April 9, 2024 • 32 mins
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – A look at the Weekend Box Office, and CinemaCon’s 2024 global box office projections…PLUS – The Star Wars franchise is looking bright across the next few years AND thoughts on actor Jonathan Majors being sentenced to year of counseling - on KFI AM 640 – Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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and growing up, I never missedan episode of Ciskel and Ebert. Never.
That was just something that was justpart of family tradition. We would
watch Ciskel and Ebert give us theirmovie reviews. Kind of influential on what
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we do here as we always discussedthe box office. And this last weekend
there were some surprising eyebrow raising numbers. Godzilla x Kong the New Empire still
number one, brought in another thirtyone million dollars domestically, and worldwide is
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up to three hundred and sixty onemillion. It is doing better internationally than
domestically. That is surprising to me. That is really surprising to me.
I thought that Godzilla was more ofa US appreciated property than just around the
world outside of Japan. But thismovie is doing gangbusters for a Godzilla movie.
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It's probably the best in terms ofbox office of all Godzilla movies.
It's only two weeks out. It'sjust strange how this movie has connected with
audiences. Twalla and I had along conversation before the show tonight with a
mutual friend. Won't call him outby name unless Twala wants to quasi.
Yeah, okay, well you didthat, and he said it was fun.
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I enjoyed it. I didn't thinkit was fun. I didn't enjoy
it. I was more annoyed andperturbed and felt disrespected how they bastardized the
whole Godzilla character. But if you'reunencumbered by the history of Godzilla, maybe
maybe. But I just didn't enjoyit. But you know, these movies
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aren't made for me individually, despitewhat Mark Roner, what have you believed?
They're made for making money, gettingas many people to buy tickets as
possible. And if they can throwGodzilla out there with a diaper on and
sucking on a pacifier, and theyshould bring in a billion dollars them,
damn it, they'll do that.This is a hit with audiences, and
I have no idea why. Now. This is one of those weird ones,
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isn't it. I've got some friendswho are movie nerds and genre film
nerds just like me, who haveloved it, and it's caused me to
seriously reevaluate what I think of theirintelligence, and I'm a firm believer just
because a lot of people like somethingdoesn't make it good. What's interesting is
most of the people I know theylike it. They like it for the
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same reasons that Quasi did, andthat is they had fun. They had
fun, They had a good time. It was good popcorn movie making fun.
It was more about the monsters fightingthan it was about the people.
But for me, I couldn't letgo of any of the cartoonist, silly,
ridiculousness of the script, the story, and everything they would have us
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believe. I found it disrespectful tothe legacy of Godzilla. Yeah, when
you turned it into a joke,and I don't like that at all.
Godzilla at no point was to befeared, even though he was taking naps
in a Roman colisseum and destroying multiplecities. He's supposed to be the hero,
anti hero protagonist in this movie.Forgot about that. It was astonishingly
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stupid. It was jaw droppingly stupid. They I want to say death toll
because of the heroes had to bein the millions and yet we never saw
a person die. No, butthey took out at least three major cities
around the world at least three Huh, so I have to assume millions of
people have died and people applauded atthe end. What is wrong with you?
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That was honestly shocking because it's like, again, I'm not a huge
Godzilla fan, but I was confusedby the storyline. It didn't really make
sense. Like Mark and Tawalla weresaying, the only reason you had the
the human actors, there was justa further the story. They could have
just been Godilla and the whole timeall the human actors did was spout garbage
exposition in front of a green screen. Garbage exposition and very very forced humor
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that I was it was always outof place. It's like things of people
are dying around you. There's nothingfunny, nothing, nothing to joke about,
even morbid humor. Who was theactor who was the comic, Ryan
Tyree something whatever, unbearable, unbearable. He was literally, uh, the
new stereotype of that character. You'veseen that character over the years in film,
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and I thought we were over havingthat character in films. But the
black comic relief will live on throughBrian Tyree. He will make no mistake.
I think that Dan Stevens didn't dohis career any favors either. He's
the ginger guy who who played thethe Kaiju zoologist vet. He at one
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point looked like he was going tobe a major leading man. Yeah,
now he's the Kaiju whisper. Yeah. I don't know if it was like
The poor Man's Matthew McConaughey. Idon't know what they were going for.
I just didn't know what whether Iwas supposed to laugh, whether I was
supposed to, you know, bein awe of these creatures which are destroying
cities, and I think of monstermovies through death and destruction. That's the
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lens always viewed them through. Andthat was a part of the peal of
Godzilla because he walked through Tokyo andKyoto in a few other cities and were
just rot havoc. And this isjust they're just destroying cities and monuments and
pyramids. Sorry spoiler, and noone really cares. You know, it's
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no big deal at all. Okayto the heroes at this point several days
later, how do we all feelabout the use of the lover boy song
turn Me Loose in the action BuddyCop sequence. I forgot the whole eighties
soundtrack, yeah, which was neverreally explained. Nope, it was just
eighties for no particular reasons. Itwasn't like it was retro. It was
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supposed to be the right. Itdidn't make any sense. Now as a
kid who's going up in the eighties, I could appreciate it because I could
recognize it, But as far asthe movie didn't serve any purpose. It
wasn't a plot point, Nope,it was just weird. And that was
the number one movie. I doplan to see Monkey Man, which came
in at number two. That's gettinggood reviews, yes, really good.
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Yeah, and it's very violent fromwhat I understand, so Mark should be
pleased. I do enjoy quote action, No, no, no, there's
action and there's violence. It wasaction, right, there's action and quote
unquote violence in Godzilla. Not thesame thing, right. Ghostbusters Frozen Empire.
I didn't dislike the movie. Ithought it was fine, but it's
not resonating as well as Ghostbusters AfterLife. Ghostbusters Frozen Empire is up to
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one hundred and thirty eight million worldwide. Frozen excuse me, Frozen Empires up
to one hundred and thirty eight millionworldwide, after Life did more than two
hundred million. I don't think thatFrozen part is going to get there at
this mathematical trajectory. They should havejust called it Ghostbusters Frozen product. That's
what it is. Well, thistime we discussed the marketing and the trailer
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of the film. It's almos.It belies what the actual film is about.
And if you think it's going,if you think what you're going to
see is in a trailer, themovie's about what's in the trailer, it
really isn't. It really isn't,And it can be off putting, I
think to some people because like,oh, this is a completely different movie.
Yeah, I didn't even say it'spretty misleading. Oh it's very misleading.
Like watch the movie. I severaltimes scratch my head, like I
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don't get why the trailer gave usthe lead in that it did, because
this is not what it's about atall. It's really not. Number four
Mark was the first omen Yeah eightmillion. Yeah. I gave that a
grudgingly positive review. And it turnsout some other horror nerds are really really
into it, much more than Iwas. Maybe it's a generational thing.
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The way we perceive movies is justdifferent because it if and when I watched
the first Omen, like I saidbefore, I'm gonna be judging it against
the movies which came before. Ithink people went in with super low expectations
and the fact that it wasn't acomplete disaster signal to them that it was
a great triumph of horror cinema.You know. Kung Fu Panda four came
in at at I guess number five, and it is up to more than
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four hundred million worldwide, which meansthere's going to be a five. It's
just going to be a five.I stopped it too. I think Dune
Part two is still hanging around thetop ten and came in at number six.
It's gross more than two hundred andsixty five million domestically six hundred and
sixty five million worldwide. That meansthere will be a Doune three. I
haven't seen Doom two yet. I'mnot ready to go to sleep. Number
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seven this week was someone like you? Which movie was that to say?
Oh, it's one of those fathomevents, but it brought in three million?
Sween Sidney Sweeney, shouldn't it?I don't know the tragic loss of
his best friend. A grieving youngarchitect launches a search for her secret twins.
Oh yeah, we saw this.I remember my daughter was like,
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do you know how bad I wouldfeel if I was to die and my
boyfriend went and married my twin.This is a horrible concept. Who does
this movie? It is? Arthurthe King came in at number eight.
I don't see why that movie wasever made. Number nine Mark immaculate fourteen
million, domestic four million, internationaleighteen million. It's still going to turn
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a profit. People like the Nunhorror. Yeah, that's the Sarah Swinging
one, right, I think so. Yeah. Sydney sweety Sydney, Sarah
City whatever. Wicked Little letters camein at number ten. Don't know what
that is. And that's it forthe top ten. But we have some
more information about the totality of theindustry. If you wonder like, well,
is this better than last year?Was it worse than last year?
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Well, we'll tell you that.And also where everything is headed we have
there's so much twelve. You putso much news on the sheet tonight.
There's a lot going on. Yeah, you're listening to later with Moe Kelly
on demand from KFI AM six forty. Did you know that the industry is
a very strange thing. And whatI mean by that is they're very sensitive
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to not offending other members of theindustry. There is this forecast by Gower
Street Analytics, a distribution and exhibitionindustry consultancy, and it has forecasts that
worldwide box office this year will aggregateat thirty two point three billion dollars,
which is down by more than abillion earned last year. And we all
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know last year was not great.Quote a thirty two point three billion dollar
global box office in twenty twenty four, what would represent an approximate five percent
decrease year on year from twenty twentythree. The twenty twenty four vised estimate
is eighteen percent lower than an averageof the last three pre pandemic years.
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And Mark, I've been saying thisfor the past few years. Where this
industry is headed, people are notgoing to keep going to the movie theaters
as they once did. I thinkpeople were lolled into a fake sense of
security when you had movies overperform likea Barbie or Super Mario Brothers or an
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Oppenheimer which was not expected to doalmost a billion dollars in ticket sales.
You had movies overperformed, and peoplewant to say, like, ah,
the movie business is back, youknow, movie theaters are back, And
it never was the case when youhave this quote unquote marginal decline. I'm
quite sure it first sent concern throughoutthe industry, but this has always been
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the case. And I say itfirst sent concern because shortly after that story
came out projecting the decline, allof a sudden, they revised their outlook
on the eve of CinemaCon and CINEMACNis like the largest confab, the National
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Association of Theater Owners convention, andit's being held in Las Vegas right now.
It's almost like you don't want togive this bad news out right before
the convention of theater Owners. Itseems like it's almost like they knew that
the bad news wouldn't land. Well, Yeah, those Bardenheimer events were freak
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occurrences. We're not going to getanother one of those just like that.
No, and you're not going toget a Taylor Swift movie. You're not
going to get a Beyonce concert movie. Those are things that you couldn't plan
for, and they basically overperformed.No one knew that Taylor Swift was going
to have that type of year thatshe was going to have and it was
going to carry over to her concertmovie. Yeah. Meanwhile, we're finding
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out that's, say, the newFrancis Ford Coppola movie that he financed with
the profits from his own vineyard,out of his own pocket, can't even
find a distributor. There's something kindof wrong going on right now. I
mean, they're not making any midlevel movies and something that's a pretty nervy
piece of art can't find distribution.I don't really know what to make of
it, honestly. Well, Ithink there's a multi tiered discussion. There
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is a discussion internally about whether themovie industry is spending too much money only
on big blockbusters as opposed to themiddle tiered ones of art house films,
things of that nature. But theflip side is, well, if you're
if you do make those middle tiermovies, are people are still people still
going to go to the movies tosee them? Yeah, they don't feel
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like special events. But you're absolutelyright that the mid tier movies are essentially
extinct. You've got the big tentpole blockbuster ones, and then you've got
the low budget ones, especially horrorfilms that are critic proof and always always
turn a profit. And then Imean, this is one reason why I'm
always blabbering about all the stuff Iwatch on TV, because they literally don't
make them like that anymore. You'llfind the kind of movies that wouldn't get
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financed and made today. And there'sthere's just the kind of material you're not
gonna find anymore in theaters. It'stough to get people out of their houses
too. They got what do yougot an eighty inch screen at your house?
You gotta give people a reason toget out of the comfort of their
homes. And when you've got peopleto open mouth smacking popcorn in their air
right behind them using their cell phonein the middle of the movie, I
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mean, that's not much of anincentive to leave your house. But there's
something else there are and I saidthis before, there are fewer movies,
number of movies being shown in movietheaters. Like, for example, the
big money makers talk about the bigtent pole movies, there's only one coming
from Marvel. There are fewer movieswhich can generate the type of revenue that
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these movie theaters need. That's whywe know that the revised estimate is a
lie. There are fewer movies whichyou are going to be coming out,
and they're to be lower box officegenerating movies of those which are coming out.
If Senecon is hoping that by maybethem revealing some things that we didn't
know were coming out before, ifthat's going to turn things around, I
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don't think so. There are morethings coming to Disney Plus this year that
I'm interested in watching, and reallyand truly as much as all of Nerdom
and every fan of both Hugh Jackmanand Ryan Reynolds maybe looking forward to Deadpool.
It's not going to have that firstday turnout like Barbie and Oppenheimer did
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because there isn't a promotion surrounding eitherof those characters that's gonna drive people to
theaters. So I want that towin. But you missed one thing.
It most likely will be an Rmovie. Dah, there's that, and
it will not be shown in asmany theaters. It's not gonna necessarily be
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shown in Middle America. There aregoing to be a number of movie theaters
which are going to say, no, we're not going to have it in
a movie which is in wide release, which is in every theater, gets
about forty two hundred theaters on average. I don't know if Deadpool is going
to be in more than four thousandtheaters for that reason. Yeah, rating
a movie are severely cuts down onthe profits, and there's an enormous amount
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of pressure to tone things down.Even at its best, it was not
going to generate some two billion dollars. And each year you had a two
billion dollar movie. For the pastmaybe five or six years, with exception
of the Pandemic, you had atwo billion receipt movie. There are none
of those on the calendar this year, not even Deadpool, because of the
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R rating and some other factors.So I don't know where the movie industry
ahead of CinemaCon is going to.I don't know whether what story they can
tell which is going to change thereality what we know right now. You
can say that, hey, it'snot as doomy and gloomy as you know.
It's being port it out there,but there's nothing really to latch onto
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to say, here are five majorblockbusters which should generate a lot of business
for movie theaters over the course ofmonths. No and there's again, they're
not even staying in theaters that long. Even if they are a hit,
they're gone in thirty or forty fivedays, one or the other. It's
also kind of a self perpetuating doomspiral because they're so risk averse that most
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of what you're going to be seeingare sequels and reboots and the same stuff
over and over again. Ghostbusters,sequel, another Marvel movie. They don't
want to take a chance on somethinglike Megalopolis from Coppola because they don't know
if it's going to be a hitor a bomb, and they don't want
to risk the money for their shareholders. Well, ten years ago, we
would know for a fact that amovie like Prey, which is on Hulu
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would have been in theaters. Tenyears ago, even though I didn't care
for it. The Roadhouse remake wouldhave been in theaters. These movies now,
they're being pushed to streaming, andso movie theaters don't even have a
bite of those apples. Oh yeah, just one more thing before we go
to break. Because I was lookingat James Bond movies again last night because
I'm obsessed with him. You realizethat there was just as little as a
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year gap between those massive movies backin the old days, like gold Figer
came out in sixty four, Thunderballcame out in sixty five. They don't
do that anymore. It takes threefour five years between major films now.
Unless they film multiple films at once, like they did with The Matrix and
Infinity War, Avengeans Infinity War andEndgame. They have to do. They
have to film at the same time. That's the only way. Yeah,
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they did doing three right, Theyfilmed that simultaneously with the New Doom.
Oh they did. Yeah, Well, there's another one. I'm gonna miss.
It's Later with Mokelly. Can't fI AM six forty live everywhere iHeartRadio
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forty. Although twenty twenty four isnot expected to be a big box office
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here, twenty twenty six is slatedto be a huge year only for the
box office generally, but Disney specifically. Toy Story five is gonna hit in
twenty twenty six. Mandalorian and grogu. If you've been watching a Mandalorian series,
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you you already know that storyline.They're taking that to the big screen
that's gonna hit in twenty twenty six. And that right there, those two
alone are huge for the future ofthe Disney brand and the new Tron Tron
lives. I believe that, Harrisoh Aris, I'm sorry, Aria,
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So yeah, that's towards the endof twenty twenty five. So we got
some big stuff coming from Disney twentytwenty five into twenty twenty six. And
that's not even saying anything about thelive action version of Maana that's gonna hit
in twenty twenty six. So twentytwenty five, twenty twenty six, for
all the things that Bob Iiger wasbrought back in to correct and read direct
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the ship of Disney, well,the proof is gonna have to be in
the pudding in twenty twenty five,twenty twenty six. If they can't get
it done. With this slate ofmovies coming down the pipe, you have
a surefire hit brand in Toy Story. You have an absolute monster of a
hit in terms of the Mandalorian goingto the big screen. And if you
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haven't been following the Disney Plus serieswithin the Star Wars universe, when you
say Mandalorian and Grogu that probably mostdefinitely includes ah Soka in that as well.
Oh, it absolutely does the entiretyof the Mandalorian in Grogrew. It
actually ties in all of the DaveFeloney Live action series and brings them to
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a close. So even though wedid not really really like the Pamphlet of
Bobba Fett, there will be charactersfrom that included in this film as well.
Sorry, the pamphlet as opposed tothe book. Okay, what did
you want? The letter? Thebusiness Letter? It wasn't my favorite thing
either, No no, no,no, no no. I don't think
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it was anyone's favorite thing. AndI appreciate Disney giving us more and more
content within that universe, but thatseries was just not good from beginning to
end. No, no, itactually was not. And on that same
thread though, where Disney plus andwhere they're taking everything Star Wars with the
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live action series, the first seriesthat takes us into the past before anyone
Skywalker was even thought about or Twinklein their Father's eye, they will be
giving us a new film that takesus back even further. Star Wars Dawn
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of the Jedi, which gives usthe origins of the actual Force. So
that is the story that is alsocoming. Dawn of the Jedi sounds like
a zombie movie. Well, look, there will be no dead Jedi.
Hey when does the Alcoal Life hitthis year? Such a lions Yeah I
thought it was this summer. Yeah, yeah, for that is amazing.
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So there are a lot of bigthings, good things coming for Disney and
Disney Plus subscribers. And they've hadsome lackluster offerings in the past year year
and a half. It hasn't beena great time for Disney. But what
is what is coming is Yeah,if if they can knock it out of
the park with this Mandalorian and Grogumovie, and I think they can because
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they've had a limited budget to doa television saga take it to the big
screen, then everything can be rightin the Star Wars universe because this last
trilogy left a lot to be desired. Jim oh Ju and fourth Yeah,
okayob And this is the thing aboutDisney. They're trying to hit us over
the head back to back to backto back to back with stuff on Disney
Plus. Because right now, ifyou're not watching it, the bad Batch
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is phenomenal. We're not going toget a break from Star Wars, because
then we're gonna get Tells of theSith or Tales of the Empire on May
the fourth, and then no,no, no, no, no,
they're changing it she tells of theEmpire because this time they want to give
us a further backstory into some othercharacters in the Empire and the Sith and
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all that. And then so that'sso now this month we've got bad Batch,
next month Tells the Empire, thenin June Stars the Acolyte, and
then by then July we get aDeadpool Wolverine. So just's like we're trying
to line stuff up to make sureyou've got content from us every single month.
That's one thing I do like thereis a plan to how and when
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they roll out their titles as opposedto one title here and there. I
love, you know, Amazon Prime, but it's kind of willy nilly as
far as when we get stuff.I don't know when it's gonna show up,
and it just kind of is there, and I've been waiting for the
Boys, or you know, youget gen v or Invincible. If you've
been watching any of those shows,they'll throwing a roadhouse. But you don't
know when it's not like it's there'sa cohesive schedule where all this is planned
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out, so it will drop monthlyand you'll have something new each and every
month to really focus in on.Yeah. Yeah, that's really unfortunate too,
because I do like a lot ofthe Amazon features, even though there
seems to be a theme everything issuper super violent. Yeah, didn't you
just finally get around to seeing Roadhouse? Unfortunately? When did you watch it?
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I watched it last night. Man. You guys really downplayed the trash
pile that it did is and whydid you do that to yourself? Though
you don't trust us, curiosity,we were serious curiosity, man, it
is a cruel, cruel cat Seriously, when we give these reviews, it's
a public service. I should havetaken it as such as a warning action,
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not a public service. That wasa warning, mind your time,
good surrend your life. What didyou dislike about it the most? I
disliked the fact that it had literallynothing to do with the original film.
So this isn't based on This isn'ta reboot. No, it's it's just
a movie that they called Roadhouse becausenothing in the story is the same.
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Okay, the main character is nota professional cooler. His name is Dalton,
and that's why I said. Theylifted the name of the name of
the main character and they took thename road House. But the whole idea
of what the film was about isstupid. Dalton in the original film was
a professional cooler who had a reputationas making bars that were really run down
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and rough and tough. Successful.That's why he was brought in in the
first place. And you saw theprogression of that. This guy was a
massive mm A star who murdered someone. And then they said, hey,
spoiler whatever, it's been out fora minute, and if you want to
watch that trash, shame on you. On you. What I'm saying is
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the whole principal idea of this filmall the way through the end, the
unmemorableness of characters like Connor McGregor,who I don't even know what his name
was. I kept calling him ConnorMcGregor in the film, so I'm like,
does this character have a name oris it just Connor McGregor walking around
with his butt out all the time. I'm like, this is just oh,
it's a shame on you. Sure, I'm sorry. Look, I'm
sorry, Hillary, Okay, butthis is not a case of hot sauce
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in the purse. It's not.This film was not worthy of any release,
and the director had the dirty nervesto say this film should have been
in theaters. Oh you think,no, no, sir. It's one
of the most viewed of all timeon Amazon Price, a big success for
them, And yes, it justproves that not everything popular is any good
at all. But I don't thinkit would be It would have been a
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success in theaters. I don't thinkpeople would have paid money for it.
That's why I see. Here's thething. I watched it because it's free
and I'm already paying for the subscription. I had time to kill and I
said, you know, just mademyself some dinner. You know what am
I going to watch? I haven'tseen that film. They really dragged on
it. It can't be that bad. And then halfway through I was like,
oh, those sobs, it's worsethan that. Yeah, you say
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it wouldn't have been popular in theaters, but look at Godzilla x kom Oh,
yeah, yeah, you're right.I take everything I just said that
no accounting for taste. We're justwrong about everything final. Let's just fold
up shop and just leave. Okay, Stephan, you got the last segment
by yourself. If I AMC fortywire lived everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Maybe Stephan will check in with GeorgeNorri and Coast to Coast when we come
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back. Maybe it'll be me,Maybe we'll be Mark who knows you're listening
to Later with Moe Kelly on Demandfrom KFI AM six forty A story we
reported on since the beginning and nowwe have an update. You might have
heard it over the course of theday, but would love to give you
our thoughts on it. Actor JonathanMajor's was sentenced today to one year of
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counseling in his domestic assault case.He was able to avoid jail time.
That was always unlikely, given hehad no prior history with domestic violence or
any other violent convictions, but itdoes set a precedent as far as how
these types of cases may be adjudicatedgoing forward. When you're at counseling is
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not minor for this reason, ifonly because it will continually be an issue
for Jonathan Majors for the foreseeable future, how he is going to be perceived,
whether he will actually be able tomove forward with his acting career,
or whether his brand will continue tobe too toxic for the foreseeable future.
It's one thing to put the casebehind him. It's another to put the
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idea of him as someone who isviolent towards women behind him, and the
perception, unfortunately, is still true. Is the reality like, for example,
this is what Gray Jabari, thevictim, had to say. Quote,
he is not sorry and has notaccepted responsible. He will do this
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again. He will hurt another woman. This is a man who believes he's
above the law. I had acareer in life and body, all of
which he's damage close quote and notsaying nothing of the lawsuit that she has
penning against him. I don't haveany ill will towards Majors. I just
don't think he handled any of thisall that well. With the exception of
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he did show discipline. After hewas first arrested. He was very restrained,
not making any public statement. Hedidn't say anything to try to clear
his name. He let his attorney, who I didn't necessarily agree with,
but he let her do the talkingon his behalf. I thought he was
very well disciplined in that regard,but that first interview after the verdict was
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horrible setback. I think it didhim no favors at all as far as
removing the idea of him being abatterer someone who hurt women. I mean,
maybe I think we're giving too muchcredit to day society and their memory
of things that people have or havenot done. It's hard for me to
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believe that anyone actually cares about thissituation more than we do. In the
news. Oh, let me kippingthere, Marvel cares no, no,
no, no, no no.I get that they had to walk away
in the time being. I getthat that's that's, you know, par
for the course when it comes tosituations like this. If it was Warner
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Brothers, then he would be inthe next Warner Brothers movie, because we
saw a very similar, if notdamn near identical situation with their star Ezra
Miller when it came to casting themin The Flash and this, that and
the other. So it's just Disney. It's because of how Disney is.
Disney does not like any infamy broughtto their company period. If it was
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another company, this was Universal Picturesor something like that, Jonathan Majors would
be in the film and they wouldbe having press tours galore to cover it
up, because the flash still cameout no matter what charges or controversy or
anything was up against actor Ezra Miller. I think that this here will it
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will blow over faster than we thinkand after a while. Unfortunately, because
I'm following this on social media andright now, no one is shedding a
tier for Jabari. No one.People are like, I will take that,
bet. I agree, no one'sshedding a tier for her. But
these companies generally are risk verse,and I think he's going to have to
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prove that he's marketable on a smalllevel before someone will give him an opportunity
on a larger level. Oh no, absolutely. This is that one terrible
interview that was a faux pas anda bad part of his apology tour.
As you notice, he has notdone nothing since then. He's like,
you know what, that was abad idea. I'm gonna go sit somewhere
and be quiet. I'm gonna gosomewhere and sit down and be quiet.
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Okay, because they're still sewing Creedthree that they have not taken any of
my movies down from streaming anything likethat. I will still take my little
residual checks. I'm still gonna goout and do what I do. And
he is still working out. He'sa part of some new film now.
There's an independent film coming out abouta bodybuilder something or another. So he's
going to work. We shall see, you know. I believe it when
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I see it, When he candemonstrate success and someone gives him a chance,
and I believe that he'll be onhis way back to where he was,
and not a day before. It'slater with Mo Kelly, We're live
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and growing up, I never missedan episode of Ciskel and Ebert. Never.
That was just something that was justpart of family tradition. We would
watch Ciskel and Ebert give us theirmovie reviews. Kind of influential on what
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we do here as we always discussedthe box office. And this last weekend
there were some surprising eyebrow raising numbers. Godzilla x Kong the New Empire still
number one, brought in another thirtyone million dollars domestically, and worldwide is
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up to three hundred and sixty onemillion. It is doing better internationally than
domestically. That is surprising to me. That is really surprising to me.
I thought that Godzilla was more ofa US appreciated property than just around the
world outside of Japan. But thismovie is doing gangbusters for a Godzilla movie.
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It's probably the best in terms ofbox office of all Godzilla movies.
It's only two weeks out. It'sjust strange how this movie has connected with
audiences. Twalla and I had along conversation before the show tonight with a
mutual friend. Won't call him outby name unless Twala wants to quasi.
Yeah, okay, well you didthat, and he said it was fun.
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I enjoyed it. I didn't thinkit was fun. I didn't enjoy
it. I was more annoyed andperturbed and felt disrespected how they bastardized the
whole Godzilla character. But if you'reunencumbered by the history of Godzilla, maybe
maybe. But I just didn't enjoyit. But you know, these movies
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aren't made for me individually, despitewhat Mark Roner, what have you believed?
They're made for making money, gettingas many people to buy tickets as
possible. And if they can throwGodzilla out there with a diaper on and
sucking on a pacifier, and theyshould bring in a billion dollars them,
damn it, they'll do that.This is a hit with audiences, and
I have no idea why. Now. This is one of those weird ones,
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isn't it. I've got some friendswho are movie nerds and genre film
nerds just like me, who haveloved it, and it's caused me to
seriously reevaluate what I think of theirintelligence, and I'm a firm believer just
because a lot of people like somethingdoesn't make it good. What's interesting is
most of the people I know theylike it. They like it for the
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same reasons that Quasi did, andthat is they had fun. They had
fun, They had a good time. It was good popcorn movie making fun.
It was more about the monsters fightingthan it was about the people.
But for me, I couldn't letgo of any of the cartoonist, silly,
ridiculousness of the script, the story, and everything they would have us
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believe. I found it disrespectful tothe legacy of Godzilla. Yeah, when
you turned it into a joke,and I don't like that at all.
Godzilla at no point was to befeared, even though he was taking naps
in a Roman colisseum and destroying multiplecities. He's supposed to be the hero,
anti hero protagonist in this movie.Forgot about that. It was astonishingly
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stupid. It was jaw droppingly stupid. They I want to say death toll
because of the heroes had to bein the millions and yet we never saw
a person die. No, butthey took out at least three major cities
around the world at least three Huh, so I have to assume millions of
people have died and people applauded atthe end. What is wrong with you?
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That was honestly shocking because it's like, again, I'm not a huge
Godzilla fan, but I was confusedby the storyline. It didn't really make
sense. Like Mark and Tawalla weresaying, the only reason you had the
the human actors, there was justa further the story. They could have
just been Godilla and the whole timeall the human actors did was spout garbage
exposition in front of a green screen. Garbage exposition and very very forced humor
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that I was it was always outof place. It's like things of people
are dying around you. There's nothingfunny, nothing, nothing to joke about,
even morbid humor. Who was theactor who was the comic, Ryan
Tyree something whatever, unbearable, unbearable. He was literally, uh, the
new stereotype of that character. You'veseen that character over the years in film,
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and I thought we were over havingthat character in films. But the
black comic relief will live on throughBrian Tyree. He will make no mistake.
I think that Dan Stevens didn't dohis career any favors either. He's
the ginger guy who who played thethe Kaiju zoologist vet. He at one
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point looked like he was going tobe a major leading man. Yeah,
now he's the Kaiju whisper. Yeah. I don't know if it was like
The poor Man's Matthew McConaughey. Idon't know what they were going for.
I just didn't know what whether Iwas supposed to laugh, whether I was
supposed to, you know, bein awe of these creatures which are destroying
cities, and I think of monstermovies through death and destruction. That's the
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lens always viewed them through. Andthat was a part of the peal of
Godzilla because he walked through Tokyo andKyoto in a few other cities and were
just rot havoc. And this isjust they're just destroying cities and monuments and
pyramids. Sorry spoiler, and noone really cares. You know, it's
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no big deal at all. Okayto the heroes at this point several days
later, how do we all feelabout the use of the lover boy song
turn Me Loose in the action BuddyCop sequence. I forgot the whole eighties
soundtrack, yeah, which was neverreally explained. Nope, it was just
eighties for no particular reasons. Itwasn't like it was retro. It was
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supposed to be the right. Itdidn't make any sense. Now as a
kid who's going up in the eighties, I could appreciate it because I could
recognize it, But as far asthe movie didn't serve any purpose. It
wasn't a plot point, Nope,it was just weird. And that was
the number one movie. I doplan to see Monkey Man, which came
in at number two. That's gettinggood reviews, yes, really good.
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Yeah, and it's very violent fromwhat I understand, so Mark should be
pleased. I do enjoy quote action, No, no, no, there's
action and there's violence. It wasaction, right, there's action and quote
unquote violence in Godzilla. Not thesame thing, right. Ghostbusters Frozen Empire.
I didn't dislike the movie. Ithought it was fine, but it's
not resonating as well as Ghostbusters AfterLife. Ghostbusters Frozen Empire is up to
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one hundred and thirty eight million worldwide. Frozen excuse me, Frozen Empires up
to one hundred and thirty eight millionworldwide, after Life did more than two
hundred million. I don't think thatFrozen part is going to get there at
this mathematical trajectory. They should havejust called it Ghostbusters Frozen product. That's
what it is. Well, thistime we discussed the marketing and the trailer
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of the film. It's almos.It belies what the actual film is about.
And if you think it's going,if you think what you're going to
see is in a trailer, themovie's about what's in the trailer, it
really isn't. It really isn't,And it can be off putting, I
think to some people because like,oh, this is a completely different movie.
Yeah, I didn't even say it'spretty misleading. Oh it's very misleading.
Like watch the movie. I severaltimes scratch my head, like I
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don't get why the trailer gave usthe lead in that it did, because
this is not what it's about atall. It's really not. Number four
Mark was the first omen Yeah eightmillion. Yeah. I gave that a
grudgingly positive review. And it turnsout some other horror nerds are really really
into it, much more than Iwas. Maybe it's a generational thing.
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The way we perceive movies is justdifferent because it if and when I watched
the first Omen, like I saidbefore, I'm gonna be judging it against
the movies which came before. Ithink people went in with super low expectations
and the fact that it wasn't acomplete disaster signal to them that it was
a great triumph of horror cinema.You know. Kung Fu Panda four came
in at at I guess number five, and it is up to more than
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four hundred million worldwide, which meansthere's going to be a five. It's
just going to be a five.I stopped it too. I think Dune
Part two is still hanging around thetop ten and came in at number six.
It's gross more than two hundred andsixty five million domestically six hundred and
sixty five million worldwide. That meansthere will be a Doune three. I
haven't seen Doom two yet. I'mnot ready to go to sleep. Number
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seven this week was someone like you? Which movie was that to say?
Oh, it's one of those fathomevents, but it brought in three million?
Sween Sidney Sweeney, shouldn't it?I don't know the tragic loss of
his best friend. A grieving youngarchitect launches a search for her secret twins.
Oh yeah, we saw this.I remember my daughter was like,
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do you know how bad I wouldfeel if I was to die and my
boyfriend went and married my twin.This is a horrible concept. Who does
this movie? It is? Arthurthe King came in at number eight.
I don't see why that movie wasever made. Number nine Mark immaculate fourteen
million, domestic four million, internationaleighteen million. It's still going to turn
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a profit. People like the Nunhorror. Yeah, that's the Sarah Swinging
one, right, I think so. Yeah. Sydney sweety Sydney, Sarah
City whatever. Wicked Little letters camein at number ten. Don't know what
that is. And that's it forthe top ten. But we have some
more information about the totality of theindustry. If you wonder like, well,
is this better than last year?Was it worse than last year?
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Well, we'll tell you that.And also where everything is headed we have
there's so much twelve. You putso much news on the sheet tonight.
There's a lot going on. Yeah, you're listening to later with Moe Kelly
on demand from KFI AM six forty. Did you know that the industry is
a very strange thing. And whatI mean by that is they're very sensitive
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to not offending other members of theindustry. There is this forecast by Gower
Street Analytics, a distribution and exhibitionindustry consultancy, and it has forecasts that
worldwide box office this year will aggregateat thirty two point three billion dollars,
which is down by more than abillion earned last year. And we all
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know last year was not great.Quote a thirty two point three billion dollar
global box office in twenty twenty four, what would represent an approximate five percent
decrease year on year from twenty twentythree. The twenty twenty four vised estimate
is eighteen percent lower than an averageof the last three pre pandemic years.
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And Mark, I've been saying thisfor the past few years. Where this
industry is headed, people are notgoing to keep going to the movie theaters
as they once did. I thinkpeople were lolled into a fake sense of
security when you had movies overperform likea Barbie or Super Mario Brothers or an
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Oppenheimer which was not expected to doalmost a billion dollars in ticket sales.
You had movies overperformed, and peoplewant to say, like, ah,
the movie business is back, youknow, movie theaters are back, And
it never was the case when youhave this quote unquote marginal decline. I'm
quite sure it first sent concern throughoutthe industry, but this has always been
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the case. And I say itfirst sent concern because shortly after that story
came out projecting the decline, allof a sudden, they revised their outlook
on the eve of CinemaCon and CINEMACNis like the largest confab, the National
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Association of Theater Owners convention, andit's being held in Las Vegas right now.
It's almost like you don't want togive this bad news out right before
the convention of theater Owners. Itseems like it's almost like they knew that
the bad news wouldn't land. Well, Yeah, those Bardenheimer events were freak
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occurrences. We're not going to getanother one of those just like that.
No, and you're not going toget a Taylor Swift movie. You're not
going to get a Beyonce concert movie. Those are things that you couldn't plan
for, and they basically overperformed.No one knew that Taylor Swift was going
to have that type of year thatshe was going to have and it was
going to carry over to her concertmovie. Yeah. Meanwhile, we're finding
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out that's, say, the newFrancis Ford Coppola movie that he financed with
the profits from his own vineyard,out of his own pocket, can't even
find a distributor. There's something kindof wrong going on right now. I
mean, they're not making any midlevel movies and something that's a pretty nervy
piece of art can't find distribution.I don't really know what to make of
it, honestly. Well, Ithink there's a multi tiered discussion. There
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is a discussion internally about whether themovie industry is spending too much money only
on big blockbusters as opposed to themiddle tiered ones of art house films,
things of that nature. But theflip side is, well, if you're
if you do make those middle tiermovies, are people are still people still
going to go to the movies tosee them? Yeah, they don't feel
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like special events. But you're absolutelyright that the mid tier movies are essentially
extinct. You've got the big tentpole blockbuster ones, and then you've got
the low budget ones, especially horrorfilms that are critic proof and always always
turn a profit. And then Imean, this is one reason why I'm
always blabbering about all the stuff Iwatch on TV, because they literally don't
make them like that anymore. You'llfind the kind of movies that wouldn't get
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financed and made today. And there'sthere's just the kind of material you're not
gonna find anymore in theaters. It'stough to get people out of their houses
too. They got what do yougot an eighty inch screen at your house?
You gotta give people a reason toget out of the comfort of their
homes. And when you've got peopleto open mouth smacking popcorn in their air
right behind them using their cell phonein the middle of the movie, I
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mean, that's not much of anincentive to leave your house. But there's
something else there are and I saidthis before, there are fewer movies,
number of movies being shown in movietheaters. Like, for example, the
big money makers talk about the bigtent pole movies, there's only one coming
from Marvel. There are fewer movieswhich can generate the type of revenue that
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these movie theaters need. That's whywe know that the revised estimate is a
lie. There are fewer movies whichyou are going to be coming out,
and they're to be lower box officegenerating movies of those which are coming out.
If Senecon is hoping that by maybethem revealing some things that we didn't
know were coming out before, ifthat's going to turn things around, I
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don't think so. There are morethings coming to Disney Plus this year that
I'm interested in watching, and reallyand truly as much as all of Nerdom
and every fan of both Hugh Jackmanand Ryan Reynolds maybe looking forward to Deadpool.
It's not going to have that firstday turnout like Barbie and Oppenheimer did
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because there isn't a promotion surrounding eitherof those characters that's gonna drive people to
theaters. So I want that towin. But you missed one thing.
It most likely will be an Rmovie. Dah, there's that, and
it will not be shown in asmany theaters. It's not gonna necessarily be
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shown in Middle America. There aregoing to be a number of movie theaters
which are going to say, no, we're not going to have it in
a movie which is in wide release, which is in every theater, gets
about forty two hundred theaters on average. I don't know if Deadpool is going
to be in more than four thousandtheaters for that reason. Yeah, rating
a movie are severely cuts down onthe profits, and there's an enormous amount
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of pressure to tone things down.Even at its best, it was not
going to generate some two billion dollars. And each year you had a two
billion dollar movie. For the pastmaybe five or six years, with exception
of the Pandemic, you had atwo billion receipt movie. There are none
of those on the calendar this year, not even Deadpool, because of the
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R rating and some other factors.So I don't know where the movie industry
ahead of CinemaCon is going to.I don't know whether what story they can
tell which is going to change thereality what we know right now. You
can say that, hey, it'snot as doomy and gloomy as you know.
It's being port it out there,but there's nothing really to latch onto
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to say, here are five majorblockbusters which should generate a lot of business
for movie theaters over the course ofmonths. No and there's again, they're
not even staying in theaters that long. Even if they are a hit,
they're gone in thirty or forty fivedays, one or the other. It's
also kind of a self perpetuating doomspiral because they're so risk averse that most
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of what you're going to be seeingare sequels and reboots and the same stuff
over and over again. Ghostbusters,sequel, another Marvel movie. They don't
want to take a chance on somethinglike Megalopolis from Coppola because they don't know
if it's going to be a hitor a bomb, and they don't want
to risk the money for their shareholders. Well, ten years ago, we
would know for a fact that amovie like Prey, which is on Hulu
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would have been in theaters. Tenyears ago, even though I didn't care
for it. The Roadhouse remake wouldhave been in theaters. These movies now,
they're being pushed to streaming, andso movie theaters don't even have a
bite of those apples. Oh yeah, just one more thing before we go
to break. Because I was lookingat James Bond movies again last night because
I'm obsessed with him. You realizethat there was just as little as a
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year gap between those massive movies backin the old days, like gold Figer
came out in sixty four, Thunderballcame out in sixty five. They don't
do that anymore. It takes threefour five years between major films now.
Unless they film multiple films at once, like they did with The Matrix and
Infinity War, Avengeans Infinity War andEndgame. They have to do. They
have to film at the same time. That's the only way. Yeah,
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they did doing three right, Theyfilmed that simultaneously with the New Doom.
Oh they did. Yeah, Well, there's another one. I'm gonna miss.
It's Later with Mokelly. Can't fI AM six forty live everywhere iHeartRadio
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forty. Although twenty twenty four isnot expected to be a big box office
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here, twenty twenty six is slatedto be a huge year only for the
box office generally, but Disney specifically. Toy Story five is gonna hit in
twenty twenty six. Mandalorian and grogu. If you've been watching a Mandalorian series,
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you you already know that storyline.They're taking that to the big screen
that's gonna hit in twenty twenty six. And that right there, those two
alone are huge for the future ofthe Disney brand and the new Tron Tron
lives. I believe that, Harrisoh Aris, I'm sorry, Aria,
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So yeah, that's towards the endof twenty twenty five. So we got
some big stuff coming from Disney twentytwenty five into twenty twenty six. And
that's not even saying anything about thelive action version of Maana that's gonna hit
in twenty twenty six. So twentytwenty five, twenty twenty six, for
all the things that Bob Iiger wasbrought back in to correct and read direct
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the ship of Disney, well,the proof is gonna have to be in
the pudding in twenty twenty five,twenty twenty six. If they can't get
it done. With this slate ofmovies coming down the pipe, you have
a surefire hit brand in Toy Story. You have an absolute monster of a
hit in terms of the Mandalorian goingto the big screen. And if you
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haven't been following the Disney Plus serieswithin the Star Wars universe, when you
say Mandalorian and Grogu that probably mostdefinitely includes ah Soka in that as well.
Oh, it absolutely does the entiretyof the Mandalorian in Grogrew. It
actually ties in all of the DaveFeloney Live action series and brings them to
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a close. So even though wedid not really really like the Pamphlet of
Bobba Fett, there will be charactersfrom that included in this film as well.
Sorry, the pamphlet as opposed tothe book. Okay, what did
you want? The letter? Thebusiness Letter? It wasn't my favorite thing
either, No no, no,no, no no. I don't think
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it was anyone's favorite thing. AndI appreciate Disney giving us more and more
content within that universe, but thatseries was just not good from beginning to
end. No, no, itactually was not. And on that same
thread though, where Disney plus andwhere they're taking everything Star Wars with the
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live action series, the first seriesthat takes us into the past before anyone
Skywalker was even thought about or Twinklein their Father's eye, they will be
giving us a new film that takesus back even further. Star Wars Dawn
(21:48):
of the Jedi, which gives usthe origins of the actual Force. So
that is the story that is alsocoming. Dawn of the Jedi sounds like
a zombie movie. Well, look, there will be no dead Jedi.
Hey when does the Alcoal Life hitthis year? Such a lions Yeah I
thought it was this summer. Yeah, yeah, for that is amazing.
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So there are a lot of bigthings, good things coming for Disney and
Disney Plus subscribers. And they've hadsome lackluster offerings in the past year year
and a half. It hasn't beena great time for Disney. But what
is what is coming is Yeah,if if they can knock it out of
the park with this Mandalorian and Grogumovie, and I think they can because
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they've had a limited budget to doa television saga take it to the big
screen, then everything can be rightin the Star Wars universe because this last
trilogy left a lot to be desired. Jim oh Ju and fourth Yeah,
okayob And this is the thing aboutDisney. They're trying to hit us over
the head back to back to backto back to back with stuff on Disney
Plus. Because right now, ifyou're not watching it, the bad Batch
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is phenomenal. We're not going toget a break from Star Wars, because
then we're gonna get Tells of theSith or Tales of the Empire on May
the fourth, and then no,no, no, no, no,
they're changing it she tells of theEmpire because this time they want to give
us a further backstory into some othercharacters in the Empire and the Sith and
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all that. And then so that'sso now this month we've got bad Batch,
next month Tells the Empire, thenin June Stars the Acolyte, and
then by then July we get aDeadpool Wolverine. So just's like we're trying
to line stuff up to make sureyou've got content from us every single month.
That's one thing I do like thereis a plan to how and when
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they roll out their titles as opposedto one title here and there. I
love, you know, Amazon Prime, but it's kind of willy nilly as
far as when we get stuff.I don't know when it's gonna show up,
and it just kind of is there, and I've been waiting for the
Boys, or you know, youget gen v or Invincible. If you've
been watching any of those shows,they'll throwing a roadhouse. But you don't
know when it's not like it's there'sa cohesive schedule where all this is planned
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out, so it will drop monthlyand you'll have something new each and every
month to really focus in on.Yeah. Yeah, that's really unfortunate too,
because I do like a lot ofthe Amazon features, even though there
seems to be a theme everything issuper super violent. Yeah, didn't you
just finally get around to seeing Roadhouse? Unfortunately? When did you watch it?
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I watched it last night. Man. You guys really downplayed the trash
pile that it did is and whydid you do that to yourself? Though
you don't trust us, curiosity,we were serious curiosity, man, it
is a cruel, cruel cat Seriously, when we give these reviews, it's
a public service. I should havetaken it as such as a warning action,
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not a public service. That wasa warning, mind your time,
good surrend your life. What didyou dislike about it the most? I
disliked the fact that it had literallynothing to do with the original film.
So this isn't based on This isn'ta reboot. No, it's it's just
a movie that they called Roadhouse becausenothing in the story is the same.
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Okay, the main character is nota professional cooler. His name is Dalton,
and that's why I said. Theylifted the name of the name of
the main character and they took thename road House. But the whole idea
of what the film was about isstupid. Dalton in the original film was
a professional cooler who had a reputationas making bars that were really run down
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and rough and tough. Successful.That's why he was brought in in the
first place. And you saw theprogression of that. This guy was a
massive mm A star who murdered someone. And then they said, hey,
spoiler whatever, it's been out fora minute, and if you want to
watch that trash, shame on you. On you. What I'm saying is
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the whole principal idea of this filmall the way through the end, the
unmemorableness of characters like Connor McGregor,who I don't even know what his name
was. I kept calling him ConnorMcGregor in the film, so I'm like,
does this character have a name oris it just Connor McGregor walking around
with his butt out all the time. I'm like, this is just oh,
it's a shame on you. Sure, I'm sorry. Look, I'm
sorry, Hillary, Okay, butthis is not a case of hot sauce
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in the purse. It's not.This film was not worthy of any release,
and the director had the dirty nervesto say this film should have been
in theaters. Oh you think,no, no, sir. It's one
of the most viewed of all timeon Amazon Price, a big success for
them, And yes, it justproves that not everything popular is any good
at all. But I don't thinkit would be It would have been a
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success in theaters. I don't thinkpeople would have paid money for it.
That's why I see. Here's thething. I watched it because it's free
and I'm already paying for the subscription. I had time to kill and I
said, you know, just mademyself some dinner. You know what am
I going to watch? I haven'tseen that film. They really dragged on
it. It can't be that bad. And then halfway through I was like,
oh, those sobs, it's worsethan that. Yeah, you say
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it wouldn't have been popular in theaters, but look at Godzilla x kom Oh,
yeah, yeah, you're right.I take everything I just said that
no accounting for taste. We're justwrong about everything final. Let's just fold
up shop and just leave. Okay, Stephan, you got the last segment
by yourself. If I AMC fortywire lived everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
Maybe Stephan will check in with GeorgeNorri and Coast to Coast when we come
(27:30):
back. Maybe it'll be me,Maybe we'll be Mark who knows you're listening
to Later with Moe Kelly on Demandfrom KFI AM six forty A story we
reported on since the beginning and nowwe have an update. You might have
heard it over the course of theday, but would love to give you
our thoughts on it. Actor JonathanMajor's was sentenced today to one year of
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counseling in his domestic assault case.He was able to avoid jail time.
That was always unlikely, given hehad no prior history with domestic violence or
any other violent convictions, but itdoes set a precedent as far as how
these types of cases may be adjudicatedgoing forward. When you're at counseling is
(28:15):
not minor for this reason, ifonly because it will continually be an issue
for Jonathan Majors for the foreseeable future, how he is going to be perceived,
whether he will actually be able tomove forward with his acting career,
or whether his brand will continue tobe too toxic for the foreseeable future.
It's one thing to put the casebehind him. It's another to put the
(28:38):
idea of him as someone who isviolent towards women behind him, and the
perception, unfortunately, is still true. Is the reality like, for example,
this is what Gray Jabari, thevictim, had to say. Quote,
he is not sorry and has notaccepted responsible. He will do this
(29:00):
again. He will hurt another woman. This is a man who believes he's
above the law. I had acareer in life and body, all of
which he's damage close quote and notsaying nothing of the lawsuit that she has
penning against him. I don't haveany ill will towards Majors. I just
don't think he handled any of thisall that well. With the exception of
(29:23):
he did show discipline. After hewas first arrested. He was very restrained,
not making any public statement. Hedidn't say anything to try to clear
his name. He let his attorney, who I didn't necessarily agree with,
but he let her do the talkingon his behalf. I thought he was
very well disciplined in that regard,but that first interview after the verdict was
(29:45):
horrible setback. I think it didhim no favors at all as far as
removing the idea of him being abatterer someone who hurt women. I mean,
maybe I think we're giving too muchcredit to day society and their memory
of things that people have or havenot done. It's hard for me to
(30:06):
believe that anyone actually cares about thissituation more than we do. In the
news. Oh, let me kippingthere, Marvel cares no, no,
no, no, no no.I get that they had to walk away
in the time being. I getthat that's that's, you know, par
for the course when it comes tosituations like this. If it was Warner
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Brothers, then he would be inthe next Warner Brothers movie, because we
saw a very similar, if notdamn near identical situation with their star Ezra
Miller when it came to casting themin The Flash and this, that and
the other. So it's just Disney. It's because of how Disney is.
Disney does not like any infamy broughtto their company period. If it was
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another company, this was Universal Picturesor something like that, Jonathan Majors would
be in the film and they wouldbe having press tours galore to cover it
up, because the flash still cameout no matter what charges or controversy or
anything was up against actor Ezra Miller. I think that this here will it
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will blow over faster than we thinkand after a while. Unfortunately, because
I'm following this on social media andright now, no one is shedding a
tier for Jabari. No one.People are like, I will take that,
bet. I agree, no one'sshedding a tier for her. But
these companies generally are risk verse,and I think he's going to have to
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prove that he's marketable on a smalllevel before someone will give him an opportunity
on a larger level. Oh no, absolutely. This is that one terrible
interview that was a faux pas anda bad part of his apology tour.
As you notice, he has notdone nothing since then. He's like,
you know what, that was abad idea. I'm gonna go sit somewhere
and be quiet. I'm gonna gosomewhere and sit down and be quiet.
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Okay, because they're still sewing Creedthree that they have not taken any of
my movies down from streaming anything likethat. I will still take my little
residual checks. I'm still gonna goout and do what I do. And
he is still working out. He'sa part of some new film now.
There's an independent film coming out abouta bodybuilder something or another. So he's
going to work. We shall see, you know. I believe it when
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I see it, When he candemonstrate success and someone gives him a chance,
and I believe that he'll be onhis way back to where he was,
and not a day before. It'slater with Mo Kelly, We're live
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