Mike, Mike, and Oscar

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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YEAR IN PREVIEW PART 36: CINEMACON + THE PICTURES, P.5
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CinemaCon Updates to YIP Studios:
Amazon/MGM Has Spaceballs 2, 007 Updates, and a Potential Best Actor Contender - 1:17
Disney Has a Huge Slate, and Doomsday Questions, and Their Own IMAX?! - 5:42
Paramount’s Street Fighter Looks GREAT, and Brad Pitt Going Oscar Hunting - 21:44
Sony Drops Zelda First Looks - 28:07
Toho Teases Godzilla Minus Zero - 29:19
Universal - AM Reviews Lorne, and Some Audition Concerns - 31:32
IFC and an Over My Dead Body Review - 38:02
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FINISHING THE PICTURES:
Warner Bros - 40:50
(MKII, Cut Off, Oak St, Practical Magic 2, Digger, The Great Beyond, Dune 3)
Unsigned Movies - 1:11:34
(Werner Herzog’s latest, Cry to Heaven, The Sun Movie, Joel Coen’s, etc)
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What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 1:20:50

Our Oscars Year In Preview Series continues with deep dives into the slates at Sony and Universal. Plus, we review Exit 8, Normal, The Super Mario Bros Galaxy Movie, & more!

NEWS UPDATES:
Cannes Directors Fortnight Announcement Includes Clarissa - 1:59
Exit 8 and Normal reviews - 3:38
Paramount’s Big Oscars Contender Revealed! (?) - 8:00
Release Date & Acquisition Updates - 10:26

THE SONY SLATE:
I Swear reviewed - 18:08
Resident Evil hype - 26:08
The Social Reckoning + Sundance/Cannes SPC films - 28:42
Spider-Man: Brand New Day - 34:22
The Metal Gear Solid Announcement - 36:11

Sumerian Pictures & Josephine - 40:25
Toho Pictures & Godzilla Minus Zero - 43:36

THE UNIVERSAL SLATE:
Pressure starring Brendan Fraser as Dwight D. Eisenhower - 46:33
Sense & Sensibility could mean revenge of the fee fee - 50:50
Werwulf, THERE Wolf - 53:42
Universal Pushes Back Windows to 45 Days - 56:22
The Quarter 1 Box Office Discussion - 57:47
The Super Mario Bros. Galaxy Movie Review - 1:03:47
Disclosure Day worries - 1:05:39
The Odyssey pros / cons, ceiling & floor - 1:08:31
Forgotten Island & Musk - 1:15:14

OUTRO: Hear about Mike 1’s TV Watchings, AlsoMike’s diet and weekend watches and what’s coming next in this series and scheduled for the rest of the month as we can’t stop talking per usual. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

Our Oscars Year In Preview Series continues with Part III of “The Pictures!” In this episode, we discuss the 2026 Cannes Film Festival Lineup and the slates for NEON and Paramount.

2:24 - Cannes Carryovers discussed in last episode including Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Fatherland starring Sandra Huller and a Russian filmmaker who might be a free agent for Best International Feature this year.

4:36 - Non-Neon Highlights In Competition including a musical starring Rami Malek, a much anticipated South Korean film, the latest from Almodovar and Farhadi and many a renowned French Actress like Lea Seydoux, Catherine Deneuve, Virginie Efira and Isabelle Huppert.

23:26 - NEON’s Cannes Slate: Fjord from Mungiu starring Reinsve & Sebastian Stan, the latest from Koreeda, Hirari, Hamaguchi and Winding Refn.

34:13 - The rest of the NEON 2026 Film Slate from Exit 8 through Hokum and I Love Boosters to a Clayton Davis pick in Clarissa and a Mike pick for a sight unseen Documentary Feature nom selection.

53:08 - More Cannes Lineup Highlights from various sections including directorial debuts from Andy Garcia and John Travolta, the latest from the next George A. Romero, more French film madness, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest.

1:01:33 - The Paramount film slate in lieu of the WB deal being finalized. What’s their big player? We’re not seeing it yet. Can we figure it out?

OUTRO: As always, let us know your thoughts, comments, questions and concerns. Thank you for all continuing to listen to this series as we plod along many previews shows in a row, and please look forward to us reviewing films again as we have several potential Oscar contenders releasing later this spring. Plus, don’t forget our yearly Cannes Film Festival coverage that will include our reviewing of the reviewers and our tallying of the Standing Ovation in our unofficial, but let’s face it - official capacity as Film Festival Standing Ovation tally’ers. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
Oscars 2027, ’28 Have Their Dates - 1:10
Movies We Missed Last Ep - 3:40
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YEAR IN PREVIEW PART 3: THE PICTURES, P.2
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Greenwich Entertainment - 8:15
IFC - 9:40
(Forbidden Fruits, Faces of Death, Britanick News, more)
Ketchup Entertainment (aka Coyote vs Acme) - 14:13
Kino Lorber/Laika - 15:15
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Lionsgate - 20:00
(The “Michael” Issues, Hunger Games Prequel, Depp’s Return)
Magenta Light/Magnolia Pictures - 29:00
Mubi - 37:00
(Camp Miasma, A Russian Int’l Feature Issue, Pawel’s Newest)
Music Box - 48:05
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Netflix:
Releases Thus Far - 49:00
Cliff Booth - 51:51
Narnia - 58:24
Whisper Man/11817/Good Sex/Here Comes the Flood/More - 1:01:19
Ray Gun/Step - 1:06:50
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What’s Next From MMO/Leave Us 5 Stars! - 1:14:21

Filmmakers Alex Mallis and Travis Wood discuss their film, The Travel Companion, opening in select cities this weekend on April 10th. The film has a high 92% RT score after strong showings at festivals like Tribeca, and it has certainly struck a chord with MMO as Dramedy set in NYC and the airports thereof.

Scroll down for showtimes https://thetravelcompanionfilm.com/

Check out a Q&A this weekend at BAM Cinemas in Brooklyn
https://www.bam.org/film/2026/the-travel-companion

Watch the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vChuYQn9K00

And Watch This New Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjkiz5X3hr4

After an introduction, the interview begins at the (4:31) mark and spans a myriad of fun topics including the real life inspirations for the story, why this Mike loved the screenplay and how these talented filmmakers enjoyed their first feature film production with their cast & crew.

As for us at Mike, Mike and Oscar, here are all our links: https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar