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Scott Mendelson Explains The Box Office For The Weekend of March 17, 2024

A slew of studio programmers on over/under 1,000 screens couldn't compete with the combined might of 'Kung Fu Panda 4' and 'Dune Part Two'

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Scott Mendelson
Mar 17, 2024
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In this weekend’s exhaustive, comprehensive and “save it for the toilet” long weekend box office report, I discuss…

  • Why Kung Fu Panda 4 may stick around for awhile

  • How Dune Part Two is holding domestically and around the world

  • How WBD is essentially keeping the overseas box office alive

  • How the small-scale studio programmers performed in their semi-wide debuts

  • And way, way too much more!

As always, if you want this “can’t get this anywhere else” wisdom about “why what made what in theaters,” with deep-dive and outside-the-box unconventional insights that they will strip your nerves screamingly raw and leave you gasping for breath…

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