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Intermission #5: Backrooms v Supergirl - The Summer Hollywood Didn't See Coming

7/2/20261 hr 10 min

This month on Now Playing Intermission, the hosts discuss community theater, symphony screenings of Star Wars, audiobooks, road trips, and what they've been watching. Plus, listener Michael from England joins the show for Tom Hanks trivia before the conversation turns to one of the biggest questions in Hollywood: why are original movies suddenly beating the biggest franchises at the box office?

Clips

Garbage Pail Kids Beats Eternals
Evil Dead Superfan Quiz Trap
Tom Hanks Trivia Stumps Fan

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 1· Soundbite0:00

    [upbeat music] Woo. Uh. We gonna watch a movie. A movie. Lights, camera, explosion. Explosion. Get ready for the reel. Now Playing Podcast in motion. Yeah. Yeah.

  2. Arnie· Host0:11

    Hello, and welcome to Now Playing Intermission, episode five. This is Arnie, co-host of Now Playing.

  3. Stuart· Host0:21

    And Stuart.

  4. Brock· Host0:22

    And this is Brock.

  5. Justin· Host0:23

    And this is Justin.

  6. Jason· Host0:25

    And I'm Jason.

  7. Arnie· Host0:25

    So thanks for downloading another episode where we're not reviewing movies, but kinda talk about movies and other stuff. And in fact, let's find out. Stuart, what have you been up to? I've been curious, did you go buy a Lego set after the last one? I was really wondering.

  8. Stuart· Host0:41

    I bought this cool... It's another one, different company, but it's another bookcase thing of a museum. It's got, like, a g- little globe in it and little d- you create a little T-Rex b- and bones and all of that. So it's kind of like a, a mini museum with lights and stuff. I have not opened the box yet, but I've looked at it many times.

  9. Arnie· Host1:02

    'Cause you mentioned a Lego Eiffel Tower, and I looked, and I'm like, "I'm just gonna send that as, like, a getting better gift."

  10. Stuart· Host1:09

    Oh.

  11. Arnie· Host1:09

    And it's like $700 and six feet tall.

  12. Stuart· Host1:12

    Oh.

  13. Arnie· Host1:12

    And I'm like, "No, I'm not gonna send that."

  14. Stuart· Host1:13

    [laughs] Where is it? I'm waiting. [laughs] See, I did that on purpose.

  15. Arnie· Host1:17

    [laughs] You wouldn't have space for this thing.

  16. Stuart· Host1:19

    You know, I just want a Maserati. [laughs] Just to see what happens.

  17. Arnie· Host1:24

    So what have you been doing then?

  18. Stuart· Host1:26

    Here in America, we're getting a lot of hype lately about

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