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Fantastic Beasts, Devil May Cry, Disneyland, Star Wars, Cereal Monsters & YouTube

/Film Weekly

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4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On the November 19, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest film and tv news, including Fantastic Beasts, Devil May Cry, Disneyland, Star Wars, Cereal Monsters, and YouTube. 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: HT: ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Scores Lowest U.S. Box Office Opening for a ‘Harry Potter’ Film Ben: ‘Castlevania’ Producer Adi Shankar Making ‘Devil May Cry’ TV Show Set in Same Multiverse Peter: Listen to the ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’ Theme Song by John Williams, Find Out Attraction Names, and More Peter: Disney Announces New Nighttime Spectaculars, ‘Ratatouille’ Adventure, Mickey Mouse Experiences & More Ben: Studios Want to Shrink the Home Video Window in 2019 HT: The Next Cinematic Universe is…General Mills’ Cereal Monsters? Ben: YouTube Offering ‘The Terminator’, ‘Rocky’ and Dozens More Movies For Free (With Ads) 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 for Monday, November 19, 2018.

0:04.0

On today's episode we're going to talk about the latest film and TV news.

0:07.5

This is Slash Film Editor-in-Chief Peter Sorata.

0:10.0

And joining me on today's podcast is Slash Film Senior Writer Ben Pearson. Hey, what's going on? and

0:15.0

Jending me on to his podcast is slash film senior writer Ben Pearson.

0:14.0

Hey, what's going on?

0:15.0

And writer, Wai Trend Bowie.

0:17.0

Hey everyone.

0:18.0

So it is officially Thanksgiving week.

0:22.0

I should say now that we are going to be off at least on the

0:25.9

podcast on Thursday and Friday celebrating the nation's holiday. And we, yeah, so you won't find podcasts.

0:37.0

You'll only find podcasts on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

0:40.0

We will have some news updates running on the site on Thursday and Friday, but yeah, we'll see you after these three days. We'll see you next on the next Monday.

0:51.0

So, but let's jump into the news. Let's start off with what happened

0:54.9

over the weekend and that is that Fantastic Beast, the crimes of Grindewald, came out and,

1:01.5

uh, H.T. How did it do at the box office is this like it's still a big

1:06.0

hit for Warner Brothers is still like Harry Potter still their like savior

1:11.3

well fantastic beast the crimes ofwald, technically did score the number one spot at US

1:15.9

theaters this weekend, but it fell a bit short of Warner Brothers' anticipated estimates

1:21.5

as well as the overall performance for Harry Potter

1:26.2

films in general. So it raked in an estimated 62 million dollars at the

1:31.1

domestic box office making it the lowest grossing opening for a

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