Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor - Episode 123: Why Disney’s “Gremlins” movie never got off the ground
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fine Tune in with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and |
| 0:04.0 | commentary. I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I are recording this |
| 0:08.8 | show on Friday, May 21st, 2021. And Mr. Taylor, because he lives out in Southern California and lives |
| 0:16.0 | in close proximity to so many of the folks who actually make a lot of our favorite films, |
| 0:20.7 | gets to do a lot of cool things. I just saw you post this on Twitter the day, but it showed you |
| 0:26.3 | traveling to a really, for real movie theater. Yes. Was that a special 25th anniversary screening |
| 0:32.4 | of the original mission possible? Yes, they did a fat one of those fathom events where they |
| 0:38.0 | simul cast it. So it was, I think it was, I believe it was AMC theaters. It was three days, so we |
| 0:43.6 | went on the last day on Wednesday, went up to City Walk, Jim, your favorite place. And it was great, |
| 0:49.6 | we met a lot of people that listened to the show, and also some folks who have worked on the movies |
| 0:55.7 | were there, and it was just a nice, it was a nice atmosphere. Carly Weisel, our buddy was there. |
| 1:01.0 | Hey, Carly, okay, cool. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Although, you know, I'm just waiting for that |
| 1:08.3 | steampunk chocolate restaurant to open up in City Walk, Jim. I'm just, you know, counting down the days. |
| 1:14.0 | It's your eight progress being made. No, if anything, if anything, City Walk looks |
| 1:20.0 | better than it was during the pandemic, but that's for another podcast, I'm sure. Okay, okay. |
| 1:26.7 | And by the way, folks, you recently got to see Cruella, which doesn't arrive in theaters, |
| 1:31.9 | or isn't available in Disney Plus for you, or Premium Access, till next Friday, May 28th. |
| 1:37.1 | Yes, correct. Now, are you allowed to talk about this Craig Gillespie movie? |
| 1:41.6 | I am. Yeah, I think so. I'm not, I can't review it. So if you hear me say a letter, |
| 1:46.4 | okay, Jim, and then, you know, just cut the feed, but yeah. Oh, there we go. We'll slap you right |
| 1:50.9 | down. But I've been watching the ads. I've been watching the trailers and both Emma Thompson and |
| 1:57.1 | Emma Stone make an impression, but does it work as a film or? I loved it. I think this is my favorite |
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