Water Cooler: Land of Bad, Cold Mountain, Legends of the MonsterVerse, and More
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On the June 26, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to talk about HBO, and then gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to.
Right here at the top of the show, I’d like to issue a quick correction.
In The News:
- Warner Bros. Discovery Must Protect HBO at All Costs – But Can They Actually Pull It Off?
- HBO's Harry Potter TV Series Summons Succession Veterans As Showrunner And Director
In the Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Doing:
- Ryan - training for a marathon
- What we’ve been Reading:
- Ben read The October Country by Ray Bradbury.
- Ryan read Legends of the MonsterVerse omnibus, killing floor Jack Reacher book
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Ryan watched Land of Bad, Critters 2, Transformers commentary track, Cast Away, Godzilla Raids Again, Dirty Harry movies.
- Ben watched Touch, Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go, The Thin Man Goes Home, and Cold Mountain.
- What we’ve been Playing:
- Ryan played Star Wars Hunters.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. Today is Wednesday June 26th |
| 0:03.8 | 2024 on today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about a little bit |
| 0:08.1 | about HBO and Warner Brothers Discovery for a second but mostly we're going to gather |
| 0:11.6 | around the virtual water cooler and talk about what we've been up to my name is Ben Pearson I'm an editor at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott. |
| 0:21.5 | Hey hey everyone how's it going? |
| 0:23.4 | Ryan, right up here at the top of the show, |
| 0:25.0 | I would like to issue a correction. |
| 0:27.4 | My loving wife, Amy, supports me in everything I do, |
| 0:31.3 | and she also never misses an opportunity to dunk on me whenever possible. |
| 0:35.5 | She's the best. So anyway, she is eight months behind when it comes to listening to this podcast and |
| 0:40.8 | she told me she told me that in an episode from last October I |
| 0:47.2 | incorrectly used the word emulating when I meant to say eminating so I would like to apologize to our listeners |
| 0:54.3 | and just issue a correction, just clarify, |
| 0:56.7 | you know, get things out right here at the top of the show. |
| 0:58.6 | So thank you for that correction. |
| 1:00.9 | If anybody else has any corrections or anything, feel free to email them in to us. I'll give you the email. for that |
| 1:03.7 | if anybody else has any corrections or anything feel free to email them in to us I'll give you the |
| 1:04.5 | email address at the end of the show but I just wanted to address that you know really so |
| 1:09.0 | let me be crystal clear here. Your loving wife Amy is eight months behind and she intends to catch up? |
| 1:18.3 | Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, she's she's just like I don't know she fell really far behind, but yeah, she powers through him. |
| 1:24.1 | She's able to listen while she's working sometimes. |
| 1:27.3 | So, you know, she'll catch up. |
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