The Box Office Podcast
Episodes
Ep 29: The Summer, It Ends With 'Alien'
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan and Lisa (cordially) debate whether Disney has allowed the more adult-skewing Fox brands to stay true to their R-rated roots. Still, both agree t...
Ep. 28: A Lively Weekend For 'Deadpool 3'
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Both Deadpool & Wolverine and It Ends With Us nabbed $50 million+ weekends, again showing Hollywood there’s more than one way to build a blockbuster...
Ep. 27: Deadpool Traps A Purple Crayon
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The gang is back to discuss what continues to go right for Deadpool & Wolverine, what only went kinda-sorta okay for M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap and w...
Ep 26: Deadpool & Wolverine - When Everything Goes Right
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
50 minutes of (almost) nothing but Deadpool & Wolverine, both in terms of its box office bonanza and what the four of us thought of the picture. Spoil...
Ep. 25: 'Twisters' Soars High, 'Longlegs' Legs Out
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There were only two really big pieces of news, namely the $81 million domestic opening weekend (along with the softer-than-hoped overseas earnings) fo...
Ep. 24: Horror Is Undead Again, For Now!
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despicable Me 4’s spectacularly consistent (for his franchise) holds and raw grosses... As Longlegs surprises, keep Osgood Perkins away from Netflix...
Ep 23: Angel Studios Suffers From 'Despicable' Holiday Weekend Box Office
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Was Despicable Me 3’s domestic downturn a fluke or did the extended wait and pre-COVID nostalgia for the brand prevent a continual box office downwa...
Ep 22: 'Inside Out' Sequel, 'Quiet Place' Prequel Both Box Office Champions
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The gang is back to dissect what went very right with A Quiet Place: Day One and almost inevitably wrong with Horizon: An American Saga. Lisa laments ...
Ep 21: 'Inside Out 2' Bikerides 'Thelma' to The 'Exorcism'
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Scott and Lisa Laman do it "solo" to discuss the $101 million second weekend for Inside Out 2 along with better-than-expected openings for 'The B...
Ep 20: Mixed Emotions For 'Inside Out 2'
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘Inside Out 2’ soared to infinity and beyond, nabbing $154 million domestic and $294 million worldwide in its global theatrical launch. That’s g...
Ep 19: 'Bad Boys 4' Unsurprisingly Slaps
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A well-liked sequel to a successful sequel in a popular franchise opened at the high end of realistic expectations… what a shock...! What a $107 mil...
Ep 18: Talking MoviePass, MovieCrash with Business Insider's Jason Guerrasio
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since Hollywood didn’t bother to release any new wide openers last weekend, I gave the box office folks the weekend off. In the meantime, and this m...
Ep: 17: Audiences Say 'Furi-No!-Sa,' But Monday Moviegoers Love 'Garfield'
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whether or not Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga should have performed better or was an inevitable “online fandom doesn’t equal audience interest” misfire...
Ep 16: ‘If’ Doesn’t Whiff but the Amy Winehouse Biopic Fades ‘To Black'
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We dissect If’s complicated $33.7 million domestic debut (remember G-Force?), whether we should be “happy” that The Strangers: Chapter 1 opened ...
Ep 15: Podcast On the Box Office For The 'Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes'
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about the solid $131 million debut for 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,' including what went right, why it got a B from CinemaScore and wha...
Ep 14: Fall Guys and the Faults of our Star Wars
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Does the mediocre opening weekend suggest a broader theatrical problem, or was Ryan Gosling in a Hollywood love letter to itself less enticing to regu...
Ep 13: 'Suck It, Escape from Tomorrow!'
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The complicated new math of films distributed by obscenely wealthy streaming companies where it hardly matters if a $55 million flick like Zendaya’s...
Ep 12 - Killer Nazis > Nazi Killers But Death Pools > Vampire Girls
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ComScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian guest-stars (as Ryan Scott takes a breather) amid a look at Civil War’s second-weekend hold (the go...
Ep 11 - Civil Wars and Cinema Cons
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
* What does Civil War’s chart-topping $26 million debut mean for A24?* Scott and Lisa think a new Blair Witch is a horseman of the apocalypse situat...
Ep 10 - Bad Omens and Monkey Trouble
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the measured success of 'Monkey Man' and why 'The First Omen' is a classic "IP for the sake of IP" mistake. Thoughts on why the 20th Century Studio...
Ep 9: Where the MonsterVerse Went Right
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s astonishing episode…!* How the MonsterVerse rose from the ashes of King of the Monsters.* Do "spectacular by pre-Covid standards” res...
Ep 8: 'Ghostbusters' Lives, Sydney Sweeney is (Maybe?) A Movie Star And NEON is on a Roll
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is Sony turning Ghostbusters into a viable franchise? Immaculate's record-high (for Neon) opening implies Sydney Sweeney has some drawing power. IFC F...
Ep 7: 'Scream' Keeps Stabbing Itself, Wahlberg Goes to the Dogs and 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' Fights the Future
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Scott was recovering from SXSW. He’ll be back next week. Mendelson, Fuster and Laman discussed Mark Wahlberg’s dwindling bankability after ye...
Ep 06: Kung Fu Panda 4 vs Dune 2 vs Oscars 96
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does a strong $58 million domestic opening for Kung Fu Panda 4 mean for DreamWorks and feature animation in general? How far can Dune Part Two so...
Ep 05: Dune, Nothing but Dune, Give Me That Dune... Don't Let It End!
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most of this week’s episode concerns the $82.5 million domestic (well played, Ryan) and $182.5 million worldwide opening weekend for Dune Part Two. ...
Episode 04: Must Faith-Based Films Get Meaner? Will Beatles Assemble?, Could 'Drive-Away Dolls' Have Succeeded In Pride Month?
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Among the topics Bob Marley’s place near the top of high-grossing musical biopics, how this four-part Beatles movie is going to work, whether the un...
The Outside Scoop's Box Office Podcast Ep 03
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode three is right on time, with all four of us again chatting about the weekend box office that was. Ryan C. Scott (SlashFilm) returns after a br...
The Outside Scoop's Box Office Podcast Ep 02
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode two is a day late, since we all wanted to chat about the various Super Bowl trailers which of course didn’t air until Sunday evening. Alas, ...
Scott Mendelson Finally Has a Podcast!
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join legendary box office pontificator Scott Mendelson alongside a handful of younger, cooler but no less knowledgeable box office pundits. Currently,...