SMART-POPcast Episode 14: Beyond the Superbowl

New movies stink, so join us for an all-news episode of the SMART-POPcast!

Cast: Thom Stricklin, Mitch Goossen

Topics: 

• Site News
• Mitch, congrats on the new title: "Project Manager".  His grand prize?  When Thom is being lazy and slacking off on new features and releases, he gets to kick him in the butt.
• Due to a shake-up of the staff on SP, and the fact that the movies in theatres stink right now, we're throttling back to a biweekly schedule for the time being.
• Introducing...  the Global Community.  If you know of a site that may wish to affiliate, make them known to us!  Email: goglobal@smart-popcorn.com
• Boll Welcomes Razzy
• Why hasn't this guy felt the "Crocodile Dundee" factor?
• Even though Mitch (along with the rest of the world) think his films are awful, the man is doing what he loves.
• WB ready to unroll P2P Movie Downloads
  
• The simple matter of WB's involvement makes this implementation smell of "gimmick"...  but it's an interesting first step.
• Website offers Public Domain Movies via BitTorrent
• Oh great, movies Thom's professors couldn't get him to watch in film class, this website want s him to go to the efforts of downloading.
• Just kidding...  Not sure of the appeal (and the site itself is almost archaic as the films) but if it means kids might see movies made before 1977, Thom's game.
• MPAA sues over Phantom Movie
• And so it begins: a consumer possibly sued over maintaining an insecure WiFi network.
  
• Kevin Smith goes for the NC-17 Gold with Clerks 2
• Thom likes Kevin Smith's stuff, but he'll reserve judgement for when he see the flick.  Smith said similar things about Jersey Girl, and while it wasn't the stinker many made it out to be amid the Gigli/Bennifer bad hype, it wasn't as good as Chasing Amy.
• Considering it only cost about 5 million dollars to make, Mitch really doesn't see how this movie will tank at the box office, not including the DVD sales.
• Plus they (Kevin & Harvey) are talking about a 1000 screen launch.
• So even just for a first day screening if it made $5,000 per screen it will make its money back.
• Thom doesn't worry about the commercial viability...  He just don't quiiiite trust him when he says it's his best flick yet.
• Galactus and Silver Surfer as Fantastic Four 2 villians
• Au contrair...  Comics Continuum (a more reliable website according to Comics2Film.com) says such claims are "inaccurate".
• In fact, Rob Worley (C2F, our guest on Episode 6) says he has "no doubt" the Continuum checked it with the Marvel offices.  He may've been saying that extremely deadpan and sarcastic, but Thom thinks he was on the level.
• Months of internet speculation fodder RUINED in one fell swoop.
• Rothman tells some on X3, and the future of the franchise.
• Right now, Thom is more concerned with what goes down on X3 than whether or not the franchise will continue.
• Call him a fan of Wolverine, snikty snikt!