The Big Picture: The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture

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The extraction calls the show “The Big Picture (The Ringer)” and the episode “The Future of 'Star Wars,' Marvel, Pixar, and Disney's Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on 'Brittany Runs a Marathon'”.

Hosts: Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, Chris Ryan. Guests: Paul Downs Colaizzo.

Subject films: Brittany Runs a Marathon, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Souvenir, Midsommar.

On the transcript: Auto-transcript with no speaker labels and frequent name garbling; the third host is Chris Ryan, not named in the user's prompt, and the first ~35 seconds is a sponsor read (skipped). The interview begins at 0:54:28 with Sean as interviewer.

Films that came up

subject (6)

Brittany Runs a Marathon · Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · Luce · Midsommar · Yesterday · The Souvenir

passing (32)

Non-Fiction · Lady and the Tramp (live action) · Bambi · Fighting with My Family · Black Panther 2 · Black Panther · Spider-Man (MCU) · Eternals · Avatar 2 · Onward · Soul · Wine Country · Jungle Cruise · The Shallows · The Commuter · Run All Night · Non-Stop · Crawl · Ford v Ferrari · El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie · Where'd You Go, Bernadette · Stand By Me · Paper Towns · Less Than Zero (Hulu reboot) · The Master · There Will Be Blood · Toy Story 4 · John Wick: Chapter 3 · The Secret Life of Pets 2 · Godzilla vs. Kong · Kong: Skull Island · Godzilla (previous film in the series)

anecdote (3)

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope · Moana · 22 Jump Street

compared (17)

Aladdin · Avatar · Titanic · Guardians of the Galaxy · Deadwood movie · Veronica Mars (movie) · Bohemian Rhapsody · Broadcast News · First Man · The Hustle · Dirty Rotten Scoundrels · Straight Time · Inglourious Basterds · Funny People · 500 Days of Summer · Harry Potter (2009 entry) · The Big Sick

recommended (16)

Inside Out · Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark · Always Be My Maybe · Late Night · Booksmart · Plus One · Rocketman · The Farewell · The Nightingale · Avengers: Endgame · Long Shot · Pokemon Detective Pikachu · The Dead Don't Die · Sword of Trust · The Art of Self-Defense · Carnal Knowledge

dismissed (6)

Men in Black: International · The Lion King (2019) · Hobbs & Shaw · Shaft · Dark Phoenix · Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Claims (72)

  1. industry (industry): Disney slate (D23) → Aladdin. Disney's legacy titles, Marvel and Star Wars together take up much of the pop culture airspace.
    “Everything builds everything else and now you've got these 3 things, the Disney legacy titles.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:05:10 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Disney slate (D23) → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Disney has consolidated all its IP and has Disney Plus as its distribution plan, confirming the predicted monopoly.
    “they have consolidated all of the IPas together. They have their distribution plan ready in Disney Plus”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:07:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Spider-Man (MCU) → Sony. Spider-Man leaving the MCU reads as Sony wanting to make another one itself.
    “But the Spider-Man thing I thought was indicative of indicative of Sony being like, let's go.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:08:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Black Panther: Wakanda Forever → Avatar: The Way of Water. Black Panther 2 is among the most anticipated films, along with Avatar 2, and its long wait is compared to the Avatar gap.
    “Black Panther 2 in particular, though, struck me as weird because it might be after the rise of Skywalker, maybe Avatar 2, the most anticipated movie that exists”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:09:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. industry (industry): Avatar: The Way of Water → James Cameron. Doubters were wrong about Cameron with Titanic and Avatar, so don't count him out.
    “But underestimate James Cameron at your peril, because this is what happened with Titanic, and this is what happened with Avatar.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:09:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. people (casting): Eternals → Kit Harington. Kit Harington was announced as Black Knight, giving the film two Game of Thrones actors.
    “His name is Black Knight, a.k.a. Dane Whitman and he will be portrayed by Kit Harrington.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:10:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  7. theme (comparison): Eternals → Guardians of the Galaxy. Eternals feels like an unknown cast of space characters, like Guardians, but Guardians had one-liners as the hook.
    “Guardians feels like a very unique proposition where it was like, this is in space and we're going to introduce all this stuff, but really just come for the one liners.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:10:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. people (casting): Eternals → Angelina Jolie. The Eternals cast is very starry, naming Jolie, Hayek, Henry, Chan and Nanjiani.
    “You've got Angelina Jolie, you've got Salma Hayek, you've got Brian Tyree Henry.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:11:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. people (casting): Onward → Chris Pratt. Onward, the next Pixar film, stars Chris Pratt as one of two elf brothers.
    “Amanda, you left a helpful note here for Onward, which stars Chris Pratt, which is the next Pixar film”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:11:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. people (casting): Soul → Tina Fey. Soul stars Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey and is about how each person got their soul.
    “Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey will star.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:12:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. theme (comparison): Soul → Inside Out. Soul's existential premise prompts a mixed-up recollection of Inside Out, which is really good and has an affecting Sadness character.
    “And inside out's really good.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:12:56 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. people (casting): Inside Out → Amy Poehler. The Sadness character is Amy Poehler, not Tina Fey.
    “That's Amy Poehler.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:12:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. people (director): Jungle Cruise → Jaume Collet-Serra. Jungle Cruise is directed by a filmmaker known for dark crime thrillers.
    “He makes deeply fucked up crime movies, and he's directing a Dwayne Johnson romp that probably won't feature Elizabeth Warren.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:14:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (joke crossover): Jungle Cruise → Crawl. A joke about a crossover where the same alligator-escape ideas get investigated.
    “Maybe it'll be crawl too, and they'll finally investigate how to escape an alligator on land.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:14:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. industry (industry): Ford v Ferrari → Bob Iger. Iger blamed down earnings on failed Fox films Disney inherited, so Ford v Ferrari is the first Fox film Disney is really putting its back into.
    “Well, recently Bob Iger in a call about earnings basically placed a lot of the blame on Disney's down earnings on the failure of several Fox films that they inherited, that they did not develop themselves.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:14:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (preference): El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie → Aladdin. Asked to choose, a host would take a Breaking Bad movie over another Aladdin-style remake.
    “Let it be Breaking Bad then, rather than Aladdin.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:16:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. unmapped (revival worry): El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie → Deadwood: The Movie. Returning to a story years later in movie form left a bad taste after the Deadwood movie.
    “I'm left with a slightly bad taste in my mouth after the Deadwood movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:16:28 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (revival worry): El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie → Veronica Mars. Veronica Mars was wonderful as a series but felt compressed and fan-servicey as a movie, so he is wary of Breaking Bad's movie.
    “Now, they brought Veronica Mars back as a series, and it was wonderful. When they made it a movie, it felt compressed.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:16:44 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. unmapped (role): Austin Abrams → Stand by Me. In Scary Stories he is the kid pretending to be Kiefer Sutherland from Stand By Me.
    “He was the kid pretending to be Kiefer Sutherland from Standby Me.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:18:42 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  20. career (filmography): Austin Abrams → Paper Towns. Abrams has been in a bunch of teen movies, such as Paper Towns, and plays Cat's boyfriend in Euphoria.
    “he's been in a bunch of like teen teen movies like he was in paper towns and stuff like that.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:18:46 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  21. people (performance): Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark → Austin Abrams. Chris nominates Abrams as best supporting performance in a bad movie, doing a lot in a role that does not require it.
    “he's just like really doing a lot in a role that does not require it”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:18:54 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  22. people (performance): Late Night → Emma Thompson. Emma Thompson is named best performance in a bad movie.
    “I would also say best performance in a bad movie, Emma Thompson in late night.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:20:01 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  23. people (performance): Late Night → Hugh Dancy. Hugh Dancy's character was written out of the movie, which they want explained.
    “I still need some answers about what happened to that character.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:20:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. people (performance): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Leonardo DiCaprio. DiCaprio is the obvious best leading performance of the summer.
    “Well, I, the obvious one is Leonardo DiCaprio.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:20:28 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. people (performance): Luce → Naomi Watts. Naomi Watts is as good as she has been in a long time.
    “as good as I've seen Naomi Watts be in a really long time.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:20:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  26. unmapped (reaction): Paul Thomas Anderson → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. On the DGA podcast PTA, a Leo fan, seemed quite taken with Brad Pitt in the movie.
    “we know we know PTA is a big Leo fan, but he seemed quite taken with Brad Pitt in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:21:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  27. people (performance): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Brad Pitt. Pitt's responsiveness and presence is a rare form of acting, making the lead-versus-supporting call hard.
    “I just think like responsiveness is a form of acting as well. And he is the person who's reflecting a lot of Leo back.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:23:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  28. people (performance): Midsommar → Florence Pugh. Florence Pugh is named for best leading performance.
    “I wrote down Florence Pugh and Midsommar.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:24:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  29. people (performance): Yesterday → Himesh Patel. Patel is a good performance in a bad movie, singing Beatles songs at Wembley.
    “to be able to sing Beatles songs in front of Ed Wembley, is like, you know, it was impressive.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:24:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. people (performance): Booksmart → Beanie Feldstein. Feldstein's performance got swallowed by the did-it-fail conversation around Booksmart.
    “In Booksmart, which maybe is was a little bit swallowed up by the conversation around Booksmart, and whether it did or did not fail.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:24:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  31. people (performance): Plus One → Maya Erskine. Erskine's performance is a breakthrough, even if the film is weighed down by its male lead's story.
    “And she, when she is on the screen, it's like, it's transcendent and it is really kind of a breakthrough for her.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:25:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  32. lineage (source article): The Souvenir → Rebecca Mead. A New Yorker piece by Rebecca Mead explains Swinton Byrne was cast two weeks before filming.
    “I couldn't believe that she was cast 2 weeks before they started filming.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:26:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  33. people (performance): The Souvenir → Honor Swinton Byrne. Her lack of preparation and late casting is part of what makes the performance seem unperformed.
    “It is part of what makes the performance amazing is that there, there is no performance”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:27:12 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. people (performance): Rocketman → Jamie Bell. Sean gives Jamie Bell love as best supporting performance.
    “I thought Jamie Bell was great in Rocket Man.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:27:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  35. theme (comparison): Rocketman → Bohemian Rhapsody. Rocketman was paired with Bohemian Rhapsody for obvious reasons but has faded from conversation.
    “Obviously, it's Rocket Man has been paired with Bohemian Rhapsody for obvious reasons, but Rocket Man just doesn't come up.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:27:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. people (performance): The Farewell → Diana Lin. The mother and grandmother in The Farewell are named as great supporting performances.
    “I'm trying to isolate the mother and the grandmother.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:29:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  37. people (performance): The Nightingale → Baykali Ganambarr. Ganambarr is incredible in a brutal film, which Wesley Morris raved about.
    “It's like honestly like a really tough hang, but he's he's incredible in it.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:29:48 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  38. unmapped (stunts): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Zoe Bell. Interviews with stuntwoman Zoe Bell discussed how only Pitt could do the leap to the roof.
    “Stuntwoman extraordinary. that only he could do to get up to the roof and stuff.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:31:35 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. craft (craft): Midsommar → Midsommar. The cold open is Chris's favorite sequence for filmmaking expertise, even as punishing as it gets.
    “just in terms of filmmaking, uh, expertise, uh, would be the cold open opening sequence of Midsommar.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:31:39 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  40. unmapped (audience experience): Avengers: Endgame → Avengers: Endgame. The hammer-to-Captain-America moment at a raucous Disney lot screening made Chris feel eleven years old.
    “I was like, I'm 11 years old. This is the coolest thing I've ever seen.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:33:00 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  41. unmapped (scene): Long Shot → Charlize Theron. Charlize Theron's terrorist negotiation on the phone in a long shot is a favorite scene.
    “And then Charlize Theron doing a terrorist negotiation on Molly in long shot.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:35:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  42. industry (industry): Long Shot → Avengers: Endgame. Long Shot opened a week after Endgame with two stars over 35, which explains its low turnout.
    “It came a week out a week after Endgame and stars 2 people over the age of 35.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:36:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. industry (industry): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Long Shot. Counterprogramming may be dead, and fewer original films get made if they go only to streamers.
    “The question is whether or not people will still make movies like that if nobody goes to see them in the theaters.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:36:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  44. unmapped (elevator pitch): Long Shot → Broadcast News. Long Shot is hard to pitch in one line, with a Broadcast News remake as the only handle.
    “What is it, is it a remake of broadcast news?”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:37:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. unmapped (elevator pitch counterexample): Long Shot → Yesterday. Yesterday had a clear pitch and lots of talk, yet did only okay, so the pitch theory is not settled.
    “a movie with a great elevet or premise pitch that did not work at all, which is yesterday.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:37:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  46. industry (industry): Long Shot → First Man. A political controversy did not help First Man, so a Trump spat would not have rescued Long Shot.
    “That didn't work for 1st man though.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:39:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  47. unmapped (reboot definition): The Lion King → Aladdin. Lion King and Aladdin redefined what counts as a reboot versus a remake.
    “reboots were kind of redefined this year because of things like the Lion King and Aladdin”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:40:05 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  48. lineage (remake): The Hustle → Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The Hustle is a reboot of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
    “Rotten scoundrels.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:40:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  49. theme (comparison): Hobbs & Shaw → The Hustle. As films, not box office, The Hustle is judged more successful than Hobbs & Shaw.
    “I think the hustle is more successful than Hobbs and Shaw personally.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:40:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  50. contrast (contrast experience): Avengers: Endgame → Dark Phoenix. Endgame's roaring screening is contrasted with a Dark Phoenix showing interrupted by a fire alarm.
    “It was the opposite experience movie watching than you had from Avengers, which is getting a fire alarm in the last 45 seconds of the movie”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:41:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  51. lineage (stage origin): Luce → Luce. Overmanaged playwriting suits this film, which was originally a play.
    “I like overmanaged playwriting.”
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  52. craft (tone): The Dead Don't Die → Jim Jarmusch. Not a traditional horror film, but fun if you like the Jarmusch tone.
    “not a traditional horror movie, but if you like the Jarmish tone, go there.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  53. industry (franchise): Godzilla: King of the Monsters → Godzilla vs. Kong. Another Godzilla movie is already planned, directed by Adam Wingard, which makes the big-studio release odd.
    “it's Godzilla versus King Kong, which is, I think, coming next summer by Adam Wingard.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:45:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  54. industry (franchise): Godzilla: King of the Monsters → Kong: Skull Island. The previous two films in the series did well, yet audiences passed on this one.
    “The previous 2 films in the series did really well. King Kong, Skull Island, and Godzilla, and people were like, eh, I'm good.”
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  55. people (director): Sword of Trust → Lynn Shelton. A Lynn Shelton film starring Mark Maron, Jillian Bell and Michaela Watkins.
    “it's a Lynch Shell movie starring Mark Maron”
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  56. unmapped (feels like): Sword of Trust → Straight Time. It feels like a 70s movie you might catch on Turner Classic Movies, such as Straight Time.
    “It kind of feels a little bit like a 70s movie that you would sort of catch on Turner classic or something like that, like straight time or something”
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  57. people (director): The Art of Self-Defense → Riley Stearns. Riley Stearns's hand-to-hand combat psychodrama starring Jesse Eisenberg.
    “Riley Stern's, uh, I don't know, hand-to-hand combat, psychodrama, starring Jesse Eisenberg.”
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  58. verdict (ranking): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Avengers: Endgame. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a tier of one, with the rest of the summer far down.
    “once upon a time in Hollywood is is like a tier of one to me.”
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  59. theme (era comparison): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Inglourious Basterds. Looking at the 2009 summer, which also had Inglourious Basterds, shows what this summer lacked.
    “that was the summer of Inglorious Bastards, but also, um, you know, what what it had that this summer didn't have.”
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  60. unmapped (movies vs TV): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He would take one great movie over even Fleabag, Succession or Chernobyl.
    “I still would always, always, always rather have one great movie than an experience like that.”
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  61. lineage (influence): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Mike Nichols. Colaizzo studied theater-to-film directors Nichols, Kazan, May and Mamet.
    “Well, like Mike Nichols did that, Ellie? Kazan, um, Elaine May, you know, works as a director, as a writer, and, and, you know, I could feel that David Mammoth, same thing.”
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  62. people (producer): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Tobey Maguire. Tobey Maguire and Matt Plouffe's company bought the script off the log line and developed it for 2.5 years.
    “it was really Toby McGuire and Matt Pluffet material.”
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  63. unmapped (tonal subversion): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Brittany Runs a Marathon. The trailer promises a zippy comedy but the film slowly exposes deeper levels, taking a comedy seriously like a drama.
    “you take something you think you understand, which is, uh, which has promised to be fun and funny and engaging and enjoyable and unthreatening, and you slowly and and with detail and precision expose deeper levels as it goes on.”
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  64. unmapped (tonal shift): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Mike Nichols. Sean sees a Nichols-like pattern of starting one way and shifting into a different movie.
    “I feel like a lot of his movies start one way with a certain tonality and then they make a shift and then all of a sudden you're in a different movie”
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  65. theme (theme quote): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Thornton Wilder. He cites a Wilder line, film is the story of them and theater the story of us, and tries to do the story of us on film.
    “film is the story of them and theater is the story of us.”
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  66. people (casting origin): Brittany Runs a Marathon → 22 Jump Street. Walking out of 22 Jump Street he wondered if Jillian Bell might someday be Brittany.
    “I remember walking out of 22 Jump Street, just sort of like flippantly thinking, I wonder if that'll be Britney someday.”
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  67. people (performance): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Jillian Bell. Jillian Bell lost the exact weight the character loses, 29 pounds before and 11 during filming.
    “So she lost £29 while we were before we started filming in the last £11 while we were filming.”
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  68. people (performance): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Michaela Watkins. Watkins plays Catherine, the calm, motherly woman upstairs, a subtle performance.
    “Michaela Watkins plays Catherine, the woman upstairs, uh, who Britney thinks has everything going for her.”
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  69. unmapped (premiere): Brittany Runs a Marathon → John Cooper. Sundance head John Cooper introduced the premiere, where the room was laughing so loud audio had to be turned up.
    “I knew it was going well in the 1st 3 minutes because we had to turn up the audio because people were laughing so loudly they couldn't hear the lines.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:18:35 · Paul Downs Colaizzo (0.90 sure it was them)
  70. industry (distribution model): Brittany Runs a Marathon → The Big Sick. Colaizzo picked Amazon because The Big Sick had both a theatrical life and home accessibility.
    “I wanted to be an Amazon. The reason I wanted to be at Amazon was because the big sick, because the way the big sick was handled.”
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  71. industry (industry): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Amazon. Amazon won the Sundance bidding by bringing 14 people to the meeting, one for each million.
    “They brought 14 people into the meeting and one for each million.”
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  72. craft (structure): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Carnal Knowledge. Carnal Knowledge starts one way and ends another, which is what Sean meant about the Nichols shift; it is also shot theatrically.
    “Wait, it starts one way and it ends another way. That is fantastic.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:25:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items (26)

  1. fun, about Star Wars (A New Hope): Amanda was once asked to recite the plot of Star Wars and gave an intense analysis of the Luke and Leia sexual tension and the trash chute, yet never mentioned the Death Star.
    “I gave the entire plot with like intense analysis of the sexual tension between Luke and Leia and then also Han Solo and the trash chute”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:03:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Marvel / Eternals: Spider-Man gets a joke as a mythology: it is based on puberty, which everyone experiences, unlike the space-alien mythologies.
    “Spider-Man is based on puberty, a mythology that we all have to experience.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:11:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Soul / Inside Out: Sean can only remember Inside Out as a drawing and confuses its Sadness creature with Tina Fey's Soul; Amanda saw it in a theater.
    “No, I saw that in a movie theater. Really? Yeah, I just couldn't remember anything about it because it's a drawing.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:13:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Jungle Cruise: The Rock was reading Elizabeth Warren's book on the Ballers season premiere, setting up a Warren-and-Rock crossover joke before the director's crime-thriller past is noted.
    “He was literally reading Elizabeth Moran's book on the season premiere of Ballers.”
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  5. fun, about Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Chris campaigns for Austin Abrams, a teen-entertainment veteran who barely does interviews and takes his craft seriously, and will star in a Less Than Zero reboot.
    “I think he takes his craft really seriously.”
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  6. fun, about Always Be My Maybe: Amanda's pick is a slightly garbled Keanu Reeves cameo shout-out for best supporting in a bad movie.
    “Keanu Reeves always be my baby.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:19:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Paul Thomas Anderson / Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Sean riffs on the DGA podcast, where PTA gushed about Brad Pitt, and impersonates him on the Moana bit.
    “Because Paul Thomas Anderson is being like, Quentin, fucking Brad. In this movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:21:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Rocketman: Sean went to Rocket Man night at a Dodgers game and nothing Rocket Man related was given away.
    “I went to a Dodgers game yesterday and it was quote unquote rocket man night, which didn't mean anything.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:28:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Favorite scene is the out-of-time montage, with Cliff driving Leo home as LA changes in real time.
    “just the out of time montage in Once upon a time in Hollywood, which is my favorite part of that movie now”
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  10. fun, about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Amanda's favorite scene is Brad Pitt on the roof, which she calls the lightning bottle moment for Brad Pitt season.
    “I have Brad Pitt on the roof.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:30:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Midsommar: Amanda is waiting for VOD so she can fast forward through the first 25 minutes.
    “I'm honestly waiting until Mitsamar comes out on DVD or DVR or whatever.”
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  12. fun, about Avengers: Endgame: Chris saw Endgame at a Disney lot screening where the crowd screamed when the hammer reached Captain America.
    “The people in the movie theater were screaming.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:33:04 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Avengers: Endgame: Amanda found the CGI muddy and had to text Chris afterward to ask what was the deal with the hammer.
    “I texted you when I was like, what was the deal with the hammer?”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:34:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Plus One: Amanda rewound and rewatched Maya Erskine dancing at the wedding at the start, something she does for nothing.
    “I watched it at home and I rewound it and watched it again, which is not something I do for anything.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:34:57 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Long Shot: Long Shot was hysterical at South by Southwest, with the cast taking a victory lap to Boyz II Men, and it still flopped.
    “Then the cast of Long Shot walked out and did like a victory lap and boys to men played and it was like, this is going to be a blockbuster.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:35:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Luce: Amanda's pull quote on Luce: she is not a parent and does not need the New York Times parenting newsletter in film form.
    “I'm not a parent, so I don't need like the parenting newsletter from the New York Times in film form”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:42:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Godzilla: King of the Monsters: A host was the King of the Monsters meme lord for two months and still never saw it; nobody they know did either.
    “I was like the KOM meme lord for like 2 months.”
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  18. fun, about Sword of Trust: Chris's indie pick: a small Mark Maron movie about weird people in the South that feels like a 70s film.
    “it's a great little movie about weird people living in the South.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:47:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about The Art of Self-Defense: Sean watched it in an Airbnb kitchen at South by Southwest and it was still effective.
    “I watched that movie in a kitchen of an Airbnb at South by Southwest.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:48:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Fleabag / Succession vs Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Sean says that's why the show is The Big Picture and not The Watch: he would take one great movie over Fleabag.
    “And that's why this is the big picture and not the watch.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:52:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Brittany Runs a Marathon: Colaizzo had the idea for the film around 2011 while living with his best friend, who went on her first run and inspired the outline; her life began to mimic the outline.
    “And then I told her some things that happened in the movie and her life started to mimic the outline.”
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  22. fun, about Brittany Runs a Marathon: Colaizzo and his roommate stole a couch from a Broadway show after it closed, where the film's pipe dream was written.
    “we stole a couch from a Broadway show after it closed and that was our couch.”
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  23. fun, about Brittany Runs a Marathon: Colaizzo wrote every element as character, with pages on the character of the lighting, camera movements and costume design.
    “I made pages on the character of the lighting, the character of the camera movements, uh, the costume design”
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  24. fun, about Brittany Runs a Marathon: Colaizzo says on set he is sent to the extras table at craft services every time, so he goes and has those eggs.
    “they always say to me, extras eat over there.”
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  25. fun, about Brittany Runs a Marathon: At the Sundance premiere Colaizzo secretly opened doors to cool the theater because cold rooms make people laugh more.
    “I was just like secretly opening all of these doors to the outside to make sure that cold air would pour into this theater.”
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  26. fun, about Carnal Knowledge: Colaizzo's last great thing: a jet-lagged viewing of Carnal Knowledge, which he found subtext-filled and theatrically shot, eaten with pricey hotel cashews.
    “filled with subtext and the way that it was shot was so theatrical.”
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