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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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This week, David, Richard, and Rebecca take a look at Warner Bros.' hot streak, which continued with the horror hit Weapons. They also each pick a couple Emmy nominees they hope get a little love from voters ahead of final voting next week. Finally, they answer some listener questions, defending the Academy's choice to open up Best Picture to 10 nominees.
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| 0:33.5 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm David Canfield. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Richard Lawson. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:44.6 | The final round of Emmy voting starts on Monday. |
| 0:48.4 | So each of us are going to share an underdog nominee that we'd like to highlight that we hope can go all the way, get a little shine, |
| 0:58.3 | just get them on the Television Academy's radar because there are a lot of big shows out there that are taking up a lot of oxygen. We're also going to answer some more listener questions later on. |
| 1:04.4 | But first, to start, we wanted to catch up on some summer movie developments. It was a big week |
| 1:08.8 | at the box office, particularly for the original |
| 1:12.9 | movie Weapons, directed by Zach Craigor of Barbarian fame. This movie made $43.5 million at the |
| 1:20.9 | box office this weekend. It's a huge result for an original horror movie, something that Warner |
| 1:25.9 | Brothers is getting pretty used to. |
| 1:31.3 | They had sinners, of course, earlier this year that similarly outperformed expectations. |
| 1:37.8 | It stars Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, my personal favorite, Amy Madigan, among others. |
| 1:49.1 | And it seems to be kind of leading Warner Brothers' successful attempt to inject some originality into the box office, |
| 1:55.7 | bring some high-profile successes that are not sequels, not remakes. It's exciting, right, |
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