Bob Mondello
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1,836 appearances
196 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 5d ago
Bob Mondello’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 175 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 27.
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That's Spielberg's best start for a film that wasn't a sequel.
Also performing well, the low-budget thriller Obsession, which has now had four consecutive holdover weeks with higher ticket sales than its opening, unheard of for horror films.
Obsession has taken in more than a quarter of a billion dollars worldwide, about 300 times what it cost to make.
Bob Mondello, NPR News.
The film Backrooms, about a furniture dealer who discovers a secret door in his showroom.
This place builds like a maze.
It just goes on and on.
Opened this weekend to an astonishing $81 million, the biggest opening ever for an original horror film.
Its 20-year-old director is now the youngest filmmaker to have a number one box office hit.
And remarkably, backroom scoring with patrons primarily in their teens and twenties did not step on the box office momentum of a fellow YouTuber's horror hit that's playing to that same audience.
In a genre where precipitous weekly drops are the norm, Obsession rose for the third consecutive weekend.
No wide-release film has done that in a non-holiday week since E.T.
the Extraterrestrial in 1982.
Bob Mondello, NPR News.
The film industry news site Deadline calls it YouTube fever.
Hot new films from directors who got their starts making short viral videos.
I found a place.
This week's number one hit, Back Rooms, which will take in close to $90 million by Sunday night.
This place builds like a maze.
It just goes on and on.
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