Spider-Man 3 Casting, Wonder Woman 1984, and Hollywood Reacts to WB's HBO Max News

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🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On the December 9, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss the latest film and TV news, including Hollywood’s reaction to Warner Bros.’ big HBO Max news, some Spider-Man 3 casting, and the early reactions to Wonder Woman 1984. Opening Banter: In The News: HT: Legendary May Take Legal Action Against Warner Bros. Over ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’, ‘Dune’ HBO Max Releases HT: Warner Bros. Has Managed to Piss Off Every Star, Studio, and Agent in Hollywood with the HBO Max Release Plan HT: AMC is Not Happy With Warner Bros. 2021 HBO Max Release Plans, Other Major Exhibitors React Brad: Independent Movie Theaters Call WB’s Deal with HBO Max a “Questionable Decision” HT: HBO Max Nears 12.6 Million Activated Subscribers as AT&T Defends Warner Bros. Release Plan Brad: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Early Buzz: Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot Deliver the Aspirational Blockbuster We Need Ben: Marvel’s ‘Spider-Man 3’ is Bringing Back Alfred Molina as Doctor OctopusHT: Marvel’s ‘Spider-Man 3’ Possibly Bringing Back Past Peter Parkers, Kirsten Dunst’s Mary Jane 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 Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. 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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello everyone welcome to slash film daily for Wednesday, December 9th
0:03.4	2020 on today's episode we're going to be talking about the latest film and
0:06.8	TV news my name is Ben Pearson I am the senior writer at slash film
0:10.0	com and I'm
0:15.0	I am joined on today's episode by slash film weekend editor Brad Omen. Hey that's me and writer
0:15.8	Why Trend Bowie? Hey everyone. All right guys so today's Wednesday we normally do
0:21.1	water cooler episodes on Wednesday.
0:24.0	Peter's out and Chris is having some Wi-Fi issues.
0:28.0	So basically, we're just going to do a news episode today.
0:30.4	We have not done an episode of the news since last Thursday's big emergency
0:36.8	episode about Warner Brothers big news about what they were planning to do or are still planning to do with its 2021 release slate and releasing all of that theatrically in
0:48.8	I'm sorry simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max so. let's talk about the fallout from that because that is a majority
0:55.5	of what we're going to be discussing on today's episode and you happen to write up a lot of stories about
0:59.9	how Hollywood is reacting to that big news.
1:03.0	So let's start first with legendary pictures,
1:05.9	which is a producing partner of Warner Brothers.
1:08.6	How are they taking this news?
1:10.5	Well, they're not happy then. And I can probably sum up the rest of the stories in one sentence that everyone is mad at Warner Media. But Legendary is the first to potentially take this to court. They have reportedly taken legal action
1:26.7	against the company or about to take legal action, sending letters of litigation to Warner
1:31.5	Media over the release of the Warner Brothers films,
1:35.8	Godzilla versus Kong, and Dune to HBO Max Day and Date in both theaters and the streaming
1:41.4	service.
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