Chris Bumbray previews the top entertainment stories for 2025!

Well, Matt, it's 20 minutes after eight o'clock. And there's some nice notes here on the text line. 514-7900. Use it for celebrations. We'll do them just before the nine o'clock. Chris Bumbry from joeblo.com is on the line. Good morning. Hey, Ken. On the line on autopilot. He's here in studio. Yeah, I'm right there. Right here. You're looking at me. Love of God. Didn't get much sleep last night. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. Where do you drive in from?

Oh, I drove in from NDG, actually. Yeah. Did you recently move there? About a year ago. About a year ago. But I lived there for like seven years beforehand all over NDG. So I know that area very well. Close to the Monkland Village. I'm actually right next door to the Glen. If you, my office, I can actually look at the Glen. If I was to climb out the window and on the ground floor, I could get the Glen in like seconds. So I guess it's great if ever I have like a problem.

Uh, listen, we thought we'd take a look ahead to 2025 and some of the entertainment stories and, uh, you know, things that are going to be streaming and movie projects that we're each looking forward to. So what do you want to start with? Okay. Well, the one that I'm probably most excited for is, uh, 28 years later, which is the, the,

Long-awaited sequel to Danny Boyle's 28 days later. I'm dying to see that. I mean, 28 days later is one of my favorite horror movies. It actually had a sequel that was pretty good, 28 weeks later. I don't know if it's going to be canon, but this is going to be great. I mean, you got Ray Fines in it, Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The trailer that they put out a couple weeks ago was amazing. I love Danny Boyle, too, so this is for me.

And it was all show with iPhones, apparently, which is crazy. Wow. But if you look at the trailer, it looks pretty lavish. But the original was shot in digital, too. And I remember that was such a provocative thing back then. So it comes out this year? Yeah, it comes out this summer. Sorry, in 2025, summer 2025. I have one for you, but I'm going to play a little audio first for us. Go ahead, Jimmy. Oursville, Ruby, Cuba, a mafia. Oh, yeah. Keeps them guessing like some kind of polygame prevents them from asking the most important question. Why?

Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover them? Iconic scene from the Oliver Stone JFK. It's so funny that you play that because I literally watched JFK about two weeks ago. Did you really? 4K. Yeah, yeah. I love them. Holds, holds up. Yeah, yeah. It's good. What a great cast. That's the great scene to Donald Sutherland. Oh, my God. Yeah. There's a great story. I've told this a couple of times on the year, but he reversed that scene for days and days walking around Paris with his wife.

He wanted it to be so natural when he wanted it came time to shoot it. And it's just one of the iconic scenes in movie history. I play that because there's another JFK movie coming out. It's called Assassination. It's being directed by Barry Levinson. Yeah, yeah. And it's co-written by David Mamet. Yeah, Mamet. And the cast, get a little of the cast, Jared Leto. Mm-hmm.

Al Pacino, Jessica Chastain, Brendan Fraser, and a guy I will go see anything in, Brian Cranston. Me too. Me too. Brian Cranston I didn't do it a couple of years ago. Great guy. Yeah. And one of the great voices too. If he'd never acted, he could make a living in a voice work. I agree with you 100%. And it's funny you mentioned Brian Cranston because I always think of Breaking Bad. And one of my other most anticipated movies for the year is Nobody Too with Bob Odenkirk.

who was salt on on breaking back. Oh, yeah. And I just I don't know. I love Bob Odenkirk as an action star. I find it really funny that he's become kind of like the the modern like Liam Neeson almost like the next heir to the throne. But I mean, I thought nobody was one of the best action movies I've seen in a while. And the sequels finally coming out into the director a little while ago. This guy from Thailand and he was saying that that it's insane how in what good shape Odenkirk keeps himself in because he does all his own stunts. And then apparently Christopher Lloyd is back and he's like 85 and

His request was he wanted more action scenes. Hey, it's funny you should mention this because old and Kirk, you probably know this, you're on top of everything. He's going to be on Broadway this spring in this. Glengarry Glen Ross. I know, I want to go see it. I saw Cranston do network on Broadway just before he won the Tony, and I'm thinking I'll have to go see.

I'll have to go see Odenkirk. He'd be great on Glingler Egan Ross. Do you know who he's playing? I'm not sure who he's playing, but also on the cast is Kieran Culkin from Succession, right? Wow, yeah. And Bill Burr, comedian Bill Burr, isn't it? I could see that. I could totally see that. That's, well, that's going to be great. The only thing I'm cringing about when it comes to this is if I go, how much the tickets are going to cost? Yeah, they're going to be expensive. I sat in the nosebleeds for network, but you know what? Faye Dunaway was there. Faye Dunaway was there at Network, because she had been in Network, because she was there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. Standing in line with the rest of us. Wow, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah, at some moment.

Yeah, a great film to the 1992 film with what a cast to Jack. Jack Lemon put the coffee down. Al Pacino. I actually played the Moss role that Ed Harris played in Glenn Glarygon Ross once in a university, in an acting class that I was in our outcomes was we had to do Glenn Glarygon Ross.

and I got cast in the Ed Harris role and I was all right, you know, because I was bald, that's why I got the role. You know who kind of gets forgotten in that cast because Alec Baldwin's green and Czech lemon and whatever, Kevin Spacey. Yeah, Kevin Spacey. Yeah, yeah, an unshoey role too. Yeah, absolutely. What else you have for me? Well, you know, I mean, everybody's looking forward to Superman, I guess. I mean, that one,

Kind of, you know, not sure about it. I mean, I'm definitely suffering from superhero fatigue a little bit, but I think it's going to be one of the big stories of the year, and that crypto, the super dog is, you know, Superman's dog is in it, and that's been going super viral the last few weeks, and definitely on Joe Blow, that's the movie that everybody's talking about. But I got another one for you, though. If you like good, true historical dramas, there's a Nuremberg movie coming out with Russell Crowe playing Gurring, Michael Shannon playing the prosecuting US attorney, yeah, and Rami Malek.

So that's gonna be that sounds like a really interesting movie. Well. Yeah, when's that coming up? So that should premiere probably a TIFF in September. I would assume can or TIFF. It's gonna be one of the two and I'll probably be out in the fourth quarter of 2025. Remember the Denzel Washington movie Man on Fire? Of course.

of course, of course, yeah, the TV show, yeah, yeah. What, you heard about it? Yeah, yeah. It's a Netflix series. Yeah, with Yahya Abdul-Mantin, who's a good actor, but I don't know, I mean, how can you beat that? So he's playing John Creasy. Yeah, yeah, and because that was based on a whole series of novels, right? You know, and he died in the movie, but he didn't die in the books.

I don't know. I mean, it's just, how do you beat Denzel, though? I mean, I feel like that, to me, that's one of my absolute favorite action movies, and I just don't see anybody being able to even come close to Denzel in that movie. I think we're at home, we've probably watched it at least half a dozen times. It's just, yeah, that great scene where he's got the guy strapped to the car.

And there's an all out of time. There's an alternate ending where he kills the bad guys at himself by using that exact same thing. If anybody seemed really, you know, about it. Yeah, it's on the DVD and it would have been a great ending. Apparently it was Denzel Washington's preferred ending, but they didn't go with it. Something else is coming up too. Claire Danes love Claire Danes. Love her too. Homeland, right?

Yeah, great on all that. And Matthew Reese from the American Sea. That's one of my favorite shows ever. And he was great on Perry Mason as well. Does it Matthew Reese turn up in the Saturday Night movie about SNL as George Carlin? Yes, George Carlin, right? Anyways, Claire Danes and Matthew Reese are going to start an upcoming Netflix series called The Beast and Me. It's a mystery thriller about an author, Claire Danes, who suspects her neighbor of murder.

Betty's guilty to there's so much stuff out there and in the works like it's never ending I mean I think we're in the era of like peak content to though with like streaming is they have to keep they have to keep things going I was telling Aaron actually about this the other day I just saw a really interesting documentary on Netflix that drives on the drops on

New Year's Day about Jerry Springer. Do you remember Jerry Springer? Yeah. Yeah, it's like every every episode someone threw a chair Yeah, exactly exactly and it's a two-part documentary where they track down all the people that used to work on his show and a bunch of the old guests and kind of get behind the scenes Man, it's amazing some of the stuff that they did in that could you imagine them trying to do it now how? Cancelled everybody everybody involved with that would be I feel people go to prison for that

Chris, we could talk till nine o'clock. We sure could. Thanks for coming in. Oh, my pleasure. Thank you. Chris Bumbry from Joblo.com.