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Breaking News About Harvey Weinstein’s Arrest - 1:00

The Cannes Film Festival Recap

A Feel Good Story Involving Kristen Stewart - 6:17

Controversy over another Lars Von Trier Film - 10:24

Why We’re Scared & Happy about Gaspar Noe’s “Climax” - 15:06

Netflix & Cannes Update - 16:43

Recapping the Acquisitions - 21:18

A BlacKkKlansmen Trailer Reaction & Preview - 24:50

Sundance Film Festival Recap:

Preview of Searching - 27:56

The Rest of the Sundance Award Winners - 29:40

The stars of the SXSW film fest - 31:59

News About Moviepass - 33:42

The Fox / Disney / Comcast Love Triangle: AKA Who Gets Custody of Deadpool - 37:05

More Upcoming Movie News:

Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria - 43:33

Rami Malek’s Bohemian Rhapsody - 45:18

Ant Man and the Wasp - 46:44

Can Sterling K. Brown save The Predator? - 47:30

The impending doom of Mowgli - 49:32

Speak to Us on Social Media/Wrapping Up - 51:58

Another month has flown by as we’ve covered everything from Marvel films to Oscar Songs. So you’re overdue for another Hollywood Hot Take episode, our sixth in the series. From breaking news about Harvey Weinstein to recaps of the three major film festivals to the business section headlines about Moviepass & Disney / Fox / Comcast to some good old fashioned trailer reaction fun, we cover all the stories in showbiz in HHT No 6.

We start the show with some breaking news at the time of our recording that Harvey Weinstein will soon be in police custody. Then we dive into some happier subjects. We cover all the news coming out of the Cannes film festival.

A Kristen Stewart photo went viral, and we do a miniature bio/filmography on the ascending actress career that survived an early Twilight, might we say. Lars von Trier and Gaspar Noe made waves as they are known to do at this year’s festival, and we also recap their careers as auteurs of shock & awe cinema. We update you on the Netflix & Cannes saga as well as preview some of the streaming giant’s more Oscary looking properties that may or may not be up for awards in 2018. Then we discuss the rest of the noteworthy films coming out of Cannes via the acquisitions page before diving into our big preview of BlacKkKlansmen, the newest Spike Lee joint making an early Oscar push.

Preoccupied with the Oscars and MCU, we ignored SXSW and Sundance. So we owed you some recaps and deliver in this episode. From the mystery Searching to the Best Actress hype for Andrea Riseborough from Nancy to the ultimate actor/writer/director showcase for newcomer Jim Cummings in Thunder Road, there’s serious Oscar buzz coming out of these early 2018 film fests, and we tell you why.

The business section headlines include the dire straits of Moviepass and their money for nothing business model. Then we try to wrap our heads around who actually owns Deadpool and the X-Men. Despite some recent assumptions, it’s not Disney and may yet be Comcast. Is this a bidding war or some form of posturing by Comcast or Fox, laugh at all we don’t know in this segment.

Finally, we dive into some recent movie news about the upcoming Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino’s next film, Suspiria before reacting to some recent trailers of Bohemian Rhapsody, Ant Man and the Wasp, The Predator, and Mowgli. It’s another jam packed news episode, and we have some piping hot takes.

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