Forgotten Island Buzz, CinemaCon Shakeups, and a Very Strange Wonka Future (Ep. 355)
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Jim Hill Media Podcast Network
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hear that. It's your big McDonald's hunger calling. And that's not just any kind of hunger. It's the kind that calls for the big arch. |
| 0:07.5 | Stack with juicy beef, cheddar cheese and that big arch sauce. Oh, and don't forget those crispy onions. |
| 0:13.4 | Hungry? You are now. |
| 0:16.5 | Serve from 11 a.m. subject to availability. Price and participation may vary. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome back to fine tuning or through Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation, news, and commentary. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor, whose writings on the industry you can regularly read over on the rap, |
| 0:33.5 | and whose musings on the Mission Impossible movies, you can still listen to on Light the Fuse, |
| 0:39.0 | the official Mission Impossible podcast. |
| 0:41.6 | He and I are recording this week's show on Monday, April 20th, 20206, which means what? |
| 0:48.1 | CinemaCon is now officially in the rearview, right? |
| 0:50.8 | You know, they wrapped up there at Caesar's, I want to say, Thursday of |
| 0:56.6 | last week, didn't they? Yeah, Thursday, I think Disney was the last big panel. So, yeah, |
| 1:02.0 | now people are back. They've, you know, gambled away all their money and also swooned away |
| 1:08.8 | all of their energy watching, you know, Avengers Doomsday footage. |
| 1:13.8 | So they have to return to the real world. |
| 1:16.2 | So yes. |
| 1:17.2 | There we go. |
| 1:17.9 | Now, you know, now speaking of getting to see cool footage, well, the rule of them typically |
| 1:25.3 | is that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. And exhibitors there last week got to see Forgotten Island six months ahead of when this DreamWorks animation film is currently scheduled to be released to theaters, and that's September 25th of this year. |
| 1:41.7 | But Drew, you know, again, you know, that this is why you listened to this podcast, folks. Drew got to see this. Did you actually go to the Dreamworth campus to see this? I can't actually talk about where I, let's just say, you know, Jim, maybe I went to Vegas for a few hours and came back. That's, you know, maybe that's what happened. Okay, there we go. All right. That's right. He, you know, he stepped to a portal and was in Vegas. But again, you got to see this Joel Crawford. And, uh, January. January. Yes. January. Yes, I did. I saw it. Yeah. Okay. |
| 2:18.1 | And Mr. Taylor will be talking about how much he enjoyed Forgotten Island later on in today's show. |
| 2:28.2 | But first we need to talk about this past weekend's box office. |
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