9ES348: Close To The Vest

by jorn on October 24, 2025 at 1:11 am

Tron is a weird franchise and Tron: Ares just continues the weirdness. From what I’ve read, none of the three movies were considered hits for Disney. But somehow three of them have been made and they made a really expensive roller coaster to celebrate the franchise in Disneyworld. Hard to figure out the actual numbers but allegedly it was in the same price range as the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind ride and that cost $500 million USD.

That’s a lot of money for Tron.

So, Tron: Ares.

OG Tron:

Budget $17 million

Box office $50 million[1]

Tron: Legacy:

Budget $170 million[5][6]

Box office $409.9 million[6]

Tron: Ares

Deadline Hollywood reported a total cost of $347.5 million, including production and advertising, for the film and estimated that it ultimately should lose over $132 million.

Whoopsie!

Meanwhile, you know what else involved a lot of money? The Riyadh Comedy Festival.

We didn’t have the Marc Maron quote on the show, but here it is in all its glory:

“I mean, how do you even promote that? “From the folks that brought you 9/11. Two weeks of laughter in the desert, don’t miss it!” I mean, the same guy that’s gonna pay them is the same guy that paid that guy to bone-saw Jamal Khashoggi and put him in a fucking suitcase. But don’t let that stop the yuks, it’s gonna be a good time!”

You’re a legend Mr. Maron.

Meanwhile on a brand new episode of Garbage Time you won’t believe it but Jon and Keith talk more about Silksong! For the last time! Both of them are sitting at 100% game completion so they finally get it all out of their system… until the inevitable DLC is released. Keith also went to the Pounding the Pavement exhibit on now at the McCord Museum in Montreal (until October 26 so you’re probably already too late) and Scott wrestled a coyote.

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9ES253: In Space

by jorn on January 27, 2022 at 1:57 pm

Posted In: 9ES, Podcast, Podcasting

The Montreal based geek and pop culture podcast that definitely knows more about The Eternals than we do about football is back with episode 253.

Besides Scott, it is fair to say that the 9to5 Entertainment System is not really “dialed in” to the world of the NFL. That said, the Buffalo Bills being kind of a tragic team is one of those things that seems to have made its way into general pop-culture. They’re not quite the New York Jets but they’ve somehow always been that loser team people from Toronto like.

Once again we talk up the Vice wrestling documentary series “Dark Side of the Ring” and get a little into the specifics of the all-time attendance record for a wrestling event. We’re talking of course about the “Collision in Korea” event in 1995 that took place in Pyongyang, North Korea.

We only scratch the surface of the insanity on the episode, do yourself a favour and check out the episode.

Scott somehow seems to think that Ghostbusters: Afterlife was a pretty good movie, but maybe that’s just because he’s a dad and wants his kid to be a Ghostbuster? I dunno man.

Keith talked about The Eternals again on this podcast, even though he already did that on last week’s episode of Go Plug Yourself. But this time we put it on the list so it’s ok.

This week’s episode of Garbage Time is particularly garbage-y… Scott couldn’t make recording since he had a headache so Keith and Jon talk about Spirit Island and some dead celebrities. They also take a look at that study that measured people’s heart rates while watching horror flicks. Check it out over on our Patreon page at the 9ES Deluxe tier.