A Comic-Con Stunner as Marvel Brings Back RDJ + The Oscars Host Vacancy - ORC 7/30/24

INTRO - At least our schedules were open for THIS CRAZY BARRAGE OF MOVIE NEWS! OSCARS HOST NEWS: 1:20 - Jimmy Kimmel then John Mulaney both turn down the job, and we wonder why. 4:33 - So who hosts??!! And it’s a huge list of names in play to go over. SAN DIEGO COMIC CON ‘24: Hall H Marvel Presentations 17:39 - Robert Downey Jr’s return as Doctor Doom, and we have some conditions 27:05 - Why the Russo’s return makes sense and talking ourselves into RDJ some more. 31:30 - The Fantastic Four: First Steps and potential comic storylines including RDJ. 35:02 - Captain America: Brave New World and Harrison Ford’s mocap monster. 37:25 - Other SDCC Highlights including the Vice President’s Simpson Quotation, Ryan & Hugh’s surprise screening, some Alien Romulus viral marketing, In A Violent Nature’s sequel, Terminator 7 with John Cena, the BioShock movie, and trailers for films like Transformers One & Hellboy: The Crooked Man + The Penguin and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. BOX OFFICE UPDATE: 41:45 - Deadpool & Wolverine sets many records, and we start the Cool Uncles Pod. 46:25 - Twisters has done terrible overseas as Mike 1 foreseen’d. 50:17 - Despicable Me 4, Inside Out 2, Longlegs and the rest of the top 10. FUTURE MOVIE NEWS 54:28 - The Megalopolis production scandal worsens 56:44 - TIFF released Midnight Section films including Friendship & The Substance. 58:04 - NYFF picks Blitz for its Closing Night, and we get new premise details OSCAR TRAILERS 1:00:40 - A Complete Unknown has a hype parade, but do we buy it? 1:06:21 - His Three Daughters seems like our kind of September movie 1:09:41 - OUR EPISODE OUTRO and where we discuss how you can reach us, conditional love for millionaires, and feeling the itch to gamble.