Episode 512 - AFI Fest Preview, "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew," "The Beekeeper 2," "The Mosquito Bowl" & "A Long Winter" Trailers

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SPEAKER_1 (1:30)

And the Oscar goes to, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_2 (1:33)

This might be the one time I'm speaking.

Matt Neglia (1:35)

This is not a joke.

Giovanni Lago (1:36)

Moonlight is One Best Picture.

Lauren LaMagna (1:37)

Could you double check the envelope?

SPEAKER_1 (1:39)

And I can't deny the fact that you like me.

Lauren LaMagna (1:42)

Thank you life, thank you love.

Giovanni Lago (1:47)

Oppenheimer.

SPEAKER_2 (1:48)

At the movie theater.

Matt Neglia (1:49)

This is nuts.

Lauren LaMagna (1:50)

It's a tie. I'm the king of the world.

Matt Neglia (1:53)

And the Oscar goes to, And the Oscar goes to, And the Oscar goes to, Gentlemen, my only object of fear here is to try and get out of here.

SPEAKER_1 (2:08)

I could have been somebody.

Giovanni Lago (2:09)

They can only kill me with a golden bull. What have I done?

SPEAKER_2 (2:19)

I ate his liver with some strawberry.

SPEAKER_1 (2:32)

If you would.

Matt Neglia (2:32)

It's time to scroll this.

SPEAKER_1 (2:36)

The Oscar goes to... One Battle Oscar in a row.

Matt Neglia (2:42)

Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 512 of The Next Best Picture Podcast. I'm your host, the owner, editor-in-chief of nextbestpicture.com, Matt Neglia. The time of recording is 107 p.m. on October 17th, 2026 And here to join me today for this episode, I have Giovanni Lago.

SPEAKER_1 (3:04)

Hello, hello.

Matt Neglia (3:05)

And Lauren LaMagna.

SPEAKER_1 (3:06)

Hello.

Matt Neglia (3:08)

So for this week's episode, we have AFI Fest, which is kicking off this week in Los Angeles. It's a great opportunity to catch up if you're on the West Coast on a lot of films that have already premiered at various film festivals. But they are also holding the North American premieres for Wildwood, Ray Gunn. They're also going to have the world premiere of The Mosquito Bowl and a few other things in store as well. So we'll touch briefly upon that. There's other stuff also happening in the world of award season as per usual. And we are very excited about all the constant developments that have been happening at the box office as of late. Man, really, really exciting stuff there. We have some trailers to discuss this week. Most notably, Jason Stapham returning from The Beekeeper 2, most anticipated film of 2027 for people that are named Giovanni Lago and not much else.

We also have River to discuss. A really, really good trailer was put out for that one.

And then we also have Being Heumann and The Mosquito Bowl, two films that are going to be playing at AFI Fest this week. So we'll deliver some thoughts on those. We're gonna answer fan questions as part of Mailbag Monday as we usually do. Thank you to everybody. I know I asked for your questions on a Saturday as opposed to a Sunday, but I'm flying to LA tomorrow for AFI Fest, a few interviews I'm doing in town and some other things. So it was either do the show now or not have a show at all. And I'm happy that we can have a show here for you today at all. So starting off with what you have been watching this past week, which is a thing that we always love to kick off our shows with as we look back before we look forward. Lauren, is there anything that you have caught up with in the last week that you want to share with the class?

Lauren LaMagna (4:48)