Welcome to Fine Tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill, and Mr. Taylor, whose writings on the industry you can regularly read over at the rap,

and whose musings on the Mission Impossible movies you can listen to on the Light the Fuse podcast,

he and I are recording this week's show on Friday, April 28th, 2023.

You have been a very busy guy for the past 48.

Do you want to kind of walk through folks, explain where you've been, what you've done?

Well, on Wednesday night, I drove up with my good buddy Charles and my co-host on Light the Fuse,

and we got into Las Vegas around 11 o'clock PM, went right to bed, and then got up the next

morning, went to the CinemaCon panel on Paramount Slate, which was really impressive, and had some

animation stuff, which I'm sure we will talk about. We will. We actually recorded an episode in Vegas.

I jumped on a plane back to Burbank at 2 p.m. Got back. The plane was a little bit delayed. I got

home at about four, tried to take a nap, wasn't successful, and then went to the world premiere of

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 at the Dolby Theatre, and was there until very late last night,

and here I am right now, struggling to stay awake, and be as entertaining as possible for the fine

fine tuning listeners. I thought the Guardians thing was going to be at the LCAP, so it was across

the street at the Dolby, really? Yes, okay, so usually they split it between the LCAP and the Dolby.

As a cost-cutting measure, because when you do that, you have to shut down Hollywood Boulevard.

They put everybody in the Dolby, and then they had the party on the roof of that same building,

so it did not require a street shutdown, it didn't require the crazy kind of infrastructure

that you need to have when you are doing both theaters, so it was just the Dolby. I was on the front

row of the mezzanine. I would argue the best seats in the house, and it was quite an experience.

Wow, very cool. Where would you put Volume 3 in the trilogy? Yeah, I think it might be my

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