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Head To The Movies This Weekend! · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One six point seven Light FM. Good morning, It's Christine.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here with producer Kristin and Victor is in for
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  Speaker 1: Cuby this morning. Victor, I would like to introduce you
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  Speaker 1: to our friend in Hollywood, Harry Medvad. Good morning, Harry,
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  Speaker 1: This is Victor.
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  Speaker 2: Hey. Good morning, Hey, Victor, Hey.
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  Speaker 3: How are you appreciate you hanging with us this morning.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a lot going on, especially with some of
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  Speaker 3: the biggest movies in the history of the box office,
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  Speaker 3: thinking about Spider Man, the big debut last week and
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  Speaker 3: obviously expecting I should say, big numbers again this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, it's been crazy. Every single weekday has been
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  Speaker 2: like a weekend at the box office. And I actually
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  Speaker 2: want to ask you guys. People are going back to
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  Speaker 2: the movies and trops. I have my philosophy of why
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  Speaker 2: people are we connecting as audiences at the movie theaters.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think is going on here? It's really
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  Speaker 2: a phenomenon. What's happening?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's a sense of community, right, It's
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  Speaker 1: just more fun. There's more energy when you're with other
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  Speaker 1: people and enjoying an experience together, and you're giving people
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  Speaker 1: movies that they really want to see.
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  Speaker 2: That's important too, Thine hundred percent, you nailed at Christina.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in my opinion, Hollywood is finally delivering the goods.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: For a while, people stayed away from the movies. They said,
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  Speaker 2: I can watch it at home. I got my couch.
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  Speaker 2: It's beautiful and as good as streaming. So but there's
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  Speaker 2: a couple of things going on. Hollywood is delivering really
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  Speaker 2: great movies. So even a film like Spiderman Brand New Day,
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  Speaker 2: or The Odyssey, which is based on you know, a
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  Speaker 2: three thousand year old bun we all read in high school.
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  Speaker 2: Many of us read in high school and forgot. But
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  Speaker 2: these films feel like they feel like originals. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're like you Toy Story five, it's a fresh story.
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  Speaker 2: But not only that, the theaters are just so much
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  Speaker 2: better than they used to because when I was a kid,
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  Speaker 2: I remember the sticky floors, the kind of like just
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  Speaker 2: really gross concessions. There was nothing healthy to eat, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the seats were just not moving, you know, they were
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  Speaker 2: really uncomfortable. That doesn't happen anymore. It's really rare that
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  Speaker 2: you find a theater like that. Most of the theaters,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in the last three years they've invested one
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  Speaker 2: point five billion dollars in upgrading the theaters and making
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  Speaker 2: them really beautiful, wonderful places where you want to linger
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  Speaker 2: longer because there's just really great lifebies where you're can
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  Speaker 2: have a drink or dine in or you know, have
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  Speaker 2: a dinner date during the movie, So dinner in a
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  Speaker 2: movie doesn't have to be dinner somewhere else is at
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  Speaker 2: an active theater. So I'm just super excited. But I
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  Speaker 2: think the main thing is that it's the slate of movies.
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  Speaker 2: There's something for everyone now. Yeah, the one that I
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about this week, and I mean Spider Man,
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  Speaker 2: Brand New Day and Odyssey. You're still killing it. It
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  Speaker 2: was a boss office all time record last weekend, four
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  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty million for one weekend. Wow, crazy for
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  Speaker 2: all the movies combined. But the movie that's opening this
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  Speaker 2: week and that I love so much is a comedy.
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  Speaker 2: And it feels so good to laugh together with people
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  Speaker 2: in a cinema because you watch a comedy at home,
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  Speaker 2: if you're watching by yourself, you'll chuckle a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but you're kind of looking around like where's everybody?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to do a last with you? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: I exactly, and comedy's work when you have a huge audience.
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  Speaker 2: This movie is called One Night Only, hopefully's playing for
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  Speaker 2: more than one night only at your local theater. It's
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  Speaker 2: from Will Gluck, the guy who directed Easya with em
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  Speaker 2: A Stone. He also did Friends with Benefits with Justin
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  Speaker 2: Timberlake Emila Cunis, and his last movie was a huge
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  Speaker 2: prize box office hit called Anyone But You with Sidney
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  Speaker 2: Sweeney and of course Glenn Pell. This movie stars two
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  Speaker 2: rising stars, Colin Turner, who you might know is mister
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  Speaker 2: Dua Lipa, he's also an eternity, a really lovely romantic
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  Speaker 2: comedy and Monica Barbaro, who is absolutely fantastic. Some people
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  Speaker 2: are comparing her to like a young Natalie Wood as
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  Speaker 2: a comedian. She's so good.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And this movie is just a love letter to New
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  Speaker 2: York City. It's shot all over the city. It's shot
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  Speaker 2: in the East Village, West Village, Soho. And I know
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  Speaker 2: movie locations really well. I've never seen the little Red
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  Speaker 2: Lighthouse underneath the George Washington Bridge in a movie before.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how they did it. How did we
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  Speaker 2: not use this as a movie location? But it's just
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  Speaker 2: if you love New York. This is your kind of movie.
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  Speaker 2: There's a little bit of political commentary in the movie
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  Speaker 2: that I think is a little bit over the top.
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  Speaker 2: It's not for everyone's taste, but you kind of just
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  Speaker 2: go with it. It's a dystopian comedy. I know it
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  Speaker 2: sounds crazy, but the plot of the movie is that
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  Speaker 2: there's just one night a year where single people can
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  Speaker 2: get together, and it's It reminded me a lot of
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  Speaker 2: like I don't know if you remember, there was a
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  Speaker 2: Martin Scorsese comedy called After Hours. Reminded me of the
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  Speaker 2: classic screwball comedy. It happened One night with Park Gable
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  Speaker 2: and plot of cultor. I love that, Christine, and you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna love this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I'm gonna book Eric.
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  Speaker 2: I think you guys will love it.
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  Speaker 4: He needs to take a night off. You need to
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  Speaker 4: go to the movies. This is great.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Harry brought us some great news, you know, things
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  Speaker 1: to look forward to.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, and let's keep it going. The
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  Speaker 2: movies are great. And just I mean just I'm so
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  Speaker 2: happy because I'm so happy to see people coming together
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  Speaker 2: at the movies for and the one thing I will
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  Speaker 2: say is all these films have in common. They're all
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  Speaker 2: about loneliness. They're all about how we have to kind
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  Speaker 2: of get out of the house and reconnect with each other,
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  Speaker 2: and how we need to be together and work together
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  Speaker 2: for common causes. So that's why films like Spider Man,
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  Speaker 2: Brand New Day and and I think this film one
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  Speaker 2: night and You're gonna do great business.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're really resonating.
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  Speaker 1: Harry Medved of the Cinema Foundation, thank you for always
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  Speaker 1: getting up early out in Hollywood and recommending such great films.
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  Speaker 4: It's good to talk to you, Harry. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Same here, Christine, Thank you. Hi. Victory, have a great
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  Speaker 2: weekend you too.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.