Weapons (with Zach Cregger), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 (with showrunners), Fixed (with Genndy Tartakovsky), and More

On the August 13, 2025 episode of /Film Weekly, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by a bunch of people to talk about the latest film and TV news, and present interviews with the folks behind Weapons, Fixed, and season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

(~00:25) In The News:

• https://deadline.com/2025/08/final-destination-7-in-works-lori-evans-taylor-1236482729/
• https://deadline.com/2025/08/lionsgate-legendary-merger-buzz-jon-feltheimer-1236481733/
• (Paramount might try to buy WB)
• https://deadline.com/2025/08/paramount-sets-rights-deal-tko-group-streaming-1236483386/
• https://deadline.com/2025/08/pedro-pascal-tony-gilroy-behemoth-1236482461/
• https://deadline.com/2025/08/kristen-wiig-jonah-hill-cut-off-release-date-1236482531/
• https://deadline.com/2025/08/rambo-prequel-movie-noah-centineo-1236483104/

(~18:05) Weapons spoiler-free chat

(~23:49) Weapons spoiler discussion

(~43:29) Zach Cregger interview

(~51:18) Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3

(~01:08:57) Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers interview

(~01:18:50) Fixed

(~01:31:06) Genndy Tartakovsky interview

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