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‘The Wrap’ is a show where TJ highlights the film and TV news of the week, telling you about some of their favorite things from the week, and occasionally giving you an opinion or two. Our goal is to always keep the show under twenty minutes so you can easily digest the highlights of the week.

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The Wrap #52: Bay Don’t Play That Way

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10/18/13 • 16 min

This week, ‘Gravity’ continues it’s high earth orbit in its second week while ‘Captain Phillips’ in its first week takes the number 2 spot. Both really good films, but ‘Gravity’ is, in TJ’s opinion, the somewhat better film. ‘House of Cards’ will probably not go past season 2. This is both good news and bad news. Good, because many shows overstay their welcome. Bad because it feels like the show could do much more than 2 seasons. ‘Hans Zimmer’ is hesitating on scorning ‘Man of Steel 2’ because of the Batman element. Probably not surprising. Two working titles have been revealed for ‘Star Wars VII’! And there was exceeding much joy amongst the nerds! Alamo Drafthouse has banned Madonna from watching any more movies at any Drafthouse establishments until she appologizes for texting during a film and causing a scene when asked to stop. TJ approves. Crew members say ‘Captain Phillips’ is a big lie. Seems like kind of a bummer if true. Marvel is developing more TV Series. The interesting thing here is that they’re looking at a VOD strategy involving Netflix and and other On Demand distributors. Of this TJ also approves most highly. It may not be the original films you wanted, but Pixar is developing another film, and it’s ‘Cars 3’. As long as it’s a good film, it will be fine. But another ‘Cars 2’ and TJ won’t be too happy. Michael Bay was assaulted on the set of ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’. Of course TJ would like to punch Bay too for making such wretched films but he has yet to act on that impulse... And don’t forget to check out what to see this weekend!

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The Wrap #30: ‘The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’

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05/17/13 • 12 min

Last weekend, ‘Iron Man 3’ dominated the box office over the freshmen installment, ‘The Great Gatsby’, but ‘Gatsby’ didn’t do terribly. ABC picks up the shoo-in TV show ‘Marvel’s agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’, and released a short promo as well as a full length trailer. Tom Hanks will be starring in an upcoming drama based on a true story called Captain Phillips. ‘Arrested Development’ season 4 is coming exclusively to Netflix, and we’ve got a trailer here for you. ‘24’ gets a 12 episode season, which seems odd, but may be fun. TJ reviewed ‘The Great Gatsby last week, as well as talked about it with Alex Arena on ‘The MovieByte Podcast’. There is an unknown Pixar sequel in development, TJ is rooting for a ‘Incredibles’ sequel. TJ also saw ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Wednesday night and gave a preliminary report that you’ll want to check out. SyFy renews/cancels ‘Warehouse 13’ which makes everyone sad. And of course, there are some films out this weekend that you might want to see.

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The Wrap #18: Minion Factory

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02/22/13 • 7 min

TJ takes a look back through the week with a look at Pixar, Monsters University, and what would happen if Pixar rebooted the original ‘Star Trek’, Star Wars news with rumors of a standalone Obi-Wan Kenobi film featuring Ewan McGregor, and information that John Williams would like to return to score Episode VII, plus Hamill is not yet signed for Episode VII. There’s a new featurette for Olympus has fallen and TJ is looking forward to the film. TJ will also be attending the ‘Best of Both Worlds’ Star Trek Theater event and tickets are now on sale. The fans of Back to the Future have a lot of theories as to why Marty’s parents did not recognize him from the 50s. TJ and his wife welcomed a new little girl into their family this week. TJ also reviewed the film ‘Downfall’ and though he probably won’t be seeing it again, it was a good film and worth your time. Then there’s a video on aspect ration that is highly recommended. And in stupid news this week, Michael Bay is bringing Megan Fox back to one of his sets with the upcoming Ninja Turtles film. And finally, the low down on what you might want to see this weekend. The box office offerings are pretty week this time of year, but there may be something.

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The Wrap #39: The Pixar Theory

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07/19/13 • 14 min

TJ recaps the highlights of the week, including the fact that for a second week in a row, the Anti-Villain League was unable to stop Gru from making off with the cash from the Box Office, as well as the complete run-down of the top eight films at last weekend’s box office. Then there’s the Pixar theory. Someone had way too much time on their hands, but it’s a lot of fun an you’ll want to check it out. J.J. Abrams is planning to direct the next ‘Star Trek’ films in spite of his commitments to ‘Star Wars’ which, really, seems like a bad idea. We should get some new blood! Also, you may like to know about how ‘Man of Steel’ should have ended. Of course the movie would only have been like 30 minutes, but it would have been much better. TJ released his ‘Pacific Rim’ review on Wednesday and then talked about it on ‘The MovieByte Podcast’. ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ has a Premiere date! WooHoo! ‘Wolverine’ (the first Wolverine film, not the one coming up) got an honest trailer, which was a lot of fun. And ‘The Fifth Estate’ trailer staring Benedict Cumberbatch as Jullian Assange has also been released. And of course, there are things you might like to see this weekend. TJ give you the full scoop!

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The Wrap #24: Remembering Ebert

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04/05/13 • 14 min

In this episode, TJ talks about last weekend’s box office and what’s hot and making the most money, which is ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’, a special version of ‘Iron Man 3’ coming to China, Movieology Episode #4, a new ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ commercial which aired with an episode of ‘The Walking Dead’, the bait and switch tactics of film trailers and why he empathizes with the makers of the films and trailers, a new trailer for ‘The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones’, ‘Finding Dory’ and Ellen DeGeneres’ announcement of the film, ‘the trailer announcement for ‘Catching Fire’, clips, featurettes and entire streaming score for ‘Oblivion’, the ‘MovieByte Podcast #38: Finding Pixar’, some thoughts on the sad news of the passing of ‘Roger Ebert’ and what an inspiration he was, and what you might like to see this weekend at the theater.

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The Wrap #21: Kickstarting Firefly

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03/15/13 • 10 min

A wrap up to the week talking about ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ box office success and why it’s a bit disappointing in light of ‘Jack the Giant Slayer’ doing so poorly, ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Teaser Trailer #2 and Anthony Pascale’s deep, shot by shot analysis of that, release reshuffling with ‘RED 2’ and ‘Now You See Me’, ‘Star Trek "3"’ might be out for the 50th anniversary, Emma Watson decides not to become a Disney princess and take the part of the live action Cinderella, a mode of the Enterprise E, an article on motion smoothing on modern TVs and why you should make sure that setting is off on your television set, the ‘Veronica Mars’ Kickstarter meeting its funding goal in short order with many days left to really boost the budget, as well as what this might mean for the future of film, and Joss Whedon considering the options for a Kickstarter with ‘Firefly. And then TJ wraps it up with a look at what’s in the cinemas that you might like to see.

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The Wrap #7: Blue Lens Flares

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12/07/12 • 6 min

This week, Joseph wraps up the week with a clip from ‘Jack Reacher’, The Man of Steel in Handcuffs and some thoughts on what that means, the Netflix deal with Disney and the head scratcher that it doesn’t go into effect until 2016, the upcoming ‘Tron 3’, TJ’s review of ‘Men in Black 3’, his ‘Rise of the Guardians’ review and how disappointed he was in that film, and what’s currently in theaters and doing well in the box office, ‘Breaking Dawn: Part II’, ‘Skyfall’, ‘Lincoln’, ‘Life of Pi’, ‘Wreck-it Ralph’, ‘Red Dawn’, and ‘Flight’.

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The Wrap #26: The Avengers Will Assemble!

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04/19/13 • 14 min

TJ wraps up the week with a look at the box office totals, ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ teaser trailer, clips from the upcoming ‘Iron Man 3’ film, the ‘Mortal Instruments’ prequel that is already being developed, which seems strange, the new ‘Pacific Rim’ International TV Spot, Joe’s review of Podcatchers, make sure you check it out and choose a good option that fits well with you, the big news of the week, the ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ final theatrical trailer as well as Anthony Pascale’s deep dive into the analysis of that, the ‘S’ stands for hope in the new ‘Man of Steel’ trailer, TJ and Joe welcomed Anthony Pascale onto ‘The MovieByte Podcast’ to analyze the ‘Star Trek’ trailer, the ‘Snow White’ sequel aiming for a 2015 release, Richard LeParmenier dies at the young age of 66, The Avengers will assemble in February according to Joss Whedon, Joseph Kosinski is developing a ‘Blade Runner’ meets ‘BSG’ TV series, Harrison Ford is mad at Chewy, and finally, what you might like to see in theaters this weekend.

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The Wrap #34: A Super Weekend

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06/14/13 • 16 min

This week, the box office was "Purged" as ‘The Purge’ took the top box office spot. What in the world? Will Smith doesn’t want to do blockbuster films anymore after the flop that is ‘After Earth’ which is too bad. And there’s lots of ‘Man of Steel’ stuff going on, and TJ is looking forward to the film which is receiving mixed critical reception, but that might be a good thing. ‘White House Down’ gets an extended trailer and looks like ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ on steroids. John M. Chu will direct ‘G.I. Joe 3’. Sigh. ‘Star Wars VII’ is rumored to be following the storyline of the novels. ‘300: The Rise of an Empire’ gets a trailer’. ‘The Wolverine’ also has a new international trailer out. ‘Elysium’ also joined the trailer fun. Lots of trailers this week. And finally, TJ talks about what you will want to see in theaters this weekend.

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The Wrap #59: A Cold Box Office

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12/13/13 • 11 min

Though only just returned from the edge of the death, TJ does not fail to bring you this week’s fun movie goodness! For starters, the upcoming ‘Star Trek’ film has 2 new writers. The more the merrier! TJ made a mistake with his box office analysis earlier in the week in regards to ‘Frozen’ for which he apologizes. AFI has announced their top 10 movies and TV shows. Joe Cornish is not directing the next ‘Star Trek’ film. Paramount is working on ‘Jack Reacher 2’. ‘World War Z’ Sequel has an announced director. Joe stepped in on ‘The MovieByte Podcast’ this week for TJ to talk with Chad about ‘Frozen’ and you probably won’t want to miss that episode. ‘Agents of SHIELD’s’ ratings fell again this week, which is quite the bummer! And of course, find out what to see this weekend.

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Third ‘Star Trek’ Reboot Story Gets 2 New WritersJ.D. Payne and Patrick McKay have been tapped to write Star Trek 3[sic] for Paramount and Skydance Productions. The duo will join Roberto Orci, who co-wrote the first two installments of the reboot with partner Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof. Orci is working without Kurtzman on this one. The next Star Trek film is untitled and unscheduled, but Paramount and Skydance are hoping to have a film in time for the franchise to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2016. Stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana are expected to return.
The Box Office Got a Little ColdAs most of you will remember (it’s only been a couple weeks), I used to post a weekly feature every Monday called The Box Office Report. The problem for me was that it was starting to feel routine and boring for me so I quit. But I’m going to sort of bring it back. I’m no longer going to feel obligated to post the top 8, but instead I’ll post about what I think is fun, what I care about, and/or what is important. So lets get started:
AFI announces Their Top 10 Movies and TV ShowsDecember 9, 2013 – The American Film Institute (AFI) today announced the official selections of AFI AWARDS 2013 – 10 outstanding films and 10 outstanding television programs deemed culturally and artistically representative of the year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image. An almanac documenting works of excellence that mark a moment in time, AFI AWARDS is also the only national honor for the community’s creative ensembles as a whole, acknowledging the collaborative nature of the art form. Honorees are selected based on works which best advance the art of the moving image, enhance the rich cultural heritage of America’s art form, inspire audiences and artists alike, and/or make a mark on American society. AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR 12 YEARS A SLAVE AMERICAN HUSTLE CAPTAIN PHILLIPS FRUITVALE STATION GRAVITY HER INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS NEBRASKA SAVING MR. BANKS THE WOLF OF WALL STREET AFI TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR THE AMERICANS BREAKING BAD GAME OF THRONES THE GOOD WIFE HOUSE OF CARDS MAD MEN MASTERS OF SEX ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK SCANDAL VEEP
Joe Cornish Not Directing Next ‘Star Trek’ FilmAnd while just over a month ago, Cornish emerged as Paramount’s top choice to direct “Star Trek 3,”[sic] it looks like he won’t be going into the final frontier. Among Variety’s recent news that J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay were joining the tentpole to write alongside franchise mainstay Roberto Orci (though, no sign of Alex Kurtzman) was the little nugget that Cornish is “is no longer involved” with the movie. No reason is given for why the talks may have broken down between the studio and filmmaker, and everything is pressing ahead to try and meet a 2016 release date.
Paramount Planning ‘Jack Reacher 2’Although the Christopher McQuarrie-directed “Jack Reacher” opened to a muted response stateside last Christmas—its opening haul was $15 million with the final domestic tally just over $80 million—international audiences were more kind, with the Lee Child adaptation making $138 million abroad. Naturally, Paramount is looking to get back into business with the anti-hero. Deadline reports plans are being made to do a “Jack Reacher 2.” Instead of tackling any of the other seventeen novels, Paramount and Skydance Productions are looking at Child’s latest installment, this fall’s “Never Go Back,” to use as the basis for the 2012 film’s sequel. The novel sees Reacher...

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