Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Weekly. It's Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025. On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news. We'll hear a report about Halloween Horror Nights 2025. We'll present an interview with the people behind The Roses and talk about that film and wrap up with the final segment of Brad's Digman Season 2 interview from a few weeks ago. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor

at slashfilm.com. Before we jump into the news, I wanted to address something real quick.

Someone pointed me to the fact that we've had a few new reviews on Apple Podcasts lately,

which is great, but the people leaving those reviews don't seem fully satisfied with the show.

I have had multiple listeners

reach out and ask me to change the format back to the way that it used to be. And I will just

tell you all for reasons that are out of my control and above my pay grade, I just cannot do that.

I'm sorry. I know a lot of people liked the old format, but I will say if you're one of

the people who misses the box office conversations and the water cooler episodes, you should check

out a podcast called Pop Cultured with a D that I do with Brad, Jacob, BJ, and our old friends,

Peter Serretta, and Twitran Bowie. You can check us out at patreon.com slash pop cultured, or we have a free feed on Apple podcasts. If you just search for pop cultured, you should be able to find it there. If you like what you hear, there's a subscription tier where you can hear episodes that are behind a paywall, and there's a tier where you can hear Ryan and I have weekly box office discussions. So come one, come all.

We would love to have you listening to us over there as well as hanging out with us here every

week on slash film weekly. And man, somebody else left a comment that kind of got under my

skin a little bit. Somebody said that interviews are boring. And I just fundamentally disagree with that.

I'm very passionate about doing interviews. Hopefully

you all can hear some of that passion come through in the conversations that we have with folks

here on the show. But even if we present an interview for a project that you don't like,

you can still learn something interesting about the way movies or TV shows are made by listening

to one or you just skip the interview altogether.

So yeah, we're still going to be doing interviews. That's going to be a big part of the show

moving forward. So I apologize if you hate interviews. But anyway, that's the plug. Patreon.com

slash pop culture. Check out what we're doing over there. I think you'll really dig it. And let's jump

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