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I'm David Chen and I, for one, am looking forward to our review of Evil Dead Rises 2.

I mean, I mean Lee Cronin's The Mummy.

Joining me today is Divinder Hardware.

I can't wait for Lee Cronin's The Exorcist, which features a mummy.

And Jeff Kanata.

Do you think when they finished up shooting each day, Lee Conan would be like, that's a wrap!

All right.

Those are all vague and oblique references the fact that today of the podcast, we're going to be reviewing Lee Kronin's The Mummy.

You know, before we get into anything, you know, obviously we're going to have some what we've been watching for you and some film news at the top of the show. But before we get into any of that, guys, I am just curious, like, what is your reaction to the fact that they call this movie Lee Cronin's The Mummy? Given that I'm going to put this out there, I think no one knows who Lee Cronin is. You know what I mean? That's how you get known, baby. Name a book title. By making a franchise that's already been made several times, too, right? It's like, what are we going to do? We have the mummy. We have Tom Cruise is the mummy. We have another mummy coming, like another reboot of the crew. Brandon Fraser mummy, right? I think that's a shrewd move.

If you're an up-and-coming director,

you got a kind of a hit, a horror hit under your belt,

and you go, you know what,

I'm going to mine a franchise that has had so many iterations

and has been around so long

that the only way to differentiate it is to put

my name on it. Yeah. I mean, that's smart. That's savvy, baby. I read an interview with Lee Cronin

where he talked about, first of all, for those who don't know, Lee Cronin directed Evil Dead

Rises, which did very well at the box office and I think we were all pretty big fans of here on the podcast.

And I read an interview with him where he talked about, I think it was Jason Blund that pitched

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