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Podcast: Deceased Dogs and Jewish Mice
The episode title refers to one of Verity's odder moments, but you’ll have to listen to figure out what it means. Speaking of “what it all means,” we do eventually get into spoilers for Digger around the 40-minute mark (with a literal count...
The 2010s Strike Back, Again!
A December 2027 release date for ‘24 Jump Street’ and a just-announced ‘Sicario 3’ again show Hollywood mining generational nostalgia from the last decade’s aspirational succcess stories
I don't know whether (assuming this all comes to pas...
Weekend Box Office: ‘Avengers’ Passes ‘Avatar’ (Again) As ‘Spider-Man’ Clears $2.5 Billion And ‘The Odyssey’ Tops $1.76 Billion
Meanwhile, ‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ is outgrossing ‘Practical Magic 2’ as ‘Resident Evil’ tops $245 million before it even opens in China and/or Japan later this week
In holdover news, Avengers: Endgame Encore earned $4.4 million (-82%) in its se...
Hot Takes And Grim Thoughts As ‘Verity’ Dunks ‘Digger’ At Weekend Box Office
Tom Cruise just suffered the biggest bomb of his career as Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway gave author Colleen Hoover another book-to-movie hit
Amazon MGM Studios’ Verity topped the box office this weekend with a solid $32.6 million Fri-S...
Friday Box Office: ‘Verity’ Tops As ‘Digger’ Flops
So... um... does this mean Anne Hathaway should demand top billing over Tom Cruise in Skydance’s upcoming ‘Days of Thunder’ sequel?
Much of the chatter is understandably focused on Digger A) becoming the biggest box office bomb of Tom Crui...
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Scott Mendelson got his industry start in 2008 with a self-piloted film blog titled “Mendelson’s Memos.” In 2013, went to Forbes.com where he wrote for nearly a decade specializing in box office punditry. He then spent a year at The Wrap.
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