Cordkillers 451 - Leg Crossings
Tons of Star Wars announcements out of Celebration...and an Indy trailer. Plus, Americans say they don't think about when films will go streaming and James Gunn makes a big DC-Marvel tease. All that and more on Cordkillers!
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CordKillers: 451 - Leg Crossings
Recorded: April 10 2023
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Intro Video
The Diplomat
Primary Target
The Future of Star Wars: With Three New Films and a Prequel Series, Lucasfilm Takes Its Biggest Gamble Yet
Daisy Ridley to Reprise Role as Rey in New ‘Star Wars’ Film
‘Ahsoka’ Trailer: Rosario Dawson Stars in First Look at ‘Mandalorian’ Spinoff
‘Star Wars’ Movies: James Mangold, Dave Filoni to Direct New Films
Star Wars Celebration: James Mangold, Dave Filoni To Direct New Films, ‘Indiana Jones’ Footage & Series Details Revealed – Full List Of Announcements
‘Andor’: Lucasfilm Debuts First Look at Season 2 of Star Wars Prequel Series
‘Star Wars: Skeleton Crew’ Announces Cast, Reveals First Look at Star Wars Celebration
‘Tales Of The Jedi’ Series Will Have A Season 2, Dave Filoni Says At ‘Star Wars Celebration’
'Star Wars: The Bad Batch' is getting a third, and final, season
‘Star Wars: Visions’ Season 2 Trailer: Adorable Aliens, Gold Lightsabers and Stunning Animation
Disney is bringing ‘Star Wars: Return of the Jedi’ back to theaters on April 28th
Star Wars Series ‘Ahsoka’ Casts Lars Mikkelsen as Fan-Favorite Villain Grand Admiral Thrawn
Daisy Ridley’s New ‘Star Wars’ Movie Will Find the ‘Jedi in Disarray’ 15 Years After ‘Rise of Skywalker,’ Luke Skywalker Force Ghost Is TBD
- Lots of news out of Star Wars Celebration, let's run through the big announcements.
- Star Wars has a new movie strategy. The next fill will be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Daisy Ridley will star as Rey in the last following the events of Rise of Skywalker as she builds a new Jedi order. The Jedi will be in disarray 15 years after the events of Rise of Skywalker. It will be written by Steven Knight of Peaky Blinders. The Taika Waititi movie is still in development and Deadpool's Shawn Levy is also still attached to direct one. But the big news was Rey. And Kathleen Kennedy announced that James Mangold will direct a film set at the dawn of the Jedi an Dave Filoni is helming a New Republic film that will close out the stories told in the Mandalorian, Boba Fett and Ahsoka.
- There's a teaser trailer for Ahsoka, which is coming to Disney Plus in August. There are lots of cameos from Star Wars Rebels characters and the words "Heir to the Empire." Lars Mickelson has been cast as Grand Admiral Thrawn.
- There was a trailer for season 2 of Star Wars: Visions, the anthology series where each independent story is animated by a different studio, including Aardman of Wallace and Gromit fame. Season 2 of Star Wars; Visions comes May 4th.
- The Acolyte will arrive on Disney Plus in 2024. Set during a time period between the high republic and Phantom Menace.
- More details for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew starring Jude Law and run by Jon Favreau. Directors for episodes include Jon Watts, The Daniels, David Lowery, Jake Schreier, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Lee Isaac Chung.
- Dave Filoni confirmed that there will be a second season of Tales of the Jedi. The first season told stories about Asohka Tano and Count Dooku in three-episode arcs.
- Return of the Jedi will come back to theaters April 28th to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its release on May 25th 1983.
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch will get a third and final season.
- Andor Season 2 is now in production.
How to Watch
Most Moviegoers Will Still Go To Theaters Even If What They’re Seeing Will Soon Be Streaming
- Deadline says a report from agency UTA found that "Two-thirds of Americans say the length of time from a movie’s release in theaters to its availability at home has little or no impact on their decision to see a movie in theaters."
- "when asked to name the most recent streaming original movie they watched, only one-quarter of consumers correctly listed one. "
- "Only eight of the 24 titles survey respondents said they had most recently seen were original films made for streaming platforms"
- Of people who haven't returned to the theater since the pandemic, 28% say its because of home access, 47% cite price and 38% health and safety.
- UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer said in a press release. “The study proves what we intuitively believed that there is nothing wrong with the movie business that better films and cleaner theaters can’t fix”
What to Watch
James Gunn Says A DC/Marvel Crossover “Is More Likely Now” That He’s In Charge
- James Gunn told Empire magazine that a Marvel/DC movie crossover is "more likely now that I’m in charge [at DC]. Who knows?” However, “That’s many years away, though. I think we have to establish what we’re doing [at DC] first. I would be lying to say that we haven’t discussed it. But all discussions have been very, very light and fun.”
Warner Bros. Looks to Close Deal for ‘Harry Potter’ HBO Max Series
- Warner Brothers Discovery is close to a deal to produce a Harry Potter TV series. Bloomberg says the series would be directly based on the books. JK Rowling would have creative involvement but not serve as primary creator or showrunner.
Disney also showed off a trailer for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Coming June 30th, premiering at the Cannes film festival in May.
A new trailer for Spider-Man Across the Spiderverse is out. Coming to theaters June 2.
The Pirate Bay TV drama goes into production this fall
- B-Reel Films, the makers of Midsommar, will begin production this autumn on a TV series telling the story of The Pirate Bay for Sweden's SVT public broadcaster. The six-part drama will follow the rise of the BitTorrent index, its attempts to avoid blocks and its eventual decline. Dynamic Television has worldwide distribution rights but no release date or platforms have been announced. Dynamic will be looking for deals at MipTV in Cannes which begins April 17th.
Eyes On:
Brian: World's Greatest Con Season 3 is out!
Tom: Beef
On the Lookout: Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm
Front Lines
'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' sets box office records as the highest grossing video game movie
- Super Mario Brothers set several records at the box office. It's the highest opening for an animated movie at $377 million worldwide. It also passed Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in 5-day, Wednesday-Sunday, openings with $204.6 million. It's the third best Easter Weekend opening behind Batman v. Superman and Furious 7.
Netflix Sets First Live Reunion Special With ‘Love Is Blind’ Following Chris Rock Comedy Launch
- Netflix's follow-up live broadcast will be a reunion special for Love is Blind. Love Is Blind: The Live Reunion will stream from LA on Sunday April 16 at 8pm Eastern.
Many canceled HBO shows, including ‘Westworld’ and ‘Raised by Wolves,’ are now on Roku
- Canceled HBO shows that were removed from HBO Max have begun showing up on the Roku Channel. HBO’s “Westworld,” “The Nevers” and “Raised by Wolves,” along with canceled reality shows, including “FBoy Island” and “Legendary.” There are 14 new WB-related channels now live on Roku Channel
T-Mobile to provide free MLB.TV subscriptions to customers through 2028
- T-Mobile extended its partnership to offer MLB.TV for free to its subscribers through 2028. MLB.TV lets you watch out-of-market games. T-Mobile makes this available to subscribers for a limited time near the start of the season each year.
The Barbie trailer took the meme world by storm. Barbie stars every celebrity you ever loved and comes out July 21
Aquaman & The LostKingdom has moved off of Christmas, five days earlier, to come out December 20th.
Netflix announced that Season 4, Part 2 of Manifest comes out June 2nd.
Netflix has ordered an animated Stranger Things spinoff. No details on the story.
MGM International Streamer Rebrands Outside U.S. & Strikes Lionsgate Content Deal
- Amazon's MGM is rebranding the Epix streaming service as MGM+ internationally, as it is in the US. MGM also extended its deal with Lionsgate to include key European territories.
Disney announced it has begun work on a live-action adaptation of Moana. Which just came out as an animated film in 2016.
HBO eyeing a GAME OF THRONES movie and TV series about Aegon the Conqueror
Shrek 5,' Donkey Spinoff With Eddie Murphy Eyed by DreamWorks
Dispatches from the front
I love Brian's enthusiasm for Secret Invasion, Fantastic Four and his hope that it'll introduce the Fantastic Four. They finished filming Secret Invasion about a year ago and haven't even cast Fantastic Four so I doubt that they'll make an appearance. Also FF is going to be a tentpole release. I doubt they are going to neuter that premiere in a Disney+ show.
As far as the feeling of lack of interest post Endgame, I get it. I feel like they just struck gold with that original cast and slate of movies. It was special and with Avengers they did what seemed impossible in bringing separate movies together into one ensemble story. Post Endgame it feels like when they brought in the Duke cousins into Dukes of Hazzard to replace Bo and Luke. You still had Daisy, Uncle Jessy and Rosco but it turns out that everyone wanted the original and they brought them back. I'm of the opinion that at some point Marvel puts the band back together by backing up a truck of money to Downey Jr., Evans and Johansson, and they make the biggest movie ever made with the original Avengers back for one more adventure.
Just my two cents. Love you guys.
- Russ
Gentlemen, why doesn’t Netflix charge, $10 extra or separate, for a service that lets you watch new to rental movies. If I want to watch a movie now it costs me $5.99 to rent. They could also include older movies that I now pay $4 to see if not already streaming somewhere. They obviously have negotiated deals with studios for their dvd business. Just trying to help Netflix turn a buck so I can save some of mine.
thanks
- Steve
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