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

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?

Ryan Scott is off this week, but Lisa Laman, Jeremy Fuster and Scott Mendelson (that’s me) still had plenty to pontificate about in relation to a softer-than-hoped $28 million domestic opening weekend for Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s The Fall Guy. And yeah, I will briefly roll my eyes at Disney dropping Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace back into theaters just in time to undercut a rival studio’s non-franchise big-budget tentpole. That kind of gamesmanship was funnier in the late 1990s when the entire theatrical ecosystem wasn’t in peril.

Forgive the lack of samples from my co-hosts’ respective portfolios this week, but Google is your friend. As always, if you like what you’re hearing, do the usual thing of liking, sharing, commenting and *smashing* (using a cartoon mallet) that subscribe button with every justified ounce of strength and passion.

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Jeremy Fuster - https://www.thewrap.com/author/jeremy-fuster/
Lisa Laman - https://lisalaman.wixstudio.io/lisaportfolio
Ryan C. Scott - https://www.slashfilm.com/author/ryanscott/

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The Outside Scoop
The Box Office Podcast
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.