Get ready for a very animated San Diego Comic-Con (Ep. 316)

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Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start this week’s episode by discussing “Walt Disney – A Magical Life,” that new show at Disneyland Park in Anaheim. examineThey then look at how Paramount Pictures’ new “Smurfs” film performed at the domestic box office. For this episode, listeners will learn about: Who did Chris Buck & Kevin Lima originally want to voice Tantor the elephant in Disney’s animated version of “Tarzan” Which role will Josh Gad be playing in the live concert version of “Jesus Christ Superstar” (which will be presented at the Hollywood Bowl August 1 – 3rd) How many songs from the soundtrack of “KPop Demon Hunters” (i.e., Netflix’s latest hit animated film) wound up in Billboard’s Hot 100 Why did Sony Pictures Animation opt to push back the release date of “Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse” When will San Diego Comic-Con be celebrating Fox’s Animation Domination programming block Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:01.6	What, already?
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0:06.2	And that's the buzz of Prime's entertainment.
0:09.0	What are we watching?
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0:28.3	amazon.com.ukukes slash prime welcome back to fine tuning with drew taylor your one-stop shop when it comes
0:34.0	to animation news and commentary i'm entertainment entertainment writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor,
0:39.1	whose writings on the industry you can regularly read over on the rap and who's musings. You can
0:43.6	listen to on Light the Fuse, the official Mission Impossible podcast. He and I are recording this week's
0:50.2	show on Monday, July 22nd. And sorry, we couldn't record this any earlier this past weekend because Drew was
0:58.3	down at Disneyland, taking a well-deserved break, hanging out with friends, and also
1:03.4	checking out that new Walt Disney, A Magical Life show at the Main Street Opera House.
1:09.9	That's right.
1:10.7	Okay.
1:11.1	And that's presented in rotation with the old great moments with Mr. Lincoln thing, right?
1:17.4	It's not rotating yet, but that's the plan eventually, as far as I know.
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