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September 6, 2025 14 mins
On this week’s entertainment segment on Gary and Shannon, we're previewing the biggest films coming this fall, including Tron: Ares, Predator: Badlands, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, and Wicked for Good. Plus, we break down the growing role of artificial intelligence in Hollywood, from streamlining production to an ambitious project attempting to restore Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons. It's a mix of blockbuster buzz and behind-the-scenes industry news you won’t want to miss.

Don't forget to listen to Heather Brooker's weekly entertainment report on Gary and Shannon every Friday and Entertain Me with Heather Brooker. And follow Heather on social media @theheatherbrooker.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, welcome back to entertain Me. I'm Heather Brooker. This
is a show all about entertainment from SoCal to the
silver screen. And this week we're doing a little something
different on our Gary and Shannon Weekly Entertainment Report. We're
going to be looking ahead at the fall movie season.
There are so many incredible movies coming out this fall.

(00:23):
You're gonna want to start saving up now because I
think if you're a movie botfl like I am, you're
gonna want to be at the box office. And we're
going to dive into just a few of them because
we don't have time to go through all of them.
I wish we did. If it was up to me,
we'd be talking about entertainment all the time. But we're
going to hit a few of the highlights and things
that I think will be worth your watch, be worth

(00:45):
your bucks at the box office, and some things that
maybe you can skip and just wait till they come
out on streaming because you know they will eventually. And yeah,
so we're just going to dive in give you guys
a little look ahead at the fall movie preview.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Heather Brooker has joined us. We're talking about some of
the stuff that's going on in the world of entertainment.
We earlier last hour, we talked about the swing and
a miss this summer when it come when it could,
just comes to box office receipts in general, that they're down,
down below what we've seen since before the pandemic, and
probably maybe a third of what they were at its

(01:19):
peak back in the early two thousands.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, I'm the last numbers I saw. You know, when
we talk about the box office numbers being down, we're
talking about maybe three point six billion versus three point
seven billion. I mean, let's let's be realistic about what
how much money they're Actually, it's still a lot. It's
a lot of money, but it's not I think the

(01:43):
experts in the industry, insiders were targeting four billion. They
were hoping to make that. I don't know what. I
don't know what benchmark that is, Like, oh, if we
get four billion, then we get another summer. Like I
don't understand what who's coming up with this benchmark and
what does it exactly mean? But I think it fell short.
I think they were hoping some of the movies that

(02:03):
like The Fantastic Four would do better. I think they
were hoping some like Jurassic World would have had more longevity,
and they just didn't. And I don't know. Again, these
are questions that a lot of studios are going to
be asking themselves. Is it because we keep rehashing the
same old ip? Is it because we're putting out movie
you know, superhero fatigue? Are we putting out movies people

(02:25):
just aren't interested in? Or you know a lot of
people say and I get a lot of response for
this from our listeners when they call in and or
they reach out, they say, we don't want to pay
twenty five bucks. If you've got a family of four,
you're spending one hundred dollars just to get in and
get a seat and then in the theater, and then
your popcorn, your treats. You know, you're looking at a
couple hundred bucks. So if you're going to go out

(02:46):
and watch a two hour movie for a few hundred dollars,
it people want it to be worthwhile. They want to
make it seem like their investment was worth something. Otherwise,
you could spend two hundred dollars on Dodger's tickets on
you know something else. So I don't know, there's a
lot that's been plaguing the box office for a long time,
and I think this summer was disappointing. But there are

(03:07):
a ton of movies coming out this fall and over
the holiday season that I think are going to make
up for some of that slump. Oh good.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
The technology of movies also hasn't changed a lot. Yeah,
I mean, yes, the pictures are clear, the sound is great.
There are times like when we talked earlier this week
about Wizard of Oz, and you can do some gimmicky
things like dropping apples or blowing wind, but the technology
of it is not hasn't really changed. And I don't
not to say that they're missing an opportunity there because

(03:36):
there's not really much you can do. Yeah, but there
is a comfort factor. You know, you were going to
want to watch a show in your own home, you know.
I mean there are some big ones, Top Gun, Maverick,
f one that came out earlier in the summer. Those
are ones you'd probably want to watch in a larger format.
But your TV's pretty damn big to be, you know nowadays, Yeah,

(03:56):
and watching it at home is much closer to that
theater expert, Well, I.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Was listening earlier this week.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
I always listen.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
And when you were talking about the Sphere and the
Wizard of Oz and the changes that it will it's
taking to get that up and running out of the Sphere,
I want to see that. You do.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
You would be all in on sort of an interactive
Wizard of Oz.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Absolutely, I mean a the Sphere itself. I I did
go last summer, so I saw it, lived that experience,
and it's just incredible. You haven't you haven't been there yet.
You got to put that on your list. I know
you see ho hum about it. But I think you'll.
I think you'll be wowed.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
And and I think everything that they put up there,
I mean the Backstreet Boys come.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
On again, my Bailey work.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah, you gotta do a smoky eye though when you
go Yeah, I think that you just that that's a
venue that will draw people regardless of what they put out.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah. I mean, I think in particular with the Wizard
of Oz, it's a it's a classic film. Everybody he
knows it, everybody loves it the purest. A lot of
film purists are really the ones that are saying, hey,
you shouldn't be adding into a film that was never
intended to be added to in this way. But regardless,
AI is not going anywhere in the film industry. I

(05:17):
read something today because I was doing research for our
conversation today because I'm a big nerd like that and
I like to research, and I read that something like
seventy percent of films that are being made right now
are using some form of AI technology. Now, whether that's
from the script writing side of it, whether that's in

(05:37):
front of the camera, with makeup effects, with clothing, with
CGI's people in front of the camera, cats, dogs, animals, whatever,
it is a tremendous amount of movies that are already
using AI. And I don't think the industry is going
to turn from that anytime soon. If anything, they're going
to keep leaning into it because it's cheaper. I mean,

(06:00):
in magic it's cheaper. It's fast.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Post production stuff, audio editing, color correction, stuff like that
is stuff that probably are dying arts in terms of
the people that do them, but that AI can do faster.
And there was also the Orson Wells movie that they're
coming Not only we talked about Wizard of Oz, they're
accentuating what exists in the Orson Wells movie. They're talking

(06:25):
about coming up with whole new material for the movie
for areas that didn't exist previously.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, so let's talk about this a little bit. Orson
Wells's second film was called The Magnificent Amberson's. His first one,
very famously was Citizen Kane. It wasn't received well at
the time. Citizen Kane wasn't the epic film that we
all know it to be today, and so Orson Wells,
in his sort of attempt to say, I'll show you

(06:54):
and I'm going to make it even better film, he
made The Magnificent Amberson's. The studio, so the lorgo again,
how they did research. So the story goes is that
the studio didn't like the original ending that he made,
so they asked him to reshoot it, and he did
it the way because they said it's kind of a downer,
So he reshot it and they didn't like what he

(07:16):
had done. So somehow that forty minutes of footage or
so mysteriously disappeared. Time out. Yeah, we'll say where it went.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Oh my god, we were talking specifically about AI, kind
of a continuation what we talked about Wednesday when The
Wizard of Oz was accentuated with AI so they could
show it in the sphere, but that this Orson Wells
movie was also going to have an AI additive.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, so basically it I'll summarize this quickly so we
can get on to some other entertainment news. But basically
they didn't like the studio at the time didn't like
the original ending of his movie, The Magnificent Amberson's, so
they shot their own version of the ending. Well now
a company called Showrunner is coming in and they are
using i AI technology to rebuild the forty three minutes

(08:04):
missing ending or whatever, and people are like, why would
you do that? Why do we need to do this?
It wasn't how it was intended to be. But listen,
these are things that are going to keep coming up.
AI technology is not going anywhere. It is cheaper, it
is faster, and studios are leaning into it. They really
really are.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
But I wonder if you're going to have to start
or if there will be some push for legislation or
just industry standard where audiences are told this movie contains
images or I saw it on a commercial. As a
matter of fact, last night, huh that there was a
disclaimer that said images in this commercial are a computer

(08:43):
generated commercial for it's a car commercial. I don't think
it's land Rover or something like that. I mean, to me,
it was obvious that they were it was. It was generated.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, you know, Kenna was showing me the NFL commercial
with the float. That's all AI generated, the whole float
and everything. Whether like you, you know, showing off the
NFL teams like you could be on this float and
the whole float was is AI generated? You can tell
that it is, But there was no disclaimer for that
as well. But if you can pay somebody, you know,

(09:14):
ten thousand bucks to create something like that cheaply fast,
in a fast way, you're not going to spend one
hundred thousand dollars on animators or CGI technology, and CGI
is different than AI, so that's a distinction as well.
I think what's going to happen here and this is
just my opinion, and you know, you know what opinions
are like. But anyway, people are going to the studio,

(09:38):
are are going to lean into AI technology and it's
not going to be going anywhere. But the unions, I think,
are going to be the ones that have to step
in and start putting in safeguards for the actors, for
the makeup artists for these specific craftsman well to the strike,
and we saw how that happened with the strikes, and
it brought the industry to a standstill, and it's never

(09:59):
been the same. So this is going to be a
really difficult challenge for the industry if they're going to
try to stop AI in any way.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
And Showrunner wants to be the Netflix of AI.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, all right, a couple of minutes left. The Fall
is coming up, and they have an opportunity. They Hollywood
has an opportunity to make some of its money back.
What can we expect the next couple of weeks?

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Look at this? We don't have time look at this.
I'm such a nerd. I have my entire Fall movie
Bible here with all my notes and everything post it.
So we're just going to hit some of the highlights here.
You know, I want to mention a couple movies for
you guys. I want you to tell me what you're
the most excited to see coming up this fall. This
is not even Christmas movies. This is just from now

(10:42):
till November. Okay, all right, him tron Aries, all of you,
good Fortune, Frankenstein, Predator, bad Lands, The Running Man and
Wicked for Good.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, I think Running Man probably at the top. Frankenstone
is number two.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
I'm going that's Jordan Peele, right, yes, yeah, him, yeah, so, yes,
it's Jordan Peele's go ahead. No, I was hoping you
were gonna have the Smashing Machine down there.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, it's in there, but I'm like, we don't have done. Okay,
it's in my little bible here.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Machine is the rock Emily Yes, uh and the one
that is, at least this week said to have gotten
some Emmy or sorry, Oscar buzz Oscar.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
But Dwayne, come on, let's right, let's not let's uh listen.
I don't know if I'm gonna go that far, but
I'm gonna wait. I'm gonna I'm gonna wait to reserve
judgment until I actually see it. But you're right on him.
Him is going to be another Jordan Peele offering. We
know he's had huge success for his last few movies.

(11:49):
This one is going to be no exception. It's a
sports horror film, little horror, a little football where sign
up perfect brilliant tron aries. I I'm a I'm a
big eighties gal fan of the original movie. I liked
the sequels I just watched. I just watched the other
one the other day, the most recent one the other day,

(12:09):
And I'm very excited for this because again I love
the sort of dystopian, alternate universe world movies. I think
toront Aris is going to do really well. Good fortune guys,
Keanu Reeves. Oh like, it's a sweet little movie from
Keanu Reeves. He's playing an angel and it's got a
Zi's and Zari in it, so you know it's gonna
be funny. And it also has Seth Rogan in it,

(12:29):
so if you're like Seth Rogan, that's gonna be a
good one. I don't Studio Studio is fantas Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
You know what Seth Rogan does.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
What he gets high. I don't know if you know
that all the time. That's like his whole That's like,
it's like Michael Monks doing drugs. He makes his whole personality.
But you're right, we have to talk about Frankenstein. This
movie is Giomo del Toro's take on Frankenstein. If you

(12:59):
saw his take on pin Pinocchio, it was incredible. This
is also going to be visually stunning, beautiful storytelling. I
think people are gonna be really the trailer itself is
trailer itself is wonderful. Are you a Predator fan?

Speaker 3 (13:12):
No?

Speaker 1 (13:13):
No, I never really got I mean, yeah, I've seen him,
but I know my husband is super excited for Predators
bad Lands. Every time we see a preview come on,
He's like, yes, he's really excited. And also, hasn't there
already been a remake of the Running Man? Did I
imagine that? I thought?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Was I dream that Ryan Reynolds?

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Do we need it? Oh?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Maybe Ryan Gosling one of the Ryans.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Hopefully it was the good one, all right? And Wicked
for Good? Guys, Wicked for Good coming out around Thanksgiving.
I am excited. No one wants the Wicked. That was
well done. She's great. I lost Garry literally was like,
oh my god, I have no words.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Such a blast time talking entertainment on The Gary and
Shannon Show. Thank you guys so much for listening. Take
a moment, subscribe to entertain maybe even share it with
some friends, bring them in on the entertainment fund. I'm
Heather Brooker. You can follow me on social media at
the Heather Brooker And yeah, that's it, guys. We'll see
you next time. You can listen to entertain me anytime

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