Get your bucket of sugar and a large popcorn, because we're approaching the 2025 summer movie season. The movie season ahead is full of remakes, reboots, and sequels. There’s an industry term called IP, it means “intellectual property” and that basically boils down to movie franchises, books, characters and so forth that are all owned – studios own these entities and can therefore use them as they like. Jurassic Park, Marvel characters, Freaky Friday -- that's all IP and it’s what Hollywood is leaning into for Summer 2025. But here’s the rub. If Hollywood is just recreating what it already owns, has the film industry lost its luster? Can we make anything original anymore? Are we doomed to just add a number 2 or 3 at the end of movie titles? 

Chase Hutchinson and Kathy Fennessy from the Seattle Film Critics Society join host Dyer Oxley to make sense of this trend and geek out about summer movies. Also, we will hear from the social media manager at Majestic Bay Theater Jesse Mercury about how they're trying to offer more this summer. 

Other event recommendations from this week’s episode: 

• Brass Screw Consortium in Port Townsend June 15-18 
• The Washington Brewers Fest June 20-21
• Washington State Summercon June 20-22

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