On the December 27, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film news writer Ryan Scott to discuss the latest film and tv news, including weekend box office, Colin Trevorrow’s Atlantis movie, and The Book of Boba Fett.

Opening Banter: Holiday check in.

In The News:

Ryan: Spider-Man: No Way Home Crosses $1 Billion At The Box Office In Just 12 Days
- Omicron spikes now slowing it down? Is this a good or bad thing?
Ryan: Sing 2, Matrix Resurrections Are No Match For Spider-Man At The Box Office
- If I had told you that they would release a 4th Matrix film and…
- Should Sing have been released on streaming/VOD?
- Who is the big loser of the weekend?
- Smaller movies: Nightmare Alley and Licorice Pizza
Peter (og Sandy): Colin Trevorrow On His Upcoming Atlantis Film: 'It's The Only Thing That Equals Dinosaurs For Me'
- Colin tells Empire: “For a generation right now to be able to enter a world that is not unlike their world – where their elders have basically gifted them a civilisation that is dying – I think it is the right moment for that story”
  - previous versions of the Atlantis story have portrayed it as a ruined city plunged underwater by its citizens’ hubris, this one is set on a lost continent in the Indian ocean, a “multicultural civilisation with its own advanced technology”,
- “I’m fascinated with it,” he says. “It’s the only thing that equals dinosaurs for me. I guess I tend to go back to the past. But, you know, it was the first time that we had technology. And it’s at a time when we had other kinds of creatures that aren’t around anymore There are just so many things about it that are fascinating to me. So yeah, I’m a deep nerd for it.”
Ryan (og Danielle): Who is Sophie Thatcher's Cool Biker Chick Character in Book of Boba Fett? Let's Speculate Wildly!
- Peter talks about Yellowjackets
- All the trailers are the first half of episode 1

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