Yo West Belante live from Hollywood the Two Hours of the Business, End of Show Business, and this week we are live from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival out here in Indio, California, where it's very windy and it's pretty cold. It's about the coldest Coachella that anyone's ever seen. So if you don't like a heat and you don't go to Coachella because it's too hot for you, get down here and enjoy a chili Coachella. How are you
doing, sand I'm not bad at chili Colchella. Soudum's very nice right now. Actually, yeah, it's like last night. I asked the owner of the festival. I said, is this the cold? Is this the coldest Coachella that you've ever had? And he said, no, Tomorrow night is cooldest Coachella that we've ever had. And so that's tonight. So that's pretty cool, except for I didn't bring any I didn't dress for it. It's like I just went to Japan. It was freezing. I didn't dress for
it. So I'm sure they have some mergers that you could get some clothes. I can go steal the Sublime hoodies. It's not a bad idea. Grab me one. The reason two, that's pretty cool, okay, cool? Yeah. So the reason why I'm out here is the the band I managed to BlimE played their first concert last night at on the main stage six oh five, and it was it was very successful. And if you if you don't believe me, go to YouTube, because you can watch the whole
Coachella festival on YouTube for free. So you got it free. Yeah yeah, I mean millions of people are watching and there's a multiview function, which the only people that have for the multiview function on YouTube is Coachella and the NFL. So you can go to Coachella and you're gonna get a screen with like four different stages on it and you just toggle through you see something you like, and you watch that band and they've got it on all the stages.
And that's pretty That's pretty generous for a festival that costs, like, you know, like the latest I heard is somebody bought a ticket on the open market that I thought to He paid seventeen hundred dollars for his one general admission ticket. Oh geez, it's for three days, you know, So if you say it's for three days, So three days, so I know, but I remember going fifteen years ago for three days and it was like
maybe five hundred bucks at most. Well, when I was a kid, I went to thrifty in an ice cream was a nickel, Oh it was you know that. Yeah, So anyway, think about all the other things you spend. It's like, you know, maybe six hundred dollars on and a whole day at Coachella with you know, dozens and dozens of bands on in a beautiful landscape and a you know, a list talent and new bands
you're discovering. And it's only it's less than six hundred dollars Is it really expensive compared to you know, I paid four hundred dollars to see the freaking Harlem Globetrotters a couple of weeks ago, and they my team, the Generals, didn't even win. So anyway, some of the headliners are Teso Pluma, Doja Cat and No Doubt, The Big No Doubt Reunion, Lana del
Rey, JB. Balvin and We've Got what else we got? We got Blur And then there's there's a lot of stuff you never heard of, right, Yeah, I remember the setlist, the ones that were familiar to me were exactly the ones that you mentioned after that. It's very basically like a
Who's that of music? Right? But if you went back ten years ago and looked at one of the lineups from ten years ago, and you would see a bunch of bands that you did not know who they were, and then you would go, oh, I cannot believe all these bands play together. Look at this line at how did all these bands play together? You know? And I wasn't there because you didn't know who they were back then. So the public is, you know, very far behind the Coachella stuff.
So yeah, there's stuff here like the Death Tones and you know who they are, But what about the stuff you don't know? But you will in the future, And that's why people should come out here. So next weekend he is a whole brand new weekend and they have tickets available for next weekend. And if you haven't, you want to check out Sublime on the YouTube if you actually if you do watch it, there's a lot of For sixty days, there's going to be you know, songs uptown and you'll see
me Sam the stage or he actually perform. Yeah, I'm in the back panicking or this guy trying to get him on stage, get him off stage,
stuff I normally wouldn't have to do. But it's like my first show with them, so I'm a little panicky and trying to get stuff organized and and it's a I mean, it's you know, it's like one hundred and fifty thousand people they go to this festival, so I don't know how many people A up with If it's the main stage and it's packed, it's prime time, six pm in the evening, it's a magic hour and the sun is coming down. There's an audience there. And this kid, Jacob Noll,
this is his first show with the band. He had a they played a benefit where they played a few songs. But this is basically the launch of Jacob Mill and the original drummer and bass player, which are Eric Wilson and Bud Gaw And uh, of course I got a DJ. They got a backup guitarist named Trey Pangbourne. But it's this is it it's first one, so it's so far, so good. And in other music names, Hey, Sam, what how much time we got left in this segment?
We got about three two minutes? Okay, I might have some other music. I gotta love it, dustimate throw, it is what I have. I mean, you're out there at Coachella in the cold, windy, rainy like dusty you know. P that's awesome, and it's great that you're doing the show live from there. Yeah, I'm doing it for my trailer.
My trailer is on site here at the and Lot three F and I could go into the media area and do my show there and probably interview some some people, but I'd rather talk to you, Sam, So I'm show on the trail. So in other music news, Bruce Springsteen his recent set at the Forum three hours and twenty minutes. Sam, that's a lot of music. Yeah, that's uh. I don't know. I can't sit through that much music. But the people who love him, they love that and they
know what they're getting into when they get there. But that is, like I mean, and you know what that means. I would say a lot of overtime for the venue staff because they usually have curfews. Why is there a curfew at these shows? People say strict you know, ten thirty curfew, eleven thirty currefew or something like that. It's listed everywhere backstage. Hey, everybody, you go over this, we're all screwed. Don't go over one minute. But I think when they bake into the cake, Bruce Springsteen's
going to go over so much. You better have the money ready to pay the overtime or the union workers, because at these big venues, a lot of union workers they don't They work a certain amount and when it's done, it's done. Now. They're happy to get over time, but it's gonna
cost you so three hours and twenty minutes. Wow. However, for those that sat through The Under the Killer Flower Moon, a recent Scorsese movie, they said it went by just like that, got a pair of Okay, let's take a break, check the traffic and come back and maybe my voice, well, I'll get it. I'll get a glass of water. How's that? And we'll talk more from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
And I'm here in Coachella Joascalante live from Hollywood, if by Hollywood I mean Burt Bank, and we are coming to you live in April fourteenth, from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Let's get back to the movies. Sam the box office this week very pretty interesting. The movie Civil War from the company. A twenty four is number one. Now A twenty four is like an indie movie distributor of studio that people will go see a movie just
because it says A twenty four on it. People will wear a T shirt that says A twenty four on it. And this civil war movie is about kind of like some kind of prepper militia, super maga people versus the rest of America. Excuse me, but I haven't seen it yet. But it's number one, and it pulled in twenty five million, and it probably costs about that to make, So that's going to be another success from A twenty four. Number two. Godzilla times Kong? Have you seen this an?
No, I haven't, and I've heard disappointing reviews. We just see a great Godzilla movie, and why do we need another different universes? And this one in particular has like it's like following up on the previous Godzilla and Kong movie. I'm guessing yeah, I mean, I'm I'm gonna watch it, but I obviously I haven't rushed out to the theater. Remember oh wait, dud well, I remember it. Who were the big stars last night that
that came out at Coachella and guest starred with people. Well, actually Friday night it was Lona del Rey had Billie Eilish. That's cool. That was cool, And then she was last night she was backstage at the No Doubt Party. No Doubt who had Olivia Rodrigo and Olivia Rodrigo was also at the party. Awesome. Other than that, very small gathering, sad, I'm just family and friends, you know now, Okay, so let's keep going down. We have Civil War number two, Godzilla, themes Kong, Ghostbusters,
Frozen Empire. This is where Elsa and Anna, I guess go to New York and fight spooks. Doing pretty good ninety six million total at the box office. Reviews are mixed. I'll talk about that in a little bit. Number four, Kung Fu Panda, number five, Dune Part two, number six, Monkey Man, number seven, The First Omen, number eight, The Long Game, and number nine Shrek two. Why does that make ten two? Shrek two? Number nine? Okay, that's nowhere say a
re release? I have no idea. I'm guessing that it has to be very weird. I really really want to see Monkey Man. That looks really good. Yeah, I haven't seen it. I did see a uh a, I did see one of the movies and so monkey Man it looks like a it's like an Indian movie. Yeah, it's a martial arts film, Indian martial arts. I love it. Uh. Okay. The movie that I did see what was called Ghostbusters. Now, before I tell you what I thought of it, let me read you some of the reviews. Same.
I like to go to letterboxed and just filter out the good reviews and read only the bad ones. And because sometimes it's pretty good. So let's see when I got that. One of them says bust busting. No, it longer makes me feel good. Uh. I thought that was a pretty good one. Some of them are in Spanish. I got your translated for you if we wanted, but they were you know, these are the these are the half star ones. Uh, pessimo one one person called it.
Pessimo means like dreadful. Ah, let's find another good one here. I am afraid of around right now. You are definitely at Coachella. Yeah you hear the thumping out there. Oh yeah, that sounds awesome. That's not just fake, it's real. So okay, So then my my next favorite one here is I am afraid of No Ghosts. But I am afraid of the other movies these writers will make because this is so awful. M h
if I can get you another one here. Most of them are just like, oh, these are the bad reviews, you know, but some of them, some of them are funny. They mainly I thought this one actually was. Although it was a terrible review, it offered some you know, helpful criticism, which is, this movie was so painfully predictable. Someone should have put Phoebe on a leash. That's the main character, and we,
uh, then we want then we will see the antagonists. But basically they what they wanted is the the person the family to be put on I mean, the girl girl. It's about a girl. How instead of what what happens, she should get humbled by the power of family and love. You know what. That's that's not a bad criticism because if you've seen the Ghostbusters movie, it's about it's basically about a lesbian uh team and her lesbian ghost lover and Paul Rudd, you know, being funny and and doing his thing.
I uh, you know what. Overall, despite these reviews, I liked it. It was entertaining, special effects were awesome, and Staypuffed Marshamallow Man and a million Staypuff marshmallow mini baby marshmallows were fun. They were like gremlins running around. I thought it was pretty good. I do agree kind of predictable, but it seems like every movie has to have a lesbian team in it now. And the reason I mentioned that because it's not because I
have anything against that. It's because, okay, nowaday, it's been done so many times. At what point does it become cliche and we get some
other kind of thing besides the predictable lesbian team. But this one, Hey, hey, if this is it and there's no more of these for a while with all the cliches in him, great, it was a good movie, but it's starting to get like you started to see a pattern where people going, well, here's what i'm gonna I'm gonna throw in this and I and okay, that's fine, but okay, you've got you've thrown it in so many times. Let's throw one other things. But I take it you
did not see The Ghostbusters. I have not seen it yet, and I will see it soon. I just have not had the opportunity. I'm I've got one month left of school and I'm done after this. All right, Well, I think you'll like it. And I still have the most recent Indiana Jones film. I still have to go see that one. Yeah, it's good, it's good enough. How about the money. I'll give myself credit for that. Mmm. I like Doom too, as we as I have mentioned on the show, it's good. It made me want to watch
Dune one again because I didn't win. I just didn't get rust. The Alec Baldwin movie has reached a settlement with the Medic on the set. The medic on the set sued the production, sued, the producer, suit everybody because she had to treat the wounds of the deceased cinematographer and the director, and so she sued for pain and suffering of being traumatized. What do you think about that, Sam, Let's go to break. But I think that
it is a traumatic experience. That's not what most people sign up for. But let's go further into it, into the next break. Yeah, let's talk about it because is this a valid lawsuit or not? Is this the kind of thing we want the courts to take up time in the court system or do we or don't we? More on that Joe Scalante live from Hollywood after the break right, Joe Le's go on to say, live Hollywood, but live today from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival out here near Palm
Springs and Indio, all these fine desert communities. It's been really beautiful out here, Sam, you ever come out here and get a chance. I love it out there. It is gorgeous, such very, very unique beauty. And you know, I've been all over this great land of our Sam, and I have to tell you, there's just nothing like this. There's some places that are even more beautiful, but there's nothing like this, and
it is. It really does have a unique beauty. And I start to understand why people move out here in their later years, and I might do the same. I have a small band is playing behind you right now. Holy Cow. I couldn't tell you, and I'm trying to see if I could decipher it from the beat going on, because that sounds like it's banging
out there. Yeah, it is. It is. It's not on the main stage, so that means because I'm behind the main stage, and I can see if a band's on the main stage because the the lights would be going. I could see them, but there's nothing over there, so it's on some other stage, and the other stages become a rumble, uh, and it's it's hard to to decipher. The big bands tonight are j Balvin and Doja Cat Cool and uh last night No Doubt, Sublime, Yes,
No Doubt, the Aquabants and the Addicts. There's two classic punk bands and how you know they throw? Do you know? There was a lot of hype going in on this reunion. I'd say that the the two biggest stories of the whole festival are the No Doubt reunion and Bradley Nole's son coming in to sing for Sublime after twenty eight years. When Bradley died, he was an eleventh month old baby, and now he went through a lot. And you know, in twenty eight years, this kid really went through a lot.
He did not have a silver spoon in his hand. It wasn't easy, and I struggled with sobriety. He's now been sober for seven years and he's just like he's a natural talent. I encourage everybody to go onto YouTube and watch the Sublime set and watch that kid. It's really wonderful to see, it's heart warming, it's touching, and there's much more to come for that kid. All Right, we were talking about Rust, the movie.
We always talk about. It's our favorite movie, Alec Baldwin's movie. It's very sad that the cinematographer, Miss Haylena Hutchins, was fatally shot up. There will be a trial coming up very soon with Alec Baldwin. I believe it's in July for the killing and see if he's responsible for it in a criminal does he bear criminal responsibility? Sam, that's the that's what we're going to try to figure out. In the meantime. You know, everybody involved
that could sue sue the production and including the medic. So here's the medics claim. The medics says that she her name is Sherilyn Schaeffer. She's she's a local New Mexican citizen. She says she had to treat the wounds of the of the two gunshot victims and it's just not what she signed up for and it was very traumatic and she would like to be compensated. The production said, whoa, whoa, whoa. We hired her to treat people if
they're injured. She got paid to be there and treat people who are injured. So you're telling me, if someone gets injured and she has to do her job, we are civilly liable for compensating her for her pain and suffering. How does that grab you, Sam, It's not like she's a combat medic. I mean, that's where you understand what you're getting into. I'm assuming that a medic on a film set, for the most part, especially on a set like Rust, would be worrying about like administering eye drops to
people who had dust get in their eyes. I don't think she or anybody in that situation would be expecting to have to deal and treat gunshot wounds, be stings. Stings, yes, somebody having an allergic reaction to something at the craft table. Imagine the ah the interview process when you're interviewing the medic here. Miss I forgot her name already, but anyway, let's say the interview Sherilyn Schaeffer, and you go, Okay, Miss Shaeffer, can you really handle being on a on a movie set? Uh? A lot,
with with all the injuries that happened. What's her answer? I can handle anything. You know, I'm a medic. I've been trained. I met out in the streets. I've seen this wound, that wound, a litany of all the trauma that she has witnessed. And so they go, well, maybe you do have what it takes, miss Schaeffer, but I warn you, it can get awful nasty out here in the desert, and accidents happen. Well, I assure you, if you hire me, I'll be ready. And then they hire her, and then we have this accident.
She has to treat him. And then she says, oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you, if there is an accident and it is gruesome, I would be suing you for pain and suffering for having having to do it. So, but I get your point. No one signed up, No one thought that would happen. You have real bullets. Hey, come on, guys, you got real bullets on the set. That's I'm not here to treat actual gun shot wounds. But it is. Yeah, could this is for a jury, So juries do they sit in a
room like me and you and just like hash it out. Now, in this case, they reached a settlement, So she's they're not going to tell us what it is. But I think she got something. Yeah, I would assume that that would be the case. That's that's something where it's like, yeah, we could see that, how traumatic that would be. Let's give you something for all of the psychiatric care you're going to need after that. All right, enough of this rusty gin wag. Let's move on to
the intellectual property portion of the show. And we have a big win for Paramount Studios who could use a win, and that is they won their Top
Gun lawsuit copyright lawsuits. Sam, Remember we talked about this. There was a magazine article from nineteen eighty three that inspired the original Top Gun and it was some guy who wrote an article about a academy of you know, where the fighter pilots go in San Diego and it's only the best of the best, and they're rare breeds and it's right rife with drama, and you can make a movie about this. And so the Paramount licensed the article and they
made they made Top Gun one. Now, in that document, it didn't say anything about sequels because I wasn't the lawyer on that document. Actually that's before I even went to law school. But you got to put sequels in your in your in your when you have a option deal, and someone's licensing from you for a movie, you have to be tied to all the sequels
and remakes. So this person didn't do that. These guys didn't do that, And so now they make Top Gun two, the Search for Curly's Gold, which we saw recently last year, and yeah, a really good movie, really good movie, brought back to the theater business in a big way, made tons of money, biggest movie ever for Tom Cruise. And these guys are saying, hey, what about us, and Paramount goes, I
don't know what about you? And I'll tell you what happened to that after we take a break, and who's right and who's wrong on the Top Gun copyright suit and other stuff on Joe Scalante Live from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Yeah, h m hm hm. Joe's Avanti. He's my lawyer. You don't want money, he does it all for you, and he knows what he's talking about. Then, oh, yes, he knows.
Yeah. Joe Is Scalante Live from Hollywood this week, Live from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. And I am here at the festival because I manage Sublime and the New incarnation of Sublime, but Jacob Noel taking over for his dad, and Bud Gaw and Eric Wilson who just killed it last night, just killed it. They played right before Blur at six o'clock and then No Doubt came on and after that was Tyler the Creator. I missed
other highlights of the festival so far, Payeso, Pluma and Sora. That's one of those Cumbia punk rock bands that we saw in the Sonora stage yesterday. Very exciting. Now we were talking about the top Gun suit, right, Okay, so what's what's wrong now? Top Gun they won their copyright suit. These guys suit him and said, hey, you can make a top Gun too and not pay us because we wrote the article that inspired the original Top Gun. Now the said, well let me look at that.
That's basically what happened. You know, went through the courts here, and basically in the end the court said, you know, we've we've we've read what what you own? You know, you wrote an article and you own the right for someone to reproduce that article. It's a copyright, a right to copy that. And if someone copied that article based a movie on it, you would you would get paid, and you did in nineteen eighty three. But this is a different movie, mister top Gun original article writer,
This is a different movie. Now what in this movie do you want? Well, that's about a school for top gun fighter pilots. What the original article is about? Well? Yes, true? But is there anything that's protected? Things like if someone copies work, even though there's an article with a copyright, if somebody copies the parts in the article that are not protected
parts, there is no copyright infringement. And in this case, they copied things that are not protectable, like, hey, there's a school, Hey there's students. You can't can someone else who didn't? Could you and me Sam make a movie about a school with fighter pilots down in sanis Ca? Yeah we can. We got Hey, let's make a movie. And we'll say these two guys are fighting, uh, they're fighting there ting to be
fighter pilots. And then they see some guy from the Philippine Army uh, flying around and they're gonna buzz him or they're gonna they're gonna really teach him a lesson, send him back to the Philippines. We do that? Sure? Why not? But and so if we can do if we can do that, and it's legal for us to do that, why isn't it legal for Paramount to do that? Why would they be put in a worse position just because in nineteen eighty three they licensed an article and made a movie about
that school. This is other stuff that wasn't in the article, and these guys didn't have any sequel rights, so they are out of luck. Plus, I mean, it's not like the guy who wrote the article created the school. This is an actual school in San Diego. It's they're using that as a platform for a completely different story. Yes, those are facts that you just said, and you can't. People can't take facts and say no one else can use these facts because facts are facts, like a recipe is
a list of facts. They're just facts. There's sugar and there's spice and everything nice. Although the plots of both the article and this sequel featured top Gun and various graduates and instructors, top Gun is a real fighter pilot school, and the graduates instructors mentioned in the article are real people. Those are factual elements and they're not protected. They're just not. So they just looked at it and said not enough, Here go Pound sand and that was probably
I don't know. The law firm probably took it on contingency hoping they would get a settlement. They didn't get a settlement, so they went to court and they got their clock cleaned. Yeah, that was a bad decision. I'm not a lawyer, and I can tell you that. It's one thing. If the writer created the concept of the Top Gun School, but he was writing an article about real people a real school, he doesn't own the
copyright to that. Me ask you this, Sam can me and you we just made this movie about the Top Gun School and we were allowed to because of the current state of copyright lots, and we made a lot of money. And then we took that money and we said, let's make another movie about another school. And you said to me, what school are you thinking, Joe, and I said, It's called the Hogwarts Wizard Academy. And we make it, and now what happens. See, that would be a
problem because that is not a real place. That was crazy. That is a work of fiction. That's somebody else's idea. Yes, so this is not the Hogwarts Academy. It's the Top Gun Academy. And that's what I would have said in my opening statement or in my request to dismiss, my motion for dismissal in this thing, saying, let me know if I can make if I can make a Hogwarts you know movie, and no I can't, but I can make a top gun. Actually, my speech wouldn't have
been very good, so it's a good thing I'm not a litigator. Let's move into some other intellectual property stuff. The Mickey Mouse. You know, we talked about the Mickey Mouse copyright and Bicky Mouse horror movie coming out the But there's something called the Pooniverse, Sam, the Poonaverse. Are these guys that are making movies about Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, all public domain. Now they've got a new one called Bambi the Reckoning Sam, How good
does that sound? Oh my god, that's amazing, right, Oh my god. Okay, I my brain is already just coming up with every possible good idea for this. The final shots of the teaser you can see now show a vicious and angry deer attacking a car. The vehicle turns completely over before the deer lets out a guttural roar. The main plot of the film is said to follow the characters Xanna and her son Benji, who are in the car wreck and are soon hunted down by a vicious killing machine, Bambi.
It's like Cocaine Bear, but with Bambi a little bit. But Cocaine Cocaine Bear was a very good movie. These movies look like crap, so they I don't know what's going on. We'll see the film, but there's a whole series of films, so they're gonna They're gonna nail it at some point. Also included in the series is Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare. Is that about Michael Jackson or no, Michael, that's a different movie than Michael Jackson
movie. Sorry, Yeah, that is a documentary. That's another one altogether. And then and then Pinocchio Unstrung, Oh dear Lord, and they got other stuff coming, Sleeping Beauty, the Mad Hatter and more. So that's kind of fun. Let's keep going, uh, because I got a lot
of stuff to do before the show's over. Game of Throne star Joseph Gatt filed a forty million dollars lawsuit against the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office against jorgeic Ascone, who hopefully will will be thrown out of office on the next election cycle. And then a woman named Brunson, she's one of the deputy DA's because they Angela brun said. What Joseph Gatt says is he had a fan. He did a cameo for you know, the cameo thing where you
record a private message for somebody for like their birthday or something. He did that. He did the cameo, and then the girl was an obsessed fan, and then she kind of kept trying to talk to him through that, and then eventually she produced and evidently it appears that she made the fake conversations with Snapchat or something like that, and someone took that fake conversation sent it
to the police and he was arrested and he's been exonerated. So assuming the office and the individuals for forty million dollars, and if it's true what he said, good for him because that's and they and then when he tried to investigate, he says they stonewalled them and they said they would punish him if he investigated further that kind of stuff. So if there's any gangster techniques going
on in the LA District District Attorneys Office will come out here. And I will tell you what I know about the District Attorney's office pedophile stuff like that, they still prosecute you. So that let that be a lesson to you pedophiles out there. You're not going to get away with it just because you see people running the streets. The last thing I want to talk about, Sam is Shoheo Tani's ex interpreter and as spiraling gambling of debts, debts.
I mean, if you have a chance, we don't have a lot of any time for this to talk about it early actually the segment, but if you get a chance, look over the chronology from ESPN investigative reporter Paul Levine and this guy got access to his bank account and about forty million in debt something like that. Yeah, it's absurd. So I hope Otani is gonna come out, Okay. I believe the Houston Astros are behind this whole thing, as you know, And well we'll find out and hopefully Otani's okay.
Everything good, Sam, We're gonna get out of here. Yeah, let's go. We'll talk next time. Joe Ascante Live from Hollywood, leaving you with the greatest just a taste of the greatest song I've ever written