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I am your host, Movie Mike. Today we are talking about the top 10 highest grossing actors at the box office cuz Scarlet Johansson now tops the list. That story came out, so I dug a little deeper into finding out exactly how much money she takes home for a role like Jurassic World Rebirth. In the movie review, we'll be talking about Superman, directed by James Gunn. Did it live up to the hype? Is this the reset that DC needed? Oh boy. And in the trailer park, an entirely new look for Channing Tatum in a movie called Roofman. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday Morning Movie Crew. And now let's talk movies from the Nashville Podcast Network. This is Movie Mike's Movie podcast. Jurassic World Rebirth had a huge opening. Crushed it at the box office, despite me not liking it. But still, these movies make buttloads and buttloads of money. And that opening weekend alone was all Scarlett Johansson needed to pass. Well, another legendary actor and become the highest grossing actor in movie history. Scarlett Johansson's movies have pulled in a grand total of $14.6 billion at the worldwide box office. We're going to take a look at the top 10 actors. But before we get into that top 10 list, let's look at Scarlett Johansson specifically, since she now has the record. What movies got her there? Her top ten highest grossing movies of all time. At number ten is Lucy, which made $457 million. At number nine is Iron Man 2, which made $621 million. And number eight is Singh, which made $631 million. That is a voice acting role. At number seven, Captain America, the Winter Soldier, which made $714 million. At number six, the Jungle Book, which made $951 million. Another voice acting role there, even though it is a quote unquote liveaction Disney movie getting into the top five. At number five, Captain America Civil War, which made $1.1 billion. At number four, Avengers, Age of Ultron, which made 1.4 billion. At number three, the Avengers, which made 1.5 billion. We're going to see a pattern here. At number two, it's Infinity War, which made $2 billion, and at number one is Avengers Endgame, which made $2.7 billion. But I want to break it down even further and examine her most recent role in Jurassic Park, Rebirth. Let's do a little movie math. I put on my accountant hat. Get on my little typing machine. Let's crunch some numbers here in movie math. So she reportedly earned between 15 and to $20 million for Rebirth. For the sake of math, just because it'll be a little bit easier, let's say $20 million is what she earned. She does not take home $20 million, because out of that $20 million, she has to give 10% to her agent. So $2 million of that is going to her agent, which. Oh, man, that hurts. Like, 10% in my world is like, I'll give you 10% of 100 bucks. That's 10 bucks. That's not that bad. But when you're looking at $20 million and it comes out to 2 million, why be an actor if you could be an agent and get 10 million or $2 million? And I don't want to say pretty easily, because I have to imagine it is pretty tough to be an agent, because your money that you make also depends on the actor, who you are representing, and what they earn and how you manage deals, because that is the job of an agent. They negotiate the deal, and that's why they take 10% of that gross pay, because they could get you a lot more money. In some cases, they could probably cost them money. But I assume Scarlett Johansson has a great agent and is making her a lot of money. So there's 10% gone. Next up, who's getting paid next? You got to have an agent. You also have to have a manager who takes about 10 to 15%. A manager would be guiding Scarlett Johansson with her career stuff, with her branding, with their deals. So if she has a manager on top of her agent, who's also getting, let's just say, 10 here, that's another $2 million. It could be $3 million, depending on how much of a percentage that they are taking away. So right there, you're looking at at least $4 million from that 20 million that is immediately gone. You don't even have a chance of touching that. You got the agent, you got the manager. What do you need next? You need a lawyer. That could be 5% of a deal like this because they handle the contracts, illegal negotiations. They could charge that 5% or that flat fee. Have them on a retainer. I don't even know what a retainer is. I don't have a lawyer. I don't even think I know a lawyer. Maybe I know one lawyer. But let's just say with a big deal like that, 5%, you're looking at another million dollars right there. Then you have a publicist who I would imagine somebody like Scarlett Johansson just has somebody that they pay a salary to, like a monthly fee, a yearly fee. A publicist manages all of her press or interviews overall, has control over her image with news store, all those things that public, you know what a publicist does. So at least in this case it's not percentage based, but she probably pays somebody 100 to 300k a year, depending on how long this current publicist has been working for her. So there you go, another hundred to 300k out of that deal. Then you got the taxes. Ah, the taxes. She's based in California. Oh, that could be a lot of taxes. The total tax, it could be like the biggest part of this taken out 20, 30, 40, 50% depending on where you are. So there you go, you start to see all these things just dwindle away. Suddenly that $20 million, you got 2 million taken out for the agent, 2 million for the manager, a million for the lawyer, 200,000 for the publicist. And there are all these other just hidden fees in there. You got the taxable income, you got the state taxes, and then you have also all these other hidden fees and that go into being an actor. Things like stylists, trainers, glam squads, especially during promotion of a movie, security assistance, staff salaries, PR campaigns, award pushes during award season, travel, if they're taking a private jet, if they have luxury accommodations. So when I broke down all these numbers, that 20 million could be taken down all the way down to a mere 8 to 10 million dollars. So half of that, sometimes more than half. I would imagine with a case like this, someone as big as Scarlett Johansson, it's probably more than half because she has a pretty big staff, a lot of people to pay. So she is not taking home that $20 million. It's more like 8 to 10 million. On the high end, she would take home $12 million, which is still really great. But when you look at somebody making $20 million for a movie, they're not getting that. That's why they're not as rich as you think. So when all is said and done, could be taking home seven to $8 million on the higher end. Ten, maybe $12 million depending on all the percentages here. But for Me, it is helpful to break that down because sometimes I think, like, man, you guys get paid so much just to do these roles. Why can't you be better at them? It's probably because you're thinking about on set, all these fricking people you have to pay just to get there. And that was a little bit of movie math. All right, let's look at this top 10 now. I'm kind of surprised at how high some of these people rank. It really shows me the power of the MCU with the power of a great superhero franchise and why those have been some of the most sought after roles in the last 15 to 20 years. At this point, at number 10, with a total of 29 leading roles is Chris Evans, who who has pulled in $11.4 billion at the global box office. 29 leading role, that's a lot for Chris Evans, but he's also been around for a long time. His highest grossing movie is 2019's End Game, which made $2.8 billion at the box office, which we are going to see. That movie listed in a lot of actors in this top 10. So I also listed a non avenger role for all of those people. His highest grossing non Avengers role, still a superhero movie, is Captain America Civil War in 2016, which brought in $1.153 billion at the box office. Chris Evans is a really bankable name. He has been around for a long time from the first iteration of the Fantastic Four on the big screen. And now he is still around in acting as the third iteration of the Fantastic Four is coming out this summer. He did say that he has no plans and no connections to any of the Avengers movies coming out in the next few years. But that is still left to be determined because if you look at him being number 10 on this list, it is a lot of MCU movies. So I have to imagine he is somebody who wants to get away from that a little bit. We've seen that in the roles he's taken. Even just this year with Materialists, he is very much stepped out of that pocket and not even really wanted to chase a lot of action movies, which he has done some movies with the Russo brothers, post Avengers, post Captain America. But I think he's really trying to branch out. He is one of those actors I feel is going to make a real step into the direction of dramas, try to get that Oscar win. He is an actor I believe can get there. I really root for him. I really like him. He's really likable in all the press that he does. So I feel really good about him being at number 10. At number nine with 39 leading roles is Dwayne the Rock Johnson. The Rock has also brought in $11.4 billion at the box office. He he beats out Chris Evans by about $17.5 million, which is still pretty significant, especially for the Rock, who still has the tendency to bomb at the box office because of how much they have to pay him. His highest grossing movie is Furious 7, which came out back in 2015, making $1.51 billion at the box office. He is somebody else like Chris Evans, who has been around in movies for a long time. I still remember whenever he started to branch out from WWF at the time and started doing movie roles like Scorpion King. And it was really weird to see him in roles in the beginning because I was a huge fan of the Rock as a wrestler growing up. One of my favorite movies of his from the early 2000s era was the remake of Walking Tall which came out in 2004 with him and Johnny Knoxville. And I probably watched that movie more for Johnny Knoxville, but I remember re watching that fairly recently and still enjoying that movie. I guess he is just somebody I thought would be higher on this list. But again, he doesn't have the power of the MCU because at number eight with 28 leading roles is Vin Diesel, who has a career box office gross of $11.9 billion as a lead actor. So about 0.5 more than Dwayne the Rock Johnson. His highest grossing movie is also Furious 7 2015, which it appears that they don't actually credit Vin Diesel in the Avengers movies where he is voicing group. But I guess that's seen as a minor role. It's not a leading role. Oh man, I wonder how much higher he would be on this list if he had larger roles in the Avengers movies. But then he wouldn't probably be able to do all the other movies he has done simultaneously while making those movies because he's made $500 million more at the box office in 28 roles than the Rock did in 39. But that just shows you the bankability of the fast franchise, which he's in those from the very beginning. I love the speech he gave recently saying we're going to bring back Fast and the Furious to the streets, bring back the culture of racing, really make it much more like it was early in the beginning where it was actually about street racing and culture and the movies that inspired us all to want to put nos in our cars and go Race the streets. So that is exciting to me because I watched a compilation recently on Tick Tock of all the most ridiculous scenes in the Fast franchise that are so unbelievable. So I think if now they are able to scale it back down and have a grittier tone to a Fast and the Furious movies to possibly close out the franchise. I mean, he also said they're bringing back Paul Walker's character, Brian o'. Connor. It's unclear how he's going to return. Are they going to use AI? Are they going to use his brothers Caleb and Cody kind of how they did in Furious 7? That is going to be highly emotional as a movie moment. So I can't wait to see that. So at number eight is Vin Diesel. At number seven, also with 28 leading roles, is Chris Hemsworth, aka Thor, whose total comes in at $12.1 billion. His highest grossing movie is also Endgame, non Avengers. It is Thor Ragnarok from 2017, which $865 million. Kind of surprised to see him higher than Chris Evans just because I think if you look at his body of work in the MCU, I think Chris Evans has the better solo movies. Thor 1 is really good. Thor 2 is pretty forgettable and bad. Ragnarok is just so solid. And I'm glad that that is his highest grossing movie outside of all the Avengers movies. As far as where those two actors kind of stack up against each other outside of the mcu. I still think Chris Evans has an edge on him when it comes to making good movies, but I think Chris Hemsworth in the long run could make more money at the box office if he just finds his one big role, his one big franchise to really carry him. Hasn't quite found that yet, but I still really root for him. I'm probably root for Chris Evans more, but I could see Chris Hemsworth getting on another level if he can just find the right role again, pay the right agent to get him those roles and negotiate those deals. At number six is the only actor not in any superhero movie, even though at one point he was rumored in consideration for the role of Tony Stark in Iron man before it went to Robert Downey Jr. Which that could quite possibly be one casting choice that changed the entire course of cinema. But at number six, with 45 leading roles is Tom Cruise. Honestly thought he would be higher. I thought he would be top three. He has brought in roughly $12.7 billion at the global box office, a majority of that going to the Mission Impossible franchise. But his highest grossing movie of all time is Top gun Maverick from 2022, which made $1.496 billion at the global box office. But if you look at all the people on this list, Tom Cruise has been acting so much longer than all of these people. As far as being a household name since the 80s, you got the 90s, the 2000s, the 2000s, and even now in the 2000s, he has been consistently making great movies. But maybe you just make more now with superhero movies. It all comes down to those billion, two billion dollar movies when all is said and done. And even though now he negotiates a lot on the back end because he can do that, and that is why he is such an advocate for the theater experience and getting movies out into cinemas is because that is what makes him the most money. But I honestly thought he would be top three. But still he sits here at number six. But could you imagine if he would have been cast as Iron Man? It would have been an entirely different movie. Probably would have not set up the MCU for success because Robert Downey Jr. As Iron man carried the MCU for years. And if it would have been Tom Cruise even saying that that first movie would have done well, could have even done a 1, 2 and 3. But I couldn't see him now being a part of that franchise as long as Robert Downey Jr did. I feel like he would have done three movies and been like, I'm not doing any Avengers movies, you're going to have to recast me. So that could have greatly just changed the landscape of film. But luckily that didn't happen. Getting into the top five now, this is where I'm surprised at number five is Chris Pratt with 26 leading roles. I think on this list so far, that is the fewest amount of roles and it landed him in the top five. Chris Pratt has a career gross of $14.1 billion. Large part of that is Jurassic. A large part of that is also Guardians of the Galaxy, which low key, makes a lot of money, kind of nonchalantly is such a great trilogy, not just in the mcu, but I believe one of the best sci fi trilogies of all time. And Chris Pratt is one of those actors now who I think a lot of people have fatigue with him just because he isn't everything I saw. He recently announced he's going to be back as the voice of Garfield. And Garfield, dude, dude is at everything live action, animated. He's Garfield, he's Super Mario. His team keeps him working. His highest grossing movie obviously is also Endgame, the non Avengers. Though it is Jurassic World from 2015, which made $1.671 billion, it still surprises me how impactful those movies are at the box office. Because they are. I don't want to downplay them, but they're relatively simple. The plot lines are pretty simple. It is dinosaurs and humans running from them, trying to escape from them, trying to not be eaten by them. And I think the reason is because of the international appeal, because you can dub those movies so easily into another language. And it just works because you don't need to know all of the dialogue to understand that humans need to run away from dinosaurs. Now that I think about it, I wonder if that's what influences some of the dialog that feels so cheesy in English, because you have to be able to translate it and you have to make it so simple and so clean. So do they purposely write these movies in order to translate them to fit the global box office, to fit in other countries? Because if you look at the numbers, yeah, they do great in the US but if you look at the international box office, that is where the cheese is. That is where the sweetest plum is hanging for these movies. Same thing with the Fast and the Furious movies. It's all about not just focusing on the fan base in America, but focusing on the international fan base in China, all across the globe. That is what these movies do. Which I think if you look at all these movies, that is the goal of them. So maybe that's why Tom Cruise is lower here, right above Chris Pratt. And number four is Zoe Zaldana. With 33 leading roles, she has a career gross of $14.2 billion. Like Chris Pratt, a large part of that is from the mcu, as she is Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy, but she is also in Avatar, Star Trek. Her highest grossing movie IS avatar from 2009, which made $2.9 billion, almost $3 billion at the global box office. And there are still more Avatar movies to come. 3 and 4 are just right there, ready for her to make more money off of those movies. So I could easily see her rising up on the ranks on this list. I think she could easily become top three if the rest of the Avatar movies work out, because Guardians of the Galaxy is done. But she has the potential to move up on this list because of those Avatar movies, which are still solid and again, do great at the international box office. Way of the Water really surprised me and how much I enjoyed it, even though it has a really long run time. So I am all invested in that at number four, Zoe Zania. And number three, with 45 leading roles is. Robert Downey Jr. Comes in at third. I don't feel like that's too surprising. In his 45 films as a lead actor, he has made $14.3 billion. Again, End Game is his highest grossing role. Non Avengers. His highest grossing role is Iron Man 3 from 2013, which brought in $1.215 billion. I remember being kind of disappointed by Iron Man 3 when I saw it in theaters. I was so frustrated that he couldn't keep the suit on. I was like, is this like a metaphor for erectile dysfunction? What is going on here with Tony Stark? But re watching that movie as an adult and understanding the character more, as I've rewatched the Avengers just so many times, I realized that that movie was really talking about PTSD and how much he struggled with the events from New York that I finally got that. So I feel like that is one MCU movie that I appreciate more now. Even though I still think it is probably the weakest in the Iron man, it's still a really great MCU movie. And I think at the time I probably judged it unfairly and was overly critical of that movie. But now, looking back on a lot of those early MCU movies, we didn't realize how good we had it if we were criticizing Iron Man 3 as much as we did. And then we got the Eternals and the Marvels. Yeah, we were spoiled coming in at number two with 70 credits as a lead actor, Samuel L. Jackson. So he dipped from 1 to 2 because of Scarlett Johansson overtaking him. And he has had a career gross of $14.6 billion. So if you look at this 4, 3 and 2, they're all pretty close. Zoe at 14.2, Robert Downey Jr. At 14.3. Samuel L. Jackson at 14.6. They could easily all flip flop here because Robert Downey Jr. Is going to be Dr. Doom. He could easily eclipse all these people depending on if Samuel L. Jackson is going to be in those movies at all. Scarlett Johansson isn't going to be in those movies, so she's going to miss out on that payday. But his highest grossing role is Endgame, much like all these other people in the top of the list. His highest grossing non Avengers roles, he has a couple. One animated is the Incredibles 2, which made $1.2 billion. If you're not counting animated movies and you only want to count liveaction movies, it is Captain Marvel bringing in $1.131 million, which I know I ragged on the Marvels earlier, but I love Captain Marvel. I was so surprised in the decline between Captain Marvel and the Marvels. But again, if Sam Jackson is going to be in any of the next Avengers movies, that could add to his total. But at number one, with 36 roles as a leading actor, it's Scarlett Johansson with a $14.8 billion score at the box office. Just missing out from the top 10 and 11 is Bradley Cooper. At 12 is Tom Hanks. At 13 is Johnny Depp. At 14 is Tom Holland. I feel like maybe with the Christopher Nolan movie, with Spider Man 4, he could easily jump those people ahead of him. Bradley Cooper? Yeah, Bradley Cooper. He could hop. Tom Hanks is still a great actor, does, I would say a good movie every third or fourth movie at this point, but he's not really as bankable as he was before. I can't really see him hopping into the MCU to be somebody. And he could definitely take over Johnny Depp, because Johnny Depp is at about 10 billion. Tom Holland is right there at 9.9 billion. With 18 movies. That. That's the fewest out of almost the entire top 20. Only one other person in the top 20 has less than 18 movies, and I'll get to that one in a second. But I think Tom Holland could get himself up there definitely at 11, I think he could get into the top 10, especially because he only has 18 movies his entire career. You think could be ahead of him. At number 15 is Mark Ruffalo. At number 16 is the person in the top 20 with less than 18, with only 16 leading roles is Emma Watson. That $9.2 billion at the worldwide box office. At number seven is Will Smith. Honestly, I thought he would be higher. At number 18 with that MCU money is Don Cheadle. At number 19 is Dave Bautista. And at number 20, rounding it out, keeping it in the MCU, is Jeremy Renner. Some people I am surprised are not higher on the list is Hugh Jackman at number 30 with $7.7 billion. Again, this is astronomical numbers. Any other actor would kill to have a $7.7 billion box office gross. But with all the X Men movies with Deadpool and Wolverine, I thought he would be higher. The greatest showman, maybe even more surprising, is Leonardo DiCaprio at number 34. Titanic is one of the highest grossing films of all time, and that one alone isn't enough to get him even in the top 20. You have some really just a plus actors in the 30s at 36 is Brad Pitt at 7.2. At number 39 is Bruce Willis at 6.9. Ryan Reynolds way down here at number 43 with 6.5. Then you have some people who I'm kind of surprised are this high. Ben Stiller is at 47. Jim Carrey is at 51. Mark Wahlberg is at 52. Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lawrence come in at 54 and 55. Keanu Reeves at 59. Will Ferrell all the way down here at 86. Jason Momoa at 94. And rounding out the hundred at the very bottom is Mark Hamill. And the craziest part of this entire list is at number 68 is Adam Sandler with a 5.2 billion dollar total. That's wild to me because not only does he consistently end up in the top 10 highest actors of the year year after year, he's usually at number one. And if not number one, he is in that top five. But to only be at number 68, we got to get the Sandman a role in the mcu. Somebody turned the Sandman into a superhero. That is the list. Hopefully you learned some things here. A comeback Speaking of superhero movies and making that money, give my spoiler free movie review of Superman. Hey, it's Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons and safeway now through August 12th. Get great savings on your favorite self care Items and earn 4 times points. When you shop in store or online. 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I hope you'll join me and my extraordinary guests for this new season of Family Secrets. Listen to Family Secrets Season 12 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's get into it now. A spoiler free movie review of Superman, who was quite possibly my least favorite of the most popular superheroes. This movie didn't make me love him, but it made me really like him. And I think that's a big win here. I'm probably a bigger fan of James Gunn than I've ever been Superman. And now I want James Gunn just to do every single superhero ever made. Because when James Gunn makes a movie, he makes it truly something unique. By the end of this movie, I didn't want it to end. And I truly felt for those two hours that I was in that theater, I escaped and I was on another planet. And I have not felt that way while watching a superhero movie in a really long time. That took me back to early phase one mcu, where whenever I was in that theater, I completely escaped from reality. Didn't think about any real life problems. I was right there with David Coren sweat as Superman. Totally just living in this world. And there are so many things I love about the movie. The visuals, which I thought the color palette was just fantastic. If you have a great color palette in a movie, it is just going to win me over. I talk about that all the time. But when it comes to somebody who just knows how to use color, it is James Gunn, specifically with the Guardians of the Galaxy, where he really just had this wonderful cosmic color palette, which I feel he also adopted into this movie, where the blues look so blue and rich, the reds are very deep and just pop off the screen. The yellows are perfect. Has one of my favorite uses of color in any movie, where whenever we first had that tease of Superman and we saw him in what seemed to be an apartment, lacing up his boots and something going on behind him, that was such a fantastic scene because you have this nighttime scene and Metropolis and this incredible, just neon, cosmic color thing happening behind him. And that scene alone is a great example of how much attention to detail James Gunn has, which is what I love about his work, which is what I loved about this film, is that was just a simple scene where any other movie just would have had the characters talking and be the forefront of that. But he has something going on in the background that is just extra showing you that, hey, we're gonna do everything in this movie that we can. We're gonna put everything in here, and even things in the background are going to be visually stimulating for you. That is what I enjoyed so much about this so what this story is about, you have Superman in about his third year of being a hero, which I think is also a fresh approach. One, because you don't get that origin story, which I think we don't really need origin stories in any superhero at this point, Even if it's totally new characters that we don't know. I just feel that the origin story format has been done so much of a superhero figuring out their powers. We've all been there before, no matter what character it is. So I'm glad we didn't have to go through that with Superman. He's three years in. You don't need to know about his parents in Kansas. You just need to know that he's pretty new with this. And I think that is what made me finally start to enjoy this character. Because one of my biggest problems with Superman is dude doesn't have flaws. He's always perfect. He's always just like, good looking, doing the right thing. And there was never anything that felt human to him because he is an alien, because he is from another planet. Where here you have him actually struggling with things. The movie starts with him losing a battle. That's not a spoiler. That's how it literally opens. The moment we saw in the trailer of him in the snow, just panting and bloody. That's how this movie opens up. And that's the tone that it sets, is that Superman isn't going to be perfect in this. He's not going to be almighty and powerful. I enjoyed that because that's what I've been waiting to see. And I think the people who do have a problem with this movie are kind of the opposite of me. Because you want to see what you do love about the character. Him being just ultra powerful, always knowing what to do easily, defeating his villains, or finding a way to defeat his villains pretty easily. That's not the case here. Superman needs the help of his friends. He needs the help of Lois Lane, at times, even needs the help of the city. And for the first time ever, I started to see myself a little bit in the character. And. And that's something I've never been able to do with Superman. The first hour of this movie just flew by. I love the angles that they use with Superman flying throughout the sky, which were very. Just big close ups that felt like they just came off the pages of a comic book. A lot of moments of action in this movie felt like they were literally ripped out of a comic book, which made for really interesting framing. A lot of great shots that not only Made it look different than any other superhero movie. But really just anything out there right now in the last couple of years that it made use of every single inch on the screen. I thought David Corn Sweat was a fantastic Superman, a fantastic Clark Kent. That really showed some depth to these characters, which is something that we did not see in man of Steel. In man of Steel, I did not care about Clark Kent as a person. I didn't care about Lois Lane. I cared more about the action. But by the first, just 10 minutes of this movie, I was sold on their relationship. I was rooting for them. The character development throughout this entire movie had me caring for characters I never thought I could. And that is something that James Gunn does also. Taking characters we're not that familiar with and making them so impactful. And I think he does this by putting together a really great cast and having the perfect people play these parts. If you want to talk about one of the best villains in the last 10 to 15, maybe even 20 years, Nicholas Holt as Lex Luthor is right up there. I haven't felt that angry towards the character and wanted to see their fall so much since Thanos. He is at that level. And Nicholas Holt just plays that character so well. Where I could watch him and Superman hate each other all movie long. Give me a sequel. Give me a trilogy. I think that dynamic between those characters was perfect and the real driving force of this movie. Because that is what I've been missing in a superhero film. To have a villain that is worthy of the entire runtime, where there are moments that you're questioning yourself as the viewer. Like, is our hero gonna make it through? Because every move that Superman made, Lex Luthor was right there to take him down. So it was this constant battle of them going back and forth, back and forth. And I think that might be the frustration of some people being haters of this movie, of not liking that power dynamic. There was a big struggle here. But you have to go back and think about again, it's those three years. He is so new into this role. He's still figuring things out. He's a much younger Superman. But I think that is what we need right now in the D.C. world. Because this is the type of character that has the ability to carry all of D.C. with what they are trying to do now. This world is being established in a really big way, and I think that's what you have to build it on. Aside from David Coren Sweat, aside from Nicholas Holt, Rachel Brosnahan was also fantastic at Lois Lane. The supporting cast in this movie was just top notch, which I was glad for. The Justice Gang with Nathan Fillion as the Green Lantern. I love Metamorpho, which was played by Noho Hank. If you were a fan of Barry, Mr. Terrific, that was a big standout that I would just watch a solo Mr. Terrific movie. I just think that character is that good that could carry an entire movie. So to have him there as a supporting character, that I think maybe another thing people may have a problem with was all the characters, but I think in this case, more characters the better because they're all just so unique and different from Crypto Metamorpho. Even Superman's a robot. There wasn't a character that I just thought, oh, that was kind of a waste of time. So I feel like pretty easily this became my favorite Superman movie ever, even going back to the originals. And I think it's because it is that mix of the original Christopher Reeves movie movies. The man of Steel, without being totally 2000s metal music video, having some of those elements of action, but also having that whimsical comic book feel and completely separating itself from anything on the MCU side. Where I think now going into Fantastic Four, my expectations are going to be so much higher because they do kind of have that both classic vibe to it with Fantastic Four being set back in the day. Even though this Superman movie is set in modern times, when you look at them together, they kind of have like that old school aesthetic. So I worry if Fantastic Four just goes back to the well of everything the MCU has been doing for the last five years, it is gonna lack that big wow factor in comparison after what Superman just did. I'm not saying that this movie has reinvented the genre, but it has pumped some fresh blood into the body, which is a big win for dc. Did massive amounts at the box office. Opening weekend is probably going to crush again going into the next weekend leading up to Fantastic Four. And I really think the competition is good because if you have DC starting to have some really big success with some of their legacy characters, it's gonna make Marvel start to ramp things up as well. Dare I say an almost perfect movie. There are very few things I did not like about it. And if I were to tell you the things that kept me from rating this movie a5, we would get into spoiler territory. But just know it is that good. And it also greatly benefits from seeing it in theaters. This is one of those event movies that you have to experience in theaters. And it's almost to the point when we do have these major huge movies, you almost get that one to two week spoiler free window just because much like a live sporting event like the Super Bowl, I think when it comes to something that moves the needle like a DC movie at this level or even an Avengers movie, you get that one to two week window before you're like, all right, spoiler free here. Again, I won't get into spoiler territory unless I decide to do a spoiler episode. Because then you have actors starting to post things online, much like we saw with the Thunderbolts, because they're excited about it, because people want to talk about it and discuss it more openly. I just think it starts to get to a point where you get one to two weeks and then if you don't see theaters, you're gonna have to know you're gonna start seeing people talk about it more openly online. That's why I went to go see it opening night. So for Superman now has me really enjoying the character, which I was always a fan of the comics. If there was one of my favorite storylines of Superman from the comics that I want to see them turn into a movie, it is Death of Superman, which there is an animated version of that movie and highly recommend that. That is one of my favorite superhero stories. So I don't know if we could ever get to that point seeing James Gunn make a death a Superman movie. But for Superman, I give it 4.5 out of 5 cryptos. Hey, it's Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons and Safeway now through August 12th. Get great savings on your favorite self care Items and earn 4 times points. When you shop in store or online, shop for items like Neutrogena Cleansing and Makeup Removing Towelettes, Dove Men two in one Shamp Conditioner, Dove Shampoo, Tresemme Shampoo Method Body Wash and Swab Body wash and earn 4 times points. Use these points for discounts on groceries or gas. Offer ends August 12th. Restrictions apply. 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I love when he does roles that he can show his comedic side. He can also show his range when it comes to drama. When it comes to interacting with his love interest, I think the guy can do it all. And with a name like Channing Tatum, he was either gonna go on to be a really great actor or a really great boxer. That is such a great name and his real first name, Channing Tatum. It also has director CN France who also did one of my favorite movies of the 2000 and tens, the place beyond the Pine, starring Ryan Gosling, which I believe is one of the most underrated movies of the 2010s, came out in 2012. That movie has a lot of drama, it has a lot of crime. It is the perfect mix of what I love about movies that feel small and independent but just have this grit to it. So now that he is doing a movie that also kind of has some similar themes of that. Because in this one, Channing Tatum plays a real life criminal. It's based on a true story. He plays a robber who lived in a Toys R Us store, broke into more than 60 McDonald's. And somehow by watching this trailer and knowing more details about this guy, I don't believe that he was a bad person. And I wonder if that's going to be the lesson of this movie. Just because somebody is good at crime, does that make him a bad person? Because from the very first scene in this trailer, we see him cutting into the roof of McDonald's, going in, telling the crew he's about to rob them, but then so graciously guides them to the freezer he's gonna lock them all in there. He finds out one of the employees doesn't have a jacket and he's like, all right, I'll give you mine. So he's kind of nice, but he's a really smart, charismatic, sweet guy. I love the fact that it's based on a true story. I love the director. I love the cast. You also have Peter Dinklage, Kirsten Dunst, Lakeith Stanf. I'm already hyper glazing up this movie. Before I get into it more, here's just a little bit of the Roofman trailer. A manhunt tonight for an escaped prisoner. Find a safe place to hide for a few months. He's a very smart individual, super intelligent. So, John, I understand you work for the government. So it's a little classified. So I. I never knew we had an intelligence unit here in Charlotte. Oh, are you law enforcement? Yes, I know. Wow, that's amazing. Police believe the roof man may still be in the area. What the. Oh, my God. So Channing Tatum plays a former U.S. army Ranger whose real name is Jeffrey Manchester. And he resorted to a life of Robbie McDonald's restaurants because he was going through some financial hardship. He got that name Roofman, because that is exactly what he did. He was known as a roofman rooftop robber. He would cut the holes into roofs of McDonald's to gain entry inside of them, herd all the employees into the freezers before emptying the cash registers. Jeffrey Manchester actually robbed over 60 McDonald's using this method, man, just to have the guts to do the first one. I imagine after you rob one in this type of manner and you gain that confidence and you start to learn the layout of McDonald's, I feel like that second one gets a lot easier. By about 10, it just starts to feel like punching into work. It has to, because I think that is the theme with a lot of criminals. And I'm only speaking on what I've learned from movies, even from the same director. The Place beyond the Pines where Ryan Gosling's character robs one bank and then he wants to continue robbing more banks because it is never enough. I have to imagine at some point it just starts to feel normal to you where you forget about those risks. Going into McDonald's instead of working there and making delicious egg McMuffins and hash browns in the morning. Although he's probably robbing these at night. You punch in and you rob the place. And he was able to do over 60 McDonald's, which just leads me to believe how brilliant this guy is, because as it is showcased in this trailer, he does eventually get caught. But his gift is that he is so observant and he pays attention to people and their routines. This guy has to have a brilliant mind. And obviously has had some things go wrong in his life. Because what the trailer goes on to show you is after that prison escape, he goes to hide out in a Toys R Us and a Circuit City store in North Carolina. He actually did this and manages to live in that store. He finds a way to hack into the cameras when all the employees are gone. He goes and hangs out in the aisles. He showers at these places, he eats from these places, and then just starts to embed himself in the community, which what ends up probably getting him caught because he develops feelings for Kirsten Dunst, who lives in the community. He donates toys from the Toys R Us to her just to get her retention. And then he starts to become closer and closer with law enforcement. And then you also see in the trailer that eventually he runs into Peter Dinklage, who is the manager at the Toys R Us, and a lot unfolds. It looks like he gets caught. But I did not Google on purpose because I didn't really want to know what happened in real life. Even though this trailer pretty much tells you everything. And I've told you guys, one major red flag you can look for anytime you watch a trailer is if they show you the entire movie in those two and a half to three minutes. I usually say that as a sign of a bad movie. I don't feel that way after watching this trailer. Even though I know it from beginning to end, I kind of see how this is going to play out just because I know these types of stories. Whenever you have somebody who is keeping details from a love interest about their dark and hidden past, they can't come back from that. As much as they are developing feelings for you, as much as they want to believe you, as soon as you break that trust, as soon as you lie to them and they have to say to themselves, like, I don't even know you. You're a criminal. Like, I, I can't have these feelings anymore. Lie to me. You are a criminal. I have to imagine things aren't going to work out for him and his love interest in this. But I think this movie is going to have a good mix of true crime since it is based on a true story. Some thriller elements which I get from the action of him going to prison, escaping from prison, hacking into the system at Toys R Us to mess with the cameras to make it seem like he's not actually there, getting chased by the police, still trying to hide out, trying to hold on to this life that he started to build. Which also makes me sad in this story to think that somebody has finally found something that feels real, but they earned it in a way that wasn't the most noble to have that ripped away from you. That part is gonna suck for him. Just from this trailer alone, I've seen the dynamics of this character and how much range that Channing Tatum has to show this character's eccentric personality and to show how he can do bad things. But he's also very gentle in ways like he wants to find love. He doesn't really want to hurt anybody. This is just the only thing that he is good at. And Kirsten Dunst's character is also a single mother, so that's gonna add some crazy levels of stakes to this movie. Lakeith Stanfield plays his friend. Like I mentioned, Peter Dinklage is the Toys R Us general manager. Juno Temple is also in this movie playing one of his friends. That's why I say this movie has the potential to be my next favorite movie. I also love that the movie was shot on location. It takes place in Charlotte, North Carolina. So they filmed a lot in North Carolina and they did it on 35 millimeter film. So it kind of gives it that 90s early 2000s nostalgia look to it. So I'm excited for it. Roofman is coming out in theaters on October 25th, and that was this week's edition of Movie Mike's Trailer park and that is gonna do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I gotta give my listeners shout out of the week. This week I'm shouting out all the haters because boy did people come at me hard for last week's review of Jurassic World Rebirth. I was so surprised and shocked by it. And not even just the review itself. I think the most people I commented back to and messaged with even emailed with about that movie. I think for the most part we can all agree how mid that movie was and how let down we all were. Even though that movie brought in a lot of money at the box office, I was honestly expecting to get more heat from my review on that because I saw some people loving it. So I thought that was going to be the main focus of the hate last week. But it turns out so many people had upset with my Jurassic park slash Jurassic World ranking that I was told that I'm a complete idiot and I shouldn't be doing this anymore. So this week's listener shout out of the week goes to Alexander on Tick Tock, which there were a lot of comments but Alexander said, bro, I'm sorry, never rank again. Jurassic Park 3 that low and you put the Lost world at number one. Jurassic Park 3 is easily in the top three, maybe even number one. I did not realize there was so much love for Jurassic Park 3. I have to imagine it's a generation thing which I was born in 91 a couple of years before the first Jurassic park came out. So I don't have that much attachment to that one. Maybe because I was a little bit older whenever Jurassic park the Lost World came out. That is why that is my movie of my childhood and why I love that one the most. I have to imagine that has to be the same reason why there is this burning passion for Jurassic Park 3 which came out in 2001. So people born in like the late 90s or maybe early 2000s that caused that to be the first Jurassic park movie that they discovered. Because just re watching those movies as I did before the last one, Dominion, which I rewatched all the Jurassic park movies before that. That movie was so forgettable. When I did re watch it, it almost felt like watching it again for the first time because there are no major events in that. There are no moments in that movie that stand out. It is so just dull and blah. Even more so than Rebirth, but not as much as Dominion. That's why I put it right in the middle of those two. But man, people hated on me so much for that. I've never been called stupid like this. I've never been called a criminal. I've never been called all these things. I have been called on TikTok, Facebook and YouTube. So if you feel the same way you can go comment that that's why I do this podcast. That's why I open up the discussion for you to call me out when I get something so blatantly wrong. But I still don't think I was wrong. I would admit I was wrong if I was. But if you want to voice your opinion you can always find my social media links in the episode notes. Basically just at Mike Diesro at everything. So also email me Movie Mike D at gmail and until next time go out and watch good movies and I will talk to you later. Want to feel more creative but don't have the right laptop? Lenovo.com can help look through our legendary lineup of AI powered PCs and devices and find the one that fits your passion. Our PCs powered by Intel Core Ultra processors as well as cutting edge AI tools. Tools allow students to focus, learn and create with ease. 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