MMOW 12/27/19 - Bookending This Episode, + MMOW in 2019, With Finishing Star Wars Touches

We follow up on Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker with a non-spoiler box office chat atop the show & cover a series of Abrams vs Johnson news stories at the end. In between, we play SixDegreesOfMMO and review a ton of movies, christmas-y or otherwise. What is This Show - 2:58 BOX OFFICE UPDATE: Star Wars’ Box Office Success + Struggles - 3:48 (JJ vs RiJ - 10:11) The Rest of the Weekend Top 5 - 13:46 Notable News Outside the Top 5 - 22:02 SIXDEGREESOFMMO: Recap and Awards - 27:26 Winner + New Challenge - 32:51 TRAILER THOUGHTS: The Last Dance Trailer 1 - 38:38 Miss Behaviour Trailer 1 - 42:30 The Gentleman Trailer 2- 45:34 WHAT WE’RE WATCHING: AlsoMike - 47:27 GIVES HIS REVIEWS OF: Togo on Disney+ Villains on VOD Let It Snow on Netflix QT8: The First 8 on VOD Happy Death Day 2 U on VOD Black Godfather on Netflix Stockholm MIB International on Starz The Invisible Man from the 30’s DO YOU CARE (About…): This Week’s New Releases - 58:00 Kevin Spacey May Be a Literal Evil Genius - 1:00:59 SPOILER WARNING FOR FORTHCOMING STAR WARS WRAP UP - 1:04:14 Rey At Movie’s End + Sympathy for JJ - 1:05:17 “Rey, I Need To Tell You Something” - 1:13:01 What’s Next For Star Wars? - 1:17:17 Your Homework/PLEASE LEAVE US 5*’S - 1:21:53 What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 1:22:18 In our largest Box Office update segment of the year, we do a bit of a state of the industry report to open the episode. Disney is still raking in the dough with Star Wars, and we dive into a follow up conversation about The Rise Of Skywalker. This will be our non-spoiler portion of this follow up cuz there's a bookend to the show as we talk a bunch more about the Skywalkers at the show's end as well. We also ask some questions about the state of big budget Hollywood musicals, how Sony has crushed it in 2019, and we wonder which Christmas releases will continue a steady build to profitability. Knives Out, & Frozen II are Thanksgiving holdovers still making bank, but will Little Women, Uncut Gems, or Bombshell gain an Oscars boost? Your SixDegreesOfMMO submissions wow us once again. We coin some more unique awards to match up with your creativity, and then finish off our december improv. There’s a few new trailers to breakdown next including the upcoming 10 part docu-series The Last Dance: The Untold Story of Michael Jordan and the Bulls, the 1970 Miss World story - Misbehaviour, and another trailer for Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen. Mike 1 re-watched some Christmas favorites like It’s A Wonderful Life & Christmas Vacation, while Also Mike watched a bunch of stuff including new movies like Villains & Let It Snow. Then we discuss the remainder of Oscar films being released late December and early January, and the one film, we’re dying to see most of all - Portrait Of A Lady On Fire. Finally, we finish off DYC with another discussion on the state of that galaxy far, far away. We warn you of spoilers & breakdown the silent feud between Johnson & Abrams. There’s also a bunch of speculation about what Kathleen Kennedy & Kevin Feige might be planning next for the Star Wars franchise. Let us know what you think about The Rise Of Skywalker chatter & do send us your responses to next week’s Six Degrees. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you listen to podcasts. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar!