdotes
that he would just show up. He had an open
invite to bait attest the second game so he could
write the song for it, and he would just show
up at like one in the morning and just play
it for like a few hours and just leave. Well.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Legend that was a hard day, but yeah, that'll be
missed well.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Next week's episodes of X ray Vision, we're diving into
the season finaleum gen B. That's it for news. Thanks
for shining, hey. X ray Vision is hosted by Jason
Sepcion and Rosie Knight and is a production of iHeart Podcast.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Our executive producers are Joel Monique and Aaron Kaufman.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Our supervising producer is Abu Zafar.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Our producers are Common, Laurent Dean Jonathan and Bay Wag.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Our theme song is by Brian Vasquez, with alternate theme
songs by Aaron Kauffman.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Special thanks to Soul Rubin, Chris Lord, Kenny Goodman and Heidi,
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