WWE Studios

But, you know, I guess I don't know

how possible it is, but I do know that at WWE Studios, they do have a building that they do have, you know, set aside for things like this, where they can legitimately go there and have a live wrestling show inside WWE.

wwe studios now it's different from the studios that they had uh the covid uh yeah that was that was

the pc

that was no no that was in stanford that was the old uh it was with the big screens When they had...

If

you've seen WWE films, Oculus, you know what we're talking about.

Is

this the best WWE films of all time?

It is.

And I do love myself some of the Marine One.

And the Condemned.

And See No Evil.

Yeah, listen, do more of that stuff.

You know how much better those bad WWE films and movies would, number one, be so much more successful? I don't even know about dollars and cents, but be, like, culturally more successful today because they would just be for free on Amazon or whatever and people would watch them as opposed to having to seek them out, deliberately go find...

you know, see no evil five or whatever, or the, or the Marine 12.

Like those would tell

The Nick Cages and the lower level Nick Cages, it's just like, yes, I will show up for X number of dollars.

There's no further conversation, right? So Confession has Rob Lowe, James Franco, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Cody Smith-McPhee, Nick Nolte, It's just like, yes, we can put a bunch of famous people together.

That should have been the WWE Films model.

All you need is like, dude, if there was a movie that was like Big Show with James Franco, Nick Nolte, and Rob Lowe, you'd be like, okay, I don't know.

Yeah.

So the film was a co-production between WWE Studios and Lionsgate, which also distributed the movie on Blu-ray, didn't Lionsgate?

Mm-hmm.

Uh, Lionsgate, if you remember, uh, also distributed the first See No Evil in theaters.

Zane.

EQ, "You haven't watched any movie on WWE Studios, The Marine, series one through six, 12 Rounds one and two.

12 Rounds one and two," I have not.

I have not.

No, 12 Rounds wasn't.

That was a Dwayne one.

Um, but the only time I've watched any sort of WWE film, WWE Studios film I should say, is when it's watching somebody, like reviewing it.

It's not actually watching the film outright.

I literally went, "Oh, no.

I wish I didn't turn this on." [laughs] But apparently, WWE Studios, at the time, I don't even know if they're produ- they probably do in-house stuff for their apps and shit.

Yeah.

But at the time, they were like, "Let's branch out a little bit and, like, produce other things outside of our wheelhouse," 'cause originally, they were producing movies like, I know you all your life have been like, "I really needed a Jingle All The Way 2." Don't worry.

I don't know if it's a reference to Triple H or a reference to mir- the mirror would make more sense.

I feel like the mirror makes a little more sense.

But also the WWE Studios.

[laughs] I'm like, maybe they felt they needed one thing.

in what you have to say.

Big guy, I mean, if you're gonna spend all your time talking about, like, whatever WWE Studios just put out or what's gonna happen on SmackDown or follow us on Twitch or whatever, when there's an actual...

I know you have to do those things, I get it.

But there's an art of doing it, and it just felt like at the end of Vince McMahon's regime, that that felt more important than was at, what was actually going on in the ring.

It's the real focus here.

So the fact that now it's come over to the West, they've gone straight into what looks like a mid-2000s WWE Studios movie, where they were like, I think we can make films.

And they made really bad films.

Well, I'm here for it.