Avatar 4 & 5, Boba Fett, Avengers 4, Twilight Zone, and More

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🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On the October 29, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including Halloween, the abandoned Boba Fett movie, Avatar sequels, Trial of the Chicago 7, King of the Jungle, another Thai cave rescue movie, and casting for the Twilight Zone reboot. In the Spoiler Room, we’ll talk about Avengers 4’s surprising returning cast members. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it). Opening Banter: In The News: ‘Halloween’ on Track to Become Biggest R-Rated Horror Hit After ‘It’, ‘A Star is Born’ Rises Over ‘Venom’ Boba Fett Movie Would Have Featured the Other Bounty Hunters From ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ ‘Avatar 4’ and ‘5’ Already Filming, Loses Papyrus Font, Sigourney Weaver Talks About Shooting Underwater ‘Trial of the Chicago 7’ Movie Will Be Directed By Aaron Sorkin Michael Keaton to Play Tech Giant John McAfee in ‘King of the Jungle’, Replacing Johnny Depp ‘Into the Dark’: Yet Another Thai Cave Rescue Movie in the Works at Universal ‘Twilight Zone’ Reboot Casts Adam Scott to Recreate William Shatner Episode In the Spoiler Room: ‘Avengers 4’ Will Bring Back Another Unexpected Marvel Cinematic Universe Character Other articles mentioned: All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily from Monday October 29th 2018 on today's episode
0:05.2	We're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm the senior writer at slash film.com and joining me on today's episode are Slash Film Writers,
0:13.0	Why Tran Bowie.
0:14.0	Hey everyone.
0:15.0	And Chris Evangelista.
0:17.0	Hello.
0:18.0	All right guys, so we are delaying our normal water cooler Monday episode until tomorrow I think based on the way people
0:26.1	are feeling right now and how things are shaken out so we have a bunch of news items that we wanted to talk about today
0:31.1	and first up H.T. let's talk a little bit about how Halloween
0:35.0	is performing at the box office. Give us the latest. Yeah, so this weekend
0:39.5	Halloween raked in an estimated $32 million domestically, bringing its domestic total to $126 million
0:47.6	with the chance to shoot for the coveted 200 million mark, which is huge for a domestic horror film especially an
0:53.8	R-rated horror film and I say that because Halloween may get the second biggest
1:00.1	highest- highest-grossing R-rated horror film in in history.
1:06.8	So that's quite exciting.
1:08.8	Internationally it's no slouch either.
1:10.8	It's recently made its international total to be 45.6 million with a grand total of
1:16.0	172 million globally.
1:19.8	That is pretty impressive.
1:22.0	Chris, what do you make of the way that Halloween has been received so far?
1:26.0	I know you're a fan of the movie, you saw it at a film festival a while back, sort of watching this
1:30.9	from the outside looking in. Do you think there are any large... watching this
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