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The Outside Scoop's Box Office Podcast Ep 03
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The Outside Scoop's Box Office Podcast Ep 03

Some closing thoughts on the 'Fantastic Four' casting news, but otherwise it's mostly about the success of 'Bob Marley: One Love' and the failure of 'Madame Web'

Episode three is right on time, with all four of us again chatting about the weekend box office that was. Ryan C. Scott (SlashFilm) returns after a brief abscence, joined again by myself along with Lisa Laman (Collider and Looper) and Jeremy Fuster (TheWrap).

While we do briefly talk about the Fantastic Four casting, as well as thoughts on Kung Fu Panda 4’s eventual release and the $600 million-plus success of Wonka, the majority of the 42-minute chat is about the movie that opened with $52 million over the Wed-Mon President’s Day weekend (Bob Marley: One Love) and the film that earned just $26 million over the holiday frame (Madame Web).

We discuss the grim future for Sony’s Spider-Man Universe but a bright future for promising young actors not having to look at franchise flicks as do-or-die acting gigs. We discuss the grim overall domestic box office for the holiday while noting a slow crawl back to normalcy, maybe even a pre-streaming normalcy whereby more films (amd a few smaller films) make up a larger portion of the overall annual domestic box office spend.

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Jeremy Fuster - https://www.thewrap.com/author/jeremy-fuster/
Lisa Laman - https://shorturl.at/hlqX8 and https://shorturl.at/mvzK8
Ryan C. Scott - https://www.slashfilm.com/author/ryanscott/

Discussion about this episode

Neither episode 2 nor episode 3 are showing up in my Apple Podcasts feed? Only episode 1 is.

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Then it must be an issue on my Apple Podcasts app on my actual iPhone? Only episode 1 is showing up there... I'll listen to episode 2 and 3 directly on the web. Thanks!

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Although, actually, are any of the other readers / commenters seeing the same issue on the Apple Podcasts app on iPhone?

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The Outside Scoop is a great deal with the inclusion of a podcast. I contemplated getting subscriptions to Forbes and the Wrap before so I could read Scott’s articles in full, but then I’d be paying for a bunch of extra stuff I don’t read. This is best deal.

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