'Furiosa's Slow Start, 'Beetlejuice 2's Depressing Trailer, Plus Steven Spielberg's War on Marvel and Star Wars

Netflix continues to take potential theatrical crowdpleasers off the table while MonsterVerse loses a key director as 'Godzilla x Kong' nears a box office milestone

In today’s world-changing episode of “Scott Mendelson writes too much about too many subjects”...

• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga gets off to a slow start at the Thursday box office, suggesting it will be the third coming of Solo and Lightyear.

• The new Beetlejuice Beetlejuice trailer sells painful, depressing “same actors as same characters wearing the same clothes and saying the same lines” nostalgia, even while still likely to become a blockbuster thanks to multigenerational and multimedia nostalgia. 

• Universal slots the new Steven Spielberg tentpole between Avengers 5 and The Mandalorian and Grogu.

• Netflix debuts a title for Knives Out 3 right in time for the also “should have been in theaters” Hit Man.

• Adam Wingard departs the MonsterVerse while Godzilla x Kong nears Skull Island.