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Ep. 43 - #SawPatrol Lives Again!
Box Office: 'Gladiator II' Nabs Solid $56 Million Weekend But 'Red One' Drops 59%
Box Office: 'Wicked' Will Remind Hollywood What It (Should Have) Learned From 'New Moon'
Thursday Box Office: 'Wicked Part One' Flies to $19M as 'Gladiator 2' Nabs $6.5M
On 'Elio' And a Reminder of What Success Used to Look Like for Disney and Pixar
Ep. 42 - 'Gladiator II' Crushes 'Red One'
'Wicked' Review: A Towering 'Part One' That Stands On Its Own
Box Office: 'Gladiator II' Tops Worldwide With $87M Overseas
Box Office: 'Red One' Rebounds With Leggy, Promising $34M Weekend Debut
'Red One' Box Office - The Rock Rolls An Underwhelming $11 Million Friday
Why Disney and Lucasfilm Need Rey More Than Daisy Ridley Needs 'Star Wars'
Yes, Lupita Nyong'o Is A Movie Star
Review: 'Gladiator II' Is A Fun Legacy Sequel That Overly Lionizes Its Predecessor
God, The Devil And Santa Claus
Are Marvel Superheroes Still Relevant in This 'Brave New World'?
Saint Judy Greer Tops Sinner Hugh Grant At Friday Box Office
Disney "Hopes" That 'Mufasa' Is This Year's 'Rogue One,' Not Another 'Marvels'
Michael and Mickey Move, Rodrigo Bombs on Netflix and Neeson Bombs in Theaters
'Red One' Review: A Harmless, Painless But Also Weightless Big-Budget Holiday Trifle
Popes, Hitpigs And Love Monkeys!
Box Office: 'Venom 3' Tops $300M as 'Smile 2' Passes $100M Worldwide
Box Office: 'Venom 3' Tops Friday But Drops 70% As 'Here' Bombs With $1.95M
Box Office: Can 'Mission: Impossible 8' Fight the Friction?
Ep. 39 - The 'Last Dance' For SPUMC?
Box Office: 'Venom: The Last Dance' Tops With A Good-Enough $175 Million Worldwide Opening Weekend
Box Office: 'Smile 2' Drops 68% As 'Conclave' Debuts With $2.5M Friday
'Venom 3' Box Office: Why a $22M Friday Is Good Enough For 'The Last Dance'
The Subversive Unseriousness Of 'Venom'
Chris Hemsworth is Box Office Poison
Ep. 38 - Creepy Folks With Scary Grins
Weekend Box Office: Anora Smiles as Joker Continues To Be Terrified
Box Office: Theaters Cannot Survive on 'Joker 2' and 'Venom 3' Alone
Box Office: 'Smile 2' Tops 'Terrifier 3' With A Solid $9.4 Million Friday
Box Office: 'Moana 2' Tracking Puts Disney Sequel On Par With Disney Originals
'Smile 2' Review: Bigger Is Better!
'Terrifier 3': How An Indie Cult Horror Franchise Became a Box Office Smash
Box Office: Where 'Joker 2' Ranks Among Hollywood's Biggest Sequel Flameouts
As 'Wild Robot' Flies to PVOD, Shorter Windows Are Not Hurting The Box Office
Weekend Box Office: 'The Apprentice' Bombs As 'The Wild Robot' Legs Out
Box Office: 'Terrifier 3' Tops (With $18M) As 'Joker 2' Drops (A Record 81%)
Box Office: 'Joker 2' Plunges Record 89% on Friday as 'Apprentice' Bombs
'Terrifier 3' Box Office: Art the Clown Chops Up $8.2 Million Friday
'Joker 2' - Six Years After 'Solo,' Are Movies About White Guys Still Box Office Poison?
'Joker 2': Why Warner Bros. Cannot Afford Another DC Cinematic Universe
Ep. 36: The Day The Clown Cried
'Joker 2' Box Office: Why Sequels Bomb
Dear Hollywood: Please Stop Listening to the Fans and Feeding the Trolls
Box Office: 'Joker: Folie à Deux' Stumbles With Unfunny $7M Thursday
Mendelson's Musings (10-02-24)
'Joker: Folie à Deux' Review: A Self-Loathing And Self-Sabotaging Sequel
Ep. 35 'The Wild Robot' Tops While 'Megalopolis' Flops
Live show in Los Angeles on Tuesday Oct 8th w/ Scott Mendelson, Jeff Bock, and The B.O. Boys!
Box Office: 'Megalopolis' Bombs While 'Devara Part 1' Is A One-Day Wonder
Box Office: 'The Wild Robot' Puts DreamWorks Animation Back in the Game
'Megalopolis' Was Never, Ever Going To Be A Box Office Hit
'The Wild Robot' Tops The Box Office With a Promising $11.3 Million Friday
The Key Challenge DC Studios Faces In Selling a *New* 'Superman'
'Salem's Lot' Lacks Bite, While 'Resident Evil' Smells Like a Trap - And More
Ep. 34: 'Beetlejuice' Tops 'Transformers'
Trailer Park: 'Thunderbolts,' 'Gladiator II' and 'Red One'
'Transformers One' Disappoints At Box Office With Soft $39M Global Debut
Box Office: 'Transformers One' Disappoints With $9.6M Friday
Cinemas Bet on Themselves, Lionsgate Teams With AI and More
Can Pixar Recover From the Damage Done By 'Inside Out 2' and 'Lightyear'?
Ep. 33 - The Listener Mailbag!
Why Hollywood Keeps Remaking Foreign Flicks
Ep.32: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice and/or Beetlejuice
'Wicked Part Two' Moves Up A Week
'The Wild Robot' Review (2024)
Weekend Box Office: 'It Ends with Us' and 'Alien: Romulus' Both Top $300 Million
Weekend Box Office: 'Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice' Opens To Boffo $110 Million
'Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice' Marks Tim Burton's Fifth Decade Of Boffo Box Office
All 21 Tim Burton Movies, From 'Pee-Wee' to 'Beetlejuice 2,' Ranked Worst to Best
'Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice' Review (2024)
Box Office: Warner Bros.' Long History Of Unconventional Blockbuster Scheduling
Ep. 31: Summer Post-Mortem with BoxOffice Pro's Daniel Loria
Box Office: Reagan Nabs $9 Million As 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Wins Labor Day
Scott Mendelson's Stupidly Lengthy 2024 Summer Movie Box Office Recap
Disney Is Still Out-Foxing The Box Office
Ep. 30: 'The Crow' Eats Crow At Box Office
Lionsgate's Lousy Week, 'Coraline's 'Avatar'-Sized Box Office And More
Box Office - 'Alien' Rules Overseas as 'It Ends with Us' Tops 'Green Lantern'
As 'The Crow' Dies, Hollywood Needs to Stop Making Nostalgia-Chasing Remakes
Box Office - 'The Crow' Flops With $2M Friday as 'Alien Romlus' Soars in China
Box Office Milestones: 'Bad Boys 4' Passes $400M as 'It Ends With Us' Tops $200M
How Streaming Turned the Entire Entertainment Industry Into a Glass Cliff
Ep 29: The Summer, It Ends With 'Alien'
Box Office - 'It Ends With Us' Continues To Debunk Conventional Wisdom
Why Boffo 'Coraline' Box Office Suggests A Potential Cultural Comeback for Laika
Box Office - 'Alien Romulus' Nabs Promising $108 Million Worldwide Debut
Box Office - 'Alien: Romulus' Nabs Okay $18M Friday as 'Coraline' Returns
'Deadpool & Wolverine' Gives Disney (Near) Total MPA Box Office Domination
'Alien: Romulus' is Another Legecy Sequel That Fails Its 'Amazing Spider-Man' Test
‘It Ends With Us’ - In Defense of Its Controversial but Successful Marketing
Will Bob Iger Leave His Disney Successor Out to Dry... Again? (And More)
Hollywood Can No Longer Count On Overseas Box Office Even For U.S. Hits
Ep. 28: A Lively Weekend For 'Deadpool 3'
Box Office: It Ends With Us' Nabs $50 Million As 'Deadpool 3' Tops $1 Billion
Friday Box Office: 'Borderlands' Bombs, 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Nears $1 Billion
'Rebel Moon' - 3 Key Lessons From Netflix's Zack Snyder Stumble
Ep. 27: Deadpool Traps A Purple Crayon
'Deadpool & Wolverine' - One of Marvel's Biggest Hits Is Barely an MCU Movie
Hiding M. Night Shyamalan's 'Trap' From Movie Critics Did More Harm Than Good
M. Night Shyamalan Has Come Full Circle
Ep 26: Deadpool & Wolverine - When Everything Goes Right
'Deadpool & Wolverine' Breaks Its First Box Office Record With $38.5M Thursday
'Bad Boys 4' Arrives On VOD As A Big Box Office Triumph For... Martin Lawrence?
'Deadpool & Wolverine' Review: Marvel Gets Its Own 'Rise of Skywalker'
Ep. 25: 'Twisters' Soars High, 'Longlegs' Legs Out
Box Office - Long Legs for 'Longlegs' as 'Bad Boys 4' Passes 'John Wick 4'
'Twisters' Box Office - Six Key Takeaways From a Huge $81 Million Debut Weekend
'Twisters' Sucks... Up a Terrific $32.2 Million At Friday Box Office
'Twisters' Fails 'Amazing Spider-Man' Test as Disney Goes All-In On 2010s Nostalgia
Ep. 24: Horror Is Undead Again, For Now!
Box Office - 'Twisters' Launches Early, 'Longlegs' Nabs Record $23M Weekend
Box Office: 'Longlegs' Ends Horror Movie Slump As 'Despicable Me' Tops $5 Billion
'Superman' - James Gunn's Biggest Advantage Will Be Lowered Expectations
Ep 23: Angel Studios Suffers From 'Despicable' Holiday Weekend Box Office
Box Office: 'MaXXXine,' 'Possum Trot' and 'Kill' Nab Underwhelming Holiday Debuts
If It's July 4 Weekend, It Must Be... Gru?
Why 'Horizon' Bombed and How 'Quiet Place: Day One' Avoided Prequel Pitfalls
Box Office - The 15 Top Grossing Independence Day Blockbusters Ever
Ep 22: 'Inside Out' Sequel, 'Quiet Place' Prequel Both Box Office Champions
'Inside Out 2' Tops $1 Billion Global As The Permanent Box Office Recovery Begins
Box Office - 'A Quiet Place: Day One' Opens To Franchise-Best $53M Weekend
Box Office -'Quiet Place' Tops 'Inside Out 2' With $23M Friday, 'Horizon' Struggles
Mendelson's Musings (06-28-24)
Box Office: 'A Quiet Place: Day One' Aims to Jolt Hollywood Horror Back to Life
Ep 21: 'Inside Out 2' Bikerides 'Thelma' to The 'Exorcism'
Disney and Universal Can Help Each Other By Avoiding Silly Box Office Showdowns
Box Office - 'Inside Out 2' Tops $720M as 'Despicable Me 4' Starts Early Overseas
Box Office - 'Inside Out 2' Passes 'Dune 2' To Become 2024's Top Domestic Hit
‘Inside Out 2’ and ‘Barbie’ Highlight What Women (Really) Want at the Movies
Box Office: Hollywood's Most Profitible Action Franchises Are...
Ep 20: Mixed Emotions For 'Inside Out 2'
Box Office: 'Inside Out 2' Nabs Record $295 Million Worldwide Opening
'Inside Out 2' Nabs Towering $62M Friday as 'Bad Boys 4' and 'IF' Both Top $100M
‘Bad Boys’ Passes $1 Billion, ‘Inside Out 2’ Nabs $13M Thursday, ‘Trap’ Springs Early
'Bad Boys 4' Laps 'Furiosa' at Box Office as 'Hit Man' and 'Godzilla'Struggle On Netflix
Ep 19: 'Bad Boys 4' Unsurprisingly Slaps
'Bad Boys' Nabs Big ($106M) Box Office, 'IF' and 'Fall Guy' Show Off Long Legs
Will Smith Remains As Big a Star As He Was Before 'The Slap'
The Box Office Is Suffering From a Grim Replay of Summer 2014 and Summer 2016
Ep 18: Talking MoviePass, MovieCrash with Business Insider's Jason Guerrasio
Box Office: 'Furiosa' Plunges 71% As 'Garfield' Tops With Mere $4M Friday
The Most Critical Challenge Facing Movie Theaters Is One of Supply Not Demand
Ep: 17: Audiences Say 'Furi-No!-Sa,' But Monday Moviegoers Love 'Garfield'
'Garfield' Tops While 'Furiosa' Flops Amid Awful Memorial Day Weekend Box Office
Box Office: 'Furiosa' Is Bombing For Same Reasons as 'Solo' and 'Blade Runner 2049'
'The Fall Guy's Poor Box Office Highlights Inconvenient Truths About PVOD
Ep 16: ‘If’ Doesn’t Whiff but the Amy Winehouse Biopic Fades ‘To Black'
Box Office: ‘Back to Black’ Bombs With $3M as ‘Strangers Chapter 1’ Earns $12M
'IF' Box Office: A Solid $35M Debut Highlights the Trouble With Tracking
'IF' Tops Box Office With $10.3M Friday
'Furiosa' Vs. 'Strangers' - Which Prequel Failed the 'Amazing Spider-Man' Test?
An 'IF' Calls, How Adam Driver Became A Modern Tom Cruise and More
Ep 15: Podcast On the Box Office For The 'Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes'
Box Office 'Apes' Opens to $129M as 'Fall Guy' Falls Hard But 'Challengers' Holds
Box Office: 'Planet of the Apes' Tops With $22.2M Friday as 'Star Wars' Plunges 82%
Bored of 'the Rings'?, 'Civil War' Tops $100M, 'Unfrosted' Bombs on Netflix
'Apes' Together: Wrong?, 'Fall Guy's Ironic Box Office Miss, Disney's Marvel's Con
Ep 14: Fall Guys and the Faults of our Star Wars
Box Office: ‘Fall Guy’ Stumbles With $29M Debut as ‘Garfield’ Nabs $22M Overseas
Box Office: 'Fall Guy' Falls Short With $10 Million Friday as 'Tarot' Underwhelms
Box Office: 'The Fall Guy' Wants What 'The Roundup' Already Has
Ep 13: 'Suck It, Escape from Tomorrow!'
5 Burning Questions - Scott Mendelson's 2024 Summer Movie Box Office Preview 2
Scott Mendelson's Ridiculously Long 2024 Summer Movie Box Office Preview
Ep 12 - Killer Nazis > Nazi Killers But Death Pools > Vampire Girls
‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Could Be Another ‘No Way Home’ or the Next ‘Black Adam'
'Abigail' and 'Ungentlemanly Warfare' Both Disappoint In Box Office Bloodbath
Box Office: ‘Abigail’ Tops ‘Civil War’ With Anemic $4M Friday as ‘Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Underwhelms
As Subversive Superhero Movies Become Mainstream, Can Conventional Comic Book Cinema Compete?
Ep 11 - Civil Wars and Cinema Cons
Box Office: 'Godzilla x Kong' Tops $435M as 'Kung Fu Panda 4' Passes $450M and 'Dune 2' Nears $700M
'Civil War' Box Office: A24 Breaks Records With a Boffo $26 Million Debut Weekend
'Civil War' Is Good For $11 Million at Friday Box Office
Box Office: ‘No, Thanks!’ Now Means ‘Yes, Please?' When It Comes to Hollywood IP
Is Margot Robbie Learning the 'Wrong Lessons' From 'Barbie'?
‘Joker 2’ Trailer Avoids the Music, but ‘First Omen’ Affirms the Perils of IP and More
Ep 10 - Bad Omens and Monkey Trouble
Friday Box Office: 'Godzilla x Kong' Plunges 77% But Still Towers Over 'Monkey Man' and 'First Omen'
'Godzilla x Kong' is a Box Office Miracle
'A Simple Favor 2' - When a Box Office Win is Still a Loss for Theaters
Ep 9: Where the MonsterVerse Went Right
Box Office: ‘Ghostbusters’ Sinks 65% as Sydney Sweeney and the Devil Hold Firm on Easter Weekend
Box Office: 'Ghostbusters' Plunges 66% on Friday While 'Dune 2' Passes $600 Million
'Godzilla X Kong' Tops Box Office With (Very) Good $37 Million Friday
Why Hollywood No Longer Expects A Blockbuster Box Office Bounce From China
'Godzilla X Kong' Unearths Monstrous $10 Million at Thursday Box Office
Review: 'Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire'
Where’s ‘Pope’s Exorcist 2’? More Non-News on ‘Pirates 6,’ an Ironic ‘Bad Boys 4’ Title and More
Ep 8: 'Ghostbusters' Lives, Sydney Sweeney is (Maybe?) A Movie Star And NEON is on a Roll
'Immaculate' And 'Late Night With the Devil' Break Box Office Records for Neon and IFC
'Ghostbusters' Box Office: Why A $45M Debut For 'Frozen Empire' Is Better Than You Think
Friday Box Office: 'Immaculate' and 'Late Night With the Devil' Open Strong As 'Dune 2' Tops 'Wonka'
'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' Box Office: Why A $16 Million Friday Is (So Far) Good Enough
‘Ghobusters: Frozen Empire’ Scares up $4.7 Million at Thursday Box Office
Box Office: 'Dune Part Two' Could Remain Among 2024's Biggest Hits By Default
When Even Taylor Swift Can't Help Disney+ Challenge Netflix, The Streaming War Is Over
Scott Mendelson Explains The Box Office For The Weekend of March 17, 2024
Scott Mendelson Dissects The Friday Box Office For The Ides of March (03-15-24)
Mendelson's Merry Movie Musings (03-14-24)
Ep 06: Kung Fu Panda 4 vs Dune 2 vs Oscars 96
Neve Campbell's 'Scream VII' Return Is a Cynical Distraction Via Nostalgic Pandering
Chris Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' Is The Oscar Champion We Needed (But Didn't Deserve)
‘Dune 2’ Tops ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ at Worldwide Box Office to Pass $365 Million Global
'Kung Fu Panda 4' Box Office: 5 Lessons From A Butt-Kicking $58 Million Domestic Debut
Friday Box Office: 'Dune Part 2' Drops Solid 62% as 'Cabrini' and 'Imaginary' Both Earn $3M
'Kung Fu Panda 4' Box Office: Jack Black Is Hollywood's Top Kid-Friendly Movie Star
'Dune 2' Tops $100M: How Both Sci-Fi Epics Benefited From Lower Box Office Expectations
Ep 05: Dune, Nothing but Dune, Give Me That Dune... Don't Let It End!
'Dune Part Two: Five Big Winners From An $181 Million Worldwide Box Office Blowout
'Dune Part Two' Box Office: Six Lessons From A Towering $179 Million Worldwide Debut
'Dune 2' Tops Box Office With $32.2M Friday
If Hollywood Tries to Make Regular *Movies* Again, Will Moviegoers Bother to Show Up?
‘Dune Part Two’ Worms Its Way to Spicy $12 Million at Thursday Box Office
How Jason Statham's 'The Beekeeper' Became Hollywood's 2024 Box Office Champion
'Dune Part Two': Scott Mendelson's Overlong Pessimistic And Optimistic Box Office Prediction
Weekend Box Office (02-25-24): 'Bob Marley' Tops As 'Drive-Away Dolls' Flops
Box Office: 'Demon Slayer' Tops Slow Friday As 'Drive-Away Dolls' Stalls
Max's 'Harry Potter' TV Show May Prove No More Popular Than Amazon's 'Rings of Power'
Review: 'Dune Part Two' Is An Audiovisual Triumph
'Madame Web' Continues Hollywood's Mistreatment of Female Superhero Movies
The Outside Scoop's Box Office Podcast Ep 03
Weekend Box Office (02-18-24): Bob Marley Tops With Boffo $51M As 'Madame Web' Flops
Box Office: 'Madame Web' Bombs While Bob Marley Nabs Strong $7.5 Million Friday
GODZILLA MINUS ONE - Academy Award® Nominee, Best Special Effects - "one of 2023's greatest films"
The Outside Scoop's Box Office Podcast Ep 02
'Madame Web' Review: Better Than 'Morbius'!
What We Learned From the 2024 Super Bowl Movie Trailers
Super Bowl Weekend Box Office Fumbles
'Lisa Frankenstein' Can't Reanimate a Dead Box Office as 'Argylle' Tops A $10M Friday
Mendelson's Friday Night Movie News Dump (02-09-24)
Burying Movies May Cost Warner Bros. More Than It Saves
'Superman: Legacy' Would Likely Lose A Box Office Showdown With 'Jurassic World 4'
Scott Mendelson Finally Has a Podcast!
'Argylle' Flops as Willy Wonka and Jason Statham Notch Box Office Milestones
‘Argylle’ Box Office: Does a Big-Budget Bomb Still Count as Such if It Came From a Streamer?
Box Office: 'Argylle' Earns $1.7 Million Thursday
'Argylle' (2024) Review: A Typical Streaming Mockbuster, But Now Also In Theaters
Taylor Sheridan's 'Yellowstone' is a Streaming-Era Cinematic Universe Done Right
Monday Movie News Musings (01-29-24)
Non-Shocker: Most Streaming Viewers Are Watching Theatrical Movies And Network TV
'Aquaman 2' Passes $400M and 'Godzilla Minus One' Tops 'Hero' as 'Beekeeper' Wins Weekend
Box Office: It Doesn't Have To Be Like This
Three Key Reasons Why The Box Office Is Still Trailing Pre-Covid Heights
Mendelson's Musings: How Barbie, Netflix and Godzilla Fared At the 2024 Oscar Nominations
Mendelson's Movie News Musings for 01/22/24
8 Hyperbolic, Improbable and Unrealistic Ways to "Save" Movie Theaters
Box Office: Hollywood Forgets to Release Movies As 'Mean Girls' Tops Empty Weekend
Hollywood is Continuing to Starve Movie Theaters to Death
Firing Melissa Barrera From 'Scream VII' May Have Broken the Horror Series Beyond Repair
How Covid-19 and the Strikes Kneecapped Hollywood's Attempts at Diversity
Weekend Box Office: 'Beekeeper' Stings With $19 Million While 'Book of Clarence' Stumbles
Box Office: 'Mean Girls' and 'Wonka' Prove That Musicals Are Still Fetch
Box Office: 'Mean Girls' Tops Friday With $12M, Statham's 'Beekeeper' Stings With $7M
Why Disney Finally Released Pixar's 'Soul,' 'Luca' and 'Turning Red' Into Theaters
Cinema Foundation and Fandango Team Up For National Popcorn Day
'Anyone But You' Offers The Solution For Hollywood's Movie Star Problem
Playing It Safe With 'Mandalorian & Grogu' Would Do 'Star Wars' More Harm Than Good
'Trolls 3' Topped $200M In Theaters Despite 'Trolls 2' Going (Essentially) Straight-To-Video
Weekend Box Office: 'Wonka' Tops 'Night Swim' With $14M as 'Anyone But You' Rallies
Box Office: 'Night Swim' Tops Friday With $5.2 Million But 'The Color Purple' Sinks
Amid A Year Of Franchise Fatigue, Lionsgate's Sequels Left Fans (Mostly) Wanting More
Don't Blame 'Wokeness' For Disney's Recent Box Office Blunders
2024 Box Office: I Foolishly Predict the Biggest Hits For Each of the Next 12 Months