The Nose looks at ‘The Batman’ and trouble at Netflix
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audio
Categories Via RSS |
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Apr 22, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:40:35

When this week’s Nose hits the sky, it’s not just a call. It’s a warning.

Matt Reeves’ The Batman is the highest-grossing film of 2022 so far by a fairly wide margin. It stars Robert Pattinson in the title role, and it’s the first entry in a new Batman shared universe. Two sequels are expected and two HBO Max television series are planned. Pattinson’s Batman exists alongside the DC Extended Universe, in which Ben Affleck plays Batman, and, it turns out, alongside a universe where Michael Keaton is still Batman. It’s a shared multiverse that I’m talking about, I guess. Pattinson is Batman in what is apparently called ‘Earth-2.’ I am not making any of this up. I could not make any of this up.

Anyway, The Batman premieres on HBO on April 23. It is available to stream on HBO Max and for digital rental and purchase now. Oh, and it’s still in theaters, too.

And: Netflix announced this week that it lost 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of the year and that it expects to lose another 2 million this quarter. And its animation department is kind of falling apart. And it’s now going to crack down on password sharing. And then its market value dropped more than $50 billion over night. Yikes.

Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take:

GUESTS:

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  • James Hanley: Co-founder of Cinestudio at Trinity College
  • Tracy Wu Fastenberg: Development officer at Connecticut Children’s

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