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Is Box Office Indicative Of Quality? Guardians 3, Han Solo, Netflix, Star Trek, Hamilton

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🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On the October 17, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Hoai-Tran Bui and Jacob Hall to talk about the latest news, including Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and the future of the MCU, the Han Solo movie gets an official title, Netflix’s content budget, and William Shatner’s pitch to appear in Star Trek Discovery. In The Mailbag, we’ll answer a reader's question about box office numbers. And at the Water Cooler, Ben will be talking about finally seeing Hamilton during the musical’s Los Angeles run.   You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it).   Feedback: A couple corrections from previous episodes: Tyler Smith points out that “regarding Gambit’s release date, Fox had great success releasing Deadpool on the same weekend.” Also, Peter incorrectly mentioned that Tim Burton didn’t direct Corpse Bride, he meant to say A Nightmare Before Christmas.   In The Water Cooler: Ben has finally seen Hamilton.   In the News:   ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ Will Kickstart Marvel’s Phase 4 Han Solo Movie Officially Titled ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story,’ Wraps Production Netflix Might Spend $8 Billion on Content in 2018, Including 80 Original Films Here’s How William Shatner Thinks He Can Appear on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’   In The Mailbag: Logan in Seattle writes in in response to all these studio folks complaining about RT and Metacritic, “completely ridiculous arguments if you ask me, and trying to understand what the real culprit is against movies of quality. The reason I don’t buy the RT kills Hollywood thing is because by all measurements BLADE RUNNER 2049 should’ve made billions. Great RT, Metacritic, and IMDB scores. Great early buzz. So why does one of the year’s best films now feel like a failure to the masses?  Well I think it’s because of our obsession with box office results. I saw BLADE RUNNER opening weekend and posted my thoughts on Facebook, singing its praises for all to hear. One of the first comments on my post called it a flop on track to only make $15M. Now why is that the narrative one day after release of a film that should be seen by all who appreciate film as an art form? So many of my colleagues are begging for films exactly like what BLADE RUNNER is, but within 48 hours of its release those people are being told by every major news source that the film is a massive flop. Visuals, score, story, all buried below a headline touting it as a bomb, a failure.  We should be champions for quality film, keeping their box office success as the final sentence not the first, and vice versa we should destroy trash regardless of the hundreds of millions it makes. Maybe then we’ll get more of the movies we truly need. Denis Villeneuve > Michael Bay."   To submit questions to the mailbag, send them to peter@slashfilm.com. Please mention your name and general geographical location in case we mention the question on the air. You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). We’re still very much experimenting with this podcast, please feel free to send your feedback to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for October 17th

0:02.8

2017 and today's show we're going to be taking a look at a bunch of news

0:06.4

including how Guardians of Galaxy 3

0:09.2

will kick-start the future of the MCU.

0:12.3

We got the official title for the Han Solo movie so we'll talk

0:15.8

about that. Netflix has announced how much they're going to be spending on content for next year

0:22.1

and it's insane and William Shatner has been pitching a way

0:26.7

for him to appear in Star Trek Discovery and I have some thoughts on that.

0:31.7

In the mailbag we'll be talking, we'll be taking a reader

0:34.5

question about the importance of box office numbers and at the water cooler. Ben

0:40.0

will share his thoughts on Hamilton, which he saw in LA.

0:45.0

Joining me today is Ben Pearson.

0:49.0

Hey, what's up?

0:50.0

And Wai Tran Bowie.

0:51.0

Hey everyone.

0:53.0

Guys, before we get in today's show, I have a couple of corrections to go over, both of which are for me, things I either said incorrectly or stupidly in the past week of the podcast.

1:09.4

So I'd like to just put it out there that's you know that tends to happen sometimes

1:15.0

Tyler Smith pointed out regarding Gambit's release date which is you know

1:20.4

Valentine's Day weekend I kind of noted that that was kind of strange and a weird time to put a you know comic book movie

1:27.6

Well, it worked out for Deadpool so I guess I didn't I wasn't thinking of Deadpool as a Valentine's Day movie

1:35.4

something I probably should have looked into before saying on the podcast.

1:39.3

And another thing I incorrectly mentioned, we were talking about Tim Burden or directors getting

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