529 – The Warner Bros Sale and Moderating Awards Conversations

Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast

Katey, Matt, Da7e and David

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews

4.6 • 992 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week, we have a bifurcated episode between pairs of hosts. Katey and David take main hosting duties with an intro and a listener e-mail, then they hand to Patches and Da7e to talk about how the sale of Warner Bros is going to change Hollywood. Then, Katey and David Heroically return to talk about moderating all these awards conversations with people promoting their movies, and also why Timothée Chalamet told David Ehrlich to be nice about Marty Supreme because his mom was there.

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FORMAT

00:00 – Lightning Round: Holiday Comfort Watch

01:51- Intro – Welcome to Episode 529 of one of the best podcasts of all time!! E-mail!

14:42 – They’re Selling Warner Bros Again and The Options Are Worse This Time

38:10 – Moderating Awards Conversations

1:11:17 – Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's not Fire Nash week yet in honor of skipping this as a topic for the next few podcasts.
0:08.4	What is your holiday comfort watch as the work year nears its end?
0:11.6	I'm Katie Rich.
0:12.3	I'm not used to reading this out loud.
0:14.9	And the obvious answer that is the true answer is Titanic.
0:18.4	It's a Christmas movie.
0:20.3	It's not really a Christmas movie, but it opened
0:21.6	at Christmas and it is what I want to watch every year around December 19th, which is the day that it opened in 1997.
0:28.6	Imagine walking through life, not knowing off the top of your head that Titanic opened on December
0:33.2	19th, 1997. Yeah, this year, you know, you know what's hoping on December 19th this year's Avatar Fire and Ash, baby. And you know what? Spoilers for Avatar Fire and Ash episode, but you're a lot better off watching Titanic and basically any form. Wow, okay. This is a lighting wrong question, David. I mean, it took, it took until I was 41 years old, but James Cameron finally made a movie
0:54.5	that disappointed me.
0:56.1	David,
0:56.5	this is a lady wrong question. It is? Oh, fuck. What was the question? I don't know. It was a little holiday- Comfort. Watch. What are you watching to comfort yourself when you're an unending stress? Okay. That you have time to watch things for comfort. Every minute of my life right now is hackney
1:10.4	I don't know what you're talking about
1:11.5	What are your children watching right now?
1:13.9	Is anything comforting in there? My kids are watching Wallace and Gromit, The Curse of the Wear Rabbit. Oh, God. Easy answer. Do that. Lovely movie. I am watching Love Island, Australia. Oh, I think both of those are your answer. There we go.
1:27.8	You can't fight in here.
1:28.8	This is the war room.
1:29.9	Fine, I can hear you now, Dimitri.
1:32.1	I can no longer sit back and allow.
1:34.3	Clear and plain and coming through fine.
1:36.9	Subversion.
	...

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