Cordkillers 410 - Not My Spider (w/ Kent Fellure)

Top Gun: Maverick made a lot of money--will Hollywood take away the right lessons? NFL will launch a mobile plan, NFL+. Star Wars Celebration means news for Ahsoka, Andor, and more. All that and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Kent Fellure ( https://ritualmisery.com ).

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CordKillers: 410 - Not My Spider
Recorded: June 6 2022
Guest: Kent Fellure

Intro Video
Netflix's latest Resident Evil adaptation

Primary Target
Top Gun: Maverick': Takeaways From Tom Cruise's Box Office OpeningBox Office: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Scores $86 Million in Massive Second Weekend
- Top Gun: Maverick has topped $291 million in its first two weeks already making it Tom Cruise's highest-grossing film.
- It's a movie that was supposed to come out in 2020 but in part at Cruise's urging, never went straight to streaming, and held off being one of the first films back in theaters.
- Variety's Rebecca Rubin as an article up called "Hollywood, Don’t Take the Wrong Lessons From ‘Top Gun: Maverick’"
- It's a rather simple premise. It's not being a sequel or not that makes a successful movie. It's being good.
- Megan Colligan, the president of Imax Entertainment said, "the team was super protective about making sure the movie was going to be great before [greenlighting it].”
- Cruise also said in press junkets that he didn't want to make a sequel until there was the right story and technology was better.
- Paramount’s president of domestic distribution Chris Aronson put it even simpler “If you have a great story and execute it well, people will come to see it.”
- And while Maverick's appeal was nostalgia, 55% of moviegoers were 35 years or older, more people than expected saw it without having ever seen the original.

How to Watch
SBJ Unpacks: NFL looks at the plus sideThe NFL is looking to launch its own streaming service this summer, says report
- The Sports Business Journal says the NFL is expected to launch a streaming service called NFL Plus in July offering a mobile service previously offered by Yahoo on Verizon. Reportedly the service will be offered for mobile phones and tablets and cost $5 a month. Whatever live games are showing in a local market will be available on the service. It's possible this could get rolled into a deal for NFL: Sunday Ticket which leaves DirecTV at the end of the coming season. Apple and Amazon are considered the frontrunners to get NFL Sunday Ticket.

Boston Red Sox Cable Network Home Becomes First Regional Sports Outlet To Offer Streaming Access Without Pay-TV Subscription
- So the NFL is taking some small control of its own content there which is interesting. Even more interesting is the first regional sports network to go direct to consumers. Up until now regional sports networks, the ones that show the majority of a team's games in the local market, have only been available on cable or a cable-like streaming package like YouTube TV. And even then not all of them are on the streaming services. NESN, the home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team and Boston Bruins hockey team is going straight to viewers over the internet in New England. For $30 a month. And this is the first of a trend. Sinclair, which operates the Bally Sports Nets, and NBCUniversal which operates several regional sports nets as well, are both planning direct to consumer offerings as well.- And even if you don't like sports, this is good news. It's a sign that the money is moving to streaming, and while there is a lot of work to be done on how this is all going to end up working, when the sports arrives, the attention gets focused.

What to Watch
'Ahsoka' Trailer Reveals 'Star Wars Rebels' Characters Coming to Live-Action
- The first trailer for Disney Plus's Ahsoka (coming in 2023) was shown to attendees but was not shown online. However it reveals that the story of the series will be that Ahosoka teams up with Sabine Wren from Star Wars Rebels to search for Ezra Bridger from Star Wars Rebels and therefore Grand Admiral Thrawn. Hera Syndulla was shown from behind in the trailer but no casting news on her was given. However, Natasha Liu Bordizzo showed up to announce she'll be playing Sabine.

‘Star Wars’ Series ‘Andor’ To Debut In August On Disney+, Gets Teaser; Season 2 To Start Filming This Fall- A trailer for the Disney Plus series Andor, coming August 31st WAS released online. And the 12 episodes will be part one, with another 12 episodes going into production in November. Andor focuses on Cass Andor from Rogue One, but takes place five years before the events of that movie.

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 To Premiere In February 2023; Katee Sackhoff To Return
'Star Wars: The Bad Batch' Season 2 Trailer Reveals Wookiee Jedi, Fall 2022 Release
Disney+ Bolsters ‘Star Wars’ Lineup With Younglings Series ‘Young Jedi Adventures’, Animated Anthology ‘Tales Of The Jedi’
More Star Wars: Visions and a new Tales of the Jedi prequel anthology are on the way
- A few other Star Wars related announcements
- The Mandalorian will return to Disney + in February with Katie Sackhoff returning as Bo_katan.
- A trailer for season 2 of The Bad Batch was released. It comes to Disney Plus this autumn.
- Later this year Tales of the Jedi will be a 6-episode anthology of animated shorts with stories form the prequel era, including Ashoka's origin story and her paling around with Count Dooku.
- Young Jedi Adventures comes to Disney+ and Disney Jr. in 2023 focusing on Younglings learning the force.
- And more animated one-offs will come in a second round of Star Wars: Visions in spring next year, with production houses outside of Japan involved this time.

A new trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder came out showing Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher. Thor is coming to theaters July 8.
Netflix's 'The Sandman' Gets Release Date, Trailer
- And as part of its "geeked Week" of ongoing announcements that we will cover in full next time on Cordkillers, Netflix released a trailer for The Sandman and announced it will arrive August 5th,

Disney Drops Teaser Trailer for Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’
- Disney released a trailer for the live action Pinnochio starring Tom Hanks as Geppetto. With Jiminy Cricket played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It comes to Disney+ September 8

Winnie the Pooh Horror Movie 'Blood and Honey' Ends Badly For Eeyore, oh Bother
- And finally, Winnie-the-Pooh entered the public domain this year. Which has led UK-based Jagged Edge Productions to produce "Blood and Honey" a horror film at Pooh and Piglet turning feral after Christopher Robin goes off to college. Spoiler: They eat Eeyore.

Eyes On
Kent: Better Call Saul, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Stranger Things, NBA Finals
Brian: Coherence
Tom:  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
On the Lookout: The Lincoln Lawyer

Front Lines
Google TV app launches on iOS as another hub for your streaming services
- If you don't like the Apple TV app on your iPhone Google has launched the Google TV app as a replacement. It also replaces Google Play Movies and TV, which was the way to watch your purchased movies from the Google store on iOS. But it will also let you track your viewing on other services like Hulu if they participate. Netflix does not participate. And it can be used as a remote control for Chromecasts and Android TV based devices.

‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6 Part 1 Finale Jumps 87% With Delayed Viewing, AMC+ Audience Up 61% From Premiere
- Lots of people caught up on Better Call Saul before the final season began and that seems to have helped AMC. The Nielsen ratings rose 87% in the three days after it aired, meaning loads of people watched it on demand. And a lot of them were paying for AMC+ to do it, as the audience for the app was up 61% since Better Call Saul Season 6 premiered. The last six episodes of the series return July 11.

Netflix cracks down on password sharing, but early efforts in Peru are a mess
- RestofWorld.org has a story on how the Netflix Password-sharing crackdown is being received in Peru, Chile and Costa Rica. Netflix is testing the system which means some people see different prices for adding out of house members to their plans. Netflix is trying to determine what price gets the most people to sign up. People are also curious what determines whether you're in or out of the household, which Netflix has not clarified. And others are confused but he fact that Netflix doesn't force you to add payment even if they catch you.

TikTok launches a $5 subscription comedy series
- And TikTok is getting into the paid series game with a comedy docuseries called Finding Jericho hosted by Jericho Mencke. The 8 episode series of 30 minute episodes will cost $5.

Warrior Nun Season 2 Reveals Trailer for Netflix Geeked Week
I Am Groot animated series arrives on Disney Plus in August
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is coming to Disney Plus on June 22nd
‘Is It Cake?’ Renewed For Season 2 By Netflix
Watch the New 'Resident Evil' Trailer, Plus Teasers for Creepy Shows from Tim Burton, Guillermo del Toro
‘Our Flag Means Death’ Renewed By HBO Max For Second Season
‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Renewed for Season 5 and Season 6 at FX
True Detective’s fourth season is going to the Arctic with Jodie Foster as the lead
‘Willow’ Disney+ Series Drops First Trailer, Sets November Premiere Date
Locke & Key’ Gets Premiere Date & Teaser For Third & Final Season On Netflix
- A few other notes
- Warrior Nun Season 2 is coming to Netflix this winter. A new teaser trailer is out.
- An animated series of shorts called I Am Groot comes to Disney+ August 10th
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness comes to Disney Plus June 22nd
- Netflix ordered a second season of Is It Cake?
- Manifest Season 4 coming to Netflix this autumn and we got trailers for Wednesday, an Adams Family spinoff also coming in the autumn, Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities coming later this year and the new Resident Evil movie coming July 14th.
- HBO Max ordered a second season of Our Flag means Death
- FX renewed What We Do In the Shadows for seasons 5 and 6
- Jodie Foster will star in a fourth season of True Detective set in Arctic Alaska.
- And Disney+ released a teaser trailer for the new Willow series coming November 30.
- Netflix released a teaser for the third and final season of Locke and Key, and announced the season will arrive August 10th.

Dispatches from the Front
Does the Disney cable channel have advertising? I never had it as a kid so I'm not sure if they (and long-time Disney subscribers) might already have some experience with ads on Disney. That would certainly make it easier to swallow. Either way, I don't think it is a big deal for Disney. It potentially opens up the channel to more subscribers who might not otherwise afford it."

- Chris

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