Box Office Culture

Today Tony talks about movies coming up in this holiday season. We cover The Marvels, Trolls Band Together, Napoleon, Pedro Almodovar's Double Feature: Strange Way of Life & The Human Voice, It's a Wonderful Life, and The Elf Experience.

Also coming up in December: Wonka, Migration, Wish, Santa With Muscles, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and The Boy and the Heron.

Also announcing: The Fellowship Film Fest! Make sure to catch the next Load-In podcast with Producer Lee to hear more about that!

Music: Lords of the Land, Xavy Rusan

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Tony is joined by Producer Lee on this week's Box Office Culture to talk about Variety article "Crisis at Marvel: Jonathan Majors Back-Up Plans, ‘The Marvels’ Reshoots, Reviving Original Avengers and More Issues Revealed" by Tatiana Segel. They cover marvel fatigue, X-Men and Fantastic 4 Reboot, moving on from (or bringing back) past fallen heroes and more in this week's episode. Tune in to find out more!

The Marvels drops on November 9th so get your tickets now!

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NOW I AM BECOME DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS. It's finally here, gang. The double-feature movie event we've all been waiting for. Start your day off in Barbieworld and end with a BANG! Or flip the script and go Boom and Bust. We suggest a breakfast of bourbon and cigarettes before seeing Oppenheimer, and then a midday brunch of Cosmopolitans and ice cream sundaes for a Barbie matinee.

Oppenheimer's massive roll

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Which one is better? UNITED's own Conor Knapp joins Tony to discuss the differences, similarities, past, and futures of the James Bond and Mission Impossible franchises. From John Woo's white doves, to driving motorcycles off of cliffs into paragliding action sequences, Tony and Conor cover it all on today's episode of Box Office Culture!

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This week's episode of Box Office Culture was recorded LIVE in our Black Box auditorium. Yann Martel's bestselling "Life of Pi," now regarded as a literary classic, has been adapted into Ang Lee's beautiful 2012 film and most recently into the hit play that opened this past March on Broadway. "Life of Pi' is centered on the concept of choosing your own story. To celebrate this theme and the overall creative process,Tony was joined onstage in an intimate conversation with artist Alexis Rockman - the inspirational artist and tiger vision concept artist for the Life of Pi film; shipwreck survivor Steve Callahan who served as the marine and survival consultant on the film; and Life of Pi on Broadway resident director Ashley Brooke Monroe. 

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Tony and Producer Lee are joined by the ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI based on foundational large language models, whatever that means. Tony asks ChatGPT how it feels about the Writers Guild Strike, its ethics and values, and then the fellas have a little fun checking out ChatGPT's scriptwriting capabilities. It's a fun ep, check it out!

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Producer Lee is back on the pod to talk CinemaCon, the preeminent conference for all things cinematic. Tony runs down the items that he is most excited about, and Lee provides whatever it is that he does. Make sure to leave a review and subscribe so you know as soon as an episode drops!

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Tony and Producer Lee do what they love most, and list the names of movies for 49 minutes! Today we're talking about the series that the UNITED has to offer. Such series as the Neighborhood Watch, Rewind, Story to Screen, the Italian Heritage Series (presented in partnership with the Dante Society of Westerly) and newly announced series Scene and Heard and Food on Film. Scene and Heard will focus on films centered around music, concerts, and musicians, while Food on Film will be a restaurant partnership series featuring curated plates that tie the culinary to the cinematic. Listen to find out more, and check out the Coming Soon tab on our website to see upcoming show times for these movie series and more! And don't forget to subscribe and leave a review! It really helps the show out!

Neighborhood Watch

4/27 - Midsommar

5/25 - 5-25-77

6/9 - Sorcerer

Rewind

4/12 - A Patch of Blue

Italian Heritage with the Dante Society of Westerly

3/27 - Umberto D.

Scene and Heard

5/2 - Inside Llewyn Davis

Food on Film

6/18 - Tampopo w/ Nana's of Westerly

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We brought in the Glue Guy of the UNITED to talk Oscars. Lee Metzger hosts our sister show The Load-In and today we're talking Oscar Ballots. Make sure to leave a review telling us what movies you think should win on Sunday and we'll go over them on the next episode.

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Tony is joined by the UNITED's own Carly Callahan in discussions about adapting intellectual property to the stage, lessons from Broadway and more on today's Box Office Culture.

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Ratatouille the TikTok Musical

Slave Play

POTUS, or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive

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