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The Box Office Podcast

Scott Mendelson

A weekly conversation about the weekend box office between myself (Scott Mendelson) and a few younger (Jeremy Fuster), hipper (Ryan Scott) and cooler (Lisa Laman) entertainment journalists. Spoiler: I am what they grow beyond. scottmendelson.substack.com

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69:30

Ep 29: The Summer, It Ends With 'Alien'

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/08/20

Ryan and Lisa (cordially) debate whether Disney has allowed the more adult-skewing Fox brands to stay true to their R-rated roots. Still, both agree that Lionsgate’s Borderlands is a monumental tentpole disaster. Jeremy notes the Alien Romulus demo stats which imply that it’s “Baby’s first Alien flick” for many younger viewers while succinctly speaking a grim truth about the current “anti-spoiler” culture. Scott rants about the seemingly “fabricated from thin-air” controversies related to It Ends

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59:02

Ep. 28: A Lively Weekend For 'Deadpool 3'

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/08/13

Both Deadpool & Wolverine and It Ends With Us nabbed $50 million+ weekends, again showing Hollywood there’s more than one way to build a blockbuster. Lisa Laman details the key lesson from the mega-hit Colleen Hoover adaptation. Ryan Scott begs Lionsgate to stop making Borderlands-sized franchise failures. Jeremy Fuster ends the show with a righteous diatribe contrasting D23’s bread-and-circuses pageantry with the struggles facing the filmmakers responsible for Disney’s biggest hits. Get full access

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57:44

Ep. 27: Deadpool Traps A Purple Crayon

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/08/07

The gang is back to discuss what continues to go right for Deadpool & Wolverine, what only went kinda-sorta okay for M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap and what went 104% wrong for Harold and the Purple Crayon. There are fewer digressions than usual, although we do note Warner Bros. Discovery’s very bummer summer and Longlegs being Nicolas Cage’s biggest live-action hit in nearly 17 years while imploring Imax to give the people what they crave: Hundreds of Beavers: The Imax Experience. We also answer our

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50:31

Ep 26: Deadpool & Wolverine - When Everything Goes Right

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2024/08/01

50 minutes of (almost) nothing but Deadpool & Wolverine, both in terms of its box office bonanza and what the four of us thought of the picture. Spoiler: I was not the crankiest critic this weekend. Plenty of thoughts about what went right (adding Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine negated a possible decline in interest), what didn’t go wrong (the kids showed up, R-rating be damned) and why a success specifically like this (using two established marquee characters from the Fox library) doesn’t really solve

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54:14

Ep. 25: 'Twisters' Soars High, 'Longlegs' Legs Out

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2024/07/23

There were only two really big pieces of news, namely the $81 million domestic opening weekend (along with the softer-than-hoped overseas earnings) for Twisters and the ridiculously solid hold for Neon’s Longlegs. Meanwhile, Inside Out 2 is about to become the biggest animated movie ever if you don’t count The Lion King (which I don’t even if my co-hosts think I’m full of s**t). Get full access to The Outside Scoop at scottmendelson.substack.com/subscribe

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60:28

Ep. 24: Horror Is Undead Again, For Now!

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2024/07/18

Despicable Me 4’s spectacularly consistent (for his franchise) holds and raw grosses... As Longlegs surprises, keep Osgood Perkins away from Netflix... The complicated financial variables behind a $10 million opening for Fly Me to the Moon... Why A24 started the Oscar race a little early with 'Sing Sing'... What the hell is going to happen to Kevin Costner's 'Horizon'? Get full access to The Outside Scoop at scottmendelson.substack.com/subscribe

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45:02

Ep 23: Angel Studios Suffers From 'Despicable'...

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/07/09

Was Despicable Me 3’s domestic downturn a fluke or did the extended wait and pre-COVID nostalgia for the brand prevent a continual box office downward trajectory for Hollywood's top-grossing animated franchise? How bad is a $3 million Fri-Sun/$6 million Thurs-Sun debut for The Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, which was supposed to be Angel Studios’ big summer season event? Were we wrong to expect more from A24’s MaXXXine? All that and more, in episode 23 of The Outside Scoop: The Box Office

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55:07

Ep 22: 'Inside Out' Sequel, 'Quiet Place' Prequel...

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/07/01

The gang is back to dissect what went very right with A Quiet Place: Day One and almost inevitably wrong with Horizon: An American Saga. Lisa laments the ongoing emphasis on movies for older audiences. Jeremy explains how Kevin Costner’s passion project was a relative hit in certain parts of the country. Ryan anoints Lupita Nyong’o as a genuine movie star (or at least an A-level added value element). Scott asks if we are already in the midst of the long-promised permanent COVID-era theatrical

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61:56

Ep 21: 'Inside Out 2' Bikerides 'Thelma' to The...

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/06/25

Ryan Scott and Lisa Laman do it "solo" to discuss the $101 million second weekend for Inside Out 2 along with better-than-expected openings for 'The Bikeriders,' 'Thelma' and 'Kinds of Kindness'. Get full access to The Outside Scoop at scottmendelson.substack.com/subscribe

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50:23

Ep 20: Mixed Emotions For 'Inside Out 2'

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/06/18

‘Inside Out 2’ soared to infinity and beyond, nabbing $154 million domestic and $294 million worldwide in its global theatrical launch. That’s good, right? We’re all in agreement that it’s great news for the box office and the multiplexes. However, if Bob Iger and friends are to capitalize on this, they have to -- to quote my favorite Disney animated film -- make the right choices and (say it with me now) keep moving forward! Get full access to The Outside Scoop at

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59:57

Ep 19: 'Bad Boys 4' Unsurprisingly Slaps

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/06/11

A well-liked sequel to a successful sequel in a popular franchise opened at the high end of realistic expectations… what a shock...! What a $107 million global debut for Bad Boys: Ride or Die does (and doesn’t) say about Will Smith’s current drawing power...After The Watchers stumbles, is horror in trouble or are the movies underwhelming? Get full access to The Outside Scoop at scottmendelson.substack.com/subscribe

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39:43

Ep 18: Talking MoviePass, MovieCrash with Business...

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/06/04

Since Hollywood didn’t bother to release any new wide openers last weekend, I gave the box office folks the weekend off. In the meantime, and this may be a backdoor pilot of sorts for a second semi-regular podcast, I spoke last week with Business Insider entertainment correspondent Jason Guerrasio. His as-it-happened reporting was essential in exposing the less-than-glittery gold that was the year of MoviePass. He’s an executive producer on the new documentary Movie Pass Movie Crash. Get full access

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58:52

Ep: 17: Audiences Say 'Furi-No!-Sa,' But Monday...

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/05/29

Whether or not Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga should have performed better or was an inevitable “online fandom doesn’t equal audience interest” misfire, such a film shouldn’t have been expected to hold up theatrical — alongside The Garfield Movie — almost by itself. That’s the crux of the chat amid a historically grim Memorial Day weekend box office session. Get full access to The Outside Scoop at scottmendelson.substack.com/subscribe

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56:43

Ep 16: ‘If’ Doesn’t Whiff but the Amy Winehouse...

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/05/21

We dissect If’s complicated $33.7 million domestic debut (remember G-Force?), whether we should be “happy” that The Strangers: Chapter 1 opened with $12 million (if horror becomes as franchise-dependent as every other theatrical genre…), and whether anyone should be surprised at the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black earning less than $3 million for the weekend (I was there… in early 1992… when The Babe bombed). Get full access to The Outside Scoop at scottmendelson.substack.com/subscribe

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Ep 15: Podcast On the Box Office For The 'Kingdom Of...

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/05/15

We talk about the solid $131 million debut for 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,' including what went right, why it got a B from CinemaScore and what the math looks like (especially sans China) in terms of justifying follow-up. Oh, and 'Poolman' opened, too, I guess. Get full access to The Outside Scoop at scottmendelson.substack.com/subscribe

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59:48

Ep 14: Fall Guys and the Faults of our Star Wars

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/05/07

Does the mediocre opening weekend suggest a broader theatrical problem, or was Ryan Gosling in a Hollywood love letter to itself less enticing to regular moviegoers? Plus, how this is all, of course, the fault of our 'Star Wars' Get full access to The Outside Scoop at scottmendelson.substack.com/subscribe

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65:18

Ep 13: 'Suck It, Escape from Tomorrow!'

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/04/30

The complicated new math of films distributed by obscenely wealthy streaming companies where it hardly matters if a $55 million flick like Zendaya’s Challengers makes a rate-of-return profit on theatrical alone. What is the “success” point for these “theatrical as PR for streaming” movies in terms of making the distributors happy with the box office results? How good (or bad) is a $15 million opening for a film like Challengers amid the current status quo compared to the mid-2010s when studio

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69:14

Ep 12 - Killer Nazis Nazi Killers But Death Pools Vamp...

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/04/24

ComScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian guest-stars (as Ryan Scott takes a breather) amid a look at Civil War’s second-weekend hold (the good) and the debuts for Abigail and Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (the bad) prior to a deep dive into the upcoming summer movie season (barring a miracle, the ugly). Get full access to The Outside Scoop at scottmendelson.substack.com/subscribe

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Ep 11 - Civil Wars and Cinema Cons

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/04/16

* What does Civil War’s chart-topping $26 million debut mean for A24?* Scott and Lisa think a new Blair Witch is a horseman of the apocalypse situation.* Ryan thinks we should all stop worrying and love the Blair Witch.* Jeremy and Ryan talk about what they saw at CinemaCon.And so much more!! Get full access to The Outside Scoop at scottmendelson.substack.com/subscribe

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51:14

Ep 10 - Bad Omens and Monkey Trouble

The Box Office Podcast ·

2024/04/09

On the measured success of 'Monkey Man' and why 'The First Omen' is a classic "IP for the sake of IP" mistake. Thoughts on why the 20th Century Studios IP has mostly been so much of a dud for Disney, how 'Civil War' will play for paying moviegoers and what constitutes success or failure as the streaming bubble bursts and theaters are grateful for each and every major new release. Get full access to The Outside Scoop at scottmendelson.substack.com/subscribe

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