It's a pretty dire news week on Stuck in Development! Carl & Eitan discuss the AI-ensh**ified Megalopolis trailer, Disney's TOC-based judicial cowardice & a Google antitrust ruling that hurts Apple more than anyone.

A week with two Olympics!?

In this episode the boys go through the media business of the actual Olympic games, and Eitan shares his main takeaways from attending Paris 2024 (including, of course, comparing them to a theme park).

They then review the Disney Theme Park Olympics, also known as D23, which includes major (and minor) announcements of upcoming projects across the Mouse live entertainment portfolio.

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After tripping over themselves to discuss a number of streaming topics – including the new Disney + Max bundle – the boys look into Amazon's rumored premium Alexa subscription and chat about Carl's experience with Vera Drew's The People's Joker. Also, Eitan shows off The Gadget (??).

It happened! Finally! The 2024 Stuck In Development Topic finally got unstock.

Eitan and Carl dive into the 'merger' of Skydance and Paramount, making a stop in Financials Town before ending on is-this-a-good-idea-ville.

Before climbing into Paramount Mountain, the boys also partake in a fire round to catch up on everything they missed on their hiatus.

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Movies! (Inside Out 2, The Bikeriders)

Business!

FastPass & Theme Parks!

We'll be off next week for July 4th.

This was a week of highs, lows, and questions marks.

First, Carl and Eitan marvel at the enormous power of Inside Out and its incredible box office run (which doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon), and what it could mean for their prediction of Disney making exactly $3.75B at the box office this year.

They later try to come up with some crazy accounting that could help explain a report about MoviePass having a profitable year last year.

Towards the end of the episode they close by breaking down the latest Netflix marketing stunts: "Houses" and popcorn.

Any SID fan knows the Alamo Drafthouse is Carl's cinema chain of choice. What they may not know is what he (and Eitan) thinks of Sony's planned acquisition of the chain. They also talk through a bizarre Inside Out 2 x Fandango deal and WWDC announcements.

This week's episode is a short one but a good one.

We start this week with Eitan's take on The Young Women and the Sea and his disappointment at Disney not following the Encanto Paradox by only giving it a small, 2-week release before it heads to Disney+.

They then spend some time breaking down the bankruptcy of a Texas-based franchisee of Alamo Drafthouse, and wondering what the outcome of the Paramount acquisition talks will be.

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Carl and Eitan dissect the latest round of doom-and-gloom around the future of theaters from the perspective of new release Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Carl's also mad about new tiling at EPCOT.

The Cannes Film Festival was last week, and Carl and Eitan HAD to ask Kevin to join them and share some wisdom about this historic festival.

The Three Caballeros first go through the history of the festival, before jumping to this year's iteration highlights.

Lastly, after Eitan had to run out, Kevin and Carl go through their movie aficionado WAAAAW.