Jessica Mendoza

And the biggest examples of that recently are Devil Wears Prada 2.

Yes, you are the prime demographic for that.

I had to.

People are hopeful about the summer.

And this is coming off of, you know, so far, 2026 has been the best year at the box office since the pandemic.

And people are hopeful that, I think, three movies in particular look like they could be huge, which are Toy Story 5, Spider-Man Brand New Day, and The Odyssey from Chris Noah.

There's been this huge mindset change in honestly just the past month in Hollywood.

For so long, people were very depressed about like, oh, well, Gen Z just spends all their time staring at their phone and scrolling on TikTok and they don't want to go to movie theaters, right?

And now it's like, no, this doesn't have to be competition.

This can be a place where we find talent and that'll actually get Gen Z off their phones and bring them into theaters.

Absolutely.

I mean, nobody in Hollywood saw the success of these movies coming.

And their outsized mass of success, you know, is being widely attributed to the fact that they are sort of this new wave of YouTuber films, social media-born films, you know?

It's the first movies that come out of Reddit and TikTok and Roblox and so on.

And I don't think anybody in Hollywood really understood

the potency of that until it's finally been proven.

I think the age of the corporately managed franchise that gets where you pump out new installments as fast as possible and people keep coming.

And I think people are looking for a new kind of authenticity.

And, you know, if you love movies, this is good news.

You know, this is like a win for, at least to some extent, this is a win for originality.