On the July 2, 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, Joseph Kosinski’s F1, M3GAN 2.0, play the Ironheart interview we teased last week, and celebrate the 41st anniversary of This is Spinal Tap.

(~01:12) In The News:

• Amazon Has Hired The Perfect Director For James Bond 26 (But There's One Issue)
• Rumored Bond actors
• A Social Network Sequel Is Finally Happening, But There's One Big Problem
• https://deadline.com/2025/06/the-stand-doug-liman-to-direct-film-adaptation-paramount-1236441818/
• Edgar Wright's Running Man Remake Trailer Makes One Big Change From The Stephen King Book
• https://deadline.com/2025/06/dave-bautista-to-star-the-romantic-paramount-1236442381/
• https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fx-mel-brooks-very-young-frankenstein-comedy-1236299816/

(~30:22) M3GAN 2.0 Review: Judgment Day Is Messy Mayhem In This 'Bad Straight Camp' Sequel

(~37:15) Spoilers - M3GAN 2.0 highs and lows

(~47:40) Ivanna Sakhno interview

(~52:03) This is Spinal Tap

(~01:06:15) Rob Reiner interview

(~01:19:26) F1 discussion (spoiler-free)

(~01:37:39) Ironheart spoiler discussion

(~01:50:36) Ironheart interview with Sev Ohanian and Zoie Nagelhout

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