Circuit Breaker! - The Awards, Film, & TV Podcast

Welcome to the Awards Circuit podcast titled “Circuit Breaker! The Awards, Film, & TV Podcast,” a weekly breakdown from AwardsCircuit.com featuring host Clayton Davis along with panelists Sam Coffey, Mark Johnson, Joey Magidson, Chris James, and Karen Peterson. We discuss movies, television and all the awards shows that need predicting. New episodes are released every Monday.

Find us on Twitter at @Circuit_Pod, email us at [email protected], and submit your comments and questions at the bottom of the episode.

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On the agenda:

* Talking about the box office this past weekend. “Good Boys” led the way with a surprisingly strong haul, while “Blinded by the Light” and “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” were ignored. This led to some discussion about Richard Linklater, as well as some chatter about how you would interview a filmmaker whose work you didn’t care for.

* While discussing Linklater, a comparison emerged with Tony Scott. This turned into some talk about which of Scott’s films are everyone’s favorite.

* A number of Trailers dropped, so they were broken down. This included “Dolemite is My Name,” “A Hidden Life,” “Little Women,” and “Parasite.”

* The Telluride Film Festival is only a few weeks away. Potential titles at the fest were speculated about.

* R.I.P. Peter Fonda.

* Emmy voting is underway. Discussion included if a Best Drama upset was brewing or if “Game of Thrones” will walk away with a win, the chances of “Barry” in Best Drama, and much more

* An Oscar check in. “The Farewell” and “Parasite” are moving up in Clayton’s predictions. Some chatter about the Supporting categories, as well as the middling nature of Best Animated Feature so far this year.

* Finally, some baseball chatter!

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Welcome to the Awards Circuit podcast titled “Circuit Breaker! The Awards, Film, & TV Podcast,” a weekly breakdown from AwardsCircuit.com featuring host Clayton Davis along with panelists Sam Coffey, Mark Johnson, Joey Magidson, Chris James, and Karen Peterson. We discuss movies, television and all the awards shows that need predicting. New episodes are released every Monday.

Find us on Twitter at @Circuit_Pod, email us at [email protected], and submit your comments and questions at the bottom of the episode.

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On the agenda:

* Celebrating Clayton Davis’ 9-year wedding anniversary, Joey went out to Asbury Park, NJ to see Bruce Springsteen, and Karen had “Pancakes with the Pearsons” and the “This Is Us” cast.

* Talking about the big announcements for the New York Film Festival that include Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” (and how the visual effects can be interpreted from general audiences and awards voters), Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” (hoping to perhaps be another 4 acting nominee player), and Edward Norton’s “Motherless Brooklyn” (one that’s been the hopper for a while and has big expectations).

* Fantastic Fest from Austin, TX announced their opener of Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit,” which is gaining excitement and buzz from every direction.

* We have a new AMPAS President in the form of David Rubin.  What are our thoughts on the new leadership?

* Is Joaquin Phoenix’s work in “Joker” a viable contender on the awards circuit this year in Best Actor, based on tributes and early buzz?

* If the Oscars were held today, what film would win Best Picture?  What contender(s) from the first half of the year and summer stand a decent chance at awards attention?

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Welcome to the Awards Circuit podcast titled “Circuit Breaker! The Awards, Film, & TV Podcast,” a weekly breakdown from AwardsCircuit.com featuring host Clayton Davis along with panelists Sam Coffey, Mark Johnson, Joey Magidson, Chris James, and Karen Peterson. We discuss movies, television and all the awards shows that need predicting. New episodes are released every Monday.

Find us on Twitter at @Circuit_Pod, email us at [email protected], and submit your comments and questions at the bottom of the episode.

CHECK OUT THE NEW CIRCUIT HUB FOR ALL YOUR AWARD SHOW PREDICTIONS!

On the agenda:

* Talking about the new trailers for anticipated hopefuls that include: Focus Features’ “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” from director Marielle Heller, and starring Academy Award winner Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys.  Focus Features’ “Harriet” from director Kasi Lemmons, and starring Cynthia Erivo.  Fox Searchlight Pictures’ “Jojo Rabbit” from director Taika Waititi, in which he also stars with Roman Griffin, Scarlett Johansson, and Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie. Warner Bros.’ “The Goldfinch” from director John Crowley, and starring Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, and Jeffrey Wright.

* Talking about the lineup for the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals.  What awards contenders will come out of it and which ones could crash and burn?

* Emmy nominations and contenders check-in.

* Full digestion (and spoiler-full) of “Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood” from writer/director Quentin Tarantino.  What are our thoughts about the performances that include Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and more?

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Welcome to the Awards Circuit podcast titled “Circuit Breaker! The Awards, Film, & TV Podcast,” a weekly breakdown from AwardsCircuit.com featuring host Clayton Davis along with panelists Sam Coffey, Mark Johnson, Joey Magidson, Chris James, and Karen Peterson. We discuss movies, television and all the awards shows that need predicting. New episodes are released every Monday.

Find us on Twitter at @Circuit_Pod, email us at [email protected], and submit your comments and questions at the bottom of the episode.

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On the agenda:

* It’s our 150th episode of the Circuit Breaker podcast!

* Comic-Con happened and we’re discussing the MCU lineup that was announced and that included “The Eternals,” “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” “WandaVision,” “Loki,” “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” “What If…?,” “Hawkeye,” “Thor: Love and Thunder,” “Black Widow,” and “Blade.”

* Touching on the other announcements that have included AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and where it’s going.

* Our reaction to the first trailer for Tom Hooper’s “Cats” and all of its digital fur.  Will it be as divisive as we think or will we all be on the same page about its quality?

* Norman Jewison‘s birthday was celebrated and we talk about our favorite film from the iconic director.  With a filmography that includes “…And Justice for All,” “In the Heat of the Night,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Moonstruck,” and “The Hurricane,” there are plenty to choose from.

* In getting ready for Quentin Tarantino‘s “Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood,” we discuss how many of QT’s films we’ve loved, liked, and disliked.

* Happy Birthday, Robin Willams!

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Welcome to the Awards Circuit podcast titled “Circuit Breaker! The Awards, Film, & TV Podcast,” a weekly breakdown from AwardsCircuit.com featuring host Clayton Davis along with panelists Sam Coffey, Mark Johnson, Joey Magidson, Chris James, and Karen Peterson. We discuss movies, television and all the awards shows that need predicting. New episodes are released every Monday.

Find us on Twitter at @Circuit_Pod, email us at [email protected], and submit your comments and questions at the bottom of the episode.

CHECK OUT THE NEW CIRCUIT HUB FOR ALL YOUR AWARD SHOW PREDICTIONS!

On the agenda:

* The AwardsCircuit TV Team that includes Editor-in-Chief Clayton Davis, along with contributing writers Christopher James, Alan French, and in her debut episode Jessica White, come together to digest the television awards landscape that was laid out earlier this week with the 2019 Emmy Nominations.

* HBO’s “Game of Thrones” leads the charge with a record-breaking 32 citations from the TV Academy but other shows “overperformed” including Prime Video’s “Fleabag” and Netflix’s “When They See Us,” with others “underperforming” including HBO’s “Veep” and Prime Video’s “Homecoming.”

* Acting contenders have revealed themselves in the landscape, and it has possibly made frontrunners emerge such as like Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”), Jared Harris (“Chernobyl”), Michelle Williams (“Fosse/Verdon”), Bill Hader (“Barry”), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Veep”), Sandra Oh (“Killing Eve”), Tony Shalhoub (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Olivia Colman (“Fleabag”), Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Julia Garner (“Ozark”), Paul Dano (“Escape at Dannemora”), and Patricia Clarkson (“Sharp Objects”).

* We know “frontrunners” are never that simple, which leads us into where everyone stands this far out.

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Welcome to the Awards Circuit podcast titled “Circuit Breaker! The Awards, Film, & TV Podcast,” a weekly breakdown from AwardsCircuit.com featuring host Clayton Davis along with panelists Sam Coffey, Mark Johnson, Joey Magidson, Chris James, and Karen Peterson. We discuss movies, television and all the awards shows that need predicting. New episodes are released every Monday.

Find us on Twitter at @Circuit_Pod, email us at [email protected], and submit your comments and questions at the bottom of the episode.

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On the agenda:

* Clayton’s mid-life crisis has started!  After a night of watching random movie trailers from the 90s, he’s decided to incorporate all those random movie titles into every few segments in the episode.  Fair warning: it’s “Dad Joke”-level bad and there’s no shame coming from the East Coast critic.

* Jon Favreau’s “The Lion King” has premiered for critics and we’re divided on the film’s relevance, quality, and what it presents for the future of cinema.  The film, which stars Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alfre Woodard, Billy Eichner, Beyonce Knowles-Carter, John Oliver, John Kani, and James Earl Jones, has stunning visuals but is that enough of a reason to remake this, and any other classic Disney films that will come after it?

* Discussing our educated guess for which films will premiere and screen at Venice, Telluride, Toronto, New York, and AFI Film Festivals.  We utilize the Oscar Predictions as our touchpoint in making guesses (and suggestions?) on where would be a good spot to premiere certain films for certain studios.  This includes “Harriet” from Kasi Lemmons, “1917” from Sam Mendes, “The Irishman” from Martin Scorsese, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” from Marielle Heller, “The Goldfinch” from John Crowley, “The Laundromat” from Steven Soderbergh, and more.

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Welcome to the Awards Circuit podcast titled “Circuit Breaker! The Awards, Film, & TV Podcast,” a weekly breakdown from AwardsCircuit.com featuring host Clayton Davis along with panelists Sam Coffey, Mark Johnson, Joey Magidson, Chris James, and Karen Peterson. We discuss movies, television and all the awards shows that need predicting. New episodes are released every Monday.

Find us on Twitter at @Circuit_Pod, email us at [email protected], and submit your comments and questions at the bottom of the episode.

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On the agenda:

* A podcast ensues with Clayton, Karen, and Chris are on board taking tons of questions from our readers.

* Happy Birthday, Christopher James!

* We’re dissecting the third season of “Stranger Things” Season 3, talking about the highs and lows, with no spoilers being spoken.

* Does Annette Bening have a chance of being campaigned or moved in Lead Actress instead of Supporting Actress for “The Report” a la Kate Winslet for “The Reader?” Will she win an Academy Award?

* Will two-time Oscar-nominee Will Smith actually be in Oscar contention for “Aladdin” from Walt Disney Pictures?  Is it a bigger contender in other categories as well such as Production Design, Costume Design, and Makeup and Hairstyling.

* Talking about some of our favorite television shows that are on-air.  Many lovers of “This Is Us,” “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson,” and much, much more.

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“The Farewell” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and quickly became one of the most talked-about films in Park City. Soon after the premiere, A24 bought the distribution rights to this beautiful, personal family story.

The film, based on an actual lie, tells the story of a family that is brought back together in their native China to say goodbye to their matriarch after she receives a terminal cancer diagnosis. The only trouble is, Nai Nai doesn’t know she is dying and, following Chinese custom, the family has no intention of telling her.

Awkwafina stars as Billi alongside well known Chinese actors Tzi Ma and Diana Lin with newcomer Shuzhen Zhao plays Billi’s grandmother.

The Farewell is based on the real-life experience of writer/director Lulu Wang. After trying for several years to turn this experience into a feature film, she had the opportunity to tell her family’s story on the NPR show, “This American Life.”

I recently had the chance to sit down with Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin and Lulu Wang to talk about their journey through this film, what it meant to each of them, and what they learned about themselves. First, Wang describes the feeling of taking her family’s story to Park City, Utah.

Here is a part of each of these conversations. You can find the full audio of our interviews below.

Karen Peterson/Awards Circuit: What was it like opening your film at Sundance?

Lulu Wang: Very surreal. Obviously a dream for any independent filmmaker to premiere their film at Sundance, but you know, my parents were there. They were seeing the film for the first time. My brother was there. So it was really intense. You know, just not knowing if it was going to resonate with people. In many ways, if people hated characters, they were really hating my family because I worked so hard to properly represent them. So I was just hoping that no one did.

KP: And I don’t think anyone hated it or hated them. It’s a wonderful, beautiful film. I remember when you were introducing it, you were telling the story about the journey to get it made and you were talking about being on “This American Life.” Could you recap that journey of finding a distributor and the process?

LW: In the beginning, I wanted to make the film but when I was first pitching the story, people…were asking is it an American film, is it a Chinese film? I didn’t know how to answer that. I would say it’s an American film, but I do want to cast it 100% Asian/Asian-American. And I want a lot of it to be in the Chinese language, which meant subtitles. So then people would say, “No, it’s not an American film then, it’s gotta be a foreign film.” But then Chinese investors would say, “Yeah, but if it’s a Chinese film we can’t see it through the perspective of Billi, because Chinese audiences are not necessarily going to connect with her perspective of the situation.”

It really took “This American Life” to say, “This is an interesting story. Let’s tell it, and let’s dig deeper.” And we interviewed my family members and my great aunt. For them, because they have a fast turn around and it doesn’t take millions of dollars to tell the story, they were really able to just tell the story for what it is. A human story, a family story. It also gave me the ability to choose my producer for the movie. Because many producers heard the radio story, they approached me after and wanted to make the film.

I said, “You know, I had such a pure storytelling experience doing ‘This American Life,’ which I’ve never had in Hollywood. I don’t want to make the film unless I can have that same kind o...

Welcome to the Awards Circuit podcast titled “Circuit Breaker! The Awards, Film, & TV Podcast,” a weekly breakdown from AwardsCircuit.com featuring host Clayton Davis along with panelists Sam Coffey, Mark Johnson, Joey Magidson, Chris James, and Karen Peterson. We discuss movies, television and all the awards shows that need predicting. New episodes are released every Monday.

Find us on Twitter at @Circuit_Pod, email us at [email protected], and submit your comments and questions at the bottom of the episode.

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On the agenda:

* Karen Peterson is back and meaner than ever! (but we love her still)

* From a question from one of our readers, we’re discussing our picks for actors/actresses/filmmakers who are long shots for future Academy Award love but are deserving, nonetheless.

* We share our reactions to the weekend’s most notable new release, “Yesterday.” Did Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis make good use of their high concept? Could Himesh Patel be a future Golden Globe nominee?

* The “Yesterday” chatter leads into a look at potential Golden Globe nominees in the category of Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical.

* “Toy Story 4” as the leader of the pack in Best Animated Feature. What else could challenge it?

* Clayton Davis and Joey Magidson have seen “Spider-Man: Far From Home” and have a spoiler-free discussion about the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe offering. Then, where could the MCU go from here? Specifically, a rumored Phase Four lineup is discussed.

* Some Emmy chatter: Will HBO suffer from putting all their eggs in the “Game of Thrones” basket? How effective was Netflix’s FYSee campaign?

* “Stranger Things” unleashes its third season on July 4 and Karen attended the premiere. What did she think?  Is it the best season yet?

* We wrap up with our thoughts on the first two Democratic debates that aired on MSNBC.

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Welcome to the Awards Circuit podcast titled “Circuit Breaker! The Awards, Film, & TV Podcast,” a weekly breakdown from AwardsCircuit.com featuring host Clayton Davis along with panelists Sam Coffey, Mark Johnson, Joey Magidson, Chris James, and Karen Peterson. We discuss movies, television and all the awards shows that need predicting. New episodes are released every Monday.

Find us on Twitter at @Circuit_Pod, email us at [email protected], and submit your comments and questions at the bottom of the episode.

CHECK OUT THE NEW CIRCUIT HUB FOR ALL YOUR AWARD SHOW PREDICTIONS!

On the agenda:

* We’re joined by new AwardsCircuit contributor Ryan McQuade who is filling in this week and introducing his likes and dislikes in film.

* From a question from one of our readers, we’re discussing our favorite movie scores of the past decade.  This also leads to a discussion that asks the question, which Oscar Score lineup is the best of the last decade as well.  With lineups that have included “The Social Network,” “The Artist,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” and “If Beale Street Could Talk,” which lineup gets top marks?

* Who has been our favorite Batman and our favorite Bruce Wayne?  Two separate questions with a lot more to digest.

* Jamie Lee Curtis is confirmed for the second “Halloween” due out in 2020.

* Big openings during the weekend that included Pixar’s “Toy Story 4” and Orion’s “Child’s Play.”  Sharing our thoughts, likes, and issues with each of them.  Did Woody get his own “ending” and what did we think of this Chucky update?

* Throwback podcast for you to enjoy is here.

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