Bob Mondello
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1,886 appearances
202 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard yesterday
Bob Mondello’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This world goes much deeper than you
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Avatar Fire and Ash and the car racing movie F1, which each did quite well in the U.S., did twice as well in other countries, and almost all Hollywood blockbusters did at least half of their business overseas.
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So where North American box office increased just over 1%, international numbers rose 16% to $24.6 billion.
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That includes the year's biggest box office smash, the Chinese anime.
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Though global totals were up substantially from 2024, they still trail pre-pandemic records by about 20 percent.
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Bob Mondello, NPR
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Where is she?
In some senses, the year felt like a sequel.
Same story, slightly revised.
For the third year running, the industry's year-end box office total came in just below $9 billion.
The biggest blockbusters were primarily remakes and sequels, and PG-rated films aimed at families continued to do better than any other genre.
It's a wicked movie!
2025's film took in a combined $8.87 billion in North American cinemas.
Holidays, including a terrific Christmas season, did relatively well, but cinemas sat mostly empty other times of the year, including through one of the worst Octobers in a decade.
That has cinema owners experimenting with alternative attractions, like the two-hour Stranger Things finale, which sold more than 1.1 million tickets over the holidays.
Bob Mondello, NPR News.
In some senses, the year felt like a sequel.
Same story, slightly revised.
For the third year running, the industry's year-end box office total came in just below $9 billion.
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