Cordkillers 306 - Welcome, We've Been Waiting For You! (w/ Lamarr Wilson)
Animated shows are still being made, new Rick & Morty short, and Wonder Woman coming in August. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Lamarr Wilson.
CordKillers: 306 - Welcome, We've Been Waiting For You!
Recorded: March 30 2020
Guest: Lamarr Wilson
Intro Video
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Primary Target
Animation Hasn’t Shut Down Due To Coronavirus Crisis, But Slower
Netflix gave a series order to Angry Birds: Summer Madness for premiere in 2021.
- Deadline has an article about how animation production is continuing with creative teams working from home and actors recording voiceovers from home.
- Disney, CBS and Nickelodeon all have their animation studios running. Warner Bros. Animation is in various stages.
- Fox-owned Bento Box (which makes Bob's Burgers among others) is hiring.
- The Family Guy is doing a remote score with musicians recording their parts form home.
- Crews use Zoom and Skype to do virtual table reads and edit sessions. Even so some studios are talking abut shifting to new episodes every two weeks instead of every week. (One speed bump is asynchronous cable connections with great download but slow upload)
Andy Cohen Plans ‘Watch What Happens Live’ Return Monday Despite Coronavirus Diagnosis
- James Corden recorded a special Late Late Show in his garage to air Monday March 30 on CBS. Will Ferrell recorded sketches and David Blaine performed magic. It ends with one entire Broadway company performing from heir homes. The show hopes to raise money for the CDC Foundation and Feeding America. And Andy Cohen, who is recovering from COVID-19, will bring Watch What Happens Live back to Bravo with video chats with guests. The actual Watch What Happens Live set is based on Cohen's apartment anyway.
James Corden on Hosting Primetime Special From His Garage Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
How to Watch
Korea Box Office: ‘Judy’ Debuts on Top, Cinemas Slump to Historic Lows
Korean Box Office last year
China Orders Re-Closing Of All Cinemas Nationwide
AMC Theatres Furloughs CEO, Staff Due to Coronavirus Pandemic
Theater Owners Chief: Coronavirus Stimulus Will Save Cinemas
- Korea's approach to dealign with the virus involves aggressive tracking and testing which means it's social distancing rules can be less severe. That means its theaters have been allowed to stay open. But that doesn't mean Koreans have felt like going to the movies much right now.
- The movie Judy opened in Korea Wednesday bringing in 41,000 admissions over five days. By comparison the top box office draw at this time last year was a crime drama called Money which brought in 1.54 million admissions. That led theater chain CJ-CGV to shut down 35 of its complexes nationwide and reduce screenings at the rest of its theaters.
- In China, 500 theaters had opened up the previous weekend but shut back down march 27. Even when open crowds were small.
- In the US, AMC Theatres furloughed more than 600 corporate employees, affecting all workers including the CEO. A US stimulus package will provide loan guarantees to theaters for 4 months.
Alamo Drafhouse launches "Virtual Cinema," an aggregator for renting new indie films online while supporting local Alamo cinemas. Prices, rental periods, and rental websites vary.
What to Watch
Rick and Morty season 4 drops a surprise mini episode free online
- A Rick and Morty short made by Japanese Studio Deen, called Samurai and Shogun. It's mostly a samurai battle of Ricks. Still no word on when the rest of the current season will release.
Disney released "The Call of the Wild" starring Harrison Ford to digital March 27 for $14.99. "Downhill" starring Will Ferrell and Julia Louis Dreyfus also released the same day got $9.99.
Wonder Woman 1984 delayed by Warner Bros.
- Wonder Woman 1984 will no longer open June 4. It has been rescheduled to open August 14. Lin-Manuel Miranda musical In the Heights has been taken off the schedule for the time being and Christopher Nolan's Tenet is still on schedule for July 17.
Classic episodes of One Day at a Time are available to stream for free on Pluto TV. The former Netflix show reboot debuted Season 4 on Pop TV March 24.
Fox Sports to broadcast the full season of NASCAR’s virtual race series
Elton John’s ‘Living Room Concert for America’ Now Streaming on YouTube
- “Fox Presents the iHeart Living Room Concert for America” showed on Fox Sunday March 29 hosted by Elton John. It will be made available on iHeartRadio's YouTube channel for free through Wednesday. Alicia Keys, Billie Eilish, Backstreet Boys, Dave Grohl, Camila Cabello, Mariah Carey, Tim McGraw and more all performed from their homes.
Netflix has approved a new series from Marie Kondo top be called "Sparking Joy with Marie Kondo"and renewing Love is Blind and The Circle for two season each and Rhythm + Flow for a season.
Netflix approved a second season of Locke & Key. No date was announced.
John Krasinski and Steve Carell Hold Mini ‘Office’ Reunion
- John Krasinski started a YouTube Series called "Some Good News" trying to share stories of good things happening. IN the first episode he chats with Steve Carell about their time together not he Office and with a 15-year-old cancer survivor who was cheered by her entire neighborhood on her return from the hospital.
On the Lookout:
Brian: Tiger King, Picard, Larry Sanders, Better Call Saul, Westworld, Half-Life: Alyx
Tom: Fast Five, Baseball Documentary Series
Lamarr: Frozen 2 on D+, catching up on Ancient Aliens, Tommy Boy again (steelbook)
On the Lookout: ironchef_episodes
Front Lines
Dish Is Making Sling TV Streaming Package Free for Two Weeks
- Lots of free streaming being offered out there. Sling TV is offering its 45-channel Blue package for 14 days for free until April 5. CBS All Access is offering a free month until April 23. And Roku has lined up 20 partners to offer 30 days free through the Roku Channel, including Showtime, Epix, Noggin and more.
‘Star Trek: Picard’ Star Patrick Stewart Announces Free Month of CBS All Access
Roku offers a free month of premium channels amid coronavirus outbreak
Olympics Deferral Plucks Feathers From NBCUniversal’s Peacock
- The Summer Olympics has been delayed until 2021, taking away one of the big promotional attractions for NBC's Peacock streaming service. Variety's surveys indicated Olympics coverage was Peacock's second most appealing feature, after classic TV shows like Parks and Rec.
Unsurprisingly, video streaming services see huge demand; less so, Apple TV+
- Data provided to Forbes from streaming analytics firm Antenna show that between March 14-16, the number of Disney+ signups more than tripled compared to the same period from the week prior. The numbers may continue to spike since Monday's Disney+ launch in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, and Austria. HBO Now saw a 90% gain and Showtime 78%. Netflix got a 47% bump, and Apple TV+ 10%. Antenna warns that HBO Now and Showtime tend to see the most churn because of the number of users who sign up for a free trial and then cancel.
Los Angeles-based Ficto launches its Quibi competitor — with Niantic as a content partner
- Ficto has launched a short-video streaming service without a paywall and without Jeffrey Katzenberg's superstar lineup. Ficto offers interactive dramas, film adaptations, comedies, documentaries, talk shows, game shows and news with live chat, polling and more. Average run time for episodes is around five minutes. One of the big name shows is built around Niantic's game Ingress. Ficto pays creators based on how often their content is viewed.
Dispatches from the Front
There are several versions of HBO, I don’t understand what the big deal is.....so they create another channel or app and call it HBO Max, who cares....if it works, great, if not...oh well. Life will go on and maybe they will change the service to some other name.
HBO East
HBO West
HBO2 East
HBO2 West
HBO Comedy East
HBO Comedy West
HBO Family East
HBO Family West
HBO Latino East
HBO Latino West
HBO Signature East
HBO Signature West
HBO Zone East
HBO Zone West
HBO
HBO Films
HBO Max
HBO Go
HBO Now
HBO Animation
Red by HBO
HBO ON Demand
- Wayne
So I was watching your show and my 3 year old son, after hearing you guys Netflix too much realized, "hey, we aren't watching anything animated". So sparked by Netflix references, he put down his trucks down and looked me straight into my eyes Ave said "Netflix? Netflix, daddy? Storybots? Where storybots?"
He begrudgingly let me have my turn with the TV before its inevitable return to animated fare. I was able to catch most of the episode while my 5 year old daughter was imposing taking care of her teddy/baby.
Keep up the good work, thanks for remote working during this troubling time
Your boss,
- Sean
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