LIVE From The Asian Film Festival Dallas 2024!

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It is the 27th of July in the year of our Lordship, 2020, for season 15 episode 3.
672 times you have been welcome to the Clubhouse podcast.
Normally live from our studio on Thursday nights, but it is a very special occasion.
So we are out amongst the people we have had our free dip. So we're okay.
My name is Roy and the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast.
It's going to be an interesting time together.
This is just the boys are out of pocket. So I am live at the Angelica Film Center in
just outside of downtown Dallas. It is Asian Film Festival of Dallas this weekend.
One of our favorite shows to do. We missed it last year, but we didn't want to make sure we were
back this year. This is night three of four sort of Thursday night winds up on Sunday night.
We're going to see where to have some guests up here. The red carpet's actually downstairs.
So we're going to look at some guests up here before too much longer. Maybe some guests co-hosts.
She never know. This show doesn't ever play anything really. We just do stuff.
But we are glad you are here with us. We covered a lot of the programs stuff on Thursday night.
We're having issues already. This is awesome.
But we'll be back to abnormal. This is coming Thursday. Maybe don't want to be there. Maybe we'll
see struggling out of town. So I'm sure he'll be still on his way home when we have our show next week.
But then the week after that, we will be back to abnormal.
We're going to be here to about the latest seven clocks central tonight. The red carpet going on
right now. And we're going for about an hour again downstairs here at the Angelica.
If you're in the area, of course, mockingbird station located at central mockingbird lane.
Angelica's been here a long time. We do a lot of screenings here. We love everybody here at
the Angelica. We can talk a lot about movies on Thursday night because I wanted to save
that context or that content, if you will, for tonight. We'll see who we get going because there's
a lot going on here at the Angelica. Some of our friends from the Dallas press corps are here.
But also, it is their normal schedule here at the Angelica as well. So some great first run in
Art House movies being shown here all the time at the Angelica. I just see a dead boom. Wolverine is
going on a bunch of different things. And of course, I did get to watch that Alson. I went yesterday
and we'll probably talk more about that next week on the show because it's very difficult to
talk about that film. Spoiler free. It just is. And I really hope that you have been able to
avoid spoilers if you are not into such things. I am not. And so I did everything I could to
go in as cold as I could. There was a couple of headlines I read early in the week that I thought
were spoilers that didn't turn out to be spoilers, thank goodness. But again, I'm not, I'm not a spoiler
guy. So I'm not going to be spoiling things for you guys. You want to go and find it on your own
that's between you and your God. But I really did truly enjoy this film. I highly recommend it.
I know that there's a lot of people that are saying, well, you know, there's not much
story to it. It's a dead movie. It doesn't have to. A story. But it does have some really cool moments.
I think a lot of that if you're, there will be stuff that you don't get if you're not entrenched
in deadpool and the MCU and things of that nature. But I don't think it would take you out of it.
But I would suggest that again, caught up at least Wikipedia on some of the MCU stuff. So you can kind
of watch the story on food. Not quite sure where we're going to go from here. But there are
some things that are coming down the pipe. They've announced at San Diego Comic Con this weekend.
They did have the big drone show on Thursday night where they did have galactous rides from
behind the things and then the fantastic four logo. So if that means we're going to really
going to get galactous, I'm fully here for it. Just do not screw up this over server. I'm a big
server server fan and I'm still dealing with what Fox did to both galactous and the server server
because that was a very, very frustrating. And I really believe that that model's going to get
the wheels back on the fantastic four, seeing some of the casting, seeing what the approach they're
taking to it is kind of cool. But you know, we, we allegedly have at least the first picture from
set I heard, but I've also heard that they're not filming yet. They're going to be filming in
London. So we just have to see how that unfolds. But I am very much looking for, there I go. Okay,
I'm back to the fantastic four when it releases. I don't think we have a release date yet. But
you know, we're at the point with the MCU where, first of all, the other time is undefeated.
So all of your stars have been aging, you know, and this has been going now for
16 years. This summer, we just met the 16th anniversary of Iron Man. So
you've got to start looking, you can't really recast in some cases. Even though you have the
multiverse available, I think you're going to have to go a lot longer before you can recast some of
those major roles. But you're going to have to go into the realm a little bit, which, you know,
the first time they did that was rolling the dice with Guardians of the Galaxy, which worked out
very nicely. I was a little nervous about that because I'm a fan of Guardians back from the 90s.
But I've also also talked about last week on the show that the Russo brothers are now back
for the next two adventure films. So those guys know what they're doing. I'm hoping if they do
secret roles, it's old school secret wars, but I'm not holding my breath. I think they're going
to do the new version because there's more story involved. I also think that if we do the
older secret wars, you're going to have to write songs and stuff because so many,
but I think that'll be a good thing because that's what should have been done to begin with.
But you know, who am I? I'm just a dude with a microphone. I'm actually live at the ancient
phone festival Dallas at mocking their station at the Angelica tonight. The boy is unfortunately
not available. Both of them out of pockets and night, but we wanted to see our friends the
shirts and hang out with them as well as some of our friends in the Dallas Rusco that are here.
This festival goes on every year. About this time of year, we love hanging out at Asian
phone festival. Dallas seems some great films. I was looking at a lineup earlier and this lineup
is pretty strong. Some really cool films or some shorts. There's some student films that are being
shown. Started third thing I go through tomorrow night. Tonight's big film is the guest.
So that's coming up this evening. Let's see here. Let me go back as we look at the lineup because
there's two films tonight. So let me, I'm going to pull that up in a different tab so we're good there.
Yeah, you think I'd be more prepared. Yeah, I'm not. We're going to wait for it to download
because we're a little bit behind the curve. But there are two films tonight. We talked about one
of the films that's played here at the Angelica on the show Thursday night called Deity. And that
looks like it's a lot of fun. That's not the, no, he just schedule all not the lineup. Come on, Rob,
use your head. You've already got the lineup out there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We got the shot. We're up and running. If you were watching,
I could give us some live feedback because I, this is what I'm looking at when I'm looking over here.
I've actually got a screen that shows me what's on that laptop because I can't see over there
because we do not have a, an engineer because it's just me. All right, here we go. Now we got the schedule
coming up two nights. The guests will be at 730 with a Q&A and then at 945 Moscow mission
will be playing. And what I like about the website for the festival is you can actually go through
and you can you actually have to have the the lineup. You can go through the films individually.
So you can see what what they're about and all that good stuff. And then tomorrow
and by the way, that's Asian film that list dot com if you want to buy tickets tomorrow,
we'll have past truth at noon, 1% warrior at 230 a sheema with a Q&A at 430. Stolen will be at 7
and then tomorrow and I wrap in things up at 9 o'clock will be twilight of the warriors love in
is your schedule. Earlier today, we had a long shot is going right now. But earlier,
art is love in a pile of a Q&A and there was also a short film and old fox played earlier today.
Again, tonight's feature film is the guest. There's a lot going on here as I'm looking through
things. There's still stuff downloading from the website onto my tablet and that's okay.
But a great lineup here. So many awesome things for you to be able to check out here at Asian
film festival Dallas again. Every July, they have this. It's a very popular film festival.
Got my t-shirt, got that known for me, which is nice. The white carpet currently running down stairs
hoping that they'll bring some of those guests up here. So we can talk about their films
and promote them for you guys to check out as well. And just looking at looking ahead, I mean,
we've filmed festival season starting to rind down. But convention season happens year round.
Right now San Diego, Comic Con, there this weekend, this is Saturday. So today's the big day
will start covering some of those headlines on next week's show. So make sure you join us for that.
Man, this is again, whenever we do the solo adventure, it's always a thing.
Here we go, head and back. So let's talk about some headlines while we're sitting here
doing nothing. If you have seen Kingdom of the Planet of the 8th, that would be available to you
on Thursday and in Hulu. So if you have a Hulu subscription, you'll be able to watch that on Thursday.
I have not had a chance to say I didn't go back and watch the other ones first, I think,
before I watch this one. But I'm looking forward to that. Congratulations to Inside Out.
If there's no officially surpassed frozen two as the high, let's go back. Okay.
You guys may not have lost to me. I don't know. I've got dropped, but I'm using my personal hotspot
now. So hopefully this will hold a little bit. There's a lot of people on the Wi-Fi here.
So I'm trying to get that handled. But as we're talking about Inside Out,
two passing frozen two is the highest-grossing animated film in the history of ever.
So strong business now starting to rebound, summer movies are starting to
be back to where they were. Very, very slow start to summer movies season, but it
things are picking up. One of Alex's favorite speaking blinders, there would be a movie at Netflix.
It was announced this week, Rebecca Ferguson is joining a community of Murphy and that particular
cast for the Peaky Blinders movie. And in a very strange announcement, there's going to be a new
SpongeBob movie next year called SpongeBob Movie Search for Squarepants. And Mark Hamill
is joining the cast as the flying Dutchman. So there's we've got that going for us.
If you were a fan of the SpongeBob Squarepants, let's see. We also got going on here.
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Robin Williams, one of those two parts. The one that they did on Steve Martin on Apple TV
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Man, this is a little bit of an interest or a little thing to do. But I got one or some okay.
We are live at the Angelica Film Center in my conversation just north of downtown Dallas.
For Asian Film Festival of Dallas, it happens every July. It's a great show. You can go to
Asian Film Festival of Dallas.com for the lineup tonight and tomorrow night are the last two nights
of the festival. Oh, so we have a bite. So that's awesome.
Can I? You have a thing with that? Let's see here. I cannot. That's unfortunate. All right.
But you can see, we're live. We're just walking by the home to see movies. I see more
quicker show in front of the show. We can hear his way. Kelly Kitchens is downstairs. Handling of the
rent carpet. As she does at the, at the mega. And then we can pivot today. And she was happy to step
up and help out. That's one of the reasons that Kelly is one of our favorite people. And they've got
people that are going to bring some people up here. We've already had some great events here at Asian
Film Festival of Dallas. Mark seems to be walking this way, which is good news for me, I think.
Oh, we have our first guests to wonderful. I don't have to start talking to myself anymore. Come on,
have a seat. We move over here. Oh, we do have an interpreter. Awesome. Excellent. I'm sorry.
I don't have headphones for you. So I'm going to talk as loud as I can. So.
So then you get here. There. Or do you need my, well, because there are our listeners need to hear you
too. They got to hear what's saying. Tell us who was joining us today. Okay, right up on that microphone.
Right now. Yep, because you're talking to who were streaming to as well. Is it live?
Yeah, we are live right now. Oh, okay. Hi. Okay. Well, right now. Right now. Right now.
Right now. There we go. We have two very special guests. Okay.
Movie director of the guest. And we have the actor who played in the movie. So welcome.
And we will get us our names. I'll be right here. Yeah.
So give it to you. Yeah. Yeah. Right up on it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like a guy. Yeah.
Hello. I'm the director of our movie. The guest in the run. And our movie is, uh,
through our movie that makes you feel chill, get chill, and ghost bumps. And here it be. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, maybe. I, I'll make you be like that. So yeah. Tell us about the plot of the plot.
There's a guy. Mincher. The character name is Mincher. Mincher is in. He works in water.
Yeah. Really, uh, golden. Like isolated. Fine. Okay. Okay. So lady, model. And he made.
He put on some spy camps. Yeah. In many rooms for the money. Yeah. He, he threatened by some
dogs. Yeah. To me. So he's, he's, he owes people some money. And so in order to make that money,
he sets up spy camps in the hotel. He works. Okay. All right. Yeah. First by. Yeah. First by bad guy. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. And some, someday, uh, the, uh, mother came to come to the hotel with, uh,
big him, a girl. And he, so, so the, uh, killer, uh, try to assault a girl by spy camps. So,
and he and his friend called, you get caught by that killer. Okay. So, uh, after that, they,
they need to survive from that killer in that isolating model. Yeah. That's the,
blah blah. How much of the film is seen because I saw a couple of screenshots from the film.
How much of it is on the computer screen with the spy camps and how much of it is not.
Mm-hm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, of course. We made all of them. Yeah. Because, uh,
It will be a problem when we get some videos from other sites or something, so we may be
all.
Yeah, yeah.
Korean horror films tend to be different than just about anywhere else.
What do you attribute that to?
Well, what makes Korean horror films seem different than everyone else in the world?
Korean horror movie?
Korean horror movie?
I don't know what to say.
I don't know.
Maybe there's a concept in Korea.
It's called Han.
Han?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I can.
How I explain Han.
Because Han is a Korean term.
It's very specific and special to Korean culture.
It kind of possesses the meaning of sadness, sadness, like sadness.
Oppressed feelings.
Okay.
It's very unique.
Because it definitely sets itself apart.
It's very popular right now.
It has been for a few years.
How many times has it been shown?
How many?
How much has it been shown publicly?
How many times has it been shown?
I've been hearing the Korean horror films.
In response to the international film process.
Yeah.
Last year.
Last year.
Last year.
Last year.
And this year, I've been hearing the Korean horror films.
What do you do?
Yeah, it's an email, right?
And let's do it at the real action film festival.
Last week, he was at New York.
Yeah.
So this is the second time in America.
It's been shown.
Because it's a two buncher time in America.
Yeah.
How do you go to New York?
You get to know what's in there.
Yeah.
It was a group, but actually, I like here more.
Yes.
Oh, okay.
I'm experiencing Southern hospitality.
Oh, yeah.
Southern hospitality, yeah.
Yeah.
So Texas has been good to you.
Yeah.
What kind of things have you gotten to do?
Anything fun?
Yeah.
We're going to the museum.
Parat, parat, parat.
Parat museum.
Parat museum.
Oh, the museum.
Oh, the museum.
Oh, the museum.
That's a great museum.
Yeah.
And even to the, that last museum as well.
He and me.
Oh, the DMA.
Yeah.
That's beautiful.
Oh, so you hang to the zoo today.
The zoo is great.
Yeah.
Normally, it's a lot harder here than it is right now.
So you chose a good time.
Usually, we say, come in over.
You're going to keep going.
But it's actually been a very, very calm summer for us.
And they have to try the looks mix, too.
Oh, what do you think of that?
Yeah.
Really good.
Yeah.
I like to mix a lot.
So we're doing a Q&A.
Yeah.
So night after the film.
How did you able to do a Q&A at the other festivals?
Uh, yeah.
At the.
Yeah.
Yeah.
At the boson.
We're doing.
Yeah.
I have there been any questions you were expecting.
Yeah.
Did you have any questions you were expecting?
I really.
Expecting now.
In here, Dallas.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
I got.
I got.
I got.
I got.
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I got.
I got.
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I got.
I got.
You.
I got.
I got.
You got.
I got.
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I got.
I got.
You got.
Yeah.
I got.
How?
How long did it took you to shoot the film?
Yeah.
I.
Uh.
Shooting day was.
Uh.
17.
How long did it take you to make the show?
One month.
How.
I started.
about six weeks? Yeah, yeah. Okay. How long was I in post? Like, because I'm sure you had
the individual effects and things in my nature. Like, six months. Okay. So not too bad. Not too bad.
So do you still have that same sense now when you watch it then you did the first time you saw
completed? Honestly now, I always want to be with others because I already watch too much
times. Yeah. So you watch their reactions? Yeah, with their reaction is, it makes me more inspired
inspired and more impressed. Yeah. Do you still get nervous? Of course. Because it, I mean,
every crowd, every audience is different. Yeah, every audience is different. What kind of filmmakers
inspire you? Of course, marketing is crazy. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Quentin Tarquino. And so there's too much
many other things. And that's a good thing. Right? Because there's so many filmmakers out there.
We need inspiration. Is there a certain film that you're go to? Like, if there's
or something that a film that you can never watch too many times? It depends on like,
because I know you made a horror film. No, it's, is that the genre you gravitate to? Or is there
another genre that you prefer? Because I'm not a horror guy. I don't like being scared.
So, actually, I like all genres. Okay. So, when I, when I get an idea about this film,
it was just there. Yeah. I was like, maybe horror film would be nice. Okay. Yeah. For you, my friend.
Yeah. We have to wear the ASCII questions too. Get ready for the screen.
Kim, what's your question? I'm going to say a few things.
Ah, okay. On the other hand, the director of the band, he was also
going to say a lot of things. He was also going to say a lot of things.
You know, like, across from the world, you know, here we are. We're screening our film and it's like,
I'm not a nervous and also I'm kind of looking forward to the response of the audience here.
Since you've already watched it once in America, how does, how does that crowd change from overseas to here?
Or is it, is it, do you feel like it's kind of the same?
If you're a singer, you're going to hit it. Yeah.
So, when you're here, how do you feel about it?
Ah, I'm so excited.. I like Italy, too. I also like all the different, different colors.
Which one are the limitations you have in the future?
So far, all those responses has been really positive, but here, Texas is a little bit different.
So, I'm looking forward to those responses here, with how the audience was response.
How would you react when you guys found that out?
Here in the movie,
it's called Chuchan.
In the movie, it's called Sogamiya.
Of course.
Of course, I'm so honored.
Yeah, because actually,
my short film won the price in here,
that was in 2019.
I think we were here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's an honor to me because,
yeah.
My film was here and won the price.
And now, my first feature film,
getting ready.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's pretty great.
Yeah.
So, you get that call.
Hey, we're going to make your film on night three.
And you're just like,
you had it just your brain had to melt.
Because it just like, wow.
I think that's awesome.
I think it's great.
How long do you think you can get the film tonight?
Do you want people to get here so they can get seats?
Yeah.
Can you get a seat?
Hello.
How long did you get the film?
How long did you get the film?
How long did you get the film?
Like 30 minutes.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're going to talk about anything that you're working on now.
We're going to come up.
Can you?
Can you?
Can you?
Can you?
Can you?
Yeah.
I'm writing some screenplays for, like,
one of them is drama for, like, streaming service.
Okay.
And Ron is a journey movie.
Yeah.
It's more, more.
Oh, I love it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's cool.
I've got a chill my friend.
I think he's got a big deal.
He got a big deal.
So he's going to see a film.
He's just going to watch more movies.
Yeah, so I'll just give him another movie.
He's going to watch the movie.
He's going to watch the movie.
He's going to watch the movie.
He's also going to watch the movie.
Yeah.
I don't know.
And then I will be working on films too.
Anything anything that you want to talk about specifically coming in?
have some tips to talk about.
During that day, I did the Korean idioees.
Sometimes I accidentally play leans a bit in front of the camera when I'm in the driving room overnight.
It's another day.
It takes me out of my opinion.
You know, a group of from Japan and they'll actually use the work you will be working on another film.
Oh wow. Wow. That's awesome. Where does the film go from here?
Are you being a festivalist plant?
Actually, it's not...
It's not... it's not... it's not... it's not... it's not... it's not... it's not... it's not... it's not... it's not... it's not... it's shaved off.
Oh, actually, so now he's kind of getting ready to have... for his film to be released in Korea.
Okay.
So, looks like we're getting the high sign. Is there any websites or social media that you guys want to put out there so people can follow you?
Social media is a little more website to come ahead to your voice, you know?
Jakum? Because it's how I'm gonna follow you.
You know, I'm gonna move on.
So, you know, Instagram, I'm gonna go to the website.
Yeah, but...
Because the post is the main thing.
The post is the main thing.
I don't... he doesn't...
Okay, it's the lot.
But we know tonight, 730.
If you're in the area, come on out. It's gonna be a feature.
It'll be the Q&A after for the guest.
Yeah.
Thank you very much for coming in and sitting down.
You're ready for the screening.
And if there was some... I mean, there are people who saw and remember the alien...
That short film that won here.
And the director is here tonight.
Yeah, come on out.
Yeah, come on out and pay hello to him.
All right. Thank you guys so much because we've got to get some answers.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
We are live at Agent from Festival of Dallas.
But when COVID's going on down stairs,
Looks like we have another guest getting ready to join us.
We're gonna take a...
Swing of my tasty beverage here.
Come on, let's see.
Whichever is comfortable for you.
I just get right up inside of that mic to everybody who we are.
I'm talking to you, so I guess I should sit here, no?
All right. Where are you comfortable?
Just get right up on that microphone and say everybody because we're streaming live.
Oh, we are.
High dollars.
High dollars.
There's right in front of that microphone to everybody.
Hello, Dallas.
F-F-D fans.
My name's here, U-Kee.
Get right like a this close.
Oh, well that close.
Yeah, it's pretty close.
Okay.
My name's here, U-Kee.
I'm representing one of the films which is screened.
Who rose in Samurai too.
We're a production from Japan.
Tell everybody about the film.
So the film?
Yeah.
It's like a real close that we have because it's got to go through and out.
Okay.
I'm still not used to this book.
All right, you're good.
You're good.
Okay.
So it's about the X female pirate who becomes a queen of a small nation.
And then she's trying to avoid being invaded by the surrounding nations without causing any kind of rule.
You actually adventure drama this way.
Oh, this screen yesterday?
Yes, it did.
And how did it go?
It was pretty good.
Unfortunately it's Friday.
We were here last year as well.
We screened last year and we can wear the full house.
That the show obviously is Friday, June the week.
It's not.
It wasn't as part of this last year, but it's still.
And one who was there enjoyed it.
So how many times has the film screened to you?
Well, they shared the notes in general.
Well, no, no.
This was the year of spring here.
Oh, what's it really?
Yes.
Great.
So I see that there's a two.
Yes.
How long has it been between the two films?
It's been about 10 years.
Oh, wow.
It's been a while.
It's been a while.
Where I think the writers were busy writing our other content, I guess.
And then you want to feel coming back.
Did it help you refresh things a little bit?
Like, really?
I don't know.
Let me go do this for a while.
Maybe a hundred of the other things I'm doing.
Or did you just try to go?
I think the writers were like, we have a couple of writers who write for us.
You know, we always tend to have kind of a, at least a couple of years.
Maybe even three between one and two.
We've done other sequels with other titles, other characters as well.
But there's a, oh, so this is really franchise.
I'm not, no, no, no.
Well, I'm saying within our production, so you've done multiple multiple.
We do.
Okay.
Different titles, different characters, different stories.
But we've done sequels up before.
And there's usually tend to be like a couple of years break.
You know, just, I don't know, just to get people excited for the next one, I guess.
Is there a type of genre of film that you find yourself drawn to more than the others?
Well, yeah, it's, it's, I don't know.
So some of you have probably seen our content that AFV before.
We've been here for four times, I think.
So our content is a little bit different to normal movie.
So basically, most movies are obviously shot in a studio location.
But our content is actually completely shot within a live theatre performance.
Oh, wow.
So I think it's entirely dynamic.
It's, it's a very, very, like I said, some of you have seen it before.
My content, the multiple people, this year saying they couldn't come and they really wanted to watch it.
But so yeah, it's, it's a little bit different.
So the way it's shot is like, we have an average of between 18,
to about 24 HD cameras each at one time at one time in a theatre set.
Correct. So you can imagine, you know, people who makes movies can imagine how much work it goes,
like, get put into this whole production.
And then we actually, because this is live, it's not shot for the camera.
It's actually live with audience.
That would be my next question. So there's a live audience.
So it's not like, all right, let's just do another thing.
So there's no cuts.
So it's a complete, so it's a one-point performance.
Right.
So everything's live as there's no, okay, we'll just do another one-to-one.
Right.
So yeah, so because it's live, obviously, you know, we're all humans,
and sometimes they'll make mistakes, whatever.
So to avoid us not having the content we need, we take it twice.
Okay. So you can imagine having a, because our content is pretty long.
It's like three hours.
So I saw that it was canceled for three hours yesterday.
So you can imagine having like 18 to 24, three hour tapes.
I don't want to be the person editing this.
Right.
So you recorded all at one time and it imposed them.
Yeah.
So everything else is exactly the same as a normal movie.
So the only difference between our content as an animal film
is the way it's shot.
The rest, it goes through the whole post production process.
Obviously the VFX, fully sound remix.
The particular, the Rosen Samurai 2, which we just screened this year,
we did the sound in Abyss Studios London.
That's what it's building to walk into.
Yeah.
It's a feel of the history when you walk into it.
Yeah. So you can actually imagine the quality of the sound that comes.
Absolutely.
So yeah, we do put a lot of work into our production.
So that, you know, the people who come and watch it can actually enjoy it.
Live work is true.
Live. Yep.
So there's no, there's nothing technically added in post.
You're doing the entire thing at one time, 24 cameras rolling.
And like you said, you don't want to be the guy who did it.
Oh, no, the digital world, it's at least a little easier.
I think it's easier now than maybe 30 years.
Fair. Also.
I can imagine.
But we've been doing this in every production you guys do.
Right. Not just this one.
No.
How do you sell lots of productions?
We don't.
We actually take every single.
So we own the live theatre as well.
Oh, you own the theatre itself.
Well, we own the theatre.
Where is the theatre?
It's in Japan.
We don't actually own the physical.
Stage itself.
The theatre itself.
Like you, you, you own the company that hires the people.
We, we, we, we own the, the content creators that.
Turn out the theatre's facing.
Okay. So we're the software.
Okay. Fair enough.
Not the hardware.
Okay.
So how many productions have you guys done now?
Uh, we've been, we've been.
The live performance for over 45 years.
So we are one of the longest running live theatre companies in Japan.
We're actually one of the biggest and most famous in Japan as well.
Uh, but the movie side.
We've been doing it for now 20 years.
It's actually our 20th anniversary.
Congratulations.
Um, so, what do you need to sign here?
Let's do this on film.
Okay.
So as I explain earlier, that we're pretty big.
We're pretty famous.
And we're kind of pretty popular.
I know it's going to sound biased.
No, but hey, numbers don't lie to my friend, right?
So the problem was, because our live performance
is so, it's great to be here right here.
It's got so big.
Because I'm inferred in this story, I'm sure they are too.
So it's got so big that people can get tickets, basically.
We had a lot of complaints from fans,
whatever they were saying, we wanted to say,
but we could never get hold of the tickets.
So the producers obviously asked, you know, the directors,
we were came up with this idea.
So we need to come up with something to satisfy our fans.
And the only way we could do it,
because obviously the life data, the seating,
obviously, there is a max stock, so absolutely.
How you can manage, I mean, we were here
as the biggest venues in Japan.
And that's still 1500 seats, wow, wow.
So we came up with this idea that maybe
it might be interesting to make it into a different format,
IE through a screen.
And that's how we came up with it.
The game in the high sign, but before you go,
I always like to make sure we just shake the self promotion.
So tell everybody how they can follow you guys
on social media where they can find everything.
Right.
So our brand on the, the movie side is good.
Gekki shimei.
So it's Gekki in Japanese is theater.
OK, cinema is obviously movies.
OK, so our brand is good.
Gekki shimei Gekki shimei.
I see I and I.
If you Google that, most of the time, they will come up.
So you can be able to watch it.
We used to have, we used to have our content on Netflix
on 1023, but we took it down.
Now we're trying to work with local kind of each country,
local territory people.
OK, so now we're definitely looking for somebody
to work with in the US.
So yeah, if anyone's willing to take a zone,
reach out to these guys.
Yeah, this sounds good.
And it's known.
Thank you so much for sitting down.
Thank you very much for having me.
Enjoy the festival.
That was, I was in semi-two,
returned the pirate coin check it out.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
This is a test.
We are live at the adjumpit station.
Why am I phasing?
Let's see what happens there we go.
And this is Asian Film Festival of Dallas, 2024.
We are covering the red carpet still going for about another 15 minutes.
Trying to get our guests.
Thank you so much.
Got our guests to come join us later.
I'd try to get it.
Y'all, come on.
I'll come and sit down.
Our normal show is on 39th and 8 o'clock Eastern.
All right, we have more guests to get right up on those
microphones and tell me who we are so everybody can hear you.
Hi, I am Mindy Chang and I'm the producer of Ashma.
All right.
My name is Kendris Ukamoto and I'm the director of Ashma.
So it's about the film.
Go ahead, Minge.
You got it.
Producer, sir.
The film is centered on 13-year-old Ashma Shirayi.
He's right right here.
The film.
There we go.
13-year-old Rock climber Ashma Shirayi,
who is not 13 anymore, but this is when she is 13.
And she's attempting a very huge climbing feet
and it's kind of year in her life and her relationship
with her father.
How long will she shoot?
Because she's 13 anymore.
When did we start filming?
Many moons ago.
Yeah, like almost a little over a decade ago.
Oh, so it's been that long?
Yeah.
It has.
What is it like now watching?
And this screen earlier today, correct?
It's creating tomorrow.
Like tomorrow.
So people still haven't been able to learn how to read.
Yeah, there it is right there.
I'm like tomorrow at 4.30 in the Q&A.
We're watching it now because it's been so long.
What does that feel like?
And she watched it yet.
She has watched it.
She watched it.
We had a world premiere in November of last year.
OK.
And we gave her a little bit of a preview
probably what, like, a couple weeks before.
It was not that long before.
And she watched it with me in person.
He was on Zoom.
Oh, it was pretty emotional.
Well, yeah, how does the feel watching it now?
You're the one who filmed it.
Yeah, I mean, we were really nervous
for how her and her parents would react to the film.
And they were very patient as we scrapped
together money and funds and resources
to finish this project.
And they had put a lot of trust in us.
And giving us access and allowing me to live with them
for several years.
So we were really excited for them to see it.
We were nervous for them to see it.
And in the end, they really, I think it paid off.
They really appreciated the work that went into it.
They've actually come to other festivals.
Well, they do not give compliments easily.
They said that they love it the more that they watch it.
Really?
It means the world.
What brought you guys to want to do this documentary?
I think originally, I'd need back from Japan
to the US in 2009.
And any of the times, Japan had a really awful rate
of suicide and shut-ins, especially amongst the youth.
And I think I wanted to make something
that could inspire young kids and show them
that it's OK to forge on in their own path.
You don't have to be subject to strict social norms.
So there's layers to this story.
You see it?
Yeah.
It's a climb on multiple books.
Yeah, absolutely.
You can use that market if you want to.
And I think that's the stuff I brought to the project
and things that I'd experienced.
And then I met Ashima and she was already
a very prolific world-class climber,
pretty much a household name, and in the climbing world.
And the more time I spent with the family,
I thought she was a perfect subject for a documentary.
There's been a lot of short films done about her,
but not anything long-term where people
had spent years with her and her family.
And I think I immediately bonded with her parents
just because her mom and I were,
I was born in the same small town in Japan as her mother.
Oh, wow.
I was immediately like a bond between me and her parents.
And then, yeah, I understood what it feels like
to be children of immigrants, basically.
And what Ashima was going through, trying to balance
so she was going through at school, and trying to fit in,
and coming home to a very Japanese family.
You mentioned something earlier about access.
Mm-hmm.
How much leeway did they give you as your filmy?
Because this is their kid.
So, was it a lot of just looked at?
We trust you just like, the cool or was
or was it where they very hands around?
They were very, yeah, they're very trusting.
Right off the bat, they are very hermetic-like family.
They don't really hang out with friends.
They just kind of stick to themselves.
So, to be able to have that trust, which came from,
I don't know, I guess.
Just, I mean, he built it.
He lived with them for a while.
Yeah, you were saying like, that's like,
that's a whole different level.
For a long time before he even filmed.
Oh, even before you filmed.
Yeah, that trust is hard.
I live with a family for about a year before we started filming.
Oh, wow.
So, I made sure to be of value and use them.
I saw that Ashima's parents were struggling
to be playing the emails to potential sponsors
or to the press.
And so, I offered to translate and to basically manage Ashima
as an athlete and then also got them more sponsors,
like the north face.
So, very tightly as we are in the opening weekend
of the Olympics.
Yeah, I mean, so, actually, yeah,
the both Natalia and Brooke who represent TMUSA right now
they have little cameos in the film.
Natalia, I think it's just like the back of her head
for a split second and it broke it on a podium or two
with Ashima in the film.
And they're both fantastic people and climbers.
I'm like excited for you.
You said you had your premier back in November.
Yes.
How many times have you screened it for a sense?
Or have you lost count?
We've lost count.
Which is a really important thing.
It's between 10 and 20.
But that's a good thing.
Because that means people are clamoring for this film.
They want to see it.
Have there how many Q and A's have you been able to do?
It's each and every morning or it's been most of them.
Because I'm always fascinated by the Q and A
because you're already putting yourself up there
on the screen.
Whether you're on camera or behind it.
But then it ends and now you have to give that vulnerability
a whole different sphere because now you're
in front of the people that just watch the art you made.
Absolutely.
On my background, I'm an actor.
So I kind of crave that vulnerability.
I think it's a great opportunity for us
to be able to tell more of the journey.
And people who know what went into making this film
because it was a very long journey full of a lot of obstacles.
Many points at which we didn't think that this film could
exist.
So it's great to tell that story.
It's great to feel connected with the audience who
just went through this emotional journey with the film.
And for us to bond together in the aftermath
and then to understand what it took from us.
And for that to be appreciated, it's like,
I love the Q and A's.
I think it's one of my favorite parts.
Yeah, definitely.
I think there's a lot of worry going into it
where we didn't want to make a climbing film just for climbers.
And we didn't want to make a film just for like Japanese-American
audience.
Just being able to make a film that can resonate
with a wider audience was really important to us.
And so the Q and A's have been really great hearing questions
from young kids, like we've had kids shop
to multiple screenings.
Ashima has a children's book.
Totally.
Totally.
Forget all about sharing with self-promotion.
She has a children's book.
Just give her Ashima a children's book.
She'll pop up.
Can A and H and A, yes.
And so it's been cute seeing kids like bring their book
and get her to sign it at different Q and A's or events.
And just the impact that she's had on people of all ages.
Has there been a question at a Q and A that's
made you look into things deeper,
or that maybe caught you off guard,
that made you kind of re-evaluating everything?
I don't know about a question.
I think recently we screened that mountain film
and tell you right, you call it a rado.
And I think the way Ashima's parents reacted
to the film and the question was something that made me
pause and rethink and appreciate everything.
They took a lot of time to praise and compliment the film,
which is, you know, harder and thing.
Well, you're good to them.
They don't give compliments very much.
Like, talk about that moment.
Did you just, did you just, had just like,
oh, that's just kind of, yeah, they gave a quick compliment.
They kept on going into deeper, deeper into complimenting me
in the film and the crew, like the people that brought this
film together.
And then Ashima was translating for her parents
or for her father.
So I think it, yeah, I think, because as a 13 year old,
I wouldn't want to camera documenting my day-to-day life.
And then you are not reading.
Yeah.
So the fact that they approached it with gratitude
and with appreciation is, yeah, I am beyond thankful.
And if we pretend you did all these things,
how much footage did you have?
I think it was like over $500, but less than $1,000.
Yeah, that's the one that I'm talking about.
Yeah, that's my first documentary.
I've produced, and it's been mind-boggling to me.
How you have mountains and mountains of stuff
and from that carve-out.
Like, can we just make this a series,
but running for like three seasons?
Because the editing process alone.
Let's just say you watched everything straight.
Yeah, you hear it what?
Three months?
Yeah, he's the link.
Watched all the footage, probably three, four times thrill.
I have one.
Yeah, he's just show me when it's done and we're good.
One of the things I like to ask filmmakers,
especially in actors, we need inspiration.
Is there a certain person's work
or a certain film that you go to
that kind of helps spark those creatures as for you?
Do you?
I actually don't know.
I do inspires you.
I mean, going into this film
before I started shooting,
I think when I was creating like my pitch deck
or vision board, it was me as Aki,
definitely is an inspiration, just because I grew up.
You know, not having a lot of screen time growing.
My parents were very strict about that,
but we were allowed to watch like jibbly film.
So, here's the adjoca of the show all the time.
That's the main thing with these two festivals per year
of all the jibbly stuff.
Nice.
And that's why it's important for me
to capture Ashmata H was at,
which is very similar in the sense of like
a chifito and spirited away.
A strong female protagonist.
And then like Ozu.
He's like, yeah, but I'm mostly inspired.
The thing that I love about documentaries is,
though I spent a lot of it,
many years just filming on my own.
The post-production process was a very collaborative process.
Nice.
It was the first like full time official person that came on board
to help me.
And then through her work with her nonprofit,
nation-American arts, like brought together
an amazing team, like a dream team of collaborators
that I am lucky to have as a first-time feature director
from our sound, sound next to our designer,
to our editor, to our composer.
I mean, we had multiple editors,
but we had high-level talent helping us bring this film together.
The first time director, because I don't know why I just now
caught that, is there, especially giving what this entailed?
How much fearlessness does there have to be?
Because you've got to be able, like,
you're literally running the thing.
And you're like, I'm just, I just said,
I was going to make it to a spell.
I'm just going to go right into the deep end of the pool.
And we're just going to go, like, how much of that fearlessness
do you have to generate?
Or do you just kind of let it happen as it happened?
Yeah, it just kind of dive in.
Like, I want to decide it to commit
because I had access.
I pitched it to different outdoor brands.
They all weren't interested.
So I just remember, like, applying for credit cards
and just maxing out four or five credit cards.
And then when those were maxed,
then my parents helped co-sign on two loans.
And then I was just drowning in debt
and very, being very careful
how much that was on the hardest step.
Like, hard drives were really expensive 10 years ago.
Just the memory cards for the camera,
I was shooting out $3,000 a piece.
And so yeah.
And then I was basically drowning in the deep end
and then she was like the life preserver.
I was like, all right, I see her drowning let me help you.
And then scared the film to completion.
And get the high sign.
And we always like to end our time with our guests
with shame and self promotion.
People want to get a hold of you
and get a hold of a film.
Find out where it's going.
Website social media, the whole thing go.
All Ashima the movie.
The website is AshimaTheMovie.com.
Our Instagram handles at AshimaTheMovie.
And we're tagged there.
Nngi-z, Kenji Sioux.
You can follow us in our journeys.
But yeah, I mean, the film has been such a whirlwind
and we're doing all these festivals.
We have over 20 in County, I kind of lost count,
which is not good.
But that is good because that isn't so many.
Where's it going from here?
We're next is, we're New York.
Next week at the Asian American International Film Festival
hosted by Asian Center Vision.
So that's going to be a really great.
And then later we go to Poland, we go to Korea.
It's kind of, yeah, there's more.
It's all the website.
All the screens are there.
And then there's a place we can put your name
and your email if you want updates on
over screening or distribution.
Help us spread the word.
It is tomorrow at 430 here at the Angelica.
Ashima A, S-H-I-M-A.
Come check it out with these cats
because it's going to be awesome.
Thank you guys so much for hanging out.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This is the Club Out Smartcast.
We are live at the Angelica for Asian Film Festival
of Dallas, 2024.
We are still going to be on a little bit more.
I think we've got another guest getting ready to join us.
Come on over.
I actually talked to this cat once in pre-show.
I told him to come back and eat it.
So that's a good thing.
Are we live?
Yes, we are.
You're right up in the microphone.
So everybody, we are.
Yes, I'm Mark Marriott.
I'm the director of Tokyo Cowboy.
You and I talked a little bit earlier.
Yeah.
And I looked up the film.
This was yesterday, our last night.
So how did we...
Man, we had such a great screening last night.
It was packed, standing alone, remotely.
Really responsive audience.
They were reacting to all the parts.
And actually there were a couple of times
when they broke out in a surprise, which
was really kind of cool.
That doesn't always happen.
So that was fun.
Until I read up on the movie, and I'm fascinated by this.
Yeah.
Our fact checker, who's not here today,
he is actually from Montana.
OK.
So tell everybody what the film is about,
because I love the plot line of this.
Yeah.
So Tokyo Cowboy is about a Japanese businessman.
It's a fish out of water story about this Japanese businessman
that goes to Montana to a cattle ranch to kind of like
improve the cattle ranch, make it into a premium
wagyu, beef business, and just everything goes wrong.
He ends up, you know, all of his plans come to not.
But he kind of has to through this experience.
He kind of has to recalibrate his entire life.
There's a romantic story in it.
His boss has also his girlfriend.
And so it's a film that's filled with a lot of humor,
a lot of authentic humor, a lot of humanity, and heart.
I think my favorite thing that I read was reading up on it,
was describing him as a hearty-loving wagyu expert.
Yeah, which was like, I'm trying to read my brain around that.
So that's the guy that he brings with him.
He was played by June, Kunimura, a well-known actor from Japan that's
been in a bunch of U.S. films, a Tarantino film, and a Scorsese film.
He usually plays really severe Yakuza scary characters,
but in our film he plays a very kind of jovial and fun character.
And it's hard to take your eyes off June, Kunimura, when he's on screen.
What brought you to the film?
Yeah, this is my first feature film.
And it's an idea that I was with me for many, many years.
I had lived in Japan, when I was younger.
I also did an apprenticeship with a Japanese film director named Yogi Yamada,
who's like a national treasure, he's in his 90s now,
and he just released his 90th film.
Oh, wow.
And in fact, he has latest film at the Hawaii International Film Festival with mine.
And it was a really cool kind of full circle moment
to have my first feature film in the same festival as my mentor.
But around that same time, I read an article
in Outside Magazine, and then the title of the article was Samurai Slickers.
And it was about a ranch, a real ranch in Montana owned by a Japanese company,
and they would send workers over from Japan to learn ranching,
and they become Japanese cowboys.
And I just thought, that's a movie.
Like that's a really interesting clash of cultures and an idea.
And I think also just the twist of, normally,
the fish out of water stories that we see here are stories
about an American going to a foreign culture.
And here's a twist on that, where it's a Japanese person coming
to this foreign culture of the American West.
And I just really love that idea.
And it really is a film about bridging these divides
between cultures and people, and kind of becoming connected.
This is a character that's not really connected to anything or anybody.
And it doesn't really realize that he's not very happy in his job,
but he's not.
And he has to completely recalibrate his life.
How many times has the film been shown?
It's a big question, Walt.
It's in the other inches, Maui.
It's in theaters in Japan right now.
OK.
So it's been shown a lot.
OK.
It's been in 25 film festivals.
And I've gone to most everyone of those.
It was just, it just premiered in Europe at the film festival,
the Galway Film Festival in Ireland.
It'll be released in US theaters starting August 30th.
Oh, wow.
So it was like four weeks a day.
Yeah.
So it's super excited about that.
How many times have you sat with an audience watching the film?
Oh, gosh, probably more than 30 times.
You know, butterflies that hit your right before the lights go down.
Not really, but I love seeing how audiences' audiences react.
And so that's still fun.
I still enjoy watching the film.
And I still kind of get emotional in the emotional parts.
And like it's still like watching it last night was really fun for me
with an audience.
Have there been any beats into the film?
Come sit down, sir.
Have there been any beats to the film that got an unexpected reaction
from you, but maybe continue to afterwards
that you weren't, that when you were doing it, you're like,
OK, this is a thing.
And then when you're like, oh, this would have
been a different way than I expected.
It's a good question.
I don't know different, but like the Japanese audiences
react a little bit different during some of the funny parts,
but they like they definitely react to a lot of the same parts,
but some of the different ones too.
So yeah, it's kind of interesting to see
that how the humor hits with the Japanese audience
as opposed to an American audience.
But yeah, like I said,
I had to introduce you to my friend Mark Wolters.
We should be kind of like.com.
Hey, so it was me.
And he's welcome.
Very happy to be here.
Originally, I was doing the show behind my son,
so I had to call him the lefty.
I went to the book and he called me the composer.
Yeah, there we go.
So with the film game distributed in America on the 30,
if you still have any film festivals that you're going to,
or we just kind of on the home stretch at this point.
Kind of on the home stretch.
Yeah, this was maybe one of the last ones that I'll travel to,
because the next thing is we're going to have a premiere in New York
at the Japan Society on August 15th.
We're going to have a premiere in Los Angeles on,
it takes the 27th at the Japan House.
And then we get released in theaters on the 30.
It's so it's, and I've got some other travel to do,
but not in connection with other festivals.
There's a festival in Taiwan that has reached out to us
in the program, the film, and that's not to October.
It'd be really, really fun to go to Taiwan, I think.
Oh, yeah, anytime somebody wants to find me
to do a different country show.
Yeah, you're for it.
Since it's already gotten releases other places.
Yeah.
August 29th.
Yeah.
What is it like that first weekend?
Do you watch the numbers?
Do you wait for the number?
Yeah, because that's something I've always,
I've always been intrigued by by filmmakers.
Like, if I were a filmmaker and my film is about
to get released, and Mark and I talk about this quite a bit, yeah.
I don't remember that I could watch the box office numbers
till like Monday morning, because I think it would just,
it would like overtake me.
Well, and I got to sleep at some point, you know,
but that's a little bit of the paradigm of the day and date release, right?
Whereas this film really needs some time to find its audience
and grow through Rotomouth.
That first weekend is really, really important.
And actually, we're going to do several like Q&A events in Los Angeles
and in New York where we'll have our theaters.
And it's very important to get a very strong per screen average
that first weekend so that we can expand to many more theaters
the second, the third week, the fourth week.
We hope to be in theaters for three or four months.
But we'll see how it goes.
So like, I'm going to be really involved that first weekend
to make sure that we have people in the seats
and reach out to every network I have and just make sure
that we have a really good solid opening weekend.
How does the Texas crowd compare to some of the other ones
like Maui oversees?
Because there is an element to it, yeah, you know,
we are the south, even though you're in big sky country,
there are some similarities.
How did the Texas crowd compare?
Yeah, there's some things that hit even more.
I think to home, there are several people last night
that came up that told me that, you know, they grew up
in rural areas on a farm or on a ranch.
And there's some themes in the film about, you know,
ranch the ranch life and some like developers coming in potentially
and like taking over a ranch or developing it into something else.
And so it hits home and a lot of people
really have resonated with the film.
It seems like in Texas and when we were in Kansas,
a tall grass, that was another one.
And in Montana, we have a sneak preview of the film.
I wasn't received in Montana.
Oh, man, it was so, so good.
It was in this big classic theater and our best
screenings have been in these big old classic movie houses
that are packed where people are kind of like shoulder to shoulder.
You know, like these, I don't really actually enjoy
the experience.
The theater experience in these ones where, you know,
you can order food and your seat is like far away from everybody else.
And there's few receipts because they're bigger and they're so comfortable
that you're going to sit back and like fall asleep.
Potentially, there's just not the same feeling.
You like that 18 inches between all of these big big theaters.
You know, where people are packed in and that's what it was last night.
And people really feed off each other's energy.
They, they, one person starts laughing.
There was somebody in Hawaii that had the most amazing laugh.
And, and that person because they were laughing so
interestingly and, and over the top, like it made all of us
giggle.
And you're like, thank you for my attention.
Yeah, I seriously wore that guy in every straight screening.
You know, my actors, I echoes looking over me like, oh my gosh,
yeah.
So we want to let you go through the festival.
Before we let you go, we always like to do shameless stuff promotion.
Okay, after today, working people find you, working people find a film,
website social media, the whole night.
Yeah, yeah. So, Tokyo cowboy thin-home on Instagram and
Tokyo cowboy film on is our website as well.
We released the trailer for the film just like three short weeks ago.
And it, it's like up to 210,000 views.
That's great.
So it's doing really, really well.
Like 215,000 more than we get.
So that's really good.
So yeah, it's, it's been really, really cool.
It seems to be one of those titles.
Like, when I go to a festival, yeah, it happens very often
where I'll run into people and they'll say, like, oh my gosh,
I know your film, like, Tokyo cowboy that jumped out of me,
that title, that premise, like, that's, that's one of the films I
definitely want to see.
It's on my calendar, it's seeing.
So I'm hoping that continues and that people will go and
support the film and see it.
It's a, it's a, it's a film that, I think, really anybody would
enjoy the, you know, some of the people on staff here brought their
family, their kids to see it.
And, you know, that's not always the case with every film.
So it's, it's a, it's a crowd-bleesing film that I hope a lot of
people will enjoy.
Thank you so much for sitting down.
Yeah, thank you.
The festival.
Thank you.
You can say, I think there's a far, I'm following
there's a link right here.
Yeah, Mark, Mark's, he's doing all the social media's right now.
That's so, very cool.
Yeah, all right, for people who need to, yeah, thank you.
We go join this one, okay.
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Mark, well, it's a big fan place here.
I am glad you are here, so I'll do this for being late.
But I didn't want to miss this.
Well, I mean, we kind of had to throw this all together in
fairly last minutes.
Like I told you on the phone, anything I can get.
Because I also want to talk about, you've got to show coming up.
I do for weeks and my brother.
Yeah, we're coming up.
Dallas, Conmerch Show is going on August 28th, 25th.
And we've got some really fun and exciting stuff
around for that.
Sam Jones from Flash Gordon is going to be there.
Red Brown is 1979's Captain America.
Why the really cool things?
Not a cool kind of creators are coming in.
Some great anime voice and a raikers and whatnot.
But yeah, Dallas coming to show, not some some views.
Some regular, some very exciting.
Come on, we haven't seen it a while.
I wanted you to show us a couple of new faces that we've never met before.
So I'm excited about it.
I'm always excited.
That's the thing, it's like I like having people come back.
But I'm also like getting to meet the new ones.
And so because I always think once we meet in and once we have them,
now they're family, then they can come back whenever they want.
So which is very much kind of the vibe that you get from this festival.
You know, we come to FFT.
Like everybody here, it feels like family.
Like all the people that are working it.
You see a lot of people walking behind us.
There's no house in the room.
A lot of these people that come back to every single event.
They love being here, they love being a part of it.
And it's very much when I would call like a local beloved event.
But we talk about like you have your family and you have your calm family.
That is about to fall.
It's a very slowly like, but this is at the tip.
So we also have our film festival family too.
Yeah, because, and then we only get to see me two or three times a year.
Right, and I love coming in downstairs and seeing
all the pictures on the red carpet on my favorite unit.
Yeah, it's like, because we don't always get to see these people
all throughout the year.
So it's great to be able to have those opportunities to kind of
see them again and say hi and let's say it's like kind of a family better.
You know, there's no dinner.
I'm hungry.
Where's the food?
Oh, I'm getting out of my stuff.
I this week, I did not envy you.
Because you had to review.
I saw yesterday morning and I said, I'm so glad I don't have to review this film.
Because how do you move out spoilers?
Because apparently what they do out is we're spoiling it three.
Oh yeah, and I was like, what do you do?
Yeah, the spoilers were all over the place.
And so what I did was, and I actually started my review with a small paragraph.
And I said, I guys, here's how it's going to work.
Because this movie is so full of the spoilers, I'm going basically,
I'm only going to talk about what's in the trailers.
So if it's in the trailer, I'm going to discuss
there's so much that's not good.
If it's not in the trailer, I'm going to save that so that you can experience it on your own.
And that's to me, that's the best smartest easiest way to review that film.
But really, it's hard writing to review like that.
Well, and I saw the headline Thursday night that a bunch of people that weren't mentioned
were on a panel, I'm like, why would you do that?
Oh, yes, it's a video of Comic-Con.
They were like walking the carpet, like some of those major cameos.
They were out there walking the carpet, talking about the movie.
And it's like, guys, what do you mean?
It's like, really, I come out to tomorrow, what do you mean?
It's so, what would have been smarter as if they would never do this.
But if they had saved all the press stuff until Sunday at Comments.
So at least people wouldn't have had the weekend to check it out.
Look, I'm never doing that.
They always wanted to try to get fighting Saturdays.
And that's like, I actually took this week off the work,
because I had, this is my third of four weekends in a row.
Yeah.
And I'm like, I'm going Friday morning at 9.40.
And they had it in the dobe by the house.
I've got a list.
So I'm going to do this before anybody can ruin anything.
And I'm so glad I did, because even if you are a spoiler person,
please go into that phone code.
There's so much cool stuff in that film that if you, if you're a spoiler person,
you're just not, it's not going to have the impact.
Yeah, but I would still go see it again just because of the way they did it.
Right.
And it was funny because I remember I saw it on Monday.
And Sunday, I didn't even know how I came across it, but on YouTube,
somebody had been talking about how I didn't really
need to be able to find the time for this.
But this guy had put together a video.
And it was basically every single clip that existed online,
or there was out there, for example, Wolverine.
And he said, every clip from the Wolverine
in a chronological order.
So basically it was like you could kind of watch a 10-minute version
of the movie that based on the footage it was out there.
And I started watching it.
And then halfway through, I'm like, why am I watching this?
I'm going to see the movie tomorrow.
Now there was a time where I was a spoiler guy.
And I can tell you when my age of spoilers ended.
And it was episode two.
Yeah.
I worked with a local team.
We all went to India and worked celebration too.
And I decided there were so many spoilers in celebration, too.
And I just decided after that show, like, you know what?
I feel like I'm denying myself joy,
the joy of the experience.
Well, that is a big part of it, not knowing what's coming.
And I think that because internet culture has sort of
we've gotten used to spoilers.
We've gotten used to having everybody's spoiler for us,
especially if you're on Twitter, it's only a world.
I still call it Twitter, whatever.
It'll always be Twitter and whatever you want us to call it.
I'm still calling it Twitter.
But yeah, it's like if you're on Twitter,
you're going to run into spoilers where the rumors are not.
Somebody's going to spoiler for you.
So, and yeah, I kind of wish that we did still live in that age
where you couldn't find out the information.
I mean, think back to when we were kids.
And we were going to see the original style of response.
We didn't know what was going to come in those movies.
We had no idea.
Even if you read things like Starlog or Empire,
they tended to be behind the curve.
Yeah.
So, by the time they would think they're spoiling stuff,
yeah, everybody's seen it.
You know, and that's, to me, that's a good thing.
If you were reading an, if you were reading an issue of Starlog,
back in the 80s, and you saw a picture of them with that.
And we were like, hey, who's that guy?
He just sounds the way into the interview.
Yeah, the movie to find out with that guy.
Well, I had a bloody mind texting me yesterday,
because I texted like going to school that you possibly can.
Yeah.
And I am not putting a spoiler out there,
but he got fortunate in the headline.
And he got fortunate because the spoiler wasn't everything,
which I appreciated.
But like, and Yahoo is notorious for this.
Where it's like an hour after something air.
Let's talk about this.
What?
How about you putting the headline go here?
But we're not going to say it in the headline.
There are spoilers here.
So if you want to go here and talk about it, go here.
Well, and there was also a lot of spoilers that
turned out to not be true.
So you get on purpose or something of it.
And some big stuff, like stuff that people,
stuff that people were actually disappointed
wasn't in the movie.
And it's like, yeah, but like, where did you even find out
for you in the first place?
Or where did you get that source from in the first place?
Oh, they were thrown it out there.
Yeah.
Like, the studio was like, let's just read
and airing the crap out of this movie.
Yeah.
And when we get off Ron, when we get off air,
I have so many things to talk to you about about this film.
Because I know you saw it Monday.
Yeah.
And I was like, I need to talk to Mark about this film.
Because your more deeply rooted in this stuff than I am.
I am deeply rooted in the world of it.
I actually had a friend of mine, Andy Chang, you saw it on Friday.
And we had like a two hour long phone call.
But I was kind of feeling in and explaining certain things.
Because he's not a comic book guy.
And so, but yeah, I mean, for comic book people,
I can definitely say you're going to be happy because there's a lot
of stuff in there that it very much speaks to what we've
fell in love with in the comics as well as what we love in the movies.
And so I think that's great.
And I've got so many stories to share with you because we haven't had
a chance to talk.
Yeah, especially last weekend.
OK.
Oh, very, very cool.
All right.
Well, we're going to do the plugs and get on there.
I'm so happy to see some of the people coming
in.
Yes.
This really is one of the greatest phone festivals in Dallas.
It's been going on for a while.
We both love to have a sugar.
Absolutely.
And I'm so happy that he was getting rewarded for his efforts.
But it's wonderful to see that there's a spirit of people
showing a look tonight.
And there's still three movies tonight.
And then movies tomorrow.
Yeah.
So, you know, if you haven't made an out here yet,
we still got to learn.
There's still stuff to see.
At the end of OK, mocking word station, yeah.
I, I, and I love the music.
Yeah.
Wow.
Surprisingly.
I can change the way I get the load in this time.
So, I hope it's a little more efficient going out.
Yeah.
But you can visit his website.
Big fanboy.com.
Also Dallas Comic Show.com.
Yeah.
Coming up here at about four weeks.
I'll be there as well, as long as Mark has me.
We're going to have a great time that weekend.
And there will be you announced a special showing that weekend, too.
We are showing Flash Gordon.
Yes, you are.
Yeah.
We're really excited about that.
I, I've seen Flash Gordon a few times in the big screen.
But see it was seen.
Being, you know, actually being ready to do a Q&A afterwards.
I think that's going to be.
And he is such a great human.
Yeah.
He really, we actually had a, we had him on the podcast.
When you're at the Texas Pinball Festival.
He was a guest.
Yeah.
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And it's funny because the studios are really changed.
How did your screenings, you know?
And they're not doing as many two of the public screenings as they used to.
We were even experiencing that now.
Yeah.
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They didn't screen for press.
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