Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Thursday September 2nd 2021 on today's episode of the show

we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news. My name is Ben Pearson I'm a senior writer at slash film

com and I am joined on today's show by slash film senior writer and chief film critic, Chris Evangelista.

Oh, hello.

All right, Chris, so let's talk about some news.

We have done some mini water coolers recently.

Brad and I did a what if episodes. We haven't talked about the news in a little while. So I wanted to run through a couple of the highlights that have happened over the past several days. Probably the biggest and most consequential is that Paramount has decided to shift a bunch of movie release dates.

And I wonder if you can tell me about that.

Maybe you don't have to get into like, it moved from this specific date to this specific date

because I feel like as a listener when I hear stuff like that my

brain sort of like fogs over but just like generally speaking what's what's

happened over there at Paramount.

Yeah so you know it it's, it's funny, quote unquote,

to think about this, but a few weeks ago,

it really seems like, you know, COVID was slowly coming under control the vaccine rollout was going well and

numbers were down and everyone was like all right we're gonna beat this thing and

studios were like all right we can start releasing things on the big screen again.

And then two things happened.

One is the Delta variant, which is like a, you know, a stronger strain of COVID or ever do want to call it and then two

there's a bunch of assholes who just are like I'm not getting a vaccine I'm not

wearing a mask I want everyone else to suffer because I am a jerk.

So because of this things aren't looking as great as they could be and

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