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I've got Justin and Michael with me as always.

So I want to hit the ground with the big event
that is happening this weekend, which for us...

is on the other side of the world and that is
Star Wars Celebration. So as you folks  may

be aware this convention pops up at different
areas that usually biannual the last one took

place in London they've had them in Orlando
they've had them in Anaheim  they've had them

in I mean Indiana Colorado Chicago this one
is  in Japan  and we have all kinds of stuff

to look forward to. And it's a little odd because
you have to be  patient  with the timing. And

we have something that we're going to be sharing
later  in that,  for example, a panel that

is listed, and most of these panels you can
stream  online and watch them, are listed,

but you have to be careful because the timing
is Japanese time. So for example, a Friday

morning panel for The Mandalorian and Grogu,
the next Star Wars film that people  I think

are going to be really excited to see is actually
at 9 p.m.  10 p.m. Eastern. So that'd be 6

o'clock Pacific tomorrow night. So you're going
to have people coming in Friday morning going,

I'm going to watch this panel and then find
out it was the night before. So we're trying

to make sure that people  realize, check your
time zone.  So we'll discuss it the the main

panels that I see streaming the Mandalorian
and Brogu with Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau

Light and Magic on Friday stories from a galaxy
far far away  and Andor where they preview

the upcoming season Saturday is gonna have a
look at what's next for Ahsoka Star Wars Visions

volume 3 building the galaxy within Walt Disney
imaginary, kind of makes you wonder if they

might announce the new Star Wars  project. It
says that it's here directly from the minds

behind Star Wars projects and attractions and
of course, you know, the other stuff. So, the

other stuff is what we're going to talk about.
Justin, why don't you start us off? What are

you hoping to hear? What are you  expecting
to hear? Yeah, that's  a very wide question

just because, you know, I actually had to pull
up the article, the Wikipedia article, exactly

what even is out there  as far as projects
because, you know,  there are things we know

about  and those are things that I would expect.
lot of the things that you already mentioned,

you know, maybe  I don't know if  we're probably
not  far enough along to get Maybe we get a

teaser for Mandalorian and Grogu. I'm not sure,
but it is a little ways I think we might. They

did show footage in the past. Yeah, that's an
interesting one because it is in status post-production,

but its release date is still a ways out. still
over a year. Yeah, exactly. We're still over

a year away. Typically, movies have a tighter,
I should say, tighter...  run  in marketing

so usually you don't get your first teaser that
far out but it's definitely possible especially

if it's in post-production.  We still don't
have dates for the other kind of more set in

stone films that are being worked on a Jedi
Order film  by Charmene Aboid-Chenoy,  a Don

of the Jedi film by James Mangold, and a New
Republic  film by Dave Filoni.  those are not

to mention the Sean Levy one which is apparently
had Ryan Gosling's name attached to it now.

Right.  Well that's kind of getting into  those
are the ones that the ones I just talked about

are the ones that are more set in stone. Those
are  status pre-production. So work has really

started on them  or or the James Mangold one
is set as in development.  There's many other

projects that have been Kind of... They've been
announced, they've been talked about, and have

had recent-ish updates within the last year
or two.  But their status is very nebulous.

you have a Rian Johnson trilogy  that  seems
to have been put on the back burner. We have

a David Benioff and D.B. Weiss  trilogy that
also seems to have been  kind of forgotten

about.  The ones that are a little more clear,
there's a Taika Waititi film that as of 2023

that's supposedly still in development, a Rose
Squadron film by Patty Jenkins, which is also

as of 2024, script work is still being done
on it. A JD Dillard film, but that one's also

kind of on the back burner. And then as you
mentioned, John Levy film, which also has gotten

talked about.  within the last couple years.
So, oh, and then another one,  a trilogy by

Simon Kinberg, which also has been talked about
as of 2024. there's  quite a few projects

that  I think this would, you know,  I'm always
looking for more clarity. So  I think, you

know, what would be very  Surprising I think
and also very welcome would be kind of an update

across the board of what is going on with each
of these projects and maybe we can get some

clarity as to which ones are actually going
through and which ones you  know might be just

kind of like  ideas that have  might be explored
sometime in the future.  I think that's really

the main thing that would be a  pretty big
surprise but also  you know what would give

us uh... you know really clear kind of outline
of of what to expect for the next couple years

star wars and uh... michael your take please
yeah think you guys have kind of covered everything

justin in particular uh... covered quite a quite
a bit of the uh... upcoming movies and and

shows that we can expect uh... obviously more
about and or season two i would expect that

might be able to see the uh... you the first
episode of that particular show. I mean, obviously

that's a pretty exciting one. think that was
one of the more, kind of the sleeper hits that

people don't really know what to expect  when
it came out the first season. And it really

took off and actually I'm glad that we're getting
to see a second season of that.  Looking at

some of the panels  that are showing, obviously
Hasbro's gonna have a panel where they're gonna

talk about the black series figures.  some of
the toys that go along with it. That's always

kind of interesting to see  which figures are
slated for the next release.  We also get to

see  some of the classic retro series.  Those
have been kind of doing fairly well over the

past several years. So it's always kind of good
to see some of the other things in the Star

Wars universe  besides the games and the movies
and the shows. But obviously,  There's been

so much that has been announced that we haven't
really seen that I think any of that, any of

the above would be really good opportunity to
kind of showcase some of those things. So yeah,

I'm pretty excited to just to kind of see where,
you know, what is announced at the show and

what kinds of things we can expect to see. I
think it's interesting too, because there are

a couple of things that I know about and one
I can't say.  I had to basically  not say a

word until  another week or so. But I think
let's just say it's something you mentioned

and I think it's a very  good bet.  The other
thing  is  we knew about this. There was a

leak and they had to come forward and say, you
know what, we're going to go ahead  and we

are going to be doing this.   And that  is the
Star Wars game. We knew it was a real time

strategy game, but the other day  we got a logo.
We got the name Star Wars Zero Company.  And

basically we were told that you will recruit
an unconventional team of operatives and deploy

them on missions unlike any other in the galaxy
far, far away.  It's a single player turn based

tactics game by Bit Reactor in  collaboration
with Respawn. on LucasFilms games. The first

details will be shared during the  Star Wars
Celebration Panel  on  this weekend.  So, Michael,

what do you think? Do you think a  single-player
real-time strategy game could work?  And, you

know, I hate to be this person, but  whenever
I hear single-player strategy, I'm here at

all kinds of...  loot boxes  and paid cosmetics
and paid characters. What do you think? Well,

mean, XCOM and XCOM 2 have been really popular.
Tactics based. They're more turn based real

time strategy games.  But, you know, those obviously
were, I believe, single player only and those

were very popular and did very well.  I would
assume, obviously, it sounds very much squad

based.  Which is what I'm actually really excited
about because you know, I still would personally

like to see a base building real-time strategy
game that's in the  vein of you know, the you

know Starcraft and that sort of thing but built
the center in the Star Wars universe It's been

a long time since we've had anything like that
as far as like a multiplayer is concerned But

from a single-player perspective again if we're
in the  vein of like XCOM or XCOM 2 Where it's

very tactical based I think that can work really
well because it can actually have a story that

goes along with it.  It doesn't necessarily
have have loot crates or anything like that.

In fact, I that's probably more  indicative
of  a  multiplayer game than it would be a

single player game.  But again, I'm really kind
of curious to see what  this  tends to be.

again, I'm a bigger RTS fan. I've always liked
that genre.  I like the idea that it's small.

tactics based game on top of that  and I'm
You know, I tend to play single-player games

more than anything else So anytime there's a
single-player only game that tends to pique

my interest a lot more than any of the you know
Various multiplayer games that are out there.

So I'm actually I all what I've heard about
it is pretty Positive now, albeit, you know,

we haven't heard much other than we know the
title We kind of understand the premise and

we know that single-player game But I think
all those things kind of work in its favor.

You know, again, you can even tie it back to
something like a  Baldur's Gate 3 if you're

talking about it from a, RTS perspective.  RPG
obviously set in different vein of, you know,

was fantasy versus science fiction. But again,
those have been proven to be pretty popular

over the past couple years and have had some
of the best stories to go with them. So that's

what I'm kind of hoping is that we were kind
of... in that same genre when  we're talking

about this game. Okay, and Justin, your take,
please. Yeah, I 100 % agree. think that's really

the angle they're going for is an XCOM 2. XCOM
2 sold  in the millions of copies. So I think

it certainly has its  niche  and  that genre...
doesn't have it's patty  much more research

and obviously the being  those kind of tactics
are our pg years tactics uh... turn-based games

of uh... uh... kinda went by the wayside for
a long time but really kind of look at the

the gaming landscape there's been a resurgence
of different  uh... genres uh... that are are

kinda very specialized in that way uh... and
that this did can definitely work i mean especially

for   uh... you might not be looking at the
budget of say like uh... a jedi fall order

anything but it doesn't need to be it needs
to just be a very solid  uh... tactics based

uh...  uh... turn based strategy game  uh...
where a lot of the death wall you know ultimately

everything i'll be looking for is a lot of the
depth in those kinds of games is the the management

outside of combat i mean combat is uh... definitely
huge part of it but uh... that the appeal of

x com or  uh... even  uh... and this was maybe
a slightly different just cuz it's it was very

unique in in a different way but kind of in
the same vein aliens dark descent also very

much of that  uh...  okay you do your missions
you go back to some kind of base and you manage

your  uh...  whatever it is on x com as you're
managing an agency  uh... in uh... dark descent

you're managing a ship with colonial but uh...
squads of colonial marines so i think that'll

be thing i'll be looking for is what kind of
uh... overarching structure in between missions

is kind of uh... you know what what are you
managing are you managing squads of uh...

of uh...  it's kind of hard to tell  exactly
what uh... where in where in the uh... timeline

this is set but you can kind of tell from  the
uh... the one piece of art we have so far that

of course will We will have Jedi.  We have one
character that has a lightsaber, but it looks

like there's also clones maybe,  clone troopers
in the squad as well. So  maybe you have a

lot of  different options for creating different
squads of  different classes and building up

those characters. So I definitely think this
could work.  Again, as Michael said, this is

a  genre that  can definitely work really well.
XCOM did extremely well.  or even like a Baldur's

Gate 3 which kind of showed that you can have
a very,  what would maybe in some regards be

considered a very niche genre, but it does extremely
well because it does that genre  very well.

So I'm curious to see how it plays and what
timeline it's set in, what it's about, and

kind of what structure it takes in between the
missions.  It will be interesting to find out

if they do anything  else.  We know there's
another Jedi Fallen Order game coming, the

last one in the series.  It'll be very interesting
to see if they  say, hey, know,  this one's

coming too, so  keep an eye out for that. So
we'll be  curious because there's just a lot

of stuff out there to  get excited over. So
switching gears, I wanted to talk about something.

This came across my desk today. I knew about
it,  but now I have the details. we had CinemaCon

a few weeks ago.  Lots of good stuff coming
out. Got a lot of first look at trailers for

movies big and small.  But as  we've talked
about, unless you work for the movie industry

or are a film reviewer,  they tend not to, you
don't get into this thing.  And  you know i

have people all the time why didn't you capture
the video why didn't you do this because it's

illegal you cannot videotape the things are
secure ok go ahead and do it well i'm not going

to get in trouble with the studios legal department
and lose you know  all the nonsense that you

here from people who don't understand uh...
you know that penalties stuff what we do well

one of the things that is being done is part
of national cinema week you remember in the

past they've done discounted concessions they've
done discounted movies  I remember, oh, what

was it? had Barbie got to see it for like $3
a  few years  back.  Cinema United  in partnership

with various companies ranging from Fandango
to Coca-Cola.  Before I go into that, gentlemen,

I do want to mention they had told us at CinemaCon
and I did not get to this last  time out and

I really wanted to bring this up.  Apparently,
Fandango is going to be offering a service

that when you buy your tickets online, that
you will have the option to do micro transactions

and round up your total to the nearest dollar,
that money is going to be used to take needy

children and get them to  the  cinemas. And
I thought that was really cool because their

whole thing was  there's all these children
out there that can't afford to go to the movies

that aren't going to the movies.  We want to
make that happen.  And they essentially were

saying, look, we need to  make sure the next
generation of  theater goers is set.   With

that in mind, they are doing Sneak Peek Showcase
and the way it's described  is the Cinema

Foundation's non-profit arm, Cinema United,
will host  a nearly 70-minute program called

Sneak Peek Showcase. It'll be at thousands of
screens all over North America  on April 22nd

and April 24th. Now, this is where it's interesting.
It will offer... movie lovers and a preview

of the big screen studio movies, including
some favorites from the industry insider event,

CinemaCon, earlier this month. And it said
on Tuesday, April 22nd, Tuesday, April 24th,

you will get a look  at movies. And that means
trailers, never-before-seen footage and clips

curated as part  of films ranging from PG to
rated R. So for example,  Tickets are only

three bucks and the money's going into charity.
I don't know if it's gonna be mainly trailers.

I don't know if they're gonna show some of the
things like the executive at Paramount doing

the motorcycle stunt routine, the dancing Megan
dolls, that sort of thing. I can tell you this,

I definitely believe where I saw more than 70
minutes worth of  trailers while I was there.

But as I told somebody on a  site, I said, If
you want to see the new Predator Badlands trailer,

there's a good chance that that might be there.
I think they will be focusing on the big  major

films versus some of the smaller art films.
Michael, let's start with you on this one.

What do you think of this? No, see, I think
this is good because it gives  people an opportunity

to kind of experience these  previews on the
big screen where they really should be as opposed

to watching on YouTube or... or something like
that. get a chance to promote these. get people,

again, out there watching them, and the money
goes to a good cause. And at the same time,

they can kind of do a big showcase. Again, it's
not gonna be the same thing as you guys, which

everybody sees at CinemaCon. You're not gonna
have the star presence. You're not necessarily

gonna have all the different previews that are
being shown, since a lot of the stuff is either

pre-production or early production, but it does
give folks a chance to get excited about it

again. I like that they're doing this because
it does get people  that again, that experience

when you go to and see these previews on the
big screen, whether you're going to see it,

know, a movie that's out and you just happen
to be there and you can see the previews or

in this case where you get to see a lot of these
that are going to be  coming out. It just kind

of gives you that, I guess that incentive or
that, or that excitement. to actually go and

again, see these movies. So I think it's really
cool that they're starting to do this more.

gets people excited, gives them that kind of,
know, premiere experience of seeing some of

these things for the first time before they're
even announced.  You're not, again, watching

the preview on your small, on your tablet or
your phone where you're not really engaged

with it that you are  in the theater. So  again,
I think it's a good opportunity for, you know,

a lot of these movies, and probably a lot of
the ones that are gonna be coming out  soonish,

you know, the ones that are coming out this
summer,  maybe later on in the year, you know,

obviously, you know, an opportunity to see the
Wicked, the  second,  you know, premiere for

that, the New Jurassic World movie. Yeah, exactly.
again, it's not initially, I think, gonna

be a lot of... surprises, but it is a lot of
first looks of things that are likely to come

out this year. Just in your take, please. No,
think that's a lot. Definitely a lot of good

points. think, you know, there's always something
that sets  the theater experience apart. There's

that always that,  you know, that anticipation
of when you go to see a movie and you get to

see  some of the trailers for things coming
out.  Yeah, even like I've gotten excited before,

like  when Dune Part 2.  uh... was coming out
i went to again when i want to see and i'd

already seen the trailer but you know being
able to see that trailer again on uh... on

larger screen was uh... you know it was it was
nice so i think there's definitely something

to that that  uh... that kind of uh...  it kind
of gets you a little closer to that what you're

talking about with the exclusive uh... exclusivity
of it of the i've seen something that you know

you can't just go find online like i have to
be here at this specific time to see it uh...

you to see before everyone else well it of course
other than the people that party inside  at

cinema con or you know the people that are also
with with you in that event but uh... that's

uh... it's definitely something that's really
appealing about that and uh... i think it's

a good thing to kind of get people more uh...
more engaged with the theaters and getting

them into theater seats what i think is interesting
about it  is that there was somebody who uh...

I was the Paramount  executive again, and he
addressed the theater owners and said basically,

here are some things that we need to do to make
sure that we have a steady supply of customers.

And he talked about  promotions, loyalty programs.
He talked about the discount movie Tuesdays

should be extended to include Wednesdays and
such, unless of course it's  a  film that's

a projected sellout or something like that.
And one of his  ideas was that there should

be fewer trailers  because, you know, there,
guess there are some people that don't like

this whole,  I got to watch a pre show and then
I've got to watch five to six to seven trailers.

Now I'm actually the opposite. I really enjoy
the trailers because as Michael and you know,

when we go to see our press screenings, there
generally are not trailers. You go straight

into the logo, you know, the sound logos and
the theater's logo right into the movie.  So

when we do go see a movie or so on the weekend,
it's kind of nice to be able to say, wow, hey,

check that out.  You know, I got to see  some
trailers  and what is just so weird about it

is...   You wonder where  the middle ground
is gonna be because they like to make a big

deal about here's our new trailer, go online
and see it. People are getting used to that.

I still like seeing them on the big screen.
My question about this one is where's the balance

at? Because we had all these different studios.
Now,  I'm looking at it going, I really hope

they show people the Running Man trailer. That
was really cool. I hope they show Predator

Badlands. I hope they show Wicked for Good.
and then you go through it. But you have multiple

studios and I know that there's gotta be a balance.
And then there's a part of me going, I like

the new Downton Abbey, but do you wanna spend
those two to three to four or five minutes

taking up time for that? There's a remake of
War of the Roses  coming out, just simply called

The Roses. Looks absolutely hysterical. But,
you know, that I could see being the problem.

Are we gonna promote this indie art film? There's
a... Channing Tatum film called Roof Man coming

out with the big cast. You know, do you do that
one or do you say, hey, here's the Megan 2.0

trailer that you haven't seen yet.  Here's the
Fantastic Four trailer that's going to show

you what the Silver Surfer looked like that
we got a look at it  at the show. So a lot

of interesting stuff. And what  is going to
be really interesting about that is that there's

a report that the next trailer for the Fantastic
Four First Steps  is going to be releasing

shortly.  Many people know that it's already
planned to be tied in with Thunderbolts on

Friday, May 1st, but some people think that
April 28th, we may see the new trailer. So

all of that stuff  is really, really interesting
as we transition toward,  you know, the summer

movies. Now. Switching gears, I wanted to take
a look  at  something rather interesting. We

have PAX East coming up in June. And of course,
we have Summer Game Fest. Now, we have long

bemoaned the lack  of the major players at the
conventions. It's one of the reasons  I have

curtailed. Michael and I used to go to E3 on
a regular basis.  I'd go up to  PAX West up

in Seattle. always got to see what was new from
Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, so on and so forth.

But in recent years, it's become just all Indies.
Well, PAX East, we had talked about with the

later time frame, would we see some larger named
games? Well,  they put out, they being PAX

East's PR firm, Readpop, Penny Arcade,  set
out an updated schedule where Blizzard, 2K

games, Wizards of the Coast, Digital Extreme,
the Behavior Interactive, or Dead by Daylight,

Next Sun with the First Descendant will all
be taking place. Now some people have said,

well, you know, they're just panels. Like for
example, we talked about Killing Floor 3  got

a delay, but apparently  they're going to be
there. Now,   Needles to say, a lot of people

are excited. Some people are saying, Blizzard
may just be doing a panel. They're not going

to be doing a floor show. They have their own
event down the way. They have,  what do you

call it? They have BlizzCon coming out later
this year. But,  you know, 2K Games has got

people really excited.  They've got two or three
really big games, not the least of which is

Borderlands 4 in the pipeline. And a lot of
people are expecting a Look-See. So...   Justin,

we'll start with you.  Do you think this is
a sign that more more companies will be coming?

We've also heard that Square Enix is going to
be taking part. And do you think they will

have a presence on the floor with playable demos?
Or is this a dip the toe in the water and we're

just going to come and do a few panels and maybe
have a pop-up and hand out swag? Yeah, that's

a tough question to answer just because  as
you kind of alluded to, there's just been

so much variation to, and I've been to PAX East
a few times, there's been a lot of variation

to how big PAX East is, and like you mentioned,
in more recent years it's definitely gotten

much smaller  in scale and more indie focused.
And  to an extent, know,  to be fair to  PAX

in general,  it is really a fan event. It is
a It was kind of a, it kind of grew in scale

a few years after the very first PAX. And I
think they started to, the original PAX West

got very large and they started to do more PAX.
They did PAX East and the PAX South and PAX

Australia. And it really kind of ballooned into
a pretty big event. Mostly because it was a

good way to get fans  uh...  or you know the
regular public  uh... access to to things that

you probably would only get at three now of
course games calm i think is open to the public

uh... if i'm not mistaken but that is in europe
uh...  so i guess  so i think  uh... packs

was a good like fit in a nice niche where uh...
you know  and i can just speak from my own

experience packs was one of those events where
it kind of felt like i'm kinda getting a  e3

light experience like of course i you know i
couldn't i couldn't go to three you you have

to get invited you have to be part of the press
uh... but it sort of felt like that where

you could go to a big convention  uh...  and
uh... you get to you know see some demos that

uh...  for upcoming games and sometimes pretty
big games. A few PAX Easts I went to.  I remember

Wolfenstein, there's a demo for Wolfenstein.
The New Order,  I think,  was the one I played.

Borderlands was there.  Tribes of Send was
announced there.  Battlefield 3 was there,

so Battlefield 3 wasn't even out yet.  was a
very obviously very big game, very highly anticipated

game and you could actually go see a live demo
of it being played. So it definitely had that

kind of vibe, was a very big event where you
got to see some things that you maybe you saw

it get announced at E3 and then oh here lo and
behold I get to see it up close. So that's

what the appeal was but as you mentioned it's
kind of... fallen more into anything but here's

the thing it's like that's really what it was
supposed to be i think at the at the beginning

of really supposed to be a fan event  uh...
for people to kind of get together in  uh...

about these you know these specific interests
uh...  uh... tabletop gaming  uh...  you know

tournaments  uh... you know and and panels i
think was a lot of the huge part of it so uh...

But certainly another huge component is  also
what you mentioned with Summer Games Fest kind

of coming out at the same time  and just in
general conventions not being  the place where

there's as big reveals anymore with a lot of
companies instead going towards live streamed

events.  So  all that aside, what to expect
with this packs? Certainly a lot of big names,

but I could see it going either way where...
you know potentially we see some big things

uh...  i think borderlands is a pretty safe
that we've seen borderlands at many taxes before

uh... randy pitchford really likes packs very
friendly to taxes and events so borderlands

being there totally makes sense i think that's
a slam dunk but these other ones  are the are

they bringing new games are they bringing all
games are they doing panels it's really hard

to say I think though this would be the one
to look at for  how the future might look with

that different sort of time slot maybe because
I, it's a point I try to bring up a lot where

really it comes down to timing. So what makes
sense? So if they, if they announce some games

earlier in the summer  and you have a convention
event like PAX a little bit later in the summer

or early fall,  you can kind of bring  maybe
some demos or some new trailers. uh... as part

of your your marketing so uh... this would be
the one to watch maybe we get to see some some

bigger things but uh... what to call it and
see and uh... michael what do you think yeah

i agree with borderlands i think that would
be that pretty pretty huge particularly if

there's some hands-on uh... demo of borderlands
4 obviously when we at CES when borderlands

3 came out you remember we had an opportunity
to play through part of the first mission,

right? So that was, and that was, think, still
a couple of years before it released, at least

a year before it released. At least a year,
yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I would think that's

a pretty good bet. And again, that would be
huge in that they would really, I think this

would be really the first hands-on show that
would be open to the public and could get people

really excited again, even if it's only a  demo
or the first level or  a mission or something

like that  to get, you know, to get the fans
really  excited for it. Not that they necessarily

need to be because Borderlands 4 should be huge,
but it would be a good opportunity to get

some fan feedback on it, some  first impressions,
that sort of thing. And then again, it would

be really good at, you know, being a fan event.
I think obviously there will be, there's still

going to be a big focus, I think, on Indies
and the fan side of it. It's certainly not

going to be an E3 type of an event, at least
not in the vein of where E3 used to be, where

it was a lot of huge announcements, a lot of
first impressions, a lot of hands-on, a lot

of  that sort of thing.  So I think it will
still be pretty  toned down, I guess, trying

to compare it an E3 experience. But I think
that it does give us an opportunity to see

what the future of PAX holds, as Justin was
saying. Are they going to keep it a, depending

on how it goes, might drive a lot of the larger
industry players to show up too. So I think

it's a good thing to watch for the Tiago's.
Yeah, absolutely. Really quick, just some interesting

new stuff I wanted to throw out there. Jurassic
Park franchise alum Sam Neill apparently is

going to go after a different set  of giant
creatures as he's apparently going into the

new Godzilla Kong film  and  No word yet on
what he's playing other than a new human. So

that that's a great description  and  You know,
we're getting some Avengers news or ramping

up with that. We should have some more stuff
very very soon, but  Quietly in the mix we

got an email today. Knott's Berry Farm wanted
us to all know it's time to dust off your swimsuit

as guess what? Soak City is opening May  17th
through September  7th  on  select dates  and

you know, that's not that far off  and  You
know 15 acres water slides the whole idea

We had a heat wave here in Arizona the last
few days were it actually got up to 100 degrees

on a couple of days earlier than it normally
hits 100 degrees. Then it got in the  90s and

thankfully it's cooled off into the high  80s
so we have a little more time before we get

blasted. But the idea  of swimming pool and
the water slides is definitely  really, really

interesting.  So everybody, Star Wars celebration.
Cinema United tickets are available online.

We have them here on the website. Proceeds go
to charity. and lots of good stuff at PAX East.

I think that is gonna do it for this week. Everybody
be safe, take care,  and we will talk to you

all next week. Until then, have a great one.