604 The Netflix Warner Bros Deal

The Weekly Planet

James

Tv & Film, Unknown

5 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

In fantastic news for big business Netflix has officially purchased Warner Brothers Discovery for a staggering $82.7 billion. We talk that and the potential impact this will have on the cinema and streaming industry. Plus we discuss Quentin Tarantino’s bizarre outburst directed at Paul Dano, a first look at Spider-Man: Noir starring Nicholas Cage, MIB returns for another movie, trailers for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Ready or Not: Here I Come and The Boys Final Season, Star Wars 1977 returns to the big screen. Plus some Stranger Things Season 5 in What We Reading. Thanks for listening!

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00:00 The Start

02:58 Spotify Wrapped & YouTube Recaps

04:29 Quentin Tarantino vs Paul Dano

10:52 Spider-Man Noir's Unique Release

14:09 Men in Black Return Announced

18:02 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Trailer

23:10 Ready or Not 2: Here I Come Trailer

25:00 The Boys Final Season Trailer

29:45 Return of Original Star Wars to Cinemas

33:07 The Netflix Warner Bros Deal & Potential Fallout

59:05 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read (feat. Stranger Things S5)

01:08:48 Letters, It's Time For Letters

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0:00.0	The weekly planet, the weekly planet.
0:03.2	Welcome back everybody to another episode of The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV and TV shows. My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday. And with me as always, Nick Mason. I'm always, I'm incredibly jealous of. Thanks, man. I just, I'm furious. Why are you furious, how do you do it? And why can't I do it? I just, why won't you let me? I mean, the word I'm looking for is effortlessly.
0:22.8	I just do it effortlessly, you know?
0:24.7	But I just... Why won't you let me? I mean, the word I'm looking for is effortlessly. I just do it effortlessly, you know? But I'm also being effortless. Even saying the word effortlessly is effortless for me. Yeah. But I'm like to think I'm not putting in any effort either. I can see the veins like pulsing in your neck and head region. Yeah, effortlessly. No. No. No, you're gonna, your head's gonna, you're gonna, you head's gonna get bigger than it already is. It's pretty big already. And then it's gonna burst. Yeah. Is it too much blood though? Is that what's going on here? If I had less blood? I think if you had less blood, that would do it, yeah. Interesting. Maybe you want to engage in some bloodletting of some sort. Interesting. Yeah. Okay, cool.
0:57.1	Got to one of those weird... I think if you had less blood, that would do it, yeah. Interesting. Maybe you want to engage in some bloodletting of some sort.
0:55.6	Interesting.
0:56.2	Yeah.
0:56.4	Okay, cool.
0:57.1	Got to one of those weird clinics.
1:07.6	Yeah. You know? Put an IV in and then they take all your blood out. Yeah. Not all your blood, enough of your blood. Do you take all of it? I don't mind. Yeah. If that's what it takes to be effortless.
1:08.6	Sometimes it does.
1:10.1	I've got zero blood.
1:12.6	I'm all energy drink.
1:13.4	Did you know that?
1:11.4	Yeah, I had all my blood replaced with energy drink. So I guess, but in an effortless way. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't like, didn't cost you anything. No, I was just over a span of years. My body stopped producing blood. You didn't even notice. I didn't even notice, no. Great. Mason, there's something this week that's big happened last week, I guess, that you probably
1:31.4	did notice.
1:32.3	Oh, yes.
1:32.7	The big news of the week.
1:33.9	Big news.
1:34.8	We're going to do some stranger things, whatever.
1:36.4	We'll touch on it a little bit, but who cares?
1:38.4	Big movie news.
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