The Naked Gun (with Akiva Schaffer and the Screenwriters), Together (with Alison Brie, Dave Franco & Writer/Director Michael Shanks), Jurassic World Rebirth Thailand Recap (with Gareth Edwards, Jonathan Bailey, and More)
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
On the August 7, 2025 episode of /Film Weekly, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by a bunch of people to talk about the latest film and TV news, recount a work trip he took to Thailand for Jurassic World Rebirth, and dig into new releases The Naked Gun and Together, plus play interviews with the folks behind those movies.
(~01:15) In The News:
- https://variety.com/2025/film/news/spider-verse-spinoff-spider-punk-daniel-kaluuya-1236478758/
- How Sony's Spider-Punk Movie Could Best Marvel Studios At Their Own Game
- https://deadline.com/2025/08/mark-ruffalo-spider-man-brand-new-day-incredible-hulk-1236476885/
- https://deadline.com/2025/08/tom-holland-plays-coy-james-bond-casting-rumors-1236477122/
- https://deadline.com/2025/08/steven-knight-james-bond-bucket-list-1236476308/
- https://variety.com/2025/film/news/star-wars-starfighter-matt-smith-1236479252/
- https://deadline.com/2025/07/presumed-innocent-season-2-jack-reynor-1236473525/
- https://deadline.com/2025/07/oceans-prequel-lee-isaac-chung-1236475906/
- https://deadline.com/2025/08/nancy-meyers-reacts-the-holiday-limited-series-1236477053/
- https://deadline.com/2025/08/a-quiet-place-part-iii-john-krasinski-1236476483/
(~29:10) The Naked Gun
(~46:40) Doug Mand and Dan Gregor interview
(~01:05:31) Akiva Schaffer interview
The Naked Gun Director Talks Spoof 'Rules' And The Reboot's Funniest Moments [Exclusive Interview]
The Naked Gun Review: Comedy Is Back With The Biggest, Hardest & Stupidest Laughs In Years
(~01:16:54) Together
(~01:27:25) Michael Shanks interview
(~01:37:50) Alison Brie and Dave Franco interview
Alison Brie And Dave Franco Want To Freak You Out Together [Exclusive Interview]
Together Review: Alison Brie And Dave Franco Get Gross In A Body Horror Comedy [Sundance]
(~01:46:28) Jurassic World Rebirth Thailand recap
(~01:50:54) Gareth Edwards/Jonathan Bailey
(~01:56:35) Luna Blaise/David Iocano
(~02:01:52) Audrina Miranda
Jurassic World Rebirth is now available to rent or own on Digital
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, welcome to Slash Film Weekly. It is Thursday, August 7th, 2025, and on today's |
| 0:05.2 | episode of the show, we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news. We're going to dig into new releases, The Naked Gun, and together, we'll play interviews with the folks behind those movies, and I'll talk about why this podcast is coming out one day later than usual. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slash film.com, |
| 0:21.6 | and it's just me to kick things off here. You might be able to tell from my voice that I sound |
| 0:27.9 | a little bit different. That is probably because I have been once again stricken by the novel |
| 0:33.4 | coronavirus. I have COVID, which I got on a trip to Thailand that I took to celebrate the |
| 0:40.8 | digital release of Jurassic World Rebirth. So I'll talk more about that as the episode goes on. |
| 0:47.9 | I've got some interviews that I want to play with some of the folks behind that film. |
| 0:51.0 | But I wanted to say that up top. I wanted to apologize to everybody at the top |
| 0:55.0 | of the show for this episode being one day late. I know I'm trying to stick to a Wednesday |
| 1:00.7 | schedule for the most part. But yeah, I was gone for over a week and the timing got a little |
| 1:06.1 | nuts and I recorded a segment with BJ before I left and thought that that was going to be up. Anyway, you'll get it as we go. So let's jump into the news. Join me for this segment. We have Slash Film Staff Writer, Bill Brea. Hey there. Hey there. Bill, I'm glad to have you on the show. So I want to just blast through a bunch of news items. We have a lot going on on today's podcast episode. So I'm just kind of kind of rapid fire run through some of the biggest news stories of the past week-ish. |
| 1:32.8 | And yeah, just kind of get your take and see what you think about some of this stuff. So |
| 1:36.3 | there is a spinoff of the animated Spider-Verse movies that's in the works. And this spinoff is |
| 1:43.4 | set to focus on the character Spider-Punk, who is played by |
| 1:47.9 | Daniel Kaluya in Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse back in 2023. |
| 1:52.9 | Kaluya is developing and co-writing the movie with someone named A. John Singh, whose work |
| 1:59.2 | I'm not familiar with. |
| 2:00.4 | And we don't really have |
| 2:01.4 | any plot details, but we know that this is going to be basically a movie about the Spider-Punk |
| 2:06.2 | character. The guy, his character's name is Hobie Brown. He plays a guitar. He has a very distinctive |
| 2:11.8 | design. So what's your gut reaction when you hear that a spinoff is being devoted to this character? |
| 2:19.7 | Well, I think it remains to be seen what is happening with Nicholas Cage's Spider-Man |
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