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Dec. 5, 2022

Why Does The Director Of Indiana Jones 5 Hate This Podcast?

A funny thing occurred a while back that none of us at the Salty Nerd Podcast could have ever predicted actually happening.  A random tweet of mine criticizing the upcoming 5th Indiana Jones movie not only attracted the attention of its directo…

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Dec. 5, 2022

Is Avatar 2 Going To Bomb At The Box Office?

Avatar: The Way Of Water is set to be released on December 16th, 13 years after the original film broke box office records.  But considering the Avatar franchise has been out of the public consciousness for so long, is anyone actually excited a…

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Feb. 22, 2022

Robert Zemeckis Reunites With Tom Hanks For "Here"

Legendary filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, is looking to team-up with his old Forrest Gump buddies in a new film. In what’s being dubbed the ‘hottest package’ in Hollywood in a while, the key trio behind 1994’s Forrest Gump are se…

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Feb. 21, 2022

Trump's Truth Social App Launches And Breaks The Internet

Former President Donald Trump has launched his new "free speech" oriented Twitter-style social media platform, Truth Social, on President's Day, and 12 hours after its debut, it has hit number 1 on Apple's App Store. As of this writing, Truth Socia…

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Feb. 21, 2022

Francis Ford Coppola To Self-Finance $120M Film "Megalopolis"

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has always been an independent rebel filmmaker at heart.  Coming from the Roger Corman low-budget school of filmmaking, he's gone on to foster some of the most legendary talent in Hollywood, as well as make some c…

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Feb. 21, 2022

Netflix Doubles Down On Dave Chappelle

Despite the comedian getting slammed by activists for "transphobia" because of his recent special, The Closer, it would seem Netflix is not out of the Dave Chappelle business quite yet. A series of stand-alone comedy specials, called Chappelle's Ho…

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Feb. 21, 2022

Peacemaker Breaks Record At HBOMax

It's been reported that the DCEU show Peacemaker has been a big winner for HBOMax, even beating out Disney's The Book Of Boba Fett in popularity during their respective runs.  Well, now it's being reported that the recent season finale of James…

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Feb. 20, 2022

Walton Goggins Cast In the "Fallout" Series

Get your Pip-boy's ready because we have some fun casting news. Walton Goggins has been cast to lead the Amazon Prime adaptation of "Fallout". The show is based on the popular post nuclear war video game from Bethesda Softworks.  The setting w…

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Feb. 20, 2022

"Stranger Things" To End With A 5th And Final Season

Netflix's breakout hit original series, Stranger Things, is set to conclude with a fifth season. Though the fourth season has yet to premiere, Netflix has announced that time is almost up for the Upside Down.  Series creators Matt and Ross Duf…

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Feb. 20, 2022

FX's FARGO Gets A Fifth Season

The FX Network has officially renewed its original series FARGO for a fifth season. The show has spun off wildly from the original movie upon which it was based, covering a variety of different crime stories with extremely colorful characters, from…

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