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The Box Office

The Schmuck Club returns this week to discuss the biggest movie so far in 2019, Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel comes in big this week with over $150 million. The 21st film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe raked in over $450 million worldwide. How to Train Your Dragon 3 and A Madea Family Funeral round off the top three for the week.

The News

The dark take on the superhero genre, Brightburn, dropped it’s second trailer. Delving more into the horrific side of super-powered beings, Brightburn hits theaters May 24th. Ari Aster’s sophomore film Midsommar drops a very bright, yet disturbing teaser. Aster’s follow up to Hereditary reaches audiences August 9th. Idris Elba replaces Will Smith as Deadshot in Suicide Squad 2. Tyrese Gibson joins the cast of Morbius, while Jared Leto drops the first teaser for the film.

Disney News

Disney+ will include the entire library of Disney films, including those in the dreaded Disney Vault. This most likely excludes Song of the South (we don’t talk about that one). Disney CEO Bob Iger confirms that there have been talks to complete the National Treasure trilogy with Jerry Bruckheimer. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil drops the first official poster to the film. The follow up to 2014 Disney film hits theaters October 18th.

Captain Marvel: The Main Topic

The 21st film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe gives fans the first female lead Marvel movie since Elektra in 2005. We break down the plot, the characters, and everything MCU related. Let us know your thoughts on the film in the comments below.

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Make sure to check out our movie friends at Midwest Movie Talk and Fat Dude Digs Flicks. Cinema Falls brings the acclaimed documentary Apollo 11 to the West Mall 7 March 17th.

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The Schmuck Club decides to be a couple guys talking comic book movies on the internet. Because we don’t have enough of those do we! The boys discuss their favorite non-Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.

The Box Office

Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral comes in big with $27 million in under 2,500 screens. How To Train Your Dragon 3 stays atop the mountain once again with $30 million. Alita: Battle Angel brings in over $350 million worldwide, doubling the films production budget.

The News

We kick off the news with Rambo: Last Blood getting an official release date of September 30th, 2019. Will this be the end of John Rambo? Edge of Tomorrow sequel begins development at Warner Brothers. This week saw new trailers for Hellboy, Detective Pikachu, and X-Men Dark Phoenix.

Johnny Depp is officially stepping down from Leigh Whannell’s Invisible Man reboot. Elizabeth Moss has been cast in an undisclosed role. Finn Wolfhard and Carrie Coon are in talks to join the new Ghostbusters reboot. Rami Malek is eyed to join Bond 25 as the films villain. Lupita Nyong’o is also being looked at for the next Bond girl. Steven Spielberg and The Academy bid war against Netflix.

The Main Topic

The schmucks take a look at their favorite non-Marvel Cinematic Universe. How many DC movies made the list? Was their any films snubbed from the list? What is your favorite? (The Dark Knight is obviously number one)

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Make sure to check out our movie friends at Midwest Movie Talk and Fat Dude Digs Flicks. Tickets for the South Dakota film Tater Tot & Patton are available now. Check out the latest screening from Cinema Falls, Woman at War, March 10th.

 

 

Tater Tot and Patton is a 2017 independent film written and directed by South Dakota native Andrew Kightlinger. Not only did Kightlinger decide to set this film in the heartland of South Dakota, but he also shot the film there as well. Kightlinger grew up in Pierre and attended college at Augustana University in Sioux Falls.

The film stars Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day) and Bates Wilder (Joy). Tater Tot & Patton follows a wayward millennial as she makes her way to visit her alcoholic uncle in the great plains of South Dakota.

Kightlinger was gracious enough to sit down with Back Lot 605’s own Casey Kelderman. The full interview is available above. The film will make it’s rounds across the state in an effort to gain nationwide distribution for the film. The full schedule for the Tater Tot & Patton screenings is available below. Please visit the GoFundMe page and help support independent cinema in South Dakota!

 

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The crew at Back Lot 605 returns for the week to discuss the latest news and the 2019 Academy Awards.

How to Train your Dragon 3 opens big with $55 million at the box office. It flies in and takes first place at the box office. Alita Battle Angel continues to struggle stateside, but overseas markets are flocking to the film.

This weeks news was Netflix heavy beginning with Chris Hemsworth’s casting as Hulk Hogan. The wrestling biopic will be direct by Todd Phillips, his next project after this summer’s Joker film.

Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson will play Texas Rangers in The Highway Men. Their task is to capture of the infamous Bonnie and Clyde.

Netflix is jumping on the wagon and making their music biopic. The Dirt is the story of 1980’s hair metal bad boys, Motley Crue. The film is based on the best selling novel from the band.

Vincent D’Onofrio is getting behind the camera to give us The Kid. The story of the infamous outlaw will see D’Onofrio re-team with Magnificent Seven co-stars Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke.

Rocketman drops another trailer and shows us that Taron Edgerton IS Elton John. He has the glitz, glamour, and the singing chops to pull this off. Could this film do for Edgerton what it did for Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody?

A Quiet Place

John Krasinski will not only be writing the sequel to ‘A Quiet Place, but it looks like we also will get to see him direct again. ‘A Quiet Place’ was a sleeper hit that no one saw coming. Krasinski’s wife, co-star Emily Blunt is set once again to star in the sequel.

Space Jam 2 gets an official release date of July 16, 2021. Chris, Brian, & Casey all debate the question of it Ryan Coogler should be directing this or Black Panther 2. Chris and Brian know that they are right! Drop a comment and let us know!

For our main discussion we delve into the Academy Awards. Discuss who won, who lost, and frankly did we get any of our picks right. Full list of winners can be found here.

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In honor of the release of WWE’s Fighting With My Family, the Schmuck Club returns this week to discuss wrestlers who need a movie based on their life. Joining Casey and Brian is Pro Wrestling Commentator Charlie Eccles (@WrestlingVoice1).

They open up the podcast with this weeks latest update to the box office. Brian predictions from last week come true with Alita: Battle Angel taking the number one spot. Casey’s pick of Happy Death Day 2 U under-performed with a measly $9 million opening.

The Schmucks discuss the ever-updating news of the Academy Awards. In the week since the last podcast, the Academy announced they were cutting certain categories to the commercial breaks. There has been enough backlash from the industry to retract this change in ceremonies.

Frozen 2 and Ma Trailer’s

Disney drops a trailer for the up and coming Frozen 2. We discuss what we think and what the heck it is trying to say. Another trailer dropping this week was for Ma. A new thriller starring Octavia Spencer in a very Kathy Bates in Misery type of role.

Breaking Bad Movie and Episode 9 Wraps

AMC announces that they are moving forward with the Breaking Bad film starring Aaron Paul. They are teaming up with Netflix to release the film after the initial run on cable.

We discuss the next DC animated film. Batman will be going up against the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Will this new Batman film go soft due to the current vision of the Turtles or will it resemble more of the source comic?

Our main topic drives us to those wrestlers that need movies based on their lives. To help give us some great insight is resident Pro Wrestling Commentator Charlie Eccles. You can follow him on Twitter at @WrestlingVoice1.

Coming Soon:

How to Train Your Dragon 3

Fighting With My Family

Cinema Falls

Woman at War – March 10th

6:30 PM at the West Mall 7

* Halla, a woman in her forties, declares war on the local aluminum industry to prevent it from disfiguring her country. She risks all she has to protect the highlands of Iceland-but the situation could change with the unexpected arrival of a small orphan in her life.

IndiEvents

Lords of Chaos – February 24th

8 PM at Full Circle Book Coop

* A teenager’s quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the early 1990s results in a very violent outcome.

Other Local Events:

Fathom Events Presents My Fair Lady – February 20th

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The schmuck club is back again. The box office had a little but big weekend. Glass finally gets dethroned and pushed down to fifth place. The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part brings in first place

Jordan Peele reveals the newest movie poster for Us. It is so simple but so terrifying at the same time. We talk about the newest trailer for the Child’s Play reboot and Tommy Wiseau releases the poster to his newest flick Big Shark.

It looks like Warner Bros. is doubling down on the Trench. They look to spin off the creatures introduced in Aquaman in their own horror-esque film. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is joins the cast of The Kingsman: The Great Game currently in development from Matt Vaughn.

We jump into our main topic of discussion this week. It is time for Sophie’s Choice. We take to movies and decide who stays and who goes. The Scmucks destroy childhoods and some of our favorites get laid to waste.

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The Schmucks are back in town

The box office is back at it again. Glass brings it in again for the third week. Miss Bala can’t quite make it and takes the third spot.

The Schmuck Club talks some new comic book movie news. Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn gives us the first look at our core characters in a brief video. Warner Bros. and DC announces that The Batman is full steam ahead with Matt Reeves at the helm but will focus on a younger Batman. This will pass the cowl from Ben Affleck to a new actor.

Guillermo del Toro provides us with a new movie poster for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark along with a quick trailer showing us just snippets each of the stories. Blumhouse partners with Universal to bring The Invisible Man to the big screen. Saw Co-creator and Upgrade director Leigh Whannell has been set to direct. Whannell has also been rumored to be writing a reboot to the ’80’s classic Escape from New York.

The Fast and Furious Present: Hobbs and Shaw shows us their first trailer. It looks like Universal will have another hit on their hands. This will reunite Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham who will reprise their respective roles from the Fast and Furious Franchise. Funko has come out to say that they will be jumping to the big screen in the style of The Lego Movie. They will hopefully be bringing together Deadpool, Wonder Woman, The Care Bears, along with so many more.

Main Topic

We attempt to dive in the to the world of Anime. This is not a genre of film that we are as well versed in so we brought in a guest with a little more knowledge than us. What type of movies were discussed as the best, the worst, and frankly shouldn’t exist? How will the upcoming live action Alita Battle Angel and Detective Pikachu stake up?

Coming Soon:

* I Want to Eat Your Pancreas Feb 7 and 10

* Lego Movie 2 Feb. 7th

* What Men Want Feb. 7th

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As usual, we discuss the upsets in the box office. The Kid Who Would Be King broke through the top 5! Who would’ve thought that?

This weekly news tells us that Christopher Nolan will be releasing a new film in July 2020. The Extremely Wicked trailer has been released! And the Jay and Silent Bob reboot will start production in February.

We discuss the main categories, what we think of the nominations, and who we think will take Oscar home. We also wrote a blog post sharing all of the Oscar Nominations, which you can read here.

Join us next week where we share our thoughts on the anime films!

Coming Soon:

Wizard of Oz releasing January 30thA Silent Voice releasing January 31stMiss Bala releasing February 1st

Upcoming Events include:

Cinema Falls: Oscar Live Action and Animated Shorts on February 9th at 3:30pmCinema Falls: Oscar Doc Shorts on February 10th at 5:30pm Washington Pavilion: The Music of Jurassic Park on February 9th and 10thWashington Pavilion: The Music of Harry Potter on April 6th and 7th

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Your three favorite schmucks are back!

As usual, we discuss the upsets in the box office. The limited run for Dragon Ball Super: Broly broke through the top 5! Who would’ve thought that?

This weekly news tells us that we’re getting a Ghostbuster’s sequel! Rumor has it that that the entire original cast is in for it. The Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer has been released! And we have some questions about it that we discuss during this episode. We also wrote a blog post discussing the easter eggs we found in the trailer, which you can check out here.

Apparently, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is to be rebooted… yet again. We discuss our thoughts during this episode as well as more detailed in this blog post. McQuarrie and Cruise return for Mission Impossible 7 and 8. And how about that Brightburn poster?

Disney is moving forward with the live-action Hunchback of Notre Dame, produced by Josh Gad. We were surprised by John Wick 3 trailer. Is this possible the end of John Wick? Finally, Netflix is set to raise their prices. How much is too much?

This week we discussed in-depth, Glass, the latest film by M. Night Shyamalan. How does it connect to Unbreakable and Split? And what about that twist? Listen more about it in this episode. Need more? Read about the journey to Glass on the Back Lot 605 blog.

Join us next week where we share our thoughts on the Oscar nominations!

Upcoming Events include:

Indievents: Burning on January 20thCinema Falls: Stan and Ollie on January 27th Washington Pavilion: The Music of Jurassic Park on February 9th and 10thWashington Pavilion: The Music of Harry Potter on April 6th and 7th

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This week the boys return for a stacked show! We go over the box office. This week welcome us with an unsuspecting turn of events. Aquaman gets dethroned by the Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston drama/comedy, The Upside. It was a given that The Upside would break the top five but not get the number one spot.

We introduce a new schmuck in the basement. Welcome Chris to the show. He is one of our newest contributors to the website and will routinely show up to give us his insights on movies coming up.

This weeks news tells gives us Disney is granting a terminally ill cancer patient early screening of Avengers: Endgame. Craig Brewer is set to direct a new Coming to America sequel starring Eddie Murphy. New Line will be rebooting their horror franchise Final Destination. IMDB launches a new movie streaming service. You will get to stream your movies for free with ads, much like YouTube and Sony’s Crackle. Finally, Masters of the Universe starts to move forward with writers Adam and Aaron Nee.

The guys discuss their top picks for their action film heroes. Who comes out on top and who does not make the list. Who is your favorite action character?

Coming Soon:Glass January 18th

Locally:Cinema Falls: Shoplifters January 20thIndievents: Burning January 23rdCinema Falls: Stan and Ollie January 27thWashington Pavilion: The Music of Jurassic Park February 9th & 10thWashington Pavillon: The Music of Harry Potter April 6th and 7th

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