The Widescreen Podcast

HBO Max and Disney+ to expand later this year; Uncharted rocks the box office; Spider-Man keeps swinging; new Kelvin timeline Star Trek movie announced; new TMNT in 2023; Ivan Reitman and Douglas Trumbull die; MoviePass is (hopefully) coming back this year; Oscar nominations are released; and more

2022 CES news roundup; 3D isn't dead quite yet; Netflix prices go up; Spider-Man keeps topping the box office; Omicron causes more closures and delays; LOTR prequel gets a title; Wrath of Khan returns to theaters; too many celebrity deaths so far; lots of screenplays get released; and more

Europe starts bans on the unvaxxed; Quebec and Denmark to shut theaters again; T-Mobile launches a Chromecast competitor; Spider-Man dominates the global box office; Shang-Chi sequel in the works; West Side Story is a bomb; Michael Nesmith dies; Disney might be reversing their censorship on disc; and more!

Eurovision America is (sadly) becoming a thing; Vizio is still spying on you; Dune and Venom keep dominating the box office; box office expected to reach $21.6B globally for 2021; Cinemark tries to diversify; Ridley Scott blames millennials (of course); Unity buys Weta Digital; A Wonder Life meets Star Trek; and more

Comcast launches their own TV line, 3D Blu-rays are still on their way ... sort of; the box office shows strong signs of life; shooting incident on Alec Baldwin set kills cinematographer; Netflix bungles Seinfeld aspect ratio; James Gunn wants a gritty, gruesome Gilligan's Island; and more

Dune is off to a successful start, lots of movie release date changes, Disney agrees to a theatrical window for several movies, the biggest IMAX ever opens in Germany, B5 reboot in the works, groups fight Amazon's buyout of MGM, and more

3D isn't dead yet; Delta delays more releases; Warner dobles down on theatrical releases; Spider-Man and Venom crossover could happen; Scarlett Johansson sues Disney over Black Widow release; film buff saves over 20,000 VHS tapes from the dump; and more

Richard Donner dies, the Atari VCS is actually quite bad, people are getting stream fatigue, several disc announcements, ST:TMP Director's Edition getting the 4K trastment; Black Widow breaks box office pandemic records; Rock IV getting a director's cut; mystery Star Trek movie geta a director; and more

Roku takes on Walmart's streamer, Labyrinth getting the 4K treatment, box office numbers shows that people are going back to theaters, LOTR anime movie in the works, the aspect ratio wars might be back on again, and more

CA announces reopenings, Sony might bring movies to PS Plus, CES returning to Las Vegas, discs are still selling well, Discovery is getting Warner and Amazon is getting MGM, vaccinated moviegoers can ditch masks, Borderlands movie gets more cast members, a spotlight on a really big video archive, and more