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The Studio Recap: High Stakes

The Continental gang faces the downside of an “old-school Hollywood buffet.”

With “CinemaCon,” the first installment of a two-part season finale, it all comes together as the Continental team heads to Las Vegas to show the exhibitors gathered there their full slate: Kool-Aid: The Movie, Sarah Polley’s The Silver Lake, Zoë Kravitz’s Blackwing(Kravitz might even be attending), The Promotion starring Paul Dano, Ron Howard’s Alphabet City, Johnny Knoxville’s “medical disinformation” satire Duhpocalypse!, the Olivia Wilde noir Rolling Blackout, and the Lil Rel Howery/Ziwe comedy with a title that’s been rendered unreadable on its poster. She’s celebrating the green-lighting of her first film, a “Coralie Fargeat body horror,” a feat she somehow accomplished without seeing some of Matt’s favorite movies: Summer School, Mannequin, and, most relevant to this outing, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Sal has pharmaceutical-grade cocaine and Matt has those shroom edibles, which he plans to put out on a platter in service of “old-school Hollywood vibes.” It’s going to be a memorable night, just not for the reasons they’re hoping.

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