Podcast Episode Details

Slow Horses Season 5 (with Showrunner Will Smith), Him, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, and More

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On the September 24, 2025 episode of /Film Weekly, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by several people to talk about the latest film and TV news, the Halloween Horror Nights experience in Las Vegas, Justin Tipping’s new sports horror movie Him, and Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, and I’ll wrap up by talking a bit about Slow Horses season 5 and presenting an interview with showrunner Will Smith.

(~00:25) In The News:

• https://www.slashfilm.com/1971533/abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmel-live-bad-news-american-media/
• https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/damon-lindelof-pledges-not-to-work-with-disney-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-1236523784/
• https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-reactions-marvel-disney-stars-1236376120/
• https://bsky.app/profile/mattbelloni.bsky.social/post/3lzf47qwewc2y
• More than 400 celebrities signed an open letter from the ACLU calling this a “dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation,” comparing the situation to the McCarthyism that ruled over the 1950s.
• Disney brought him back: https://www.slashfilm.com/1975610/jimmy-kimmel-live-return-date-disney/
• https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/disney-plus-hulu-price-increases-october-2025-1236527241/
• https://deadline.com/2025/09/sleepaway-camp-kenan-thompson-developing-reimagining-1236548085/
• https://deadline.com/2025/09/randy-savage-biopic-kenan-thompson-in-development-1236552908/
• https://deadline.com/2025/09/scorsese-dicaprio-jennifer-lawrence-what-happens-at-night-1236548458/
• https://variety.com/2025/music/news/taylor-swift-film-theaters-october-showgirl-1236524158/
• https://x.com/AMCTheatres/status/1969072793095483593
• https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO1HzoNAVYX/?igsh=M2kxb3g4eWNyZm1v
• https://deadline.com/2025/09/paramount-lands-here-be-monsters-tron-ares-joachim-ronning-1236549380/
• https://deadline.com/2025/09/long-walk-david-jonsson-cooper-hoffman-the-chaperones-1236552986/

(~05:05) Halloween Horror Nights: Vegas Edition

Here's How Universal's Horror Unleashed Compares To Halloween Hor

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