On the December 8, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to talk about James Cameron’s The Abyss.

Opening Banter: 

In Our Feature Presentation: The Abyss!

• General thoughts
• How the hell did Cameron make this make this?
• The ending
• Hokeyness - positive or negative?

Articles mentioned: 

• NY Times piece about The Abyss
• Cool Stuff: The Abyss, True Lies, And Aliens Are All Finally Getting 4K Digital And Blu-Ray Releases
• Shooting The Abyss Nearly Killed James Cameron

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On the December 7, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to talk about the Indiana Jones films.

Opening Banter: 

In Our Feature Presentation: Every Indiana Jones Movie Ranked

• What is your relationship to these movies?
• Do you think about the behind the scenes stories from this franchise as you’re watching these movies?
• How do you think the Indy movies compare to other action franchises?
• Ranking
• What do you want to see from this franchise going forward?

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On the December 6, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to.

Opening Banter: 

In the Water Cooler:

• What we’ve been Doing:
• Brad went to Utah to surprise his fiance for her birthday. 
• What we’ve been Reading:
• 
  
• What we’ve been Watching:
• Ben watched Renaissance: A Film By Beyonce; Godzilla Minus One, Past Lives, and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.

Take a break

• Brad watched Napoleon, Next Goal Wins, Silent Night, and a stellar Saturday Night Live with Emma Stone
• What we’ve been Eating:
• Brad tried Maple Syrup Grahams Goldfish, Wendy’s Pretzel Baconator, Taco Bell’s Breakfast Tots, and Twix Milk Chocolate Bark.
• What we’ve been Playing:
• Brad hit up a couple arcades in Utah for some serious pinball.

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On the December 5, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to talk about the latest film and TV news.

Opening Banter: 

In The News:

• The Titans Unite In The First Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire Trailer
• Disney is Giving Pixar's Soul, Turning Red, and Luca a Proper Theatrical Release in 2024
• Will this be enough to turn Pixar around?
• What other Disney movies would you like to see get re-releases in 2024?
• Wonka Review: Whimsy And Wonder Abound, But Timothée Chalamet Dilutes The Magic

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On the December 4, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to talk about some box office news and then look ahead to some of the movies of 2024.

Opening Banter: 

In The News:

• Beyhive Buzz Boosts Beyoncé's Renaissance To $21 Million Opening Weekend At The Box Office
• The Marvels To Finish Box Office Run As Lowest-Grossing MCU Movie Ever
• Godzilla Minus One Is A Monster Hit At the Box Office

• January
• ⅕ - Night Swim
• 1/12 - The Beekeeper
• 1/12 - The Book of Clarence
• 1/12 - Mean Girls
• 1/19 - I.S.S.
• 1/19 - Origin
• 1/26 - Underdoggs (Former NFL player Jaycen Jennings agrees to coach a youth football team in order to avoid going to prison, as he tries to relaunch his career.)
• February
• 2/2 - Argylle
• 2/8 - 2 Win (Daniel Bruhl, motorsport drama about the rivalry between Germany and Italy.)
• 2/9 - Lisa Frankenstein (Diablo Cody writes, Zelda Williams directs, starring Kathryn Newton as a teenage girl who reanimates a boy who died in the Victorian era, played by Cole Sprouse.)
• 2/14 - One Love
• 2/14 - Madame Web
• 2/23 - Drive-Away Dolls (Ethan Coen. Road comedy. Great cast.)
• 2/23 - Ordinary Angels (Hilary Swank as a woman who is determined to help a guy played by Alan Ritchson get a liver transplant for his young daughter.)
• March
• 3/1 - Dune: Part Two
• ⅜ - Imaginary (Blumhouse)
• ⅜ - Kung Fu Panda 4
• 3/22 - Arthur the King (Mark Wahlberg is an endurance athlete who meets a stray dog along his journey)
• 3/22 - One Life (British humanitarian who helped save hundreds of European children from the Nazis - Anthony Hopkins)
• 3/29 - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
• 3/29 - Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho, Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, sci-fi.)

Take a break

• April
• ⅘ - The First Omen
• 4/12 - Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
• 4/19 - Untitled Monster Thriller by Radio Silence (Ready or Not and the new Scream movies)
• 4/26 - Challengers (Tennis movie with Zendaya)
• 4/26 - Unsung Hero (Appears to be a biopic of an Australian Christian rock family band)
• May
• 5/3 - The Fall Guy (Gosling. Blunt. Hell yeah.)
• 5/10 - My Ex-Friend’s Wedding (from Blockers director Kay Cannon. Four childhood best friends get a drunken voicemail from their former best friend on the eve of her wedding day, confessing that she thinks she’s making a mistake. So they set out to stop her wedding and rekindle the friendship they once shared. Ariana DeBose, Chloe Fineman (SNL), Megan Stalter (Hacks), and Amanda Seyfried.)
• 5/17 - If (John Krasinski, Ryan Reynolds, young girl can see people’s imaginary friends who have been abandoned.)
• 5/24 - Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• 5/24 - Garfield
• 5/24 - Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• June
• 6/7 - Ballerina (Ana de Armas, set in the John Wick universe)
• 6/7 - The Watchers (M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter directs, Dakota Fanning stars as an artist who gets trapped in an Irish forest, trapped with three strangers who are stalked by mysterious creatures every night.)
• 6/14 - Inside Out 2
• 6/14 - Bad Boys sequel
• 6/28 - Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1
• 6/28 - A Quiet Place: Day One (Lupita Nyong’o)
• 6/28 - Horrorscope (After having their fortunes read, a group of friends begin dying in ways connected to their fortunes. Jacob Batalon is part of the ensemble cast.)
• Listener email from Charlie from Salt Lake

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On the December 1, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor BJ Colangelo to talk about the latest film and TV news and to gather around the virtual water cooler to talk about what they’ve been up to.

Opening Banter: 

In The News:

• Thanksgiving 2 Is Happening With Eli Roth Coming Back For Seconds
• The Black Phone 2 Bringing Back Ethan Hawke, Despite The Events Of The Black Phone
• The Boys: Mexico Spin-Off Coming From Blue Beetle Writer, Diego Luna, And Gael Garcia Bernal
• The First Furiosa Trailer Is All Fury Road Without The Mad Max

At The Water Cooler:

• What we’ve been Doing: 
• Ben is mad at Bob Iger for his comments about The Marvels.
• What we’ve been Reading:
• BJ is reading Todd Haynes Rapturous Process
• What we’ve been Watching:
• Ben and BJ watched Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
• BJ watched May December, Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God, and Perfect Blue (on the big screen for the first time!!!)
• What we’ve been Eating:
• BJ has been eating her weight in funeral potatoes/hashbrown casserole.
• What we’ve been Playing:
• 
  

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On the November 30, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to talk about legendary action director John Woo.

Opening Banter: 

In Our Feature Presentation:

• We’re here to talk about John Woo, maybe one of the most influential directors of the 20th century
• What makes Woo special?
• Where have you seen his influence pop up?
• Recommend some of his Hong Kong classics

• John Woo's Hollywood Films, Ranked (Including Silent Night)

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On the November 29, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to.

Opening Banter: Correction email! Nathan from Canada wrote in responding to our news episode yesterday where we were talking about a new Karate Kid movie, and Nathan said, “Slight correction to the Jackie Chan Karate Kid movie. Chan’s character’s name is Mr. Han, not Mr. Miyagi.” Brad apologizes for the error

At The Water Cooler:

• What we’ve been Doing: 
• Jacob bought a FitBit and is trying to change his life a bit. 
• What we’ve been Reading:
• Jacob has started reading Moby Dick.

• What we’ve been Watching:
• Jacob watched The Amazing Race season 35, some Classic Doctor Who, The Oldest View.
• Ben watched The Killer, Eileen, Lady Macbeth, Saltburn, and The Holdovers/American Fiction.

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On the November 28, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to talk about the latest film and TV news.

Opening Banter: 

In The News:

• Marvel's Avengers: The Kang Dynasty Assembles Doctor Strange 2 And Loki Writer
• Ahsoka Creator Dave Filoni Now Has A Much Bigger Hand In The Star Wars Universe
• James Gunn's Superman: Legacy Fulfills Your Fancast Wishes With Jimmy Olsen Casting
• Listener email
• Timothy Olyphant Joins Noah Hawley’s Alien Series
• The New Alien Movie Will Be Set Between the First Two Films in the Franchise

• Melissa Barrera Removed From Scream 7 Following Controversial Comments [UPDATE]
• Jenna Ortega Won't Be Back For Scream 7, Dropped Out Months Ago
• Stephen King's The Long Walk Becoming A Movie From Hunger Games Director Francis Lawrence
• Martin Scorsese And Steven Spielberg Are Teaming Up For A Cape Fear Series
• New Karate Kid Movie Will Star Jackie Chan And Ralph Macchio, Unite Both Corners Of The Franchise

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On the November 27, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office expert Ryan Scott to talk about the weekend’s box office numbers.

Opening Banter: Did you have a good Thanksgiving?

In The News:

• The 2023 Thanksgiving Box Office Gives the Film Industry Something to Be Thankful For
• Hunger Games
• Napoleon
• Five Nights At Freddy’s Is Now Blumhouse’s Biggest Movie Ever At The Box Office
• Disney’s Wish Was A Big Disappointment At The Box Office - But Don’t Count It Out Yet

• Listener email
• Godzilla Minus One
• Silent Night
• Renaissance: A Film By Beyonce

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On the November 22, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to.

Opening Banter: Happy early Thanksgiving! No episodes Thursday and Friday this week.

At The Water Cooler:

• What we’ve been Doing: 
• 
  
• What we’ve been Reading:
• Ben read Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam.
• Jacob read Dark Ride by Joshua Williamson and Andrei Bressan, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath, The Late Shift and The War For Late Night by Bill Carter, and Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts. 

Take a break

• What we’ve been Watching:
• Ben watched Rustin, All of Us Strangers, Bye Bye Barry, and Priscilla.
• Jacob watched Napoleon, Thanksgiving, and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
• What we’ve been Eating:
• 
  
• What we’ve been Playing:
• 
  

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On the November 21, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to talk about the latest film and TV news.

Opening Banter: 

In The News:

• Nicholas Hoult Joins Superman: Legacy As Lex Luthor
• Scrapped Supergirl Movie Writer Rehired To Write Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow For DC Studios
• Steven Yeun's Character In Marvel's Thunderbolts Has Been Revealed (And It's A Weird One)
• Who Is Marvel's Sentry? The Thunderbolts Villain Explained

• Frozen 4 Is Officially Happening (And Yes, Frozen 3 Hasn't Even Come Out Yet)
• New Jason Bourne Movie Coming From All Quiet On The Western Front Director

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On the November 20, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer Ryan Scott to talk about the latest film and TV news.

Opening Banter: 

In The News:

• The Marvels Box Office Goes From Bad To Worse With Catastrophic Second Weekend Drop
• Marvel is in Crisis Mode - Here’s How They Can Rescue Their Box Office
• Today In Good News: The 2023 Box Office Has Already Surpassed The Entire Total For 2022
• Taika Waititi's Next Goal Wins is 2023's Latest Box Office Bomb
• I spoke previously about how I did not care for this movie, but I forgot to mention one of the main reasons I didn’t connect with it, which is the film kind of forgets to define its team characters
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Flutters Into $45 Million+ Box Office Opening
• In a Crowded Weekend, Trolls Band Together Rocked The Box Office

Take a break

• Can Apple's Napoleon Bring Ridley Scott And Joaquin Phoenix Box Office Glory?
• Can Wish Get Disney Animation Studios Back On Track At The Box Office?

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On the November 17, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer Ryan Scott to talk about the latest film and TV news.

Opening Banter: 

In The News:

• Marvel's Fantastic Four Movie Casts Last Of Us And Mandalorian Star Pedro Pascal As Reed Richards
• Pedro is a risk, because he could be overexposed.
• Avengers: The Kang Dynasty Loses Shang-Chi Director Destin Daniel Cretton
• Dakota Johnson Is Here To Save Sony's Spider-Man Universe In The Madame Web Trailer
• One Bonkers Moment From The Madame Web Trailer Has Already Become A Meme

Take a break

• Bill Bria is here to set up his interview with Thanksgiving director Eli Roth.
• Thoughts on Roth’s filmography?
• Quick thoughts about Thanksgiving?
• Intro to interview
• Interview

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On the November 16, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editors Jacob Hall, BJ Colangelo, and Brad Oman to talk about The Hunger Games.

Opening Banter: 

In Our Feature Presentation: A ranking of the Hunger Games films

• Thoughts about the franchise overall
• Ranking the existing entries
• Where should The Ballads of Songbirds and Snakes fall on this list?

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On the November 15, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Brad Oman to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to.

Opening Banter: 

At The Water Cooler:

• What we’ve been Doing: 
• Brad tried out Sandbox VR in Chicago
• What we’ve been Reading:
• Brad read Unleashing Oppenheimer, Halloween: The Making of Halloween, Halloween Kills, and Halloween Ends, The Nightmare Before Christmas Visual Companion, and Surely, You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!.
• Listener email

Take a break

• What we’ve been Watching:
• Ben watched Stamped From The Beginning, Next Goal Wins, Holiday, and Detroiters season 1.
• Brad watched The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Marvels (Iman Vellani interview), The Little Mermaid (2023), The Money Pit
• What we’ve been Eating:
• Brad tried Chex Mix Remix (Cheesy Pizza and Zesty Taco), Gingerbread Toast Crunch, Cheetos Pretzels, The Official Good Burger 2 Meal at Arby’s.
• What we’ve been Playing:
• Brad has been getting deeper into pinball lately, beat a legit pro in a tournament.

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On the November 14, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer Ryan Scott to talk about the latest film and TV news.

Opening Banter: Let’s spend the first half of the show talking about box office stuff, and then transition into some film news after that.

In The News: 

• The Marvels Heads For $47-52 Million Opening Weekend, A Historic Low For The MCU
• Don't Feed The Trolls, And Don't Blame The Marvels Director Nia DaCosta For The Film's Box Office
• The Marvels Box Office Was Even Worse Than Expected – What The Heck Happened?
• The Marvels Box Office Points To A Major Problem In Hollywood, Not Just Marvel
• Can The Hunger Games Prequel Recapture The YA Box Office Magic For Lionsgate?

Take a break

• Strike Updates!
• SAG-AFTRA board has approved the agreement and sent it off to the members to be ratified.
• Deadline interview with Fran Drescher and Duncan Crabtree-Ireland
• AI stuff from Justine Bateman
• James Cameron Is (Finally) Releasing The Abyss: Special Edition Remastered In 4K In Theaters This December
• Email: Is there any way that the Coyote v ACME can be saved?  you guys made some good points. Even a bomb can get $30m. Honestly, if the internet fans could get Snyder some cash to make Justice League (not a fan of either version), surely fans could get this over the line. - Ronnie from Australia 
• Warner Bros. Changes Course, Will Allow Coyote Vs. Acme To Be Shopped To Other Distributors

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On the November 13, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editors Jacob Hall and BJ Colangelo to have a spoiler-filled conversation about The Marvels.

Opening Banter: 

In The Spoiler Room: The Marvels

• Quick acknowledgement of its sub-par box office performance, the delight some people are taking in its failure, etc. If you want to listen to people gleefully celebrate this movie’s failure, I’m sure there are plenty of places to do that, but that’s not what we’re doing here.
• Brief reactions
• Jacob
• BJ
• Ben
• Breakdown
• The movie opens with Dar-Benn, played by Zawe Ashton. She’s now the leader of the Kree, and is searching for the Quantum Bands. She uncovers one of them and Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) has the other. Before we get into the heroes, let’s talk about the villain.
• So Dar-Benn opens these jump points across the galaxy, and by the end of the movie, we realize she’s trying to use these portals to essentially siphon resources back to her home world of Hala – including Earth’s sun. (I’m not really sure how that works, and the movie isn’t super interested in the details, either.) But the jump points create some sort of anomaly in space, and Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) end up touching things they shouldn’t have touched, and Kamala Khan’s bangle/Quantum Band ropes her into one of the movie’s main ideas, which is that these three women are linked, and when any two of the trio use their powers simultaneously, it causes them to switch places. Antics ensue.
• At one point, they visit a planet called Aladna, where everyone sings as their primary form of communication, and it’s revealed that Captain Marvel is married to a prince.

• How did you think the film dealt with the relationship between the three women? Monica and Carol have history, Kamala worships Carol.
• Sam Jackson on a space station, using Flerkens kittens as escape pods.
• Eventually Dar-Benn gets a hold of both Quantum Bands, is nearly killed by the power of using both at the same time, and inadvertently rips a hole in the multiverse. Monica convinces Carol to make amends for destroying the Supreme Intelligence and basically causing a Kree civil war by flying into Hala’s sun and reigniting it with her powers. 
• Kamala and Carol supercharge Monica, who flies into the multiversal hole to close it, but ends up being stuck on the other side.
• I guess the Khans are living in Louisiana now?
• Kamala goes to recruit Kate Bishop
• The mid-credits scene
• Monica wakes up in a medical bay overseen by Dr. Hank McCoy, aka Beast, played once again by Kelsey Grammer. Monica’s mother, Maria Rambeau, played by Lashana Lynch, is sitting at her bedside, but this is an alternate universe version of the character who didn’t die during the five years Monica was Blipped, and she apparently has no idea who Monica is. BJ, you wrote an article about this, so tell me what that costume was that Maria was wearing.
• Kevin Feige continues to slow-play the introduction of the X-Men into the MCU.
• Closing thoughts

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On the November 10, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor Jacob Hall to talk about the latest film and TV news.

Opening Banter: 

In The News:

• Historic Actors Strike Set To End, Protections Against AI Established
• Why The Hollywood Strike Wins Are A Victory For Everyone (Yes, Even You)
• Disney Has Delayed Marvel's Deadpool 3, Captain America 4, Blade, & More

• Wes Ball To Direct Live-Action Legend Of Zelda Film Based On The Popular Video Game Franchise
• Another One Bites The Space Dust: That Kevin Feige Star Wars Movie Isn't Happening
• You Can't See John Cena's Movie Coyote Vs. Acme, Because Warner Bros. Just Killed It

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On the November 9, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editors Jacob Hall, Brad Oman, and BJ Colangelo to talk about the movies of the Farrelly Brothers.

Opening Banter: 

In The News:

• Movies that didn’t make the cut

Take a break

• The Three Stooges
• Me, Myself, and Irene
• There’s Something About Mary
• Kingpin
• Dumb & Dumber

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