# Tom Rothman

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Episode 251: Lee Cronin's The Mummy, Rebuilding, with Alicia Vikander

This week, Clarisse speaks to Alicia Vikander about her role in Olivier Assayas’s new satire THE WIZARD OF KREMLIN (5:57); while we review LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY (30:10), which does not star Brendan Fraser, and neo-western REBUILDING (55:32), which does star Josh O’Connor.  Plus, in our HOT TAKE (1…

Cinemas Have an Ads Problem — And Will Cannes Have a Star Problem?

Are cinemas putting audiences off before the film even begins? This week on Cinema in One Take, Emma Jones and Kaleem Aftab respond to Sony’s Tom Rothman, who has urged cinemas to shorten the bloated pre-show of ads and trailers before films start, and ask whether the pre-cinema experience itself …

Short Breadwinner, Summer Blockbusters, and the Death of Sanford Babbitt

The boys are back in the booth this week as Andy, Ash, and Stu navigate a packed slate of movie news and cinematic milestones. Starting with our thoughts on Sony Chairman Tom Rothman's choice words from CinemaCon 2026. Does he still "believe in the big screen," or is the industry shifting under ou…

The Great Desk Upgrade, Hasbro Legends, YouTube Price Hike & Sony’s Plan to Save Cinema

Is the golden age of streaming and tech convenience officially hitting a paywall? In Episode 463, host Steve "Megatron" Phillips and TFG1Mike tackle the latest hit to our wallets: YouTube Premium’s US pricing is going up. We discuss the price hike and a "quietly revealed" trick to avoid ads without…

375: Cushy jobs, old ghosts, and summer blockbusters

The OG Geek-out Podcast episode 1 crew — Bud, Bryan, and Art — throw the cuesheet out the window (but everything we were going to point form is in the show notes) and discuss what they will and won’t see in movies and shows this year. NOTE: The first two sections of the list below are NOT covered …

The Movies Home With Sneaky China

The Fifty-Dollar Movie TicketHollywood, Beijing, and What It Means for Investors Over Fifty-FivePodcast script  ·  TruesdellWhen I was growing up, a movie ticket cost a couple of dollars. You walked into the theater on a Saturday afternoon, you bought a box of popcorn, and you settled in. It was no…

Bonus - Let's All Go To The Lobby

In which Stuart & Tom discuss ads... In this special Bonus episode of the pod, Stuart & Tom discuss Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman's speech at CinemaCon 2026, at which he told cinema owners to "Get off the ad crack", and use that as a jumping off point to discuss ads in cinemas, physical media and h…

X-MEN '97 Season 2 Episodes 1-3

It's time to dive back into the 1990s as the second season of X-Men '97 kicks off with a three parter picking up after last season's time-traveling cliffhanger. Some of the X-Men are in a distant future where Apocalypse has taken over the world, some are in the distant past where Apocalypse is havi…

Who’ll Save the Film Industry? France Is Trying

Inside President Macron’s summit, where Ted Sarandos, Dana Walden and Hollywood power players attended — very quietly French President Emmanuel Macron summoned some of the biggest names in global entertainment to the south of France this week to talk about nothing less than the future of cinema — …

Streaming Into the Void - October 4, 2026 - Paramount-Warner Bros. Fallout

This week, with the deal done and the merger approved, we begin to see what the new Paramount-Warner Bros. will look like. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Paramount, Blue State AGs Hit Cory Booker Over Antitrust Suit Settlement Comments David Ellison says combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery…