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/Film Daily

Ready Player One, Avengers: Infinity War, MoviePass, Black Adam, Netflix vs. Cannes, Joaquin Phoenix, and More

/Film Daily

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Entertainment News, News, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6930 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On the April 11, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by writers Chris Evangelista and Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about MoviePass, Paul Thomas Anderson, Black Adam, Netflix vs. Cannes, Joaquin Phoenix, Alex Garland, Avengers: Infinity War, and Ready Player One. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it). In the News: MoviePass CEO Wants Moviefone to Be Their Own Rotten Tomatoes Paul Thomas Anderson Just Directed an Adam Sandler Netflix Special ‘Black Adam’ Movie Could Begin Filming in 2019, Says Dwayne Johnson Netflix Pulls All Films Out of Cannes Following Competition Ban Joaquin Phoenix Won’t Let Heath Ledger’s Iconic Joker Scare Him Away From The Role ‘Annihilation’ Director Alex Garland’s Haunted House Script ‘The Toymaker’s Secret’ is Getting Made ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Has Already Sold More Advance Tickets Than The Last 7 MCU Movies Combined How Steven Spielberg’s ‘Ready Player One’ Recreated a Classic Stanley Kubrick Movie Other articles mentioned: ‘You Were Never Really Here’ is a Brilliant Movie Because of What It Doesn’t Show Us [Spoiler Review] All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /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, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Please feel free to send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at [email protected]. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Our Sponsors: * Check out Express VPN: expressvpn.com/SLASHFILM 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 April 11th 2018 on today's show we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news

0:06.4

This is slash film senior writer Ben Pearson and join me today are writers Chris evangelista

0:14.0

Hello and why Tran Bowie?

0:15.0

Hey everyone.

0:17.0

Threw you guys off with the switching up the introductions.

0:19.0

I normally do the eyes for a second.

0:21.0

I'm used to going second.

0:22.0

Gotta keep you guys on your toes, man. Got to keep you guys on your toes, man.

0:24.3

Gotta keep it going, keep things fresh.

0:26.4

All right, so let's jump into the news and let's start.

0:29.5

I've been gone all morning at a press junket that I can't talk about yet I'm sure I'll be able to talk about it on a future episode of the show but I mentioned that only to admit to you guys that I haven't read any of the stories that you've written today so I'm sort of

0:43.7

serving as like a moderator and an audience member at the same time in today's episode so I'm

0:48.2

kind of excited for you guys to teach me some stuff today.

0:51.0

H.T. let's start with you. Movie Pass's CEO wants the newly acquired movie phone

0:56.2

to be their own rotten tomatoes?

0:58.0

What is going on here?

1:00.0

Yeah, so we know that Movie Pass acquired Movie Phone last week,

1:04.0

and a couple of eyebrows are raised when that happened because it seemed a bit of a redundant purchase.

1:09.2

Movie Phone is mostly known for, back in the 90s being a telephone

1:14.4

observers which would list off movie show times.

1:17.1

And now its website mostly just lists show times

1:20.4

and some news stories and ratings from other sites.

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