Business of superhero films, James Gunn's DC reboot + OK Boomer w/Alex Banks | E1633
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
First up, Lon Harris joins to cover James Gunn's DC reboot (2:14), the business of superhero films (28:18), the top films of the year debate (37:15), and more! Then, Producer Rachel is back with another edition of OK Boomer, featuring through the Noise and Tribescaler founder Alex Banks! (1:21:27)
(0:00) J+M tee up today's segments!
(2:14) Lon Harris joins the show to discuss DC's James Gunn-led revamp
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(10:37) Lon's thoughts on James Gunn's new DC plan, and what's working in the box office right now
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(28:18) The business of superhero films
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(37:15) Jason reacts to AO Scott's Best Movies of 2022 list
(44:19) Lon's top movies of 2022
(58:06) Other ongoing stories at Warner Bros Discovery and HBO Max
(1:21:27) OK Boomer: Producer Rachel interviews Through the Noise and Tribescaler founder Alex Banks
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody happy friday you made it to friday we consider friday the end of the week here at this week in startups |
| 0:07.0 | The one we start up again on sunday you get saturday off, but it is friday |
| 0:12.4 | It is friday. It's friday you chill friday you work |
| 0:15.7 | But really when we say work what we mean is spend a really long time talking about movies with our bestie |
| 0:22.8 | One hair is so great. It is so great for us. We love cinema TV shows |
| 0:30.0 | Molly and I love the pop culture. We love science fiction. I like a romcom. She does not I like one |
| 0:36.4 | I like two romcoms |
| 0:37.9 | Okay, we're gonna talk about those exact or one of those exact romcoms today |
| 0:42.3 | But there's a lot of news in streaming Amazon has a TikTok competitor DC is rebooting the universe |
| 0:48.8 | You may lose your Wonder Woman you may lose your aquaman everything's up in the mix and then of course |
| 0:54.7 | Big debate over |
| 0:56.2 | HBO's new name |
| 0:58.2 | Max for their streaming services. I'm gonna explain why I think this is the best of the worst choices and then |
| 1:04.7 | Mines may be changed and then we end the show with another episode of okay boomer with producer Rachel who is interviewing |
| 1:11.1 | Alex Banks who's the co-founder of a company called tribe scaler |
| 1:15.1 | It's all in this episode is gonna be a great show |
| 1:17.9 | And I go off on a Scott's top 10 movie list. It is an insane |
| 1:23.3 | Based I it's it's based J. Cow stick with us |
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